Betty Compson
Betty Compson (March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974) was an American actress and film producer. Most famous in silent films and early talkies, she is best known in her performances in The Docks of New York and The Barker, the latter earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.009 |
| Birthday | 1897-03-17 |
| Place of Birth | Beaver, Utah, USA |
| Also Known As | Eleanor Luicime Compson, ベティ・カンプソン, |
1928
The Docks of New York
7/98
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
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The Docks of New York
1930
She Got What She Wanted
0/0
Mahyna, a dissatisfied Russian peasant girl, marries Boris and comes to New York in search of "the soul of love," only to become a drudge in their che...
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She Got What She Wanted
1929
The Time, the Place and the Girl
0/0
A musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose swollen head is deflated when, after graduating , he takes a...
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The Time, the Place and the Girl
1941
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
6.2/206
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? T...
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1927
Cheating Cheaters
0/0
Nan Carey ( Betty Compson ), a shoplifter, is caught by the police but acquitted through the influence of Lazare ( Lucien Littlefield ), a crooked law...
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Cheating Cheaters
1923
Hollywood
7/1
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtim...
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Hollywood
1922
Over the Border
0/0
Jen Galbraith is in love with Sgt. Tom Flaherty of the Royal Mounted. She is the daughter of Peter Galbraith, who is engaged in smuggling moonshine wh...
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Over the Border
1923
The Woman with Four Faces
0/0
The woman with four faces is a movie about a woman who happens to be both a thief and a con artist and who cannot be arrested because she is faceless.
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The Woman with Four Faces
1926
The Wise Guy
0/0
A carnival huckster who decides to turn pennies into dollars by passing himself off as a hellfire-and-brimstone evangelist.
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The Wise Guy
1921
For Those We Love
0/0
Berenice Arnold spends her time trying to keep her family happy. This is easier said than done -- her brother, Jimmy, is a gambler and he steals 80 do...
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For Those We Love
1921
Prisoners of Love
0/0
Blanche Henry, a vivacious young woman, finds what she believes is true love with a handsome young man, but then learns that he has designs on her you...
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Prisoners of Love
1924
The Garden of Weeds
0/0
The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg, a man of great wealth and few morals. He installs chorus girls there until he grows tired of them
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The Garden of Weeds
1940
Strange Cargo
7/51
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
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Strange Cargo
1947
Second Chance
5/3
Jewel thieves battle investigators.
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Second Chance
1928
The Barker
0/0
A successful carnival barker deals with the arrival of his eager son, who he'd hoped would stay far from the carnival world, his son's entanglement wi...
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The Barker
1919
The Devil's Trail
0/0
Whiskey smuggler Dubec, trades liquor to the Indians, takes revenge on the Royal North West Mounted Police pursuing him by killing the wife of post co...
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The Devil's Trail
1929
Street Girl
5.8/5
A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.
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Street Girl
1925
Locked Doors
1/1
A young woman marries a man several years her senior to provide a comfortable home for her invalid father and then feels the call of youth and falls d...
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Locked Doors
1924
The White Shadow
7.2/10
The White Shadow is a British drama film directed by Graham Cutts based on the novel "Children of Chance" by Michael Morton. Alfred Hitchcock worked o...
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The White Shadow
1931
The Lady Refuses
5.3/15
A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young woman to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the gir...
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The Lady Refuses
1929
The Great Gabbo
5.5/22
For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.
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The Great Gabbo
1929
On With the Show!
5/3
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the l...
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On With the Show!
1933
Destination Unknown
0/0
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
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Destination Unknown
1929
Woman to Woman
5.2/10
While on leave in WW I France an English officer and French cabaret star fall in love with one another and plan to marry. However, he is recalled to...
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Woman to Woman
1938
Blondes at Work
6.1/8
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in...
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Blondes at Work
1948
Here Comes Trouble
4.6/7
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
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Here Comes Trouble
1935
False Pretenses
5/1
A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house, and eventually come up with...
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False Pretenses
1925
Paths to Paradise
5.5/7
Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are thrown together by circumstance.
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Paths to Paradise
1938
Torchy Blane in Panama
5.3/6
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
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Torchy Blane in Panama
1930
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
6/1
This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost. No negative or print...
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The Case of Sergeant Grischa
1939
Cowboys from Texas
2/1
Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay A...
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Cowboys from Texas
1933
Notorious But Nice
5.5/2
A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gamble...
