Bessie Love
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bessie Love (September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986) was an American motion picture actress who achieved prominence mainly in the silent films and early talkies. With a small frame and delicate features, she played innocent young girls, flappers, and wholesome leading ladies. In addition to her acting career, she wrote the screenplay for the 1919 movie A Yankee Princess. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bessie Love licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 09, 1898
Deathday: April 26, 1986
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916-09-04
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Overview: The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-04
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The Lost World
1925-02-02
The Lost World
Overview: The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-02
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The Hunger
1983-04-29
The Hunger
Overview: Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-29
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The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929-11-23
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Overview: An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-23
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Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
1922-11-05
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
Overview: Another entry in the popular one-reel series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-05
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The Village Blacksmith
1922-11-01
The Village Blacksmith
Overview: (survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith (Walling) are in love with the same woman (Boardman), whom the blacksmith marries. This angers the squire. Years later, the squire's son Anson (Yearsley) dares the blacksmith's son Johnnie (Hackathorne) to climb a tree, from which he falls and is crippled. As adults, Anson and the blacksmith's daughter Alice (Valli) fall in love, which angers the blacksmith, who chastises his daughter. The blacksmith's other son Bill (Butler) returns from college and is injured in a train accident. Anson steals $480 from a church fund which is currently in Alice's possession. Alice is struck by lightning. The blacksmith take Anson and the squire to church where they both repent.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-01
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
1961-12-28
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Overview: Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a holiday in Rome for his health. He suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome. She leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace. Then the contessa comes calling to introduce a young man named Paolo to her. The contessa knows many presentable young men and lonely American widows.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-28
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The Ritz
1976-08-12
The Ritz
Overview: To escape from a mobster, businessman Gaetano Proclo orders a cab driver to take him to a place where he can't be found. Unfortunately for Gaetano, the place turns out to be a gay bathhouse.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-12
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The Pistol
1965-06-16
The Pistol
Overview: A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-16
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971-07-01
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Overview: Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-01
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The Broadway Melody
1929-02-08
The Broadway Melody
Overview: The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-08
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Reds
1981-12-25
Reds
Overview: An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-25
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Nowhere to Go
1958-12-02
Nowhere to Go
Overview: A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-02
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The Magic Box
1952-01-01
The Magic Box
Overview: Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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The Matinee Idol
1928-03-14
The Matinee Idol
Overview: The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. in 1997.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-14
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Catlow
1971-10-01
Catlow
Overview: An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to Mexico to pull off a $2,000,000 gold robbery.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-01
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Mousey
1974-05-24
Mousey
Overview: A high school teacher separated from his son plots revenge on his ex-wife.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-24
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The Swell Head
1928-07-14
The Swell Head
Overview: The Swell Head is a 1928 silent comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-14
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Gulliver's Travels
1977-05-06
Gulliver's Travels
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift and built around the Lilliput and Blefuscu episode. It was made partly in live action and partly animated.
