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Actors: Charles Grapewin, Junior Coughlan, Junior Durkin, Pat O'Brien
Synopsis: Bette Davis was on loan from Universal when she appeared in this little juvenile delinquent melodrama from independent producer B.F. Zeidman. Although Davis earned above-title billing (along with Pat O'Brien), Junior Durkin is the real star, a teenager who is sent to juvenile prison after being Read More
Actors: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Ralph Morgan, Robert Young
Synopsis: A remarkably smooth 110-minute adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's marathon eight-hour play, Strange Interlude was advertised as "the picture in which you hear the characters think," a nod to O'Neill's technique of having the characters speak their innermost thoughts out loud between dialogue passages Read More
Actors: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Roscoe Ates, Karen Morley, William Bakewell
Synopsis: In this comedy, a female mayoral candidate promises to rid the town of gangsters. She joined the race in the first place when her daughter got involved with a young mobster who has been framed for a murder. With her manager's assistance, the candidate rallies all the women in town and gets them to Read More
Actors: Mary Philbin
Synopsis: In this romance, an early talkie containing approximately 4 minutes of dialog and a song, a man is paroled from prison provided he adheres strictly to "Rule No. 3," which states that he cannot get romantically involved, nor marry until he is off parole. He encounters trouble when he saves a Read More
Actors: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Ernest Torrence, Dale Fuller, Mary Alden
Synopsis: Based on a Leo Tolstoy novel, The Cossacks centers around Lukashka (John Gilbert), a young Russian man who has no interest in fighting, unlike the other Cossacks around him. Because of his cheery, peaceful ways, he is ridiculed by the others of his village, even though he is the son of Ivan the Read More
Actors: W.C. Fields, Chester Conklin, Sally Blane, Jack Luden, Mary Alden
Synopsis: W.C. Fields' last silent film reteams him with walrus-mustached comedian Chester Conklin. Schemer Richard Whitehead (Fields) hopes to talk Samuel Hunter (Conklin), the town's richest man, into investing in an oil field. The two partners soon learn to their chagrin that their wells went dry years Read More
Actors: Esther Ralston, Reed Howes, Hobart Bosworth, George B. French, Alan Roscoe
Actors: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Mary Brian, William Austin, Jack Oakie, James Kirkwood
Synopsis: Paramount's popular screen team of Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Mary Brian were once again cinematically united in 1928's Someone to Love. Rogers plays William Shelby, a struggling young sheet-music salesman, while Brian is Joan Kendricks, his wealthy sweetie. Thanks to a series of bizarre Read More
Actors: Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Helen Lynch, Carl Gerard
Synopsis: The principal lady in Ladies of the Mob is jazz-baby Clara Bow. After her father is executed, Bow goes to heck in a handbasket, consorting with the riffiest raff of the underworld riff-raff. Upon falling in love with her partner in crime Richard Arlen, Bow vows to set him on the straight and Read More
Actors: W.C. Fields, Mary Alden, Ivy Harris, Jack Egan
Synopsis: One of several "lost" W.C. Fields silent comedies, The Potters was based on a play by J.P. McEvoy. Pa Potter (Fields) puts his family's financial well-being in dire jeopardy when he invests $4000 in some oil stock. The stock turns out to be worthless, whereupon Ma Potter (Mary Alden) takes great Read More
Actors: Olive Borden, Neil Hamilton, Marie Dressler, Mary Alden, Helen Chandler
Synopsis: This playful Allan Dwan effort stars Olive Borden as impulsive flapper Jewel Courage, who dumps the man she loves, a humble chauffeur (Jimmy Grainger Jr.) in favor of millionaire John Jeffrey Fleet (Neil Hamilton). Jewel soon discovers that Fleet is actually the chauffeur and her ex-beau is the Read More
Actors: Mary Alden, Russell Simpson, Priscilla Bonner, Carroll Nye, Joe Butterworth
Synopsis: The Earth Woman was one of several films produced by Mrs. Wallace Reid (Dorothy Davenport), who after the drug-induced death of her movie-idol husband dedicated herself to saving impressionable filmgoers from the evils and pitfalls of modern life. The story is set in the hills of Tennessee, where Read More
Actors: Bessie Love, William Haines, Mary Alden, Vivian Ogden
