Richard BarthelmessFilmography

The Mayor of 44th Street

Actors: George Murphy, Anne Shirley, William Gargan, Richard Barthelmess, Joan Merrill

Synopsis: In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately, the local gang of hood's leader resists his attempts. More trouble ensues when the dancer helps a convict gain parole by hiring him. It later turns Read More

The Spoilers

Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Margaret Lindsay, Richard Barthelmess, William Farnum, Harry Carey

Synopsis: The fourth of five movie versions of the rugged Rex Beach novel of the same name, 1942's The Spoilers stars Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, and Randolph Scott. The plot, involving the cheating of Alaskan gold rush prospectors by a crooked gold commissioner, requires that Scott play a villain Read More

The Man Who Talked Too Much

Actors: George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Richard Barthelmess, William Lundigan

Synopsis: This slightly laundered remake of the 1932 courtroom classic The Mouthpiece stars George Brent as brilliant but unprincipled DA Steve Forbes, a character based on legendary lawyer William Fallon. After railroading an innocent boy into the electric chair, Forbes goes on a bender, then cynically Read More

Only Angels Have Wings

Actors: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Carroll, Allyn Joslyn

Synopsis: Virtually a textbook example of Howard Hawks' "macho" mode, Only Angels Have Wings takes place high in the Peruvian Andes. Cary Grant heads a ramshackle airmail and freight service, forced to fly in the most perilous of weather conditions to the most treacherous of destinations. Facing death on a Read More

Spy of Napoleon

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Dolly Haas, Frank Vosper, Francis L. Sullivan, Joyce Bland

Synopsis: Hollywood star Richard Barthelmess, who's about as French as a hot dog with mustard, plays the title character in the British costume melodrama Spy of Napoleon. Based on a novel by Baroness Orczy (The Scarlet Pimpernel), the plot focuses on the animosity between Napoleon III (Frank Vosper) and Read More

Four Hours to Kill

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Joe Morrison, Gertrude Michael, Helen Mack, Dorothy Tree

Synopsis: Adapted from Norman Krasna's Broadway hit A Small Miracle, Four Hours to Kill is a multi-plotted effort that can best be described as "Grand Hotel goes to the theater." Richard Barthelmess stars as Tony, a condemned murderer, who is handcuffed to Detective Taft (Charles Wilson) while en route to Read More

Massacre

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak, Dudley Digges, Claire Dodd, Henry O'Neill

Synopsis: One of the first major Hollywood films to seriously address America's ongoing mistreatment of its Indian population, Massacre is more admirable for its intentions than its execution. The film was inspired by the activities of John Collier, commissioner for the Bureau of Indian Affairs during Read More

A Modern Hero

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Jean Muir, Marjorie Rambeau, Veree Teasdale, Florence Eldridge

Synopsis: Produced by Warner Bros. in 1934, A Modern Hero was the only American talkie directed by the great German filmmaker G. W. Pabst. Richard Barthelmess plays Pierre, the bastard son of blowzy, besotted circus performer Mme. Azais (Marjorie Rambeau). Fiercely ambitious, Pierre enters the world of Read More

Midnight Alibi

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak, Helen Chandler

Synopsis: In this drama, a gambler must hide-out from the mob and ends up in a spinster's apartment. The old woman, is unused to company as she has spent her life in seclusion after a failed romance in her youth. When the crime lord is killed, the gambler, his younger brother, is arrested for the murder. To Read More

Central Airport

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Sally Eilers, Tom Brown, Grant Mitchell

Synopsis: Aerial footage distinguishes this romantic-triangle melodrama set among pilots in a flying circus. Jill (Sally Eilers) loves Jim (Richard Barthelmess), but he insists that fliers shouldn't marry, so the disappointed Jill marries his younger brother Neil (Tom Brown) instead. The resulting tensions Read More

Heroes for Sale

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Gordon Westcott, Robert H. Barrat

