Jay Belasco
Also Known As: Reginald James Belasco
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: January 11, 1888
Deathday: May 01, 1949
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Tangled Hearts
Overview: Montgomery Seaton, one of the idle rich, pays more attention to his friends' business than to his marital situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-02
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His Father's Footsteps
Overview: About a boy growing up and acting like this abusive, alcoholic father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-28
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Perils of the Secret Service
Overview: A 9-part movie serial
Genres: Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-09
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The Clash of Steel
Overview: Princess Seraphina, taking her small son, Paul, flees from Yulania to the village of Champ Fleury in Normandy, because of the debauchery of her husband, Prince Feodor. The agent of Saxonia, Count Stefan, calls to convince Feodor he should divorce his wife and marry Princess Sofia Anoria with her fifty million francs, for Saxonia needs Yulania as a buffer state in case of war. Prince Feodor consents and agrees to the conspiracy of the agent to gain reason for divorce.
Genres: Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-16
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Mary's Merry Mix-Up
Overview: Father objects to Jack, Mary's new husband, believing him to be merely a flirtatious lifeguard. Mary's brother is in town and Jack believes her brother is something more-- that she may be 'false'. Jack disguises himself as the family's new butler to investigate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-06
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A Bargain with Chance
Overview: First movie in the Lord John's Journal series. Detective novel author and war hero Lord John solves a mystery.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-14
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Bright Lights
Overview: A city chap, who as the result of a ducking, is forced to wear "rube" clothes. He meets a cabaret dancer who thinks to have fun by kidding him and keeping up the bluff he goes to the cabaret in this make-up. His action finally necessitates calling the police and in making a getaway he dons a ballet girl's costume.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-14
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A Lover's Lost Control
Overview: Mr. and Mrs. Gussle get up to some hijinks in this Keystone comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-02
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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Overview: Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-12
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Nerve Tonic
Overview: Jimmie Adams comedy produced by Al Christie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-17
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Her Wayward Parents
Overview: Father and Mother Lennox are a contented old couple, until daughter Jane comes home from college imbued with a passion for hygiene and an unswerving sense of duty toward them. With a book, "Old People and Their Care" as her guide, she puts them through a course of exercising "sprouts," orders hygienic meals, throws wide the windows to cold winds, and upsets their well-ordered comfort.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-26
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The Wedding Night
Overview: While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik (Bellamy). Due to a snowstorm, Tony and Manya are trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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Bonnie Scotland
Overview: Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-23
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Hold Your Breath
Overview: When her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot involving stolen jewelry and a very agile monkey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-24
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A Two Cylinder Courtship
Overview: A young couple head to Mexico to elope, but as they get closer to the border they realize they're running out of gas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-01
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A Maid to Order
Overview: A lady unable to get a maid for a house showing dresses up as the main herself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-20
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Bobbie of the Ballet
Overview: Wealthy Jack Stimson (Jay Belasco) falls in love with Broadway diva Velma Vrooman (Gretchen Lederer), and for her sake bankrolls the musical production in which she is currently starred. But when Velma proves to be fickle and unreliable, Jack shifts his affections to humble chorus girl Bobbie (Louise Lovely).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-12
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The Gilded Spider
Overview: An unusual story about the crossing paths of the poor Italian family of the sculptor Giovanni (Lon Chaney) and a reckless American millionaire, Cyrus Kirkham (Gilmore Hammond).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-08
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The Grasp of Greed
Overview: En route to Australia, beautiful authoress Alice Gordon (Louise Lovely) is shipwrecked on a desert island in the company of wealthy book publisher John Meeson. Sensing that his days are numbered, and lacking pencil and paper, Meeson tattoos his last will and testament on Alice's lovely back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-17
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The Price of Silence
Overview: A woman gives up her illegitimate child, and then marries without telling her new husband about the child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-11
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Lord John in New York
Overview: Lord John, a detective novelist and the Marquis of Haslemere's brother, receives word that the stage adaption of one of his stories will not be performed because Roger Odell, a millionaire, has spoken against him. After tracking him down, Lord John joins his foe on an ocean steamer along with Grace Callender, an heiress, and Dr. Rameses, a hypnotist and Egyptian cultist. While the evil Dr. Rameses tries to steal a gold-filled mummy from Maida, Odell's adopted sister, Lord John confronts Odell, who reveals that his anger stems from a disservice that the Marquis once committed against Maida.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-14
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No Vacancies
Overview: Arrow comedy shot in 1921 but released 2 years later, with an ensemble cast including Jay Belasco, Blanche Payson, Billy Armstrong and Jack Duffy. The plot centers around Jack and his wife who are looking for a place to rent. But what to do when the housing situation is not exactly easy?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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The Wrong Mr. Wright
Overview: Scott Sidney silent mistaken identity romantic comedy about a timid man, named Seymour White, who creates a new kind of ladies' lingerie. When he goes to Atlantic City to meet his lost sweetheart, he discovers she has grown fat and ugly, so he pretends to be "Mr. Wright". All kinds of comic hilarity ensue. This is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-27
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Jenny Be Good
Overview: When a young woman's great romance is interrupted by the influence of her lover's parents, she turns to her art as a violinist to console herself. As she is about to achieve her highest triumph, she is suddenly confronted by the return of the man she loves, and she must make a choice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-30
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The Grip of Jealousy
Overview: In pre-Civil War days, a woman dies in childbirth. Her sister, believing the child to be illegitimate, leaves the baby in the care of one of her sister's slaves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-28
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The Last Cigarette
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Genres: Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-09
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