Charles Ray
Also Known As: Charles Edgar Alfred Ray, Charles E. Ray, Charles Edgar Ray
Biography: From Wikipedia Charles Edgar Ray (March 15, 1891 – November 23, 1943) was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Ray rose to fame during the mid-1910s portraying young wholesome hicks in silent comedy films. Ray was born in Jacksonville, Illinois and moved to Springfield as a child where he attended elementary school. He then moved to Arizona for a time before finally relocating to Los Angeles where he finished his education. He initially began his career on the stage before working for director Thomas H. Ince as a film extra in December 1912. He appeared in several bit parts before moving on to supporting roles. Ray's break came in 1915 when he appeared opposite Frank Keenan in the historical war drama The Coward. Ray's popularity increased after appearing in a series of films which cast him in juvenile roles, primarily young hicks or "country bumpkins" that foiled the plans of thieves or con men. In March 1917, he signed with Paramount Pictures and resumed working with director Thomas H. Ince. By 1920, he was earning a reported $11,000 a week. Around this time, he left Paramount after studio head Adolph Zukor refused to give him a pay raise. Zukor later wrote in his autobiography The Public Is Never Wrong, that Ray's ego had gotten out of hand and that Ray "...was headed for trouble and did not care to be with him when he found it." After leaving Paramount, Ray formed his own production company, Charles Ray Productions, and also used his fortune to purchase a studio in Los Angeles where he began producing and shooting his own films. On November 23, 1943, Ray died of a mouth and throat infection at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles for which he had been hospitalized six weeks prior. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Charles Ray has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6355 Hollywood Boulevard.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Jacksonville, Illinois, USA
Birthday: March 15, 1891
Deathday: November 23, 1943
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Wolf Woman
Overview: An narcissistic woman with the ability to charm, Leila Aradella reaps delight from preying upon weak men. Her first victim is John Morton, a talented lawyer, whom she ruins both morally and financially. Her second victim, Rex Walden, the generous son of society matron Mrs. Walden, becomes her complete slave. Mrs. Walden sends her elder son Franklin to try to dissuade Leila from toying with Rex's affections. Franklin, however, also falls under Leila's spell, and Rex is driven to suicide by her callous behavior. Desperate, Mrs. Walden enlists Adele Harley, a girl of strong moral character, to fight Leila for Franklin's affections. Adele's determined victory causes Leila to lose her confidence, and in a drunken state, she cuts her own face with a shard from her shattered mirror. Permanently disfigured, Leila ends a broken and lonely woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-17
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The Family Skeleton
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-31
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Sweet Adeline
Overview: A shy and sensitive young man is disregarded by his parents and his older brother. Bill becomes jealous and schemes to send his brother away when Ben wins the affections of pretty neighbor Adeline. Ben wins out when the trip on which Bill has sent him becomes a great success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-14
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Welcome Home
Overview: A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build a factory.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-09
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Playing the Game
Overview: Millionaire Larry Prentiss inherits a ranch. He decides to visit his new property incognito and gets a job as a ranch-hand. He falls in love with the ranch foreman's daughter and complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-22
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Percy
Overview: Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-05
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The Conversion of Frosty Blake
Overview: Rev. Horace Brightray, pastor of a New England village church, is ordered by his physician to seek another climate. He goes to Agua Caliente, where he attempts to hold services in the hotel dining room, but nobody attends excepting the hotel clerk and maid, and a dance hall girl, Bubbles. The proprietor of the Legal Tender saloon is very bitter toward Horace and commands them not to attend services. Horace is soon out of funds and is ejected from the hotel. Sick and hopeless, he goes to the Legal Tender and slaps Frosty across the face with his hat, feeling sure it will mean death to him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-02
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The Grudge
Overview: A Western tale of revenge and redemption.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-24
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Staking His Life
Overview: In this re-edited, re-titled version of 'Conversion of Frosty Blake, The (1915)', some character names are changed but the story, of a New England pastor who goes out west for his health and encounters a gun-toting dance-hall owner and a beautiful dancer, remains fairly intact.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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The Sheriff's Son
Overview: Sheriff's son Royal Beaudry is thought a coward, even by the young woman he has his heart set on. But he disproves cowardice when he rescues his father's friend from kidnappers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-30
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Stars of Yesterday
Overview: Stars of Yesterday documentary film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Overview: A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-24
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Old Mammy's Secret Code
Overview: Jim Black, learning that his rival, David Durard, son of Colonel Durard, wealthy Southern wholesale grocers, has won the heart of Marion, plans to separate the lovers before war breaks out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-16
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The Boomerang
