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2008
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1988
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1966
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The fourth of Oscar-winning short-subject director Youngson's comedy compilations (the earlier ones were Golden Age of...
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1963
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The Marx Brothers' final starring feature Love Happy began life as a solo vehicle for Harpo. The financiers wouldn't go for...
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1949
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1948
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This drama is set in Switzerland and chronicles a fight between an innkeeper and her husband, a chronic adulterer. The...
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1947
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The wonderful newfangled world of television provides the backdrop for this musical. The tale begins as an advertising...
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1946
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Running a mere 56 minutes, Little Iodine was the first of five "streamliners" produced by Comet Productions, a company formed...
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1946
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One of producer Joseph Levine's earliest projects, Gaslight Follies is a compilation of silent film footage narrated by...
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1945
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The Movies March On was Number 12, volume 9 of Louis de Rochemont's March of Time series. Narrated by the stentorian...
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1939
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The Gay Desperado is a 1936 musical lampooning the then-popular gangster pictures. Leo Carrillo plays a genial Mexican...
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1936
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A remake of the French comedy Monsieur Sans-Gene, One Rainy Afternoon gets under way when film-actor Phillippe Martin...
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1936
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1932 through 1934 saw the production of "Hollywood on Parade" shorts by Paramount Studios, featuring nearly every big star...
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1934
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1934
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Silent screen legend Mary Pickford makes her final movie appearance in Secrets, adapted from the play by Rudolph Besier and...
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Producer, Mary Marlow/Mary Carlton
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1933
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Producer, Kiki
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1931
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Coquette is Mary Pickford's first talkie, based on the play by George Abbott and Ann Preston Bridgers. The story was already...
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Producer, Norma Besant
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1929
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Producer, Katherine
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1929
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The title of this Russian comedy may seem misleading; well, it is, but only slightly. While on a goodwill visit to the Soviet...
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1927
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Mary Pickford stars as the "Miss Fix-it" for her eccentric family. Pickford's job at a dime-store keeps her postman dad...
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Producer, Maggie Johnson
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1927
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1927
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Sparrows, Mary Pickford's 1926 release, superbly combines the two elements--sentiment and adventure--that characterized...
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Producer, Mama Mollie
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1926
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Producer, Little Annie Rooney
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1925
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"Derr iss too many qveens and not enough qveens!" That was Ernst Lubitsch's response when he turned down the directing...
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Producer, Dorothy Vernon
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1924
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The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire...
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1923
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Jack Pickford made a strong showing in this romantic drama, adapted from the novel by W.B.M. Ferguson. Two schemers, Crimmins...
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Intertitle Writer
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1923
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This historical comedy-drama resulted from the unlikely collaboration of girlish silent star Mary Pickford and sophisticated...
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Producer, Rosita
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1923
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Mary Pickford had recently put out a couple of mediocre pictures and her latest, Little Lord Fauntleroy, wasn't an immediate...
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Producer, Tessibel Skinner
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1922
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A visually stunning if somewhat overblown melodrama, The Love Light was directed by Mary Pickford's close friend and...
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Producer, Angela
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1921
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Jeanne Bodamere
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1921
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For her fourth United Artists picture, Mary Pickford once again plays a poor little rich girl. This one, Jeanne, is so...
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Producer, Jeanne
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1921
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Mary Pickford was at the height of her fame as "America's Sweetheart" when she took on the challenge of playing two roles --...
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Producer, Dearest, Cedric's Mother,Cedric
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1921
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For her first United Artists release, silent superstar Mary Pickford decided to play it safe, even though it galled her to do...
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1920
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Producer, Amanda Afflick
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1920
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This film was one of Mary Pickford's attempts to add at least a touch of maturity to her little girl characterizations. She...
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1919
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Amy Burke (Mary Pickford) is as spoiled, temperamental and contrary a lass as her grandfather, Alexander Guthrie...
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Producer
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1919
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This first of several cinematic adaptations of the Jean Webster play Daddy Long Legs stars "America's Sweetheart,"...
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1919
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This comic tale of buried treasure should have been a winner, but it turned out to be one on Mary Pickford's misses. The...
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1919
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1918
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Perhaps one of Mary Pickford's lesser works, this film was nevertheless a funny, extremely well-produced comedy about a...
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1918
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Previously filmed in 1915, the Bret Harte story M'liss served as one of Mary Pickford's most memorable vehicles. The...
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M'liss
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1918
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Coming as it did on the heels of what many consider to be Mary Pickford's greatest triumph, Stella Maris (1918), this film...
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Amarilly Jenkins
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1918
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Stella Maris,Unity Blake
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1918
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was the first film version of the Kate Douglas Wiggin novel and play. Mary Pickford, 23 years old...
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Rebecca Randall
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1917
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The title may have been designed to cash in on the success of Griffith's Birth of a Nation (wherein the Ku Klux Klan were the...
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1917
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This first version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's frequently filmed children's classic A Little Princess starred 23-year-old...
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1917
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1917
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1917
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Compiled by the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry and distributed to theaters across the United States,...
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1917
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A bittersweet tale of a little rich girl so sheltered by the parents she hardly ever sees that she has no idea of what is...
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1917
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This silent melodrama was typical Mary Pickford fare, if perhaps not one of her best. She had made a version of the film in...
