Leah Baird
Also Known As: Ada Frankenstein
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leah Baird (June 20, 1883 – October 3, 1971) was an American actress of the silent screen, and a screenwriter. She began her film career in 1910 in Jean and the Waif opposite Jean, the Vitagraph Dog. She played several leads in William F. Brady's troupe, opposite Douglas Fairbanks. In the late 1910s she played in 15 episodes of the serial Wolves of Kultur. Baird wrote and produced film during the 1920s. Baird later became a screenwriter and contributed to a number of Clara Bow features. She was married to producer Arthur F. Beck.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: June 19, 1883
Deathday: October 03, 1971
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Gender: Female
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Manpower
Overview: Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-09
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The Male Animal
Overview: The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-12
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The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Overview: Story of a rich man who backs a show for an old man and his granddaughter from the East Side who has brought joy to the money bag's crippled son.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-04
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Lady Gangster
Overview: An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners have different ideas.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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The Lady and the Glove
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-15
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The Bond of Blood
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-08-05
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Shadow of a Woman
Overview: Brooke's marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that her husband is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-14
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Busses Roar
Overview: A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-19
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Chumps
Overview: Bunny and Marsh attend a show and both fall in love with a charming danseuse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-16
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The Gamblers
Overview: Mrs. Travers, a society leader, is madly in love with Arthur Ingraham, a rising diplomat. Arthur is not in love with her and avoids her advances. He is in love with Beatrice Langton, a young debutante, to whom he becomes engaged. Mrs. Travers is furious.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-22
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The Wooing of Winifred
Overview: In order to inherit their uncle's property, two cousins must marry each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-11
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The Miracle
Overview: A story of that famous adventurer, Haroun al Rashid, the Caliph of Bagdad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-29
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Vampire of the Desert
Overview: Ishmael, the son of Hagar, an old hag, living on the edge of the desert, falls completely under the charms of Lispeth, a vampire. One day there passes the miserable hut in which these three strange people live, a wealthy banker, named William Corday, his wife and son. Derrick. Lispeth wields her magic power over the husband and soon has him in her power. When he attempts to kiss her, she repulses him. So clever is she that the wife has no idea of her husband's unfaithfulness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-16
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Winning Your Wings
Overview: Winning Your Wings is a 1942 short American World War II recruitment film produced by Warner Bros. Studios for the US Army Air Forces, starring Jimmy Stewart. It was aimed at young men who were thinking about joining the Air Force.
Genres: Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-28
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A Cure for Pokeritis
Overview: This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on the weekly poker game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-31
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Humoresque
Overview: A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-25
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A Birthday Gift
Overview: Left alone by the death of her mother and the imprisonment of her father for theft, little Alice goes to live with her uncle and aunt. The latter does not take kindly to the child. The little one longing for a mother's love determines to give her aunt a birthday present.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-18
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Moral Suicide
Overview: Wealthy Richard Covington, although aging and lonely, distresses his children, Waverly and Beatrice, by marrying a heartless seductress named Fay Hope. Because Fay's extravagant spending threatens to ruin Richard, Beatrice confronts her, which prompts Richard, who is hopelessly in love with the beautiful vampire, to order his daughter from the house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-12
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Following the Star
Overview: Helen Winthrop has ambition for the stage and when, during his summer sojourn at her home town, she is introduced to De la Marre, a popular star and dramatic favorite, she is elated and asks him to give her a part in one of his plays. He consents and from that moment she becomes restless, and longs to shake the dust of her village home from her feet. Her old sweetheart, John Tobin, is no longer in her class and receives a very cold goodbye when she leaves to shine in the limelight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-20
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The Foster Child
Overview: Mr. and Mrs. Caspar, home-loving, industrious people, long for a little one to bless their lives and their home. Their hopes are not in vain. One night, when they are sitting in the quiet, they hear the voice of a baby. Mr. Caspar, opening the door, finds a deserted child lying on the door-step. Tenderly lifting it in his arms, he brings it to his wife, who cares and nurtures it with a mother's love. Their adopted child is just one year old when a son is born to Mrs. Caspar, and an added joy comes to bless their union.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-12
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The Black Sheep
