Albert Roccardi
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Roma, Lazio, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: May 09, 1864
Age: 161 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 14, 1934
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The Virtuous Model
Overview: Denise Fleury supports her invalid mother in the Montmartre slums by making artificial flowers in a factory. When she loses her job, Denise is convinced by her friend Suzanne to join her working in a cabaret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-14
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Buddy's First Call
Overview: Buddy Watson, the youngest of three brothers, and just getting accustomed to long pants, meets Elsie Forster at a church social and is smitten by the young lady's charms. He writes, addressing the letter simply, "Miss Forster," asking permission to call. Elsie gets the note and joyously answers "yes," but Grace, her sister, sees the letter and is quite sure he means her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-13
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Romance of the Rio Grande
Overview: Fox's immediate follow-up to its successful early-talkie western In Old Arizona was 1929's Romance of the Rio Grande. The story focuses on the Alvarez family of Mexico, specifically fabulously wealthy Don Fernando. Intending to bequeath his vast fortune and estate to his long-estranged grandson Pancho, Don Fernando must contend with his ne'er-do-well nephew Juan.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-17
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The Butterfly
Overview: A father tries to keep his son from marrying a poor actress. She eventually becomes a famous and wealthy leading lady, and is reunited with the son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-27
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Underneath the Paint
Overview: Walking through the Ghetto, Arthur Kellogg rescues Tryphena Winters, an actress, and her little sister, Salome, from starvation. He falls in love with, and proposes marriage to Tryphena, but she tells him she must first make her success on the stage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-14
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Fools of Fashion
Overview: Mary Young is a young wife who wants beautiful clothes. Her friend Enid invites her to shop at Madame Francine's, where she meets the Countess de Fragni, an artist, and Mr. Norris, an elderly roué and he invites her to a poker game. She wins and buys an expensive fur coat with the money but tells her husband she won it with a pawn ticket.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-01
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Just Like Heaven
Overview: Tobey is a headstrong peddler who sells balloons on the streets of Paris. A traveling dog circus usurps his corner and a power struggle ensues between Tobey and the circus's beautiful ballet star, Mimi. Intent on ruining the circus's chances at success, Tobey sabotages their performances. But after a tragedy befalls Mimi, Tobey has a dramatic change of heart and views Mimi in a completely new way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-21
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Partners in Crime
Overview: After being dismissed for imitating his boss's voice on radio, former Assistant District Attorney Richard Deming witnesses a store robbery and is taken captive by the criminals. Suspected of the crime, he is sought by the police, but his sweetheart, Marie, convinced of his innocence, enlists the help of two friends, a newspaper reporter and a half-witted detective. Hoping to win the girl's favor, the two go to the gangsters' hideout, encounter a violent gang war, and accidently set off a case of police tear bombs. The police, summoned by Marie, arrive just in time to save the kidnaped attorney.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-01
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The Street of Forgotten Men
Overview: Easy-Money Charley, the best fake crippled beggar in New York, loses his beloved dog and adopts a dying prostitute's daughter to fill the empty place in his heart. But his fellow crooks and dissemblers mock him for sentimentality, and he disowns the child in order to bring her up secretly in the safety of a distant suburb. He brings her up as a young lady in ignorance of her true history or of his; but when he discovers that her affections have taken an unexpected slant, it brings about an end to their tranquil life, a crisis of conscience, and an opportunity for the sinister 'White-Eye' to take a hand...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-24
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Lillian's Dilemma
Overview: Lillian dresses as a man to gain access to a boy's school. (from Performing Queer Female Identity on Screen: A Critical Analysis of Five Recent Films)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-10
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The Belle of Broadway
Overview: Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a young American performer, Marie Duval, to perform as the Madame Adele of old, and both become the darlings of Paris, one again and the other newly-crowned.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-15
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Tell 'Em Nothing
Overview: Charlie is the great divorce attorney, in demand by all women wishing to shed their husbands. While explaining to one woman how to obtain a divorce by getting photos in a compromising situation...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-16
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Billy the Bear Tamer
Overview: A young man's girlfriend is forbidden by her father to see him again. When the father takes his family on a hunting trip to the woods, the girl and her suitor hatch a plan where he dresses up in a bear suit to "menace" the family, then leaves and reappears as himself to "save" them. However, things don't go quite to plan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-14
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The Passionate Pilgrim
Overview: An innocent man goes to prison for obstruction of justice when his wife refuses to reveal that her father was killed by her mother (and it wasn't suicide). When he is finally released, he meets and becomes involved with a young woman who belongs to the town's influential elite. Once again, he finds himself caught up in intrigue - which eventually leads to his exposing the mayor of the town as corrupt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-02
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A Pasteboard Crown
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-16
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My Lady's Slipper
Overview: In France during the reign of Louis XVI American naval officer Francis Burnham escapes from a British convict ship. He flees to Paris to see Benjamin Franklin only to find him away. At loose ends he becomes indebted to the Marquis de Tremignon who under threat of imprisonment involves him in an intrigue to compromise the Countess De Villars to force her into marriage. While unwillingly purloining one of her slippers the lady catches him, and they realize he had saved her at one time from highwaymen. After many contretemps, the Marquis is disgraced, and the Countess and Burnham are united.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-10
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