Overview: Virginia Chester visits her Aunt Betty who resides near an army post. Lieut. Calhoun falls in love with Virginia, and after a whirlwind courtship persuades her to marry him secretly. Helen Brassey, the daughter of the Colonel, is in love with Calhoun, and gets her father to help her win the lieutenant's affections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-13
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The Transgressor
Overview: A story of Puritan village life. The son of a minister wins a girl away from her devoted fisherman. Orphaned, she is adopted by the minister, and when her child is born refuses to reveal the father's name. She is cast out by the minister and scorned by the people. When her child is dying the fisherman comes back to her with unfaltering love, and the minister's son meets a tragic death at the hands of the Indians.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-25
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For Mother's Sake
Overview: For Mother's Sake is a 1913 silent film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-11
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The Renegade
Overview: A white slaver impersonates the heir to an English estate, but the rightful heir reappears and exposes the imposter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-28
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The Gangsters and the Girl
Overview: Molly Ashley, a child of the slums, is charged with being an accomplice to a shoplifter. Although innocent, she is convicted of shoplifting and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Jim Tracy, the leader of a band of gangsters, rescues Molly. The following morning Detective Stone is assigned the task of locating and running down Jim Tracy's gang. In order to secure evidence against the gang, he disguises himself as one of the gangsters, runs into their place and pretends that the "cops" are after him. Tracy and the gang take him in. Molly falls in love with Stone and discovers his true identity. One of the crooks gets sore at Jim Tracy and betrays them to the police. Jim accuses Molly of betraying them. Stone resents his accusation.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-07
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The Cup of Life
Overview: Sisters Helen and Ruth Fiske work in a department store and live in an East Side tenement. While Ruth is satisfied with her "regular fellow," a mechanic, Helen yearns for fine clothes, wealth, and attention. Ruth marries the mechanic and they struggle for a modest existence. Helen leaves her squalor to be the mistress of wealthy John Ward, despite Ruth's pleas. As the years pass, Helen goes from one man to the next, looking for more luxuries. When James Kellerman, who really loves her, proposes, she laughs at him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-26
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Honor Thy Name
Overview: The pride of his aristocratic Southern family, a young man shatters his family's hopes by marrying a Broadway vamp known as "The Moth." The young man's father then plots to rescue his unwitting son from "The Moth's" clutches, but at great sacrifice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-06
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Home
Overview: Bessie Wheaton returns from Europe to find her nouveau riche family has adopted and magnified the worst characteristics of the upper class. Her father spends all of his time at the club, her mother cultivates snobbishness, and her sister thinks only of marrying into royalty. To shake them out of their aristocratic poses, Bessie decides to reflect all of their faults, becoming as lazy as her father and as status conscious as her mother. She even rejects her own sweetheart, Allan Shelby, to lure Count d'Orr away from her sister. Finally, the members of the family confront Bessie, and she angrily tells them that she was only mirroring their behavior. Bessie then runs away, but Allan, with whom she quickly reconciles, brings her back, just as her family acknowledges its recent burlesque of the upper crust.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-27
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The Forbidden Adventure
Overview: Cecil Weatherby, travelling in the Arabian desert, comes upon a hidden and secret city. There he finds love in the form of a beautiful priestess, Ameera. Their love results in their being condemned to death, but even in the City of Death, love will find a way.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-02
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The Weaker Sex
Overview: Jack Harding, a wealthy ne'er-do-well, becomes involved with a Broadway vamp. When she is murdered, Jack is falsely accused of the crime and must turn for help to his lawyer--his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-07
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The Courtship of Miles Standish
Overview: A dramatization of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' this is the story of the Pilgrims who fled religious persecution in England and came to America aboard the Mayflower.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-30
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45 Minutes from Broadway
Overview: Kid Burns vicariously enjoys life with his wealthy playboy pal. But complications ensue when Kid falls in love with a girl who just happens to be his friend's housemaid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-30
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The Camera Speaks
Overview: In this short film, an elderly cameraman and his camera reminisce about their days shooting silent films and news stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-11
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Mrs. Miniver
Overview: Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-03
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The Son of His Father
Overview: A young man with little ambition is given an opportunity to set himself up in business by means of financial support from his father. But the young man becomes involved in a shady railroad deal which threatens to destroy his own father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-22
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The Fire Brigade
Overview: Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that her father, a wealthy contractor, has cut costs by putting his buildings in danger of fire.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-12-20