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Notorious But Nice
1941
Escort Girl
3.2/10
A pair of nightclub owners run a string of escort bureaus where men pay for the "companionship" of young women. The district attorney sends an underco...
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Escort Girl
1936
Bulldog Edition
3/2
Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also...
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Bulldog Edition
1936
The Millionaire Kid
5/1
The Millionaire Kid is young Tommy Neville whose wealthy parents, Thomas and Gloria Neville are preparing to fight it out in divorce court.Tommy runs...
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The Millionaire Kid
1936
August Week End
5/1
At a high-society dinner party, a wealthy, older and married man sets his sights on a beautiful young girl who's loved by a younger and not-so-wealthy...
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August Week End
1936
The Drag-Net
4.9/4
A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.
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The Drag-Net
1937
Circus Girl
4/1
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
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Circus Girl
1917
Crazy by Proxy
0/0
A young man is about to marry; it is the dawn of his wedding morn. The bride-to-be is also present; but while she eagerly pursues preparations for the...
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Crazy by Proxy
1931
The Gay Diplomat
4/5
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one qu...
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The Gay Diplomat
1938
Under the Big Top
5.5/2
Director Karl Brown's 1938 circus drama stars Marjorie Main as a tough, fur-coat-wearing circus boss who raises her orphaned niece to be a trapeze sta...
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Under the Big Top
1939
Hotel Imperial
6/2
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of W...
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Hotel Imperial
1929
Weary River
5.4/10
A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations...
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Weary River
1931
Three Who Loved
5.4/5
A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.
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Three Who Loved
1926
The Belle of Broadway
6/1
Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a young American performer, Marie Duval, to perform a...
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The Belle of Broadway
1932
Guilty or Not Guilty
6/1
Ruth Payne, innocent to begin with, is trying to extradite herself from the clutches of a gang-mob who obtained her release from prison on a falsified...
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Guilty or Not Guilty
1933
West of Singapore
0/0
Tropical "heat" drives a man into the arms of a disreputable tramp, making things tough for the woman who really loves him.
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West of Singapore
1938
Religious Racketeers
5/1
A wealthy young woman, racked with guilt because she wasn't there when her mother died, is so desperate to contact her that she gets involved with a p...
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Religious Racketeers
1938
Port of Missing Girls
0/1
Nightclub singer Della Mason witnesses a murder and is forced by the killer to flee with him from the scene of the crime. Escaping from the gangster,...
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Port of Missing Girls
1924
The Fast Set
0/0
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The Fast Set
1917
Hubby's Night Out
5/1
Neal hates to give up his evenings with "the boys." even for his wife Betty. She gets a burglar scare and insists on his staying home. However, he wan...
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Hubby's Night Out
1930
Inside the Lines
5.1/9
During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.
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Inside the Lines
1922
A Trip to Paramountown
6/2
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at wor...
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A Trip to Paramountown
1919
The Miracle Man
4.5/2
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam g...
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The Miracle Man
1930
The Czar of Broadway
0/0
Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however, th...
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The Czar of Broadway
1927
Say It with Diamonds
0/0
American silent drama film following an early Vitagraph leading man and matinee idol. Prints of the film are held at the Library of Congress and Georg...
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Say It with Diamonds
1941
Invisible Ghost
5.2/48
The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.
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Invisible Ghost
1923
Woman to Woman
6.5/2
David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a...
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Woman to Woman
1925
Beggar on Horseback
6/5
Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the...
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Beggar on Horseback
1943
Danger! Women at Work
6/1
Three women inherit a 10-ton truck and decide to go into business. Hi jinks ensue.
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Danger! Women at Work
1916
The Making Over of Mother
5/1
Neal and Betty are newlywed when her father dies. Betty goes to visit her mother and decides to take her to live with them. Neal, who has never met he...
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The Making Over of Mother
1936
Two Minutes to Play
5/2
Martin Granville Jr., a star track-and-field athlete, has intentions of going to Claxton College, but changes his mind when he meets Pat Meredith, a c...
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Two Minutes to Play
1930
Midnight Mystery
4.2/3
A fog-shrouded house provides the setting for this early talkies thriller.
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Midnight Mystery
1928
Scarlet Seas
3.5/2
A sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes her aboard his ship and heads out to sea. Not long a...
