Betty Bronson
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Betty Bronson (November 17, 1906 – October 19, 1971) was an American television and film actress who began her career during the silent film era. She was a famous actress in silent and sound films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Betty Bronson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Trenton, New Jersey, USA
Birthday: November 17, 1906
Deathday: October 19, 1971
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Gender: Female
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Overview: Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-25
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Paradise for Two
Overview: Steve Porter, a young American bachelor and fully intending to remain as such, inherits a fortune but must get married in order to claim it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-23
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The Locked Door
Overview: On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and determines to intervene.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-16
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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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The Golden Princess
Overview: A story of greed and lust driven by gold fever. Rapacious Kate Kent abandons her daughter Betty to run off with Tom Romaine, her husband’s killer during the Gold Rush. A quindecinnial later Betty heads to California and partners with Tennessee, a freind of her father’s, in the Golden Princess Mine. Kate and Romaine try and dupe Betty into believing he is Betty’s father to get control of her portion, but Tennessee reveals the truth and after an attempt on their lives all works out as it should.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-05
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The Medicine Man
Overview: The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-14
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Open Range
Overview: Hired ranch hand Tex Smith is smitten with Lucy Blake, who lives in the cattle settlement of Marco. Meanwhile, Indian chief Brave Bear despises the encroachment of white people and conspires with Sam Hardman to steal the town's cattle during a rodeo.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-05
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The Singing Fool
Overview: After years of hopeful struggle, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Al Stone is on his way. He gets his huge break on a magical night when his song wows big-time producer Louis Marcus and gold-digging showgirl Molly, whom Al fancies. Broadway success and marriage follow, but sure enough, hard times are on the way.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-29
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Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
Overview: The old west range war story transported to Georgia, with Autry as the hero.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-14
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The Eternal City
Overview: War drama - Fitzmaurice was able to film King Victor Emmanuel III and Benito Mussolini reviewing Italian troops.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-17
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Peter Pan
Overview: Peter Pan enters the nursery of the Darling children and, with the help of fairy dust, leads them off to Never Never Land, where they meet the nefarious Captain Hook.
Genres: Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-29
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Paradise
Overview: After a daredevil demonstration of aviator stunts, Anthony Fortescue-Stirling, more familiarly known as Tony, is cast adrift by his father. He meets Chrissie, of vaudeville fame, at a fancy-dress ball and falls in love with her.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-26
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Everybody's Acting
Overview: Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the troupe adopted and raised her. When grown, she has become the leading lady in a San Francisco stock-company. She meets and falls in love with Ted, the millionaire son of a rich widow, but she thinks he is only a tax-cab driver. His mother objects to the romance and looks into Doris' past. She learns that her father had murdered, in a fit of jealousy, her mother, and tells Doris what she has found out. The four actors who had raised her had never told her how she happened to become an orphan. They persuade Ted's mother to send him on a voyage to the Orient in order to get him away from Doris. But they neglected to tell the mother they had also booked passage for Doris on the same ship.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-04
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A Kiss for Cinderella
Overview: An adaption of a novel by Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-22
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The Bellamy Trial
Overview: The Bellamy Trial is a 1929 American drama film directed by Monta Bell and written by Monta Bell and Joseph Farnham.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-23
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The Naked Kiss
Overview: A former prostitute works to create a new life for herself in a small town, but a shocking discovery could threaten everything.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-29
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Brass Knuckles
Overview: Zac Harrison, upon his release from prison, assumes responsibility for seeing to the needs of June Curry, the 17-year-old daughter of a fellow inmate who has died. He is reformed by her innocence and, in time marries her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-03
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Pocketful of Miracles
Overview: A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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One Stolen Night
Overview: When his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in the Sudan, a British soldier takes the blame for him. He winds up deserting his post and joining up with a traveling vaudeville troupe. He falls in love with a pretty young woman in one of the show's acts but finds that a local Arab sheik has his own plans for the young girl.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-15
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Java Head
Overview: Gerrit Ammidon, despairing of any chance to marry his love, Nettie Vollar, because of a bitter feud between his father and her grandfather, sails to China to "get away from it all". While in Shanghai he rescues a beautiful young woman being attacked by a gang of street toughs. She turns out to be Taou Yuen, a Manchu princess. Gerrit discovers that, unless she finds a husband, she will be put to death, and he agrees to marry her. They return to Java Head, the Ammidon family home in Salem, Massachusetts, but Gerrit's "homecoming" has some unexpected consequences.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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His Children's Children
Overview: Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil War railroading, son Rufus rides rough waters as a wealthy financier, and his wife and three daughters muddle through their New York high society life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-04
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Companionate Marriage
Overview: Sally Williams (Betty Bronson) marries Donald Moore (Richard Walling) and have trials and tribulations and input from others but they demonstrate that the most successful marriages are usually based on trust and respect, rather than on sex alone. Released in the UK under the title of "The Jazz Bride".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-21
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The Cat's Pajamas
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-29
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Blackbeard's Ghost
Overview: The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve Walker gets caught in the middle of the squabble after evoking Blackbeard's ghost.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-08
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Not So Long Ago
Overview: Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win the love she reads about in the romance novels she devours -- finds one prospect in an earnest denizen of the Bowery, and another in an elegant young aristocrat. Focusing on the bygone era's fashions, the novelty of the bicycle-built-for-two, and an inventor's quest for the horseless carriage, the film gently stirs the audiences' nostalgia for simpler times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-07
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Sonny Boy
Overview: Sonny Boy's parents are in the midst of a bitter divorce when the boy's mother talks her sister into kidnapping him because she is terrified that her husband will take the boy out of the country after the divorce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-18
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The Midnight Patrol
Overview: A cub reporter rashly makes a promise to solve a murder mystery within 24 hours, then must make good on his boast.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-10
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The Go-Getter
Overview: Bill Peck is discharged from an army hospital and goes in search of a job. Cappy Ricks hires Bill, but gives him an seemingly impossible test of finding and buying a particular blue vase to prove he can handle a challenging job in China.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-08
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Noisy Silencers
Overview: 17 self-taught directors come together to give new meaning to their work in the form of 20 new episodes that are part of the feature film "Noisy Silencers", an extrasensory video experience that takes us on a journey through the history of cinema, from the 1880s to the present in a tangle of deliriums of the seventh art.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-12-10
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