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Screen Story
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1950
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That new-fangled swing music is the focus of this musical comedy. The trouble begins when a music school dean boards a train...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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20th Century-Fox pulled its script for Three Blind Mice out of mothballs once more for Three Little Girls in Blue....
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Screenwriter
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1946
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The second of Perry Como's two starring vehicles for 20th Century-Fox, If I'm Lucky is an easygoing remake of 1937's...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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Four Jills in a Jeep is the (mostly) true story of a four-girl USO team, entertaining American troops overseas. Kay Francis,...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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Despite the film's title, Pin-Up Girl offers surprisingly few glimpses of the famed Betty Grable "gams." This lively...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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The Cole Porter Broadway musical Something for the Boys was brought to the screen by 20th Century Fox with three new non-...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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Though a lesser 20th Century-Fox musical, Hello, Frisco, Hello was one of the studio's most successful wartime efforts. John...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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When the US marines land in Iceland during WW2, camp lothario John Payne wastes no time scoping out the local female...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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Victor Mature plays an arrogant champion boxer who opts for an acting career on Broadway. He falls in love with his costar...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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One of the shortest and sweetest of Betty Grable's Technicolor musicals, Song of the Islands casts the Leggy One as Eileen,...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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Skating star Sonja Henie and the Glenn Miller Orchestra share the spotlight in Sun Valley Serenade. Henie plays a Norwegian...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of commercial radio, 20th Century-Fox cooked up the pageantlike entertainment...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Despite the title, the Cisco Kid (Cesar Romero) doesn't feel too lucky at the beginning of this film. It seems that someone...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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Seventeen-year-old Linda Darnell received her first big break in the appropriately titled 20th Century Fox production Star...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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To quell the rumors that musical stars Alice Faye and Betty Grable detested each other (actually they were fast friends, if...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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Screenwriter
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1940
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Too Busy to Work is not a remake of the 1932 Will Rogers film of the same name-but it is a partial remake of Rogers' 1935...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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This drama chronicles the life and times of a notorious gangster. The story begins at his funeral. There a reporter,...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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In this episode of the popular detective series, Chan attends a WW I reunion in Paris. While catching up with his buddies,...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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This timely entry in Fox's Charlie Chan series is set in Paris during the Munich Crisis of 1938. Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler)...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Trouble follows an American photojournalist in Paris when he meets an exotic woman in Marseille. Initially he had come to...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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The sole survivor of an Indian attack, orphan girl Susannah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) becomes the mascot of the Canadian...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Perhaps the best of Jane Withers' 20th Century-Fox vehicles, Rascals is also the one that pops up most frequently on...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Down on the Farm was yet another entry in the seemingly endless saga of the Jones Family. The plot is set in motion when the...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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In this exciting action film, a young Indy driver endeavors to emulate his famous father, and restore his dad's good...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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20th Century-Fox's first "Jones Family" series entry for 1938 was the six-reel Love on a Budget. Back in their usual screen...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse....
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Screenwriter
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1938
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The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa (Jed Prouty) and Ma (Spring...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Sharpshooters was the initial entry in what was to have been a series of six "Camera Daredevils" adventures. Brian Donlevy...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Screenwriter
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1937
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In this actioner, an auto racer becomes a cab driver for a company that is being strong-armed by avaricious gangsters trying...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Not a remake of the classic Laurel and Hardy 2-reel silent of the same name, Big Business was an early entry in 20th...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Charlie Chan was the Jessica Fletcher of the 1930s; no matter where he took a vacation, someone got murdered! This time, the...
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Screen Story
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1937
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Actual footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is rabbeted into the action of this superior Charlie Chan entry. Assigned by the...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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The film is called Laughing at Trouble, but feisty female newspaper publisher Glory Bradford (Jane Darwell) doesn't waste...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1937
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In New York to attend a police testimonial in his honor, Honolulu detective Charlie Chan runs smack dab into another murder....
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Screen Story
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1937
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Virtually all of the Chesterfield Pictures efforts of the 1930s served as starring vehicles for Hollywood's best character...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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En route from Honolulu to Los Angeles by steamship, Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) is pressed into action when a fellow...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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In this crime comedy, an ocean liner engineer messes up and ends up relegated to shoveling coal. Later he accepts a lovely...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Enjoying a break from crime-solving, oriental sleuth Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) takes his 12 children to the circus. It...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Happiness C.O.D was one of the last productions from flagging Chesterfield. Perennial supporting player Maude Eburne assumes...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Tarzan, "The Police Dog," stars in this ultra low-budget thriller from independent producer Bert Sternbach. The human leads,...
