Kate Price
Also Known As: Katherine Duffy
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cork, Ireland
Birthday: February 13, 1872
Deathday: January 04, 1943
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Easy Living
Overview: J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-16
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Perils of Thunder Mountain
Overview: movie serial
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-17
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Fools Highway
Overview: Mike Kildare, a swaggering youth from New York City's Bowery at the turn of the century, comes to the defense of Mamie Rose, a mender in a secondhand clothing shop, when his own gang of Irish-Americans insult her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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Enemies of Children
Overview: A street waif of questionable parentage through circumstances is taken into a wealthy home where she is adopted and cared for until her marriage, which follows the successful attempt to expose the mystery of her birth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-13
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Arizona Sweepstakes
Overview: Arizona cowboy Coot Cadigan travels to San Francisco and runs into Stuffy McGee, a small-time crook who stages phony "fights" to amuse the tourists. During one of those frights a man is killed and Coot gets blamed for it. Stuffy hides him out, but when he gets arrested Coot hightails it back to Arizona. with Stuffy's three children. To earn some money, he enters the Arizona Sweepstakes, a horse race with a large purse and one on which Col. Savery--the father of the girl Coot loves--depends on to save his ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-10
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The Spoilers
Overview: Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-26
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Another Man's Wife
Overview: Vengeful husband pursues, kidnaps his wife aboard a deserted ship when he becomes injured and taken aboard, then sinks in a collision following a fight with the captain for his wife. Stars real life husband-wife James Kirkwood, Lila Lee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-07
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The Wife of the Centaur
Overview: Jeffrey Dwyer is a writer and a poet who wrestles with the conflicts between his idealism and his passion. The two sides of his nature are personified in the women he loves: the sweetly innocent Joan Converse, and the sexy, charismatic Inez Martin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-01
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Good Night, Nurse!
Overview: Roscoe's wife, tired of his endless drunkenness, reads of an operation that cures alcoholism and has him admitted to No Hope Sanitarium to get the surgery. Roscoe, wanting out, eventually disguises himself as a nurse to effect his escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-30
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My Wife's Relations
Overview: Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-15
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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 Man Without a Conscience
Overview: Ruthlessly determined to succeed at any cost, Amos Mason ( Willard Louis ) comes to New York with his fiancee, Ann Sherman ( June Marlowe ). By unscrupulous dealings and with the use of Ann's savings, Amos meets with considerable success and casts aside Ann, who is forced to take a job as maid in the Graves mansion. Amos begins to court Shirley Graves ( Irene Rich ) and causes Ann's dismissal. Mrs. Graves ( Helen Dunbar ) persuades Shirley to marry Amos, despite her love for the penniless Douglas White ( John Patrick ). Ann marries James Warren ( Robert Agnew ), an architect, whom Amos hires to build a mansion, and Ann tells Shirley of Amos' previous perfidy. Shirley has an affair with Douglas White but becomes disgusted with illicit sex when she believes him to be unfaithful to her. Amos' schemes fall flat, and he is arrested for swindling. In prison he repents, Shirley's attitude toward him softens, and they are reconciled when he is freed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-07
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Love's Blindness
Overview: A British nobleman, heavily in debut to a moneylender, agrees to marry the man's daughter in exchange for his debt being cleared. However, since the girl is Jewish, her new "husband" lets her know that the marriage is strictly a business matter and that he could never have romantic feelings for one of "her kind".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-04
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Diamond Cut Diamond
Overview: A silent comedy in which a jealous woman wants to catch her husband in the act of infidelity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-23
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The Seal of Silence
Overview: Dr. Hugh Loring, whose hobby is heredity, has evolved the theory that physical or mental peculiarities of children reveal the parents. The doctor's intense desire for children is only equaled by his wife's aversion. On the occasion of the doctor admonishing his wife for being friendly with an admirer she leaves him, and when her child is born she swears Ruth Carden, an employee of her husband's, who has accompanied her, to secrecy, so that she may keep from the doctor his greatest joy. Mrs. Loring dies, and Ruth returns to the doctor's office, leaving the child in the care of the nurse. Three years later the nurse finds it necessary to give up the child, and the doctor, who has fallen in love with Ruth, is stunned, for he believes that the child is hers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-29
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A Million Bid
