Vivien Oakland
Biography: From Wikipedia Vivien Oakland (born Vivian Anderson, May 20, 1895 – August 1, 1958), was an American actress best known for her work in comedies in Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s, most notably with the Hal Roach Studios. Oakland appeared in 142 films between 1915 and 1951. She supported Laurel and Hardy on several occasions, and sometimes played the wife of Edgar Kennedy and Leon Errol in their series of short films. She played mostly bit roles in feature films in the 1940s before making her last film (an Errol comedy) in 1951.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 19, 1895
Deathday: August 01, 1958
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The Time, the Place and the Girl
1929-07-07
The Time, the Place and the Girl
Overview: A musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose swollen head is deflated when, after graduating , he takes a job as a Wall Street stock salesman. While poor at selling, he knows how to charm women and his boss has him concentrate his efforts on disposing of bad stock to gullible females, one of whom turns out to be the wife of his boss. The film is considered lost, with only its soundtrack remaining.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-07
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Way Out West
1937-04-16
Way Out West
Overview: Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.
Genres: Action Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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Tony Runs Wild
1926-04-18
Tony Runs Wild
Overview: Tom Grant saves Grace Percival from being tromped by a herd of stampeding horses,led by Tony, and they become friends. Grace tells Slade, a renegade who has been trying to capture Tony, the leader of the wild horses, that Tom has promised to capture Tony for her. Not if Slade has anything to say about he isn't.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-18
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Don Key (Son of Burro)
1926-05-23
Don Key (Son of Burro)
Overview: The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy. An aspiring writer is awaiting outside the office and the producer agrees to see him. He listens while the writer tells his story and acts the numerous parts. The story is rotten, but the producer lets him escape while vowing vengeance on any other author who would read his story aloud.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-23
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Bunco Squad
1950-09-01
Bunco Squad
Overview: Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells, lining up rich widow Jessica Royce as his latest mark, sets up a false paranormal society with other charlatans to convince the credulous Jessica that her late son is speaking to her through their sham seances. When the plan leads to murder, Johnson and McManus must bring the group down before they kill again.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Madonna of the Streets
1924-10-19
Madonna of the Streets
Overview: Rev. John Morton, who is determined to follow as closely as possible the teachings of Jesus, inherits a considerable fortune when his uncle dies. Shortly thereafter he succumbs to the wiles of Mary Carlson and marries her. To Mary's dismay, John uses his money for charitable work. When John learns that not only has Mary been unfaithful to him but she was also his uncle's mistress and became Mrs. Morton in order to share the inheritance she believed to be rightfully hers, he sends her away with his secretary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-19
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Along Came Auntie
1926-07-25
Along Came Auntie
Overview: A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-25
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Imagine My Embarrassment
1928-09-01
Imagine My Embarrassment
Overview: Imagine My Embarrassment is a silent comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-01
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Off to Buffalo
1929-02-16
Off to Buffalo
Overview: Off to Buffalo is a comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-16
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Loud Soup
1929-03-16
Loud Soup
Overview: Loud Soup is a comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-16
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The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
1967-12-01
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
Overview: Film historian Robert Youngson presents a feature-length anthology of rarely seen silent films by comedy legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Along with clips from many of the shorts that made the duo stars, it includes clips from a 1918 comedy starring Laurel on his own as well as scenes from three shorts Hardy made in 1917 and '18 with his original comedy partner, Billy West. To put the duo's work in context, the film briefly features other comedians who worked with producer Hal Roach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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Alimony Aches
1935-06-29
Alimony Aches
Overview: Ex-wife remarries, doesn't tell husband so he'll still pay alimony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-29
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We Faw Down
1928-12-29
We Faw Down
Overview: Stan & Ollie attempt to fool their wives by sneaking out to a poker game, but instead get involved with two flirty ladies, one of whom is the girlfriend of a jealous boxer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-29
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Knee Action
1937-01-09
Knee Action
Overview: Andy takes his newest invention, a knee-action washing machine, before a group of potential investors, but his idiot stepson proceeds to disrupt the demonstration.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-09
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
1927-11-04
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Overview: In 1856, slave Eliza plans to marry George with the consent of the Shelbys, her masters, but George's owner prevents the wedding. A few years later, Eliza flees with her son, Harry, after learning the Shelbys plan to hand them over to a crooked creditor to prevent foreclosure. George also escapes and goes on the run while Eliza and Harry are captured and brought back home. Mother and son are separated as George tries to find them both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-04
