Venerable Scandinavian leading-man Nils Asther tops the cast of That Man from Tangier. The story concerns foolhardy American...
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George
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1953
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Filmed very cheaply in New York, St. Benny the Dip (British title: Escape Me If You Can) has a charm and appeal that...
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Matthew
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1951
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1951
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Mr. Edmund Pohlwhistle
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1950
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In The Great Lover, Bob Hope plays "Boy Rangers" scoutmaster Freddie Hunter, who accompanies his young charges on a European...
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C.J. Dabney
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1949
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This multistoried drama purports to detail the events occurring in a single 24-hour period on Bond Street, a "typical"...
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1948
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In this romantic comedy, a wealthy heiress marries hastily and realizes her mistake on her honeymoon in New York. Though it...
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Ralph Tutwiler
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1948
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Detective Blore
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1945
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The overcrowding in WWII-era Washington, D.C., provided the concept for this comedy, as well as another film from the...
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Ira Cromwell
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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Mr. Barringer
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1943
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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1942
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Joan Crawford is the kissable bride of the title--but when the film opens, matrimony is the farthest thing from her mind....
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Marsh
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1942
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Long underappreciated by film buffs, The Lady Has Plans is a screwball comedy disguised as an espionage melodrama. The title...
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Ronald Dean
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1942
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Charles Giraud
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1941
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The third of producer Hal Roach's Topper films, Topper Returns eschews the frothy "screwball" format of the first two in...
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Cosmo Topper
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1941
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Attempting to Americanize Greta Garbo to appeal to American audiences (since most of the foreign markets for Hollywood...
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Oscar Miller
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1941
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Amos Bullerton
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1940
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We open on Philadelphia socialite C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) as he's being tossed out of his palatial home by his wife,...
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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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Thomas Brooke
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1940
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No, No, Nanette was the second film version of the popular Otto Harbach-Vincent Youmans Broadway musical. Though slightly...
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Mr. Smith
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1940
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This slick marital farce features Joel McCrea as T. H. Randall, a race horse owner whose devotion to his work causes a strain...
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Bill Carter
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1940
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In this remake of the 1926 silent hit (which was in turn based on a hit musical from 1919), Anna Neagle stars as Irene...
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Mr. Smith
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1940
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The 1922 George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play Dulcy was based on a delightful character created by columnist Franklin P....
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Roger Forbes
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1940
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Directed by Lewis Milestone nine years after taking home the best director Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front,...
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Barry Keith-Trimble
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1939
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In this drama, a miserable wife takes her son and leaves her alcoholic spouse. She ends up traveling to England to begin her...
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Prof. Daniels
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1939
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In this comedy, a young woman is determined to spend a weekend with her lover before he takes off to Europe for his new job....
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Titus Jaywood
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1939
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Except for a few clips from 1937's Topper, Cary Grant is absent from the proceedings of the 1939 sequel Topper Takes a Trip,...
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Cosmo Topper
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1938
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A comparatively little-known entry in the "screwball comedy" genre, David O. Selznick's The Young in Heart goes for quiet...
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Col. Anthony "Sahib" Carleton
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1938
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The irrepressible Jessie Matthews heads the cast of the buoyant musical Sailing Along. Matthews plays Kay Martin, a popular...
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Anthony Gulliver
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1938
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Autograph hound Al Babson (Eddie Cantor) accidentally disrupts the filming of a movie about Ali Baba, and is injured in the...
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Sultan
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1937
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By 1937, producer Hal Roach was hoping to wean himself away from the Laurel & Hardy-Our Gang slapstick on which he had built...
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Cosmo Topper
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1937
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In this lightweight drama, a gypsy girl is betrothed to a circus lion tamer. Unfortunately, he leaves Hungary to marry...
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Alan Brooks
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1937
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Commander Good
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1937
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Call It a Day is a Warner Bros. attempt at British light comedy. Nothing much happens of any consequence in this story of a...
