Alice Brady
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alice Brady (November 2, 1892 – October 28, 1939) was an American actress who began her career in the silent film era and survived the transition into talkies. She worked up until six months before her death from cancer in 1939. Her films include My Man Godfrey (1936), in which she played the flighty mother of Carole Lombard's character, and In Old Chicago (1938) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alice Brady, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 01, 1892
Age: 132 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 28, 1939
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The Boss
Overview: A man rises from rags to riches, first by boxing, then as a saloon owner, freight contractor, and eventually dockyard boss. However, the man's brother-in-law complicates things with his dockworker union activism. The film is presumed lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-24
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The Dancer's Peril
Overview: The Grand Duke Alexis has been happy with his wife, Lola, formerly the queen of the St. Petersburg ballet, and their baby daughter, Vasta. But the lowering cloud that has always hung over them through the refusal of the Russian Court to recognize their marriage breaks when the Duke learns there is an intrigue against his wife's life.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-12
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The Spurs of Sybil
Overview: Heiress Sybil Drew is told by her Aunt Annabelle she must earn her own living for a year or be disinherited. Setting out for New York she finds many adventures and toils, including being mistaken for a thief before true love and success come her way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-04
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My Man Godfrey
Overview: Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-02
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The Gay Divorcee
Overview: Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom she later mistakes for the corespondent her lawyer hired.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-12
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The Gilded Cage
Overview: In The Gilded Cage, Alice Brady plays Princess Honore, who falls in love with a handsome prince who doesn't know her true identity (nor does she know his).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-09
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Young Mr. Lincoln
Overview: In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-09
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Gold Diggers of 1935
Overview: Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-15
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One Hundred Men and a Girl
Overview: The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski to lead them in a concert that leads to a radio contract.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-05
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Hush Money
Overview: The only daughter of wealthy Wall Street banker, Evelyn Murray, while with her aristocratic fiancé, Bert Van Vliet, runs down and injures newsboy Terry McGuire. To avoid an embarrassing outcome, Bert persuades her to flee the scene of the accident. Evelyn is conscience-stricken and informs her father; he is then forced to pay "hush money" to a garage attendant who has witnessed the accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-01
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Three Smart Girls
Overview: The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-20
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Joy of Living
Overview: Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-06
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Go West Young Man
Overview: Mavis Arden is a sensational movie star. Her following spans the world and her personal appearance tours prove her popularity. On her way home from one such appearance, Arden's car breaks down. She orders her publicity man to find her a place to stay, suspicious that he planned the break down to keep her away from a man. However, she soon finds herself mooning over an attractive repairman in town and listening to his ideas about inventing equipment for film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-18
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Little Italy
Overview: Rosa is told by her father that she must marry a man from her own clan. She refuses, and vows to marry the first man she meets. That man is Antonio, who is from a hated clan. Antonio is in love with Rosa, although she hates him. Despite this, she keeps her vow and marries him.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-01
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In Old Chicago
Overview: The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-15
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The Knife
Overview: Kate Tarleton grows up on a Southern plantation and becomes engaged to her guardian, Dr. Robert Manning, a famous surgeon. When Robert, Kate, and her younger sister Mary Lou visit New York, where the doctor wishes to conduct medical experiments, the superstitious Kate goes to the home of a fortune-teller named Stella Hill. Stella, whose principal business is white slave trafficking, drugs Kate and forces her to work in a "den of vice," run by Stella and her accomplice Jimmy Bristol, where she contracts syphilis and goes insane. Robert, Detective Ellis, and a lawyer named Billy Meredith rescue Kate, who recovers her sanity but remembers nothing of her bondage.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-01
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Broadway to Hollywood
Overview: In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-15
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The Ballet Girl
Overview: Aerial dancer La Syrena, whose jealous husband kills her while she performs in midair. Her daughter, Jennie Raeburn, soon orphaned, grows up unaware of her mother's occupation, but nonetheless feels the urge to dance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-24
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Should Ladies Behave
Overview: A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-01
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Zenobia
Overview: A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-21
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Call It a Day
Overview: The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-17
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Let 'em Have It
Overview: Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-15
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Mama Steps Out
Overview: A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-05
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Beauty for Sale
Overview: A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-01
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When Ladies Meet
Overview: Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-23
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Stage Mother
Overview: Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-29
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A Self-Made Widow
Overview: On the promise of marriage, Sylvia Smith, a simple girl from Lone Meadows, follows her lover to the city only to discover that he already has a wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-23
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The Land of Hope
Overview: On her journey to the United States, Marya Nisko falls in love with another immigrant, Sascha Rabinoff. Arriving and discovering her sister's poverty, she fails as a lady's maid and then arranges an introduction to a theatrical manager, though Sascha is opposed to her becoming a professional dancer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-01
