Priscilla Dean
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 25, 1896
Age: 128 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 27, 1987
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Wild Honey
Overview: Lady Vivienne is implicated in a murder as a result of refusing the romantic suit of Henry Porthen. Years later, in South Africa, she encounters the man she suspects of the murder.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-06
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The Flame of Life
Overview: Joan Lowrie and her brutal father, Dan, labor in the English coal mines of the 1870's. Fergus Derrick, a new over-man, attempts to make his workers' lives more bearable but incurs Lowrie's wrath when he fires him for smoking in the mine. Bent on vengeance, Lowrie is beaten when he picks a fight with Fergus, then defiantly smokes in a mine tunnel. There is an explosion, Joan rescues Fergus, and their love triumphs over their class barriers. −
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-05
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All for Nothing
Overview: Charley brings an actor friend home to dinner without telling his wife beforehand, and she protests. The two instead head to a theater. Charley's wife later follows to apologize and unbeknownst to her and the friend, Charley uses costumes from the theater to pretend to be other people.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-21
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Slipping Wives
Overview: Neglected by her husband, our heroine decides to make him jealous by getting the handyman to play a literary genius at a party and flirt with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-03
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The Bad Man of Cheyenne
Overview: Sheriff Crane's wife and child are preparing for a little journey with their wagon and team. On arriving at the store, the wife, on attempting to get out, stumbles and startles the horses, which causes them to run away, the child hanging on to the wagon. This is seen by Harry, who gives chase, captures the runaway horses, and returns the child, unhurt, to the mother
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-13
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Goin' Straight
Overview: Billy Carter and two Mexicans, Cuteo and Estaban, are smugglers of opium which they bring across the border from Mexico into the United States. The authorities are unable to apprehend them, so "Pinnacle" Bill and "Cheyenne" Harry of the Arizona Ranger Service are sent to assist the sheriff, Dan Beckham, and the inspectors in their search.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-24
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The Wicked Darling
Overview: A slum girl is forced to steal for a living. After she swipes a rich society's matron's necklace, she hides out at the home of a man who turns out to be the socialite's former fiance.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1919-12-25
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Outside the Law
Overview: Silent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks to the wise teachings of Chang Low, a Confucian master. But the evil Black Mike Sylva is determined to frame Madden to avenge a mistake from the past…
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-06
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Klondike
Overview: Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient dies. Charged with malpractice and manslaughter, his trial is national news but the jury acquits him. But the court of public opinion is still against him, and the medical board is meeting to decide whether or not to take his medical license away from him. Before they do, Cromwell, an amateur pilot, decides to join his friend, WWI Ace Donald Evans, on a flight to Alaska looking for a shorter route to Japan by following the Aleutian Islands. They crash in Alaska and Evans is killed, but Cromwell is rescued by a fur trapper named Tom Ross. He takes Cromwell to Armstrong's Trading Post, where is is nursed back to health by Klondike, a girl who works for Armstrong, and was engaged to marry Armstrong's son Jim. The latter is suffering from the same disease that Cromwell's last patient had...
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-29
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West of Broadway
Overview: Priscilla Dean starred in this comedy-Western as Eastern golf pro Freddy Hayden who is hired by a Western dude ranch. Assumed to be a man because of the name, Freddy creates a sensation appearing at a dance in the newest creation from Paris, and later incurs the ire of all when she accidentally causes a stampede. Ranch foreman Bruce Elwood (Arnold Gray) eventually wins the heart of the leading lady when he rescues Freddy from a villainous cattle rustler. A year after this light comedy, Dean began to wind down her career, and played a foil to Laurel and Hardy in Slipping Wives.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-18
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White Tiger
Overview: Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-17
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The Dice Woman
Overview: Anita Gray is the spoiled daughter of a millionaire. Returning home from a party, her car breaks down and she is picked up by a stranger, who sells her his car for a diamond bracelet. The car has been stolen and the police arrest her, but she escapes and takes refuge on a freighter bound for China. She has no money and has to work her way there. Her father learns of her destination and hires Hamlin to bring her safely home.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-19
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A Cafe in Cairo
Overview: When her British parents are killed when an Arabian desert bandit launches an attack on their encampment, their young daughter is spared and brought up as an Arab known as Nadia. The bandit who killed Nadia's parents wishes to marry her. She is ordered to steal some documents from a British secret service agent. Lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-07
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Trapped
Overview: A police captain investigating a ring of bank robbers falls in love with a nightclub entertainer suspected of being involved with the gang.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-13
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Birds of Prey
Overview: Helen Wayne and Archie Crossley, two clever pickpockets, rob J. Hamilton Smith, a well-known metropolitan banker, and he is later recognized by one of their gang as a former prisonmate; they demand a price for their silence, and he is forced to accede.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-27
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Behind Stone Walls
Overview: Esther Clay, wife of District Attorney John Clay and mother of attorney Bob Clay, is having an affair with Jack Keene. Scorned by him Esther kills Jack. Bob comes to her defense and confesses to the shooting. The father prosecutes the son who receives a life imprisonment sentence. Jack Keene's butler Druggett knows the truth and blackmails Esther. Bob's girlfriend Peg Harper summons John Clay to the scene...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-15
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The Virgin of Stamboul
Overview: Achmet Bey, a Turkish chieftain, catches one of his many wives in adultery and murders her lover. Throwing aside the cuckolding wife, he abducts his harem an innocent girl. However, a brave American who loves her comes to her rescue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-27
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The Exquisite Thief
