Florence Vidor
Biography: Florence Vidor (née Cobb, later Arto; July 23, 1895 – November 3, 1977) was an American silent film actress.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 23, 1895
Deathday: November 03, 1977
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The Family Honor
1920-03-15
The Family Honor
Overview: Beverly Tucker, the daughter of an impoverished aristocratic Southern family, has scraped together her last pennies to put her brother Dal through college in the hope that he will support the family after graduation. However, Dal harbors no such ambition and instead spends his time gambling and drinking in a saloon owned by the town's mayor, Curran. During a raid led by Curran's crusading son Merle, a detective is killed and Dal is accused of the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-15
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Main Street
1923-04-25
Main Street
Overview: The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-25
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The Trouble With Wives
1925-09-28
The Trouble With Wives
Overview: William Hyatt (Tom Moore) runs an exclusive shoe store, and his happy marriage to Grace (Florence Vidor) is nearly derailed by his well-meaning, but hopelessly gauche pal, Al Hennessy (Sterling). Dagmar, a Parisian shoe designer (Esther Ralston) has come to town to meet with Hyatt and Hennessy, and Hennessy describes the situation to Grace in the worst possible manner, convincing her that her husband is having an affair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-28
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Christine of the Hungry Heart
1924-10-12
Christine of the Hungry Heart
Overview: Christine weds Stuart Knight only to discover he prefers the high life to married life. When Dr. Alan Monteagle comes along, Christine is drawn to him. But, still determined to stick to her wedding vows, she runs from him, only to get in a car accident with her husband, who happened to be riding by with one of his floozies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-12
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The Patriot
1928-09-01
The Patriot
Overview: In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen wishes to protect his friend, the mad king, but because of the horror of the king's acts, he feels that he must remove him from the throne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-01
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The Countess Charming
1917-09-16
The Countess Charming
Overview: Stanley Jordan, a wealthy young bachelor, attends a Red Cross Benefit at the country club where he meets and falls in love with Betty Lovering and unwittingly offends Mrs. Vandergraft, the social leader.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-16
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The Marriage Circle
1924-02-10
The Marriage Circle
Overview: An unhappily married couple moves to Vienna, where the wife’s married best friend lives, and soon, sparks fly between the wife and the best friend’s husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-10
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Are Parents People?
1925-07-14
Are Parents People?
Overview: The teenage daughter of a wealthy couple is horrified to find out that her parents, who spend most of their time fighting with each other, are planning to divorce. She schemes to get them back together by pretending to fall for a dimwitted actor, hoping that her parents will unite to prevent the "romance".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1925-07-14
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Borrowed Husbands
1924-04-13
Borrowed Husbands
Overview: A jazz-mad Nancy Burrard is a young matron easing her boredom by flirting with married men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-13
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The Girl of Gold
1925-02-16
The Girl of Gold
Overview: Lucius Merrimore is the wealthy owner of a mine called "the Gold Girl," and as a result his daughter, Helen, has an endless number of suitors. Needless to say, she gets tired of being courted only for her money, so she attends a party under an assumed name. There she meets Schuyler Livingstone, and they are immediately attracted to each other. What Helen doesn't know is that her father has paid Livingstone to marry her.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-16
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The Jack-Knife Man
1920-07-31
The Jack-Knife Man
Overview: A dying mother left his child with an old man, but the village people want to take the child away from him because he is too old.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-31
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Barbara Frietchie
1924-09-26
Barbara Frietchie
Overview: Two lovers in a small town in Maryland are torn apart by the Civil War--she is loyal to the south while he heads north to join the federal army, determined to protect the Union. Eventually his unit arrives in his hometown and he is reunited with his lover, but things aren't the way they used to be.
