Before hitting his stride at MGM later in the 1920s, director Clarence Brown was contracted to make five "Super-Jewels" for...
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Robert Armstrong
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1923
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World War I flying aces, American Bill (Lloyd Hughes) and German Otto (Norman Kerry), now perform for a carnival, and both...
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1932
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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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Gordon Phillips
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1918
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In this lavishly produced MGM production, the ethereal Lillian Gish is a bit more earthy than normal, due in part to the...
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Ian Macdonald
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1927
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A typical pre-code era comedy, Bachelor Apartment was the creation of its leading man, silent screen matinee-idol Lowell...
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Lee Carlton
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1931
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MGM's silent programmers were often more elaborate than the "A" product from most other studios, and The Barrier was no...
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Meade Burrell
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1926
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Based on a 1914 novel by Robert William Chambers, this silent melodrama from the pioneering Vitagraph Company starred one of...
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Jack Greylock
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1924
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Ruffo
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1927
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The Bondman was producer-director Herbert Wilcox's third cinematic effort of 1929, and his last silent production. Hollywood...
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Jason
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1929
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Dr. John Grant
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1921
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Konrad Kronski
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1924
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The Claw is set in Africa, where the wealthy but spineless Maurice Stair (Norman Kerry) has arrived to assume management of...
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Maurice Stair
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1927
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Producer Samuel Goldwyn gave his usual top-drawer treatment to Cytherea, making this pulpish romance seem more important than...
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Peyton Morris
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1924
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Bebe Daniels never let her public or her studio down. In Daring Youth, Daniels delivers her usual sprightly performance as...
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John J. Campbell
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1924
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As the low-budget Liberty Pictures Corporation emerged from the chrysalis of the late Tiffany Studios, the new company...
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Beaumont Winthrop
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1931
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Francis Doran
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1925
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Richard
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1928
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Getting Mary Married was tailor-made to the talents of perky Marion Davies. The stepchild (Davies) of a millionaire is...
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1919
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Good Night, Paul stars bubbly comedienne Constance Talmadge. This time around, Talmadge's character is happily married (her...
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1918
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This second film version of the Victor Hugo novel Notre Dame de Paris (the first was a Theda Bara vehicle,...
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Phoebus de Chateaupers
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1923
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The title character is world-famous lothario Norman Kerry, who has given up keeping track of all his female conquests. While...
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J. Harrison Gray
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1927
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This drama was one of Miriam Cooper's last films, and she's far too good for the mediocre story. Her co-star here is the...
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John Brand
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1923
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1917
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This little human interest drama was not set in New York's Little Italy district, but at a settlement of Italian truck...
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Antonio tumullo
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1921
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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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Patsy Ruth Miller plays a female Tarzan in this adventure drama. When John Livingstone marries a circus performer, his father...
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1925
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Though its title was inspired by a popular song, Love Me and the World is Mine was based on Die Geschichte von der Hannerl...
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Von Vigilatti
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1928
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The Crown Prince of Maurainia (Norman Kerry) is a fun-loving rascal who prefers affairs of the heart to affairs of state. The...
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The Crown Prince of Maurainia
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1926
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Although this is a silent production, it does include a color sequence. The story remains clear even in this condensed...
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1925
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Mademoiselle Modiste is based on the Victor Herbert-Henry Blossom operetta of the same name -- minus the music, of course....
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Etienne
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1926
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The Booth Tarkington-Harry Leon Wilson play was filmed once previously, in 1914, by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel. For the...
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Prince Kinsillo
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1922
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1929
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Count Franz Maxmillian von Hohenegg
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1923
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A Poverty Row western that has the rare distinction of being shot in color, director Jacques Jaccard's action-packed shoot...
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1936
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Lon Chaney stars as Erik, the Phantom, in what is probably his most famous and certainly his most horrifying role. Produced...
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Vicomte Raoul de Chagny
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1925
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This ordinary romantic programmer starred Universal regulars Norman Kerry and Virginia Valli. Linnie Randall, a shopgirl...
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Barry Schuyler
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1925
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After serving a term in prison, Peter (Norman Kerry) goes straight and becomes a butler in the home of Christopher Darley...
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Peter, the butler
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1921
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This independently made mystery suffers from an extremely poor ending -- after innumerable plot twists, the whole situation...
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1923
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This mystical tale of India was based on the novel by E.M. Hull, the author of The Sheik, the book which became the film that...
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Said
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1924
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In 1941, producer Hal Roach abandoned production of full-length features in favor of a new concept: The "Streamliner", a...
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1941
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1924
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This comedy-melodrama was based on the hit Broadway play by Frederick S. Isham, and Cyril Chadwick repeats his stage...
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Billy Foster
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1922
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Mae Marsh stars in this society/crime drama, which rates just a tad above your average programmer. The unscrupulous Arthur...
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Robert Carter
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1922
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Capricious Constance Bannister (Sally Eilers) has had 12 fiances, but has yet to take her marital vows. Fiance number 13,...
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Oliver Mowbray
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1929
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Centering a story on the dilemmas of a "modern business woman" seemed like a fine idea in 1924, so Rupert Hughes (whose...
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Harry Boutelle
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1924
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Because of Rudolph Valentino's success in The Sheik, Universal deemed it a good time to bring out a desert story of their...
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1922
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Dashing Norman Kerry wasn't exactly what one would call a "cowboy" type, but that didn't stop his home studio of Universal...
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Bob Erskin
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1926
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As a group, the silent-movie collaborations between director Tod Browning and star Lon Chaney hardly represent the best work...
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Malabor
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1927
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1918
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Dawn Emerson (Wanda Hawley), an outcast wet from a rainstorm and exhausted from the streets, stumbles into a mission and is...
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1919
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"Blackie" Daw
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1921
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Ogden Fenn
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1921
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Victorien Sardou's 1882 stage play Fedora was transformed by future director John Farrow into the Pola Negri vehicle The...
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Loris Ipanoff
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1928
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Filmed in the waning days of FBO Pictures, Woman I Love was ultimately released by FBO's successor RKO Radio. Although Robert...
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1929
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