Originally titled Man of the West (the name of the Philip Yordan novel on which it was based), Gun Glory was rechristened to...
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1957
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The Wings of Eagles is filmmaker John Ford's paean to his frequent collaborator--and, it is rumored, drinking buddy--Cmdr....
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1957
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Cameron Hawley's novel of corporate in-fighting and gamesmanship was brought to the screen by producer John Houseman and...
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1954
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Blonde good-time girl Vivian Heldon (Jan Sterling), who lives in a cheap rooming house in a working-class section of Boston,...
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1950
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MGM whipped up another musical salad with Luxury Liner, featuring a glittering lineup of contractees including Jane Powell,...
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1948
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Broke and stranded once more, golden-hearted showgirl Maisie Revere (Ann Sothern) finds herself in upstate New York in...
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1941
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While recklessly playing baseball in a busy street, Our Gang member Mickey (Robert Blake) is struck by a car. Though he fully...
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1940
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This box-office smash comedy of manners featured the popular Myrna Loy as Margot Sherwood Merrick, the stodgy editor of a...
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1940
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Two Girls on Broadway is an updated reworking of MGM's Oscar-winning 1929 musical Broadway Melody. Joan Blondell and...
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1940
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The "new pupil" in this one-reel Our Gang entry is a pretty young lass named Sally, played by popular child actress Juanita...
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1940
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Although his popularity eroded with each successive talkie appearance, silent-film favorite Monte Blue fulfilled his Warner...
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1929
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In this comedy, a meddlesome and grouchy publisher pushes his son and his wife a little too hard to make a few grandchildren...
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May Lambert
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1929
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Shirley Rossmore
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1928
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Olga Redmayne
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1928
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May McAvoy plays the nose-in-the-air title character in Warner Bros' The Little Snob. The daughter of Coney Island...
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1928
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Jane Regan
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1928
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On the verge of receivership in 1926, Warner Bros. studio decides to risk its future by investing in the Vitaphone sound...
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Mary Dale
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1927
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Though he's perfectly happy with his wife May (May McAvoy), Ted Howard (Conrad Nagel) isn't above a little flirtation with...
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May Howard
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1927
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Actor-director Ralph Graves, the "auteur" of Columbia Pictures, paid a brief visit to Warner Bros. to put together Reno...
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1927
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The father of footloose Cynthia Martin (May McAvoy) has decreed that, until Cynthia finds a husband her two sisters won't be...
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Cynthia Martin
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1927
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Sallie Smith
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1927
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Sheila
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1927
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1926
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First filmed in 1915, the time-honored Albert Chevalier stage success My Old Dutch was remade (this time sans Chevalier) in...
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Sallie Brown
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1926
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Judith Allen
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1926
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1926
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Arguably the best of Charles Ray's four MGM vehicles, The Fire Brigade casts Ray as the youngest in a large and rambunctious...
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Helen Corwin
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1926
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The advertising tag "four years in the making" is usually so much press-agent puffery. In the case of the 1926 silent version...
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Esther
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1925
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This moralistic romance, based on the short story Here's How by Richard Washburn Child, was pretty typical for its era: jazz...
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Cathleen Gillis
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1925
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Unable to rely upon Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic dialogue to carry the day (this was, after all, the silent-film era), director...
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Lady Windermere
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1925
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Director Dallas M. Fitzgerald made this film independently, and he convinced star May McAvoy to invest in it. According to...
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Tessie
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1925
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Ruth Martin
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1924
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In the more straight-laced era of the 1920s the lack of a marriage license could destroy a young couple's world - that's the...
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1924
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Even though director Ernst Lubitsch had only been in the U.S. for a little over a year, his soon-to-be-famous "touch" was...
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Jeanne Wilton
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1924
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Letitia Tevis
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1924
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1924
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The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes...
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Laura Pennington
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1924
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Although Lois Wilson was lovely to look at, some of her best work was in character roles. Here, the 28-year-old star plays...
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Lucy Stanley
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1923
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Even as a supporting player, character actor Theodore Roberts often dominated the scenes in which he performed. When he had...
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Virginia
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1923
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Paramount loaned May McAvoy to producer Thomas Ince to star in this drama about yellow journalism. Jacqueline Lanier (McAvoy)...
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Jacqueline Lanier
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1923
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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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1922
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May McAvoy was on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's most popular stars when she appeared in this pleasant comedy-drama....
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1922
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The Willard Mack stage play Kick In starred John Barrymore on Broadway and was made into a motion picture in 1917, with Ouida...
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Myrtle
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1922
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Cora Wheeler
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1922
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William Desmond Taylor's final film -- a poorly paced, overly sentimental romance -- only proves that if he had not been the...
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Hilda O'Shaunnessey
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1922
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This romance was based on William J. Locke's novel The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne, which was made into a film once before in...
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Carlotta
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1921
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The Realart studio took this creaky, cliched old play by Eugene W. Presbey and brought the setting up to the current time,...
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1921
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Tommy Sandys (Gareth Hughes) is a poor Scottish boy who has an endless imagination. At the age of 16, he comes to the town of...
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Grizel
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1921
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Jeanne Millet
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1921
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A Kentucky feud between the Mitchells and the Lees has wiped out all the Lees except for old Ben (Charles Kent) and his...
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1920
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William Dale (Lionel Barrymore), a servant for Lord Barradine (H. Cooper Cliffe), marries Mavis, a maid (Doris Rankin,...
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1920
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Director J. Stuart Blackton was a cinema pioneer, but by 1920, the kind of heavy, self-righteous melodrama he specialized in...
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1920
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Hegan Rice was a favorite children's book of the Victorian era. It was made into a...
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1919
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Nancy Lee (Norma Talmadge) is a Southern belle with a good pedigree whose family, nevertheless, is impoverished. They refuse...
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1919
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To Hell with the Kaiser is considered a lost film, but if contemporary accounts can be believed, the picture was not nearly...
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1918
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Madge Kennedy plays a burlesque actress who winds up stranded in a very small-minded small town and tries, nevertheless, to...
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1918
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When America enters World War I, New Yorker Bill Durham (George Walsh) tries to enlist, but is rejected for having flat feet....
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1918
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