Synopsis: What isn't Heroes for Sale about? Within its 71-minute time frame, this film (co-written by "professional cynic" Wilson Mizner) tackles such issues as disenfranchised war veterans, misguided hero worship, drug addiction, the Depression, capitalism, labor relations and communism. Richard Barthelmess Read More

Cock of the Air

Actors: Chester Morris, Billie Dove, Matt Moore, Walter Catlett, Luis Alberni

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy a demanding French actress is upset because she has not recently received the proper adulation from WW I Allies. To calm her down, a meeting is arranged between the actress and a charming Army official in Italy. Initially both of them resist the artificially designed Read More

Alias the Doctor

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Marian Marsh, Lucille La Verne, Norman Foster, Adrienne Dore

Synopsis: A Bavarian orphan, raised by a wealthy family, grows up to become a promising physician (Richard Barthelmess). Meanwhile, the privileged young man (Norman Foster) with whom Barthelmess has grown up fails to make the grade at medical school. When Foster bungles an operation, Barthelmess nobly Read More

The Cabin in the Cotton

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Jordan, Bette Davis, Henry B. Walthall, Walter Percival, Berton Churchill

Synopsis: Henry Harrison Kroll's novel Cabin in the Cotton was an attack on wealthy southern landowners who exploited their sharecroppers. While the landowners still don't come off too well in Warner Bros.' film version of Kroll's novel, the film tries to avoid stepping on powerful toes, even composing an Read More

The Stolen Jools

The Last Flight

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, David Manners, Johnny Mack Brown, Helen Chandler, Elliott Nugent

Synopsis: Curiously reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway's Sun Also Rises, The Last Flight dramatizes the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. Four Yankee army buddies (Richard Barthelmess, Johnny Mack Brown, David Manners and Elliot Nugent) are invalided out of service during World War One, victims of profound Read More

The Finger Points

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Fay Wray, Clark Gable, Regis Toomey, Robert Elliott

Synopsis: The names have all been changed, but this hard-hitting gangster tale is based on an actual newspaper headline story involving the brutal slaying of corrupt crime reporter Alfred "Jake" Lingle, who had been suspected of betraying his boss Al Capone. Naive Southern boy Breckinridge Lee comes to the Read More

The Lash

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, James Rennie, Mary Astor, Marian Nixon, Fred Kohler

Synopsis: In this western adventure, set in California just after the Spanish-American War, a Mexican rancher becomes a populist avenger battling injustice and corruption. Among his targets is the wicked gringo land commissioner. He also preserves the honor of a beautiful senorita. In addition to fighting Read More

The Dawn Patrol

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., James Finlayson, Neil Hamilton, Gardner James, William Janney, Edmund Breon, Clyde Cook

Synopsis: Set during World War I, The Dawn Patrol is a study of the pressures and pitfalls of authority. A British Royal Flying Corp squadron commander (Neil Hamilton) is compelled by the higher-ups to send his boys out in dangerous, rickety aircraft. He is tormented by the responsibility, but does his duty Read More

Son of the Gods

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Constance Bennett, Mildred van Dorn, King Ho Chang, Geneva Mitchell

Synopsis: Adapted from a story by Rex Beach, Son of the Gods stars Richard Barthelmess as Sam Lee, a young Chinese-American, anxious to distance himself from his oriental heredity. While travelling throughout the world, Sam falls in love with wealthy white girl Allana (Constance Bennett). He chooses not to Read More

Show of Shows

Synopsis: Basically a filmed vaudeville presentation, The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' entry in the "all star, all talking, all singing and all dancing" sweepstakes of 1929. Though slightly better than MGM's Hollywood Revue of 1929, the Warners entry pales in comparison to Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 Read More

Drag

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Lucien Littlefield, Alice Day

Synopsis: No, Richard Barthelmess doesn't don women's apparel in the 1929 talkie The Drag. Barthelmess plays a Vermont newspaper editor, happily married to Alice Day. That is, he was happy until the day his wife's troublesome in-laws (Lucien Littlefield, Katherine Ward) came to visit. Wifey's parents stay Read More

Young Nowheres

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Marian Nixon, Bert Roach, Anders Randolf, Raymond Turner