Overview: Blue Jean Billie (Dean), a prosperous young woman crook who lives apart from the denizens of the underworld, has pulled off many robberies of the high society world with the help of her pal Shaver Michael (De Grasse). Billie gains admission to the Vanderhoof dinner at which the engagement of their daughter to Lord Chesterton (Hall) will be announced. While the dinner is in progress, Billie gags and handcuffs special officer Detective Wood (Ross), and proceeds to make a wholesale robbery of the guests. She flees in an automobile and none succeed in tracking her save Lord Chesterton. She makes a prisoner of him, but a police raid follows and she must flee. Once more Lord Chesterton succeeds in following her and again she makes him her prisoner, but she learns to trust and love him. The special agent and Shaver Michael arrive at the scene with resulting complications, but a happy end results for all.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-28
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Drifting
Overview: In Shanghai, an American girl who helps runs an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she has to determine where her loyalties lie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-26
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Heaven Will Protect A Woiking Goil
Overview: Nell leaves for the big city in search of her missing father, followed by a helpless boyfriend hoping to protect her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-20
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Under Two Flags
Overview: On the run from punishment for a crime committed by his brother, Bertie Cecil (alias Lewis Victor) joins the French Foreign Legion. In Algeria, he becomes the hated rival of his commander, Chateauroy, who despises Victor's breeding and also competes for the same woman. Victor is beloved of Cigarette, an Algerian camp follower, who saves his life, though he loves another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-06
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Even as You and I
Overview: Carillo and his wife Selma are devoted to each other. As a sculptor, Carillo has achieved the qualities of honor and love until the Devil seeks to overturn these accomplishments by sending his imps Lust, Drink and Self Pity to the artist's home. Carillo succumbs to lust and sells his honor to the Devil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-01
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The Brazen Beauty
Overview: Jacala, a strong-willed, temperamental ranch girl, inherits her father's millions and moves from Montana to New York, determined to earn a place in society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-09
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Law of the Sea
Overview: A sadistic, evil ship captain lusts after a beautiful young girl he spots in town. It turns out that she's the girlfriend of a young man whose father the captain had blinded and cast adrift on the ocean many years before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-15
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The Sunbeam
Overview: Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-26
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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Overview: A doctor's wife is arrested for educating impoverished women about birth control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-13
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The Two-Soul Woman
Overview: Two men, one of them a villainous hypnotist, contend for the same woman, unaware that she suffers from dual personality disorder.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-06
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Forbidden
Overview: Fred Worthington, a disillusioned New York businessman, settles down in the country with his childhood sweetheart "Maddie" Irwin. While Fred enjoys the peacefulness of country life, Maddie yearns to experience the excitement of the big city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-08
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The Siren Of Seville
Overview: Young Gallito (Allan Forrest) wants very badly to become a matador. His sweetheart, Dolores (Priscilla Dean), does everything she can to help him and she wheedles Pedro, a renowned bullfighter (Matthew Betz), into helping him, too. Gallito becomes a success, but he is vamped by Ardita (Claire Delorez) after Pedro is killed in the ring.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-17
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Somebody Lied
Overview: Perfect angel Willie declines to accompany his doting wife Dolly to a mask ball, but instead of a quiet evening at home among his books, Willie spends the night at an underground casino, and instead of being chaperoned at the party, Dolly is out flirting with another man.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-05
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Paid in Advance
Overview: In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band of evil men of the gold fields.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-01
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Conflict
Overview: A society girl goes to live in the woods with her evil uncle and his wicked housekeeper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-23
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The Silk Lined Burglar
Overview: Gentleman crook Boston Blackie answers a want ad for an expert safecracker placed by Doris Macon, who claims a moral right to the safe's contents. She hires Blackie, and they break into the house where the safe is kept. Blackie blows up the safe just as owner Captain von Hoffmeier returns home. Doris disappears with papers from inside the safe, while Blackie takes phonograph records, which, when played with a special needle, reveal secrets that implicate von Hoffmeier as a German political spy.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-31
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Beer Must Go Down
Overview: Because Reggie is prone to drink, father severely scores him, and his patience reaches a climax when he is presented with a bill for damages Reggie has inflicted on a poor, inoffensive restaurant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-31
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Kiss or Kill
Overview: Henry Warner (Herbert Rawlinson) is so broke that he has sold his overcoat and now his landlady won't leave him alone about the rent. When he sees a wallet sticking out of a rich man's pocket, he's desperate enough to steal it. The police give pursuit, and Henry winds up in someone's study. The man who lives there, Middleton (Alfred Allen) has been looking for someone with Henry's nerve and offers him a job (along with an overcoat and some cash): He must steal back a will that Middleton's nephew, Craig (Harry Carter) stole from him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-21
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The Wildcat of Paris
Overview: A girl from Paris' underworld fights for love and survival during a time of international turmoil.
Genres: Crime Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-15
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Hollywood Halfbacks
Overview: Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that could beat the firemen. Since Johnny Mack Brown is about the only person in the film that even looks like he could play football other than Johnny and stuntman Joe Bonomo, it’s doubtful that the team Harron put together could even beat the Our Gang football team! So, Betty Compson, anxious to see her Hollywood friends win the game, keeps phoning false alarms to the fire department. A Hollywood Thalians Club short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-23
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It Sounded Like a Kiss
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-18
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Mother
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-28
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Knights of a Bathtub
Overview: Jack returns from college and is told by his father that he is going to start him in business as his partner. Early the next morning Jack reports for work and finds that he is to learn the game from the ground up, and is accordingly made apprentice to the boss plumber. While on the first job he learns the art of loafing, and on returning to the shop is called up by his girl, who invites him to an afternoon reception.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-13
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