Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 12, 1857
Deathday: October 12, 1940
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1926-03-17
Overview: Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-17
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1929-04-20
Overview: Dee Renaud is a girl playing the "Devil" in an amusement concession at a beach resort. Slick Glicks, the barker, promises the yokels that if they're able to catch the "Lady From Hell," she will reward them with a kiss. But when Glicks tries to go beyond kissing, Dee is rescued by Jim Coakley, son of a New England lighthouse keeper...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-20
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1916-12-25
Overview: When her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden attempts to forget her pain in Beni Mora, an oasis in the Sahara. At the desert hotel, she meets and falls in love with Boris Androvsky, a tormented man of mystery. Abruptly announcing his departure one day, Boris bids farewell to Domini in the Garden of Allah
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-25
Popularity:
1916-05-01
Overview: When Cindy Lane becomes pregnant, Mark Brierson, the father, refuses to marry her. Instead, Brierson romances Azalia Deering, whose father, General Deering, owns the town bank. Brierson misuses bank funds, but the bank is saved by Jack Rose, a wealthy farmer. Cindy's father Zeb vows to kill her lover, but she refuses to reveal the man's identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-01
Popularity:
1928-03-25
Overview: In Midnight Madness millionaire diamond miner Michael Bream (Clive Brook) discovers that the woman he’s marrying — funfair shooting-gallery hostess Norma Forbes — is a gold digger. So Bream decides to teach her a lesson, and forces her to live with him in the remote African outback where, eventually, she realizes her true affections.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-25
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1930-08-01
Overview: Five years after Adolphe's death in a train wreck, he is discovered very much alive and with amnesia. Unfortunately he and his first wife are remarried and with children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-01
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1930-08-10
Overview: Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric mystery writer Winthrop Clavering help unravel the truth about the murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-10
Popularity:
1928-12-16
Overview: Blockade was one of those curious 1929 hybrids known as a "part-talkie." The story of a dauntless female prohibition agent. In her pursuit of a gang of Florida rum-runners, Bess assumes three identities. At various junctures, she is "herself," a society belle and a gangster's moll.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-16
Popularity:
1930-11-08
Overview: A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-08
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1929-03-23
Overview: California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-23
Popularity:
1928-05-21
Overview: Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-21
Popularity:
1930-11-15
Overview: Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tol'able David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-15
Popularity:
1928-01-12
Overview: A sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes her aboard his ship and heads out to sea. Not long afterwards the ship sinks but the pair manage to get into a lifeboat before it goes under. They are later picked up by a passing ship, but it turns out that the crew had just mutinied against their captain and taken over the ship.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-12
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1927-06-26
Overview: Tom meets his fate when a balloon goes sailing over the ranch: seeing a girl jump with a parachute, he rides to her rescue. Later, during the circus parade, he rides to her assistance, rescuing her from an elephant and thus arousing the ire of the circus manager, whose henchmen begin to chase Tom. Scrambling over the main tent, Tom falls onto the tightrope and lands in a net with the girl while the crowd wildly applauds. Kirk Mallory, who is jealous of Tom's attentions to Millie, frames Tom for a murder; he lands in jail but escapes and reaches Mallory's ranch in time to rescue the girl and administer a thrashing to the villain.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-26
Popularity:
1927-07-18
Overview: A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadistic brute who also took the former captain's wife and daughter. The ship's crew is composed mostly of sailors who were shanghai'ed aboard and are kept in line by the brutal captain and his even more fearsome first mate. The captain and one of his fellow crewmen--who has fallen in love with the man's daughter, who now belongs to the brutal captain--try to unite the crew to end the brutal reign of the captain and his henchman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2007.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-18
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1927-05-22
Overview: A baseball-styled sports filmed centered on Babe Ruth and Anna Q. It is considered a lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-22
Popularity:
1924-10-28
Overview: A wealthy New Yorker falls in love with a burglar's sister.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-28
Popularity:
1916-06-05
Overview: Mink Jones of Jonesville, is the lord high executioner and everything else.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-05
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