Edna Murphy
Also Known As: Elizabeth Edna Murphy
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 16, 1899
Age: 125 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 03, 1974
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The King of the Wild Horses
Overview: A stallion known as "The Black" is the leader of a band of wild horses. A cowboy is determined to capture and break him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-06
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Dynamite Allen
Overview: Betty, a blind girl, is the sole "witness" to the murder of a mine owner and whose mistaken testimony convicts Sid Allen her own benefactor. Years later, the adult Betty returns to the mining town, her sight restored. Fearing that she may remember the truth, the real murderer, "Bull" Snide has the girl kidnapped.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-20
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Ridin' Wild
Overview: Trained by his Quaker mother to be gentle, Cyril Henderson receives only laughter from the townspeople when he tries to act tough to impress Grace Nolan, who is allowing Art Jordan, the town bully, to occupy her time so as to pique Cyril. The murder of Andrew McBride, who holds the mortgage on the Henderson's property, is blamed on the elder Henderson, and Cyril unsuccessfully tries to take the blame.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-19
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The Little Giant
Overview: Having been brought up by his Uncle Clem, an itinerant peddler, Elmer Clinton has no trouble becoming the sales manager for a company that manufactures washing machines. Royce Enfield, the son of the company's president, wants his father to sell the business and therefore undermines Elmer's sales campaign. In a real effort to help Elmer, Uncle Clem obtains numerous orders for washing machines, but these are intercepted by Royce before they can be filled. Elmer is fired and, finding out the reason why, whips Royce in a fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-03
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Her Dangerous Path
Overview: Her Dangerous Path
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-12
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The Silent Hero
Overview: Bud Taylor loves Mary Stoddard but is leaving for Alaska in search of gold, leaving a police-dog pup with her that he has named "Phantom." Wade Burton is anxious to win Mary and her father's money. Later, Wade follows Bud to Alaska and attempts to claim-jump Bud's gold strike, but is foiled by Bud and "Phantom."
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-01
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The Ordeal
Overview: Sybil marries George Bruce, an alcoholic 20 years her senior, In order to provide for her crippled sister, Helen, and her brother, Geoffrey. Bruce becomes jealous of Sybil's attentions to young physician Robert Acton, and when Bruce suffers a heart attack and calls for digitalis, Sybil allows the vial to break and he dies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-21
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The Black Diamond Express
Overview: Dan Foster, the engineer of the Black Diamond Express express train falls in love with Jeanne Harmon, whose snobbish, high society mother, Mrs. Harmon, does not approve of the blue-collar, rough-at-the-edges Dan Foster as a suitable husband for Jeanne.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-04
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The Unkissed Man
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-27
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Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Overview: Flora Hawks is in love with the overseer of Tarzan's African estate. After a search for a legendary city of diamonds, Tarzon races with his pet lion Jad-bal-ja to save Haws from being sacrificed to a lion-god.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-20
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The Galloping Kid
Overview: Cowboy Simplex Cox, now a drifter and odd-job seeker, lands the assignment of chaperoning the pretty daughter of cattleman "Five-Notch" Arnett. Laura Arnett has a weakness of falling in love with every man she meets---Simplex Cox the exception---and it is Simp's job to keep her from meeting any. However, too late, as she has succumbed to the polished, oily charms of Hubert Bolston, who has dastardly designs upon Arnett's land and intends getting them by marrying the daughter.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-11
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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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Dancing Sweeties
Overview: Bill is a hot shot dancer who partners with Jazzbo, until he sees Molly at the dance. He enters the Waltz with Molly and wins first prize - and they wind up being married that same night. Now they are free of their parents nagging and their own bosses. 24 hours - no dancing as in-laws are visiting. 24 days - the Apartment is finished so off to the Hoffman's Parisian Dance Palace. Molly can only dance the Waltz and not the hot new jazz dance so she leaves and Bill follows. They are both unhappy, Bill has two left feet when it comes to romance.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-19
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Girl of the Rio
Overview: A café dancer bluffs a Mexican landowner to save her lover.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-15
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McFadden's Flats
Overview: Irish contractor McFadden and Scottish barber McTavish become fast friends, and McTavish's son Jock, meets and falls in love with McFadden's daughter Mary Ellen. McFadden, having increased his store of worldly goods, sends his daughter to a finishing school, to young Jock's dismay. McFadden also provokes frequent outbursts from McTavish, whose outlook on life is the antithesis of his own. McFadden's ambition to complete a flat building is well underway when he suddenly finds himself in financial straits; when McTavish secretly helps him out, all eventually works out well for the friends and the young lovers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-06