Genres: Fantasy Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-06
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Conspiracy
1930-08-10
Conspiracy
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
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Chasing Rainbows
1930-01-10
Chasing Rainbows
Overview: The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-10
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Morals for Women
1931-10-24
Morals for Women
Overview: A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-24
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I Think They Call Him John
1964-06-01
I Think They Call Him John
Overview: The life of an old man, John Cartner Ronson, living alone in a huge block of flats in London since his wife died nine years earlier.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-01
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Deserted at the Altar
1922-12-01
Deserted at the Altar
Overview: Anna Moore, a poor orphaned country girl, and her little brother, Tommy, live with hypocritical Squire Simpson, who conspires with his son to acquire the inheritance due the girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-01
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Good News
1930-08-22
Good News
Overview: A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-22
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The Idle Rich
1929-06-15
The Idle Rich
Overview: Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her family, part of "the great middle class" (as blowhard nephew Henry keeps reminding us), is happy for Joan, but reluctant to take charity from Will. He moves in with them, and they keep resisting, until one day he takes drastic action.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-15
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They Learned About Women
1930-01-30
They Learned About Women
Overview: Jack and Jerry are doing okay between profession baseball and Vaudeville. That is, until love and gold-diggers get in the way.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-30
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The Good Bad-Man
1916-04-21
The Good Bad-Man
Overview: An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-21
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Rubber Tires
1927-02-07
Rubber Tires
Overview: When the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car and relocate to California. Unbeknownst to them, their used car is worth more than they ever could have imagined.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-07
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See America Thirst
1930-11-23
See America Thirst
Overview: Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-23
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Touch and Go
1955-10-02
Touch and Go
Overview: When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family and emigrate to Australia - but his problems are only just beginning.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-02
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Gareth Hughes
2000-01-01
Gareth Hughes
Overview: Documentary about the Welsh silent movie actor.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: cy
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Eternal Three
1923-09-22
The Eternal Three
Overview: A doctor's adopted son turns out to be an ungrateful whelp. He beds the doctor's maid, then his secretary, and finally targets the doctor's wife, his own stepmother as his next conquest....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-22
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Dress Parade
1927-10-26
Dress Parade
Overview: An amateur boxing champion stops at West Point to see a dress parade and falls for the commandant's daughter. He wins an appointment to the Academy and begins a rivalry for her affection.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-26
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Alice Guy-Blaché
1997-02-20
Alice Guy-Blaché
Overview: A one-hour biographical documentary about Alice Guy-Blaché, one of the first women to direct films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-02-20
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Pegeen
1920-01-01
Pegeen
Overview: Pegeen O'Neill must fend for herself when her father Dan becomes mentally unbalanced after his wife Mary's death. Dan spends his days searching for his wife, setting fires in the belief that the flames will illuminate his Mary. The townspeople, enraged at the arson that is slowly destroying their village, track down Dan and trap him in a burning cabin. Pegeen rushes to comfort her dying father, who consoles himself at death with the hallucination that his wife has returned in the figure of his daughter. Pegeen is then rescued from the raging fire by Jimmie, who proposes to the waif as he delivers her from the flames.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Souls for Sale
1923-04-22
Souls for Sale
Overview: A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-22
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Bonnie May
1920-06-10
Bonnie May
Overview: Young actress Bonnie May finds work in a private play given at Mrs. Baron’s mansion, where she endears herself to all, especially Victor Baron, the invalid son who has written the play. He begs her to stay on to help him write another play, despite the reluctance of his mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-10
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The Sea Lion
1921-12-04
The Sea Lion
Overview: When his long-suffering wife leaves him, the hard-driving captain of a whaling ship turns bitter and takes out his anger, resentment and frustrations on all those around him, leading to tensions with his crew that come up to the point of mutiny.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-04
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The Song and Dance Man
1926-02-08
The Song and Dance Man
Overview: Song and Dance Man was based on the play of the same name by George M. Cohan. Tom Moore plays vaudevillian Happy Farrell, who gives up show biz to take a "civilian" job. Finding success in the business world, Happy tries to go back on stage, only to find that it isn't quite so easy the second time around. Meanwhile, our hero's former vaude partner Leola Lane (Bessie Love), now a headliner at the Palace, gives it all up to become the bride of artist Joseph Murdock
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-08
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The Girl in the Show
1929-08-30
The Girl in the Show
Overview: In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decide to marry and settle down. The lead actor helps set up the rest of the troupe with some performances. He then destroys the new marriage. Later the woman and the head actor fall in love. He then gives her the lead role in his newest show.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-30
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The Flying Torpedo
1916-03-12
The Flying Torpedo
Overview: In the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American officials, coming to the realisation that the country is basically defenceless, offer $1,000,000 to anyone who can come up with a weapon to defeat the invaders. Winthrop Clavering, a writer and inventor, hears of the reward and tells his friend Bartholomew Thompson, a scientist and inventor who has been working on developing flying torpedo. However, enemy agents have also heard about Thompson's project, and set out to kill him and steal his plans. This film is now considered lost.
