
Claire McDowell
Claire McDowell (2 November 1877 – 23 October 1966) was an American actress. She appeared in 360 films between 1908 and 1945.
Still somewhat of a youthful beauty when she started in early silent films, McDowell appeared in numerous films, eventually graduating to playing character and mother types. She can be seen to good advantage in Douglas Fairbanks's 1920 The Mark of Zorro. McDowell appeared in two of the biggest films of the silent era, The Big Parade (1925) and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), both in which she played mothers.
She was married to silent screen character actor Charles Hill Mailes from 1906 to his 1937 death. The couple appeared in numerous silent films together, including The Mark of Zorro. They had two sons, Robert Mailes and Eugene Mailes.
Claire McDowell died, aged 88, in Hollywood, California.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.081 |
Birthday | 1877-10-31 |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Claire MacDowell, Clare Mc Dowell, Doris Carlton, |

1912

The New York Hat
5.7/30
To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a stylish hat, and gossip spreads through the town.
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The New York Hat

1925

The Big Parade
7.6/112
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working...
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The Big Parade

1925

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
7.3/103
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy,...
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

1923

Ponjola
5/1
Ponjola is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the novel of the same name by Cynthia Stockley and directed by Donald Crisp. The film stars Anna...
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Ponjola

1926

The Flaming Forest
0/0
North-West Mounted Police Sgt. David Carrigan takes a breather from fighting as he brings a convict to trial and woos the lovely Jeanne-Marie.
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The Flaming Forest

1917

The White Raven
6/1
William Baldwin, ruined in business by his partner, John Blaisdell, implores Blaisdell's aid, and receives in answer a five-dollar bill across the fac...
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The White Raven

1918

Captain of His Soul
0/0
At the suggestion of his sons Horace and Henry, aging Ebenezer Boyce turns over control of his pistol factory to Martin. However, when Ebenezer discov...
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Captain of His Soul

1935

Murder by Television
3.7/17
James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process t...
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Murder by Television

1919

The Feud
0/0
Two Southern clans, the Lynches and the Summers, have been at odds with each other since long before Civil War times. But that hasn't stopped Jere Lyn...
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The Feud

1914

The Fatal Wedding
0/0
The hero, Howard, has just married his sweetheart Mabel. Howard's ex-flame Cora remains in love with Howard, but she despises Mabel. With the help of...
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The Fatal Wedding

1913

The Switchtower
5/2
"He was a regular boy and his father a switchman. The boy determined to be like his dad and spent his play hours around the switch-tower. Thus at the...
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The Switchtower

1927

Tillie the Toiler
0/0
Tillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire named Pennington Fish. Once she gets a stenographic p...
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Tillie the Toiler

1912

The Baby and the Stork
0/0
Bobby is jealous of the new baby, so he takes it to the zoo and tries to return it to the stork.
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The Baby and the Stork

1912

The Baby and the Stork
0/0
Bobby is jealous of the new baby, so he takes it to the zoo and tries to return it to the stork.
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The Baby and the Stork

1920

The Mark of Zorro
7.2/64
Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 20...
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The Mark of Zorro

1922

Rent Free
0/0
A penniless artist moves into an abandoned house, but is discovered by the daughter of its former owner.
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Rent Free

1929

The Quitter
0/0
Neal Abbott (Ben Lyon), a disgraced surgeon, regains his self-respect after operating on and saving the life of cafe-owner Duffy Thompson (Fred Kohler...
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The Quitter

1912

When the Fire-Bells Rang
0/0
They are brothers; one is a member of the village fire department, the other the property man at the "Opry House." A traveling dramatic company arrive...
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When the Fire-Bells Rang

1918

You Can't Believe Everything
0/0
Patricia Reynolds, the belle of the summer resort she is visiting with her friend, Amy Powellson, attracts the attention of Arthur Kirby, whom Amy lov...
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You Can't Believe Everything

1930

The Big House
6.667/42
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning...
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The Big House

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

1922

Quincy Adams Sawyer
0/0
Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
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Quincy Adams Sawyer

1929

Silks and Saddles
0/0
Jockey Johnny Spencer loses his job with Mrs. Calhoun for throwing a race. An adventuress named Sybil, who made Johnny hold back Mrs. Calhoun's horse,...
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Silks and Saddles