Synopsis: In this drama, an elevator operator in a big hotel gets in big trouble after he and a chambermaid are found in a guest's suite. Though they had good reason to be in there, they are charged with breaking and entering. The story has an unexpected twist at the end. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Scarlet Seas

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, Loretta Young, Jack Curtis, Knute Erickson

Synopsis: In this actioner, a sea captain saves a Shanghai whore who is being tossed out of town. He puts her on board and heads out to sea; unfortunately, the ship sinks and the two are trapped on a lifeboat until they are found by a ship filled with tough mutineers whom the hero quickly fights, thereby Read More

Weary River

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, William Holden, Louis Natheaux, George E. Stone

Synopsis: Director Frank Lloyd was nominated for an Academy Award for this rather sappy gangster melodrama starring Richard Barthelmess and filmed as a silent with dialogue sequences. Sent up the river by a rival gangster, Jerry Larrabee (Barthelmess) is shown the way to redemption by an understanding Read More

Out of the Ruins

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Robert W. Frazer, Marian Nixon, Emile Chautard

Wheel of Chance

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Bodil Rosing, Warner Oland, Anne Schaefer, Lina Basquette

Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

Actors: Molly O'Day, Nelson McDowell, Martha Mattox, Victor Potel

Synopsis: Kentucky Courage was the second film version of John Fox Jr.'s 1903 novel The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. Richard Barthelmess stars as Chad Buford, a sensitive Kentucky farm boy who escapes his sadistic guardian Nathan Cherry (Gustav von Seyfertitz) and finds a safe harbor in the home of Old Read More

The Noose

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Montagu Love, Jay Eaton, Lina Basquette

Synopsis: The Noose was based on a story by H. H. Van Loan -- or rather, the play adapted from that story by Willard Mack. Cheap crook Nickie Elkins (Richard Barthelmess) is the son of equally dishonest Buck Gordon (Montague Love). When his ex-wife (Alice Joyce) marries Governor Bancroft (Robert T. Haines) Read More

The Dropkick

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Barbara Kent, Dorothy Revier, Eugene Strong, Alberta Vaughn

Synopsis: The silent The Dropkick stars Richard Barthelmess as a talented but hopelessly conceited college football star. Because of his frequent clashes with his coach, Barthelmess is the prime suspect when said coach is murdered. He manages to clear himself just in time to win the Big Game. Of interest to Read More

The Patent Leather Kid

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Molly O'Day, Arthur Stone, Lawford Davidson, Matthew Betz

Synopsis: Such was Richard Barthelmess' popularity in 1927 that audiences were willing to sit through all 12 reels (approximately 130 minutes) of The Patent Leather Kid. Barthelmess plays a cocky prizefighter who isn't the least bit concerned when America enters World War 1. Doing his best to avoid the Read More

The Amateur Gentleman

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Dunbar, Gardner James, Nigel Barrie, Brandon Hurst

Synopsis: The 1926 Amateur Gentleman was the second film version of Jeffrey Farnol's novel of the same name. Richard Barthelmess stars as Barnabas Barty, the rough-hewn son of a prizefighter (Edwards Davis). Barty's dad is accused of a crime he didn't commit; almost simultaneously, Barnabas inherits a Read More

Just Suppose

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Lois Moran, Geoffrey Kerr, Henry Vibart, Harry Short

Synopsis: In this adaptation of a play by A. E. Thomas, Richard Barthelmess stars as Prince Rupert of Koronia, who becomes tired of palace life and yearns to be among the common folk. On a visit to America, Rupert gets his wish, and even goes so far as to fall in love with down-to-earth Linda Lee Stafford (Lois Moran Read More

The White Black Sheep

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Patsy Ruth Miller, Constance Howard, Erville Alderson

Synopsis: The White Black Sheep in this stiff-upper-lip actioner is Robert Kincairn (Richard Bartheless), the dissolute son of a British colonel (William H. Tooker). Though outwardly a wastrel, Kincaim is gallant enough to take the blame for a robbery perpetrated by his fiancee Enid (Constance Howard). Read More

