Constance Talmadge
Also Known As: Georgia Pearce, Constance Alice Talmadge
Biography: Constance Alice Talmadge (April 19, 1898 – November 23, 1973) was an American silent movie star born in Brooklyn, New York. She was the sister of actresses Norma and Natalie Talmadge. Description above from the Wikipedia article Constance Talmadge, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: April 17, 1898
Deathday: November 23, 1973
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Lovely Hundred
Overview: Miss Norma and Miss Constance Talmadge among the girls one of whom they are to select as the New British Film Star.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-31
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Her Sister from Paris
Overview: Helen has a twin sister, who is a famous actress named "La Perry". Helen and her sister decide to trick Helen's husband to prove his love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-01
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Her Night of Romance
Overview: An impoverished British lord (Paul Menford) impersonates a doctor in order to woo an ailing American heiress (Dorothy Adams). The lord is in it for love, but his business associate (Joe Diamond) smells money.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-24
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The Duchess of Buffalo
Overview: An American dancer on a tour of pre-Boleshevik Russia falls for a young army officer, and the feeling is mutual. However, the officer's father is the Grand Duke of Russia, and he has designs on the girl himself--not letting a minor detail like his already being married bother him--and refuses to let his son marry her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-04
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A Virtuous Vamp
Overview: A flirtatious young woman takes a job in a busy office, where her presence is terribly disruptive. None of the men in the office can concentrate on their jobs while her charms are on display. Of course, she sets her eye on the one man who seems oblivious to her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-16
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Overview: The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Seven Chances
Overview: Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-15
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In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
Overview: A sequel of sorts, the Jewish ethnic comedy characters of Potash and Perlmutter return from their 1923 debut film, also produced by Goldwyn, but with a different actor for Potash.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-28
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The Egyptian Mummy
Overview: In order to make money, a man hires a bum to pretend to be a mummy, so he can sell the "body" for scientific experiments.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-16
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The Fall of Babylon
Overview: After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The first of the two was 'The Fall of Babylon', which depicts the conflict between Prince Belshazzar of Babylon and Cyrus the Great of Persia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-21
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The Primitive Lover
Overview: A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-30
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The Love Expert
Overview: In this comedy, Constance Talmadge plays Babs, a girl who is thrown out of boarding school because she's more interested in studying romance than she is in studying books. The object of her affections is Jim Winthrop, but before they can wed, he has to find suitable mates for his two plain sisters, Dorcas and Matilda -- and Winthrop's elderly aunt, too. To speed things up, Babs takes it upon herself to find them all men.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-17
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A Lady's Name
Overview: Bright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when she advertises for a husband in order to elicit ideas for her new book. Mabel's roommate, Maud Bray, a physical culture expert, frightens away the less desirable suitors, while the writer responds to the more interesting letters, and soon becomes embroiled in a number of adventures.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-10
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Overview: The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-04
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A Pair of Silk Stockings
Overview: Molly is a wife of wealthy Britisher Sam Thornhill. Though devoutly loyal to her husband, the capricious Molly can't seem to avoid getting herself into compromising situations. The limit comes when a pair of Molly's stockings find their way into the boudoir of another man.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-19
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The Peacemaker
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-14
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Good References
Overview: The plot revolves around a down-on-her-luck woman named Mary whose lack of references makes it impossible for her to gain employment. When a friend falls ill, Mary impersonates her in order to take a job as secretary to an elderly socialite. Things immediately start going downhill when she is tasked to introduce a ne'er-do-well nephew to high society—but ends up bailing him out of a string of scandals instead.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-01
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Dangerous Business
Overview: A 1920 film directed by Roy William Neill.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-28
