Olive Borden
Biography: Olive Borden was beautiful and talented but she became one of Hollywood's most tragic tales. She came to Hollywood in 1922 with her widowed mother. Olive started her career as a Mack Sennett bathing beauty and was named a Wampas baby star in 1925. She made eleven films at Fox studios where she earned $1,500 a week. Olive became a popular on screen vamp and her jet black hair was her trademark. She hired Jimmie Fiddler as her agent and was nicknamed "The Joy Girl". Olive lived a lavish lifestyle with limos, mansions, servants, and a dozen fur coats. In 1927 she left Fox after a salary dispute. She later worked for Columbia and RKO studios. Like many other silent stars she had a hard time making the transition to talkies. Her last film was made in 1934. There were two failed marriages and a broken engagement to actor George O'Brien. During World War 2 she worked as a nurse. By the age of 41 she was a penniless alcoholic. Her final years were spent in a Los Angeles mission. Sadly many of Olive Borden's silent films have been lost and this lovely star has been forgotten. Date of Death 1 October 1947, Los Angeles, California (stomach ailment)
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 14, 1906
Deathday: October 01, 1947
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Gang War
1928-09-02
Gang War
Overview: Saxophone player Clyde meets a woman named Flowers, and teaches her to dance. He later discovers that gangster boss "Blackjack" is also in love with her. "Blackjack" is also battling gang boss Mike Luego in a violent turf war.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-02
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3 Bad Men
1926-08-28
3 Bad Men
Overview: Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-28
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My Own Pal
1926-02-28
My Own Pal
Overview: My Own Pal takes Tom Mix out of his customary western surroundings and plunks him in the middle of New York City.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-28
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Sweet Daddy
1924-08-17
Sweet Daddy
Overview: Jimmy Jump's boss asks him to meet his small niece and her dog and entertain them between trains. Jimmy buys a balloon or two and looks over the station for a little girl. He takes one by mistake, narrowly escapes being arrested as a kidnapper and finally meets the niece, who is an over-dressed, ultra-modern young woman. The time between trains is spent in trying to hide the dog from the policeman, and when Jimmy puts his charge on the train, he feels that he has done a week's work in a day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-17
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Why Men Work
1924-08-31
Why Men Work
Overview: A movie cameraman is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-31
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The Royal Razz
1924-12-21
The Royal Razz
Overview: A doting father who plays Santa Claus for Christmas annoys a trolley full of people when he lugs a giant Christmas tree home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-21
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Chloe, Love Is Calling You
1934-04-01
Chloe, Love Is Calling You
Overview: A black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisiana swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband. The old conjure woman Mandy returns with her daughter Chloe to their bayou home after fifteen years. Chloe was too young to remember much about the bayou, but once Mandy had been a famous voodoo priestess in these parts. But after the whites lynched her husband Sam, she took her little girl & moved away into the Everglades. She seems to have gone a little mad in the intervening years & has returned swearing a belated vengeance against the murdering white folks.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-01
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Fig Leaves
1926-08-22
Fig Leaves
Overview: Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of her neighbor, who has secret designs on Adam, Eve secretly becomes a fashion model by day, knowing that her husband would disapprove.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-22
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Moonlight and Cactus
1932-01-10
Moonlight and Cactus
Overview: The owner of a medicine show falls for a young beauty who is in love with someone else.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-10
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 1
1929-12-01
The Voice of Hollywood No. 1
Overview: Radio announcer Lloyd Hamilton tries on straw boaters while various performers do things on the mythical station STAR. They include Dorothy Burgess, Donald Kerr, Carlotta King, and Ruth Hiatt.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-01
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The Monkey Talks
1927-02-20
The Monkey Talks
Overview: In 1927 Olive Borden starred in Fox drama The Monkey Talks directed by Raoul Walsh. She played a circus performer who meets a man pretending to be a talking monkey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-20
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Half Marriage
1929-10-12
Half Marriage
Overview: A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying art and encourage the attentions of Tom, a persistent suitor. Judy and her jealous husband have an argument that leads her back to the city, a drunken, amorous Tom and a tragedy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-12
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Dance Hall
1929-12-13
Dance Hall
Overview: A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-13
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Too Many Mammas
1924-10-12
Too Many Mammas
Overview: Charley is called upon to go out with his boss on a date with the boss' mistress, to act as a beard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-12
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Yellow Fingers
1926-03-21
Yellow Fingers
Overview: Ralph Ince stars as Brute Shane, a South Pacific trader who has adopted native girl Saina (Olive Broden). When Shane rescues English lass Nona Deering (Claire Adams) from white slavers, the jealous Saina begins plotting Nona's demise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-21
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The Social Lion
1930-06-21
The Social Lion
Overview: Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most proficient mallet-wielder, having learned to play polo while serving in the U.S. army. His hobnobbing with the town-elite and social upper-crust at the polo-matches gives him an inflated idea of his social position, and he decides he is is moving on up. He breaks off with his girl-friend, true-blue Cynthia Brown, and hits on débutante Gloria Staunton, who appears to have an interest in being hit upon. Gloria's interest lies mostly in showing Marco that hired-hands who can play polo still aren't to the manor born.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-21
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The Mild West
1933-11-18
The Mild West
Overview: This musical short focuses on the trials and tribulations of a saloon singer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-18
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The Joy Girl
1927-09-03
The Joy Girl
Overview: Though she loves one man, an ambitious Palm Beach girl marries another, whom she thinks is rich. He turns out to be a fraud who thought she was an heiress. She returns to a successful hat shop she maintains catering to socialites. Her true love turns out to be in fact, a rich man who let her think he was not to test her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-03
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Should Husbands Be Watched?