1933

Wild Boys of the Road
6.8/44
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their par...
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Wild Boys of the Road

1912

The Sands of Dee
5.6/4
A young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One day she meets a wily artist painting on the beach, he...
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The Sands of Dee

1912

Two Daughters of Eve
0/0
Calumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this story acted conventionally, she nevertheless maligned th...
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Two Daughters of Eve

1912

In the Aisles of the Wild
0/0
A widower and his two daughters live in the wilds of the north woods. They form the acquaintance of two trappers, Bob Cole and Jim Watson, who hunt in...
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In the Aisles of the Wild

1912

A Cry for Help
0/0
Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and treated to a square meal. The husband of a patient h...
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A Cry for Help

1913

A Misappropriated Turkey
0/0
His mind perverted by the many lies forced upon him, Lang becomes an outcast from the Labor Union. In order to reinstate himself he conceives a plot t...
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A Misappropriated Turkey

1913

The Wrong Bottle
0/0
Happy in her devotion to her unfortunate sister and the promise of honest love that had come into her life, the girl was perhaps blind to true values....
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The Wrong Bottle

1913

The Tenderfoot's Money
0/0
The tenderfoot came into camp with his ill-gotten money intending to purchase a claim. The faker salted a claim, hoping thereby to secure the money. B...
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The Tenderfoot's Money

1913

The Stolen Loaf
0/0
A poor man steals a loaf of bread to feed his family, not knowing there's a stolen diamond hidden inside.
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The Stolen Loaf

1913

The Ranchero's Revenge
0/0
The heartless woman with her partner answered the ranchero's call for a wife. Then the adventuress soon discovered she was not as heartless as she at...
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The Ranchero's Revenge

1913

The Well
0/0
Success is often coveted instead of honestly earned. Through honest effort the farmer was enjoying the fruits of his labor. A large irrigation well wa...
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The Well

1913

A Gamble with Death
0/0
The stakes were to go to the one who outlived the other two. In a quarrel one ended the chance of another. In the mountain the two survivors of the be...
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A Gamble with Death

1913

The Mirror
0/0
The girl's lessons from the young station agent on the manipulation of the telegraph code served her in good stead. By it, hemmed in on all sides at t...
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The Mirror

1913

The Vengeance of Galora
0/0
In her own outraged sense of injury Galora sought to bring the young express agent into the justice that men might give, while the other woman sought...
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The Vengeance of Galora

1913

The Enemy's Baby
0/0
A feud began with a political argument. Then the justice declared if granddad did not pay up he would attach his household goods. Granddad was that ma...
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The Enemy's Baby

1913

A Gambler's Honor
0/0
The brother at cards failed to make up the shortage at the express office, but the gambler determined to save him. His intention, however, was miscons...
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A Gambler's Honor

1928

Don't Marry
0/0
A flapper masquerades as her strait-laced cousin to try and impress a potential suitor.
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Don't Marry

1913

Under the Shadow of the Law
0/0
In this picture it is shown how a convict's life still remains under the ban of the law, even after the expiration of his term. With the detective con...
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Under the Shadow of the Law

1913

I Was Meant for You
0/0
Theron is Lavina's natural choice, though she imagines herself in love with Luke, who is secretly loved by Lavina's sister, Susan. Susan sees that the...
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I Was Meant for You

1913

The Crook and the Girl
0/0
In the guise of a gardener he came to steal the paper telling the whereabouts of the second will. That was so the nephew might enjoy the inheritance a...
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The Crook and the Girl

1913

The Work Habit
0/0
After a lifetime of hard work, Dad consents to live with his married daughter in the city. The young couple try to make him forget work. Ill at ease u...
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The Work Habit

1913

The Stolen Treaty
0/0
On the day of the meeting which should settle the controversy regarding the Panama Canal, the Japanese Embassy commissioned Olga to obtain a copy of t...
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The Stolen Treaty

1913

The Law and His Son
0/0
In this film one is shown the contrast of two fathers. One father refuses to believe his son guiltless, while the other, fully realizing the weakness...
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The Law and His Son

1913

The Van Nostrand Tiara
0/0
When Mrs. Van Nostra returned from Europe her new tiara was much advertised. A new lady's maid arrived, highly recommended, but following events prove...
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The Van Nostrand Tiara