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A Tragedy at Midnight
1942-02-02
A Tragedy at Midnight
Overview: The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-02
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Mighty Like a Moose
1926-07-18
Mighty Like a Moose
Overview: After a homely married couple separately undergo plastic surgery, they unwittingly plan an extramarital affair with each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-18
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The Tenderfoot
1932-05-23
The Tenderfoot
Overview: Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns that her boss is attempting to swindle Jones and pulls a successful coup d'etat producing a play that she stars in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-23
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Wife Tamers
1926-03-25
Wife Tamers
Overview: Mr. Barry has a huge argument with his wife, and to make her jealous, he asks his valet to set him up with a pretty girl who is stranded in their neighborhood. He takes her out to dinner, but to his disgust he discovers that she lacks even one ounce of class and her table manners are frightening. Soon enough, Barrymore is reunited with his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-25
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Money Means Nothing
1934-06-14
Money Means Nothing
Overview: At Joe's Roadside, a popular but rundown New York roadhouse where the wealthy and not-so-wealthy hang out, a wealthy Manhattan girl and a struggling Brooklyn boy meet and fall in love. She marries him against the wishes of her family, believing that love can solve everything, but she soon wonders if she made the right choice when she finds herself living in a manner, and with the kinds of people, she hadn't counted on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-14
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Utah
1945-03-21
Utah
Overview: A singing ranch foreman (Roy Rogers) and his friend (George "Gabby" Hayes) urge a chorus-girl heiress (Dale Evans) not to sell the property.
Genres: Comedy Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-21
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Redheads Preferred
1926-12-01
Redheads Preferred
Overview: In order to land an important client, Morgan is obliged to escort a beautiful redhead to a costume ball. Finding out about this, and suspecting that some hanky-panky is involved, Morgan's wife Angela dons a mask and a red wig and offers herself as the companion of her unwitting hubby. Angela's jealousy-motivated subterfuge works to everyone's advantage when she manages to cinch the deal for Morgan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-01
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Keystone Hotel
1935-09-21
Keystone Hotel
Overview: The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies. The Keystone Kops are summoned, and arrive just in time to get plastered with pastry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-21
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Who's Looney Now
1936-08-23
Who's Looney Now
Overview: Mr. Brown is riding home from work one day with his new neighbor, Mr. Johnson. When Brown explains that he has all kinds of problems at home, Johnson wants to help him. So, when they arrive, Johnson gives Brown a demonstration of one of the tricks that he uses to get his family to act as he wishes them too. But when Brown tries out Johnson's ideas on his own, things do not go as planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-23
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Back Pay
1930-06-01
Back Pay
Overview: Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-01
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Tell 'Em Nothing
1926-10-16
Tell 'Em Nothing
Overview: Charlie is the great divorce attorney, in demand by all women wishing to shed their husbands. While explaining to one woman how to obtain a divorce by getting photos in a compromising situation...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-16
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Lady Luck
1936-09-13
Lady Luck
Overview: New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is announced the winner of $2,500 and a ticket worth $150,000 for champion horse Lady Luck, if the horse wins an upcoming race, Mamie is pursued by wealthy sportsman Jack Conroy and nightclub owner and racketeer Tony Morelli.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-13
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Say It with Babies
1926-05-16
Say It with Babies
Overview: Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own expense. On Sunday, he and his wife go on a picnic with the neighbors and hoe comes home on his day of rest with three traffic tickets and numerous stings from the hornets he failed to amuse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-16
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Tramp Trouble
1937-08-07
Tramp Trouble
Overview: Edgar impulsively invites his boss, Mr. Markham, to his home for dinner when his boss compliments him for giving coffee money to a down and out man. At the train station Edgar intervenes, keeping another man from beating a young man named Frankie, and Edgar takes Frankie home with him, even though the stranger warns Edgar that the young man is nothing but trouble.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-07
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Amateur Crook
1937-12-10
Amateur Crook
Overview: Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-10
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In the Dog House
1934-12-01
In the Dog House
Overview: Andy remarries, but his new wife has no use for either his son or his dog.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-01
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Gold Dust Gertie
1931-06-27
Gold Dust Gertie
Overview: Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-27
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Beaux and Errors
1938-10-05
Beaux and Errors
