Alice Day
Also Known As: Jacqueline Alice Irene Newlin
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Birthday: November 07, 1905
Deathday: May 25, 1999
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Phyllis of the Follies
Overview: As a favor to her old chorus pal Mrs. Dexter, Broadway dancer Phyllis Sherwood agrees to play a joke on a client of Mrs. Dexter's lawyer husband. The client, a roving rogue named Clyde Thompson, has a habit of romancing married women and has already made up his mind to make Mrs. Dexter -- whom he's never met -- his next conquest. Phyllis poses as Mrs. D. to throw Clyde off the track, leading to an unending supply of humorous complications.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-01
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Two-Fisted Law
Overview: Rancher Tim Clark borrows money from Bob Russell, who then rustles Clark's cattle so he will be unable to repay the money. Thus Russell is able to cheat Clark out of his ranch. Clark becomes a prospector for silver and ultimately comes to settle accounts with Russell and crooked deputy Bendix.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-08
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Gold
Overview: A cowboy turned gold miner fights a gang that buys miner's claims and then murders them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-15
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East of the Water Plug
Overview: East of the Water Plug is a silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-24
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Hotsy-Totsy
Overview: Hotsy-Totsy is a 1925 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-20
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The Soapsuds Lady
Overview: The Soapsuds Lady is a 1925 silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-22
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Hot Cakes for Two
Overview: Hot Cakes for Two is a silent film comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-17
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The Perils of Petersboro
Overview: The Perils of Petersboro is a 1926 silent comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-26
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Should Husbands Marry?
Overview: Should Husbands Marry? is a 1926 comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-26
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Kitty from Killarney
Overview: Kitty from Killarney is a 1926 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-19
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Little Robinson Corkscrew
Overview: Returning to his hometown a fitness equipment salesman falls in love with the store keeper's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-21
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A Dozen Socks
Overview: A poor sap tries to impress his girl by fighting the great boxing champion Jack Dempsey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-12
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The Smart Set
Overview: A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match with England.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-24
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Flickering Youth
Overview: Flickering Youth is a 1924 silent Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-27
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A Sweet Pickle
Overview: A Sweet Pickle is a 1925 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-25
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Hot Curves
Overview: The star pitcher on the Pittsburgh ball team gets into trouble with a gold-digging groupie and his catcher helps him get back into the game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-14
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Viennese Nights
Overview: In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Elsa instead marries the wealthier officer Franz von Renner, in an attempt at social climbing.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-25
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Ladies in Love
Overview: A small town Vermont fellow falls in love with a New York City radio singing star, but she is about to be married to the radio station owner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-04
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The Lady from Nowhere
Overview: A young couple pose as criminals in order to get the goods on their crooked bosses.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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The Circus: Premiere
Overview: Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-13
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Spanking Breezes
Overview: "Spanking Breezes" is a short Mack Sennett comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-14
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The Love Racket
Overview: A beautiful girl exposes her shameful past to save the life of a girl she has never met.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-08
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The Cat's Meow
Overview: Mild-mannered Harry gets roughed up by a slum gang. Later he returns as a cop to see that justice is done.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-24
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Picking Peaches
Overview: A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-02
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Little Johnny Jones
Overview: Little Johnny Jones is a jockey who is in love with his all-American sweetheart, Mary Baker, and also his career as the rider of thoroughbred horses. But he almost loses both when he is tricked by a showgirl, Vivian Dale. His story of vindication swings from the racetracks of America to England and the historical National Derby, with plenty of red-white-and-blue bunting waving behind the little patriot.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-17
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Drag
Overview: Young David Carroll takes over the publication of a local newspaper in Vermont. Although he is attracted to Dot, "the most sophisticated girl in town," he marries Allie Parker, daughter of the couple who run the boardinghouse where he lives. Allie remains at home when David goes to New York City to sell a musical he has written. There, Dot, now a successful costume designer, uses her influence to get David's play produced. David and Dot fall in love, but she leaves for Paris when David indicates he will remain true to Allie. He sends for Allie, but when she arrives with her whole family, he decides to follow Dot to Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-21
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Shanghaied Lovers
Overview: Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-30
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Romeo and Juliet
Overview: A burlesque of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-03
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Skin Deep
Overview: Skin Deep is a 1929 American talking drama film directed by Ray Enright and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by the Warner Brothers. It was also released in the U.S. in a silent version for theaters not equipped yet with sound. The film is a remake of a 1922 Associated First National silent film of the same name directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Milton Sills. All copies of this film are now lost. However, the Vitaphone soundtrack, of music and effects, survive.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-07
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In the Next Room
Overview: The story starts with a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's lover. The setting then moves to 1929, just as an antiques dealer Philip Vantine (John St. Polis) has finished moving into the same house where the 1889 murder occurred.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-26
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The First 100 Years
Overview: A man saves his lady love from Black Mike then comes wedded bliss. He hires a cook, who's brusque, domineering, and constantly smoking a cigar. Out of the blue, the couple gets a visit from his old friend, Roland Stone, bluff and portly. Roland befriends our newly-wed's wife, and this friendship deepens after the husband hires a new cook, the lovely Miss Gainsborough, who gives her boss a little too much friendly attention. That night, a prowler skulks, Miss Gainsborough faints, the newly-wed husband comes to her rescue, and she grabs him and holds on. His wife is offended and determines to leave with Roland. Is the marriage over?
