Warner Baxter made his final screen appearance in Columbia's State Penitentiary. Baxter plays airplane engineer Roger...
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Roger Manners
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1950
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Warner Baxter plays the title role in Columbia's Prison Warden. A well-known reformer, Victor Burnell (Baxter) is put in...
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Victor Burnell
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1949
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Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series drew to a close with 1949's Crime Doctor's Diary. A visibly weary but still virile...
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Dr. Robert Ordway
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1949
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1949
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Earl Donovan
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1948
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For the ninth time, Warner Baxter plays Dr. Robert Ordway, better known to movie (and radio) fans as "The Crime Doctor"....
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Dr. Robert Ordway
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1947
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In this mystery, the Crime Doctor, an amnesiac ex-crook, takes on yet another intriguing psychological murder case. This...
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1947
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Dr. Robert Ordway
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1946
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In this entry in the Crime Doctor series, amateur sleuth Dr. Ordway is duped into giving one of his patients a fatal shot....
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1946
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In this episode of the "Crime Doctor" series, Dr. Orday, the sleuthing shrink, cares for a patient who suffers from...
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Dr. Robert Ordway
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1945
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Warner Baxter makes his fourth appearance as Dr. Robert Ordway, criminal-turned-criminologist, in Crime Doctor's Courage....
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Dr. Robert Ordway
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1945
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Dr. Robert Ordway
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1944
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Freely adapted from a successful Broadway musical by Moss Hart, this story stars Ginger Rogers as Liza Elliott, the editor of...
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Kendall Nesbitt
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1944
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This second entry in Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series once again stars Warner Baxter as Dr. Ordway, a former criminal turned...
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1943
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In this drama, based on a popular radio program, the leader of a ring of burglars suffers a blow to the head and loses his...
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Dr. Robert Ordway
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1943
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Ingrid Bergman stars in Adam Had Four Sons, her second American film appearance. Based on a novel by Charles Bonner, the...
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Adam Stoddard
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1941
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Future blacklistee John Howard Lawson co-wrote this remake of Samuel Goldwyn's 1920 drama Earthbound, presented here as a...
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Nick Desborough
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1940
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from...
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1939
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The gathering war clouds in the late 1930s prompted a number of Hollywood films about recent political upheavals, one of...
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Hank Topping
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1939
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In this Mexican version of the popular southwestern series, Cisco barely escapes the deadly bullets of a firing squad. He...
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Cisco Kid
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1939
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20th Century-Fox evidently adored "triangle" comedies like Wife, Husband and Friend; apparently so did Loretta Young, who...
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Leonard Borland
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1939
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In this upbeat drama, a disillusioned millionaire, sick to death of the attempts of greedy friends and relatives to sponge...
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1938
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Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale of a young 18th century boy betrayed by his wicked uncle didn't need a romantic...
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Alan Breck
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1938
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Dr. Judd Lewis
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1937
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An early Technicolor musical that concentrates on the fashions of the late 1930s, this film was reissued under the title All...
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George Curson
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1937
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Jim Lovett
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1937
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Warner Baxter plays Dr. Samuel Mudd, American history's most famous victim of circumstance. In 1865, Dr. Mudd, a known...
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Dr. Samuel Mudd
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1936
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To finance such major productions as Ramona and Lloyds of London, 20th Century-Fox had to maintain a quota of such minor but...
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Capt. Clark Rutledge
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1936
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Capt. Paul LaRoche
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1936
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1936
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Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal...
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Kerry Bolton
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1936
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Warner Baxter does a variation of his Oscar-winning "Cisco Kid" characterization in Robin Hood of El Dorado. Baxter plays the...
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Joaquin Murrieta
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1936
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Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy star as a husband and wife who've been married ten years...but they might not make it to eleven....
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Jock Wallace
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1936
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One More Spring is a laundered version of Robert Nathan's whimsical Depression-era novel. Left destitute by the Wall Street...
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Jaret Otkar
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1935
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In this western-style musical, a rakish gaucho rides off across the Argentine pampas to Buenos Aires in search of his stolen...