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1916
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In her longest film to date -- 6 reels -- Mary Pickford starred in this well-made drama as an American girl, kidnapped as a...
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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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With Mary Pickford in the lead, it is perhaps superfluous to name the actress who played the title character in Hulda From...
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1916
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"Capital vs. Labor" was the theme of the Mary Pickford vehicle The Eternal Grind. One of several films inspired by the tragic...
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1916
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Not surprisingly, Mary Pickford failed to look sufficiently Japanese in this five-reel melodrama based on John Luther Long's...
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1915
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The relationship between a plucky daughter and her brutish father is dissected in this classic Mary Pickford drama set in a...
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1915
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1915
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Having played a modern actress in Behind the Scenes (1914), Mary Pickford took on the legendary 17th Century Nell Gwynn, the...
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1915
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1915
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Practically the whole Pickford clan showed up in Fanchon the Cricket. Mary Pickford plays the granddaughter of a woman...
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1915
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1915
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This typical silent rags-to-riches comedy-drama featured Mary Pickford and her real-life brother Jack as sibling orphans...
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1915
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Mary Pickford essays the title character in Esmeralda. She plays a country lass who leaves her home after valuable gold ore...
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1915
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Combining the star appeal of Mary Pickford with this fairy tale seemed like a sure thing to Famous Players-Paramount....
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Cinderella
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1915
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Mary Pickford was in the first flush of her screen superstardom when she appeared in this adaptation of Grace Miller White's...
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Tessibel Skinner
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1914
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The direction of 1914's His Last Dollar has often been attributed to D.W. Griffith. However, since Griffith was preoccupied...
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1914
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Set in the apparently always topical Balkans, this humorous Mary Pickford vehicle presented the star as the Queen of...
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1914
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Famous Players earned themselves a suit for plagiarism with this four-reel shipwreck melodrama, which was ostensibly written...
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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D.W. Griffith -- The Female of the Species and Selected Biograph Shorts, Vol. 3 is an intriguing collection of socially...
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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The Old Actor was produced by the Eclipse Company, one of the lesser film firms of the pre-1910 years. Unable to find work...
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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Elmer Booth is an ex-convict, and Mary Pickford is his devoted wife. Booth and his buddy are miserable in prison, but Mary...
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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Filmed during the Biograph Company's yearly winter excursion to sunny California, this one-reel Western melodrama features...
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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Mary Pickford was popular enough in early 1911 to be identified by name in the trade magazine Variety's review of...
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1910
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1910
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1910
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Peggy (Mary Pickford) is a strong-willed young woman who lives during the 18th century. She is not attracted to any of her...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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The New Jersey communities of Paterson and Westfield were used as exterior "backdrops" in this Biograph comedy....
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1910
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1910
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1910
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This D.W.Griffith-directed Biograph melodrama is set during the Russian Revolution. No, not the successful 1917 coup, but...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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The unfortunate title is the only truly "racist" aspect of this Biograph one-reeler. Set in the Old West (actually the...
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1910
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Despite its title, this Biograph half-reeler is a comedy. The plot is the old one about two poverty-stricken souls pretending...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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The undeveloped terrain of Fishkill, New York and Westfield, New Jersey stood in for the "Wild West" in the Biograph...
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1910
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Among the many villains in D.W.Griffith's 1916 epic Intolerance were those self-styled "social uplifters" who presumptuously...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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A widower (George O. Nicholls) must raise his young daughter by himself. He gets a job at a pigeon farm. He falls in love...
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1910
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D.W. Griffith dashed off the one-reel Little Angels of Luck entirely within the confines of the Bronx Biograph studios. Since...
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1910
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Mary Pickford is a young woman who convinces a farmer's wife to hire her as a maid. When a travelling salesman comes by the...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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No relation to the 1910 D.W.Griffith production of the same name, the 1913 release The Iconoclast was a three-reeler from the...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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Described by the Biograph publicity department as a "circus romance," D.W. Griffith's The Call was partially filmed on...
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1910
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1910
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By 1910, D.W. Griffith was far too busy to personally direct all of Biograph's films, thus he legislated authority to such...
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1910
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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This 386-foot-long D.W. Griffith production was released by Biograph on the same reel as Griffith's 587-foot comedy...
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1909
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1909
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1909
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The Biograph Bulletin described D.W. Griffith's Faded Lilies as a "Contemporary Unrequited Love Tragedy." That's quite a lot...
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1909
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Advertised by Biograph studios as a "Contemporary Temperance Melodrama," D. W. Griffith's The Broken Locket was filmed in...
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1909
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1909
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D.W. Griffith's Indian Runner's Romance represented one of the director's first forays to Biograph's facilities in...
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1909
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This D.W. Griffith-directed "contemporary comedy" was filmed at the Bronx headquarters of Biograph studios, with location...
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1909
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1909
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Running 211 feet (approximately 4 minutes), Little Darling was filmed right after the more ambitious D. W. Griffith...
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1909
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1909
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D.W. Griffith's Renunciation is a comedy western, filmed in the wilds of Shadyside, New Jersey. Fascinated by a pair of...
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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Incorrectly reviewed by the trad magazine Variety under the title The Sealed Door, this Renaissance melodrama is among the...
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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This 974-foot Biograph subject was designated by the studio as a "Contemporary Melodrama." The main character, a young...
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1909
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1909
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1908
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