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-16
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Show of Shows
Overview: Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-21
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Is Everybody Happy?
Overview: It is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist. The music for the film was written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, except for "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy and "Tiger Rag". The film's title comes from Lewis's catchphrase "Is everybody happy?" The film's soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, but the film itself is considered a lost film, according to the Vitaphone Project website. A five minute clip from the film can be found on YouTube.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-19
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His New Mamma
Overview: The aging father of a farm lad thinks the boy is after dad's fiancée, so he banishes the lad. The young man heads to California where he drives a cab. Through a fare, he meets a lovely lassie. His work takes him to the beach, where he sees dad's fiancée with another man. The lad and his lassie follow the woman and try to prevent her from marrying yet another rich man. Will our farm boy and his sweetie stop injustice from happening again?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-21
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Love Bound
Overview: A gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy the man's family. His son, discovering that the woman is part of a ring of blackmailers and that she is planning to flee the country, takes along his hulking chauffeur and follows her onto an ocean liner. There the two pretend to be a pair of wealthy playboys so that the woman will make a play for him and try to blackmail him, too, so he can then expose her and prove his father's innocence. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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Riders of the Purple Cows
Overview: When a gang of outlaws put Andy Clyde's ranch house under siege, daughter Alice Day recruits college heart throb Ralph Graves to save daddy.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-18
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Bashful Jim
Overview: Shy Ralph Graves is inspired by a movie hero to go after the girl he loves (Alice Day). A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-07
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The Way of the Strong
Overview: A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-18
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The Gorilla
Overview: An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-13
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Fashion News
Overview: Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-06
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The Melody Man
Overview: A Viennese composer Von Kemper (John St.Polis), who after murdering both his unfaithful wife and royal lover, flees to America with his young daughter Elsa (Alice Day).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-15
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Off His Trolley
Overview: Ralph Graves and Martin Loback are a streetcar team who hit the high spots one night (the highest spot being dancer Natalie Delys (Natalie Kingston) "who shook a wicked eyebrow". Despite an extremely poor seduction technique ("Hey, girlie, you're great"), Graves starts two-timing his girlfriend Marion (Alice Day) and spending money he cannot afford.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-14
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Honeymoon Hardships
Overview: A newly married couple go to spend their honeymoon far out in the country with demented relatives who laugh off even the worst disasters. The couple are forced to sleep apart,The beds are rock hard, the food is inedible,and the farmhouse leaks in the middle of a fierce rainstorm. On top of everything else, a hick uncle with a large family pay a sudden visit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-25
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Times Square
Overview: Vivid tale of love in Tin Pan Alley.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-01
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The Temple of Venus
Overview: Venus, the Goddess of Love (Celeste Lee) sends Cupid to Earth to look for romance.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-11
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Red Hot Speed
Overview: A newspaper publisher's daughter is arrested for speeding. In order to avoid embarrassing her father, since his newspaper is in the midst of an anti-speeding campaign, she uses an assumed name. She is paroled into the custody of an assistant district attorney, who doesn't know who she really is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-27
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Her Actor Friend
Overview: Taking Alice and Ruth to a show with Alice 's father & his boss's money they see that its leading man is an old friend of the girls. He invites them out after the show, but not having money Eddie has to pay the bill. Eddie calls Joe to tell him what is going on. The girls escape to the actor's room and go out the window but Joe and Eddie finally catch them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-29
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Cold Turkey
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-30
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