Genres: War Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-12
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Battle Beneath the Earth
1967-10-01
Battle Beneath the Earth
Overview: Government officials discover a horrible plot: the Chinese are tunneling their way to the United States.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-01
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The King On Main Street
1925-10-24
The King On Main Street
Overview: A European Ruler falls in love with an American.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-24
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Next to No Time
1958-08-04
Next to No Time
Overview: Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack of confidence means he is completely out of his depth, at least until he finds his personality changes every day during the hour the ship's clocks stop to make allowance for their westward passage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-04
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Too Young to Love
1960-03-08
Too Young to Love
Overview: A court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she was so young.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-08
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The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
1916-06-11
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
Overview: Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his time into periods of "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drinks". In fact, he overcomes every situation with drugs: consuming cocaine to increase his energy or injecting it in his opponents to incapacitate them. To help the police, he tracks down a contraband of opium (which he eagerly tastes) transported within "leaping fishes", saving a "fish-blower" girl from blackmail along the way.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-11
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
1981-06-29
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Overview: After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-29
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Atlantic Ferry
1941-09-06
Atlantic Ferry
Overview: The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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Ragtime
1981-11-20
Ragtime
Overview: A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-20
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Isadora
1968-09-14
Isadora
Overview: A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-14
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Soul-Fire
1925-05-30
Soul-Fire
Overview: Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job back home in the United States. After his studies in Italy, he moves to Paris, where he is forced to write popular songs for money when he stops receiving support from his father. He tires of selling out and, after an encounter with the mob, starts to travel. He begins a madcap journey from Paris to Port Said, Egypt, and to the South Seas, where he believes he has found love with Teita (Bessie Love).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-30
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Reggie Mixes In
1916-06-10
Reggie Mixes In
Overview: Reggie, a wealthy young man about town, is eager for excitement, so he takes to visiting the rougher sections of the city in search of thrills. He meets and falls for a cabaret singer, but she turns out to be the inamorata of the local gang boss. The gangster sends his men after Reggie, but eventually it comes down to a duel between the two men themselves.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-10
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Cheerful Givers
1917-04-21
Cheerful Givers
Overview: A 1917 film directed by Paul Powell.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-21
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A Daughter of the Poor
1917-03-17
A Daughter of the Poor
Overview: A young girl, Rose Eastmen lives with her lazy Uncle, who works as a janitor in a publishing house. Lacking education, both Rose and her Uncle are susceptible to the socialist ideas of writer Rudolph Creig. One day Rose encounters Jack Steven's the wealthy son of the publishing house, working on his car. She believes he is a common laborer, and begins seeing him. Through her exposure to Jack, Rose begins to realize the rich are not such an abominable people. Rudolph has also reached this conclusion after learning Steven's has published his book. Now with a hefty royalty check and success, Rudolph is able to marry Rose.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-17
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No Highway in the Sky
1951-06-28
No Highway in the Sky
Overview: James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-28
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The Weak and the Wicked
1954-02-02
The Weak and the Wicked
Overview: Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-02
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The Aryan
1916-04-09
The Aryan
Overview: Steve Denton, rich from years of prospecting, is fleeced by the citizens of Yellow Ridge. In his rage, he kidnaps the woman most responsible and makes her his slave in a desert hideaway.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-09
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Young April
1926-10-11
Young April
