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1932
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Bette Davis was on loan from Universal when she appeared in this little juvenile delinquent melodrama from independent...
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1932
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In this comedy, a female mayoral candidate promises to rid the town of gangsters. She joined the race in the first place...
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1931
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In this romance, an early talkie containing approximately 4 minutes of dialog and a song, a man is paroled from prison...
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1929
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1928
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The principal lady in Ladies of the Mob is jazz-baby Clara Bow. After her father is executed, Bow goes to heck in a...
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1928
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1928
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Lukashka's Mother
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1928
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Mrs. Hunter
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1928
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This playful Allan Dwan effort stars Olive Borden as impulsive flapper Jewel Courage, who dumps the man she loves, a humble...
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Mrs. Courage
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1927
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Ma Potter
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1927
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1926
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While the mid-1920s were deluged with films about college life, and Brown of Harvard is probably the ultimate silent film in...
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Mrs. Brown
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1926
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One of the era's many ethnic (read: Jewish) comedies, this film starred Alexander Carr, a Broadway actor-playwright who made...
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1926
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Martha Tilden
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1926
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The frequently filmed Alice Hegan Rice novel Lovey Mary was given the slick MGM treatment in 1926. Bessie Love plays the...
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Mrs. Wiggs
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1926
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Mary Alden stands out as the powerful matriarch in this drama. Elderly Aunt Augusta (Alden) runs the great Ruyland Iron...
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Aunt Augusta Ruyland
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1925
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A cuckolded husband discovers that he is in love with his ex-wife's cousin in this domestic melodrama from independent...
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1925
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Produced by Preferred Pictures on rental stages at FBO and on-location at Pomona College in Claremont, CA, The Plastic Age...
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Mrs. Carver
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1925
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Elaine Hammerstein stars in this Columbia picture, which trade magazine Motion Picture News admitted was "an average program...
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1925
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This melodrama about the moral redemption of two crooks stars Eileen Pearcy and Tom Moore. Whitey (Moore) goes from being a...
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1925
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Vitagraph had already made successful pictures out of two of A.S.M. Hutchinson's novels when they filmed this one. Because of...
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Aunt Maggie
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1925
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English-born character star Victor McLaglen made his Hollywood debut in this highly successful Western melodrama about...
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Augustine
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1924
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Mrs. Myra Babbitt
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1924
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When John Briggs (Harrison Ford) returns from the Great War (later known as World War I), he tries his hand at writing, but...
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1924
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While the boast that this society drama had an all-star cast is a bit exaggerated, it did feature some of the best-known...
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1924
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Ellie Byrne (Colleen Moore) and Don Lane (Ben Lyon) are childhood pals -- their fathers (Charles Murray and Russell Simpson)...
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1924
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This drama, which featured a fine cast, looked more expensively made than it actually was. When revolution overtakes Russia,...
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The Czarina
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1924
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Has the World Gone Mad? answers its own question by detailing the sinful excesses of the "Jazz Age." Future gossip columnist...
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Mrs. Bell
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1923
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Although his homely handsome face definitely showed traces of his Cherokee ancestry, versatile Monte Blue played everything...
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His Mother
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1923
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This Horatio Alger-type drama stars John Striker. Titus Burke (Walter Lewis) is a thief, and the sheriff gathers up a posse...
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1923
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This emotional melodrama was based on the novel Cheating Wives, by Leota Morgan. Mary Alden (who played Senator Stoneman's...
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Alice Larkin
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1923
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Early silent screen matinee idol James Kirkwood starred in this romantic Western, which also offered a good role for veteran...
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Delia Jamieson
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1923
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Future MGM star Norma Shearer was still an up-and-coming young starlet when she made an impressive appearance as the flapper...
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Marjorie Benton
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1923
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1922
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This comedy-drama, with its ethnic and mother love themes, was very much of its era. When Dennis O'Neill (Cullen Landis)...
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1922
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Pigeon Deering (Maurine Powers) is the poor girl from the slums who is witness to a murder in this moral melodrama. She...
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Ann Boland
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1922
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The reviewer for Motion Picture News got a little too wrapped up in his own hyperbole when he gushed that Mary Alden as...
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Densie Plummer
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1922
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During the early '20s, sentimental films about mother love abounded. As the decade went on, however, such mawkish tales were...
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Mrs. Anthon
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1921
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Henry Walthall made a name for himself as the Little Colonel in D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation. Unfortunately, that was...
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1921
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This drama, made a year before William Desmond Taylor was mysteriously murdered, is one of the few films he directed which...
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1921
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After committing murder, Hugh Garth (fine character actor Russell Simpson) becomes a fugitive from justice. He takes his...
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Bella
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1921
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1920
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This picture, based on the play by Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock, begins in 1862 England with John Rhead (Lewis Stone),...
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1920
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Even though he's a lazy, worthless bum, Hutch (Will Rogers) is a truly likable guy -- maybe that's why his wife Sary (Mary...
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1920
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Based on the Rupert Hughes novel, this film concerns the German atrocities committed in Belgium at the beginning of the Great...
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1919
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Erstwhile Susan was based on Helen R. Martin's novel Barnabetta, which previously had served as the basis for a play by...
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1919
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In the days before television and the Internet, faraway places such as the Middle East and Asia -- and their cultures --...
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1918
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Fannie Ward plays Marion Clark, a manicurist who gets involved with a family who live in the boardinghouse where she resides....
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1918
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1917
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The Good Bad Man is at once a straight western and a gentle spoof of the genre. Douglas Fairbanks plays a fellow who calls...
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1916
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One might be inclined to dismiss the title of this film as a contradiction in terms -- but with Lillian Gish in the lead, how...
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1916
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Veteran Biograph leading man/director Wilfred Lucas essays the title role in Hell-to-Pay Austin. A rough-and-tumble...
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1916
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In this lesser Mary Pickford vehicle -- her first picture under the Artcraft banner -- the star plays Radha, an English girl...
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1916
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1916
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Wilfred Lucas plays a distinguished banker, falsely accused of murder. Though acquitted in court, Lucas' reputation is...
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1916
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The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and...
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1915
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This Reliance feature bore a striking resemblance to the previous IMP release Driven By Fate. Deserted by her husband, a...
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1915
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1915
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According to this film, Man's Prerogative would seem to be to cheat upon his sweetheart whenever and wherever he pleases....
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1915
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This race-themed melodrama is the first two-reeler directed by Tod Browning. Indians kill homesteader Bob West (Otto Lincoln)...
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Sally
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1915
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This one-reel detective thriller is the first directorial effort of Tod Browning, who had previously only acted in short...
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Helen Holland
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1915
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In one of her autobiographies, Lillian Gish reprinted in toto the studio synopsis of the D.W. Griffith production The Lily...
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1915
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1914
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1914
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Mrs. Frank Andrews
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1914
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1914
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1914
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