Perhaps Mascot Pictures' The Marines are Coming would have been more credible had it been made 10 years earlier. Stars...
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Bill Taylor
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1935
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Produced by small-scale Mascot Pictures, this behind-the-scenes look at a now forgotten annual Hollywood event, the WAMPAS...
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Bob Preston
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1934
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In this comedy-adventure, an enterprising young man devises a new kind of speedboat motor. The trouble begins when he tries...
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Sandy
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1932
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"Are you listening?" was the catchphrase of early-1930s radio personality Tony Wons. Though Wons does not appear in the 1932...
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Bill Grimes
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1932
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Though silent-screen favorite William Haines wasn't able to sustain his popularity into the talkie era, he insisted upon...
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Art Director, Lord Robert Brummell
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1931
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John Paul Bart
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1931
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Officially released as The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, this William Haines vehicle was snappily adapted by...
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J. Rufus Wallingford
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1931
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1930
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Windy
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1930
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Jack Kelly
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1930
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Tom Ward
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1930
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In this comedy, a radio announcer works at the same station as a bogus psychic who while ostensibly answering fan letters on...
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William J. Brennan
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1930
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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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This cookie-cutter William Haines vehicle was filmed in part at the Indianapolis Speedway. As usual, Haines plays a fresh...
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Bill Whipple
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1929
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Adapted from a 1925 play by Patrick Kearney, A Man's Man was popular MGM leading man William Haines' final silent film...
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Mel
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1929
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Directed by James Cruze, this silent drama stars William Haines as Duke, a wealthy young heir who takes up prizefighting in...
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Duke
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1929
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MGM star William Haines was at the peak of his popularity when he starred in Excess Baggage. Haines plays Eddie Kane, a...
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Eddie Kane
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1928
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Don Davis
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1928
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Tommy
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1928
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After holding out for several months, MGM decided to take the talking-picture plunge with Alias Jimmy Valentine. Actually,...
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Jimmy Valentine
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1928
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Bruce Wayne
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1928
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Billy Boone
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1928
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Because of his impressive work in Brown of Harvard and Tell It to the Marines, William Haines had just achieved stardom when...
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George Manning
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1927
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Another of William Haines' sports-oriented vehicles, Spring Fever casts the star as lowly shipping clerk Jack Kelly. Falling...
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Jack Kelly
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1927
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One of the most popular baseball films ever made, Slide, Kelly, Slide also solidified the stardom of MGM leading man...
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1927
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Joe Field
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1926
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While the mid-1920s were deluged with films about college life, and Brown of Harvard is probably the ultimate silent film in...
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1926
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Harlan
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1926
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On the verge of his greatest success with MGM, personable young William Haines starred in the energetic Columbia programmer...
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1926
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A tough-as-nails Marine sergeant sets about training a rag-tag group of boys into men. Though sporting a rough and gruff...
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Private "Skeet" Burns
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1926
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The frequently filmed Alice Hegan Rice novel Lovey Mary was given the slick MGM treatment in 1926. Bessie Love plays the...
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Billy Wiggs
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1926
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Lover in flashback
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1925
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1925
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Norma Shearer stars in this routine light comedy. Katherine Emerson (Shearer) decides to leave her small hometown in Iowa to...
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Dick Wayne
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1925
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Horatio "Racy" Manly (William Haines) spends his time partying, much to the dismay of his father, Judge Manly (David...
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His son
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1925
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Director Victor Sjostrom and stars Lon Chaney and Norma Shearer made an impressive team on He Who Gets Slapped. They came...
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August
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1925
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Author George Barr McCutcheon, who breathed life into many a mythical kingdom, wrote the story for this action-adventure....
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1925
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Joe Kelly
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1925
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Based on a musical comedy by Edward Dowling, this picture was Joan Crawford's breakthrough film. Her Charleston in this and...
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Jimmy Dungan
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1925
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Centering a story on the dilemmas of a "modern business woman" seemed like a fine idea in 1924, so Rupert Hughes (whose...
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1924
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Aileen Pringle plays the Queen of Sardalia (one of your average, everyday mythical European principalities), who is unhappily...
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1924
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1924
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John Gilbert was on the brink of superstardom when he appeared in this routine domestic drama -- his fame would explode...
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Edward Converse
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1924
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1924
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Owen Tudor St. John
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1924
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Jack Oakes
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1924
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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1923
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Eleanor Boardman and William Haines came to Hollywood when they were winners in the same contest held by the Goldwyn studios....
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1923
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