Overview: Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-11
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The Barefoot Contessa
1954-09-29
The Barefoot Contessa
Overview: Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when the independently wealthy tycoon Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film. They go to Madrid to find Maria Vargas, a dancer who will star in the film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-29
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Round About Hollywood
1931-05-22
Round About Hollywood
Overview: This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them as seen from the streets. Considerable time is taken showing the kinds of architecture of private homes. There are images of various important buildings, and a depiction of the Hollywood Bowl. Finally, there is a sequence revolving around the premiere of the film “Dirigible” (1931) at the famed Chinese Theatre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-22
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Human Wreckage
1923-06-17
Human Wreckage
Overview: An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-17
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The American
1927-01-01
The American
Overview: Seref, who returns to his country after many years in America, as a dollar billionaire with a cowboy hat on his head, and with his Dallas-type boots has an interesting past: Twenty years ago he has lost his sweetheart Melek to his closest friend, and furthermore, has been put in prison. He found a way to escape from prison, going to America, the country of dreams. Here, he has become a businessman with boundless wealth, known as Seref The Turk. When he returns to his country as an American, even though he has some commercial aims in mind, his real desire is to take revenge. He will settle accounts with the friend who stabbed him in the back many years ago, and with Melek who is betrayed him. However, when he sets foot in Turkey with yearning, he meets 'Small America' in chaos. On top of that, while looking for Melek, he finds himself in the middle of a funny and exciting adventure where sexuality and violence mingle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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The Wild Affair
1965-12-05
The Wild Affair
Overview: Young office assistant Majorie will marry soon, however she's plagued by doubts if her fiance is the right one. On her last day at work, her male colleagues don't miss a chance to comfort her... and flirt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-05
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Going Crooked
1926-12-12
Going Crooked
Overview: A young women is part a jewel theft ring, but opts out of a robbery because guns will be used. A man gets killed in that operation and the district attorney convicts an innocent man.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-12
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Vampyres
1974-07-06
Vampyres
Overview: A duo of bisexual female vampires prey on passing motorists, whom they seduce and murder in the English countryside.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-06
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The Story of Esther Costello
1957-11-06
The Story of Esther Costello
Overview: Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband. Radiant performance by Heather Sears. Based on a book that nearly had Helen Keller's co-workers suing for libel due to perceived parallels between Carlo Landi and the husband of Annie Sullivan
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-06
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The Midlanders
1920-12-01
The Midlanders
Overview: Aurelie, an orphan, escapes from a New Orleans convent and is adopted by Mississippi riverboat captain Lindstrom. So that she can have a more settled life, he sends her to live with his brother, John Lindstrom, a squatter in a small river valley town. There she develops into a beautiful woman and wins a newspaper's beauty contest, attracting an offer from a theatrical producer, which she accepts. She rapidly achieves success, but when she returns to town, she is spurned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-01
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Carolyn of the Corners
1919-03-09
Carolyn of the Corners
Overview: The story of an orphan girl and her dog.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-09
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New Brooms
1925-10-12
New Brooms
Overview: Thomas Bates Sr. (Robert McWade) takes his broom manufacturing business very seriously, and his idle son, Tom Jr. (Neil Hamilton), calls him a grouch. As a result, Bates decides to teach his son a lesson by putting him in charge of the business for a year.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-12
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Penny of Top Hill Trail
1921-06-01
Penny of Top Hill Trail
Overview: Penny arrives in the West by aeroplane. She is considered a suspicious character and thrown into jail. Kurt Walters, a ranch foreman and deputy sheriff, discovers that she is the same girl that his friend, Jo Gary, met in Chicago. Gary fell in love with her, but she confessed she was a thief. Since Penny claims she wants to reform, Walters releases her and sends her to live with Mrs. Kingdon. In spite of her teasing and taunts (or perhaps because of them), Walters finds himself falling in love with Penny.
