Marcia Harris
Also Known As: Lena Hill, Marcia Hariss
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marcia Harris (born Lena Hill, February 14, 1868 – June 18, 1947) was an American actress. She appeared in 48 films between 1915 and 1932. She was born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Birthday: February 14, 1868
Deathday: June 18, 1947
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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A Bride for a Knight
Overview: While having dental work done, Jimmy inhales too much gas and begins believing that he is a detective. He sets out to capture a gang of thieves who robbed Jean's uncle's bank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-15
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Kathleen Mavourneen
Overview: Kathleen, the daughter of a poor tenant farmer, dreams of her wedding with her beloved Terrence. The dream is interrupted when the Squire of the estate takes an interest in Kathleen and forces her father to allow him to marry her to forgive the father's debt.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-19
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The King On Main Street
Overview: A European Ruler falls in love with an American.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-24
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Take Me Home
Overview: Chorus girl Peggy Lane, finds a small part in a new show for David North, a stages-truck country boy. At rehearsal, David meets Delerys Devore, the show's star, and she quickly offers him a larger part in her act. Quite taken with David, Delerys invites him to her home on the pretext that Peggy will be there; when Peggy does not show up, David leaves, infuriating his hostess. Derelys has Peggy fired the next day, and in reprisal Peggy goads her into a Carmenesque fight backstage just before the show. Derelys is unable to go on stage, and Peggy takes her place, becoming the hit of the show. Peggy and David are later married and give up show business, finding contentment living on a farm.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-13
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Anne of Green Gables
Overview: Anne Shirley, an orphan, is taken into the lives of a generous farmer and his sister. She grows from an adventuresome young lass into a charming and much sought-after young lady.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-23
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Susie Snowflake
Overview: When a young girl who has grown up as a music hall entertainer is brought to live in a stodgy New England town, the quiet town life is changed forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-25
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So's Your Old Man
Overview: Gregory La Cava directs this comedy of errors, starring W.C. Fields as a hen-pecked, inebriated inventor who triumphantly creates unbreakable windshield glass while struggling to gain the respect of his social-climbing daughter and nagging wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-25
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The Squall
Overview: A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-09
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The Truth About Wives
Overview: Helen Frazer marries Harold Lawton to please her domineering grandmother. However, Harold continues his dalliance with chorus girl Letty Lorraine, and embezzles $25,000 from his employer, Howard Hendricks, to support her luxurious tastes. To protect her son, Helen enters into a financial agreement with Howard, who hopes to win her from Harold. After Harold squanders the money, he commits a crime for which Helen is arrested. Will she be cleared in time?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-03
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On the Banks of the Wabash
Overview: An inventor, David Hammond is the son of a ship's captain. He leaves his sweetheart, Lisbeth Bixler, and goes to the city to promote his invention. Lisbeth's father, an unsuccessful artist, deserts his family, secretly intending to commit suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-22
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Three Wise Girls
Overview: Romantic comedy drama about three friends in New York. Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-10
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The Poor Little Rich Girl
Overview: Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position. But one day a servant's irresponsibility creates a crisis that causes everyone to rethink what is important to them.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-05
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The Poor Little Rich Girl
Overview: Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position. But one day a servant's irresponsibility creates a crisis that causes everyone to rethink what is important to them.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-05
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Oh Mary Be Careful
Overview: "Mary Meacham, the most popular girl in college, goes to live with her maiden aunt, Miss Myra. Auntie is a man-hater who has various theories for testing the desirable qualities of the male sex. Mary sees a dreary man-less time before her and sends an S. O. S. to various sisters and their brothers to visit her while Auntie is away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-01
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Orphans of the Storm
Overview: France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-28
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A Heart to Let
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-19
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The Right to Love
Overview: An adulterous aristocrat plans to murder his American wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-05
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Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
Overview: Mame Walsh promised their mother on her deathbed to look after little sister Janie. But Janie helps herself to everything of her sister's, be it her clothes or her men - even the money entrusted to her by fellow employees at the store they work at. Regardless, Mame can't break her promise. So when it comes to getting Janie out of trouble, big sister comes to the rescue.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-19
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Aloha
Overview: In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-26
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The Foundling
Overview: Rich artist David King sends his infant daughter Molly to an orphanage, then years later regrets it and tries to find her. She's sent to slave at a boarding house,and the mistress of the orphanage passes her niece off as Molly.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-03
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Young as You Feel