1913

The Detective's Stratagem
0/0
In his moment of weakness, the bank thieves prevented the young cashier from becoming that against which his heart rebelled, a thief. Evidence however...
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The Detective's Stratagem

1913

All for Science
0/0
After all, the young chemist proves himself quite human. He would have ended his life because he had not the money to spend on his desired research fo...
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All for Science

1913

The Stopped Clock
0/0
No doubt the old antique dealer was prejudiced against his junior clerk. After frequent shortages, the clerk's visit to the gambling house was reporte...
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The Stopped Clock

1914

Concentration
0/0
The dead man's decentralized life is exemplified in a half-finished will and an incompleted invention of a printing press. The mother impresses upon h...
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Concentration

1913

The Abandoned Well
0/0
From his hard and lonely life with his foster father, the adopted son finds solace in Cynthia, the neighbor's daughter. Father promises to give them m...
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The Abandoned Well

1913

For Her Government
0/0
He was one of a league whom society thought honest. The little French lady who became his wife believed him a diplomatic spy for her government, so sh...
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For Her Government

1933

The Working Man
6.6/6
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor;...
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The Working Man

1932

The Phantom Express
4.7/7
Railroad foes cause terror on the tracks with the illusion of a ghost train.
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The Phantom Express

1932

Under Eighteen
6.6/11
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. De...
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Under Eighteen

1912

The Massacre
5.9/20
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
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The Massacre

1914

His Fireman's Conscience
0/0
Engineer Daily is forced to discharge his fireman for habitual drunkenness. His young daughter, Rosanna, wanders down to the tracks, and the door of t...
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His Fireman's Conscience

1914

A Nest Unfeathered
0/0
At her dying mother's bedside, Kate promises to bring her young brother into manhood. Eager to gain possession of the farm by marrying Kate, the forem...
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A Nest Unfeathered

1914

Waifs
0/0
The waif came to live with the unsuspecting old shoemaker. Then a homeless newsboy followed. One friendly heart bred another. That was too much for th...
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Waifs

1914

Her Father's Silent Partner
0/0
After his daughter's return the jeweler attempted to break the partnership he had with the crook. His partner, however, won the girl's love, and threa...
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Her Father's Silent Partner

1914

Her Hand
0/0
Olga, true to the cause their hearts held so dear, stole the evidence which would send her friends to Siberia, hut Orlanof, of the Russian police, sen...
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Her Hand

1915

A Day's Adventure
0/0
Over Bentley's shoulder, the crook read the lawyer's letter telling the young man of his inheritance. He immediately wired his pals. When Bentley arri...
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A Day's Adventure

1915

The Sheriff's Dilemma
0/0
Dismissed from the church because of his seemingly undue intimacy with the schoolteacher, the young minister becomes an evangelist and, after an incid...
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The Sheriff's Dilemma

1915

The Miser's Legacy
0/0
Hiding from the police in an alley, two crooks see, through a window, the dying miser entrust to the doctor the fortune he bequeaths to his erring son...
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The Miser's Legacy

1915

The Gambler's I.O.U.
0/0
At the assay office in town, Jim Bevins turned his gold into dollars, then sat into a game because he felt lucky, and broke the gambler. On the way ho...
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The Gambler's I.O.U.

1915

The Canceled Mortgage
0/0
Two road agents hold up the stagecoach and rob the passengers. In making their getaway, one of the road agents is shot by the stage driver. They stop...
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The Canceled Mortgage

1915

Truth Stranger Than Fiction
0/0
Hard pressed for money, the broker has appropriated funds of the firm, and dreads his partner's discovery of the deed. He tries in vain to borrow mone...
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Truth Stranger Than Fiction

1915

Her Dormant Love
0/0
The discontented wife of the young rancher does not realize that the unsatisfactory state of things is her fault. She has not ceased to love her husba...
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Her Dormant Love

1915

The Way Out
0/0
While packing her trunk preparatory to leaving home for the adjoining county, where she has been called to teach, the young schoolteacher discovers th...
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The Way Out

1915

Her Convert
0/0
The old inventors daughter is a mission worker. She makes a convert of a young crook and eventually becomes engaged to marry him. But her father does...
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Her Convert

1915

Old Offenders
0/0
Under police espionage, Crooked Joe is living with his wife and baby when Norris, his former pal, tries to interest him in a job. He refuses, and subs...
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Old Offenders

