William Irving
Biography: William Irving was born on May 17, 1893 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Pampered Youth (1925), Someone in the House (1920) and Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927). He was previously married to Ida I. Germann. He died on December 25, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 17, 1893
Deathday: December 25, 1943
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The Cameraman
1928-09-10
The Cameraman
Overview: A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-10
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Convicted
1938-08-18
Convicted
Overview: A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-18
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Chicken Feathers
1927-02-27
Chicken Feathers
Overview: Comedy starring Jack Duffy and Anne Cornwall, featured in James Roots' 100 Essential Film Comedies
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-27
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Hooks and Jabs
1933-08-24
Hooks and Jabs
Overview: Harry is down and out. A woman friend from a temperance union loans him a buck. He goes to a bar and orders a glass of milk to get a free sandwich. After he loses the greenback, the burly saloon keeper confiscates Harry's sandwich and tells him to sweep the floor to pay his tab. In the back room is a boxing ring where the owner stages fights. By happenstance, Harry ends up in the ring. Outside, the temperance union pickets the saloon. Between the beer and the boxing, can Harry stay on his feet and help his crusading friend?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-24
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Honeymoon Bridge
1935-10-02
Honeymoon Bridge
Overview: His wife's obsession with playing bridge is starting to drive Leon crazy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-02
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The Super Snooper
1937-02-25
The Super Snooper
Overview: Two dimwitted detectives investigate the robbery of an express company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-25
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The Heart of a Child
1920-04-11
The Heart of a Child
Overview: A poverty-stricken Cockney girl rises through incredible adventures to become the wife of a nobleman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-11
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Pop Goes the Easel
1935-03-29
Pop Goes the Easel
Overview: The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-29
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Punch Drunks
1934-07-13
Punch Drunks
Overview: Moe discovers Curley's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasal" on the violin. Moe becomes Curly's manager, and they win every fight, with the help of Larry. At the championship game, though, Larry's violin breaks. Curly is getting beat down bad when Larry makes his unexpected entrance and helps Curly prevail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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Whose Baby?
1917-07-08
Whose Baby?
Overview: Bobby Vernon is fooled into a mock bigamist gag and chaos assures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-08
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Dizzy Doctors
1937-03-19
Dizzy Doctors
Overview: The Stooges get jobs selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales pitch to a hospital, they get into more trouble and must leave on the run when the head of the hospital turns out to be the owner of the car they ruined.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-19
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Back to the Woods
1937-05-14
Back to the Woods
Overview: Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive, they find that the colonists are starving because the local Indians won't let them on their hunting grounds. The stooges go hunting any, and after a wild chase, are captured by the Indians. They escape and another wild chase ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-14
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Wee Wee Monsieur
1938-02-18
Wee Wee Monsieur
Overview: The Stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes after the overdue rent, the boys skip out and wind up joining the French Foreign Legion. Posted to the desert, their assignment is to guard captain Gorgonzola from the natives. When the captain is kidnapped, the boys must disguise themselves as harem girls to infiltrate the chieftains hideout and rescue him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-18
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Am I Having Fun!
1936-09-17
Am I Having Fun!
