Martha Franklin
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Germany
Birthday: November 13, 1868
Deathday: April 19, 1929
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Keep Smiling
Overview: The Boy, involved in a maritime disaster as a child, suffers from hydrophobia. He invents a life preserver that automatically inflates when it hits the water, using it to save the life of Rose Ryan, the daughter of a steamship magnate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-06
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Little Miss Smiles
Overview: The Jewish Aaronson family lives in simple neighborhoods in the ghetto of a big city. Esther spreads the sun with her smile and when her mother goes blind and is taken to hospital, she takes on the role of head of the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1922-01-15
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Other Men's Daughters
Overview: Dorothy Kane leaves home after being denounced by her father, a businessman, who is dictatorial with his family but very lavish to his female companions in the city. Dorothy unwittingly becomes involved with his nightclub friends, Lottie, Trixie, and Alaska. At a dinner party attended by elderly men and young girls, Dorothy meets her father and decides to decry him to Mrs. Kane, but later feels that it would bring much sorrow to her already neglected mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-15
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Perch of the Devil
Overview: Ida is married to small-time Montana prospector Gregory Compton. She's bored and lonely, so a friend, wealthy widow and woman of the world Ora Blake, easily gets her to share a trip to Europe. There, Ida lives the high life amid the continent's rich and carefree, but soon grows weary of it, wishing she were home again with her true love. Back in Butte, Gregory has hit a gold strike and telegraphs Ida of his luck. Ora however, with a secret love for Gregory, sabotages Ida's response by rewriting the return cable to indicate Ida will return, but only for a share in the gold. When the travelers return to Montana, Ida has found out about what backstabbing Ora has done, and fight it out at the mine, but unaware of their presence, the now-disillusioned Gregory intends on blowing up the mine at the same time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-06
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Points West
Overview: Cole Lawson Jr. goes undercover as a bandit to infiltrate the gang responsible for his father's death.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-25
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The Younger Generation
Overview: Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-04
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The Woman from Moscow
Overview: A silent film directed by Ludwig Berger.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-03
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The Climbers
Overview: The Duchess of Aragon is wooed by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, much to the displeasure of his mistress Countess Veya, who forces the Duchess out of Spain and into Puerto Rico, where she is forced to behave in very unladylike manners, such as riding horses like a cowboy, and dueling with and fending off various brigands and bandits.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-03
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Don Q Son of Zorro
Overview: Don Cesar De Vega crosses swords with a vicious member of the Queen's Guard, and steals the affection of a young heiress. When the officer frames the young upstart for murder, Don Cesar fakes his own death and retreats to the crumbling ruins of the family castle he plots his vengeance.
Genres: Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-15
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Trilby
Overview: The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-29
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Love and Learn
Overview: In love with political candidate Anthony Cowles, heroine Nancy Blair gets wind of the opposition's scheme to ruin Cowles' reputation. At the risk of her own good name, Nancy decides to turn the tables on the crooked politicos by framing Cowles' opponent in a compromising situation. Things don't go quite as planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-14
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