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Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Overview: A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-11
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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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Metropolitan
Overview: Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-17
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Mind Your Own Business
Overview: Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy Scouts. When Orville's editor, Crane, orders him to spice up his column, Orville's wife Melba writes a gossip column using animals as metaphors for people. Crane loves Melba's article and gives Orville a raise, and the column becomes a hit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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The Harvester
Overview: In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the town's prize catch, harvester David Langston, who is wedded to the soil. David is friends with orphan Ruth Jameson and, although she is in love with him, he eventually gives in to the machinations of Mrs. Biddle and consents to marry Thelma. Meanwhile, technological advances come to town, including its first gasoline buggy, galvanic battery, and metal bathtub fitted with running water. When Mrs. Biddle tries to convince David to give up the farming life and join her husband in real estate, Mr. Biddle, hen-pecked and dissatisfied with city life, warns David against selling his farm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-18
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Merry Go Round of 1938
Overview: Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-14
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Goodbye Broadway
Overview: Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. Harry Clark, the clerk at the rundown Swanzey Hotel, insults Pat and the latter uses the $4000, that he and Molly have been saving for years to buy a retirement farm, to buy the hotel so he can fire Harry. Local skinflint, J.A. Higgins wants the hotel as he knows the state has intentions to buy it for a museum, but Pat won't sell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-01
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Lady Tubbs
Overview: A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-02
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A Trip to Paramountown
Overview: Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-10
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Dawn of the East
Overview: Countess Natalya is a glamorous refugee from the Bolshevik revolution. Supporting herself and her ailing sister by dancing in a Shanghai dive, she's is talked into a marriage with a wealthy Chinese gentleman. She has been led to believe that this marriage of convenience is not binding, thus she sees no reason not to marry American diplomat Kenneth Harlan once she's arrived in the States.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-01
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Missing Millions
Overview: A girl seeks revenge after a Wall Street broker had falsely accused her father and sent him unjustly to prison.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-17
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La Vie de Bohème
Overview: Mimi, an orphan, is taken in by a drunken innkeeper and becomes a domestic. She meets Rudolphe, scion of a well-to-do family, who rescues her from the unwanted advances of a drunken hotel guest. They fall madly in love, but Rudolphe's uncle, M. Durandin, wants Rudolphe to marry a family friend, Madame de Rouvre, and writes Mimi a letter, telling her that she is ruining Rudolphe's life. Musette and Marcel, friends of Mimi, also try to break up the romance by introducing Mimi to other men, and Rudolphe becomes jealous and leaves her. Brokenhearted, Mimi declines in health and eventually throws herself into the river but is rescued and taken to the hospital. Realizing it is only a matter of time before she dies, she drags herself back to the room where she and Rudolphe were happiest. Rudolphe is there and she dies knowing that he loves her.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-18
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Betsy Ross
Overview: Revolutionary War heroine Betsy Ross finds herself in competition with her sister for the affections of a British soldier.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-16
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A Dark Lantern
Overview: Although loved by a respectable doctor, a society-girl is fascinated by a prince and follows him to Rome. When he reveals himself in his true colours, she has a nervous breakdown and her faithful doctor restores her to health - and to himself.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-16
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Anna Ascends
Overview: While working in Siad Coury’s coffeehouse in a Syrian neighborhood of New York City, Syrian immigrant Anna Ayyob falls in love with reporter, Howard Fisk, who is investigating a jewel smuggling ring. When she discovers that her co-worker, “The Baron,” is involved with international thieves Count and Countess Rostoff, Anna telephones Howard with the information, but the Baron attacks her. During the encounter, she believes she accidentally kills him, and disappears. Three years later, after anonymously writing a widely popular novel called Anna Ascends, based on her own life, Anna again meets Howard Fisk. To save Howard’s sister, Bessie Fisk, from marrying Count Rostoff, Anna exposes the jewel thief and confesses to the Baron’s murder. Fortunately, Howard’s investigation discloses that the Baron is very much alive. Her named cleared, Anna marries Howard.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-20
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Her Silent Sacrifice
Overview: In Savenay, France, the beautiful Arlette runs the local inn with her grandfather, Chaupin. Starving artist Richard Vale comes to stay at the inn and takes a liking to Arlette, who falls madly in love with him after modeling for his sketches. But when Prince Boissard arrives in Savenay and also takes an interest in Arlette, he makes a deal with the starving artist: Hell make Richard famous is Arlette can be the Princes mistress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-14
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The Fear Market
Overview: A woman struggles to overcome a cabal of blackmailers, but learns that the boss of the blackmailers is none other than her own father. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-25
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The End of the Road
Overview: Childhood friends Mary Lee and Vera receive two different versions of the 'birds and the bees' from their mothers. Mary Lee gets the facts, while Vera gets a prudish fairytale version. Their lives separate after graduation, Mary Lee becomes a nurse who falls in proper love with a Doctor, whereas Vera follows her mother's advice and seeks to marry a rich man, but falls for the unlawful and syphilitic charms of a wealthy cad. Mary Lee and her Doctor rescue Vera and help her get proper care after a series of revelations showing actual patients of the loathsome disease. Finally, Mary Lee and her new husband volunteer to help our boys fighting the Huns in France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-16
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Breakdowns of 1937
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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The Indestructible Wife
Overview: Romantic comedy variation on "The Taming of the Shrew" starring Alice Brady.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-26
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Marie, Ltd.