Overview: To make Edgar do something about his physical condition, his wife has invited her old boy friend, in tip-top shape, to spend the weekend with them. In addition to getting worn out playing golf, Edgar overhears a phone call that makes him think Vivien is arranging to run off with his hated rival.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-05
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His Pest Friend
1938-03-12
His Pest Friend
Overview: Leon's wife wants to surprise him by buying the cabin where they had spent their honeymoon. But when she secretly meets with the man who owns the cabin, Leon misunderstands what she is doing, and gets suspicious. When his friend at work convinces Leon that his wife is going to run away with another man, Leon decides to take immediate action.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-12
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Atlantic Adventure
1935-08-25
Atlantic Adventure
Overview: When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him. Later, in an effort to reconcile with her, Dan misses an appointment with the district attorney, and is fired when his editor learns that the district attorney was murdered in Dan's absence. The man suspected of the crime, Mitts Coster, is rumored to be traveling to Europe aboard an ocean liner. While Dan's friend, photographer Snapper McGillicuddy, fetches Helen to the boat, under the pretense that Dan is leaving town to forget her, Dan searches the ship for Mitts, whom he does not recognize. When Helen arrives, Dan feigns illness, and she admits her love for him. When Helen learns of Dan's ruse, however, she angrily hits him with a package that a passenger gave her when she boarded the ship. The package contains a passport for Dorothy Madden, who greatly resembles Helen, and $2,000 dollars.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-25
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Dumb's the Word
1937-06-11
Dumb's the Word
Overview: Edgar finds some gold in his attic and the guy working on his roof tells him he could go to jail for having it!! This is because President Franklin Roosevelt has actually campaigned Congress to make gold ownership illegal in order to force people off the gold standard as well as to try to get more currency into circulation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-11
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The Fuller Gush Man
1934-08-16
The Fuller Gush Man
Overview: Walter goes to his girlfriend's parents to ask their permission to marry her; but the family puts on an act and pretends to be totally loony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-16
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Sappy Pappy
1942-10-30
Sappy Pappy
Overview: Andy, the owner of a bicycle shop, gets involved with one of his customers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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Running Hollywood
1932-01-27
Running Hollywood
Overview: Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-27
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Lime Juice Nights
1931-03-22
Lime Juice Nights
Overview: Karl Dane & George K. Arthur trading places while dining.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-22
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A Lady Surrenders
1930-10-06
A Lady Surrenders
Overview: A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean trip. He thinks she's left him for good, so he marries another woman. When his first wife returns, complications ensue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-06
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The Matrimonial Bed
1930-08-01
The Matrimonial Bed
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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The Defense Rests
1934-07-15
The Defense Rests
Overview: A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-15
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The Age for Love
1931-10-17
The Age for Love
Overview: A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-17
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Rebellious Daughters
1938-07-01
Rebellious Daughters
Overview: Girl moves out of her parents house against their wishes. Gets a job in a dress shop, gets mixed up with dirty pictures and blackmail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-01
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Slander House
1938-10-04
Slander House
Overview: Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-04
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The Florodora Girl
1930-05-31
The Florodora Girl
Overview: A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-31
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Cock of the Air
1932-01-23
Cock of the Air
Overview: An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-23
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Long Pants
1926-01-31
Long Pants
Overview: Glenn's first attempt at wearing long trousers and being a man about town goes swimmingly as he quickly falls for a vivacious young widow who accidentally runs him down. But his father feels she is beyond his abilities and competes for her attention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-31
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Baby Daze
1939-05-18
Baby Daze
Overview: Edgar starts out in a non-unfamiliar grumpy mood and tells some people off obnoxiously, then becomes overcome with joy and kindheartedness when he discovers that his wife is about to have a baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-18
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Condemned Women
1938-03-18
Condemned Women
Overview: A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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Rendezvous at Midnight
1935-02-11
Rendezvous at Midnight
Overview: There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead, especially the Police Commissioner's current paramour, who actually confessed to the killing before it was committed.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-11
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Double Danger
1938-01-28
Double Danger
Overview: A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Cecil Kellaway, Donald Meek, Samuel S. Hinds, Arthur Lake, Paul Guilfoyle and June Johnson.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-28
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Scram!
1932-09-10
Scram!