1915

As It Happened
0/0
The new foreman falls in love with the ranchman's daughter, and notes with jealousy her joy over a letter which her father receives.
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As It Happened

1925

The Midnight Flyer
0/0
The speed of lightning; the roar of thunder; the thrills of an earthquake; it's "The midnight flyer".
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The Midnight Flyer

1927

The Black Diamond Express
0/0
Dan Foster, the engineer of the Black Diamond Express express train falls in love with Jeanne Harmon, whose snobbish, high society mother, Mrs. Harmon...
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The Black Diamond Express

1912

The Old Actor
5.4/18
An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the thea...
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The Old Actor

1934

Bedside
5.6/7
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
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Bedside

1911

His Trust
4.1/23
A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is ki...
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His Trust

1913

The House of Discord
0/0
In her youth the mother was saved from the fatal mistake by an accident, but it caused her years of separation from child and husband. It had occurred...
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The House of Discord

1914

The Cracksman's Gratitude
0/0
The young lawyer took the cracksman's part when he was falsely accused. Later, the chemist, in revenge for his fancied wrong, refused the lawyer's wif...
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The Cracksman's Gratitude

1914

Men and Women
0/0
Robert Stevens robs the bank where he is employed, and through the efforts of Calvin Stedman, the prosecuting attorney, he is sentenced to six years'...
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Men and Women

1911

What Shall We Do with Our Old?
5.5/8
An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensitive shop foreman lays him off from his job becaus...
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What Shall We Do with Our Old?

1916

The Right to Be Happy
10/1
Considered to be lost.
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The Right to Be Happy

1930

The Second Floor Mystery
0/0
In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and Lady Grapefruit. When the m...
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The Second Floor Mystery

1930

Redemption
4.5/2
In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée. Fedya qui...
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Redemption

1912

The Sunbeam
6.3/14
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks...
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The Sunbeam

1912

The School Teacher and the Waif
4.8/4
Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but w...
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The School Teacher and the Waif

1911

A Country Cupid
4.5/4
Schoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him a note of reconciliation but throws it away. Without h...
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A Country Cupid

1911

His Trust Fulfilled
3.7/14
Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own meag...
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His Trust Fulfilled

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

1924

Judgment of the Storm
0/0
Mary Heath's brother Dave is accidentally killed in a gambling den. Mary’s sweetheart, John Trevor, discovers the joint is secretly owned by his mothe...
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Judgment of the Storm

1943

Keeper of the Flame
6.6/40
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
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Keeper of the Flame

1923

Ashes of Vengeance
5.7/3
This historical piece, set in the Huguenot days of France, is Norma Talmadge's 37th feature film and the longest to date at two hours. The plot involv...
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Ashes of Vengeance

1917

The Empty Gun
0/0
Frank, riding through the storm, approaches the station, to give ten thousand dollars worth of gold, which he has just brought from the mine, into saf...
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The Empty Gun

1919

Heart o' the Hills
6/9
Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.
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Heart o' the Hills

1925

The Tower of Lies
0/0
After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected s...
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The Tower of Lies

1926

The Shamrock Handicap
5.1/5
Because he refuses to collect rent payments from his impoverished tenants, kindly Irish nobleman Sir Miles Gaffney is in danger of losing his estate....
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The Shamrock Handicap

1910

Muggsy Becomes a Hero
5/1
Two spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is called to the church meeting with her mother, she sends...
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Muggsy Becomes a Hero

1933

By Appointment Only
5.8/5
When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in th...
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By Appointment Only

1922

Nice People
0/0
Teddy Gloucester, one of the group of jazz age "nice people," is caught in a farmhouse during a storm with her intoxicated companion, Scotty. A strang...
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Nice People

1921

Midsummer Madness
1/1
Because Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson) feels the romance has ebbed away from their marriage. On...
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Midsummer Madness

1928

The Viking
6.4/9
In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first Viking settlers to reach North America by sea, Norse h...
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The Viking

1924

Secrets
5.5/4
An old woman's memories are rekindled as she rereads her diary. She recalls her youth in England when she married a suitor over the objections of her...
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Secrets

1910

His New Lid
0/0
A comedy short about a man trying to get a new hat.
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His New Lid