Ranson's Folly

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Mackaill, Anders Randolf, Pat Hartigan, William Norton Bailey

Synopsis: The 1926 Ranson's Folly was the second screen version of the rough-and-tumble novel by journalist Richard Harding Davis. Richard Barthelmess plays Lt. Ranson, an army officer who, out of boredom, bets his friends that he can successfully pull off a stagecoach robbery armed with nothing more than a Read More

Shore Leave

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Mackaill, Ted McNamara, Marie Shotwell

Synopsis: The silent Shore Leave was the first film version of the Hubert Osborne play of the same name (later musicalized as Hit the Deck). Dressmaker Dorothy Mackaill falls in love with sailor Richard Barthelmess, despite the warnings of her sea captain father concerning the romantic habits of seafaring Read More

Soul-Fire

Actors: Lee Baker

Synopsis: Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) studies music in Paris, but his parents (Lee Baker and Effie Shannon) call him home and ask him to give it up to go into business. He refuses and returns to France. He gets involved with Rhea, a Russian princess (Carlotta Montery), is swept up by the Parisian Read More

Beautiful City

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Gish, William Powell, Frank Puglia, Florence Auer

Synopsis: The presence of Richard Barthelmess adds a poetic quality to this romantic melodrama. Tony Gillardi (Barthelmess) is a flower vendor on New York's East Side. His brother, Carlo (Frank Puglia), is the favorite of their mother (Florence Auer), but in reality, he is a weak-willed youth who is under Read More

New Toys

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Mary Hay, Katherine Wilson, Clifton Webb

Synopsis: Richard Barthelmess and his wife, musical comedy actress Mary Hay, co-produced and co-starred in this comedy-drama. It was based on a play written by Milton Herbert Gropper and Oscar Hammerstein Jr. Clifton Webb makes an amusing appearance as a womanizing impresario -- one of his few screen roles Read More

Classmates

Actors: Claude Brooke, Richard Barthelmess, Reginald Sheffield, Charlotte Walker, Madge Evans

Synopsis: The play by William C. deMille and Margaret Turnbull was filmed once before in 1914. This version features Richard Barthelmess as the star and some scenes were actually shot at West Point. Duncan Irving Jr. (Barthelmess) is the son of the village postmaster (Claude Brooke) in a small southern Read More

The Enchanted Cottage

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, May McAvoy, Ida Waterman, Alfred Hickman, Florence Short, Marion Coakley

Synopsis: The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes home to a fiancée who promptly leaves him. Licking his wounds in solitude, he meets a young woman named Laura (May McAvoy). They fall in love and agree to marry, but Read More

Twenty-One

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Joe King, Dorothy Cumming, Dorothy Mackaill, Elsie Lawson

Synopsis: Although Richard Barthelmess was one of the bigger stars of the silent era, not all his films were worthy of his talents. This society drama was decidedly mediocre fare. The wealthy McCulloughs (Joe King and Dorothy Cumming) separate when their son, Julian, is seven. Mrs. McCullough convinces her Read More

Bright Shawl

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Margaret Seddon, Mary Astor

Synopsis: This drama about Cuba's unsuccessful 1850 revolution was based on the novel by Joseph Hergesheimer. Andres Escobar (André Beranger) convinces his wealthy American friend, Charles Abbott (Richard Barthelmess) to join him in Cuba. When Abbott sees how poorly the Spaniards are treating the Cubans, he Read More

The Fighting Blade

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Lee Baker, Morgan Wallace, Bradley Barker, Frederick Burton

Synopsis: Richard Barthelmess plays completely against type in this romantic costume drama. Instead of the usual homespun boy, here he is the swashbuckling Karl van Kerstenbroock, Flemish soldier of fortune. He comes to England to avenge the death of his sister and becomes embroiled in the plot to overthrow Read More

Fury

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Tyrone Power, Sr., Pat Hartigan, Barry Macollum, Dorothy Gish