Overview: Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who invites them to stay at his luxurious mansion. The drunk can't find his key, but the boys find a way in, sending the surprised woman inside into a faint.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-10
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The Girl from Mexico
1939-06-01
The Girl from Mexico
Overview: Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-01
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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
1947-03-01
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Overview: A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-01
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One Live Ghost
1936-11-07
One Live Ghost
Overview: Henry Morton just wants to go fishing. Little things thwart him: Maxine the maid makes noise, Sonny, a lad in the household, makes a mess, and Henry's wife wants the car for shopping. A newly arrived friend, Bert, suggests that Henry fake his own death, don a disguise and appear as Bert's English valet, and skulk about. They'll mourn and the truth can later be revealed. Sonny hears the entire plan and alerts Henry's wife and the rest of the household. Only Maxine is in the dark. Henry's wife gives the valet an attic room, throws herself in his arms, complains about her late husband, and sends Henry into a tizzy. He and Bert set up a séance to try to fix their ruse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-07
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Two-Time Mama
1927-01-29
Two-Time Mama
Overview: The story involves various misunderstandings and entanglements that occur between two married couples, the Browns (Glenn Tryon & Vivien Oakland) and the Dazzles (Tyler Brooke & Anita Garvin). The two couples have apartments across the hall from one another, and all four plan to attend a costume ball together. But after each husband expresses unhappiness with his wife's costume the women angrily refuse to go to the party. The two husbands decide to go "stag" and pick up dates, but when Mrs. Brown changes her mind about attending, and Mr. Dazzle and Mr. Brown switch costumes, mix-ups result.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-29
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Star of Midnight
1935-04-19
Star of Midnight
Overview: When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-19
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Mutiny in the County
1940-05-03
Mutiny in the County
Overview: 53rd episode of RKO's "Mr. Average Man" Series starring Edgar Kennedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-03
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The Girl Who Dared
1944-08-05
The Girl Who Dared
Overview: A group of people are invited to a party at a creepy mansion where legend has it a ghost appears once a year.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-05
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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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Oh, Sailor, Behave!
1930-08-15
Oh, Sailor, Behave!
Overview: Based on the farcical stage play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning* writer Elmer Rice, Oh, Sailor Behave! is a movie Musical with a split personality. Nanette Dodge (Irene Delroy) falls for newspaper reporter Charlie Carroll (Charles King) who is on assignment in Venice to land an interview with Romanian General Skulany (Noah Beery). Our couple is split apart by a pair of storylines - Nanette tries to woo a Russian prince (Lowell Sherman) who is blackmailing her sister, while Charlie, following a lead to the general, finds himself Romantically involved with Kunegundi (Vivien Oakland), "the general's favorite."
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-15
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Sister Kenny
1946-10-10
Sister Kenny
Overview: An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-10
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The Man in the Trunk
1942-09-19
The Man in the Trunk
Overview: The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-19
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
1926-12-26
45 Minutes from Hollywood
Overview: A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-26
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Big Hearted
1930-06-22
Big Hearted
Overview: Elmer and Fannie Blue (Ray Hughes and Dorothy Gulliver) are happy that their neighbors in the duplex apartment next door, that shares an interior wall, have vacated and are looking forward to having newer and nicer neighbors. Then, Oscar Black and his wife (Harry Gribbon and Vivien Oakland, who was billed as Vivian Oakland) move in
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-22
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Love 'Em and Weep
1927-06-12
Love 'Em and Weep
Overview: Titus Tillsbury is a successful businessman who is visited by a blackmailing old flame. He enlists a friend to keep her away from his home and wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-12
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That's My Wife
1929-03-23
That's My Wife
Overview: Oliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal, with the condition that he be happily married. But when Mrs. Hardy walks out just before Uncle Bernal is due for a visit, Stanley is pressed into duty (and into drag) to impersonate Oliver's loving spouse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-23
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Mile a Minute Love
1937-04-05
Mile a Minute Love
Overview: William Bakewell stars as an inventor who develops a high-powered boat engine. Bakewell, of course, created this wonder machine to benefit mankind-and, incidentally, to win an upcoming motorboat race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-05
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Mama Behave
1926-02-27
Mama Behave
Overview: A man finds out that his wife wishes he would act more like his twin brother, so he decides to impersonate his twin in an attempt to determine his wife's fidelity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-27
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Mutiny on the Bounty
1935-11-22
Mutiny on the Bounty
Overview: Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-22
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The Rainbow Trail
1925-05-23
The Rainbow Trail