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Learning to Love
Overview: A 1925 film directed by Sidney Franklin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-25
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Captivating Mary Carstairs
Overview: A 1915 film directed by Bruce Mitchell.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-10
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The Missing Links
Overview: A 1916 film directed by Lloyd Ingraham.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-16
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Betsy's Burglar
Overview: Betsy Harlow is a hard-working maid in a boarding house. Her dream. however, is to be a detective, a dream she shares with her boyfriend Oscar, a delivery boy for a local grocer. One day a mysterious character named Harry Brent takes a room at the boarding house. Harry, seeing that Betsy is falling for his rather shady charms, persuades her to help him get a box of jewels owned by the Jaspers, an elderly couple who lives across the hall. It turns out that Harry is not quite who he seems; neither, however, are the Jaspers.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-04
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A Girl of the Timber Claims
Overview: A 1917 film directed by Paul Powell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-11
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The Matrimaniac
Overview: A young couple attempts to elope, with the bride's irate father in hot pursuit. The train stops briefly and the young man dashes off to find a minister, but before he can get himself and the minister onto the train, it leaves, carrying his bride-to- be away. Now the young man, minister in tow, pursues his bride while her father and a horde of lawmen pursue them both.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-16
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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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Experimental Marriage
Overview: Suzanne Ercoll, a young widow who believes in women's suffrage. When the handsome Foxcroft Grey proposes marriage, Suzanne isn't sure she wants to give up her freedom, so she strikes a deal: From Saturday to Monday they will be husband and wife, but the rest of the week, she is single.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-10
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Sauce for the Goose
Overview: John Constable, a writer, falls prey to the designs of scheming widow Margaret Alloway to the dismay of his young wife Kitty. Feigning interest in John's work, the widow offers to collaborate on his new book, Women's Struggles , but when she convinces him to dine with her on Kitty's birthday, the neglected wife decides to retaliate. After attending the opera with handsome bachelor Harry Travers, Kitty accepts an invitation to share supper in his rooms, leaving a note for her husband. Aware of Harry's questionable reputation with women, John panics, but by the time he arrives at Harry's apartment, Kitty has disappeared. Following a series of incidents in which the widow, her suitor Teddy Sylvester, Travers, and the Constables are discovered in compromising situations that actually are innocent, John realizes that he far prefers Kitty to the widow and again becomes a loving husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-10
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Good Night, Paul
Overview: Mrs. Richard is happily married, but still agrees to pose as the wife of a businessman to hoodwink the businessman's rich uncle. Unfortunately, uncle plans to extend his visit, forcing the two schemers to keep up the pretense.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-20
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East Is West
Overview: She'd wink till hearts went on the blink. And staid professors couldn't think. And everywhere they'd stop to stare. And say "Some Chink!" when Ming Toy winked.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-15
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Vénus
Overview: A Princess learns that the captain of a ship she owns has struck a passenger, indirectly causing the passenger's death. The Captain is immediately sacked without realising that his action was in defence of her honour. Later, in Cyprus, the Princess meets a handsome man and they're mutually attracted. Only when he expresses contempt for the name of Princess Beatrice Doriani for costing him his job does she realise that this is the same Captain whom she had sacked.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-09-29
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Breakfast at Sunrise
Overview: While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-23
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Venus of Venice
Overview: A slick caper movie about a petty thief falls for a wealthy American artist.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-20
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The Veiled Adventure
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-06
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Lessons in Love
Overview: Lawyer Hanover Priestley plots with his friend Henry Winkley to marry off young heiress Leila Calthorpe to Winkley's nephew, John Warren. When John refuses, preferring to select his own wife, they lure him east by a false report of Winkley's death. Indignant at his rebuff, Leila disguises herself as Perkins, a maid, and romances him, leading him to believe that Aunt Agatha is the heiress. Complications develop, and after saving her from a fire John discovers her identity and agrees to marry her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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Mama's Affair
