Mary Foy
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 08, 1872
Deathday: June 18, 1956
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Beyond the Rocks
1922-05-07
Beyond the Rocks
Overview: A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her unhappy honeymoon.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-07
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The Headless Horseman
1922-11-05
The Headless Horseman
Overview: The village of Sleepy Hollow is getting ready to greet the new schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane, who is coming from New York. Crane has already heard of the village's legendary ghost, a headless horseman who is said to be searching for the head that he lost in battle. The schoolteacher has barely arrived when he begins to pursue the beautiful young heiress Katrina Van Tassel, angering Abraham Van Brunt, who is courting her. Crane's harsh, small-minded approach to teaching also turns some of the villagers against him. Soon there many who would like to see him leave the village altogether.
Genres: Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-05
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Ann Vickers
1933-09-26
Ann Vickers
Overview: After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-26
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A Favorite Fool
1915-11-14
A Favorite Fool
Overview: Arling, ringmaster of a small wagon circus, abuses Polly and her seven children. Foy, a farmhand, sympathizes with her and she decides to quit her place as trapeze woman in the show and get other work. She sends her brood to the poorhouse, and Foy, ignorant of her flock, makes love to her and is accepted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-14
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The Pinch Hitter
1925-12-13
The Pinch Hitter
Overview: Joel Parker is sent to college by his crabby farmer father only because it was his mother's dying wish that he get an education. At college, he's immediately pegged as a chump and is constantly victimized by the other students, headed by Jimmie Slater. Only Abbie Nettleton, who works at the campus bakery, has any sympathy for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-13
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A House Divided
1931-12-05
A House Divided
Overview: A New England fisherman's second wife prefers his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-05
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The Lariat Kid
1929-05-12
The Lariat Kid
Overview: A lawman goes undercover to help his brother, a rancher, fight off horse thieves working for his greedy neighbor, who wants his ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-12
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Midnight Phantom
1935-11-26
Midnight Phantom
Overview: A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-26
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Embarrassing Moments
1930-01-17
Embarrassing Moments
Overview: A couple meet, fall in love and get married in a 24-hour period.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-17
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Chips of the Old Block
1928-07-01
Chips of the Old Block
Overview: The Foy Family performs a vaudeville act.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-01
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City Park
1934-05-01
City Park
Overview: The old men meet a young girl, broke, hungry and discouraged, in the park. Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome (Henry B. Walthall) bluffs his way into obtaining enough money to support the welfare of the girl,Rose Wentworth (Sally Blane), and his two cronies. He sends for the girl's former sweetheart, who turns out to be a crook.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-01
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The Vice Squad
1931-05-29
The Vice Squad
Overview: A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-29
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Dumb-bells in Ermine
1930-05-10
Dumb-bells in Ermine
Overview: In a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though her straitlaced mother wants her to marry Siegfried, a spellbinding "missionary reformer." Though Grandma Corey promotes the romance with the prizefighter, Mike, the fighter's hardboiled, wisecracking manager, tries to keep them apart; following a quarrel, Faith reconciles herself to marrying Siegfried, but when he invites a group of "weak sisters" to a revival meeting, he is disgraced when one accuses him of her downfall. Finally, with Mike's advice, Jerry wins back Faith and they are united with the family's blessings.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-10
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Slightly Married
1932-10-15
Slightly Married
Overview: Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-15
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Ankles Preferred
1927-02-27
Ankles Preferred
Overview: Nora, a department store clerk, is determined to succeed on the basis of her brain power despite her attractive ankles. She gets a job as model at the shop of McGuire and Goldberg, and they announce that Nora may be given a trip abroad if she persuades their financer to lend the partners additional funds. The financer, Hornsbee, becomes presumptuous, leading to an encounter between him and Barney, Nora's young suitor; and she is ultimately glad to accept Barney's modest attentions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-27
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The Widow from Chicago
1930-11-23
The Widow from Chicago
Overview: A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-23
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Ladies in Love
1930-05-04
Ladies in Love