Overview: John Shefford is looking for his uncle Venters who years ago found a hidden valley and lived there with Jane Withersteen and young Fay Larkin. He finds Kay, now grown, who tells John that Willets and his men got into the nearly inaccessible valley and she has agreed to marry him to save the lives of the other two. John and Fay head for the valley with Willets and with his men right behind.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-23
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A Chump at Oxford
1940-01-25
A Chump at Oxford
Overview: The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-25
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Drafted in the Depot
1940-12-20
Drafted in the Depot
Overview: Edgar Kennedy's hunting trip with his single buddies is kiboshed when his wife, Vivien, has made other arrangements for their vacation time. One of Edgar's friends thinks he has a way for Edgar to go hunting with them. He should pretend to join the National Guard, who are holding a two week camp. In reality, Edgar will have only rented a uniform to convince Vivien that he has joined. Two things may threaten Edgar's plan. First, Vivien, regardless of if she trusts her husband or not, may want to see him off at the train station, which would force him onto the train going to the guard camp. And second, if he can fool Vivien that he is joining the National Guard, he may have also convinced the National Guard that he has joined for real. But in carrying out his plan, Edgar may get into even bigger trouble.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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An Apple in His Eye
1941-06-06
An Apple in His Eye
Overview: Edgar tries his hand at making pies for Vivien's charity bazaar with predictable results.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-06
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Secrets of the French Police
1932-12-02
Secrets of the French Police
Overview: A burglar is recruited by the French Surete to help find his kidnapped girlfriend, who has been kidnapped by a deranged White Russian to impersonate the missing Princess Anastasia Romanoff while under his hypnotic spell.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-02
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The Teaser
1925-09-06
The Teaser
Overview: Ann Barton, the daughter of a once-wealthy family, is forced to clerk at the cigar counter of a village hotel, where she meets James McDonald, a breezy, handsome salesman. Ann is adopted by an aristocratic aunt, who disapproves of James's manners and breaks up Ann's relationship with him. Ann soon revenges herself on her aunt by placing both her aunt and herself in compromising positions.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-06
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USS VD: Ship of Shame
1942-01-02
USS VD: Ship of Shame
Overview: This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the results of "fooling around" with "loose women" overseas. Actual victims of such sexually transmitted diseases as syphilis and gonorrhoea are shown, along with the physical deterioration that accompanies those diseases.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-02
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The Ring and the Belle
1941-05-02
The Ring and the Belle
Overview: Andy becomes the manager of a prizefighter. The problem is, the figher has just skipped town.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-02
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Satires
1929-09-06
Satires
Overview: Mr. Young introduces the sketch in an appropriately melodramatic fashion, wearing an opera cape and a glowering expression. He recites a bit of doggerel about the current popularity of mystery plays ("full of thrills and sighing moans, slamming doors and ringing phones") and then slinks away. Eerie music, thunder, and sinister lighting set the scene. Vivien enters, frightened, and then John, ditto. They tiptoe about, and exchange ridiculous quips about how terrible it all is. Young staggers in, groaning, and slumps into a chair. Vivien screams, and dashes away. When John bumps into the corpse and excuses himself, the corpse comes to life long enough to say "That's all right" before falling dead again.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-06
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Pop Always Pays
1940-06-21
Pop Always Pays
Overview: A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy stars Leon Errol, Marjorie Gateson, Dennis O'Keefe, Adele Pearce and Walter Catlett.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-21
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 3: 'The Niblick'
1931-05-15
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 3: 'The Niblick'
Overview: Bobby Jones shows Huntley Gordon and Vivian Oakland some tips on the use of the niblick (9 iron)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-15
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One Too Many
1934-12-28
One Too Many
Overview: Wife tries to do something about her husband's fondness for the bottle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-28
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'Taint Legal
1940-05-25
'Taint Legal
Overview: Edgar Kennedy is over-joyed when told he has won a $5,000 prize in a "How To Be Happy Though Married" contest. A reporter interviews Edgar and his wife Vivien who tell him about their engagement and elopement. Then Viviens father tells them that according to a law he has found in a law-book, they aren't legally married. After a series of misadventures, they learn that the law is a new one and that the Kennedy marriage is legal.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-25
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Perfectly Mismated
1934-11-12
Perfectly Mismated
Overview: Leon's ex-wife moves into the apartment next to him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-12
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Clock Wise
1939-03-24
Clock Wise
Overview: Pop's noisy mechanical clock is driving Edgar crazy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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Sunk by the Census
1940-08-06
Sunk by the Census
Overview: Edgar is a census taker, but is primarily interested in finding a rich widow for his father-in-law (Billy Franey), so he won't have to continue to support him. All Pop wants to make him happy is a cow. When Edgar comes home with both a cow and a phony rich widow, the results are not what Edgar planned for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-06
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Bad Housekeeping
1937-03-05
Bad Housekeeping
Overview: Edgar Kennedy's wife decides he should do the housework for the day, the same day the piano tuner Franklin Pangborn comes by.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-05