Genres: Drama War Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-26
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Doomsday
1928-02-19
Doomsday
Overview: A woman must choose between a life on the farm and a life of luxury.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-19
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The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
1926-02-21
The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
Overview: Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard up Grand Duchess. She finds him impertinent and clumsy, but also quite fascinating. She takes him into her employ insisting he does everything she asks.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-21
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The Secret Game
1917-12-03
The Secret Game
Overview: In the office of Major Northfield, the quartermaster of the Pacific Coast, a leak has been discovered which may endanger the safety of American transports that are secretly carrying troops across the Pacific. Nara-Nara, a Japanese detective, is assigned to the case because his country has guaranteed safety to these transport ships. Nara-Nara believes that Northfield is guilty, although in reality it is Northfield's secretary Kitty Little, a girl of German ancestry, who is passing information to Dr. Ebell Smith, a German agent. Nara-Nara falls in love with Kitty, but soon after discovers that she is the leak in the quartermaster's office.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-03
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You Never Know Women
1926-09-20
You Never Know Women
Overview: On her way to the theater, Vera, star of a Russian vaudeville troupe, is rescued from a falling girder by Eugene Foster, a wealthy broker who persists in his efforts to win the girl. Foster engages the troupe to perform at his home, and Vera, stunned by a fall, awakens to find Foster pleading his love, while Norodin, her partner who loves her, sees them embrace. Norodin, who performs an underwater stunt, asks Vera not to be present for his act and causes her to believe him dead; heartbroken, Vera tells Foster of her mistake; and enraged, he attempts to seize her. The magician appears, pins Foster to the wall with knives, and advises him to leave before the last blade is thrown.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-20
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Hail the Woman
1921-11-28
Hail the Woman
Overview: Oliver Beresford is a stern, Puritanical, and uncompromisingly rigid father. When shameful stories about his daughter Judith surface, rather than determine whether the stories are true, he bans her from his house. Her brother David, a pusillanimous reprobate, has secretly married and fathered, then abandoned, a child. Judith takes care of the child and finds a way to restore her family through the love for the babe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-28
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The Other Half
1919-08-18
The Other Half
Overview: Social drama about a friendship that is pressurized by class differences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-18
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Chinatown Nights
1929-03-29
Chinatown Nights
Overview: Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the depths with him. But seeing her so much in love with him causes him to realize he isl in love with her, and he determines to lift her up again. "Boston" Charley, the rival gang-leader, has other plans.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-29
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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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The Eagle of the Sea
1926-10-17
The Eagle of the Sea
Overview: Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-17
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Old Wives for New
1918-05-18
Old Wives for New
Overview: Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-18
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The Virginian
1923-09-29
The Virginian
Overview: Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian, foreman on a local ranch, takes a shine to her, and vows that he will make her love him. The Virginian's best friend, Steve, falls in with bad guys led by Trampas. The Virginian catches them cattle rustling. As foreman, he must give the order to hang his friend. Trampas gets away and shoots the Virginian in the back. Molly nurses him to health, and falls in love with him. They plan to marry, but on their wedding day Trampas returns, looking for trouble.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-29
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Sea Horses
1926-02-22
Sea Horses
Overview: Sea Horses is a 1926 American drama silent film directed by Allan Dwan and written by Becky Gardiner, James Shelley Hamilton and Francis Brett Young. The film stars Jack Holt, Florence Vidor, William Powell, George Bancroft, Mack Swain, Frank Campeau and Allan Simpson. The film was released on February 22, 1926, by Paramount Pictures. It is considered a lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-22
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A Tale of Two Cities
1917-03-10
A Tale of Two Cities
Overview: At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned former family servant. He is himself imprisoned and condemned by the revolutionary forces there. His wife, the former Lucie Manette, is secretly loved by a gentlemanly wastrel, Sydney Carton. Carton embarks on a daring plan to save the husband of the woman he loves.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-10
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One Woman to Another
1927-09-17
One Woman to Another
