Rosa Gore
Also Known As: Rose Goring, Rose Gore, Minnie Lyons
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: September 14, 1866
Deathday: February 04, 1941
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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La La Lucille
Overview: John Smith inherits two million dollars from his wealthy aunt on the condition that he divorce his wife Lucille, a former vaudeville performer. In order to qualify for his inheritance, John concocts the idea of divorcing his wife and then remarrying her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-19
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Colorado
Overview: While in an army camp waiting to be discharged, Lt. Frank Hayden sees a fellow officer, Capt. Kincaid, attacking a girl. He stops Kincaid, thrashing him soundly in the process. However, to avoid a court-martial for striking a fellow officer, Hayden deserts and flees to the desert. He comes across Tom Doyle, who is stranded and dying of thirst, and takes Doyle back to his home. He meets and falls in love with Doyle's daughter Kitty.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-14
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The Head Man
Overview: Because he refuses to be a tool for a political mob, Watts, an ex-senator, is relegated to the public wastebasket. When he opposes a rival politician in a mayoral campaign, Watts evokes the public's sympathy and is elected to the mayor's chair, again becoming a power in local politics.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-08
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The Mistress of Shenstone
Overview: The husband of Lady Myra Ingleby is off fighting in the World War. She is devastated when Sir Derysk Brand tells her that her husband has been killed. The War Office gives her the details - Lord Ingleby was killed, not by enemy fire, but because of an error committed by one of his fellowmen, whose name is never to be disclosed. The grieving widow retreats to her Cornwall estate for a rest. Staying at the inn is a man known as Jim Airth, who carries a grief of his own.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-27
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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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Seven Days
Overview: Jim Wilson is separated from his wife Bella, so when his maiden Aunt Selina -- who thoroughly disapproves of divorce -- comes to visit, Wilson is compelled to locate a temporary wife. His friend, Kit Eclair, is happy to fill in, but during a party, his home is quarantined for smallpox. To complicate matters, a burglar is hiding from a cop in Wilson's home, and wacky Anne Brown is busy trying to hold a seance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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A Dangerous Game
Overview: Gretchen Ann runs away from her foster parents but is sheltered first by Bill Kelley, a train brakeman, then by elderly oilman Pete Sebastian. After Gretchen keeps Sebastian from being duped by a medium, he sends her to a fashionable school, asking that she agree to marry him when she returns.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-17
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Look Out Below
Overview: Musty and his friend, Willie Work, after a comfortable night's rest in a convenient henhouse, set out in search of adventure. They select a mansion with the intention of burglary, but are frightened away by a militant sawbuck. They are summoned by Mme. Cayenne, a jealously guarded wife, who promises them a fine lunch if they will mail a letter to her lover. They agree and the lunch is served. Just as they begin to eat, Senor Cayenne returns. Musty dives out of the second-floor window and hangs from the sill. Willie, who fails to escape, is introduced to Senor as Madame's brother from Kokomo, and royally entertained.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-29
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A Trick of Hearts
Overview: In this comedy-western, based on the life of Henry Irving Dodge, our cowboy hero keeps his tongue firmly planted in his cheek as he goes up against a town run by such women as newly elected sheriff, Carrie Patience. Hoping to restore some masculinity to the sheriff's office, Gibson stages a series of fake hold-ups but is soon upstaged by a real crook
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-18
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Pink Tights
Overview: When a circus troupe comes to a small, extremely conservative New England town, the residents go to their minister to have him protest the scandalous fact that the female tightrope walker wears a pair of pink tights. When she has an accident and is forced to recuperate at the minister's house, he has to hide her in order to avoid even more of a scandal. Mazie Darton, a high-wire performer with a traveling circus, longs for a peaceful country life. Forced to stay in a small town while laid up with an injury, Darton is spurned by the conservative townspeople. Rev. Jonathon Meek, the local parson, befriends the circus troupe, especially Darton. But he, too, opens himself to criticism from his flock, who protest his closeness with the show people. Eventually, Darton's boyfriend arrives and the pair become closer. The parson fades from the scene as a possible mate for Darton, who ends up winning the hearts of the townspeople.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-25
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Stranded
Overview: When a pretty small-town girl with no talent goes to Hollywood, what could go wrong? She could get Stranded!