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Scarlet Seas
1940
Mad Youth
4.6/7
A rich society mother hires a male escort, but he falls for her daughter instead. The mother-daughter conflict forces the daughter to run off to stay...
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Mad Youth
1922
The Green Temptation
0/0
Genelle and Gaspard operate an itinerant Parisian theatre in which the greatest profits are realized by picking the pockets of the audience and robbin...
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The Green Temptation
2011
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
9/1
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of Al...
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
1939
News Is Made at Night
4.5/2
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal o...
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News Is Made at Night
1947
Hard Boiled Mahoney
6.4/5
Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand payment...
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Hard Boiled Mahoney
1926
The Palace of Pleasure
0/0
Don Sebastian, Portuguese Premier, sets a price on the head of royalist Ricardo Madons. Madons is in love with actress Lola Montez, whom Sebastian als...
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The Palace of Pleasure
1938
Two Gun Justice
6/1
A western town is being overrun and ruled by a gang of outlaws led by Bart (John Merton). Former Ranger Tim (Tim McCoy) is called out of retirement an...
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Two Gun Justice
1936
Hollywood Boulevard
2.5/2
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to w...
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Hollywood Boulevard
1925
The Pony Express
5.9/7
The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James...
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The Pony Express
1930
Those Who Dance
6/3
A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.
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Those Who Dance
1928
The Big City
0/0
Gangster boss Chuck Collins, despite his ruthlessness, is a basically decent fellow. Collins is plagued by a rival gang, led by deceptively boyish Cur...
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The Big City
1938
The Beloved Brat
6.4/8
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his busin...
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The Beloved Brat
1921
The Little Minister
7/1
In 1840 Scotland, a young lass named Babbie revels in the country life and frolics with the locals, simple weavers whose livelihood is threatened by i...
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The Little Minister
1937
Federal Bullets
0/0
Federal Bullets is a leisurely paced Monogram crime melodrama with not a few clever plot twists. The FBI, represented by Milburn Stone and William Har...
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Federal Bullets
1940
Laughing at Danger
0/0
Frankie Kelly, pageboy at the beauty salon ran by Madam Celeste, and his helper Jefferson find the routine broken when the body of one of the operator...
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Laughing at Danger
1929
Skin Deep
1/1
Skin Deep is a 1929 American talking drama film directed by Ray Enright and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by the Warner Brother...
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Skin Deep
1930
The Spoilers
6/1
On a voyage to Nome, Roy Glenister, one of the several owners of a rich mine, The Midas, is captivated by Helen Chester, while he both fascinates and...
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The Spoilers
1916
That Doggone Baby
0/0
That Doggone Baby (1916) is about a small puppy who is supposed to be a baby.
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That Doggone Baby
1917
As Luck Would Have It
0/0
Eddie Barry wants to keep wife Betty Compson happy, and she wants him to be a race car driver, so he hires a driver to impersonate himself on the trac...
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As Luck Would Have It
1929
Show of Shows
5.5/2
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the firs...
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Show of Shows
1940
Cafe Hostess
5.5/8
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
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Cafe Hostess
1941
Roar of the Press
5.6/5
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
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Roar of the Press
1938
A Slight Case of Murder
6.1/38
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
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A Slight Case of Murder
1921
Ladies Must Live
0/0
A societal romance drama based on an Alice Duer Miller novel.
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Ladies Must Live
1930
Isle of Escape
6/1
On a South Sea island, Stella operates a hotel for her mother, who is constantly drunk on liquor smuggled by Shane, the principal trader and virtual d...
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Isle of Escape
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
5.7/7
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1928
Fashion News
5/1
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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Fashion News
1930
The Boudoir Diplomat
1/1
A ladies' man flirts with the wives of other governments' officials.
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The Boudoir Diplomat
1924
The Enemy Sex
9/1
A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, their manager asks Dodo to fill in. At the party,...
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The Enemy Sex
1924
The Stranger
0/0
"The Stranger," an outcast who works in a saloon frequented by Peggy Bowlin, a poor girl suffering through hard times. She finds romance with Larry Da...
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The Stranger
1932
The Silver Lining
0/0
A women in prison tale. One's rich, one's poor. Can they prosper after prison?
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The Silver Lining
1928
The Desert Bride
5/1
Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane...
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The Desert Bride
1924
Ramshackle House
0/0
Don Counsel, a New Yorker who is traveling through southern Florida, is being framed by Ernest Riever for a murder he did not commit. Riever is holdin...