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Second Choice
Overview: Vallery Grove is in love with Don Warren but her mother opposes the match because he is poor and has no social standing. Don decides to terminate his engagement to Vallery after attending a party where he meets a spoiled rich girl who is interested in him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-04
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Don't Shoot
Overview: Court, a crook, is forced to marry Velma by her enraged fiancé, who mistakes him for her clandestine suitor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-21
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Clothes Make the Pirate
Overview: A disgruntled 18th century Bostonian who while wishing that he was a pirate, dons the clothes and play-acts the part. He is mistaken for the real pirate, Dixie Bull. More importantly, Errol "slays" the villain and puts his foot upon the pirate's head. This is more than enough and he heads back home to his unappreciated wife
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-15
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A Philistine in Bohemia
Overview: Mr. Brunelli, a roomer at a boarding house, has caught the eye of Kate, the daughter of the woman who owns the house. Kate knows her mother, who doesn't want her daughter to have anything to do with her tenants, will disapprove of Mr. Brunelli, but she soon discovers that Mr. Brunelli isn't quite who she thinks he is.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-19
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Forgotten Women
Overview: Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city editor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-25
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The Sap
Overview: A small town dimwit takes the blame for his brother-in-law's crime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-09
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Anybody's Blonde
Overview: When a boxer is murdered a newspaper reporter tries to frame the boxer's sister, a nightclub owner, for the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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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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Cheating Blondes
Overview: A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-01
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The Valley of Hell
Overview: In the Old West, a dashing hero saves a girl from bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-23
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
Overview: A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-26
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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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My Man
Overview: Fannie Brand, an industrious girl who supports her brother and sister by working in a theatrical costume house, falls in love with Joe Halsey, a young fellow who earns a precarious living demonstrating an elastic exerciser in a drugstore window. Fannie and Joe set a date to be married, but the wedding is called off when Fannie finds Joe making love to her unprincipled sister, Edna. Fannie auditions for Landau, a theatrical producer, and goes on the Broadway stage. Fannie is a great success, and she and Joe soon find their way back into each other's arms.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-15
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The Branded Woman
Overview: A 1920 film directed by Albert Parker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-05
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Wide Open
Overview: An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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The Greyhound Limited
Overview: A train engineer and his fireman are best friends until the engineer breaks up a romance between his pal and a trampy girl he knows is no good for him, which also breaks up their friendship.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-09
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Stolen Kisses
Overview: A crotchety old coot wants his son and daughter-in-law to have kids so he can have grandchildren, but so far they haven't done so. In a somewhat ham-handed attempt to bring them closer together so they'll be in the mood to give them the grandchildren he wants, he winds up bringing them to the point where they're considering divorcing. He decides to change his tactics in order to achieve his goal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-23
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Kid Gloves
Overview: When a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker Kid Gloves and a trio of bootleggers, Ruth is injured. She is taken to a nearby apartment, and The Kid helps to care for her. John Stone, Ruth's fiance and a bootlegger with a respectable front, finds them together and blackmails The Kid into marrying the girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-23
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Burnt Fingers
Overview: Anne Cabell, working as a dancer at a nightclub goes to confront a man who is blackmailing her friend with incriminating letters. When he is killed, she comes under suspicion of murder. However it turns out that he was a foreign spy, and she had nothing to do with his slaying.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-20
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The Sunset Legion