Overview: Taxi driver Andy Clyde gets mixed up in drunken passenger Arthur Housman's scheme and has to dress up as a Indian to entertain Housman's guests. Then the real Indian comes and he gets confusion about what kind of Indian he's supposed to be.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-17
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Nothing to Wear
1928-11-05
Nothing to Wear
Overview: Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Jacqueline Logan, Theodore von Eltz, Bryant Washburn, Jane Winton.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-05
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Slippery Silks
1936-12-27
Slippery Silks
Overview: The Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on furniture. During the show the owner of a antique box the stooges wrecked shows up and a wild cream puff fight ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-27
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The Shadow
1937-12-22
The Shadow
Overview: Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's death. With the help of her publicist boyfriend Jim, the sell-out crowds are returning to the big top. Egotistical equestrian star Senor Martinet, however, holds $60,000 of notes signed by the Colonel and due in 24 hours. When a mysterious shadowy figure is seen on the circus lot, and Martinet is murdered in the center ring during his performance, there are suspects aplenty, including Vindecco, Martinet's badly abused hunchback assistant.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-22
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Foolish Hearts
1935-12-27
Foolish Hearts
Overview: A little entry from the RKO shorts department serving also as an audition-type (stick 'em in one of these and see if they appeal to a real audience, and make a buck or two at the same time)film for studio contractees and budding starlets. And, surrounded and supported by veteran character actors, such as Jack Norton, Jack Rice and Harrison Green, the likes of Tony Martin, Phyllis Brooks and Lucille Ball usually looked pretty good. And soon made for themselves, with studio help, rather nice Hollywood careers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-27
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The Best Man Wins
1935-01-14
The Best Man Wins
Overview: A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-14
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Radio Dough
1934-02-05
Radio Dough
Overview: Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-05
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New News
1937-04-01
New News
Overview: Aa Columbia 2-reel comedy starring Tom Kennedy and Monty Collins in NEW NEWS (1937). Fans of the 3 Stooges will recognize the exact same plot and situations from their short CRASH GOES THE HASH (1944). Yes, this version came out BEFORE the Stooges version...so anyone that says these guys are ripping the Stooges off, they are wrong! Columbia made 526 slapstick two-reelers between 1933-1958...190 starred the Stooges...336 others starred a variety of comedians.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-01
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She's My Baby
1927-05-10
She's My Baby
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-10
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Love Letters
1924-02-10
Love Letters
Overview: Two sisters, Julia Crossland and Evelyn Jefferson, happy lives are thrown into turmoil when a man from their past, Thomas Chadwick reappears unexpectedly. Both had at one time been smitten with Thomas writing indiscreet letters to him. When Chadwick is killed, they fear their secret will be revealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-10
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The Hitchhiker
1933-02-11
The Hitchhiker
Overview: Harry Langdon messes up a movie shoot, hitches a ride on an airplane, and ruins everyone's trip. What will the passengers on the unlucky airplane do, when they learn they are stuck flying with "THE HITCHHIKER"?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-11
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Song of the Caballero
1930-06-29
Song of the Caballero
Overview: After El Lobo robs Don Jose he gives one of the stolen items to Conchita. Later when he saves Anita in a runaway coach, Don Pedro invites him to the wedding of Anita and his son Don Jose. But Conchita is at the wedding and recognizes him putting his life in danger.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-29
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Page Me
1926-02-28
Page Me
Overview: Unable to pay his hotel bill Bobby has to become a bellboy to cover the cost. Among the many complications that ensue he finds himself handing from the hotel's ledge from many stories up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-28
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Paris in Spring
1935-05-27
Paris in Spring
Overview: Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with thoughts of suicide. In another part of Paris and also afraid of marriage, Mignon (Ida Lupino) breaks it off from her young lover (James Blakely). Despairing, Mignon also climbs to the top of the The Eiffel Tower intending to leap to her death. There she meets Paul and the two compare stories. After discussion, Paul dissuades her from leaping and the two conspire to make their respective partners jealous by pretending to have an affair with each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-27
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One More Spring
1935-02-15
One More Spring
Overview: Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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The Personality Kid
1934-06-06
The Personality Kid
Overview: An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-06
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Manhattan Parade
1931-12-24
Manhattan Parade
Overview: Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-24