Overview: When Drina Hilliard (Alice Brady) finishes college, she heads home to New York, where her mother Marie (Mrs. Gertrude Hillman) runs a millinery shop. On the way, she meets the handsome Blair Carson (Leslie Austen), but the budding love affair gets sidetracked as Drina begins working for her mother. Marie has been running a petty scam -- when a man buys a hat for his wife or sweetheart, she overcharges him and splits the difference with the woman. The Archives Du Film Du CNC holds a complete copy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-23
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The Death Dance
Overview: Arnold Maitland is devastated when he finds out that his wife Cynthia is having an affair with a man named Boresky. He falls in love with Flora Farnsworth, a cabaret dancer, and sets out to divorce his wife and marry Flora. Unfortunately, Arnold is killed in an accident, and Flora turns for comfort to his business partner Philip Standish, and soon falls for him. Enter Cynthia, who has tired of Boresky and wants Philip for herself. She hatches a plan that will get rid of both Flora and Boresky and leave Philip for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-01
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Miss Petticoats
Overview: Miss Petticoats stops a runaway horse, saves a wealthy woman from death, is rewarded with position as a private secretary. Society shuns her. She goes abroad; then see how she becomes the acknowledged daughter of a French Count and falls heir to a title.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-31
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A Woman Alone
Overview: Alice Brady plays a farm girl who marries the son of her next-door neighbor. Her dreams of a gay social whirl are shattered when her husband takes a job as a railway station agent in a lonely prairie outpost. Desperate for companionship, she begins an affair with the railroad president's son, unaware at first that her lover is likewise married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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The Lure of Woman
Overview: John Found, a well-educated American Indian, works as an interpreter on an army post in the West. Although John Lane, a post officer, loves Katie O'Day, a rancher's daughter, he becomes the amorous target of the widowed Mrs. Van Allen. To rid herself of Katie, Mrs. Van Allen starts a rumor that Lane has a wife in an insane asylum.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-27
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Out of the Chorus
Overview: Dancer Florence Maddis marries Ross Van Beekman, son of an aristocratic New York family, and despite her friends’ doubts manages to fit into the family. Her scheming mother-in-law disapproves of her however colluding with Ned Ormsby, who wants Flo for himself, to make her appear faithless. When Ross suspects Flo of harboring Ormsby, he fires a pistol at her closet. Later when Ormsby is found shot in his house, Ross confesses, believing himself guilty. Sick at heart, Flo returns to the stage of the Winter Palace. Ross is freed, however, when Ormsby’s enemy, Maddox, confesses to the crime, and Flo is happily reconciled with Ross.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-01
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Darkest Russia
Overview: Ilda Barosky, a Jewess whose father was killed by Russian soldiers, is a violin student in love with Alexis Nazimoff, son of the Russian aristocracy. Alexis' father arranges a marriage of convenience between Alexis and Olga Karischeff, the daughter of the ambitious minister of police and attempts to shame Ilda at the betrothal celebration. Defiant, Ilda is whipped before the entire assembly. Alexis rushes in to rescue her and terminates his engagement to Olga. In retaliation, Karischeff sentences both Ilda and Alexis to ten years in Siberia as his last official act. The couple attempt to escape their Siberian captivity, are caught and face a firing squad until Count Nazimoff, who has assumed Karischeff's position as minister of police, arrives with a pardon. The couple return home, and the penitent count finally grants them his blessings.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-23
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Maternity
Overview: Because of the loss of three generations of women in her family during childbirth Ellen Locke is frightened to have kids. Frustrated by her decision, her husband John finds himself drawn to his old love, Constance, now a widow with a child who bears her name. After her sister Marion dies in childbirth, Ellen becomes more obsessed, however one day when Ellen is driving little Constance home they have a car accident. An incident in the hospital changes her perspective leading to a reconciliation with John.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-28
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The Divorce Game
Overview: Young marrieds Paul, the Viscount De Sallure, and his bride Florence are in financial straits. Florence’s inheritance is available to her only if she separates from her husband so the pair concoct a scheme to give that appearance. Problems emerage when Paul seems to be taken the ploy to heart with Mlle. Fifi but all turns out well in the end.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-25
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At the Mercy of Men
Overview: Vera Souroff, a young Russian girl, is kidnapped off the street and raped by one of three officers of the Czar's guard. The crime is brought to the attention of the Czar, but Vera cannot tell which of the three officers is the guilty man. The Czar orders Count Nicho, the eldest of the three, to marry the girl, turns over the trio’s fortunes to her and imprisons the men. When the revolution breaks out, at the risk of her own life, Vera saves her husband knowing he holds the key to the identity of her attacker.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-20
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