Genres: Western Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-01
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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018-12-07
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Overview: The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-07
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The Swamp
1921-10-30
The Swamp
Overview: Mary and her son Buster live in a single room in the slums of the city, having been deserted by their husband and father, wealthy Spencer Wellington. While selling newspapers, Buster meets Wang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-30
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The Great Adventure
1918-03-10
The Great Adventure
Overview: Ragna "Rags" Jansen has found local success and acclaim in her small town as an actress, but dreams of stardom on Broadway.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-10
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London Scrapbook
1942-09-30
London Scrapbook
Overview: Propaganda short showing how London is coping with World War II.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-30
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978-11-06
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Overview: While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-06
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Journey Together
1945-10-01
Journey Together
Overview: Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-01
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A Sister of Six
1916-10-29
A Sister of Six
Overview: A young woman and her five little brothers and sisters are left orphans by the murder of their father over gold found on his ranch. Together the seven offspring fight against their greedy neighbors to keep what is rightfully theirs.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-29
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A Son of His Father
1925-09-28
A Son of His Father
Overview: 'Big Boy' Morgan and his friend, invalid Charlie Grey, must overcome the efforts of the villainous Holdbrook to foreclose on the Los Rosas ranch and make off with the beautiful Nora Shea.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-28
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The Wishing Ring Man
1919-03-10
The Wishing Ring Man
Overview: Forced to wear quaint short dresses and pigtails so that she will inspire her grandfather's sentimental poetry, nineteen-year-old Joy Havenith longs for companions of her own age.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-10
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The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
1922-03-15
The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
Overview: The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers, which honored 13 (15 in 1932) young actresses each year whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. 1922 was the first.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-15
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Polly Ann
1917-09-09
Polly Ann
Overview: Young Polly-Ann works in a small town inn as a maidservant. A troupe of actors comes to town and the innocent girl falls in love with one of its members. Howard Straightlane is sent to the small town by his father, to work as a schoolteacher in hopes of smartening up the young man from his wild ways. Howard soon meets Polly-Ann and saves her from the unscrupulous actor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-09
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The Sawdust Ring
1917-07-15
The Sawdust Ring
Overview: Janet sets out to find her circus ringleader father, who her mother abandoned believing him to be unfaithful. Along the way, Janet and her friend Peter join Colonel Simmonds's circus, she as a trick horse rider and he as a clown, but Janet cannot help but wonder why she finds Simmonds so familiar. The original, feature-length release of "The Sawdust Ring" is not known to survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-15
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Wee Lady Betty
1917-08-17
Wee Lady Betty
Overview: Wee Lady Betty rules the O'Reilly castle with a stern hand and a big heart until she learns that Roger, the O'Reilly heir, is coming to take possession of his estate. Unable to provide for her aged father, Betty conceives of a scheme. Feigning to leave the castle, she returns after dark with her father and installs him in the haunted chamber.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-17
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Nina, the Flower Girl
1917-01-21
Nina, the Flower Girl
Overview: Nina, a blind girl, lives with her grandmother, who has taught her to make artificial flowers, which she sells at a flower-stand. Nina, and Jimmie, a crippled newsboy who sells papers on the same corner, are sweethearts. Nina's grandmother dies, and she turns to Jimmie. One day Jimmie has a fight with another newsboy, whom he thinks is hanging about Nina's stand too much, and the other boy is soon begging for mercy. Miss Fifi Chandler, an artist, happens to be passing, and becoming interested, she accompanies Nina and Jimmie to their rooms, and is surprised to find that Jimmie is an artist, having made a beautiful plaster cast of Nina. Fifi brings Jimmie and his protégé to the notice of her fellow artist, Fred Townsend, who falls in love with Nina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-21
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How Could You, Caroline?
1918-05-05
How Could You, Caroline?