Overview: Agnes Belgradin is in love with a young doctor, Loring Brent. When Agnes' father dies, her mother takes her on a trip abroad. She insists that the young couple separate before they set sail, and promises that if they still love each other after a year they can reunite. But Mrs. Belgradin intercepts all the letters Agnes and Brent write one another, and convinces her daughter to marry a wealthy Australian millionaire.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-01
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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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Down the Hill to Creditville
Overview: Marcus Down makes only $15 a week. He has always paid spot cash for everything, until he meets Mamie New and they are wed. Then Mamie shows him how simple it is to get things on the easy payment plan. At first everything is rosy and matters go very smoothly for the young couple. Then the collectors begin to get busy and finally Marcus has nothing left, not even his bride, for the parson comes to take her for his fee, which had been arranged for on a ten cents a day basis.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-18
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The Guilty Ones
Overview: The Guilty Ones is a 1916 Oliver Hardy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-16
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A Night Out
Overview: A grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-31
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Frisco Sally Levy
Overview: Sally Lapidowitz is the daughter of an Orthodox Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother and the girlfriend of motorcycle cop Patrick Sweeney. Sally finds herself attracted to the fancy Stuart Gold, a young Jewish boy who charms her father but raises Patrick's suspicions, which are soon justified.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-02
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Show Girl
Overview: An aspiring dancer fakes her own kidnapping as a publicity stunt. Her new found fame causes trouble with her boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-23
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Wolf Tracks
Overview: Poverty-row Western story of two young strangers -- Jack Hastings and Jean Meredith -- inheriting one-half of a map to a hidden gold mine. A villain, Wolf Santell, steals Jack's half of the map, which is enclosed in a locket, only to lose it again in the river.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-01
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Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Overview: Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who comes from a rich family, and she begins to be drawn into the world of the upper class.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-10
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Her Crowning Glory
Overview: A widower becomes infatuated with his daughter's governess, to the displeasure of the child and her nurse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-11
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The Perfect Clown
Overview: A clerk is given $10,000 to deposit at the bank, but the bank is closed for the night so he tries to get to the bank president's house with the money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-14
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Overview: An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-15
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Lady Godiva
Overview: The story of how Lady Godiva came to ride naked through the streets of Coventry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-20
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A Juvenile Love Affair
Overview: Two little children, who think themselves very much in love with each other, imbued with the ideas of their elders, plan a romantic marriage. Alvin Strong, the boy, confides his intentions to the family's servant, Jaspar. Alvin arranges with Jane, his sweetheart, to elope in the usual way, through a window, with the assistance of a ladder.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-30
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Vultures and Doves
Overview: "Thirty per cent dividend! Is your money supporting you? If not, call and see us. Rising Sun Copper Company." This is the bait that the vultures throw out to catch the "doves," widows and orphans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-14
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Captain Barnacle's Legacy
Overview: Captain Barnacle receives a letter telling him that Mr. Markham, a South African whose life he saved some years ago, has died, leaving him a legacy in money and some property and jewels in South Africa. The will stipulates that he shall visit the property in person.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-04
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The Man from Egypt
Overview: Beware the ire of the sacred God Ammett, or any other of those Egyptian Gods for that matter. As a bellhop in a hotel, Hughey managed to get possession of a wonderful ruby, the eye of Ammet, and with its aid obtained an introduction to a millionaire and his beautiful daughter. But Hughey failed to remember that for every ruby or other gem stolen from an Egyptian shrine, there is a bearded sheik who has taken a vow never to eat, drink or sleep until the talisman has been returned to the irate God from whom it was stolen, and vengeance has been wrought on the guilty one. Just when Hughey is enjoying himself immensely at a fine little dinner with the fair damsel, his nemesis, the sheik, discovers him and a lively chase takes place. The sheik gets the ruby in his possession but Hughey regains it in jig time and the prospects are that the poor sheik will have some wait before he can look a square meal in the face again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-14