Overview: You would think that the death of his wife through his dissipation and neglect would have brought Jack Moreland to his senses. Instead he is more dissipated, and deserts his child, Clara, who is taken by her uncle, Harold Moreland, and brought up in ignorance of her father's existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-19
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The Ruling Power
Overview: Mr. Williams, a stern father and man of wealth, disinherits his son Hugh, for marrying Rose, a seamstress. Twenty years later, although Sose is practically supporting her sick husband, their little store is taken from them and they are obliged to move, with Martha, their daughter, to the tenement district.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-23
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Lights of New York
Overview: Lights of New York is a 1916 drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-29
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The Man Who Cheated Himself
Overview: A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-26
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The Volcano
Overview: Ruth Carroll, a schoolteacher in New York's Lower East Side, meets Bolshevist Alexis Minski at her grandfather's bookstore. After Ruth complains to her superintendent about undernourished schoolchildren, Minski's ravings cause her suspension, and she joins the Reds. Meanwhile, Captain Nathan Levison, returning from the Argonne, is assigned by the Secret Service to investigate New York's radicals. While visiting the Carrolls to announce the imminent arrival of Ruth's brother Davy, who saved Levison's life but lost his foot, Levison falls in love with Ruth. Chagrined, Minski convinces Ruth that Levison plans to arrest her and her grandfather, whereupon Ruth furiously requests that Levison be killed. After Governor Alfred E. Smith signs a bill making it illegal to display the Red flag, the Bolshevists plot to assassinate him, the Mayor of Seattle, and Attorney General Alexander Palmer, but Davy, with other soldiers, break up the meeting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-24
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Gasoline Alley
Overview: A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-02
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Bunny and the Bunny Hug
Overview: Norman Winthrop, a surveyor, accidentally meets John Bunny, an Irish watchman of a building. He introduces him to Tom and Will Hawley, two of his friends, at a little poker game in which Bunny pockets all the winnings. Talking over the matter the next day, the three men agree that it would be a great joke to introduce Bunny into society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-16
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One Law for Both
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-13
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The Hard Man
Overview: A Texas Ranger turns deputy sheriff; a woman wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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Air Force
Overview: The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
Genres: Action Drama War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-20
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Mildred Pierce
Overview: A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-20
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The Spider's Web
Overview: Banker Graham Lawlor is convinced to invest in Silver Shield Mines and becomes president, unaware that promoters Harris, Brennen, and Lester are frauds. He asks his son, Trevor, a small-town lawyer, to join as secretary. Trevor suspects foul play, warns his father, and returns to his practice after a disagreement. Lester, one of the promoters, woos and abandons his stenographer, Brenda Wray. When rumors surface about the mine’s instability, the promoters attempt to place blame on Lawlor. Knowing he holds documents to clear his name, they bribe his servant to steal them. Brenda, seeking justice from Lester, overhears the plan and informs Trevor. Lawlor’s servant, Thompson, is caught, confesses, and clears Lawlor’s name, leading to the arrest of Harris, Brennen, and Lester.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-14
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The Days of Terror; or, In the Reign of Terror
Overview: During the French Revolution, the Duke and Duchess of Bérac are captured by a mob. The Duchess agrees to marry one of their leaders in order to save her husband’s life. But her husband finds out about this, and forbids the Duchess to do so. The girlfriend of this leader takes revenge when she learns the truth, and stabs him. The two Béracs then proceed to the guillotine with their heads held high.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-13
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Ivanhoe
Overview: Wilfred of Ivanhoe (played by King Baggot), son of Sir Cedric (played by Wallace Bosco), returns to England from the Crusades in the Holy Land. As Ivanhoe, disguised, discovers that his beloved Lady Rowena (played by Evelyn Hope) has remained faithful, two weary travelers, Isaac of York (played by Herbert Brenon) and his pretty daughter Rebecca (played by Leah Baird), are admitted to Sir Cedric's castle, but after the knights learn that Isaac has money they abduct the visitors to the Norman stronghold of Torquilstone Castle.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-22
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Cutey and the Chorus Girls
Overview: Cutey tries to make an impression on a couple of chorus girls. He attends the burlesque show with his friends...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-09
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The Only Veteran in Town
Overview: More interested in automobiling than in anything else, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold are inclined to be neglectful of their little daughter, Dora, and are almost entirely unmindful of her grandfather, James Arnold, a one-armed G. A. R. veteran living with them. Dora makes up as well as she can to her grandfather for his loneliness and the two spend the greater part of their time together. On Decoration Day, Dora's parents want her to go with them to see the parade, but as they do not wish to take her granddad with them, she refuses to go and stays at home with him. After a while she coaxes the old gentleman with her into a field of daisies, where .she wreathes a crown of flowers and places it on his head. Seated thus in state, he is found by a delegation of citizens, who, having learned that he is a war veteran, bring a message that the town desires to honor him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-28
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When Husbands Deceive
Overview: Directed by Wallace Worsley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-20
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Is Divorce a Failure?