1927

Almost Human
8/2
John Livingston is a rich mama's-boy, who owns a blooded dog named Paul. Paul meets Maggie Mutt, and Paul, being a pedigree canine and somewhat of a c...
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Almost Human

1911

Swords and Hearts
4.6/13
A poor girl is secretly in love with a wealthy young planter.
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Swords and Hearts

1912

Man's Genesis
4.6/7
An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated by...
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Man's Genesis

1936

Small Town Girl
6.2/9
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dak...
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Small Town Girl

1934

Two Heads on a Pillow
0/0
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
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Two Heads on a Pillow

1934

British Agent
5.529/17
In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.
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British Agent

1929

The Flying Fleet
6.3/6
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sic...
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The Flying Fleet

1910

A Flash of Light
5/3
An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist, a...
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A Flash of Light

1931

Manhattan Parade
2/3
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
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Manhattan Parade

1927

The Shield of Honor
4.3/3
Can Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel thieves?
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The Shield of Honor

1937

A Night at the Movies
5.3/12
A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more...
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A Night at the Movies

1934

Journal of a Crime
5.7/13
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
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Journal of a Crime

1911

The Primal Call
4/2
A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough sailor.
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The Primal Call

1938

Three Comrades
7.2/29
A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their...
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Three Comrades

1920

The Gift Supreme
0/0
Bradford Vinton falls in love with a girl singer from the slums, but his father makes plans to break the relationship; when the plans fail, he disinhe...
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The Gift Supreme

1939

Stand Up and Fight
5.8/4
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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Stand Up and Fight

1932

The Famous Ferguson Case
6/4
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall aft...
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The Famous Ferguson Case

1937

Two-Fisted Sheriff
2/2
This is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of his friend, Sheriff Dick Houston, who has capture...
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Two-Fisted Sheriff

1939

Idiot's Delight
6.1/15
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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Idiot's Delight

1930

Mothers Cry
0/0
Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life o...
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Mothers Cry

1939

Thunder Afloat
5.9/5
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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Thunder Afloat

1939

Miracles for Sale
6.4/16
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
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Miracles for Sale

1921

Love Never Dies
5.6/5
John and Tilly's happy marriage is ruined when Tilly's father finds out about the scandalous past of John's mother. John, unaware of his father-in-law...
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Love Never Dies

1943

Hangmen Also Die!
6.944/126
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprote...
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Hangmen Also Die!

1934

It Happened One Night
7.819/1275
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them be...
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It Happened One Night

1940

A Failure at Fifty
4.5/2
The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.
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A Failure at Fifty

1912

Under Burning Skies
4.7/3
Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady who spurns his advances and elopes with a fresh-fa...
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Under Burning Skies

1924

Those Who Dare
0/0
Captain Manning, a seasoned salt, is ordered to remove his battered ship, the Swallow, from the town's harbor because of a superstition connected with...
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Those Who Dare

1926

The Devil's Circus
6.875/4
In 1913, Carl is released from prison, where he served a sentence for stealing. Spurned by his circumstance, Carl rejects God and resumes his fast lif...
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The Devil's Circus

1911

The Manicure Lady
5/2
The manicure lady spurns the barber and dates a rich cad instead.
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The Manicure Lady

1910

Rose o' Salem Town
5.2/4
A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by the girl, he becomes furious and desiring revenge, decl...
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Rose o' Salem Town

1917

Avarice
0/0
Death reviews the life of a mean, miserly old woman.
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Avarice

1912

A Sailor’s Heart
0/0
A short film directed by Wilfred Lucas for the Biograph Company.
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A Sailor’s Heart

1940

Young Tom Edison
5.6/8
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastr...
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Young Tom Edison

1920

Something to Think About
6.5/4
Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs...
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Something to Think About

1908

The Devil
1.5/1
Mack Sennett appears as a waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Devil

1910

Love Among the Roses
4.7/3
In the Kingdom of Never-Never Land there live a great Lord and Lady, each presiding over their own domain. This great Lord goes for a stroll through h...
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Love Among the Roses

1920

The Jack-Knife Man
6/7
A dying mother left his child with an old man, but the village people want to take the child away from him because he is too old.
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The Jack-Knife Man

1930

Young Desire
0/0
A carnival sideshow dancer falls in love with a handsome young man.
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Young Desire