Synopsis: Henry King directed this Richard Barthelmess vehicle concerning Boy Leyton (Richard Barthelmess), a child raised sternly by his embittered father, Captain Leyton (Tyrone Power). The Captain is a harsh taskmaster who trains Boy to be perfect. When Boy defends the honor of his sweetheart Minnie (Dorothy Gish Read More

The Seventh Day

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Frank Losee, Leslie Stowe, Tammany Young, George Stewart

Synopsis: Like Tol'able David, this Richard Barthelmess picture was directed by Henry King. It's nowhere near as strong as Tol'able David was -there's barely any plot to speak of -- but it's still a pleasant film. When they aren't allowed to drink their own liquor at the Vogue Club (these were the days of Read More

Sonny

Synopsis: Once again, actor Richard Barthelmess and director Henry King team up in an attempt to recreate the magic of Tol'able David. They don't quite hit the same chord in this sentimental drama, but it comes a lot closer than their prior picture together, The Seventh Day. Barthelmess has a dual role Read More

Just a Song at Twilight

Synopsis: A young man, George Turner (Richard Barthelmess), finds work as a gardener and falls in love with his employer's pretty daughter Lucy (Evelyn Greeley). In lieu of an engagement ring, George gives Lucy his one valuable possession, an antique necklace given to him by his mother on her deathbed. But Read More

Bond Boy

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

Tol'able David

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, Gladys Hulette, Walter P. Lewis, Ernest Torrence, Ralph Yearsley

Synopsis: Richard Barthelmess stars in this classic silent melodrama as David Kinemon, the youngest son of a family living in a small West Virginia town. While sweet and good-natured, David is not noted for his mature behavior, and his youthful overenthusiasm causes his mother to tell him, "You're not quite Read More

Experience

Actors: Richard Barthelmess, John Miltern, Marjorie Daw, Betty Carpenter

Synopsis: In spite of the fact that George V. Hobart's play was merely a trite and overdone story parading as a moralistic allegory, it made loads of money. When it was finally made into a film, it became even more preachy and self-important. Youth (Richard Barthelmess) meets Ambition (E.J. Ratcliffe) and Read More

Way Down East

Actors: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman, Burr McIntosh, Creighton Hale

Synopsis: "I'm not a bad businessman", filmmaker D.W. Griffith once protested, "Honestly I'm not!" Yet industryites were certain that Griffith had taken leave of his financial senses when he paid $175,000 for the screen rights to the old Lottie Blair Parker stage play Way Down East. Considered out of date Read More

The Love Flower

Synopsis: A more exotic story than 1920s audiences had come to expect from D.W. Griffith, The Love Flower nonetheless adheres to Griffith's usual Dickensian approach to storytelling. There's an early outrage (the murder of a man), a child with a clouded past (the murderer's daughter), a decades-long Read More

The Idol Dancer

Synopsis: Even though this is a lesser D.W. Griffith film, the casting is intriguing. Richard Barthelmess, who usually played a "good boy," portrays Dan McGuire, a lazy beachcomber who likes his gin. The girl is Clarine Seymour, whose spirit was far earthier than Lillian Gish's, and whose talent was far Read More

The Greatest Question

Actors: George Nichols

Synopsis: As a child, Nellie Jarvis (Lillian Gish) witnessed a murder, but it only remains a shadowy memory. After the death of her parents, she is taken in by a poor but honest couple, the Hiltons (George Fawcett and (Eugenie Besserer). To help pay for her keep, she goes to work for a very nasty pair of Read More

Broken Blossoms

Actors: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp, Edward Peil Sr., Arthur Howard

Synopsis: Based on "The Chink and the Child", a story by Thomas Burke, Broken Blossoms is one of D.W. Griffith's most poetic films. Richard Barthelmess plays a young Chinese aristocrat who hopes to spread the gospel of his Eastern religion to the grimy corners of London's Limehouse district. Rapidly Read More

Three Men and a Girl

Synopsis: Director Marshall Neilan gave Marguerite Clark's career a needed boost with this amusing little comedy. A trio of grumpy misogynists (Richard Barthelmess, Percy Marmont and Jerome Patrick) rent a house in the country in an effort to avoid feminine contact. Into this manly idyll bursts Sylvia Read More