Overview: Eve Orrin is at the mercy of her possessive mother, who has a case of "nerves" every time her daughter tries to show a mind of her own. Mrs. Orrin and her friend, Mrs. Marchant, have determined that Eve will marry Mrs. Marchant's milquetoast son, Henry, and Eve is willing to go along with it just to placate her mother. But Eve herself finally has an attack of nerves, and she falls in love with Doctor Harmon, the physician called in to care for her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-23
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The Dangerous Maid
Overview: Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he has fallen for Barbara's charms so he lets her go. As a result they are both arrested and imprisoned.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-19
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The Perfect Woman
Overview: Mary Blake can charm any man, young or old, with her winning ways -- except for the one she really wants. James Stanhope is a misogynist who won't give her the time of day.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-01
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Up The Road With Sallie
Overview: Sallie Waters inherits $5,000 along with other legatees unknown to her. Whichever of the heirs uses his initial bequest to the best advantage is to receive the main residue of the estate.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-01
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Woman's Place
Overview: The Women's Political League decides to find a female candidate for mayor and their choice is Kay Gerson who, they figure, will win votes from the men because of her looks. But the town's political boss, Jim Bradley, counters with his own good-looking candidate, Freddy Bleeker, who he thinks will get the women's vote.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-17
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In Search of a Sinner
Overview: Georgiana Chadbourne is a young widow. Her dead husband was such a straight arrow that it bored her, and after a proper enough mourning period, she goes out in search of adventure. She gets in trouble for picking flowers in Central Park, but is rescued by Jack Garrison, who she mistakes for an artistic, bohemian type of character.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-07
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Scandal
Overview: Harmlessly flirting with a worldly artist, Beatrix is outraged when he tries to put the moves on her, and she storms indignantly out of his Greenwich Village studio. Alas, her visits to the lecherous artist have already stirred up gossip, so to allay suspicions Beatrix claims that she has come to New York to visit a family friend, Pelham Franklin.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-17
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A Temperamental Wife
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-08
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Two Weeks
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Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-25
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The Helpful (?) Sisterhood
Overview: Mary is forced into shoplifting to keep up with her rich sorority sisters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-30
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In the Latin Quarter
Overview: In the Latin Quarter is a 1915 silent short film directed by Lionel Belmore and starring Edith Storey and Antonio Moreno. It was produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-02
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The Shuttle
Overview: American heiress Bettina Vanderpoel departs for England to visit her sister Rosalie and her impoverished nobleman husband Sir Nigel Anstruthers. Arriving at their dilapidated estate, Betty finds that Nigel not only has wasted Rosalie's fortune but has treated his wife and their little son cruelly. Betty jumps into action promptly repairing the estate with her own money and seeking to offer some relief to her sister by introducing her into English society. In the process, she meets Lord Mount Dunstan, a proud but penniless nobleman who lives in the adjacent estate. Strongly attracted to Betty, he nonetheless avoids her so as not to appear a fortune hunter. When an epidemic breaks out among the farmers it leads to life changing consequences for both sisters and the men in their sphere.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-01
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Seeing Stars
Overview: First National gala celebrity banquet with stars.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-29
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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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Buddy's Downfall
Overview: Left behind by his brothers on their fishing trip, Buddy is disconsolate until he sees Lilly, a stylish young lady from the city, who is visiting Mrs. Boyd, their next-door neighbor. He awkwardly makes her acquaintance, and it proves to be a case of love at first sight on his part. She is older than he and although secretly amused, is gracious to Buddy and he acquires such a swelled head that he passes haughtily by his old friends, Grace and Elsa Forster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-22
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The Goldfish
Overview: A newly married husband and wife make an agreement that should either of them want to terminate their relationship then a bowl with goldfish would be presented to the other signalling the end of their marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-30