1912

Billy's Stratagem
5/2
While their mother is away from home, Billy and his sister are set upon by marauding Indians, who trap them in their cabin. Billy rigs a keg of gunpow...
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Billy's Stratagem

1944

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
5.7/8
Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he s...
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble

1913

The Strong Man's Burden
5/1
A crime drama in which a police officer does everything possible to help his criminal younger brother.
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The Strong Man's Burden

1943

This Land Is Mine
7.1/62
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and c...
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This Land Is Mine

1930

Wild Company
5/1
The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.
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Wild Company

1926

The Unknown Soldier
0/0
The Unknown Soldier is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Renaud Hoffman and written by Richard Schayer and James J. Tynan. The film stars...
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The Unknown Soldier

1940

The Golden Fleecing
5.3/6
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
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The Golden Fleecing

1940

Dr. Kildare Goes Home
6.8/7
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home

1910

The Golden Supper
4.5/2
Julian loves his cousin and foster sister Camilla, who is wooed and won by Lionel, his friend and rival. He is a witness to their marriage and after t...
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The Golden Supper

1931

An American Tragedy
6.1/16
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
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An American Tragedy

1932

A Successful Calamity
5.2/6
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy an...
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A Successful Calamity

1934

Dr. Monica
4.8/6
A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.
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Dr. Monica

1939

Angel of Mercy
6/1
This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.
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Angel of Mercy

1933

Central Airport
6.136/11
Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.
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Central Airport

1923

Michael O'Halloran
0/0
Orphan newsboy Michael O'Halloran "adopts" Peaches, a little crippled girl, when her grandmother's death leaves her alone in the world. A chance acqua...
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Michael O'Halloran

1938

Test Pilot
6.5/68
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
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Test Pilot

1923

Enemies of Children
0/0
A street waif of questionable parentage through circumstances is taken into a wealthy home where she is adopted and cared for until her marriage, whic...
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Enemies of Children

1925

The Reckless Sex
0/0
Robert Lanning, a proper Bostonian who owns an estate in southern New Mexico, suspects that some of his employees are smuggling arms into Mexico, and...
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The Reckless Sex

1926

The Dixie Merchant
0/0
Goodnatured J. P. Fippany loses his home and takes to the road on a chicken-wagon with his wife and daughter. The wagon is wrecked in an automobile co...
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The Dixie Merchant

1932

Lawyer Man
5.8/10
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown att...
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Lawyer Man

1932

Cornered
6/1
Shortly after Moody Pierson saves Sheriff Tim's life, Moody is arrested for murder. Tim doesn't believe he did it and lets him get away. Kicked out as...
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Cornered

1911

The Unveiling
0/0
The boy, who is the idol of his widowed mother, returns from college with a collegiate record she is justly proud of. To mark the occasion his boyhood...
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The Unveiling

1927

A Little Journey
0/0
A girl travelling by train to meet her boyfriend meets another young man and falls in love with him.
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A Little Journey

1927

The Auctioneer
0/0
Simon, a young Jewish man emigrating to the US, adopts the daughter of a dying woman on the ship. After he settles in the US, he eventually builds up...
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The Auctioneer

1925

Waking Up the Town
0/0
Jim Joyce runs a garage with old Abner Hope. When Hope's granddaughter, Mary Ellen, comes to visit, Joyce falls in love with her. Joyce has a number o...
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Waking Up the Town

1910

The Usurer
5/11
A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.
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The Usurer

1927

The Taxi Dancer
6.5/2
A southern girl tries her luck as a dancer in New York City.
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The Taxi Dancer

1938

Boys Town
6.733/90
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being tre...
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Boys Town

1910

Waiter No. 5
0/0
After conducting a raid on a Rebel camp, a Czarist officer discovers that his wife has joined the revolutionaries. Out of loyalty to his wife, the off...
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Waiter No. 5

1912

The Female of the Species
4.2/14
A man and three women leave an abandoned mining town and travel across the desert. After the man's death, his wife plans revenge against her companion...
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The Female of the Species

1911

A Decree of Destiny
0/0
Kenneth Marsden, a young artist in failing health is advised to go south to New Orleans, where he expects to find accommodation with an old-time frien...
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A Decree of Destiny