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1935
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The rollicking Jones family buys a trailer and heads for Yosemite in this comedy. Along the way, the older children find...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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As much a horror film as a murder mystery, Charlie Chan in Egypt is one of the best entries in the "Chan" series. The story...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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In this drama, a gun moll eludes the pursuing police by hiding out on a fishing vessel. There she meets and falls in love...
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Screen Story
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1935
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Hoping to finish his latest play in peace, writer Ricardo Souchet (Gilbert Roland) loses his train of thought when dizzy...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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A serial-like pace and some stylish directorial choices by Gordon Wiles distinguish this "Charlie Chan" entry. The reading of...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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A family loses its collective head going from rags to riches in this low-budget comedy from also-ran studio Chesterfield....
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Brooklyn tugboat worker Eddie (Eddie Cantor), bullied and cowed by his tough-guy stepfather and stepbrothers (a la...
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1934
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Screenwriter
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1934
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Like many Chesterfield-Invincible films of the era, In Love with Life is built around the talents of a prominent character --...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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The Quitters was typical of the curiously uninviting titles frequently bestowed upon the Chesterfield-Invincible productions...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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The basic difference between the Chesterfield and Invincible productions of the 1930s is that most of the Chesterfields were...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1934
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One of several variations of the "Mata Hari" and "Fraulein Doktor" legends, Universal's Madame Spy is set during WW I....
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1934
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Down on his luck in 1934, Erich Von Stroheim accepted a leading role in the Chesterfield Pictures cheapie Fugitive Road,...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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Completed just before the Production Code went into effect, I've Got Your Number is delightfully racy, risque entertainment....
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1934
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A love triangle amidst the world of musical entertainment provides the basis for this drama. The trouble begins when a...
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1934
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A lover selflessly dumps her boy friend so that he will obey the wishes of his wealthy benefactor and marry someone more...
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1934
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New York Police Commissioner Mulroney opens Penal Code with a stern warning for parents about keeping the children off the...
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1933
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A brutal murder has been committed, and an eyewitness has placed wealthy philanthropist Jerome Breen (Lionel Atwill) at the...
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1933
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The most exciting thing about Reform Girl is its title. Released from prison, hard-boiled Lydia Johnson (Noel Francis)...
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Kellar
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1933
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In this drama, an unmarried pregnant woman is forced to marry a complete stranger to maintain a sense of propriety. The man...
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1933
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1933
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1933
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Distantly related to Frederick Lewis Allen's non-fiction book of the same name, Only Yesterday uses fictional characters to...
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1933
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Columbia's The Thrill Hunter is more of straight action film than a western, though leading man Buck Jones still wears his...
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1933
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When a patient dies of heart failure, society doctor Michael Travers (Lew Cody), takes an interest in her 14-year-old...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Just because Police Call was cheaply made doesn't mean it isn't fun to watch. Nick Stuart stars as Danny, a champion boxer...
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1933
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Police officer Tom Malone is the only honest man left who can salvage his crooked city after his partner is killed on his...
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1933
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Screenwriter
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1933
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In this crime comedy, a stenographer is kidnapped after she witnesses a mob hit. The hostage soon finds herself the object...
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1933
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Much of this exciting crime drama is set aboard an airplane in which a brave hero does battle with a gang of smugglers....
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Moran
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1933
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In this unusual Western, Buck Jones is not only branded for being a "squaw stealer" (i.e. rapist) but his prey is a woman...
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1933
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In this romance, an ambitious young career woman is slated to marry a wealth man until she gets into a fender-bender and...
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Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter
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1933
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Although based on a story by William Colt McDonald, the creator of The Three Mesqueteers, this Tim McCoy effort from Columbia...
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1932
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Short story writer Thomas attempts to solve a murder involving blackmail, stabbings and mysterious notes. Another interesting...
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1932
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In his fourth Western for Columbia Pictures, Tim McCoy played a lawman chasing a masked villain known only as "the Shadow."...
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Crip Mason
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1932
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Priscilla Dean was one of the major star names of the early 1920s. By the time the all-talking quickie Behind Stone Walls was...
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1932
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In this western, a Pony Express rider believes himself to be a Native American. The trouble begins when an Anglo outlaw...
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Gregory
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1932
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In this mystery, a detective is called in to investigate the fate of a derelict ship that was found floating off the coast...