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Cesar Campo
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1935
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Charles Lingard
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1934
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This drama, an adaptation of a novel by A.J. Cronin, chronicles the exploits of an alcoholic doctor whose career is in...
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Dr. Harvey Leith
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1934
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Playboy novelist Michael Shawn's (Warren William) chickens come home to roost in Such Women are Dangerous. Accused of murder,...
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Michael Shawn
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1934
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The Lafayette Escadrille, that elite corps of volunteer WW I flyboys, is the collective "hero" of Fox's Hell in the Heavens....
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Lt. Steve Warner
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1934
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Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway...
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Dan Brooks
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1934
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Based on an idea by Will Rogers, the story concerns the efforts by the President of the United States to get the public's...
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Lawrence Cromwell
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1934
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In this crime drama, a dapper thief meets a female detective at a party and fall in love. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Andrew Burke
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1933
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Society-lawyer Warner Baxter loses his prestige in the legal community when he successfully defends gangster boss...
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Jackson Durant
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1933
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Phillip Fletcher
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1933
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At age 26, Janet Gaynor was still playing "gamin" roles in such musical trifles as Paddy, the Next Best Thing. Gaynor stars...
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Lawrence Blake
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1933
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The quintessential "backstage" musical, 42nd Street traces the history of a Broadway musical comedy, from casting call to...
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Julian Marsh
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1933
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Stephen Morrow
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1932
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Mildred Cram's novel Scotch Valley was transformed by the scenarists at Fox into the Warner Baxter vehicle Amateur Daddy....
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Jim Gladden
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1932
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In this off-beat sci-fi film, an outspoken diplomat is murdered during an international trade conference. This is a terrible...
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Capt. Paul Onslow
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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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1931
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1931
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Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to...
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1931
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The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one...
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Dr. Judson Penning
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1931
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Surrender is yet another triangular romance set against the backdrop of WWI. French POW Dumaine (Warner Baxter) is...
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Sgt. Dumaine
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1931
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Janet Gaynor plays a teenaged orphanage waif who protects the younger children from the harshness of the supervisors. One of...
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Jervis Pendleton
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1931
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Cisco Kid
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1931
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In this action-adventure opus, Deucalion (Warner Baxter), Machwurth (Noah Beery), Mordiconi (C. Henry Gordon) and Biloxi...
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Deucalion
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1930
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Warner Baxter, who had won an Academy Award for playing the Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona (1929), is at it again, fake Spanish...
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The Cisco Kid
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1930
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Filmed in "Fox Grandeur," an early widescreen process, Happy Days was the immediate follow-up to Fox Studios'...
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1930
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In this drama an unattractive, dour German businessman leaps out of a flying plane after learning that his wife only married...
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Ludwig Kranz
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1930
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Dr. Paul Randall
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1929
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A murder trial provides the setting of this drama that presents, via flashback, three very different versions and motives of...
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Jack Winfield
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1929
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Warner Baxter, sporting a black mustache and a musical-comedy Mexican accent, stars as the Cisco Kid, the "Robin Hood of the...
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Cisco Kid
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1929
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Pablo Wharton Cameron
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1929
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Irving Cummings was a good choice to direct this third Charlie Chan feature, the first to use sound, as he had previously...
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John Beetham
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1929
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Baroness Gerda Wallentin (Pola Negri) walks out on her philandering husband Count Dietrich (Paul Lukas) and heads to Vienna....
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James Harris
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1928
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George Kelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Craig's Wife was given three screen treatments by Hollywood. The first of these...
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Walter Craig
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1928
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The 1928 production Ramona was the third film version of the Helen Hunt Jackson novel of the same name, first dramatized (in...
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Alessandro
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1928
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The economical Columbia programmer A Woman's Way benefits from the presence of such pros as Margaret Livingston,...
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Tony
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1928
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1928
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Neglected by shallow husband Dick (William Collier Jr.), young bride Paula Wayne (Patsy Ruth Miller) seeks male companionship...
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Frank Gordon
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1928
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In this lurid Tod Browning melodrama, boasting a thoroughly creepy performance by Lon Chaney, Chaney plays Phroso, a...
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Doc
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1928
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Filmed on the Navajo reservation in Northern Arizona, this silent Paramount Western was yet another screen adaptation of a...