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-15
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Going Up
Overview: Musty Suffer is invited to stay in a mansion; hilarity ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-22
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The Royal American
Overview: Story of a young shanghaied sailor. Forced to work as a deckhand on a rough-and-tumble transport vessel, the sailor ends up in South America, where his brutish captain intends to sell guns and ammo to a band of revolutionaries. Besting the villains, Jack gets into the thick of things himself, ultimately rescuing the heroine -- likewise "shanghaied" by the captain -- from Certain Doom.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-01
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The Prairie King
Overview: Andy Barden, Edna Jordan, and Dan Murdock are the three claimants to the valuable mine of the late Abner Ferrige. Edna takes possession but Murdock gets her to leave and while the three are away his men take possession. But when the Lawyer arrives to announce that Ferrige never filed, everyone rushes off to be the first at the claims office.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-15
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The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
Overview: The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soon learn that Ebenezer was murdered and all the relatives, including Stan, are suspects.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-08
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The King of the Kitchen
Overview: A city couple drops into a restaurant and try to steal the cash box.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-30
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His Jonah Day
Overview: Jimmy Aubrey comedy produced by Vitagraph.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-26
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Nearly Spliced
Overview: Leon Errol is a befuddled bridegroom about to get hitched to a pretty lass. If he can only get to the church on time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-11
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Seven Chances
Overview: Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-15
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That's My Daddy
Overview: A wealthy bachelor lies his way out of a speeding ticket by telling the cops he's on his way to visit his baby girl in hospital - ever helpful, they accompany him whereupon a little girl attaches herself to him, with hilarious results.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-19
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Hustling for Health
Overview: Stan Laurel is picked up at the train depot and brought back by the husband to the family home where the wife is having a suffragette meeting. None too pleased they cause mayhem and then the neighbours are brought into it as Stan cleans up the backyard by throwing all the rubbish into their award winning garden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-02
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His Home Sweet Home
Overview: Larry Semon is in the kitchen preparing food for a high society musical evening.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-06
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Lovey Mary
Overview: Lovely Mary, an orphan girl, reluctantly takes charge of her sister's child when her sister Kate is jailed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-20
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Shrimps for a Day
Overview: A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage like a prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-07
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Hold Your Breath
Overview: When her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot involving stolen jewelry and a very agile monkey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-24
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The Million Dollar Handicap
Overview: After buying the filly Dixie following a strong finish Southern horse breeder John Porter discovers she has been doped for the contest. When he is paralyzed from a fall from Dixie his son, Alan, embezzles money from the bank to save the family finances. Because of his love for Alan's sister Alis, George Mortimer takes the blame for the crime, losing his job. Disguised as a boy, Alis enters Dixie in a race and rides the horse to victory and all ends happily.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-07
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Once to Every Woman
Overview: Aurora Meredith is the daughter of the village blacksmith. Because she has a promising voice, her family does everything they can to develop her talent. A wealthy New York woman hears her sing and sends her to Europe to study. But the woman dies, and Aurora borrows money for her last year from a hot-blooded Italian man. Instead of being paid back financially, the Italian wants her love, and she rejects him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-06
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Active Service
Overview: Series 2, episode 8 of 'The Mishaps of Musty Suffer' series of one-reel comedies, where Harry Watson gets a make-over.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-09
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Cruel and Unusual
Overview: Musty Suffer as a golf caddy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-01
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Hold Fast!
Overview: Musty Suffer gets accidentally kidnapped and has to box for his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-15
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Blue Skies
Overview: Better known for her work in talkie "weepers," Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary appearances in such late silent films as Fox's Blue Skies. The audience was expected to believe that the twentysomething Twelvetrees and Frank Albertson are teenagers living together platonically in an orphan asylum. A wealthy old man comes calling to adopt Albertson -- who, feeling sorry for Twelvetrees, trades places with the girl. Thus it is that the heroine is carted off to a luxurious mansion, while Albertson remains behind. One year later, the old man discovers Albertson's deception, whereupon he invites the boy to live with him as well. By this time, Twelvetrees and Albertson are of marriageable age, thus the film ends with a wedding in the offing.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-16
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A Rarin’ Romeo
Overview: A 1925 comedy featuring Walter Hiers and Jack Duffy. A theater company does a unique presentation of the Shakespeare classic after consuming gasoline in their drinks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-29
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The Final Curtain
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-02
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Keep Moving
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-01
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The Commuters
Overview: The Commuters is a 1915 silent film comedy directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Irene Fenwick in her film debut. It is based on a 1910 Broadway play, The Commuters, by James Forbes. A copy of the film is saved in the Library of Congress collection.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-26
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Vagabond Lady
Overview: Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-03
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