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English Charlie
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1932
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Bank president Thomas Dickson (Walter Huston) has instituted a lending policy that shows great faith in ordinary people but...
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Dude Finlay
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1932
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In this western, a Chicago slicker begins grabbing land and using it to scam city dwellers by selling it first to locals,...
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1932
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In this western, a Texas Ranger is assigned to bring in a woman who is causing trouble in a nearby town. He soon comes to...
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1932
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In this western a falsely accused convict is paroled. He goes home and finds himself ostracized by his neighbors who believe...
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Coleman
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1932
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It is difficult to believe that this ultra-cheapie ever actually scared anyone; it's just possible that audiences laughed as...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Also known as From Broadway to Cheyenne, this Rex Bell vehicle is an excellent amalgam of the western and gangster genres....
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1932
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It is all but impossible to dislike a film as gloriously corny as The Phantom Express. The title is derived from an early...
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1932
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In his fourth of six inexpensive Westerns for Allied Pictures in 1932, veteran cowboy ace Hoot Gibson played a foreman...
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John Thomas
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1932
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In this war drama, two buddies in WW I return stateside. One of them becomes a police sergeant, but the other cannot find...
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Marino
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1931
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In the South Seas, half-caste Ilanu (Raquel Torres) refuses to marry Kahea (Donald Reed), as she loves Jimmy Bradford...
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1931
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The answer to the question asked by small-scale Sono Art/World Wide Pictures in this minor crime drama was a resounding --...
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1931
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Alcoholic John Bowers heads to the Great Northwest, hoping that the fresh air and exercise will help him swear off booze....
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1931
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Joe Cabrone
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1931
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A sophisticated, expensively-dressed group of people gather in a spooky old mansion to watch the first performance of a...
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1931
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In this crime drama, a moll tells her imprisoned gangster lover that she is leaving him for another whom she really loves....
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Tyler
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1931
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Buck Jones falls in love with the sister of the outlaw he has just killed in this superior B-Western from independent...
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Flash Halloway
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1931
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In this western, the leader of an outlaw band gets conned on a steamship voyage. To get revenge he holds the con man's...
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1931
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Billed as "The Ace of Screen Dare-Devils," stuntman Richard Talmadge usually starred in films that suffered from strained or...
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Lucas
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1931
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In this crime melodrama, a bootlegger orders the death of his rival. Meanwhile the bootlegger's wife dallies with his best...
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1930
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Johnny Mack Brown stars as Paul, who wants nothing more out of life than to take charge of a lighthouse. Falling in love with...
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Jim Paine
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1930
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In this drama, a suave playboy gets jealous when his lover falls for a new man. Then the mistress' sister comes to town and...
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1930
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Not a remake of the 1922 film of the same name, Reckless Youth takes place in a college town where everybody parties on and...
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Robert Haines
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1929
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This early musical features several song-and-dance numbers in the midst of a story about underworld criminals. Nick...
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Steve Crandall
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1929
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Directed by William Wyler, The Love Trap centers around a chorus girl whose sudden job termination (on the day of her...
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1929
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A young boxer on his way to the top is scheduled for an important championship fight in this sports melodrama. He meets a...
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John Zelli
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1929
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In this comedy drama, a married man finds himself in philanderer's heaven when he gets involved with three local women....
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Jack Keith
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1929
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1928
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1928
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Law and the Man is based on a story by Roy Octavus Cohen, then popular for his magazine yarns about "Negro" life. This time,...
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Ernest Vane
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1928
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Lewis Stone, best known to modern viewers as kindly Judge Hardy from the "Andy Hardy" series, was on occasion not so kindly...
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1928
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1928
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John Bowers, the actor whose roller-coaster career and tragic death allegedly inspired the movie A Star is Born, heads the...
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Steve "Slick" Martin
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1927
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Philip Mott
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1926
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1926
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The tragic Barbara LaMarr made her final film appearance in The Girl From Montmartre. LaMarr is cast as Parisian cabaret...
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Ewing
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1926
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Part Time Wife was inspired by a racy novelette originally seen in the pages of Spicy Stories magazine. The happy marriage...
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Kenneth Scott
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1925
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This jazzy comedy-drama was based on the Saturday Evening Post story by Grace Sartwell Mason. Wiletta Whipple (Pauline Garon)...
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1925
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As its title implies, this independently made, routine melodrama takes place in the Canadian North Woods. Raoul LaFane...