Overview: Caroline Rogers, a spirited young girl with a taste for highly romantic novels, comes home from boarding school to attend her sister Ethel's wedding. Having read a particularly lurid novel entitled Twin Souls recently, she arrives at the rehearsal wearing a daring gown in the hope of ensnaring a "soul mate." Because of his poetic name, Caroline becomes involved with Reginald Van Alden, a married fortune-seeker. On the morning of the wedding, she abandons her old sweetheart, Bob Worth, to take a ride with Reginald, but when he takes her to a disreputable roadhouse, she escapes and then tries to commit suicide by drinking cologne.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-05
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The Enchanted Barn
1919-01-27
The Enchanted Barn
Overview: The Hollisters, a bright, spirited, wholesome family, are compelled to move into the country. After many efforts to secure a home, Shirley, eldest of the Hollisters, contrives a way out by renting a magnificent old stone barn at a ridiculously low price, transforming it into a house. The owner of the barn is not an ordinary landlord, as you will see, for he is a young man with fine ideals, and he is not content with establishing Shirley and her family in the quaintly beautiful old place, but makes the world a much happier place to live in for all of them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-27
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The Dawn of Understanding
1918-12-02
The Dawn of Understanding
Overview: The Dawn of Understanding is a lost 1918 American silent Western comedy film produced by The Vitagraph Company of America and directed by David Smith. It stars Bessie Love in the first film of her nine-film contract with Vitagraph.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-02
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A Little Sister of Everybody
1918-06-30
A Little Sister of Everybody
Overview: Young Celeste Janvier ( Bessie Love ) lives in an East Side tenement with her immigrant grandfather, a humanitarian and socialist. Like her kindly grandfather, Celeste also has a kindhearted soul, and her friendly nature has earned her the nickname, " the little sister of everybody."
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-30
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A Yankee Princess
1919-04-21
A Yankee Princess
Overview: A Yankee Princess is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It was directed by David Smith and stars Bessie Love, who also wrote the screenplay. It is a lost film.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-21
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The Spirit of the Lake
1921-10-30
The Spirit of the Lake
Overview: The Spirit of the Lake is a 1921 American silent short Western drama film produced by Cyrus J. Williams and distributed by Pathé Exchange. It was directed by Robert North Bradbury and stars Tom Santschi, Bessie Love, and Ruth Stonehouse.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-30
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The Vermilion Pencil
1922-03-19
The Vermilion Pencil
Overview: The Vermilion Pencil is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Norman Dawn, and produced and distributed by Robertson–Cole. It is based on the eponymous 1908 novel by Homer Lea. The film stars Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa in multiple roles, and white actors Ann May, Bessie Love, and Sidney Franklin, all in Asian roles. It is now a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-19
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The Little Boss
1919-06-02
The Little Boss
Overview: The Little Boss is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by David Smith and produced by Vitagraph Studios.[2] The story and screenplay were by Rida Johnson Young starring Bessie Love and Wallace MacDonald.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-02
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Night Life in Hollywood
1922-11-15
Night Life in Hollywood
Overview: A picture depicting the engrossing adventures of a small town youth in Hollywood and showing the intimate home life of some of the screen's greatest stars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-15
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Cupid Forecloses
1919-07-12
Cupid Forecloses
Overview: Geraldine Farleigh, a timid village schoolteacher, supports her family and must pay off her late father's debt to Bruce Cartwright.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-12
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Over the Garden Wall
1919-09-21
Over the Garden Wall
Overview: Peggy ( Bessie Love ) and her sister Frances ( Myrtle Reeves ) live with their father, but because of his idleness, they must all move to humbler quarters. Peggy adapts quickly to their new surrounding, while Frances misses the social life she once enjoyed. Their neighbors are well off, and Peggy begins a romance with their son, whom she thinks is the chauffeur. Meanwhile, Frances has become involved with a roguish character and plans to elope with him. Peggy saves her sister from imminent disgrace, but comes close to compromising herself instead. Peggy's sweetheart comes to her rescue and now his true identity is revealed to the very grateful girl.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-21
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A Fighting Colleen
1919-11-22
A Fighting Colleen
Overview: Young and spunky Alannah, an Irish immigrant living in a tenement, sells newspapers to support her family. She is soon helping a district attorney secure proof that the unjust town mayor is collecting bribes. For her reward, Alannah and her boyfriend Jimmy are appointed managers of a municipal restaurant.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-22