Overview: The citizens and near-by ranchers of a western town are being besieged by a gang of rustlers and robbers, and a plea is made to the governor to send a troop of rangers. Shortly, thereafter a dude-costumed cowboy shows up but he only asks a lot of dumb questions and does a lot of stick-whittling as he wanders the streets and hangs out in the saloon with the regular barflies. The citizens mark him down as being 'tetched in the head.' Also, shortly after the whittler arrives, a mysterious black-masked rider begins to make life a bit tougher on them than it had been.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-21
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Going Up
Overview: Going Up (1923)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-30
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So This is Eden
Overview: The film opens with an animated prologue about Adam and Eve, by Tony Sarg. The viewer is then introduced to a young couple, Eve and Jim, who are having troubles in their marriage. Eve is frustrated by housework and dreams of living a wealthier lifestyle. While out shopping, Eve runs into an old flame, Don, who has earned his fortune overseas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Ermine and Rhinestones
Overview: Long Island socialite Billy Kershaw (Niles Welch) is engaged to wealthy Peggy Rice (Ruth Stonehouse), but she prefers to "play the field" with other men. When Billy tires of Peggy's randy behavior and returns to his ex-sweetheart Minette (Edna Murphy), the suddenly possessive Peggy heads to Minette's home, hoping to bribe the girl into giving up the boy. At that very moment, one of Minette's jealous ex-boyfriends breaks into her house, ties and gags the poor girl, and turns on the gas. Library of Congress holds a complete negative.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-01
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The Cruise of the Hellion
Overview: Ranch hand Jack Harlan comes to the aid of his girlfriend’s father when his ranch is threatened by an outlaw gang led by a woman known only as "The Hellion".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-10
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Paid Back
Overview: Wealthy orphan Carol Gordon marries the executor of her estate, though she does not love him. Soon afterward, trying to help a friend who is being blackmailed, she is misunderstood by her husband to be herself compromised.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-28
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A Man Must Live
Overview: Jeff Farnell, forced by circumstances to take a job on a New York scandal sheet while he awaits the settlement of his claim against a steel company. Job Hardcastle, the hardened city editor of the paper, sends Jeff to get a story on "Mops" Collins, a society divorcée who has been reduced to dancing in a cabaret. Jeff takes pity on Mops, who is dying of consumption, and takes her into his apartment, telling Hardcastle that he could not find her. Afraid of losing his job, Jeff hunts for a big story, finding it when he discovers that Clive Ross-Fayne, a friend he thought lost in the war, has been arraigned on charges of narcotics peddling. (Pamela Short)
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-19
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The White Moth
Overview: When a girl tries to drown herself in the Seine, she is rescued by dancer Gonzalo Montrez. She then becomes a famous dancer known as the White Moth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-11
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Into the Net
Overview: Madge Clayton, a society girl, mysteriously disappears. The police suspect a master criminal is behind the girl's abduction, but her brother, Bob, and fiancé, Bert Moore, help with the search. They unearth a scheme to kidnap another girl, Natalie Van Cleef, and the evidence takes Bob and Bert to an estate on Long Island.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-08-03
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Obey the Law
Overview: When his old prison-friend's daughter is about to wed a wealthy man, the friend steals a valuable pendant and gives it to the girl's father. The father, in turn and not realizing it is stolen goods, gives it to his daughter as a wedding present. But the law shows up looking for the pendant.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-05
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Lying Wives
Overview: Duplicitous Patricia Chase schemes to break up the new marriage of Margery and Wallace Graham because she yearns for Wallace despite her marriage to another. She nearly succeeds but the revelation of a secret thwarts her at the last moment and she gets her just desserts shortly after.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-13
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Across the Atlantic
Overview: Brothers Hugh and Dan Clayton are both in love with Phyllis, their father's secretary. She finally chooses Hugh, and they marry before he joins the army and is sent overseas as a fighter pilot. He is shot down in a dogfight, crashes and loses his memory and drifts around Europe. Years go by, and Phyllis decides to try to find him in France before consenting to marry Dan, who still loves her. Complications ensue.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-18
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The Man Between
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-15
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The North Wind's Malice
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-17
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Dearie
Overview: Finding herself in dire circumstances, the widowed Sylvia Darling determines that her son, Stephen, will complete his college education and develop his supposed literary talents; thus, she accepts a contract as singer in a Broadway nightclub, billed as "Dearie," and becomes an immediate sensation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-18
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