1913

The Unwelcome Guest
5/1
Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated beneath the false bottom of an old shipping trunk...
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The Unwelcome Guest

1912

Lena and the Geese
4.2/4
A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who is the widowed mother of a child about the same a...
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Lena and the Geese

1913

The Telephone Girl and the Lady
5/2
D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The film focuses on a telephone girl who leaves work for h...
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The Telephone Girl and the Lady

1922

Penrod
0/0
Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name of protecting kids from too-strict parents and nast...
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Penrod

1911

The Long Road
0/0
Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, now poverty-stricken, and secretly helps his famil...
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The Long Road

1911

The Adventures of Billy
5.7/3
Billy witnesses two tramps accidentally kill someone during a robbery. The tramps lock him up and decide that he must be killed, too.
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The Adventures of Billy

1912

A Temporary Truce
4/1
A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the prospector's wife. In the meantime, a group of dr...
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A Temporary Truce

1911

Fisher Folks
0/0
A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt.
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Fisher Folks

1941

Whispers
0/0
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.
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Whispers

1923

Human Wreckage
0/0
An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.
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Human Wreckage

1937

Song of Revolt
6/1
This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution.
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Song of Revolt

1924

Thy Name Is Woman
0/0
A Spanish soldier seduces and falls in love with the young wife of a smuggler.
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Thy Name Is Woman

1921

What Every Woman Knows
0/0
Alick Wylie agrees to give railroad porter John Shand $300 to help him secure his education and political ambitions on condition that his daughter Mag...
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What Every Woman Knows

1922

Heart's Haven
0/0
A fine cast brings depth to this melodrama of a crippled boy, an unhappy marriage, an injured young lady and the miracle of faith.
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Heart's Haven

1932

The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
5.9/10
A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.
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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain

1938

The Man on the Rock
6/1
A look at whether Napoleon Bonaparte indeed died on the island of St. Helena in 1821.
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The Man on the Rock

1938

They're Always Caught
5.8/6
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short shows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of cases, and how even the smallest detail can becom...
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They're Always Caught

1943

Du Barry was a Lady
6.1/14
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Loui...
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Du Barry was a Lady

1943

Presenting Lily Mars
6.1/9
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
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Presenting Lily Mars

1916

A Stranger from Somewhere
0/0
A rancher moves to the city, and finds competition for the affections of an heiress in the form of a doppelganger.
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A Stranger from Somewhere

1939

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
2/1
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their...
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

1917

The Clean-Up
0/0
A publicist for a racy burlesque troupe romances the daughter of the head of The Purity League, an organization that wishes to see such shows banned.
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The Clean-Up

1941

Lady Scarface
5.1/11
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationsh...
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Lady Scarface

1910

The Iconoclast
0/0
A printer, drinking excessively and neglectful of his family obligations, is fired from his job when he offends his wealthy employer and his employer’...
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The Iconoclast

1910

A Mohawk's Way
0/0
In Colonial America a doctor refuses to "waste time on an Indian" whose daughter is ill. The doctor’s wife secretly travels to the Indian village to a...
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A Mohawk's Way

1919

Rosalind at Redgate
0/0
Returning to House of a Thousand Candles a mystery unfolds involving two lookalike girls...or is there only one very crafty one?
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Rosalind at Redgate

1913

The Wanderer
5.5/4
A little over six minutes survive of this Biograph short. Not to be confused with another Biograph short, Olaf- An Atom (1913, starring Harry Carey, l...
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The Wanderer

1912

So Near, Yet So Far
5.9/4
It's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles-- namely shyness, and the temerity of other suitors-- place themselves in the way of his love. Unk...
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So Near, Yet So Far

1912

The God Within
0/0
The woman of the camp implores her lover to marry her, and he promises to do so, but goes away and does not return. Target of the camp's jeers, she li...
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The God Within

1911

A Woman Scorned
0/0
Thieves follow a doctor as he takes home a large sum of money. Later, when they break into his house, the doctor's wife and daughter are trapped. One...
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A Woman Scorned

1923

Circus Days
6.5/2
10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top.
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Circus Days

1926

The Show Off
7.2/4
A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young bride and then drives her family's finances to th...
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The Show Off

1928

The Tragedy of Youth
1/1
Neglected by shallow husband Dick, young bride Paula Wayne seeks male companionship outside the marital nest. She soon finds it in the form of mature...
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The Tragedy of Youth