Synopsis: The frequently filmed Alice Hegan Rice novel Lovey Mary was given the slick MGM treatment in 1926. Bessie Love plays the title character, a 17-year-old orphanage runaway. Taken in by poor-but-kindly Mrs. Wiggs (Mary Alden), Lovey Mary spreads good cheer wherever she goes, even "curing" the town's Read More
Actors: Snitz Edwards
Synopsis: One of the era's many ethnic (read: Jewish) comedies, this film starred Alexander Carr, a Broadway actor-playwright who made a career out of playing Lower East Side types. This time around, Carr played Jacob Goodman, a former pants-presser turned umbrella tycoon, whose daughter, Irma (Duane Thompson Read More
Actors: Jack Pickford, Mary Brian, Mary Alden, David Torrence
Synopsis: While the mid-1920s were deluged with films about college life, and Brown of Harvard is probably the ultimate silent film in this genre, even more significantly it is an early example of the buddy film. Never mind the romance between Harvard undergrad Tom Brown (William Haines) and professor's Read More
Actors: Elaine Hammerstein, Forrest Stanley
Synopsis: Elaine Hammerstein stars in this Columbia picture, which trade magazine Motion Picture News admitted was "an average program attraction." Helen Merritt (Hammerstein) is the daughter of a proud but impoverished Southern Colonel (William V. Mong). They have gone north to New York, where Helen works Read More
Actors: Eileen Percy, Tom Moore, Eddie Phillips, James Mason, Claire de Lorez
Synopsis: This melodrama about the moral redemption of two crooks stars Eileen Pearcy and Tom Moore. Whitey (Moore) goes from being a war hero to a crook. He earns the admiration of Kitty, a fellow crook (Pearcy), when he saves her from the advances of Mal (James Mason). She goes to the country to recover Read More
Actors: Malcolm McGregor, Alice Calhoun, Mary Alden, Anders Randolf, Olive Borden
Synopsis: Vitagraph had already made successful pictures out of two of A.S.M. Hutchinson's novels when they filmed this one. Because of his father's secret marriage, Ralph (Malcolm McGregor) is cheated out of his inheritance. Nevertheless, his Aunt Maggie (Mary Alden) prepares him to someday take the place Read More
Actors: Virginia Valli, Mary Alden, Eugene O'Brien, Marc MacDermott, Harry Lorraine
Synopsis: Mary Alden stands out as the powerful matriarch in this drama. Elderly Aunt Augusta (Alden) runs the great Ruyland Iron Works. Stock in the iron works is owned by the other members of the Ruyland clan, all of whom do Aunt Augusta's bidding. When she decides that Kenyon Ruyland (Eugene O'Brien) Read More
Synopsis: A cuckolded husband discovers that he is in love with his ex-wife's cousin in this domestic melodrama from independent producer B. P. Schulberg. Although agreeing at first to give up custody of their child, the ex-wife changes her mind when she discovers the truth. But the child is almost killed Read More
Actors: Clara Bow, Donald Keith, Mary Alden, Henry B. Walthall, Gilbert Roland
Synopsis: Produced by Preferred Pictures on rental stages at FBO and on-location at Pomona College in Claremont, CA, The Plastic Age was Clara Bow's 15th and final release of 1925 and the comedy-drama that made her a major star. She plays Cynthia Day, the campus flirt whose "hotsy-totsy" lifestyle does not Read More
Synopsis: While the boast that this society drama had an all-star cast is a bit exaggerated, it did feature some of the best-known leading players of the day. Wilbur Brown (John Walker) has run up a huge debt. His sister Mary, a chorus girl (Vivian Martin), is determined to save him because news of Wilbur's Read More
Actors: Colleen Moore, Ben Lyon, Charlotte Merriam, Joseph Striker, Charlie Murray
Synopsis: Ellie Byrne ($Colleen Moore}) and Don Lane (Ben Lyon) are childhood pals -- their fathers (Charles Murray and Russell Simpson) work together as glass blowers. They hope for better things in life, especially after they land an invitation to a fancy society party, where their shabby outfits look Read More
Actors: Agnes Ayres, Percy Marmont, Robert McKim, Kathlyn Williams, Mary Alden
Synopsis: This drama, which featured a fine cast, looked more expensively made than it actually was. When revolution overtakes Russia, Alex Boroff (William Orlamond) is left penniless. His daughter, Sasha (Agnes Ayers), is in love with Count Michael (Percy Marmont), but Rogojin (George Siegmann), a coachman Read More
Actors: Marguerite de la Motte, William Russell, Mary Alden, Stuart Holmes, Frank Brownlee