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Maybe It's Love
1935-01-12
Maybe It's Love
Overview: Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-12
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Idiot's Delight
1939-01-27
Idiot's Delight
Overview: A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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Good Girls Go to Paris
1939-06-20
Good Girls Go to Paris
Overview: Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-20
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News Is Made at Night
1939-07-20
News Is Made at Night
Overview: Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-20
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Tired Feet
1933-01-02
Tired Feet
Overview: Tired Feet (1933) is a Harry Langdon comedy short done for Educational Films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-02
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Chase Yourself
1926-06-26
Chase Yourself
Overview: Jimmie, Lavoris and Turpentine, three Knights of the Road (Bums/tramps), have just arrived in the West where Two-Gun Joe, the local bad man, surprises them while they eat. The sheriff runs him off but, in his haste to escape, Two-Gun drops a monogrammed pipe. Jimmie picks it up. Molly, on a nearby ranch, is having troubles with her foreman who, when he sees the pipe, thinks Jimmie is the outlaw and gets real peaceful. Impressed, Molly offer Jimmie the ranch-foreman's job. But they haven't seen the last of Two-Gun Joe.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-26
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Ninotchka
1939-11-23
Ninotchka
Overview: A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-23
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It Happened One Night
1934-02-22
It Happened One Night
Overview: A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-22
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The Life of the Party
1930-10-25
The Life of the Party
Overview: Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-25
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Navy Blues
1923-09-16
Navy Blues
Overview: The Warrens have a full dress Navy wedding, but to sneak out on the reception guests, Dorothy disguises herself as a sailor. But she's caught up with a group of real sailors and finds herself aboard a battleship. Incredibly, nobody spots her as a small female impostor, causes foul ups and gets chased around the decks and cannons.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-16
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Winter Has Came
1923-04-06
Winter Has Came
Overview: A burlesque of the old standard dramatic plot in which daughter, returning from the big city with unexpected wealth, arrives just in the nick of time to defeat the cruel, cruel landlord, save the old homestead from a tragic foreclosure, and keep the aged folks from being driven out into the blinding snowstorm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-06
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The Great Dictator
1940-10-15
The Great Dictator
Overview: Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-15
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Woman Against Woman
1938-06-24
Woman Against Woman
Overview: A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-24
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Special Inspector
1938-02-14
Special Inspector
Overview: U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks Canadian fur-shipper's trucks and sells the loot in the United States.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-14
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Counsel on De Fence
1934-10-24
Counsel on De Fence
Overview: New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-24
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936-04-09
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Overview: Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-09
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Three Little Beers
1935-11-28
Three Little Beers
Overview: The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice. They quickly proceed to bother the other golfers and destroy the course. Forced to escape in their beer truck, more havoc ensues when the load of beer barrels are spilled out down a steep hill.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-28
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The Florentine Dagger
1935-03-30
The Florentine Dagger
Overview: A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-30
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The Mortal Storm
1940-06-20
The Mortal Storm
Overview: The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-20
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Little Men
1940-11-29
Little Men
Overview: Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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Terry and the Pirates
1940-04-12
Terry and the Pirates
Overview: Dr. Herbert Lee, an archaeologist seeking to decipher ancient Mara inscriptions, is aided by his son Terry, Terry's pal Pat Ryan, and Normandie Drake. Jungle pirate and warlord Fang (Dick Curtis) plots to kill The Dragon Lady, Queen of the Temple of Mara, and seize the treasures of her ancestors. Both Fang and The Dragon Lady have sworn death for any foreign intruders.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-12
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Topper
1937-07-16
Topper
Overview: Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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Rough Waters
1930-06-06
Rough Waters
Overview: A police dog helps to track down two payroll robbers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-06
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On the Border
1930-03-14
On the Border
Overview: A Mexico/United States border patrol officer is aided by his police dog, Rinty.
