Fanny Midgley
Also Known As: Fanny B. Frier, Fannie Midgeley, Fannie Midgely, Fannie Midgley, Miss Midgley
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Birthday: November 25, 1879
Deathday: January 04, 1932
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Laddie
Overview: Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor but meets opposition from her stern military father who has recently immigrated from England.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-26
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First Love
Overview: The O'Donnells are a typical, everyday family -- Tad (George Hernandez) is a sensible working man, his wife (Fannie Midgely) is a good mother and their daughter Kathleen (Constance Binney) is pretty and innocent to the point of naiveté. Kathleen works in a factory and its owner, Donald Holiday (Warner Baxter), has taken a shine to her. But instead she falls for slick cab driver Harry Stanton (George Webb), who insists, "Honest, kid, you're the only girl I ever loved." Kathleen falls for this, and when her perceptive father makes clear he doesn't approve of Stanton, she moves out on her own.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-01
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Patsy
Overview: Patsy is the awkward sister of the lovely Grace. She is also in love with Grace's boyfriend. Mother shows favoritism towards Grace, and father is too accommodating to stand up for Patsy, although he knows she is picked on. When they are all at supper, Grace runs away on a motorboat with a millionaire playboy. During a deep talk with Grace's boyfriend, Patsy reveals that she is in love with somebody who doesn't know she exists.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-01
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The Sign of the Snake
Overview: Colonel Crewe, in charge of a fort near the Mexican border, receives word that some Chinese are about to be smuggled across the line. He details Lieutenant Hurd to attend to the matter. Hurd, with a few soldiers, succeeds in capturing the Chinese, among whom is a Christianized girl, Moon Chew. She falls in love with Hurd.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-28
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Always Audacious
Overview: Reckless heir of an influential San Francisco family, Perry Danton must prove his worth by taking a job with the family lawyer before he is entrusted with the Danton fortune.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-14
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The Lottery Man
Overview: Young Jack Wright offers his hand in marriage to the winner of a lottery, but after committing to the winner falls in love with another woman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-12
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Waifs
Overview: The waif came to live with the unsuspecting old shoemaker. Then a homeless newsboy followed. One friendly heart bred another. That was too much for the proud, wealthy widowed sister. She declared she would have no orphans wished on her. Stilling her conscience, she took the children's legacy, but one Sunday morning after the war, peace silenced all conflict.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-17
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When Love Comes
Overview: Jane Coleridge and Peter Jamison are a pair of small town sweethearts. She's an old-fashioned girl and he's timid, but he manages to get up the nerve to propose and asks her to run away with him. Unfortunately, around the time Jane's supposed to meet him at the station her father dies and she has to take care of her brothers and sisters. Jamison believes she loves someone else and disappears for several years. When he finally returns, he has a three-year-old child in tow. But he explains that his wife has been unfaithful and he and Jane renew their romance. Then wife shows up and causes trouble by claiming that Jamison left her for Jane.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-10
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The Italian
Overview: An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-01
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The Young Rajah
Overview: A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-11
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Stephen Steps Out
Overview: Stephen Steps Out is a 1923 comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-25
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The Ruse
Overview: "Bat" Peters, reformed gunfighter turned prospector, travels to Chicago to collect on a business deal with a mine promoter who turns out to be crooked.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-14
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Behind Closed Doors
Overview: Behind the doors of a foreign government's embassy in Washington D. C., a group of royal loyalists is attempting to raise funds to aid a counter-revolution and restore the deposed emperor in a new republic. They are led by an unknown leader called 'The Eagle."
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-24
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How Could You, Jean?
Overview: A lost Film. Mary Pickford plays a socialite who, having lost her fortune, takes a job as a Swedish cook. She falls in love with a chauffeur who, lo and behold, is a slumming millionaire.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-29
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The Man Beneath
Overview: The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland and falls in love with Kate Erskine, whose sister Mary is engaged to Ashutor's college friend, James Bassett. Although Kate loves Ashutor, she says marriage would make them social outcasts.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-05
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The Immortal Alamo
Overview: A lost silent film depicting the battle of the Alamo. Filmed in San Antonio.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-25
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Bad Buck of Santa Ynez
Overview: An outlaw on the run comes upon a widow and her small child. When the child is bitten by a snake, the outlaw risks his life by riding into town to get a doctor.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-20
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Greed
Overview: A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-04
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All Souls' Eve
Overview: The wife of sculptor Roger Heath is killed by a maniac because of Roger's madly jealous admirer Olivia Larkin. To care for his home and son Peter, Roger hires Irish immigrant Nora O'Hallahan as a nursemaid whom he realizes is possessed by the soul of his departed wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-01
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The Harvester
Overview: The Harvester is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by James Leo Meehan and starring Orville Caldwell, Natalie Kingston and Will Walling. It is an adaptation of the 1911 novel of the same name by Gene Stratton-Porter, which was later remade as a sound film in 1936.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-07
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Naughty Baby
Overview: A cloak room girl (Alice White) falls for a rich boy who may not actually be rich.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-16
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The Despoiler
Overview: Movie mogul Thomas H. Ince may well have been the director of The Despoiler as indicated by the credits; but since Ince was known far and wide as a glory-hogger, it's also possible that one of his talented lieutenants wielded the megaphone. A Civil War drama, The Despoiler refuses to take sides, demonstrating that there are heroes and villains in both camps. Capturing a small town, Colonel Charles K. French orders his men to reclaim the funds raised for the enemy by the townsfolk. French's drunken, lacivious second-in-command Frank Keenan intends to extort money from the citizens by threatening the virtue of the town's female population.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-15
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The Corsican Brothers
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Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-22
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Somewhere in France
Overview: Wicked Frenchwoman Marie Chaumontel is the mistress of Captain Henry Ravignac. She steals some papers from him, which she gives to the Germans. Then she escapes to Berlin while her lover is tried for her wrongdoing. He is found guilty of neglect, and he commits suicide. His brother, Lieutenant Charles Ravignac swears revenge, and he becomes a counterspy by going to work for the Germans.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-29
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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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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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The Flyin' Buckaroo
Overview: Bill Mathews mistakenly comes to believe that his sweetheart, Sally Brown, prefers the company of his brother, Henry, to that of his own and dejectedly goes to the city, where he finds work driving a truck. Six months later Bill returns home; that very day, the Delno gang robs the bank and kidnaps Sally. Bill follows the outlaws in a plane and parachutes into their mountain hideout; he captures Delno's men and rescues Sally, who quickly convinces him that she has never loved another.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-25
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An American Tragedy
Overview: A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-22
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The Fighting Cheat
Overview: A drifter befriends wounded outlaw Lafe Wells. Having promised to deliver a sack of gold to the man's family, Wales promptly falls for the daughter of the house.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-11
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The Apostle of Vengeance
Overview: 1916 American silent drama film directed by Clifford Smith and starring William S. Hart, Nona Thomas and John Gilbert. A Kentucky-born preacher returns home from Vermont in order to settle a feud between two warring families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-25
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Ace of Action
Overview: Two families feud over possession of a valuable waterhole.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-28
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Seeing It Through
Overview: Swindled out of her small property by crooked money lender Bogrum, Betty Lawrence turns to large estate owner and old friend Jim Carrington. On a tip supplied by Bolter, Bogrum's secretary, Jim investigates and after Bogrum's crooked dealings are exposed, and he is imprisoned, Betty and Carrington join their property through matrimony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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It's a Bear!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-25
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The Bridge of Sighs
Overview: The spoiled, arrogant and slow-witted son of a wealthy businessman falls in love with the daughter of his father's business manager.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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