Synopsis: English-born character star Victor McLaglen made his Hollywood debut in this highly successful Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a side-show wrestling match. There is a dance-hall girl (Marguerite de la Motte) and the usual Western Read More
Actors: Willard Louis, Mary Alden, Carmel Myers, Raymond McKee, Maxine Hicks
Synopsis: This first movie version of Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt stars the corpulent Willard Louis in the title role. A middle-aged businessman/blowhard in the small town of Zenith, Babbitt is somewhat naïve in the ways of the world. He allows himself to stray from his long-standing marriage to wife Myra (Mary Alden Read More
Actors: Enid Bennett, Harrison Ford, Alec B. Francis, Mary Carr, Harry S. Northrup
Synopsis: When John Briggs (Harrison Ford) returns from the Great War (later known as World War I), he tries his hand at writing, but his stories don't sell. Then his mother falls ill so he becomes desperate and uses material from a diary he found on a dead Russian soldier. He claims to be the man, Alexis Read More
Actors: Harry T. Morey, Mary Alden, Mickey Bennett, Edward Quinn, Marcia Harris
Synopsis: This emotional melodrama was based on the novel Cheating Wives, by Leota Morgan. Mary Alden (who played Senator Stoneman's mulatto mistress in Birth of a Nation) is Alice, a society woman who is disowned by her parents when she marries blacksmith John Larkin (William Welsh). Business does not go Read More
Actors: Mary Alden, James Kirkwood, Lester Cuneo, Elinor Fair
Synopsis: Early silent screen matinee idol James Kirkwood starred in this romantic Western, which also offered a good role for veteran D. W. Griffith actress Mary Alden. Miss Alden plays a bossy female rancher who hires a war veteran (Kirkwood) as a ranch hand. She falls in love with him, of course, but he Read More
Actors: Huntly Gordon, Mary Alden, Norma Shearer, Winifred Bryson
Synopsis: Future MGM star Norma Shearer was still an up-and-coming young starlet when she made an impressive appearance as the flapper daughter in this otherwise mediocre drama. Hugh Benton (Huntly Gordon) comes into sudden wealth and he moves his family into a city mansion. His wife, Marjorie (Mary Alden) Read More
Actors: Robert Edeson, Hedda Hopper, Vincent Coleman, Charles Richman, Mary Alden
Synopsis: Has the World Gone Mad? answers its own question by detailing the sinful excesses of the "Jazz Age." Future gossip columnist Hedda Hopper stars as Mrs. Adams, a sedate housewife who decides to kick up her heels and sample the wilder side of life. Walking out on her husband (Robert Adams), Mrs. Read More
Actors: Mary Thurman, Monte Blue, Mary Alden
Synopsis: Although his homely handsome face definitely showed traces of his Cherokee ancestry, versatile Monte Blue played everything from society men to sheiks in his silent starring career. In this low-budget knock-off of Rudolph Valentino's The Sheik, he plays the latter, and quite well, too, although he Read More
Actors: Marguerite Courtot, Miriam Battista, Joseph Striker, Joseph Depew, Hugh Huntley
Synopsis: This Horatio Alger-type drama stars John Striker. Titus Burke (Walter Lewis) is a thief, and the sheriff gathers up a posse to capture him. Burke's wife Martha (Mary Alden) convinces their son Angus (Joseph Drew) that their lives are in danger and, as a result of his fear, Angus shoots the sheriff Read More
Actors: Maurine Powers, Mary Alden, George Hackathorne, J. Barney Sherry
Synopsis: Pigeon Deering (Maurine Powers) is the poor girl from the slums who is witness to a murder in this moral melodrama. She confesses to the crime to satisfy her craving for publicity. Attorney Arthur Beal (Rod La Rocque) successfully clears her name in a much-publicized trial. When Pigeon decides on Read More
Actors: Mary Alden, Louise Lee, Dorothy Mackaill, Holmes Herbert, Albert Hackett
Synopsis: The reviewer for Motion Picture News got a little too wrapped up in his own hyperbole when he gushed that Mary Alden as Densie Plummer "is a screen replica of thousands of other 'unpaid domestic drudges' who are continually being forced into the background of our social fabric. American womanhood Read More
Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Charles Hill Mailes, Ned Sparks, Lawrence D'Orsay, Robert Williamson
Synopsis: Neither director Henry King nor star Richard Barthelmess could do much with the cliched situations of this dark melodrama. Joe Newbolt (Barthelmess) goes to work for farmer Isom Chase (Charles Hill Mailes) to save his mother (Mary Alden) from the poorhouse. Chase is a cruel taskmaster and he also Read More