Genres: Western Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-14
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Red Hair
1928-03-10
Red Hair
Overview: A free-spirited young girl has three middle-aged admirers, each of whom sees her from a completely different perspective. Unknown to her, they also happen to be the guardians of a wealthy young man to whom she is attracted. Only a small fragment of this film survives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1928-03-10
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The Truth About Youth
1930-11-03
The Truth About Youth
Overview: A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-03
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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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Surprise
1930-03-15
Surprise
Overview: Tom Dugan trying to go on a date behind his wife's back gets a surprise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-15
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What a Life
1930-03-15
What a Life
Overview: A musical parody on prison reform in which a prison warden gives his cellblocks the look of a summer resort in order to stave off reformers.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-15
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She Who Gets Slapped
1930-05-15
She Who Gets Slapped
Overview: A meek husband takes lessons on how to take control of his dominating wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-15
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Carnival
1935-02-15
Carnival
Overview: "Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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Playing the Ponies
1937-10-15
Playing the Ponies
Overview: The stooges are gypped into trading their restaurant for "Thunderbolt", a washed up race horse. When Curly feeds Thunderbolt some chili pepperinos, he runs like crazy towards the nearest water. The boys enter Thunderbolt in a big race. With jockey Larry feeding Thunderbolt the pepperinos, and Moe and Curly on a motorcycle leading him with a bucket of water, they win the race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-15
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Early to Bed
1936-06-05
Early to Bed
Overview: Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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A Farewell to Arms
1932-12-08
A Farewell to Arms
Overview: A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-08
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Melody in Spring
1934-04-07
Melody in Spring
Overview: It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is seeking a radio job with the "Blodgett Dog Biscuit Hour," and John learns that the sponsor is Jane's father, Warren Blodgett, an avid souvenir and antiques collector. John gets himself in bad with Blodgett when he accidentally ruins a deal in which Blodgett was attempting to acquire a bedpost for his collection. To break up the romance, Blodgett and his wife take Jane to Switzerland, where Blodgett has his heart set on obtaining a jealously-guarded cowbell.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-07
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Murder in Greenwich Village
1937-11-03
Murder in Greenwich Village
Overview: A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now they must keep up the appearance of being engaged as a bumbling detective snoops around, and their initial distaste for each other blossoms into romance.
Genres: Mystery Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-03
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Hearts in Exile
1929-09-14
Hearts in Exile
Overview: In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries a baron. Time passes and the two men meet each other in Siberia where they have both been exiled. When the poorer man has the opportunity to come home, he changes places with the baron so that he can return to his wife. Unbeknownst to him, she has gone to the frozen wasteland to search for him.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-14
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Bitter Sweet
1940-11-08
Bitter Sweet
Overview: A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-08
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From Headquarters
1929-04-27
From Headquarters
Overview: United States Marine Corps Captain "Happy" Smith and Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer lead a squadron of Marines in a search of a party of American tourists lost in a Central America banana republic jungle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-27
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Whispers
1941-02-08
Whispers
Overview: In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-08
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Coney Island
1928-01-13
Coney Island
Overview: Tammany Burke, young owner of a giant roller coaster, is fighting heavy odds against a syndicate led by financial baron Hughey Cooper. Assisted by his sweetheart, Joan, and her father, Jingles Wellman, formerly a clown, Burke prepares for a sabotage of his machine by syndicate hirelings. In the midst of a great battle the riot squad arrives to arrest the troublemakers, and Burke and his sweetheart are left in happy possession of their roller coaster.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-13
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Sid's Long Count
1930-03-24
Sid's Long Count
Overview: Syd (Syd Saylor)is a punch-drunk, 10th-rate prizefighter who, since his manager can't book him any matches, turns to selling reducing machines for a living. He is trying sell one to a policeman's wife when her husband comes home and gets the wrong impression of what is going on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-24
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The Girl in the Pullman
1927-10-31
The Girl in the Pullman
Overview: Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit turning everything upside down. To avoid explanations to his bride-to-be and her mother they all take the train, including Irene and her lawyer, who will try to prevent him from committing bigamy, as the divorce won't be effective until midnight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-31
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Fair But Foolish
1925-11-29
Fair But Foolish
Overview: The comedy occurs on shipboard where Jimmie is the object of attention for a pair of pickpockets who plan to use him to smuggle their ill-gotten off the ship. Arrested at customs, he manages to escape but gets caught again as he tries to rejoin his girl whose father is trying to remove her from his influence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-29