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The Coward
Overview: Set during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel and Charles Ray as his weak-willed son. The son is forced, at gunpoint, by his father to enlist in the Confederate army. He is terrified by the war and deserts during a battle. The film focuses on the son's struggle to overcome his cowardice.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-14
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Just My Luck
Overview: Homer Crow, fired from his laboratory job at the Dunn-Wright Rubber Company, is sure that his formula for an indestructible rubber, called Durex, will be a success. Others are also, and Honer endures many obstacles, prat-falls and staged accidents while striving to protect his inventions.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-30
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By Your Leave
Overview: A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-09
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Ticket to a Crime
Overview: After a jeweler hires a private detective to help him find $50,000 missing from his company, he is murdered while attending a society party; and the private eye, aided by his comely secretary, vies with a bumbling police detective to find the murderer among several suspects, including the dead man's daughter, her current husband, her former husband, and an ex-convict.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Getting Gertie's Garter
Overview: Attorney Ken Walrick, not quite realizing the difference between a garter and a bracelet, gives Gertie Darling a bejewelled garter with his photograph in miniature attached. But then he must cover his indiscretion by getting the garter back before his fiancee finds out.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-28
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The House That Shadows Built
Overview: The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-08
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The Claws of the Hun
Overview: An American munitions manufacturer and his son become ensnarled with enemy agents from Germany during the First World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-08
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Gas, Oil and Water
Overview: George Watson may seem like a harmless gas-station attendant, but in reality he is a secret government agent, intent on ferreting out a gang of smugglers on the Mexican border.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-01
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The Grey Sentinel
Overview: Tom Carson, a southerner, with his daughter, Grace, is the keeper of the Grey Sentinel Lighthouse. John Adams, the sweetheart of Grace, returns from West Point and joins the southern cause; he, however, spying for the Union Army. A fierce battle takes place between the Confederate and Union forces in which the former are victorious. Hal Peters, a southern officer and an admirer of Grace, is surprised to find among his captives. John Adams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-09
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The Dividend
Overview: Wealthy John Steele has a handsome young son, Frank, on whom he pins his hopes. But riches lead Frank not into social standing and duty, but into depravity, drug-addiction, criminal activity, and finally to tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-18
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The Busher
Overview: A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-17
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Vanity
Overview: Barbara Fiske, a beautiful girl of social standing, is about to be married to Lloyd Van Courtland. On the eve of their marriage, she foolishly pays a visit to a colorful steamship captain aboard his ship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-09
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The Garden of Eden
Overview: Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to marry, she comes to believe he is only after the wealth accompanying her new noble status. But truth, like true love, will not be kept secret long.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-04
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The Auction Block
Overview: Bob Wharton marries Lorelei Knight, a beauty contest winner. While on their honeymoon, Bob is laughingly abducted by the flirtatious Bernice Lane, who keeps Bob out way past his bedtime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-19
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His Own Home Town
Overview: Jimmy Duncan, the son of the well-respected Reverend Duncan, takes over his local newspaper as manager. He takes on the criminal element in town with great vigor, until he realizes that his own father is in league with those devils.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-27
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String Beans
Overview: Farmer Toby Watkinsm whose fanciful poetry does not impress his exasperated uncle, leaves the farm to become a subscription solicitor for the "Sawbert Weekly Clarion." In Sawbert, Toby meets Mayor Lot Morris' daughter Jean, and the shy young people fall in love. Crooked stock promoter Kendall Reeves arrives in town and unveils his plan to open a string-bean cannery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-22
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Sudden Jim
Overview: James Ashe sends his son James Jr. off to manage a family-owned logging mill. While attending to his duties, James Jr. falls in love with a beautiful girl.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-22
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The Hired Man
Overview: Ezry is a hardworking hired man who saves his money carefully in the hopes one day of going to college. But when his girlfriend's brother gets in trouble for bank robbery, Ezry tries to help out by offering his savings in exchange for the stolen funds.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-27
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The Millionaire Vagrant
Overview: Wealthy young man Steven du Peyster encounters more adventures than he might have expected when he accepts a wager that he can live successfully on six dollars a week.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-27
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Hollywood Boulevard
Overview: With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-20