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1925
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Evelyn Brent takes on a Douglas Fairbanks Sr.-type role in this action-adventure film. Senorita Catalina (Brent), the ward of...
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Hugh Winthrop
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1925
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The drama opens with a prologue in which an innocent boy (Eddie Phillips) is sent to the electric chair and executed before...
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Harry Phillip
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1925
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This Columbia "special" begins as a little girl is rescued from a sinking ocean liner by a pair of seafaring brothers. The...
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1925
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The United States had just finished building a fleet of very fast ships to catch the rumrunners that brought prohibition...
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Jerry Burke
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1925
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Bruce Winter
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1924
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Filmgoers must have been sick of desert romances by the time this one came out. About the only thing it had in its favor was...
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Barry Braxton
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1924
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Baby Peggy, a popular child star of the 1920s who grew up to become film historian Peggy Carey, who stars in The Law Forbids....
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1924
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First National dressed up this routine society melodrama with a good cast and a decently written story line. Harrison Bates...
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Allan Penfield
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1924
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The doctor
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1924
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Gladys Walton plays an inept newspaper reporter in this mediocre farce comedy. Leslie Adams (Walton) is secretary to the city...
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Stuart Furth
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1923
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Thomas Dixon, who wrote The Clansmen (which became Birth of a Nation), wrote and directed this melodrama. Dr. David Hale...
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1923
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A young and still inexperienced Norma Shearer was originally cast in the lead role of Myra Hastings in this society drama --...
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1923
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This is not the 1919 Swedish picture, but an adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel, That Lass o' Lowrie's. It takes...
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Fergus Derrick
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1923
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The plot to this routine Paramount drama was apparently inspired by current interest in the work of Emile Coue, a hypnotist...
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Lord Wallington
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1923
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Although Charles Ray doesn't play one of his country boy roles in his first picture for United Artists, John Paul Bart could...
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Art Director
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1922
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Before her nasally voice was exposed, making her a more appropriate choice as a working class girl, Marie Prevost achieved...
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Gary McVeigh
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1922
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Victor Fleming was still a relatively new director when he helmed this melodrama, an adaptation of the stage play by Harry...
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Howard Fisk
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1922
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This melodrama bears no relation to the 1919 Doris Kenyon Western of the same name. It is based on the Cynthia Stockley novel...
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1922
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May Allison was making something of a comeback in this picture -- she'd been away from the screen for some time....
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Director, Fernando Pennington
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1922
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Dorothy Phillips stars in this tale of the sea, which was directed by her husband, Alan Holubar. Lola (Phillips) is the...
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Steele O'Connor
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1922
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The career of actress Katherine MacDonald was already suffering when she starred as the unappealing title character of this...
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1922
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This drama was director George Loane Tucker's last film; in fact his health was failing as he completed it. Too bad the maker...
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Anthony Mulvain
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1921
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aka Handcuffs and Kisses The producers of this picture apparently got their inspiration from a magazine story about the...
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Peter Madison
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1921
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Elsie Janis not only starred in this mystery film, she also co-wrote the screenplay along with Edmund Goulding. Although Jane...
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Director
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1920
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Elaine Hammerstein stars in this soap opera-like drama. Mrs. Mynor (Theresa Maxwell) encourages her daughter Virginia...
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Director
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1920
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In this charming comedy, May Allison plays Helen Corning, the speed demon daughter of a rich widow. She dashes around the...
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1919
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A young girl is almost cheated out of her inheritance (a valuable mine) by a gang of cutthroats who had once befriended her...
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Director
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1919
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Louisiana Rogers (Vivian Martin) lives in the mountains of rural North Carolina with her father Lew (Noah Beery). Pa Rogers...
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1919
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Stage actress Rose Melville was famous for portraying the character of Sis Hopkins in the F. McGrew Willis play, and she...
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Director
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1916
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When Mrs. Montt (Mary Taylor Ross) finds a skull in an old trunk while rummaging through the attic of her boarding house,...
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Director
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1916
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This Kalem comedy marked the screen debut of English actress Ivy Close. Theatrical magnate Gotrox (William McKay) wants to...
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Director
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1916
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Director
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1915
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Cyrus Cairns, a crippled old invalid (Walter McEwen), hires Hal Crofton, a young athlete (Robert Ellis, who also directed),...
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Director
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1915
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Released in 16 chapters, one reel each, this series of society melodramas had more in common with the earlier What Happened...
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Director
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1915
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1915
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