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A Wireless Lizzie
1929-03-07
A Wireless Lizzie
Overview: Walter has invented an automatic remote-control for his jalopy. When a potential buyer comes to look it over, Walter proudly shows how he cam the car stop and go, turn corners and steer correctly. His spiteful rival, Bill, switches the plug and the car runs out of control. Walter and his sweetheart, Mary, plan to elope but they discuss their plans in front of an open microphone at the broadcast station, and Mary's father hears it and sets out to stop their elopement.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-07
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Weak, But Willing
1926-01-03
Weak, But Willing
Overview: A devilish courtship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-03
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Duck Out
1927-02-13
Duck Out
Overview: At a magic show put on by Blondini the magician, a member of the audience is invited up to participate. He gets into all sorts of shenanigans, tripping over the stage curtain, sending ducks up through the wrong trapdoors. He can hardly believe his eyes when a girl is sawn in half!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-13
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Easy Curves
1927-11-12
Easy Curves
Overview: Billy Dooley buys a book on jiu-jitsu to court a fashion model.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-12
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Sailor Beware
1927-02-20
Sailor Beware
Overview: Wimpy sailor boy Billy Epsom has just arrived from New Guinea with a guinea pig in a box for his sweetheart. But today's newspaper headline reads, "Guinea Pig With Deadly Germs Roaming Our Streets". Billy causes havoc at the Yellow Cab stand when a cabbie catches sight of his cute little "piggy". Billy sets out to see his girl at her father's mansion. On the streetcar, he takes the guinea pig out of its box. Soon passengers and driver are diving off, and the runaway car is gaining on a dynamite truck!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-20
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Down on the Farm
1938-10-11
Down on the Farm
Overview: Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-11
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Billions
1920-12-06
Billions
Overview: Princess Triloff, an emigrée from Czarist Russia, escapes to America where she becomes a patron of the arts. She falls in love with the verses of impoverished poet Owen Carey and becomes his anonymous benefactor. When Owen inherits a fortune from his rich Uncle Krakerfeller, he assumes his uncle's identity and confers his own upon an impoverished friend, Frank Manners. At a resort, Owen meets the princess and falls in love with her, but is chagrined to discover that she is enamored with Manners. The princess finally discovers Owen's real identity and the two fall in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-06
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The Chaser
1938-07-29
The Chaser
Overview: A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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Ham and Eggs at the Front
1927-11-29
Ham and Eggs at the Front
Overview: Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-29
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Public Hero Number 1
1935-05-31
Public Hero Number 1
Overview: G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-31
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All Quiet on the Western Front
1930-04-29
All Quiet on the Western Front
Overview: When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-29
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Manhattan Melodrama
1934-05-04
Manhattan Melodrama
Overview: The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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The Noodle Nut
1921-01-01
The Noodle Nut
Overview: Whoever can make the sale of an order for noodles exactly five feet long to the customer in the black beard and white carnation gets to marry the boss' beautiful daughter, Madge Kirby
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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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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Circus Clowns
1922-01-25
Circus Clowns
Overview: Baby Peggy is joined by her star-making partner, Brownie the Wonder Dog and is in a circus as a junior clown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-25
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Swiss Movements
1927-12-31
Swiss Movements
Overview: To win his girl Gertie back, Freddie decides to climb a high mountain and challenge a world champion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-31
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The Wrong Miss Wright
1937-06-18
The Wrong Miss Wright
Overview: Charley tries to get out of an arranged marriage so he can marry another girl. What he doesn't realize is that they are one and same girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-18
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Orient Express
1934-02-28
Orient Express
Overview: Based on Graham Greene's novel Stamboul Train, the movie focuses on the lives of individuals aboard the Orient Express as it makes a three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-28
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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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Mike Fright
1934-08-25
Mike Fright
Overview: The gang attends a radio station amateur show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-25
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A Feller Who Plays in a Band
1941-05-12
A Feller Who Plays in a Band
Overview: Susan Miller sings "A Feller Who Plays in a Band."
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-12
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Someone in the House
1920-11-15
Someone in the House
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-15
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Wives Never Know
1936-09-18
Wives Never Know
Overview: Homer Bigelow has an ideal marriage, with a wife who loves him very much as does he in return. Hilarity ensues when, his wife and him take "marital advice" from an old school friend, who thinks marriage is a farce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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