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1927
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After losing a fistfight to his romantic rival Freeman Wood, wastrelly Warner Baxter skulks off to the North Woods. Hoping to...
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Clinton Philbrook
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1927
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Royce Wingate
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1927
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Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien (Madge Bellamy) can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers. Right now she...
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Matthew Standish
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1927
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1926
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Jay Gatsby
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1926
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George Barr McCutcheon's novel had already been filmed a couple of times (and would be filmed several times more after the...
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Thomas B. Hancock, Jr.
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1926
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Gilda Gray, best-known for inventing the shimmy, shows off her talents as a Hawaiian dancer in this South Seas drama, based...
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Nuitane
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1926
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In one of her first Paramount vehicles, Clara Bow stars as Cynthia Meade, a movie actress on location in the hills of...
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Wade Murrell
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1926
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John Herrick
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1926
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1925
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This Cape Cod melodrama was based on a novel by Joseph C. Lincoln. Calvin Homer (Warner Baxter) expects to be promoted to...
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Calvin Horner
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1925
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Based on a story by Harold Bell Wright, this average silent western starred Warner Baxter as the son who almost loses his...
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"Big Boy" Morgan
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1925
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Esther Ralston, who plays a nice chorus girl in this comedy-drama, is upstaged by Margaret Livingston, who has a...
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Henry Morgan
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1925
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By using a borrowed medal, Russ Kane, a crook (Warner Baxter), is able to get a job as an air mail pilot. His plan is to...
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Russ Kane
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1925
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The first film version of Arthur Richman's stage comedy The Awful Truth was produced in 1925. A series of misunderstandings...
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1925
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Fred Prouty (Warner Baxter) and his wife, Nettie (Lois Wilson), are living happily until the day that his aged father (Luke...
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Fred Prouty
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1925
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Donald Allen/John Rolfe
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1924
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This melodrama was personally supervised by producer Thomas Ince, and, depending on how one looked at it, it was either...
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Bob Kane
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1924
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This adaptation of Kathleen Norris' best-selling novel came out just weeks before its producer, Thomas Ince, mysteriously...
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Stuart Knight
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1924
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Dalla (Betty Compson) is an untamed orphan of the South African veldt. She falls in love with Colonel Valentia, a noted...
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Col. Valentia
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1924
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Warner Baxter lifts himself up from poverty to unlimited riches. The audience knows that Baxter couldn't have done it without...
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1924
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This drama was based on the play by Leon Gordon and Doris Marquette. The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg...
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Douglas Crawford
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1924
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Starring New Zealander Shayle Gardner in the title role, this British screen version of Augusta J. Evans-Wilson's sentimental...
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Murray Hammond
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1923
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After she inherits a fortune, Ann Clemance (Viola Dana) travels to Paris to indulge herself in frivolity. She meets up with...
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1923
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Vitagraph shot this melodrama, based on the stage play by Ramsay Norris, once before, in 1916. The newer version seemed to...
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1922
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Although Alice Calhoun had recently scored in The Angel of Crooked Street, her next picture was this wispy mystery. Calhoun...
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1922
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This mythical kingdom romance was quite a bit lighter than most of Ethel Clayton's heavily dramatic vehicles. While studying...
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1922
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In the 1920s, chauvinism and pride overrode economics, and most men would rather have perished than relied on any money their...
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Lew Alden
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1922
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Alice Calhoun stars in this society drama, which is not without comic overtones. Elizabeth Browne (Calhoun) is the daughter...
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Jones/Lord Dysart
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1922
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This cross between Cinderella and Peg O' My Heart stars Wanda Hawley. Penniless orphan Ruth Sheldon (Hawley) moves in with...
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1921
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The situations in this simple comedy-drama still ring true today. The O'Donnells are a typical, everyday family -- Tad...
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1921
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1921
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Although the story to this drama -- based on the novel, Barry Gordon, by William F. Payson -- was ludicrous, female filmgoers...
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Tom Gordon
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1921
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When factory worker Susan Sweeney (Mae Marsh) receives word that she has inherited half interest in a country hotel, she...
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1918
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