1925-03-14
Should Husbands Be Watched?
Overview: Mr. Jump has come into some money and informs his wife that they can now hire a maid and won't have to do anymore housework. Circumstances cause Mrs. Jump to suspect that Mr. Jump is cavorting with the new maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-14
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Just a Good Guy
1924-12-24
Just a Good Guy
Overview: A pawn shop employee must substitute for a robot in this short silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-24
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Gobs of Fun
1933-10-20
Gobs of Fun
Overview: Two sailors have shore leave. They both plan on spending it with the same girl, Lulu. Lulu is the kind of girl who has a boyfriend on every ship and a husband on the side.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-20
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The Secret Studio
1927-06-19
The Secret Studio
Overview: Ambitious Rosemary Merton ( Olive Borden ), agrees to pose in the studio of Larry Kane ( Ben Bard ), a depraved artist, but she refuses to do so in the nude. However, Kane makes it appear in the portrait that she posed in that manner, and she is disgraced when local newspapers print the picture. She is eventually exonerated by the intervention of Sloan Whitney ( Clifford Holland ), her wealthy young sweetheart; and Rosemary makes the sacrifice of ambition for love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-19
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Neck and Neck
1924-02-03
Neck and Neck
Overview: Comedy star Lige Conley plays a uneducated farm boy who decided to go to college.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-03
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The Inventors
1934-02-02
The Inventors
Overview: Two men inadvertently create a mechanical menace
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-02
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Hotel Variety
1933-01-07
Hotel Variety
Overview: A New York City boarding house for vaudeville performers, none of whom have any steady work....
Genres: Action Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-07
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Good Morning, Nurse
1925-05-30
Good Morning, Nurse
Overview: Roland Royce (Ralph Graves) takes his family and a beautiful nurse (Olive Borden) on a camping trip but everything goes wrong.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-30
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Hello Sister
1930-02-07
Hello Sister
Overview: Olive Borden plays a modern jazz maiden who is forced to be good for six months or lose out on her grandfather's inheritance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-07
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Tell It to a Policeman
1925-05-24
Tell It to a Policeman
Overview: Two young lovers (Glenn Tryon and Blanche Mehaffey) are at home when a policeman (James Finlayson) comes to the door and begins telling them his life story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-24
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The Happy Warrior
1925-07-05
The Happy Warrior
Overview: Malcolm McGregor joins the circus and falls in love with Olive Borden but his life changes when he finds out he is a titled Lord.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-05
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Love In The Desert
1929-01-27
Love In The Desert
Overview: Zarah, a beautiful Arabian played by Olive Borden, saves irrigation engineer Bob Winslow (Hugh Trevor) from being abducted by bandit leader Abdullah (Noah Beery).
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-27
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The Overland Limited
1925-07-14
The Overland Limited
Overview: David Barton (Malcolm McGregor) is a train engineer with big ideas who falls in love with beautiful Olive Borden.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-14
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The Yankee Señor
1926-01-10
The Yankee Señor
Overview: A cowboy estranged from his family and unsure of his heritage becomes a hero and falls for a beautiful Mexican beauty.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-10
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Virgin Lips
1928-07-25
Virgin Lips
Overview: In a banana republic, way south of the Texas border, a dumb-Dora American girl, Norma (Olive Borden), lets her ruby-red lips promise more than she is willing to deliver, and she finds herself a prisoner in a notorious dance-hall/brothel. But her American aviator boyfriend, Barry Blake (John Boles), is flying to her rescue. He does just that but, alas, they are quickly captured by a gang of outlaws. Possibly the many expensive pieces of jewelry she has gathered from the many male friends she has made along the way, including El Presidente, captured the outlaws' attention.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-25
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The Eternal Woman
1929-03-18
The Eternal Woman
Overview: Olive Borden returns home to Buenos Aires and discovers her father has been murdered and her sister has been attacked by an American.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-18
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The Albany Night Boat
1928-07-20
The Albany Night Boat
Overview: Steve falls in love with Ken's beautiful wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-20
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Stool Pigeon
1928-10-25
Stool Pigeon
Overview: An underworld story about a boy (Charles Delaney) suspected of being a stool pigeon but in reality, he is only stealing to give his mother a better life. His devoted girlfriend Goldie (Olive Borden) tries to help him turn his life around.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-25
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Leave It to Me
1933-04-01
Leave It to Me
Overview: The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-01
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The Divorce Racket
1932-10-25
The Divorce Racket
Overview: Assigned to investigate a lawyer's murder, a detective finds that his chief suspect is his own secretary--who is also the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-25
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The Country Beyond
1926-10-17
The Country Beyond
Overview: In the Canadian mountains an orphan girl, Valencia, is left in the care of the abusive Hawkins family. A fugitive outlaw, Roger McKay, stumbles onto the property and immediately falls in love with Valencia. When Mr. Hawkins is killed by his long-suffering spouse, Roger assumes that Valencia committed the murder and confesses to the crime to protect her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-17
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Wedding Rings
1929-12-29
Wedding Rings
Overview: Two sisters battle for the love of a man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-29
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All Wet
1924-01-01
All Wet
Overview: Charley Chase has car trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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Grounds for Divorce
1925-07-27
Grounds for Divorce
Overview: Divorce lawyer Maurice (Matt Moore) does not pay much attention to his wife Alice (Florence Vidor). When he spends their anniversary with famous actress Marianne (Louise Fadenza) Alice decides to seek a divorce herself.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-27
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