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Overview: Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-11
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The Clodhopper
Overview: Everett Nelson is a naive young farmboy. Following unjust treatment on the farm, he runs away to the big city. There he encounters a showman who decides Everett is perfect for the part of a bumpkin in his new play. Everett takes the role and becomes a big star. But there are complications...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-24
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The Quakeress
Overview: The setting is an early American village, where a young Quaker woman, Priscilla, is in love with the schoolmaster, John Hart. The local minister, Rev. Cole, who calls on her at her cabin with flowers, is an unwelcome suitor. In revenge, he has "blue laws" passed, among them is one requiring attendance at church on Sunday. Priscilla refuses to comply with the law and is arrested. After being plunged in and out of water and pilloried, she is banished from the colony. John goes with her. They are attacked by Indians and John is badly wounded. Priscilla manages to get back to the village in time to warn the Puritans of an impending attack. They defeat the Indians after a desperate battle. The Rev. Cole, who has been mortally wounded, begs Priscilla's forgiveness and the Puritans make amends for their harsh treatment of her.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-12
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The Lure of Woman
Overview: John Found, a well-educated American Indian, works as an interpreter on an army post in the West. Although John Lane, a post officer, loves Katie O'Day, a rancher's daughter, he becomes the amorous target of the widowed Mrs. Van Allen. To rid herself of Katie, Mrs. Van Allen starts a rumor that Lane has a wife in an insane asylum.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-27
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Ladies Should Listen
Overview: The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the man's current girlfriend is actually part of a scheme to swindle him out of some mineral rights he owns, she devises a plot to save him and expose the con artists.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-10
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The Man Who Lost Himself
Overview: John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some good in his new role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-21
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Slightly Dangerous
Overview: Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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The Deuce of Spades
Overview: Amos, a Boston beanery owner inherits a restaurant out West and goes out to make his fortune. Unfortunately, the local card sharps take his last dime and show him up for a tenderfoot. So Amos sets out to become a gunslinger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-01
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The American
Overview: Seref, who returns to his country after many years in America, as a dollar billionaire with a cowboy hat on his head, and with his Dallas-type boots has an interesting past: Twenty years ago he has lost his sweetheart Melek to his closest friend, and furthermore, has been put in prison. He found a way to escape from prison, going to America, the country of dreams. Here, he has become a businessman with boundless wealth, known as Seref The Turk. When he returns to his country as an American, even though he has some commercial aims in mind, his real desire is to take revenge. He will settle accounts with the friend who stabbed him in the back many years ago, and with Melek who is betrayed him. However, when he sets foot in Turkey with yearning, he meets 'Small America' in chaos. On top of that, while looking for Melek, he finds himself in the middle of a funny and exciting adventure where sexuality and violence mingle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Bright Lights
Overview: Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an invention of his sells, he decides to take the money and go to the city. There he will show Patsy that he can be just what he thinks she wants: a city slicker. But Patsy yearns for the simple pleasure of her country boy, Tom, and is shocked at what shows up at her door.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-15
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Back of the Man
Overview: Larry Thomas works as a minor employee in a large insurance company. He loves Ellen Horton, who has great faith in him. When Larry is falsely accused of murder, it is Ellen who saves the day. She also manages to help him achieve the position in the business he deserves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-04
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Plain Jane
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-08
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A Village Sleuth
Overview: A bumbling would-be detective always seems to reach the wrong conclusion, but one day accidentally stumbles across a real crook, guilty of a real crime.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-12
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In the Tennessee Hills
Overview: In an impoverished Tennessee hill town, Jim cares for his dangerously ill mother in a run-down shack he rents from the ruthless landlord John Calhoun. When Calhoun comes for the rent, Jim goes out to borrow the money. While he is away, Calhoun forcibly evicts Mother from the shack and leaves her dying in the dusty road. Jim, on his return, takes up his gun and begins to track down John Calhoun. - Harpodeon
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-12
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Homer Comes Home
Overview: Ne'er-do-well Homer Cavender ventures to the city from Mainsville in an effort to find fame and fortune. Both elude him, and after clerking for two years, Homer returns home for a vacation. Impressed by his flashy clothes, the townspeople assume that Homer has achieved success. Attempting to win Rachel Prouty from his rival, Arthur Machim, Homer continues the deception by announcing that his employer, Kort and Bailly, has dispatched him to enroll stockholders for a proposed new plant to be built in Mainsville. Machim discovers the sham and denounces Homer as a crook.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-27
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An Old Fashioned Boy