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The Honor of Rameriz
1921-10-16
The Honor of Rameriz
Overview: The Honor of Rameriz is a 1921 American silent short Western film produced by Cyrus J. Williams and distributed by Pathé Exchange. It was directed by Robert North Bradbury and stars Tom Santschi, Bessie Love, and Ruth Stonehouse.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-16
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Three Who Paid
1923-01-07
Three Who Paid
Overview: Three Who Paid is a 1923 American silent Western melodrama film directed by Colin Campbell, and starring Dustin Farnum, with Bessie Love and Frank Campeau. The film was based on the 1922 short story by George Owen Baxter,
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-07
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Bulldog Courage
1922-08-01
Bulldog Courage
Overview: College athlete Jimmy Brent is sent to Wyoming by his wealthy uncle John Morton, who has promised him $50,000 if he beats up Bob Phillips, who was once Morton's rival for Mary Allen. Jimmy finds Phillips, but when he falls in love with Phillips' daughter Gloria, he starts to think twice about performing his "job" for Uncle John. Matters are further complicated when a ranch hand tricks Phillips into thinking that Jimmy is the head of a gang of rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-01
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Children of the Damned
1964-01-10
Children of the Damned
Overview: Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-10
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Forget Me Not
1922-07-23
Forget Me Not
Overview: Young mother Mary Gordoon is too poor to take care of her infant daughter, Ann, and leaves the child at an orphanage. Ann grows up with a crippled leg in the orphanage, and has fallen in love with a fellow orphan, Jimmy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-23
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The Purple Dawn
1923-05-10
The Purple Dawn
Overview: The Purple Dawn is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film that was produced, written, and directed by Charles R. Seeling. Starring Bessie Love, Bert Sprotte, and William E. Aldrich. The film is presumed lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-10
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The Strange Adventures of Prince Courageous
1923-04-07
The Strange Adventures of Prince Courageous
Overview: Originally planned as 12 two-reelers, only three were made: The Little Knight, The Love Charm, The Crown of Courage.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-07
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Mary of the Movies
1923-05-27
Mary of the Movies
Overview: Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-27
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St. Elmo
1923-09-30
St. Elmo
Overview: St. Elmo is a man who killed his romantic rival in a brawl. Traveling the world as a confirmed misogynist, St. Elmo returns to home and hearth only to fall in love with the daughter of the local blacksmith. The film is based on the 1867 novel of the same name written by Augusta Jane Evans. Today, St. Elmo is a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-30
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Hell-to-Pay Austin
1916-08-20
Hell-to-Pay Austin
Overview: After her father's death, little Briar Rose is taken in by the men at a lumber camp. The girl shows a definite preference for one of the lumberjacks, "Hell-to-Pay" Austin, so he becomes her new "father." Just as much as Hell-to-Pay takes care of Briar, she watches over him, and it is largely through her influence that he gives up hard drinking and needless fighting. Then, when Briar is old enough, she goes away to school and quickly falls in with the wrong crowd. Hell-to-Pay comes after her and takes her away from Doris Valentine, an adventuress who had been teaching Briar the tricks of the trade. When they are reunited, Hell-to-Pay and Briar realize that they are in love, so they decide to change their relationship from guardian and ward to husband and wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-20
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Acquitted
1916-02-06
Acquitted
Overview: Hard-working insurance company bookkeeper John Carter, comes home Easter eve to his suburban cottage with a potted lily for his loving wife and two daughters. The Carters live happily until cashier Charles Ryder is murdered by the night watchman, a "coke sniffer" in need of money, and Carter is accused because he worked with Ryder that evening.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-06
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Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
1928-09-09
Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
Overview: Anybody Here Seen Kelly? is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by William Wyler. This was the first non-Western film to be directed by Wyler and is now considered to be a lost film. This is Bessie Love's final silent film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-09
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The Ghost Patrol
1923-01-21
The Ghost Patrol
Overview: With his understanding manner policeman Donald Dorgan wins respect on his tough beat in "Little Hell." He tries to help Terry Rafferty "go straight" so that he may receive Rudolph Kugler's permission to marry Effie, but Terry gets into a fight and is sentenced to prison.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-21
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Stranded
1916-07-23
Stranded