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The Evolution of Percival
Overview: Because of his effeminacy, Percival and Mildred are humiliated wherever they go. After some very distressing incidents in a restaurant, on the boardwalk and on the beach, she becomes thoroughly disgusted, and breaks off the engagement, saying she wants to marry a real man. Percival is almost heartbroken and confides his troubles to a friend, who suggests he make a hero of himself by fighting "Young Hickey," a pugilist.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-04
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Fixing Their Dads
Overview: Both deadly rivals for the hand of the Widow Hathaway, Kirkland and Livingston, gentleman farmers, are so bitter, they do all possible to break up the love match between Dick and Florence, their respective children, causing great unhappiness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-18
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Beached and Bleached
Overview: The new stenographer is right there when it comes to class which does not escape the notice of her boss. He showers attentions upon her and asks her out to the beach with him the following Sunday. She accepts. It is perfect day for her Boss. She enters into the spirit of everything and he has things all his own way. She even ignores the glances of other men and when a certain one gets too fresh, the fresh one takes a beating at the hands of the boss. But then the boss wakes up. It was only a dream.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-21
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The Green Cat
Overview: Within twenty-four hours after Bedelia, an old maid, has lost her green cat, she is begging Boggs, of the National Detective Agency, to find her lost pet and offering him $1,000 reward as an added inducement. Billy, Boggs' assistant, goes out on the case and finally tracks down a kitten which had received an accidental bath from a can of green paint. Boggs decides he will earn the reward a little easier, and tells his daughter Constance to get him a stray cat, which he intends to paint green, then claim the reward.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-05
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The Lady of Shalott
Overview: On discovering that their beau, Timothy, the village schoolmaster, is quite unable to choose between them for a life partner, Ivy and Lily Skinner agree to draw lots. Ivy, who is of a romantic, novel-reading nature, loses and is broken hearted. She seeks solace in her favorite, Tennyson, and in reading "The Lady of Shalott" becomes imbued with the determination to die as did the heroine in the book.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-26
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The Microscope Mystery
Overview: When a wealthy hypochondriac is dissatisfied by the care of the town doctor (Doc Arnold), he consults with a new physician in town who swindles him out of a large sum of money. When his daughter tries to retrieve the check, the quack (Dr. Bell) turns up dead with a gun shot wound to the chest. Doc Arnold lends his expertise to the investigation and solves the case by finding microscopic evidence on the murder weapon left at the scene.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-19
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The Maid from Sweden
Overview: In search of a maid, Mrs. Cook, an aristocratic and extremely proud society woman, goes to an employment agency and hires Luna, fat, awkward and straight from Sweden. The new maid creates quite a stir in the staid and fashionable home of Mrs. Cook. While capering about in her room above, she brings down the ceiling. Mrs. Cook saves her from being discharged and then calls up the plasterer, whose name is John Haines, a widower, and the father of Bert, the chauffeur, in love with Marie Cook, their daughter. John fixes the ceiling, and on his return home finds a note from his son saying he is going to be married and suggests his father follow his example. John tells the news to Luna, proposes to her, and without a second's hesitation, she accepts him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-05
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Father's Timepiece
Overview: Through the carelessness of his office-boy, Stillwell drops his watch and puts a dent in the case. He arrives home in a rage to find his daughter Marjorie talking to Reggie, her lover, whom he detests. Stillwell sends the boy packing and his daughter tearfully leaves the room. Later, at a street crossing, Stillwell is knocked down by an auto and helped to his feet by "Slippery Jim," a pickpocket, who, at the same time relieves the old gentleman of his watch. Pete, a hobo, also runs to Stlllwell's assistance, and is accused of taking the watch. He is arrested and locked up. Reggie, looking to secure a cheap watch, visits the pawnshop where "Slippery Jim" had sold the dented timepiece, and purchases it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-18
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Forcing Dad's Consent
Overview: Constance and Billy are sweethearts. Mr. and Mrs. Boggs, her parents, are both prim, straitlaced people. Pa Boggs has little use for young men of the present generation and when Billy awkwardly drops a race-track badge on the floor, Boggs rises up in his wrath and orders the "perfidious gambler" from his house forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-30
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In Bridal Attire
Overview: A young man finds himself forced to take a trolley car and a motorcycle in order to get to his wedding. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-11
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Who Cares?
