Fritzi Ridgeway
Also Known As: Fritzie Ridgeway, Fritzie Ridgway, Fredricka Berneice Hawkes
Biography: From Wikipedia Fritzi Ridgeway (April 8, 1898 – March 29, 1961) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1934. She married film composer Constantin Bakaleinikoff. In 1928 she built the Hotel del Tahquitz in Palm Springs, California. She was born in Butte, Montana and died in Lancaster, California from a heart attack.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Butte, Montana, USA
Birthday: April 08, 1898
Deathday: March 29, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Fire Flingers
Overview: A poor man assumes the identity of a wealthy look-alike after accidentally killing him; his wife prefers the new, non-abusive version and falls in love him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-21
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Red Hot Speed
Overview: A newspaper publisher's daughter is arrested for speeding. In order to avoid embarrassing her father, since his newspaper is in the midst of an anti-speeding campaign, she uses an assumed name. She is paroled into the custody of an assistant district attorney, who doesn't know who she really is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-27
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The Son of the Golden West
Overview: Tom Hardy (Tom Mix), a pony express rider, is carrying government gold in a coach to Wassatch accompanied by Alice Calhoun (Sharon Lynn) , the daughter of the US telegraph survey station. The gold is to pay for the US Telegraph Survey and it is to be delivered to the survey chief, Jim Calhoun (Thomas Lingham). The coach is attacked by bandits led by the Slade (Duke Lee) and Kane (Mark Hamilton).
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-30
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Hollywood
Overview: Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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The Wrong Man
Overview: A stagecoach robbery leads to a desperate attempt to round up the bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-07
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Branded Man
Overview: Branded Man is an obscure silent Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-21
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Winning a Bride
Overview: A ranch foreman wins a series of events at a frontier day rodeo.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-11
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Overview: An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-07
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Face Value
Overview: Howard Crandall Jr., who comes from a wealthy family, has suffered a disfiguring facial injury during World War I, and at war's end stays in Paris rather than return home to his family and sweetheart Muriel looking the way he does. While in Paris he forms a secret society of men who are in a similar position. When he finally does decide to return home, his family and Muriel are at first shocked by his appearance, but they recover and try to make him feel comfortable and accepted. However, it's not before Howard begins to feel their actions are motivated more by pity than love, and when Arthur Wells, who was once Muriel's suitor, shows up one day and is greeted warmly and intimately by Muriel, Howard starts to think that his suspicions are justified.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-01
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Hell's Heroes
Overview: Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers. Remade as Three Godfathers (1936) and 3 Godfathers (1949).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-27
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The Calendar Girl
Overview: Mildred Manning, known as Middy, is an apprentice in Madame Lizette's fashionable shop. Her beauty is discovered by Madame's brother, George Martin, and she is made a model. One afternoon, she tries on a rejected bathing suit and by adding a touch here and there, makes it into a beautiful creation. Madame then sends her to the beach to carry out a clever advertising scheme. At the shore, Middy is pursued by a reporter and photographer, who have been commissioned by Madame to photograph the girl for calendar advertising. In her flight from the publicity men, Mildred takes refuge in a car owned by lawyer Philip Gordon, who gets into the vehicle and drives off with Middy. Middy has him drop her off where she doesn't live, and he ends up having to try to track her down.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-15
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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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Ladies of the Big House
Overview: A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
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A Woman's Vengeance
Overview: A young girl has to prove her skillness with the gun against a gang outlaws, revealing herself as the real heroine of a Western town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-04
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This Is Heaven
Overview: This film was released in both silent and sound versions.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-22
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The Mad Parade
Overview: The story of eight women and how they served their country during World War I.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-18
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We Live Again
Overview: Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-01
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The Soul Herder
Overview: Harry is thrown out of town and on his way across the desert meets a minister and his family; when the man is killed in an Indian raid, Harry takes care of his little daughter, later puts on the minister's frock and reforms a town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-07
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Lonesome Ladies
Overview: Released on July 3, 1927
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-03
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Prince of Diamonds
Overview: Eve Marley (Aileen Pringle)is forced to marry a wealthy jeweler that she does not love in order to save the man she loves, Rupert Endon (Ian Keith), from being unjustly arrested as a thief. Rupert, unaware of the reason his sweetheart married his rival, goes to the Far East where he grows rich after discovering a diamond mine. He breaks Eve's husband by underselling him and then returns to England to exact his revenge on the woman he thinks did him wrong.
Genres: Adventure Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-26
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The Enemy
Overview: Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-08
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When Doctors Disagree
Overview: Millie Martin falls for falsely accused Joe Turner on a train where he is masquerading as a doctor. When Millie feigns illness to get closer to Joe things get complicated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-25
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A Petal on the Current
Overview: A shop girl finds herself disgraced after being pressured into drinking too much at a party and getting arrested for public drunkenness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-03
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The Old Homestead
Overview: Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-08
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House of Mystery
Overview: Out of the Mystic Temples of Old India crept this terrible Monster to wreak vengeance of the Hindu Gods. One by one its victims fell with not a trace of the bloody assassin.
Genres: Comedy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-30
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No Ransom
Overview: In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat son. To gain some much needed attention, the lonesome fellow hires a hitman to kill him. Instead, the gunman kidnaps him to frighten the family into appreciating their devoted father.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-07
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Judy of Rogues' Harbor
Overview: Judy, an orphaned waif, lives with Grandpap Ketchel, a cruel and often brutal man. The sole protector of little Denny, Ketchel's grandson, Judy is forced to accept the attentions of Jim Shuckles, whom she abhors and who has compromised her sister Olive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-29
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The Hero of the Hour
Overview: Billy Brooks, who exhibits an effeminate personality, leaves his Wall Street magnate father and goes on the road as a perfume salesman. In an effort to cure his son of his womanly ways, Brooks, Sr. wires Nebeker, an old rancher friend, to kidnap Billy from the train and "make a man of him."
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-23
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