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Ramshackle House
1927
Love Me and the World is Mine
0/0
In Old Vienna in the days prior to The Great War, a beautiful woman, Hannerl, has her choice of two men; the first is a dashing young army officer who...
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Love Me and the World is Mine
1936
Laughing Irish Eyes
0/0
An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.
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Laughing Irish Eyes
1921
At the End of the World
0/0
This dramatic adventure finds the flirtatious Cherry O'Day as the daughter of the Shanghai saloon keeper Terrence. She works in the dive and entertain...
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At the End of the World
1931
The House That Shadows Built
7/1
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the...
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The House That Shadows Built
1922
Kick In
0/0
After serving time in Sing Sing, Chic Hewes wants to go straight, but when he refuses to be a stool pigeon for the cops, they hound him mercilessly. H...
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Kick In
1923
The White Flower
0/0
Konia Markham, the daughter of an American father and a Hawaiian mother, is told by a sorceress that the man who presents her with a perfect white flo...
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The White Flower
1922
To Have and to Hold
0/0
King James I gives his consent to the marriage between Lord Carnal and Lady Jocelyn Leigh. Lady Jocelyn, however, does not want to wed the evil Lord C...
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To Have and to Hold
1923
The Rustle of Silk
0/0
Lola de Breze loves Lord Arthur Fallaray from afar, though there seems to be no way to bring them together -- he is England's Colonial Secretary and m...
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The Rustle of Silk
1928
Court-Martial
6/1
During the American Civil War, A Union-Army officer is ordered by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln to bring in Belle Starr, the leader of a Missouri gu...
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Court-Martial
1925
Eve's Secret
0/0
Eve's Secret is that she's not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve is an unkempt country girl who's been "transformed," Pygmalion...
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Eve's Secret
1925
New Lives for Old
0/0
Olympe is a cabaret dancer who offers her services to France when her country goes to war. She becomes a spy and provides valuable intelligence inform...
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New Lives for Old
1918
Border Raiders
0/0
Ranch owner John Hardy becomes the dupe of Cleo Dade when he marries her and brings her home to be a mother to his daughter Rose.
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Border Raiders
1922
The Bonded Woman
3/2
Angela Gaskell travels and sails around the Pacific Ocean to rescue the man she loves, John Somers. Her task takes her from San Francisco bondage-serv...
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The Bonded Woman
1946
Her Adventurous Night
7/1
A boy's tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail.
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Her Adventurous Night
1924
The Female
0/0
A Sam Wood silent South Africa romance is a love story (based on Cynthia Stocklet Story) with a sad...and then happy ending. antic love triangle melo...
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The Female
1919
The Light of Victory
0/0
U.S. Navy Lieutenant George Blenton becomes drunk at an official reception, and his fiancee, Jane Ravenslee, the captain's daughter, breaks their enga...
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The Light of Victory
1929
Blaze o' Glory
0/0
On trial for the murder of Carl Hummel, Eddie Williams tells his story, which begins just before the World War
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Blaze o' Glory
1936
Killer at Large
6/1
A master of disguise poses as a wax figure to rob a safe of its jewels.
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Killer at Large
1943
Confessions of a Vice Baron
3.8/5
On the eve of his execution, a vice-rackets bigshot recalls his various exploits in crimes such as abortion and white slavery, in which he frequently...
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Confessions of a Vice Baron
1923
The Royal Oak
0/0
King Charles flees and hides in a huge oak tree when the troops loyal to Oliver Cromwell close in. The royal entourage is disguised, and the king's sw...
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The Royal Oak
1937
God's Country and the Man
6/1
Cowboy and his friends set out to track down his father's killer. On the way, they discover a vein of gold. The killer finds out about it, and returns...
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God's Country and the Man
1918
The Sheriff
0/0
Roscoe Arbuckle plays a Douglas Fairbanks fan who becomes a rotund version of his hero. As "The Sheriff", he must rescue abducted schoolteacher Betty...
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The Sheriff
1922
Law and the Woman
0/0
Although Margaret and Julian Rolfe are deeply in love, Rolfe has a bit of a past. At one time he had befriended Clara Foster, a woman of the streets....
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Law and the Woman
1931
Virtuous Husband
0/0
When a rich young man marries, he lets the books and letters left him by his dead mother guide his life.
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Virtuous Husband
1931
Hollywood Halfbacks
0/0
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