Overview: Directed by Wallace Worsley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-16
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The Red Barrier
Overview: A short romantic drama about a woman who is worshiped by both a lieutenant and a Russian diplomat; the latter wins, but later turns out to be a brute. A duel in the snow ensures that the lieutenant gets the woman, but both of them suffer from visions in which the deceased appears as soon as they try to get together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-04
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Stenographer Wanted
Overview: Two businessmen need to hire a stenographer, but their wives get suspicious when they notice a parade of beautiful young women entering and leaving their husbands' office.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-26
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
Overview: An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-25
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Overview: Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-17
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Bad Men of Missouri
Overview: The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-26
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Dangerously They Live
Overview: A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-24
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Wolves of Kultur
Overview: Alice Grayson's uncle develops a wireless torpedo that can be controlled by radio. After he announces his invention to several of his colleagues, two of them murder the scientist, steal the blueprints and prototype, and make plans to sell both to the highest bidder. When Alice discovers the identity of the thieves, the intrepid heroine, with the help of Bob Moore, her two-fisted boyfriend, desperately tries to recover the plans and torpedo before enemy countries can unleash the torpedoes against American ships.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-13
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Neptune's Daughter
Overview: The daughter of King Neptune takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister, who was caught in a fishing net. However, she falls in love with the king, the man she holds responsible.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-25
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Action in the North Atlantic
Overview: Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-12
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The Devil's Pay Day
Overview: When Gregory Van Houten went to the country to recuperate, he intended to remain only a few weeks and then return to plunge into the swirl of city gaieties. But when Van Houten returned he brought with him a country-girl wife and set upon himself the seal of new duties and obligations.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-29
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The People vs. John Doe
Overview: A farmer is unjustly convicted of a homicide he did not commit.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-10
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Sins of Ambition
Overview: Andrew Maxwell is so intent on creating a universal language that he completely neglects his wife, Laurette, and daughter, Ruth. Laurette decides she wants to return to the stage and is encouraged by Charles Prescott, a former suitor. When Maxwell discovers Laurette and Prescott together, he berates her, and she angrily moves out, taking Ruth along with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-19
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Make Your Own Bed
Overview: Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-10
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Absinthe
Overview: Melodrama about an artist who finds out in time about the personal and social damage that his alcohol addiction causes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-22
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The Adventure of the Italian Model
Overview: Master detective, Lambert Chase, unravels a case of poisoning
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-21
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The Old Silver Watch
Overview: Mary Collins dies leaving two children; Mildred ('Lucie') and Frank. On her deathbed, she gives Frank a silver watch that belonged to his father. The children are separated from each other and grow up with foster parents. Lucie and Frank meet again when he rescues her from a thief. They fall in love, unaware they are brother and sister. On their wedding day Frank is shot by the vengeful thief. The bullet however is stopped by the silver watch. On seeing the watch, Lucie realizes that they are brother and sister; the marriage is cancelled.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-19
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
Overview: An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-24
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Bullets for O'Hara
Overview: A detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-19
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The Capitol
Overview: Margaret Kennard takes her baby daughter Agnes and leaves her husband Eustace for James Carroll. Upon discovering that James is a thief, she leaves him, joins the Salvation Army, and places Agnes in a convent. Twenty years pass. Agnes marries young Congressman Blake. James is now a lobbyist trying to prevent Blake from passing an anti-profiteering bill. Attempting to help her husband, Agnes sets out to prove that James is a scoundrel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-01
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Life or Honor?
Overview: When retired merchant J. T. Manly is murdered, his son James, with whom he had quarreled, is arrested and finally convicted through the testimony of Manly's valet Aguinaldo. Shortly before James's execution, Sidney Holmes reveals to retired criminologist Martin Cross that on the night of the murder, he saw Aguinaldo commit the crime
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-01
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The Great Universal Mystery
Overview: A promotional one-reel film promoting the stars of Universal Pictures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-10
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One Foot in Heaven
Overview: Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-01
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It Should Happen to You
Overview: Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-15
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The Echo of Youth
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-16
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As a Man Thinks
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-20
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