Overview: One Woman to Another (1927)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-17
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The Magnificent Flirt
1928-06-02
The Magnificent Flirt
Overview: Count D'Estrange tries to save his nephew Hubert from Denise Laverne he believes a heartless flirt. Denise's mother Mme. Florence Laverne uses all her charms to solve the problems. Finally Count D'Estrange marries Mme. Florence Laverne. Both couples leave for a honeymoon in Venice
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-02
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Husbands and Lovers
1924-11-02
Husbands and Lovers
Overview: For Husbands and Lovers, John M Stahl pairs devoted wife Florence Vidor with ungrateful husband Lewis Stone for a splendidly nuanced marital comedy that proves his versatility as a filmmaker. When Vidor’s hausfrau transforms into an elegant lady of leisure with an expensive makeover, the quintessentially caddish Lew Cody takes lascivious notice but Stone can only grouse about the bill. A gentle rebuke of a husband’s bad manners and a salute to a wife’s sweet revenge, Husbands and Lovers was a favorite in the trade press. “Here is a comedy-drama that fairly scintillates with humor,” said Exhibitors News, “and then when the laugh is over, salty tears rush unbidden to the eyes. Chided by her husband, James, for not putting effort into her looks, Grace goes for a surprising makeover and lets James struggle to dress himself without her help. Her new look draws James' disdain and the eye of his best friend, Rex.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-02
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Skin Deep
1922-09-01
Skin Deep
Overview: The plot concerns a war hero who returns home determined to give up his old ways as a crook. Bud Doyle (Milton Sills) is still being hounded by the cops, and both his wife (Marcia Nanon) and a former associate, a dishonest politician, want to do him in.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-01
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Beau Revel
1921-03-19
Beau Revel
Overview: Lawrence Revel, celebrated in society circles for his success with women, is devoted to his son Dick and objects to his marrying Nellie, a cabaret dancer. To prove her unworthiness, Beau asks his son not to see her for 2 weeks. Unwittingly, Beau falls in love with the girl, but his attentions are refused.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-19
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The World At Her Feet
1927-05-14
The World At Her Feet
Overview: In a reversal of the usual situation, it is the wife, not the husband, who is the neglectful one. As hubby sits at home twiddling his thumbs, Jane starts her own prosperous business, becoming so absorbed that she has no time for anything else. Not unexpectedly, her husband begins keeping time with a gorgeous blonde, whereupon Jane wins back her mate by simultaneously inaugurating an affair with the blonde's husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-14
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Hidden Pearls
1918-02-18
Hidden Pearls
Overview: Hawaiian prince Tom Garvin (Sessue Hayakawa) receives an American college education and falls in love with Enid Benton (Florence Vidor).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-18
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The White Man's Law
1918-05-06
The White Man's Law
Overview: Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa stars as John A. Ghengle, the Oxford-educated son of an Arab chieftain. Entering into a business partnership with Sir Harry Falkland (Jack Holt), a notorious roue, Ghengle relocates to Sierra Leone, where he falls in love with French-Sudanese girl Maida Verne (Florence Vidor.) Upon proposing marriage, Ghengle is turned down and hotly demands to know why.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-06
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The Honor of His House
1918-04-01
The Honor of His House
Overview: Marooned on a desert island, Dr. Robert Farlow and wealthy toxicologist Count Ito Onato both fall in love with Lora, a beautiful Japanese-American girl. Lora prefers Robert but decides to reject him because of his excessive fondness for drinking. After their rescue, Lora marries Count Ito, but Robert, still in love and resolving to win her, stops drinking, and soon attains a reputation in medicine matched only by the count's.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-01
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Lying Lips
1921-01-30
Lying Lips
Overview: A spoiled rich girl from England encounters a wonderful young man who, unfortunately, has no money. Will love or money win out?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-30
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The Real Adventure
1922-05-28
The Real Adventure
Overview: After a brief courtship, Rose Stanton (Florence Vidor) marries lawyer Rodney Aldrich (Clyde Fillmore). She wants to be a helpmate, rather than just a plaything to him, but her attempts to study law are met with derision. So Rose leaves Rodney and goes to New York, explaining in a note that she will return when she has earned the right to be his equal. Rose heads for Broadway and lands in the chorus, but soon enough her talent as a designer is discovered and the great Ziegfeld gives her a two year contract to create the costumes for the Follies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-28
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Grounds for Divorce
1925-07-27
Grounds for Divorce
Overview: Divorce lawyer Maurice (Matt Moore) does not pay much attention to his wife Alice (Florence Vidor). When he spends their anniversary with famous actress Marianne (Louise Fadenza) Alice decides to seek a divorce herself.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-27