Overview: A vivacious, carefree young girl is disgusted by the thought of growing old. In her despondency she adopts the motto "Who cares?" and does her best to live up to it, even after she marries the handsome and dashing Martin Grey.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-25
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Romance and Arabella
Overview: Romance and Arabella is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Walter Edwards and starring Constance Talmadge, Harrison Ford, and Monte Blue.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-15
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Happiness À La Mode
Overview: Easygoing Barbara Townsend is never jealous and allows her husband, Richard (Harrison Ford), to come and go as he pleases. Townsend, however, takes her considerate nature as neglect and he believes that Barbara has ceased to love him. Vampy Dorothy Mitchell convinces Townsend that he should seek a divorce, which he does, and Barbara is too proud to object.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-15
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Mrs. Leffingwell's Boots
Overview: The feather-brained wife of the level-headed Mr. Leffingwell. As the fashionable young couple wend their way through such standard social obligations as weekend parties, tennis matches and polo games, Mrs. Leffingwell becomes innocently involved with a couple of would-be philanderers.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-13
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The Lesson
Overview: Bored by the slow pace of life in her little home town, Helen Drayton rebels when her friends and relatives assume that she will marry her friend and escort, Chet Vernon. Helen is so anxious to experience life in the big city that she falls in love with visiting New York architect John Galvin almost immediately after his arrival. Several weeks later, the two marry and move to New York, where, after a series of painful experiences, Helen finally realizes John's selfishness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-01
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The Studio Girl
Overview: The original play's French locale was changed to New England, where Celia Laird resides with her two overprotective aunts. When artist Frazer Ordway arrives in town, he falls in love with Celia -- much to the dismay of the aunts, who'd intended the girl to marry a local millionaire.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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The Honeymoon
Overview: Immediately after Susan Lane becomes Mrs. Richard Greer, she grows jealous when she sees her husband talking to Marion Starr, one of her bridesmaids. Susan's brother Phil wishes to marry Marion, but is entangled with actress Maizie Middleton. Consequently, Dick Greer agrees to see Maizie, whose troupe is playing Niagara, and attempts to buy her off.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-22
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The She-Devil
Overview: Secretly engaged to Bernice, Albert becomes infatuated with the gypsy Mina. The rich and jealous Renard is in love with Mina enticing her father to take revenge on Albert. A scuffle ensues during which Renard accidentally stabs Mina's father but allows everyone to believe Albert guilty of the crime. Bernice hears of the events and breaks off her engagement to Albert. He is pursued by the police until a last-minute confession saves him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-06
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The Young Man Who 'Figgered'
Overview: Bobby Tucker, while strolling about a Railroad Station, spies Nan Tubbs, a charming young lady whom her father and mother are very anxious to marry off to some rich young man. While waiting for a train she smiles at Bobby and he smiles back. Papa catches them at it, and horrified, hustles her away, after delivering a severe lecture on the subject of flirting. A few minutes later Pa Tubbs happens to pick up a sheet of paper on which Bobby had been industriously "figgering," and finds written on it, "My profit $50,000." Deciding the young man must be a millionaire in disguise, Pa Tubbs immediately makes amends by introducing his daughter to Bobby, who is rather bewildered, but tells them, "My father is Major-Gen. Tucker." This augments the young man's prestige, and he is invited to spend a week at the Tubbs' home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-24
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You Can't Beat It
Overview: Bill Pike, recently married, hits his home town about seven in the evening, and immediately is seized by a bunch of his old cronies who drag him into a hotel to have a game of poker. He protests wildly and at last escapes long enough to phone Dill, his young wife, who is anxiously awaiting his return. He's going to be very late. At home, Mrs. Pike receives a telegram telling her that her brother Steve will be there soon and he is anxious to meet Bill..