Synopsis: This comedy-drama, with its ethnic and mother love themes, was very much of its era. When Dennis O'Neill (Cullen Landis) inherits his uncle's junk business, he has to relocate from Ireland to the States. His uncle's wish is that he take care of his aunt, Delia Bryan (Laura Lavarnie), but Read More
Actors: Elliott Dexter, Winter Hall, Ruth Renick, Robert Cain, Edward Sutherland
Synopsis: This drama, made a year before William Desmond Taylor was mysteriously murdered, is one of the few films he directed which are known to survive. It was adapted from the play by Augustus Thomas. Jack Brookfield (Elliott Dexter) runs a gambling establishment and one night, when the hall is dark, he Read More
Actors: Russell Simpson, Mary Alden, Cullen Landis, Pauline Starke
Synopsis: After committing murder, Hugh Garth (fine character actor Russell Simpson) becomes a fugitive from justice. He takes his younger brother, Pete (Cullen Landis) and the boy's nurse, Bella (Mary Alden) from England to the wilds of Canada. For the next fifteen years, he makes a living as a trapper Read More
Actors: Dwight T. Crittenden, Mary Alden, Nick Cogley, Laura La Varnie
Synopsis: During the early '20s, sentimental films about mother love abounded. As the decade went on, however, such mawkish tales were replaced by thoroughly modern daughters and mothers who wanted to keep up with them. This 1921 drama starred Mary Alden -- the same actress who played the mulatto mistress Read More
Synopsis: Henry Walthall made a name for himself as the Little Colonel in D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation. Unfortunately, that was also the high point of his career, and his impressive talents were generally wasted in mediocre material. This "state rights" crime drama was better because of his presence. Read More
Synopsis: Even though he's a lazy, worthless bum, Hutch (Will Rogers) is a truly likable guy -- maybe that's why his wife Sary (Mary Alden) is willing to support him and their six kids. When he finds fifty thousand dollars, he knows he can't spend a cent of it without drawing suspicion (being permanently Read More
Synopsis: This picture, based on the play by Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock, begins in 1862 England with John Rhead (Lewis Stone), an engineer who wants to build newfangled iron ships. Because of his progressive ideas, his partners force him out of the company, but he still manages to marry one of their Read More
Synopsis: Alisa Randall (Mildred Harris) is a young wife whose neediness is driving her husband Knox (Milton Sills) up a wall. She finally figures out that maybe if she treated him indifferently instead of constantly calling him at the office, she might get better results. This tactic also works for her Read More
Synopsis: Erstwhile Susan was based on Helen R. Martin's novel Barnabetta, which previously had served as the basis for a play by Marian De Forest. Constance Binney plays the daughter of a strict Pennsylvania Dutch household. She is rescued from this atmosphere by her stepmother, who provides the girl with Read More
Synopsis: Based on the Rupert Hughes novel, this film concerns the German atrocities committed in Belgium at the beginning of the Great War. Blanche Sweet plays two American girls: gentle, passive Alice Parcot and her sister, the adventurous Dimny. Alice and her mother (Mary Alden) are caught in Belgium Read More
Synopsis: Fannie Ward plays Marion Clark, a manicurist who gets involved with a family who live in the boardinghouse where she resides. She is in love with the son, Dick Strong (W.E. Lawrence); the mother is an invalid and the sister, Gladys (Irene Aldwyn), is pretty but naive. Gladys falls in with a fast Read More
Synopsis: In the days before television and the Internet, faraway places such as the Middle East and Asia -- and their cultures -- seemed especially mysterious and unfathomable. Rudyard Kipling was one author of the late 1800s and early 1900s who fed readers' taste for the exotic with his tales of India and Read More
Synopsis: The Argyle Case was based on a play by Harvey J. O'Higgins and Harriet Ford, which in turn was inspired by the official files of the William J. Burns Agency, an international private detective organization. The head of the house of Argyle is murdered by espionage agents who wish to undermine the Read More
Synopsis: In this lesser Mary Pickford vehicle -- her first picture under the Artcraft banner -- the star plays Radha, an English girl who was abandoned by her drug-addicted father, a British Army officer, in India. She has been brought up by Ramlan, a native swordmaker (Mario Majeroni), and believes Read More