1913

Olaf—An Atom
0/0
Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is given a meal by a woman at the homestead where sh...
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Olaf—An Atom

1934

Imitation of Life
7/83
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face fami...
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Imitation of Life

1945

Adventure
6.2/11
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
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Adventure

1916

Mixed Blood
0/0
For Nita Valyez, who is half-Spanish and half-Irish, Carlos represents potential violence and danger, two things to which she is both attracted and re...
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Mixed Blood

1944

Men on Her Mind
0/0
A famous singer reflects on her life, including her journey from being an orphan to her fame as a singer, as she tries to decide which of her three su...
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Men on Her Mind

1913

The Stolen Bride
0/0
The Stolen Bride is a 1913 short drama.
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The Stolen Bride

1923

The West~Bound Limited
6/2
The plot, old-hat though it is, does provide an opportunity for that wonderfully seedy villain, David Dirby, to do his dirty work and more importantly...
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The West~Bound Limited

1917

The Storm Woman
0/0
Lost film.
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The Storm Woman

1917

The Gates of Doom
0/0
Indore, an Indian woman married to the English Captain Terence Unger is imprisoned by the prince after she gives birth to a baby daughter named Agatha...
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The Gates of Doom

1939

One Against the World
0/0
This short film presents the story of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, who came under scrutiny for his pioneering of surgical practices.
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One Against the World

1920

The Woman in the Suitcase
3.8/3
Mary Moreland discovers the photograph of a woman not her mother in her father's suitcase and sets out to find her in hopes of returning her father to...
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The Woman in the Suitcase

1908

The Planter's Wife
5/1
John Holland, a planter in a small way, is devotedly attached to his wife and infant child. The wife wearies of the monotonous grind of farm life and...
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The Planter's Wife

1913

The House of Darkness
5/13
A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano. But shortly afterwards he breaks free, eludes his...
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The House of Darkness

1932

Union Depot
6.1/14
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend S...
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Union Depot

1917

The Bronze Bride
0/0
Disgusted with his son Harvey's attitude since his return from college, wealthy William Ogden turns the boy out to make his own way in the world. Harv...
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The Bronze Bride

1913

A Tender-Hearted Crook
0/0
The girl decided after what happened at the garden party that she did not want his love any longer, but could not live without it. She decided to leav...
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A Tender-Hearted Crook

1911

The Squaw's Love
5/4
Wild Flower follows her banished lover, Gray Fox, into the wilderness. Her departure is witnessed by Silver Fawn, who mistakenly thinks Wild Flower is...
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The Squaw's Love

1910

Wilful Peggy
4.6/5
Peggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a wealthy lord, who proposes marriage and wants to introduce h...
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Wilful Peggy

1910

The Oath and the Man
4.5/2
A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants. His priest ma...
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The Oath and the Man

1911

Fate's Turning
5/3
A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman who's there for the summer. However, hi...
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Fate's Turning

1919

The Follies Girl
0/0
The relatives of dying Edward Woodruff, Nina Leffingwell, her brother Frederic, and her cousin Basil, whom she wants to marry, scheme to inherit Woodr...
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The Follies Girl

1919

Prudence on Broadway
0/0
Prudence's ( Olive Thomas ) parents send her from their Pennsylvania Quaker colony to a fashionable girls seminary, hoping she can learn about the dev...
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Prudence on Broadway

1930

Brothers
0/0
Bob Naughton and Eddie Connolly are identical-twin brothers that were separated in infancy. Bob is raised by a rich lawyer, has all the advantages, bu...
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Brothers

1925

The End of the World
0/0
Jack Joyce, who worked in old Abner Hope's garage, was always dreaming of big schemes, but had no capital with which to realize them. Abner Hope, who...
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The End of the World
0/0
A lost silent film from 1922. Plot unknown.
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The End of the World

1927

Winds of the Pampas
0/0
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Winds of the Pampas

1915

The Heart of a Bandit
0/0
With a price upon his head. Texas Pete takes to the open country.
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The Heart of a Bandit

1910

The Message of the Violin
0/0
A girl's family suddenly becomes rich and rejects her long-time sweetheart.
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The Message of the Violin

1920

Through Eyes of Men
0/0
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