Elinor Fair
Also Known As: Elinor Virgina Crowe
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 21, 1903
Age: 121 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 26, 1957
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The Road Through the Dark
Overview: Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morgan, who her parents disapprove of. She is sent away from Paris to a small village, where her aunt lives with her sister and brother. The war comes and the Germans enter the town. She becomes the mistress of a German Kommandant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-01
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The Volga Boatman
Overview: During the Russian Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-23
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The Policeman and the Baby
Overview: A crook returns home to find his mother dead and about to be buried in Potters Field. This prompts him to go out upon a "job" so that he may secure money to give his mother a funeral. In the meantime the policeman's wife has left their baby in a department store and the child was handed over to the cop at the closing hour. The policeman did not recognize his own baby, and while on the way to the station, he ran into the robbery. The crook, however, jumped into the policeman's taxi and found the baby on the seat. A chase takes place that ends in a smash-up. The crook saves the baby from the flames of the burning car, and only later does the policeman discover that it was his own child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-04
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Gold and the Girl
Overview: Dan Prentiss is a special undercover agent hired by a mining company to look into a series of gold-shipment robberies.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-05
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The Timber Wolf
Overview: A lumber man called the Timber Wolf comes to the aid of an old prospector.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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Fires of Conscience
Overview: George Baxter presents his new wife, Margery. Paul Sneed, Baxter's neighbor, knew Margery before the marriage. When Baxter returns home unexpectedly one night, he finds Sneed and his wife together. As Sneed runs away, Baxter shoots and kills him. Both Margery and Sneed's father, Judge Randolph Sneed, witness the shooting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-25
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Big Stakes
Overview: Chasing a steer across the border a cowboy meets a senorita and stays on making the Mexican Captian jealous. When the Captain plans to have the cowboy killed, the cowboy gets the Captain to agree to a contest between jumping beans. When the cowboy wins he says he will let the senorita decide between the two. But first he rides off to rescue another girl held by the hooded Night Riders and the Captain follows to back him up
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-12
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The Yankee Clipper
Overview: A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-07
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Flyin' Thru
Overview: Lieutenant Willis returns home from France, where he was an aviation ace, to find that his father has been falsely jailed for the murder of Judson Blair.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-01
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The Night Rider
Overview: Officer John Brown is after the outlaw known as the Night Rider. Posing as Jim Blake he takes a job on the Rogers ranch. He finds the secret passage from the Rogers mine to the Rogers house used by the Night Rider and also a note written by the Night Rider to his henchmen. Practicing his hand writing, he has a plan to trap him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-22
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My Friend from India
Overview: Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith (Elinor Fair). But before he can learn anything about Barbara, her social climbing Aunt Bedelia (Ethel Wales), whisks her away. On a mission to "find the girl," Tommy looks for her everywhere. He unknowingly befriends her brother Charlie, who invites him to spend the evening in Smith's palatial home. The next morn Aunt Bedelia finds Tommy with his head wrapped in a towel and assumes him to be the Hindu prince that Charlie promised to bring to her society party. Introduced to all as a Prince from Calcutta, Tommy is forced to see the charade through. But the local con-man Charlie had previously arranged to appear at the party as the Prince shows up as well. At least Tommy is able to reconnect with Barbara, that is until the police show up with orders to arrest all fake fakirs.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-18
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Let 'Er Go Gallegher
Overview: Young John Gallagher wants to be a newspaper reporter. One day he witnesses a murder committed by a mysterious man with only four fingers on one hand. He gives his account of the murder and a description of the killer to his hero, newsman Henry Callahan, resulting in his getting a job on the paper as an office boy. When circumstances arise that result in Callahan losing his job on the paper, he and Gallagher set out to discover the identity of the killer and help Callahan get his job back.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-14
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45 Calibre Echo
Overview: A cowhand and his sidekick come to the Texas border country looking for the man who had lured the cowhand's sister in bondage in Mexico. But the man doesn't want to be found and has hired some gunmen to see that he isn't.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-05
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The Miracle Man
Overview: A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang. Lost film, only the most famous scene has survived.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-26
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The Reckoning Day
Overview: During World War I, Jane Whiting, a bright young lawyer who is engaged to Senator Wheeler, is assigned by the district attorney to expose a gang of spies who are collecting money for the German government through the operation of a fraudulent charity organization. Wheeler's son Frank has fallen in love with Lola Schram, whose pro-German mother is forcing the girl to work for Frederick Kube, the head of the spy ring, but when Kube learns of the romance, he orders Mrs. Schram to break it off. When Lola finally confesses her activities to Frank, Kube kills her and then frames Frank for the murder. Meanwhile, Jane, through the help of Jimmy and Tilly Ware, has discovered Kube's headquarters and modus operandi