Actors: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Miriam Cooper, Walter Long, Tully Marshall, Alfred Paget
Synopsis: Sometime during the shooting of the landmark The Birth of a Nation, filmmaker D.W. Griffith probably wondered how he could top himself. In 1916, he showed how, with the awesome Intolerance. The film began humbly enough as a medium-budget feature entitled The Mother and the Law, wherein the lives Read More
Synopsis: Wilfred Lucas plays a distinguished banker, falsely accused of murder. Though acquitted in court, Lucas' reputation is destroyed, and he force from his job. Like George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life, Lucas decides that he's worth more dead than alive; thus, he plans to kill himself so his family Read More
Actors: Douglas Fairbanks
Synopsis: The Good Bad Man is at once a straight western and a gentle spoof of the genre. Douglas Fairbanks plays a fellow who calls himself "Passin' Through." Orphaned at birth, Our Hero grows up to be a Robin-Hood-like bandit, robbing the rich so that he can finance a home for unwanted children. In this Read More
Synopsis: One might be inclined to dismiss the title of this film as a contradiction in terms -- but with Lillian Gish in the lead, how could the heroine be anything else but innocent? Based on a story by D.W. Griffith, writing pseudonymously as "Granville Warwick," the story concerns a Kentucky belle named Read More
Synopsis: Veteran Biograph leading man/director Wilfred Lucas essays the title role in Hell-to-Pay Austin. A rough-and-tumble lumberman, Austin nonetheless has a sentimental side. When the minister father of winsome Briar Rose (Bessie Love) dies of excessive drinking, the girl is unofficially adopted by Read More
Actors: Otto Lincoln, Teddy Sampson, Mary Alden, W.E. Lawrence, Miriam Cooper
Synopsis: This race-themed melodrama is the first two-reeler directed by Tod Browning. Indians kill homesteader Bob West (Otto Lincoln) and capture his little daughter Ida. They sell her to a slave trader named Morgan, who uses her in place of a dead mulatto slave child and sells her to a kindly couple. Read More
Actors: Mary Alden, Tom Wilson, Thomas Hull, Vester Pegg, Margery Wilson
Synopsis: This one-reel detective thriller is the first directorial effort of Tod Browning, who had previously only acted in short comedies. Reporter Helen Holland (Mary Alden), investigating the burglary of a jewelry store, follows the robbers to their lair and is captured by Ford (Tom Wilson). He writes Read More
Synopsis: In one of her autobiographies, Lillian Gish reprinted in toto the studio synopsis of the D.W. Griffith production The Lily and the Rose, then commented wryly "Now that's what I call a plot!" Wilfred Lucas plays a virile man-about-town who weds "The Lily" (Gish), only to cast her Read More
Synopsis: According to this film, Man's Prerogative would seem to be to cheat upon his sweetheart whenever and wherever he pleases. This, at least, is the philosophy of one Oliver Rand (Robert Edeson). Though promised in marriage to Elizabeth Town (Mary Alden, Oliver dallies with a pretty artist's model Read More
Actors: Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Ralph Lewis
Synopsis: The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and divisiveness since its first release. The film tells the story of the Civil War and its aftermath, as seen through the eyes of two families. The Stonemans hail from the Read More
Synopsis: This Reliance feature bore a striking resemblance to the previous IMP release Driven By Fate. Deserted by her husband, a pregnant chorus girl finds herself stranded in a backwater town. She gives up her baby to a Quaker family then disappears into the night. Flash-forward several years: The child Read More
Actors: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Mae Marsh, Donald Crisp
Synopsis: Home Sweet Home has been referred to by its leading lady Lillian Gish as "the first all-star film." Indeed, virtually every member of director D.W.Griffith's celebrated stock company appears in this three-part, five-reel biographical drama. Based on the life of John Howard Payne, composer of the Read More
Actors: Donald Crisp, Robert Harron, Lillian Gish, Mary Alden, Owen Moore
Synopsis: Filmed in a fast five days, The Battle of the Sexes was D. W. Griffith's first production after breaking loose from his Biograph contract. Adapted from Daniel Carson Goodman's play The Single Standard, the film stars Lillian Gish as a proper young lady who is shocked by her father's infidelities. Read More
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