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-20
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The Vanishing Vault
Overview: While stopping at the Bronzegilt Hotel, Slick and Slim, two high-class and well-dressed burglars, overhear Baroness Vodka tell the manager she wishes to place her million-dollar box of jewels in the hotel vault, which is set into the wall at the end of the hallway. The manager accordingly escorts her to the big safe, and she watches him place the little box inside. Next morning the manager goes to cash a check for the Baroness, and finds the whole vault has completely vanished.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-07
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The Moonstone of Fez
Overview: While touring Algiers, Mrs. Osborne and her daughter, Winnifred, make the acquaintance of Schuyler Van Norden, a young American banker. At a little booth, Mrs. Osborne purchases "The Moonstone of Fez." On their way to their hotel, Winnifred and her mother are accosted by a beggar, who seizes Mrs. Osborne's hand and insists upon telling her fortune. The following night they retire in adjoining rooms. In the morning, Winnifred is frightened to find her mother has mysteriously disappeared.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-07
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A Study in Tramps
Overview: Because of a family feud, Bobby Scrawn's love for Mary Stretch seems hopeless, particularly after the young man has been spanked with a fence picket wielded by the sturdy arm of Pa Stretch. A few days later Mrs. Stretch gives a preliminary talk on tramps and how they can be saved. She announces the subject will be continued at her home on the following Thursday. Mary gets a startling idea and tells Bobby of it. Thursday arrives and twenty or more women are listening to Mrs. Stretch talk on hobos, when "Hungry Hank," a tough-looking and ragged tramp, applies at the kitchen door for a "hand-out."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-10
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Spades are Trumps
Overview: At the reading of her uncle's will, Honoria Spavin, a spinster lady, learns that his entire fortune is to be left to her on condition that she marry her cousin, Benvenuto Torrini, a young man who is not an Italian, but an American, living in America. If she refuses to marry Ben, all the fortune goes to him, but if he refuses to marry her, she is to get the money. Ben happens to be already engaged to Ella Cunningham, and when he receives a copy of the will he shows it to Ella who thinks up a plan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-09
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The Master of His House
Overview: Becoming extremely tired of his wife's propensity for indulging in bridge whist parties and other social functions, to the sad neglect of her domestic duties, Walter Greene determines to teach her a lesson.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-24
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A Little Puritan
Overview: Sam Hubert, a theatrical manager, learns that his greatest rival in the theatrical field has signed up a new and brilliant star, Corinne, the dancer, whom Hubert has never met. He feels that he must do something to counteract this scoop and decides to leave at once for Philadelphia for the purpose of signing up a certain European celebrity who has just arrived from abroad.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-23
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The Mysterious Lodger
Overview: Returning home from a matinee, Ralph Brent, a poor actor, finds his step-child dead. The child's mother returns intoxicated, having purchased drink instead of medicine for the child, with the money he had given her. He accuses her of causing the little one's death, and snatching the bottle of liquor from which she is about to drink, throws it away. Infuriated, she springs at her husband with a bread knife, stumbles and accidentally kills herself. Fearing that he will be suspected of murder. Brent hastily makes up in the disguise of an old man and leaves the house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-27
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Our Fairy Play
Overview: The Payne family of Lonesomeville set up a Fairy Play, founded upon the story of "The Sleeping Beauty," and Helene Payne secures the wealthy Mrs. Wilson's financial support. She is a lady no longer young, but insists upon playing the ingenue lead. Miss Tibbitts. a mournful old maid, is secured for their "Danseuse." Willey Finley gives out the parts, while Doctor Heffernan is given the directorship.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-13
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Uncle Bill
Overview: On his way to New York to visit his relatives, the Masons, for the first time, Uncle Bill meets "Oiley" Curley, a crook. John Mason, Uncle Bill's nephew, is candidate for Governor and, on the eve of Uncle Bill's arrival, Mason and his political constituents are in secret conference with Murray of the money powers. Meantime, Julia, Mason's wife, goes on a little joy ride with Jack Trent, husband of Vivien, her friend who is on a joy ride with Mason's father, a delightful old rogue. Gladys, Julia's hoydenish sister with whose photo Uncle Bill has previously fallen in love, is left home alone.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-13