Overview: A small town Vermont fellow falls in love with a New York City radio singing star, but she is about to be married to the radio station owner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-04
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The Ghost in the Garret
1921-02-01
The Ghost in the Garret
Overview: Framed for stealing some pearls while staying at the country home of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Dennison, Delsie O'Dell is banished from their house. Delsie along with her bulldog, Violet, follows Oscar, the actual thief, to an old haunted house, which is the hideout for a gang of thieves. A series of humorous escapades follows as she first hides from the thieves, then pretends to be a ghost, terrorizing them. Eventually she retrieves the pearls, clears her name, and is safe once again in the arms of Bill, Dennison's secretary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-01
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Icebound
1924-03-02
Icebound
Overview: Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. He returns when his mother dies to find that she has left everything to her ward, Jane Crosby.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-02
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Ladies of the Big House
1931-12-26
Ladies of the Big House
Overview: A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
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Before Midnight
1933-11-18
Before Midnight
Overview: A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-18
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It's the Old Army Game
1926-07-10
It's the Old Army Game
Overview: Druggist Elmer Prettywillie is sleeping. A woman rings the night bell only to buy a two-cent stamp. Then garbage collectors waken him. Next it's firemen on a false alarm. And then a real fire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-10
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Stardust
1922-02-05
Stardust
Overview: Lily Becker is born in Paradise, Iowa and raised there by her prudish mother and her spineless father. Mrs Becker pressures Lily into marrying local yokel Albert Penny, who is extremely dull……
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-05
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Slaves of Beauty
1927-06-05
Slaves of Beauty
Overview: Comedic send-up of the beauty salon industry...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-05
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Zenobia
1939-04-21
Zenobia
Overview: A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-21
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Scandal Sheet
1931-01-31
Scandal Sheet
Overview: Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-31
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Sally in Our Alley
1916-07-17
Sally in Our Alley
Overview: Sally McGill, a little Irish girl, brought up in a particularly sordid section, is compelled to work to support her entire family. Ben Blaney, the young foreman where she works, loves little Sally. Mrs. Rockwell, wealthy and childless, finds joy in taking a limited number of the poorest children to her country home each summer, and she selects those whom she will take. Sally's ambition is to become a refined lady like those about her, and she is attracted to Paul Taylor, but knows she is inferior to him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-17
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Let Us Live
1939-03-29
Let Us Live
Overview: When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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Fury
1936-06-05
Fury
Overview: Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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The White Rose
1923-05-21
The White Rose
Overview: A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see what "the real world" is all about. He winds up in New Orleans and finds himself attracted to a poor, unsophisticated orphan girl, Bessie. One thing leads to another, and before long Bessie finds that she is pregnant with Joseph's child.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-21
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Pack Up Your Troubles
1939-10-24
Pack Up Your Troubles
Overview: Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-24
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Strange People
1933-06-16
Strange People
Overview: All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-16
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In the Year 2000
1912-05-17
In the Year 2000
Overview: A remake for the US market of Alice Guy's Les Résultats du féminisme. The film is considered to be lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-17
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Algie, the Miner
1912-02-28
Algie, the Miner
Overview: When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-28
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Two Heads on a Pillow
1934-10-02
Two Heads on a Pillow
Overview: A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-02
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Maisie
1939-06-22
Maisie
Overview: Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid for ranch owners Cliff and Sybil, who are attempting to mend their rocky marriage after Sybil's infidelity with a cowboy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-22
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Life of an Actress
1927-02-15
Life of an Actress
Overview: Film directed by Jack Nelson
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-15
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A Man from Wyoming
1930-07-12
A Man from Wyoming
Overview: A story about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World War I. There he saves the life of an American society girl working in the Ambulance Corps. Afterwards at a rest camp, they meet again, fall in love, and are secretly married.