Overview: H. Ulysses Watts is a traveling Shakespearean actor whose career is on the decline, as his audiences are more interested in cinema and vaudeville. When the troupe is robbed by Stoner, Watts cares for an injured young trapeze artist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-23
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The Heiress at Coffee Dan's
1916-12-23
The Heiress at Coffee Dan's
Overview: "Waffles," the waitress at "Coffee Dan's" hash-house, is selected by Bert Gallagher and Clara Johnstone, a pair of crooks, to be represented as a missing heiress whose story they have read about in the papers. "Waffles" herself believes the story, as she was orphaned early and remembers little of her childhood, and by adroit coaching is able to convince the estate's none too bright lawyers of the validity of her claim. With this unlimited money, poor little "Waffles" nevertheless has only three desires: to buy the little restaurant for her old benefactor, Shorty Olson, to publish the music written by her lover, Carl Miller, a young, eccentric, absent-minded musical genius, and to adopt the baby that a Mrs. O'Shaughnessy is too poor to care for.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-23
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Those Who Dance
1924-04-27
Those Who Dance
Overview: A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to break up the gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-27
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Dynamite Smith
1924-10-12
Dynamite Smith
Overview: Gladstone Smith, a fearful young reporter, gets on the wrong side of a murderous criminal and flees to Alaska, along with the killer's wife, who is equally frightened of her husband. But the murderer pursues them to the frozen north and Gladstone must overcome his cowardice in order to overcome his nemesis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-12
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Sally of the Scandals
1928-07-15
Sally of the Scandals
Overview: Sally of the Scandals is a 1928 American silent crime drama film produced and released by Film Booking Offices of America. It was directed by Lynn Shores and starred Bessie Love.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-15
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Slave of Desire
1923-10-04
Slave of Desire
Overview: Poet Raphael de Valentin is down on his luck until a friend introduces him into society. He meets the Countess Fedora, and after she reads his poems, his work becomes an overnight sensation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-04
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Gentle Julia
1923-12-24
Gentle Julia
Overview: Gentle Julia is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film based on the popular novel Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington. Directed by Rowland V. Lee, the film starred Bessie Love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-24
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The Silent Watcher
1924-10-05
The Silent Watcher
Overview: A lawyer (Bosworth) running for Congress decides to end his relationship with a showgirl (Bennett), so that he will be more presentable candidate. When the showgirl commits suicide, the police arrest the lawyer for murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-05
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Torment
1924-02-25
Torment
Overview: Torment is a 1924 American silent film crime drama produced and directed by Maurice Tourneur and distributed by Associated First National. This film stars Bessie Love, Owen Moore, and Jean Hersholt.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-25
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The Woman on the Jury
1924-04-20
The Woman on the Jury
Overview: The story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but had deserted her...and of a woman on the jury who refused to condemn her when eleven men had voted guilty...a woman brave enough to defy public opinion, brave enough to lose the loss of the love of her husband by baring her soul to the world in order to save the girl on trial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-20
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Sundown
1924-11-30
Sundown
Overview: Cattlemen attempt to keep their lands and herds from being overrun by nesters.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-30
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Lovey Mary
1926-06-20
Lovey Mary
Overview: Lovely Mary, an orphan girl, reluctantly takes charge of her sister's child when her sister Kate is jailed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-20
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Tongues of Flame
1924-12-15
Tongues of Flame
Overview: The Native American Siwash people have been displaced from their land and live on a reservation. The wealthy Mr. Boland attempts to buy the reservation from the Siwash for dubious reasons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-15
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A Harp in Hock
1927-10-10
A Harp in Hock
Overview: A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed by Renaud Hoffman, produced by DeMille Pictures, and distributed by Pathé Exchange. The film starred Rudolph Schildkraut, Junior Coghlan, May Robson, and Bessie Love, and was based on the short story by Evelyn Campbell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-10
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Promise Her Anything
1966-02-22
Promise Her Anything
Overview: A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is her employer doesn't know about her son and he doesn't particularly care for children despite his profession.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-22
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