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A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
1920-08-15
A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
Overview: A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios (1920) presents a fascinating glimpse into the Thomas H. Ince studios at Culver City.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-15
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A Heart in Pawn
1919-03-20
A Heart in Pawn
Overview: Toyama wants to go to college in America but his alcoholic father won't supply the funds. He gets the money to go, however, from Sada, whom he has married in secret. But Sada has a secret of her own -- she told Toyama that she got the money from a relative, but the truth is that she has signed up to do a four-year stint as a Geisha girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-20
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The Intrigue
1916-10-09
The Intrigue
Overview: A sci-fi/espionage film in which world powers vie for control of a death ray during World War I as an undercover countess infiltrates enemy ranks to prevent them from getting their hands on the weapon.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-09
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The Bravest Way
1918-06-16
The Bravest Way
Overview: Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa was one of the most popular leading men in American silent films-this despite the fact that orientals were traditionally (and stereotypically) cast as villains at the time. In The Bravest Way, Hayakawa carries self-sacrifice to the nth degree. He is so devoted-in a perfectly platonic manner-to the widow of his best friend (Tsuri Aoki) that he loses the love of his American fiancee (Florence Vidor). Lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-16
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The Widow's Might
1918-01-28
The Widow's Might
Overview: Dick Tavish, a young New Yorker, decides that there is money in cows, and he buys a western ranch. When the novelty has worn off he decided there is monotony as well. Then he falls in love with a girl on a calendar, and life takes on a new interest, particularly after he discovers who the girl is. The fact that her uncle swindled him on the ranch does not matter. He figures he can take care of the uncle, and he does, but not until he has been forced to masquerade as a woman, and have half the men at a fashionable resort fall in love with him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1918-01-28
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The Enchanted Hill
1926-01-18
The Enchanted Hill
Overview: Based on a Peter B. Kyne novel, The Enchanted Hill featureds a triangle romance between Jack Holt, rancher's daughter Mary Brian and jealous foreman Richard Arlen.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-18
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Till I Come Back to You
1918-08-25
Till I Come Back to You
Overview: Yvonne von Krutz, a Belgian, lives with her German husband Karl, whom she was forced to marry, and her spirited little brother Jacques in a farmhouse on the Belgian countryside. With the German invasion of Belgium, Karl joins the German forces, and Jacques is taken to a reformatory to be trained as a munitions worker. When Karl is taken prisoner, Capt. Jefferson Strong, an American engineer, assumes the German's identity and discovers an underground supply of explosives near the von Krutz farm. By means of a tunnel, the Americans plan to mine the explosives. To save Jacques and a group of children from the munitions factory, however, Jefferson sends them across the American lines through the tunnel, but they lose their way, and he is forced to disable the mine. Jefferson is court-martialed, but King Albert of Belgium, who has befriended little Jacques, intercedes on his behalf. Learning that Karl has been killed, Jefferson pursues his budding romance with Yvonne.
Genres: War Romance Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-25
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The Popular Sin
1926-11-22
The Popular Sin
Overview: Philandering husband George Montfort purchases railroad tickets for a weekend tryst in the mountains with his latest paramour. When his wife Yvonne finds the tickets, George hastily explains that they were bought as an anniversary present for her. Yvonne doesn't believe George, but she decides to use her ticket anyway, while George remains behind in Paris on "business."
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-22
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The Mirage
1924-12-28
The Mirage
Overview: Irene Martin, hoping to find fame as an opera singer, leaves her hometown for New York but ends up a chorus girl. She meets Henry Galt, a wealthy businessman, who asks her out on a date then sends her money the next day. Offended, she demands an apology, but Galt explains he often hires showgirls to entertain prospective clients on a strictly platonic basis. On those terms Irene accepts. Over time Galt falls in love with Irene and when he discovers her family has the impression she has become a fallen woman, marries her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-28
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Alice Adams
Alice Adams
Overview: Alice (Florence Vidor) is not satisfied with her family's financial situation and tries to convince others that she comes from a wealthy family. In the end she discovers that she is only fooling herself and decides to go to work to help her father's failing business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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