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Bertie’s Stratagem
Overview: Just out of college, in love with Letty Grey, whose father is quick-tempered and opposed to him, also possessing a wealthy rival, Bertie feels he doesn't stand much show until he tells his troubles to Belle Chester, his cousin. Her sympathy and encouragement brace him up wonderfully. Meanwhile, Letty's father has bullied her into submitting to an engagement with the rival, Clarence Merkle, who is a susceptible gentleman of some 40 summers. Bertie learns of this, and in despair, again consults Belle. She tells him she will reconnoiter the enemy. She visits Letty, is introduced to Merkle, and learns he simply cannot resist a woman's wiles. She then secures a classy walking rig, tells Bertie to put it on, assists him to fix up as a fair young damsel, and gets him introduced at Grey's house as her friend from the West.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-08
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Billy's Wager
Overview: The wealthy Mr. Billy gives a party at his palatial residence. He is in love with the handsome widow, Mrs. Constance, and has a deadly rival, the Count De Meaux. During the evening the latter makes a wager for five thousand dollars with Billy that he could not earn his own living for one month without help. Billy takes the bet and the widow promises to marry him if he wins it. He is not to accept assistance of any kind from friends, nor draw any money from his bank, and he is to start out penniless. The wager is to expire at twelve midnight on Hallowe'en.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-06
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The Boarding House Feud
Overview: Aching for an opportunity to get square with strong-willed Mrs. Drexel, boarding house mistress and mother of his sweetheart, Constance, Billy sees his opportunity when his uncle Battledore is suddenly called out of town. He hangs out a "Boarders Wanted" sign in front of his uncle's house, then with a big roll of bills the young man, just after Mrs. Drexel has given all the servants a raking over, lures them all away from her. When her boarders troop down to breakfast and find no breakfast awaiting them they all quit on the spot with feelings beyond description.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-29
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Burglarius Billy
Overview: Finding that his attentions to Nellie are undesirable in the eyes of Jenkins, her father. Billy tries to elope with the girl, but the young people's plans are overheard by the old gentleman, who disguises himself in Nellie's cloak and veil and attends the meeting place himself. Father beats Billy up and chases him away from the place after ordering him never to come back. Billy conceives a brilliant idea. With his handkerchief over his face, bandit-fashion, he sneaks up to the Jenkins home that evening and climbs in a convenient window...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-01
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Wedding Bells
Overview: Rosalie Wayne (Talmadge) meets Reginald Carter (Ford) after he introduces himself while chasing her dog with one of his oxfords, and she marries him in haste. Reggie comes down with the measles following a quarrel over her bobbed hair, not knowing he is ill she leaves for Reno and then Europe. After a year's absence and having secured her divorce, she meets Reggie again and finds him engaged to another. Jealousy arouses her to break up the match, but the wedding is progressing before she devises a means of doing so. Reggie, however, is satisfied and glad to be reunited with his Rosalie despite her sharp tongue and unusual method of winning his love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-17
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Polly of the Follies
Overview: A romantic comedy, focusing on the love triangle between Bob Jones, Alysia Potter and Polly Meachum. Originally engaged, Bob and Alysia elope to Bowling Green, Connecticut, where they meet Silas Meachum, a campaigner against motion pictures, and his daughter, Polly. The eloping couple’s family arrive, chasing them, and persuade them to wait to get married. Polly goes to New York to join the Ziegfeld Follies, but is ultimately replaced by Alysia. As Bob consoles Polly, Alysia breaks off the engagement, and Bob and Polly may now marry.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-30
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Dulcy
Overview: Dulcy, a devoted but scatterbrained bride, tries to improve her absent husband's finances by inviting two of his business prospects to dinner. Though at first thoroughly confusing the deal, she does get her husband a bigger share than he bargained for.The film is now considered to be lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-27
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