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Frank Haines
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1937
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Kay Francis, Warner Bros.' resident "wronged woman," was the star of Give Me Your Heart. Francis plays a socialite whose...
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Tubbs Barrow
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1936
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As a result of a discussion between a trio of gods over the true worthiness of Earth, a retiring British shop assistant is...
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George McWhirter Fotheringay
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1936
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The Unguarded Hour opens with prosecutor Sir Alan Deardon (Franchot Tone) in the midst of a murder trial. He gets his...
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Bunny Jeffers
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1936
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A remake of the French comedy Monsieur Sans-Gene, One Rainy Afternoon gets under way when film-actor Phillippe Martin...
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Maillot
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1936
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David Copperfield was MGM's major Christmas release for its 1934-1935 season and also the first of producer...
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1935
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Previously filmed in 1918 and 1923, Harry Leon Wilson's novel achieved movie classic status when it was remade by...
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Earl of Burnstead
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1935
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Prince Nickolas
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1934
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A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse in this uproarious farce from Paramount. Naming the...
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Lord Reginald Withers
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1933
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Andrew Poole
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1933
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Burglar
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1933
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His Double Life is a sweet, charming adaptation of the venerable Arnold Bennett play Buried Alive. Roland Young plays Priam...
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Priam Farrel
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1933
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In this comedy a maid and a butler work for a very rich man. The trouble begins when their employer dies and leaves his...
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Hillary Hume
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1933
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Lovers Courageous represents a rare direct-to-screen original by Frederick Lonsdale, the playwright responsible for such...
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Jeffrey
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1932
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Quite popular when first released, Wedding Rehearsal is a bit obscure today, which is a shame when one considers the talented...
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Marquis of Buckminster
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1932
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Professor Olivier
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1932
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Cary Grant made his feature film debut in 1932's This is the Night. Grant plays the Olympic-athlete husband of Thelma Todd,...
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Gerald Grey
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1932
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In this complicated drama, a husband begins an affair. His new mistress has a handsome brother who ends up falling for the...
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Link Gibson
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1932
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A Woman Commands is often cited as silent screen star Pola Negri's first talking picture. Actually, it was her first...
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King Alexander
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1932
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Cecil B. DeMille's third remake of his debut film, this was the first sound version of Edwin Milton Royle's stage western...
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Sir John Applegate
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1931
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Doc, a Tramp
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1931
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This French-style farce is set at a large party. There a young misogynist explains why he cannot trust women. A man...
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Herbert Drake
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1931
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Based on a play by William DuBois, Pagan Lady top-bills Evelyn Brent as the title character, a "woman of the world" named Dut...
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Dr. Heath
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1931
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The legendary theatrical team of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne made their only starring screen appearance in this 1931...
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The Critic
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1931
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In this screwball comedy, Annabelle Leigh (Jeanette MacDonald) happily spends the $5,000 sent her each month by her husband,...
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Roland Wimbledon
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1931
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Count Strogoff
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1930
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The second of Cecil B. DeMille's talkies (as well as his second for MGM), Madam Satan is an exercise in incoherence, but this...
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1930
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In this comedy, a plumber does a job for a fellow and ends up conned into marrying his daughter. The daughter only agrees to...
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1930
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Nine years before stepping into the role of Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone essayed the character of S.S. Van Dyne's...
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Erik Arnesson
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1930
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A group of Londoners gather at the home of their host in order to solve the murders of two company officers. Once assembled...
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Lord Montague
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1929
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Based on Zoë Akins's 1923 novel Déclassée and the 1925 film of the same title, Her Private Life stars Billie Dove as Lady...
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1929
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was commissioned to write the story to this low budget crime drama for actor Glenn Hughes. In spite of...
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Houdini Hart
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1924
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John Barrymore's impressive performance in this picture is a testament to the strength of his talent, because it had a lot to...
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Dr. Watson
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1922
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Lily Becker (Hope Hampton) is the musically talented daughter whose mother forces her into a marriage to the son of a wealthy...
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1922
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