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Dancing Sweeties
Overview: Bill is a hot shot dancer who partners with Jazzbo, until he sees Molly at the dance. He enters the Waltz with Molly and wins first prize - and they wind up being married that same night. Now they are free of their parents nagging and their own bosses. 24 hours - no dancing as in-laws are visiting. 24 days - the Apartment is finished so off to the Hoffman's Parisian Dance Palace. Molly can only dance the Waltz and not the hot new jazz dance so she leaves and Bill follows. They are both unhappy, Bill has two left feet when it comes to romance.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-19
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Fanny's Melodrama
Overview: Although deeply in love with his wife, Smith is intensely jealous of her and when she receives a note from her cousin, Tom, to the effect that they have decided to give the melodrama, "The Wicked Earle," as a surprise to Mr. Smith on his birthday.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-22
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Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
Overview: The night of the grand reception and dance finds Belle Oakley in high glee as she leaves for the reception. She arrives at the reception and discovers that she is without her dancing shoes. She announces her loss and immediately all the young men volunteer to go in search of them. Harry Brown, who was not as quick as the others, is left behind and sits dejectedly on the curb while the others drive away.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-23
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The First Violin
Overview: Old Von Shultz, the first violin, finds as he grows older a longing for companionship. Hurrying from the theater the old musician finds little Helen sleeping on the steps of the stage door. He picks her up and takes her to his comfortably furnished home. The old man even grows childish, he is so pleased with the little tot's presence and he gives her the love with which his heart abounds. The next day he learns from the morning papers that Helen's mother and father were lost in a fire. He spends many happy hours with her, playing with her toys. He takes her to rehearsals with him, where she is the pet of the musicians. One year later Helen shows an aptness for the stage. This delights the old musician and the child grows nearer and dearer to his heart. A sad blow, however, comes to him when the Children's Society take the little girl away from him and once more he finds himself a lonely old man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-02
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Captain Jenks' Diplomacy
Overview: Sir Brian, an irascible old gentleman, who suffers from gout, receives a note saying his son Gerald is very ill at college, and asking him to come to Dublin. He is too ill to go so he gets his friend, Captain Jenks, to go instead of him. Jenks finds Gerald being nursed by a pretty girl and soon discovers that Gerald is in love with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-13
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Father's Hot Toddy
Overview: Tired of living alone with his two motherless daughters. Jones decides to take unto himself a wife. She is a charming woman and his daughters readily accept her as their stepmother. A few months later he is seized with a violent attack of grippe. He brings home a bottle of whiskey and asks his wife to prepare a hot toddy for him.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-17
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An Eventful Elopement
Overview: Emphatically opposed to Jack Moss, old Mr. McGillicuddy puts the ban on his marriage to his daughter Dolly. The old gentleman is adamant to the appeals of the young lovers and interposes his interference on every occasion, when they get together. McGillicuddy is seized with an attack of the gout, which handicaps him, and it is then Jack arranges with Dolly to elope.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-01
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A Lady and Her Maid
Overview: The photographer sends miss Ophelia a dozen photographs of her in different poses. Selecting the best one, she presents it to her favorite boarder, Billy, who does not think much of it and who gets very indignant when it is compared with the photo of his sweetheart. Miss Ophelia goes up to her room in tears and tells her faithful maid, Belinda, that her heart is broken. Belinda goes down and forcibly tells Billy what she thinks of him. Miss Ophelia resolves on suicide, because no one seems to love her. Belinda gets back in time to prevent this and, to divert her mistress, she suggests that they go together to a beauty specialist. Arriving there, both receive attention. Miss Ophelia gets a new complexion, while Belinda gets new teeth. Both invest in new gowns and dresses and the transformation is complete. At supper time, the boarders are all astounded.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-21
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Cupid Through a Keyhole
Overview: While making preparations for the entertainment of Aunt Maria, who had announced her arrival by telegram, Lila Lane gets herself shut in the storeroom. Here she is found later by her sweetheart, Harry Eschert, who has returned for some forgotten papers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-24
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The Sale of a Heart
Overview: To avoid ruin, an impoverished count arranges a marriage between his daughter and a wealthy man she does not love. After an accident, she is taken in by a gifted artist who saves her from an unseemly fate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-18
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Up in a Balloon
