Arthur Metcalfe
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fulham, London, England, UK
Birthday: December 18, 1875
Deathday: October 01, 1960
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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If Winter Comes
Overview: Mark Sabre hires young Effie Bright to keep his snobbish, cold-hearted wife Mabel company while he goes off to war. When he returns home from the front wounded, he finds that Mabel has fired Effie, who shows up at Mark's door with her baby, having no place to go. Mark takes her in, but Mabel leaves him when the town shuns him for what they believe is going on with Mark and Effie. Matters are further complicated when Effie, driven to desperation, commits an unspeakable act that results in Mark having a nervous breakdown--and then things get worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-07
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Pants
Overview: Little Betty has a luxurious home, an army of servants and the costliest of toys. But she hasn't what a child wants most of all, other children to play with. The result is that she runs away and joins a group of children from the ghetto district on the beach. In play she exchanges clothing with a little boy. That evening Betty doesn't return home. Her maiden aunt, an over-zealous guardian, is frantic. She notifies the police. The same evening the father of the boy, who has lost his position and is facing starvation, decides to turn burglar. He steals into the home of Betty's father. The household is awakened and the intruder captured.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-10
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Shore Leave
Overview: "Bilge" Smith (Richard Barthelmess), a tough sailor, meets Connie Martin (Dorothy Mackaill), a seamstress in a small harbor who has never had a boyfriend. Connie is instantly smitten. She invites Smith to dinner, where he dances with her and gives her a kiss. Connie has a hard time letting him go, and makes him promise that he will come back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-05
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The Gap
Overview: A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.
Genres: War Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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Soul-Fire
Overview: Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job back home in the United States. After his studies in Italy, he moves to Paris, where he is forced to write popular songs for money when he stops receiving support from his father. He tires of selling out and, after an encounter with the mob, starts to travel. He begins a madcap journey from Paris to Port Said, Egypt, and to the South Seas, where he believes he has found love with Teita (Bessie Love).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-30
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Mr. What's-His-Name?
Overview: A beautician meets and falls in love with a young man, and they soon marry. What she doesn't know, however, is that her new husband is actually a millionaire who is suffering from amnesia—and he already has a wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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Seven Days Leave
Overview: In London, during WWI, a lonely woman who wants to feel a part of the war effort pretends to her friends to have a son fighting in the war. She is shocked when he shows up on her doorstep, and they make an agreement that he will pretend to be her son. "Seven Days Leave" is a screen adaption of James M. Barrie's play, "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-24
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The Belles of St. Clements
Overview: A British drama film set inside a teacher training college and directed by Ivar Campbell
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Dead Man's Curve
Overview: A grease monkey discovers a defect in an auto engine being turned out by his employer. But since our hero discovers this only after losing an important race, his boss chalks up the loss to Fairbanks' supposed cowardice.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-15
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