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A Clean Sweep
1938-12-02
A Clean Sweep
Overview: Edgar lost his job at the bank three months ago, but hasn't told his wife, and they have been living off their savings, while Edgar pretends to go to work everyday. He answers a want-ad for a job selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door. He makes no sales, especially after he fills an apartment hallway with trash to demonstrate his cleaner and then finds there is no electricity to run the machine. He comes to a house where a bridal shower is being held, with his wife in attendance, and she thinks Edgar has brought the cleaner as gift for her friend. Edgar has to take the last of their money out of the bank to pay for the demo model he had. The bank manager shows up at Edgar's house to offer him his bank job back, but Edgar's wife won't let him go back, as she has found the prefect job for Edgar... selling vacuum cleaners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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Berth Quakes
1938-05-06
Berth Quakes
Overview: Noted child psychologist Errol marries a widow with a nasty brat, and finds none of his theories seem to work when trapped in a pullman car on the way to his honeymoon at Niagara Falls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-06
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A Trailer Tragedy
1940-10-17
A Trailer Tragedy
Overview: Edgar starts a trailer vacation with his wife Vivien and father-in-law, but doesn't get far before they are overtaken by two men from the finance company, who repossess the trailer for non-payment. Edgar discovers that Pop had failed to mail the money order he had given him for the payment. He also finds some other items Pop failed to take care of.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-17
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Sauce for the Gander
1940-02-10
Sauce for the Gander
Overview: Working stiff Tom Tupper is stopped by a 'man on the spot' reporter during his daily commute. Asked for his opinion on male/female relations, Tom tells the radio audience that he thinks men could do a better job running the household than women. When he arrives home, his infuriated wife Margaret proposes that her husband put his money where his mouth is. The couple switch roles, with Margaret going to the office and Tom cooking and cleaning. While Margaret becomes a successful entrepreneur, the man of the house comes dangerously close to having a nervous breakdown. Overwhelmed by a woman's work, Tom begs Margaret to go back to the way things were, but his now-independent wife isn't interested.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-10
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Crime Ring
1938-07-08
Crime Ring
Overview: Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-08
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Laugh Your Blues Away
1942-11-12
Laugh Your Blues Away
Overview: Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-12
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The Secret Fury
1950-02-21
The Secret Fury
Overview: The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-21
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Maid to Order
1939-09-27
Maid to Order
Overview: Father-in-law Billy Franey discovers the letter that Edgar has written a matrimonial agency to marry him off and slips Edgar's picture in it. When Minerva Urecal (sporting an Italian accent) shows up, wife Vivien Oakland resists attempts to get her out of the house so she can confront the interloper and her husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-27
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Only Yesterday
1933-11-01
Only Yesterday
Overview: On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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Kennedy the Great
1939-12-08
Kennedy the Great
Overview: A short film about a family man who realizes he's a bore at social gatherings so he purchases a trunk full of magic tricks hoping to soon be the life of the party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-08
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Thundering Toupees
1929-05-25
Thundering Toupees
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-25
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The Man Who Walked Alone
1945-03-15
The Man Who Walked Alone
Overview: A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-15
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Magnificent Doll
1946-12-08
Magnificent Doll
Overview: While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-08
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Borrowed Blonde
1947-03-07
Borrowed Blonde
Overview: Leon's boss and his wife aren't getting along together, so Leon asks them to visit his home and observe how he and Mrs. Errol manage to keep the old knot tied. Before the couple arrives, Leon manages to get into a situation with a pretty, blonde neighbor, which leaves him having to introduce her as his wife when they do arrive. Neither Leon's wife, when she comes home, nor the neighbor's husband are too pleased with this arrangement.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-07
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Many a Slip
1931-03-02
Many a Slip
Overview: Comedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-02
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Should Wives Work?
1937-09-10
Should Wives Work?
Overview: Errol's wife goes back to work, despite his objections.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-10
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Their Wives' Vacation
1930-12-14
Their Wives' Vacation
Overview: This Educational Mermaid Talking Comedy features a wrestling/trombone-playing Pert Kelton.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-14
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The Locket
1946-12-20
The Locket
Overview: A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-20
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Galloping Ghosts
1928-03-11
Galloping Ghosts
Overview: A millionaire acquires a large diamond, said to be cursed. Despite the best efforts of his dutiful but fearful black valet (Oliver Hardy), it is stolen and kidnapped for ransom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-11
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Destiny: or, the Soul of a Woman
1915-09-06
Destiny: or, the Soul of a Woman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-06
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