Overview: The Simpsons go for a picnic in the woods. After luncheon, while mother and father enjoy a nap, Betty, their beautiful daughter, strolls away, picking flowers. When near a hillside, Betty sees a snake and screams. She starts to run away, but bumps into Billy Gilwater. He kills the snake and Betty calls him a hero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-16
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Ladies of the Jury
Overview: Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-02
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The Cohens and the Kellys in Scotland
Overview: The Cohens and the Kellys travel to Scotland to buy plaid in the hopes that a prince will start a new fashion trend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-01
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Have a Heart
Overview: Sally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined when an accident cripples her and her betrothed magnanimously offers to not back out of the marriage. After rejecting his offer she starts a doll shop and tries to save for an operation. From her doll shop window she watches children and talks to Jimmie (James Dunn) the ice cream man. She wants to know Jimmie better, but is terrified of rejection.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-07
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The Rogue Song
Overview: In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-17
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His People
Overview: The two sons of a poor Russian-Jewish pushcart peddler on New York's Lower East Side are causing their father grief. As Morris and Sammy stray from traditions cherished by their parents, each generation learns to accept change to preserve the family as a source of love and respect.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-01
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The Cohens and the Kellys in Africa
Overview: Cohen and Kelly families go to Africa to buy elephant tusks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-21
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The Godless Girl
Overview: High school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic meetings. When a girl is accidentally killed by a stairway collapse, the Girl and Boy go to reform school where they are treated brutally.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-20
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Come on Over
Overview: Shane O'Mealia leaves Ireland, promising to send for his sweetheart, Moyna. In the mean time the son of the old lady she lives with, takes them back to America without telling Shane, who then must explain a girl he's been seeing in New York.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-11
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Arizona
Overview: A lost film. An Army lieutenant at a remote post in Arizona tells a young woman that he does not love her, so she contrives to marry his commanding officer, who is also his best friend.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-09
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Paradise
Overview: After a daredevil demonstration of aviator stunts, Anthony Fortescue-Stirling, more familiarly known as Tony, is cast adrift by his father. He meets Chrissie, of vaudeville fame, at a fancy-dress ball and falls in love with her.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-26
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The Bond of Music
Overview: Short anti-war film in which a French musician turns out to be a German spy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-30
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The Sea Tiger
Overview: Silent Film drama...now a lost film. Julian Ramos is a fisherman in the Canary Islands. As the guardian of his hotheaded younger brother Charles, Julian regards it as his duty to protect the boy from women -- and vice versa. When Charles begins pitching woo at aristocratic Amy, Julian runs interference by pretending to be in love with the girl himself. As time passes, of course, he stops pretending.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-27
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Love
Overview: "Fatty", a poor good hearted farm boy is deeply in love with Winifred, a farmer's daughter. A rich neighbor offers the farmer a large plot of land if Winifred marries his slow witted son Al. "Fatty" has less then one day to save heartbroken Winifred from the rushed ceremony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-01
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Broken Hearts of Broadway
Overview: The story of a young actress trying to attain stardom on Broadway.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-01
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The Waiters' Ball
Overview: Fatty and Al are competing to take the same girl to the Waiters' Ball, but the formal dress requirement presents a problem: Fatty owns a tuxedo, but Al does not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-25
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Just Show Folks
Overview: A day in the life of a family of circus performers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-02
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West Point of the Air
Overview: An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-23
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Lillian's Dilemma
Overview: Lillian dresses as a man to gain access to a boy's school. (from Performing Queer Female Identity on Screen: A Critical Analysis of Five Recent Films)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-10
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Shadow Ranch
Overview: Summoned to Shadow Ranch by his friend Ranny Williams, Sim Baldwin arrives to find Ranny has been ambushed and murdered. Sim learns ranch owner Ruth Cameron is under pressure to sell out to Dan Blake, as the dam on the ranch controls the town's water supply. Vowing to avenge his old friend's death, Sim takes up Ruth's fight and incurs Blake's hostility.