Overview: Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclination to eat with him. Billy is obsessed with culture, while Tom is a physical fitness nut. At the office, Lemuel is exasperated when Billy arrives for work at four in the afternoon and cannot stay because of a party he is giving that night to unveil a statue he bought for $20,000. Lemuel then finds Tom meeting with his golf committee rather than working. When the boys argue that business is only a means to an end, and that happiness and enjoyment of life are desired goals, Lemuel counters their contentions by declaring that what they really need are wives and tells them that Dorothy and Rose Gregson, the daughters of an old friend, will soon be visiting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-06
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The Sorrows of Satan
Overview: Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his poverty, in his anger he curses God for abandoning him. Soon Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he has inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince's hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn't know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-12
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Saturday's Children
Overview: Youthful sweethearts, Bobbi and Jim, plan to get married but Bobbi wants them to settle down in their sleepy hometown. Jim has bigger plans and walks out on Bobbie who then resorts to her feminine tricks to win him back.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-10
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The Foundling
Overview: This 1915 film was completed in August and reviewed by trade papers, but was destroyed by fire in a studio accident. It was immediately remade with a different director and a slightly different cast and release on 2 January 1916, only 6 days after the scheduled release date for the destroyed version.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-01
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The Reckless Lady
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-24
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Prunella
Overview: When Tourneur adapted the allegorical plays The Blue Bird by Belgian symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck and Prunella by British playwrights Harley Granville Barker and Lawrence Housman in 1918, they had been successfully staged for many years, opening in Moscow and on Broadway and everywhere. Today, the saccharine charm of these anti-modern fairy tales doesn’t work any more. But undistracted by the meaning or action of the film, we can enjoy the surface of Prunella all the better, the dazzling sets and costumes, silhouettes and painted backdrops created by the great art director Ben Carré in a fashionable Art Déco Neo-Rococo style.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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Isn't Life Wonderful
Overview: A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and struggle to survive the conditions there, during the Great Inflation. Inga is a Polish war orphan who has only accumulated a small amount of money from the rubble and hopes to marry Paul. Weakened by poison gas, Paul begins to invest in Inga's future and he serves as their symbol of optimism.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-05
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The Greene Murder Case
Overview: Philo Vance investigates when a murderer preys upon members of a wealthy family on New York's Upper East Side.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-11
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The Fighting Blade
Overview: In the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around 'olde Oxford towne', Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and sword-for-hire, stands ready to defend his lady-love, the fair Thomsine Musgrove, and prove his nettle, and that his blade is made of the finest metal.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-10
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The Flapper
Overview: A Southern teen at a ritzy boarding school gets into mischief while acting the sophisticated grownup to impress a suave gentleman and match wits with a pair of jewel thieves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-10
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Sinners in Heaven
Overview: Alan Croft, a young aviator and a girl from a strict English background are stranded on a cannibal island when their plane crashes on the way to Australia. The natives worship them, believing them to be gods, until a native girl discovers that the pilot is mortal. Giving up hope of rescue, they marry in the sight of God, but when they are found by a search plane Alan is wounded and left for dead. Barbara is spurned by her friends and family as having sinned, but Alan returns to claim her legally.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-09
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Brotherly Love
Overview: Oscar, a tough guard at Newberry Prison, gets into an argument with Jerry, a smallish barber. He causes Jerry to be arrested as a fugitive, and gets him sent to Newberry. It's not long before both men fall in love with Mary, the daughter of the warden. Oscar gets Jerry put on the prison football team, where he is the smallest guy there, figuring that he will look like a fool in front of Mary and then she will pick Oscar. However, things don't turn out quite the way Oscar planned.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-23
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Great Expectations
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-08
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Putting One Over
Overview: When a train crash kills Horace Barney, the heir to a fortune that his doctors and guardians were planning to extort the unscrupulous trio quickly substitute his double Jack Trevor who by chance was on the same locomotive but knocked unconscious. Once awakened, Jack realizes the duplicity but plays along to try and foil the plot and save the estate for Barney’s cousin Helen who is the true heir and with whom he has fallen in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-22
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A Romance of the Underworld
Overview: Convent raised Doris Elliott moves to New York to live with her brother Richard not knowing that he is part of a drug trafficking ring controlled by unscrupulous ward boss Michael O'Leary. At first Doris remains ignorant of the pervasiveness of crime and corruption in the Lower East Side until her friend, Mamie Bronson, whose brother, "Dopey Benny," has fallen victim to drugs, confesses that O'Leary has raped her. When O'Leary breaks into their home and attempts to rape her as well, he is shot when Richard unexpectedly arrives. Finding O'Leary dead and Richard unconscious, the police arrest Doris, and she is tried for murder. Defense lawyer Thomas McDonald, who has been working to expose the politician, is losing his case when Dopey Benny testifies that he killed O'Leary to avenge his sister's assault. Acquitted Doris is now free to marry Thomas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-30
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Marriage
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-25
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Who's Cheating?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-07
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