Albert Gran
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bergen, Norway
Birthday: August 03, 1862
Deathday: December 16, 1932
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Soft Cushions
Overview: Douglas MacLean stars as The Young Thief, who falls in love with The Girl, played by Sue Carol. Alas, the Girl has been sold into the harem of The Wazir (Albert Prisco), forcing the Thief to sneak into the palace to rescue her.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-27
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Hula
Overview: The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-28
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Civilian Clothes
Overview: During the First World War, Captain Sam McGinnis marries Florence Lanham, a Salvation Army worker in France. When she mistakenly hears that Sam has been killed, she returns home to her wealthy family without mentioning her brief marriage. But Sam turns up, alive but poorly dressed, and Florence is happy to see him but appalled at his clothing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-05
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Employees' Entrance
Overview: Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-11
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7th Heaven
Overview: In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-10
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Gold Diggers of Broadway
Overview: Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-30
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Tanned Legs
Overview: Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fairly quickly, but Janet's the one with real problems. It seems she sent some compromising love letters to a worthless cad, and now the bounder wants to use the letters for blackmail. Peggy's friend Roger and his flapper sweetheart Tootie hatch an elaborate plan to retrieve the incriminating letters and salvage Janet's reputation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-10
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My Past
Overview: A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-03
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Fast Life
Overview: Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all they succeed in doing is sinking the Admiral's barge. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the world. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.
Genres: Comedy Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-16
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American Buds
Overview: Letters from the late mother of orphaned sisters Jane and Katherine seem to indicate that their father is Capt. Bob Dutton. Under orders from his superior, Colonel Harding, to acknowledge the children or quit the service, Dutton accepts responsibility for them. Shocked by his presumably checkered past, Cecile Harding, Dutton's fiancée and the colonel's daughter, breaks their engagement. One evening Jane surprises Capt. Robert Duncan, Dutton's rival for Cecile, stealing Bob's papers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-24
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Our Modern Maidens
Overview: Young, vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancé Gil a diplomatic appointment. Meanwhile, Gil's affections meander to beautiful ingenue Kentucky, Billie's best friend.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-08
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Four Sons
Overview: A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-13
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The Blue Danube
Overview: Marguerite, the beauty of an Austrian village, loves the poverty-stricken Baron Erich von Statzen, although her mother is opposed to the affair, having been made suspicious by the hunchback Ludwig, who is smitten by Marguerite's charms and insanely jealous of Statzen. Statzen's uncle would have him marry Helena Boursch, the local brewer's daughter, to save his dwindling estate. Ordered to the front when war is declared, Statzen is forced to leave without saying goodby to Marguerite.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-11
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Command Performance
Overview: Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-19
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The Whip
Overview: Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in this amnesiac condition, he becomes involved with the training of a horse, the Whip, for racing at Ascot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-16
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The Kibitzer
Overview: In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly given a huge fortune in stocks that he can spend any way he pleases. At the same time, his daughter has fallen in love with an impoverished, but good hearted boy. When the kibitzer suggests he bet all his money on a dog of a racehorse, the lad does it. Against all odds, the horse wins, and suddenly the young man is quite wealthy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-11
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Her Night of Romance
Overview: An impoverished British lord (Paul Menford) impersonates a doctor in order to woo an ailing American heiress (Dorothy Adams). The lord is in it for love, but his business associate (Joe Diamond) smells money.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-24
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Geraldine
Overview: Ambitious social climber Mr. Wygate hires charming rogue Eddie Able to polish his shy daughter Geraldine into a dazzling debutante. Geraldine, smitten with the aloof lawyer Bell Cameron, initially embraces Eddie's lessons. However, Eddie falls for her genuine spirit and clashes with Mr. Wygate's aspirations.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-20
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Beauty Parlor
Overview: Film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets herself become a pawn of operators of a call-girl ring.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-15
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Mother Knows Best
Overview: A stage-actress mother and her daughter in a battle-of-wills in a "don't do this, daughter" and "don't do that, daughter" story of youthful folly and over-zealous parental devotion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-28
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More Pay - Less Work
Overview: Albert Gran and E.J. Ratcliffe are warring San Francisco shipping magnates; Mary Brian is Gran’s daughter and Charles (Buddy) Rogers is Ratcliffe’s athletic son. The result is a swift, exhilarating comedy, full of laughs and a nonchalant charm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-04
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The Brat
Overview: A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-23
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Sweethearts and Wives
Overview: An aristocrat tries to prevent her sister's divorce by attempting to recover a diamond necklace, which is being used as incriminating evidence against her.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-15
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Children of Divorce
Overview: A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-25
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Glad Rag Doll
Overview: She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song with the same title and the trailer survives.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-04
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Little Accident
Overview: On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-03
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Kiss Me Again
Overview: An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-07
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Dry Martini
Overview: Upon hearing that his daughter Elizabeth, is coming from America to visit him in Paris, wealthy Willoughby Quimby, decides to give up dry martinis and women. However, Elizabeth seeks a wild time and ends up leaving France with her father's drinking buddy, Freddie, and Willoughby goes back to his dry martinis.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-06
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Breakfast at Sunrise
Overview: While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-23
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Tarnish
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-01
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Graustark
Overview: An American falls for the princess of the Kingdom of Graustark, and decides to her marriage to a dastardly prince.
Genres: Drama Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-30
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Beverly of Graustark
Overview: Beverly Calhoun impersonates the Prince of Graustark to claim his birthright while he recovers from a skiing injury. In the meantime, she falls for her bodyguard Dantan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-18
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We Americans
Overview: We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well, director Edward H. Sloman concentrates on the trials and tribulations of three first-generation American families: The Jewish Levines, the German Schmidts and the Italian Albertinis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-06
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The Man from Blankley's
Overview: When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-28
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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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Early to Wed
Overview: Tommy and Daphne Carter, a young married couple, following the advice of a pretentious friend, decide to impress their friends by appearing to be prosperous. Their efforts end in disillusionment when Tommy loses his job and their furniture is collected for nonpayments. However, by feasting a millionaire with a borrowed dinner and accommodating him for the night in a borrowed bed, they gain his sympathy; and he offers the young husband a substantial position.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-25
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Caprice of the Mountains
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-09
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