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-12
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Falling Leaves
1912-03-15
Falling Leaves
Overview: It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a teenage girl named Winifred. Winifred's mother and little sister Trixie are devastated. When Trixie hears the family doctor say of Winifred that "when the last leaf falls, she will have passed away," she interprets the doctor's words literally. Thinking over what she has heard, she determines to do everything possible to save her sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-15
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Little Big Shot
1935-09-07
Little Big Shot
Overview: A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-07
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Dangerous Money
1924-10-13
Dangerous Money
Overview: Boardinghouse servant Adele Clark is unexpectedly awarded the ownership of a certain piece of New York City property known as Clark's Field. The trustees send her to a finishing school, whose headmistress, Signorina Vitale, persuades Adele and her sweetheart, Tim Sullivan, that she should travel in Europe. Adele's new riches cause her to lose her sense of proportion, and she soon is involved with a fast set indulging in the jazz life. Even Tim cannot curb Adele's extravagance, and he returns to America while Adele marries Italian fortune-hunter Prince Arnolfo Da Pescia. When a will is discovered naming Tim as the rightful heir to Clark's Field, Adele and Arnolfo hurry to New York, and Arnolfo tries to steal the will, then dies in a hotel fire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-13
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Second Fiddle
1923-01-14
Second Fiddle
Overview: Jim Bradley has always played second fiddle in his family -- while his older brother, Herbert, goes off to college, Jim becomes a garage mechanic. When Herbert returns home, it's easy for him to steal Jim's girl, Polly Crawford. But trouble comes to the Bradley's town when Cragg murders his daughter and breaks into the family's home. Herbert goes for help, leaving Jim with an empty gun to protect their mother and Polly.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-14
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A Perfect Gentleman
1928-01-15
A Perfect Gentleman
Overview: Monty Banks gets involved in tracking down a stolen fortune, his adventures culminating in a whirlwind, gag-filled climax at sea.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-15
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I Stole a Million
1939-08-01
I Stole a Million
Overview: A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-01
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Scarlet Youth
1928-01-01
Scarlet Youth
Overview: A country girl is seduced by a criminal and moves with him to the big city. When she sees him with another woman, she leaves him and goes to work in a brothel, where she contracts a venereal disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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The Great American Pie Company
1935-11-09
The Great American Pie Company
Overview: In this comedic short, two pie vendors discuss merging their businesses, but one of them may have an ulterior motive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-09
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The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1924-02-14
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Overview: A young Indiana schoolteacher finds himself embroiled in local conflicts when he falls in love with an indentured servant and must discover the identity of a gang of bandits who are terrorizing the local population.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-14
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House of Mystery
1934-03-30
House of Mystery
Overview: Out of the Mystic Temples of Old India crept this terrible Monster to wreak vengeance of the Hindu Gods. One by one its victims fell with not a trace of the bloody assassin.
Genres: Comedy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-30
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Reform Girl
1933-03-04
Reform Girl
Overview: A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-04
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The Lucky Devil
1925-07-13
The Lucky Devil
Overview: Richard Dix, a displayer in a department store, enters a raffle and wins the so-called 'hoodoo' bad-luck automobile formerly owned by the store owner's son, a soul seemingly always in trouble with cops and women. Well, suddenly Dix begins to have the same problem, only he also gets mixed up in the life of Esther Ralston and her Aunt Edna May Oliver. Hilarious misunderstandings and undertakings become the fodder for the day!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-13
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Once to Every Woman
1934-03-24
Once to Every Woman
Overview: An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-24
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No Ransom
1934-10-07
No Ransom
Overview: In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat son. To gain some much needed attention, the lonesome fellow hires a hitman to kill him. Instead, the gunman kidnaps him to frighten the family into appreciating their devoted father.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-07
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School for Girls
1934-03-22
School for Girls
Overview: After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-22
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Such Men Are Dangerous
1930-03-09
Such Men Are Dangerous
Overview: A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-09
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Naughty Marietta
1935-03-29
Naughty Marietta
Overview: In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-29
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Mad Hour
1928-03-04
Mad Hour
Overview: Mad Hour is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Boyle and starring Sally O'Neil, Alice White and Donald Reed. It was adapted from a novel by Elinor Glyn.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-04
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Boarding House Blues
1930-10-20
Boarding House Blues
Overview: A boarding house maid is treated mean, until inheriting oil gives her a new gleam.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-20
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Behind Office Doors
1931-03-15
Behind Office Doors
Overview: Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-15
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The Terrible People
1928-08-05
The Terrible People
Overview: Over ten episodes an heiress is threatened by the gang of a criminal who seems to have returned from the dead. Clay Shelton was executed for his crimes, but it seems he has returned to life to exact revenge on the people responsible for his death.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-05
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A Solax Celebration
1912-01-01
A Solax Celebration
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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Hubby Does the Washing
1912-02-21
Hubby Does the Washing
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-21
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The Wooing of Alice
1912-05-08
The Wooing of Alice
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-08
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The Equine Spy
1912-08-23
The Equine Spy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-23
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I'll Love You Always
1935-03-19
I'll Love You Always
Overview: Nora Clegg, an actress, marries Carl Brent, an unemployed young engineer, whose estimation of his worth and ability keeps him from getting a job. He finally acquires a position that will require him to go to Russia for a period of time, while Nora goes back to the stage during his absence. But he loses out on the job at the last minute, and rather than tell Nora he has failed again, he steals a roll of money from his prospective employer to buy some things for Nora and go out and have a good time before, she things, his departure. His departure is to jail rather than Russia and he hides the truth from Nora by having an acquaintance mail his letters from Russia. He then finds out that Nora is pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-19
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