Genres: Action Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-27
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Linda
Overview: A young woman is forced by her abusive father to marry an older man even though she is in love with a kindly young doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-31
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A Horseshoe for Luck
Overview: Sidney Edwards finds a horseshoe, but his bad luck starts immediately. After several incidents, his son quietly borrows the horseshoe, perhaps to turn their family's luck around.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-25
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Sweeney's Christmas Bird
Overview: A pet parrot dies and get mixed up with the neighbor's Chrismas turkey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-25
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Mr. Jack Trifles
Overview: Mr. Jack flirts with a chic little miss, but accidentally knocks one of her gloves into the soup dish. He promises to replace it, but trouble ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-30
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An Elephant on Their Hands
Overview: While in his cups, an older gentleman buys a surprise for his family—one that eats peanuts and weighs 11,000 pounds. (MoMA)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-15
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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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Irene
Overview: Irene, a feisty Irish girl in Philadelphia, clashes with her family and walks out, heading to New York City to seek fame and fortune. She gets a job as a dressmaker's model and becomes involved with Donald, the scion of a wealthy family. Donald's mother doesn't approve of Irene and sets out to discredit her in Donald's eyes.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-24
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The Lovesick Maidens of Cuddleton
Overview: An old doctor hires a young new doctor to join his practice, particularly to attract women for more business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-20
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The Bachelor's Baby, or How It All Happened
Overview: Left destitute by the death of her young husband, Ethel Wynne lives with her old nurse, Hester O'Brien, a laundress. During the day Ethel works as a clerk in a toy store, leaving her babies in the care of Hester, and in the evenings, helps out by doing ironing and housework. One day, while she is at the store, Harley Clarke, a wealthy bachelor, comes in with a group of boys and lets them select whatever toys they fancy. It is his birthday, and. seeing the children hungrily eyeing the window display, he has decided to celebrate the day by treating them. Ethel is very much impressed by Mr. Clarke's evident kindliness, and after he has left the shop, she gets his name and address from Mayme, the girl who waits on him. When she arrives home, she finds Hester very sick and is obliged to call a doctor, who has her taken to the hospital. Ethel is now in a sorry plight. She has no one to take care of the baby while she is away at work, and no means of supporting herself at home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-08
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Jerry's Mother-in-Law
Overview: Using hypnosis and two agents, Jerry manages to get rid of his mother in law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-15
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Hypnotising the Hypnotist
Overview: As a bonus to this year’s screening of The Boatswain’s Mate, festival attendees can also enjoy “Vitagraph Girl” Florence Turner in this short comedy produced in 1911, when Turner was at the height of her fame that, as Jennifer Bean puts it, “mocks cultural anxieties associated with hypnosis, with the idea that one person can control the will, spirit or behaviour of another”.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-01
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Flesh and Blood
Overview: A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with the businessman's son.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-22
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As You Like It
Overview: After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-06
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Cockeyed Cavaliers
Overview: Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-29
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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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Vanity Fair
Overview: A silent short film telling the classic story of Becky Sharp.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-02
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Her Fatal Millions
Overview: Mary Bishop, a clerk in a jewelry store, finds out that her ex-boyfriend Fred Garrison, who left town to make his fortune, is coming back and wants to see her. Having heard that Fred has married a wealthy society girl and is quite rich, Mary borrows some jewelry from the store, dresses up in her finest and when she sees Fred, tells him that she has married the richest man in town and is now quite well-off. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-09
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Pardon Me
Overview: Snub puts over some amusing hokum in his efforts to be arrested.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-05
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Through The Back Door
Overview: A young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and travels to America to find her real mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-05
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The Sporting Venus
Overview: Familiar story of spoiled heiress, Blanche Sweet, who dabbles in romance with commoner Ronald Colman. They roam the highlands together hunting since this is Sweet's "sport." They seem to have an idyllic affair going when into the mix comes an impoverished prince (Lew Cody). He determines to steal away the heiress and pay off his creditors. Indeed, this is the plan he shares with them.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-12