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-20
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The End of the Game
Overview: A love story that takes place at the time of the gold rush. Prospector Allister Burke is in love with Mary, but he believe the slanderous lies that are spread by Burke, his competitor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-24
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Bolero
Overview: The complicated relationship between an ambitious, ruthless nightclub dancer and the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-23
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Vagabond Luck
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-16
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Kismet
Overview: Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-14
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Bachelor Brides
Overview: Percy Ashfield is to marry Mary Bowman but her father objects. He objects because while the Bowmans and Percy and others with vested interest are all assembled in Ashfield's castle admiring the pearls that are to be Mary's wedding present, a girl rushes in carrying a baby and claiming the Percy is the baby's father, and her claims are supported by a doctor who follows her in adding that the girl is mentally deranged over Percy's faithfulness.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-12
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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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Driven
Overview: Essie, a mountain girl, moves in with a family of neighboring bootleggers when her father, also a bootlegger, is killed by federal agents. She falls in love with Tom, one of the family's brothers, but another brother, the violent and brutal Lem, decides he wants her for himself, and beats Tom badly. What the girl doesn't know is that it wasn't the feds who killed her father--it was Lem. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-11
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The Girl in Number 29
Overview: Laurie Devon is a New York playwright who, having had one success, refuses to work on another play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-17
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The Law Forbids
Overview: Paul and Rhoda Remsen, having marital difficulties, separate; and each is awarded custody of their child Peggy for 6 months of the year. Rhoda and Peggy move to a farm town, while Paul remains in the big city to write a play for actress Inez Lamont, who is in love with him. Peggy knows that her mother still loves Paul, so she flees to the big city to explain the situation to her father.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-07
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The Able-Minded Lady
Overview: An easy-going cowboy is forced to work on the ranch of a bossy 'able-minded' three-time widow who has designs on him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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The Scarlet Empress
Overview: During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-09
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The Lost Princess
Overview: Samuel Blevins, Jr.'s farm work suffers while he pursues a correspondence course on newspaper reporting. After he leaves the family farm and goes to the city, Ethel Williams, the author of the "Advice to the Lovelorn" column, recommends him to her managing editor who gives him the difficult task of writing a feature article. When Sam fails to think of a good story, Ethel, who now loves him, tells of the lost Princess Marie of Burvania, who is hiding in the United States. Sam's story causes the Archduke of Burvania to search for Marie, who is really Ethel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-19
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Whom the Gods Destroy
Overview: Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show but the ship strikes a derelict wreckage and is sinking rapidly. In the ensuing wild panic, Forrester saves many lives, until finally, panic stricken by sudden fear, he dons a woman's clothes and is among the rescued. On the coast of Newfouldland, the villagers, not aware of his true identity, curse him but he is befriended by Alec who helps him conceal his identity. With a planned story of his survival, he returns to New York but cannot face his family or friends after he sees the plaque to his heroism on his New York theatre. Deciding to remain thought of as dead, he becomes a derelict himself, surviving on odd jobs as he watches from afar his now-grown son begin his career as a producer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-12
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Tin Pan Alley
Overview: After losing his factory job, virtuoso violinist Tommy Breen is inspired by June Norton, who lives in the same boardinghouse to write his song, "When You Smile with Your Eyes in Mine." Song publisher Simon Berg signs Tommy and the song becomes an enormous success. Success goes to Tommy’s head, he forgets June, surrounds himself with Broadway lowlife, spends extravagantly, and becomes infatuated with Mona Merwin, a musical comedy performer. He hits a rough patch, and June asks Berg to help her save Tommy from himself, so he decreases Tommy's royalty checks. Tommy's Broadway friends desert him when the checks stop coming. Now that Tommy has seen the error of his ways Berg sends him to a country cottage he purchased in Flatbush, where Tommy finds June waiting to marry him.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-28
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Love Is Love
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-17
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Be a Little Sport
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-29
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Words and Music by -
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-18
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Occasionally Yours
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-19
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