I'll Get Him Yet

Synopsis: The story to this farce comedy (one of several that starred Dorothy Gish with Elmer Clifton as director) was written by Harry Carr, who was an editorial writer at the Los Angles Times. Susy Farady Jones (Gish) is a rambunctious young lady, and her millionaire father, Bradford "Skinflint" Jones Read More

Scarlet Days

Synopsis: This D.W. Griffith picture has the distinction of being, arguably, the worst film that the director ever made. For starters, it's a western -- not one of Griffith's best subjects. And most of the characters are two-dimensional clichés. Rosy Nell (Eugenie Besserer) is a dance-hall woman of the Old Read More

The Girl Who Stayed at Home

Synopsis: Out of all of Griffith's films about the Great War, this one impressed the least. Perhaps Carol Dempster should share part of the blame for this -- it was her first starring vehicle and her hyperactive performance was soundly upstaged by her charismatic co-star Clarine Seymour. In brief, the plot Read More

Hit-the-Trail Holliday

Synopsis: One suspects that Broadway star George M. Cohan and fiercely independent director Marshall Neilan did not precisely see eye to eye during filming of Hit-the-Trail Holliday. Scripted by Anita Loos and John Emerson, the story didn't really amount to much. It was simply a series of episodes built Read More

Rich Man, Poor Man

Synopsis: It perhaps goes without saying that the 1918 drama Rich Man, Poor Man bore no relation to the 1976 TV miniseries of the same name. The earlier film served as a vehicle for Marguerite Clark, who though rapidly approaching forty was convincing as the gaminelike heroine. Born and raised in poverty, Clark Read More

Seven Swans

Synopsis: The Seven Swans was one of several fairy-tale adaptations starring Marguerite Clark -- who, though way past thirty, still retained her fresh ingenue appeal. Clark is cast as a Princess whose seven handsome brothers run afoul of a wicked witch. The old harridan transforms the brothers into seven Read More

Bab's Burglar

Synopsis: Marguerite Clark added to her already considerable film fame by appearing in a brace of comedies based on a Mary Roberts Rinehart character. In Bab's Burglar, Bab Archibald (Clark) is in boarding school, running through her dad's money like there's no tomorrow. She also gets mixed up in a planned Read More

Bab's Diary

Synopsis: In Bab's Burglar, we were introduced to boarding-school brat Bab Archibald (Marguerite Clark). In Bab's Diary, Bab comes home for the Christmas holidays. Given to fabrications, Bab has been keeping a diary in which she describes and imaginary boyfriend named Harold Valentine. Imagine what happens Read More

Camille

Actors: Theda Bara, Albert Roscoe

Synopsis: The title character in Dumas' Camille is a Parisian courtesan, but the heroine is relatively sympathetic, especially when she gives up her aristocratic young lover Armand Duval (Albert Roscoe) "for his own good." Like many of Bara's "literary" vehicles, this 1917 version of Camille was directed by J. Gordon Edwards Read More

Valentine Girl

Synopsis: When her guardian gets married, twelve-year-old Marian Morgan (Marguerite Clark) is sent to live with her father (Frank Losee). Mr. Morgan owns a gambling house, and Marian's presence causes him to rethink his lifestyle. He decides to sell the joint, but a former colleague, Joe Winder (Adolphe Menjou Read More

The Eternal Sin

Synopsis: Filmmaker Herbert Brenon indulged in his usual spectacular excesses in The Eternal Sin. Victor Hugo's novel Lucretia Borgia is used as the springboard for a fanciful tale of love and treachery during the Renaissance. Florence Reed stars as Lucretia, to whom no sin is unmentionable: from poisoning Read More

War Brides

Synopsis: Alla Nazimova had been presented with motion picture contracts before, but she turned them down until Lewis J. Selznik offered to shoot a film version of this one-act play by Marion Craig Wentworth. The stage star had been successfully performing in it on Broadway and on the road for many months Read More