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Two Weeks Off
Overview: Frances, a salesgirl, is planning a summer vacation at the beach with a girlfriend, who also works at her store. Just as she is getting ready to leave home, Dave, a handsome young plumber, arrives to repair a leaky faucet. Her vacation turns into a bust when it rains at the beach, but a hunky lifeguard shows up to brighten her day. Then, of all people, Dave the plumber shows up, too. Complications ensue.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-11
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Dinty
Overview: Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers in Chinatown.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-21
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Sally, Irene and Mary
Overview: The three are showgirls, each with a different approach to life and love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-27
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That Girl Montana
Overview: Montana Rivers finally escapes her father who had forced her to wear men's clothing and help in robbing and cheating. She is taken in by friendly Indians and stays at their camp. Later, Akkomi, chief of the tribe, asks his friend Dan Overton to take the girl as it is not good for her to remain in the camp. Dan provides for "Tana" and falls in love with her but, because of her past, she keeps him at a distance. Jim Harris comes by and recognizes Tana as the boy robber, but when he attempts to blacken her past, Dan gives him a beating which paralyzes him. Jim then stays on with Dan, who regrets his hastiness. Eventually Tana's father appears and demands that Tana go away with him. She refuses but also does not tell Dan of this trouble.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-31
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The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged
Overview: Anastasia is being picked up by an artist who wants to paint her picture.The artist have other intentions as well. He tried to seduce Anastasia. When he is tired of her, Anastasia returns home to her mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1910-09-23
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Cabman Kate
Overview: Kate, a washerwoman, takes Tim McGrath’s cab on security when he doesn’t pay his laundry bill. Trouble arises when Kate picks up her first passenger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-01
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The New Teacher
Overview: Society girl Constance Bailey becomes a schoolteacher in New York's Lower East Side, telling her fiancé, Bruce Van Griff, that she is sailing to Europe.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-20
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The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
Overview: The Jewish Nate Cohen and the Irish-Catholic Patrick Kelly are business partners who are constantly fighting. When they find out that Nate's daughter Sadye and Patrick's son Pat Jr. are getting married in Paris, the two and their wives take an ocean liner to France to stop the marriage. When they get there, they find that the situation has radically changed, and not for the better.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-15
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The Tornado
Overview: a tornado, flood, and log jam of astounding realism..a love theme as overwhelming as the tornado itself, acclaimed by critics as the most thrilling screen drama ever presented.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-04
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Nothing to Wear
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-07
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The Third Degree
Overview: Alicia, a circus artist, deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome lover. Fifteen years later, Annie Martin, Alicia's deserted daughter, is a trapeze performer in a sideshow at Coney Island, operated by Mr. and Mrs. Chubb, and has married Howard Jeffries in spite of opposition by his wealthy parents. Jeffries, Sr., hires a man (Underwood) to separate the young couple. Underwood convinces the newlyweds that each is being unfaithful to the other, and consequently, he is threatened by Howard. Driven to fury by Underwood's uncontrollable demands, Alicia shoots him in a quarrel and makes her escape just as Howard enters; despite his innocence, Howard confesses to the crime when subjected to the third degree. Annie, realizing her mother's guilt, claims to be guilty, but Alicia then confesses. Annie is saved from suicide by Howard, and they are united by love.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-01
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Paid Back
Overview: Wealthy orphan Carol Gordon marries the executor of her estate, though she does not love him. Soon afterward, trying to help a friend who is being blackmailed, she is misunderstood by her husband to be herself compromised.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-28
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Father and Son
Overview: A Chinese man cares for the orphan of a dying woman who stumbles into his laundry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-15
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The Beautiful Cheat
Overview: A motion picture producer has press agent Jimmy Austin take Mary Callahan, a pretty shopgirl, to Europe. After an extensive publicity campaign, Mary returns to the United States as Maritza Callahansky, a Russian actress owning the crown jewels. To add support to her newly established identity, Maritza gives a party in a Long Island mansion in the rightful owner's absence. The owners return to find their home taken over by strangers and are about to call the police when it is discovered that they are the parents of one of the extras in the company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-21