Overview: David Warrington is an old-fashioned boy, not very familiar with modern girls. When the girl of his dreams lets her kiss him, he thinks that seals their betrothal. But when he finds out that she has other ideas, David tries a trickier method of winning her for his bride.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-31
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Alarm Clock Andy
Overview: Andy is a timid young man who lives his life completely in the power of his friends, his boss, and his family. But fortune suddenly smiles on him, and he becomes the forthright man he always dreamed of being, but with unexpected consequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-14
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The Pinch Hitter
Overview: Shy Joel Parker seems bound for nowhere, until Abbie Nettleton enters his life. With her prodding, Joel goes from timid nobody to a baseball star with bravura.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-28
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Bill Henry
Overview: Bill Henry Jenkins is a country boy on the lookout for a good career. He faces numerous obstacles, including losing his sales job when his bicycle is lost. A bigtime poker game turns out to be the key to Bill Henry's success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-17
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His Mother's Boy
Overview: After his father dies amidst rumors that he was an oil swindler, Matthew Denton goes to Texas to discover the truth. But he has been spoiled by his mother and he has a hard time adjusting to his rough surroundings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-24
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Rio Rita
Overview: Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-11
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Greased Lightning
Overview: Andy Fletcher is a blacksmith in a country village, but he dreams of racing automobiles. He gets his chance to enter a big race, but winning is complicated by a band of bank robbers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-27
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Paris Green
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-01
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Peggy
Overview: The heroine, Peggy Cameron, is a high-society debutante with a mind of her own. After making a public spectacle of herself once too often, Peggy is bundled off to Scotland, where she is to be looked after by her no-nonsense uncle Andrew Cameron (William H. Thompson). If Peggy's family had hoped that she would straighten up and behave herself in Scotland, they were sorely mistaken. Restored in 2018 by the Academy Film Archive with restoration funding provided by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-02
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Paris
Overview: The power of love in the violent underground world of the Apaches in Paris in the early 20th century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-24
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School for Girls
Overview: After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-22
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Appointment for Love
Overview: Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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The Deserter
Overview: Parker, an Army lieutenant at a Western outpost, falls in love with Barbara Taylor, daughter of his commanding officer. But when Barbara rejects him, Parker fights with another soldier and deserts. An Indian attack gives him a chance to redeem himself.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-09
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A Tailor-Made Man
Overview: A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-05
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Hay Foot, Straw Foot
Overview: Silent military romantic love triangle comedy (based on the story by Julien Josephson), about a soldier named Ulysses S. Grant Briggs, who comes from the south and enlists in the army. He and his best friend, who is from the north, compete for a beautiful stage actress, and risks court-martial to win her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-22
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The Old Swimmin' Hole
Overview: The normal life of a young farm boy as he goes to school and as he relaxes in the country is depicted.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-26
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The Egg Crate Wallop
Overview: Assistant to freight express agent Dave Haskell in the town of Pitt's Junction, Jim Kelly develops strong biceps lifting egg crates onto the daily train. Jim soon falls in love with Dave's lovely daughter Kitty, who, he worries, is interested in city slicker Perry Woods. When Woods steals $2,000 from the station safe, Jim, thinking that Dave took the money, confesses the crime and leaves for Chicago.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-28
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Dynamite Smith
Overview: Gladstone Smith, a fearful young reporter, gets on the wrong side of a murderous criminal and flees to Alaska, along with the killer's wife, who is equally frightened of her husband. But the murderer pursues them to the frozen north and Gladstone must overcome his cowardice in order to overcome his nemesis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-12
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The Girl I Loved
Overview: John Middleton is distressed to learn that his family is taking in an orphan girl named Mary. He turns aside all her attempts to befriend him. But with the passage of time, John discovers (long after everyone else has) that he loves Mary. But by now it's too late. She plans to marry his friend Willie.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-15
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The Mad Martindales
Overview: A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-15
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A Nine O'Clock Town
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-28
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The Girl Dodger
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-09
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The Law of the North
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-29
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