Charlotte Merriam
Also Known As: Bessie Charlotte Merriam
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 05, 1903
Age: 122 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: July 10, 1972
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Queen of the Night Clubs
Overview: Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-23
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The Third Alarm
Overview: The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank "Dad" Brooks is the beloved veteran and whose children, Milly and Jimmie, are especially fond of firemen Dan and "Beauty" Johnson. The problem of the day is concern whether or not Brooks is going to qualify for a pension...until a three-alarm inferno breaks out at the orphanage.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-16
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Night Nurse
Overview: Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-16
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Done in Oil
Overview: Jimmie, an oil stock salesman, is roughly handled by a couple of shrewd promoters who have stolen a well from a poor girl. The latter saves our hero, who in turn gets the well back for her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-14
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The Blue Bonnet
Overview: As an infant, Ruth Drake was stolen from her father by her vengeful mother, and then abandoned. She was adopted and raised by a pawnbroker, and as a young woman joins the Salvation Army in order to help the kinds of people she has seen--and was--growing up. When war breaks out in Europe, she volunteers to go to France
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-01
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Damaged Lives
Overview: An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-15
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Borrowed Husbands
Overview: A jazz-mad Nancy Burrard is a young matron easing her boredom by flirting with married men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-13
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The Crowd Roars
Overview: Famous auto racing champion Joe Greer returns to his hometown to compete in a local race, discovering that his younger brother has aspirations to become a racing champion.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-16
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Danger Ahead
Overview: Greedy, Unscrupulous Rudolph learns that Belinda has just inherited $10,000, and he decides to steal it from her. He and his henchmen arrive at her house just as the money is being delivered. Meanwhile, Hairbreadth Harry observes the whole scene, and he hides the money for Belinda. But while Rudolph keeps Harry and Belinda occupied, his henchmen are already going about the job of stealing the money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-07
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Broken Dreams
Overview: Medical intern Robert Morley is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He leaves the child with his aunt and uncle and heads off to Europe to pursue his medical studies. Morley returns to his hometown six years later, now a successful doctor and engaged to be married to a beautiful socialite. He also feels differently about the boy and attempts to gain custody from his aunt and uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-19
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Daring Daughters
Overview: A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-23
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This Is The Life
Overview: When a bottle of hair tonic renders him bald, Jimmie is mistaken for a famous French beautician and is called upon to demonstrate his skills.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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Dumb-bells in Ermine
Overview: In a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though her straitlaced mother wants her to marry Siegfried, a spellbinding "missionary reformer." Though Grandma Corey promotes the romance with the prizefighter, Mike, the fighter's hardboiled, wisecracking manager, tries to keep them apart; following a quarrel, Faith reconciles herself to marrying Siegfried, but when he invites a group of "weak sisters" to a revival meeting, he is disgraced when one accuses him of her downfall. Finally, with Mike's advice, Jerry wins back Faith and they are united with the family's blessings.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-10
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Fearless Harry
Overview: Beautiful Belinda is kidnapped by Relentless Rudolph; Hairbreadth Harry must race to her rescue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-08
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Dancing Man
Overview: A dancing gigolo gets involved with a wealthy lady and her young step-daughter, and murder is the result.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-24
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Captain Blood
Overview: Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy are purchased by Colonel Bishop at the behest of his niece Arabella. With other slaves he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the terror of the Caribbean privateers until offered a commission in the English Navy. He defeats the French at Port Royal, and as a reward he is named governor of Jamaica and marries Arabella.
Genres: War Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-21
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Call the Wagon
Overview: Young Dick is pursuing pretty young Mary, but so are a lot of other young men. Dick decides to impersonate her butler and uses that position to keep all of Mary's suitors out of the house so he can work on her himself. When his ruse is discovered, he is thrown out of the house. That, however, doesn't stop him. He gets the maid to help him concoct a story about Mary actually being bald and having false teeth, hoping to drive them away. It works, but it doesn't quite have the effect he intended it to.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-30
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Bridal Night
Overview: A couple is stranded in a supposedly haunted house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-11
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The Nth Commandment
Overview: A department store clerk decides to marry a withdrawing colleague with tuberculosis, over another dashing, ambitious suitor, leads to a life of hardship and struggle. Though The Nth Commandment survives incomplete, enough exists of director Frank Borzage’s last film while under contract with William Randolph Hearst’s Cosmopolitan Pictures for scholar Hervé Dumont to declare “it the first truly Borzagian work.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-18
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So Big
Overview: After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-28
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Alimony Madness
Overview: A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-31
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Painted People
Overview: Ellie Byrne and Don Lane, chums, living in the poor section of a factory town, go away to make their fortunes. Ellie wishes to become a lady so that she can marry Preston Dutton, a society chap, and Don becoming infatuated with Stephanie Parrish, daughter of a wealthy man. Ellie becomes a leading actress and Don the author of her first play. Ellie refuses Dutton’s suit when she learns he is after her money, and Stephanie returns Don’s engagement ring. Ellie and Don go back to the factory town disillusioned. They realize that they love each other and in reality had not bettered themselves for someone else but for each other. A lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-28
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The Broadway Hoofer
Overview: Broadway dancing star Adele Dorey who, overworked and exhausted, suddenly ups and leaves New York in favor of a country village. But when promoter Bobby Lewis (Egan) of the barnstorming Gay Girlies Burlesque Company arrives in town, he picks an incognito Adele among all the pretty village girls to star in his new show. On a lark, Adele introduces her maid Jane (Louise Fazenda) as her mother and accepts a contract. When Adele's identity is finally revealed, the slumming star apologizes for her deception by offering Bobby a Broadway job.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-15
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The Brass Bottle
Overview: Horace Ventimore, a young London architect, stumbles across an old brass bottle. When he picks it up a genie suddenly appears and promises Horace that he will grant every wish Horace wants in exchange for his freedom. Horace accepts the genie's offer but finds out that things aren't working out quite as well as he thought they would.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-22
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The Avenger
Overview: A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-10
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Man Wanted
Overview: A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-23
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The Broadway Melody
Overview: The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-08
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No Vacancies
Overview: Arrow comedy shot in 1921 but released 2 years later, with an ensemble cast including Jay Belasco, Blanche Payson, Billy Armstrong and Jack Duffy. The plot centers around Jack and his wife who are looking for a place to rent. But what to do when the housing situation is not exactly easy?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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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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Pampered Youth
Overview: An silent adaptation of Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-01
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The Breathless Moment
Overview: Unwilling to arrest Billy Carson, a crook who once befriended him, Officer Quinn forces him and Dan, his confederate, to spend a year in a small town.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-03
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The Honey Bee
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-01
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Beauty à la Mud
Overview: When a bottle of hair tonic renders him bald, Jimmie is mistaken for a famous French beautician and is called upon to demonstrate his skills.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-28
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