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The Guttersnipe
Overview: Mazie, a shop-girl of New York City's Little Ireland, goes to the aid of a young man in formal attire involved in a street fight. Though badly beaten, he bears a strong resemblance to Lord Lytton, the hero of a magazine story Mazie is reading in installments. Although he is, in reality, a soda clerk, Mazie permits his attentions, and together they read the "Sloppy Stories" yarn about English nobility.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-30
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Put up Your Hands
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Genres: Western Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-16
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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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Great Guy
Overview: A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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The Desert Flower
Overview: A mining camp girl attempts to reform a young derelict addicted to drink. Colleen Moore broke her neck in a fall from a moving handcar during the making of this rousing sagebrush melodrama. The pert Moore, an idol of her generation, quickly regained her mobility but was reportedly forced to sleep in a leather neck support for nearly ten years.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-21
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The Loyalty of Sylvia
Overview: The daughter of an old friend is staying with Dr. Laurence. Sylvia is a naughty girl; she puts sneezing powder into a bunch of flowers to make everyone in the house sneeze. After the doctor introduces her to the son of a friend, the two fall in love and get engaged. Dr. Laurence is also hopelessly in love with Sylvia, but keeps it a secret. After a ball he gets smallpox. Sylvia takes care of him and falls in love with him. She breaks off the engagement.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-12
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Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
Overview: Anybody Here Seen Kelly? is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by William Wyler. This was the first non-Western film to be directed by Wyler and is now considered to be a lost film. This is Bessie Love's final silent film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-09
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Two Overcoats
Overview: Solomon keeps a clothing store, he has in stock two overcoats of exactly the same make and pattern. Michael Gallagher, who is passing by and in need of an outer garment, notices Solomon's display and buys one of the coats. Shortly after the first sale, Peter Dempsey, a bachelor, happens along and takes quite a fancy to the remaining twin overcoat and Solomon makes another sale. Gallagher and Dempsey dine, at the same time, in the same restaurant. Finishing his meal, Gallagher leaves hurriedly and takes Dempsey's coat, quite naturally mistaking it for his own. When Dempsey is through with his meal, he puts on Gallagher's coat quite satisfied that it is his own. That night Dempsey goes to call on his sweetheart, who admires his new overcoat, and as she helps him off with it, a letter in a woman's hand-writing falls out of the pocket.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-24
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Humdrum Brown
Overview: Love and double-crosses at the bank.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-15
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The Cohens and Kellys
Overview: Jacob Cohen, who owns a dry goods store, and Patrick Kelly, an Irish cop, are constantly at loggerheads, feuding over anything and everything. Kelly's son, Tim, and Cohen's daughter, Nannie, fall in love despite the bickering of their parents; when they cannot get parental consent for their marriage, they secretly wed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-28
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God's Crucible
Overview: Their father, Michael Kalmar, imprisoned in Siberia, political refugees Ivan and Irma Kalmar seek freedom in Winnipeg, Canada. Encountering persecution at the hands of prejudiced neighbors, including their father's enemy, Makaroff. Ivan's violin playing both attracts Marjorie Menzies and earns him the enmity of District Attorney Mortimer Staunton, a rival for her affection. At a party at Makaroff's home, Irma is insulted, her abuser is slain and Ivan arrested. Her escapee father confesses to the murder but both men are freed when a family servant who admits to the murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-20
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All's Swell on the Ocean
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-18
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Faithful Wives
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-25
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Tin Pan Alley
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Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-28
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In Arcadia
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-18
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A Family Picnic
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-03
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Heavy Villains
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-14
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The Revolt of Mr. Wiggs
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-05
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When Samuel Skidded
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-22
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War
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-23
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The Athletic Family
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-09
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Father's Flirtation
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-20
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