Conway Tearle
Also Known As: Frederick Conway Levy, Frederick Levy
Biography: Conway Tearle (born Frederick Conway Levy) was an American stage actor who went on to perform in silent and early sound films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: May 17, 1878
Deathday: October 01, 1938
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Nightingale
Overview: Franti, an organ grinder of the poor districts of New York, has a daughter, Isola, who sings to his street piano's accompaniment.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-05
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Romeo and Juliet
Overview: Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-03
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Gold Diggers of Broadway
Overview: Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-30
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The Hurricane Express
Overview: The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspects, but it will be difficult since the Wrecker can disguise himself to look like almost anyone
Genres: Adventure Mystery Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-01
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Stella Maris
Overview: Stella Maris is a beautiful, crippled girl, who is cared for by a rich family. They shield her from the harsh realities of the world, so that she has no idea of the cruel things that some people do. Unity Blake is a poor orphan all too familiar with the harsh realities of the real world. These two young women both fall in love with John, love which is complicated by the fact that he is still married to (though separated from) a bad wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-21
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Klondike Annie
Overview: A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-21
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The Heart of the Hills
Overview: Natali, a Hindu, marries an Englishman, Sir Christopher Madgwick. They have a daughter who is kidnapped by Natali's former suitor Sani. The girl is handed over to be trained as a vestal virgin. Natali dies and Madgwick returns to England, taking with him the precious ruby that Natali had snatched from Sani in a struggle. Years pass; Sir Christopher remarries and has two more children who mistreat him and Sani dies, revealing to the priests the location of the ruby, which he stole from them in the first place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-30
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Society Snobs
Overview: Lorenzo Carilo selects more-or-less menial jobs at which to make a living, other more "select" jobs not paying enough, and then he meets and falls in love with Vivian Forrester the daughter of a new-rich family. What's a poor boy to do? He might pose as a French Duke.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-20
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Smoke Bellew
Overview: A tale of the great Alaska gold rush in which a man falsely accused of murder tracks down the guilty man.
Genres: Adventure Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-25
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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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The King Murder
Overview: A beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest victim, and the detective investigating the case finds out that she was involved in a lot more than just blackmail.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-15
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Her Mad Night
Overview: A woman is accused of murdering a man who molested her young daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-12
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Vanity Fair
Overview: An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-15
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Sing Sing Nights
Overview: A respected war correspondent is found murdered, with three bullets--from three different guns--in him. Three different men are arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, but only one can be the actual killer. A criminologist sets out to find who is really guilty.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Day of Reckoning
Overview: In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put away, takes up with a more successful businessman. This causes her new lover's ex-lover to get insanely jealous and kill the conniving wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-26
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The Headline Woman
Overview: When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-14
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Stingaree
Overview: A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.
Genres: Comedy Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-24
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The Truth About Youth
Overview: A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-03
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Dancing Mothers
Overview: An unfaithful husband and his daughter go on nightly club outings, leaving the mother at home. The mother rebels against her lonesome life and attempts to prevent a man from pursuing her daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-01
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The Lady Who Dared
Overview: A blackmailer falls in love with his female victim.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-29
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Morals for Women
Overview: A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-24
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Pleasure
Overview: A novelist and his younger brother fall in love with the same woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-01
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The Preview Murder Mystery
Overview: Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuses to let anyone leave, the studio’s publicity head and his secretary attempt to solve the murders themselves.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-28
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The Lost Zeppelin
Overview: Explorers to the South Pole in an airship Zeppelin crash in the frozen Antarctic and must struggle for survival in the land of eternal snow and ice.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-19
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Ashes of Vengeance
Overview: This historical piece, set in the Huguenot days of France, is Norma Talmadge's 37th feature film and the longest to date at two hours. The plot involves a man forced into servitude who falls in love with the sister of his persecutor. It was Ms. Talmadge's fourth involvement with director, Frank Lloyd and the cast included future star, Wallace Beery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-06
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Overview: The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Lilies of the Field
Overview: A young mother, Mildred, doesn't know that her husband Walter is cheating on her. One night she attends a party with a friend of her husband's, and the man gets drunk and begins groping her when they get home. Her husband sees this and uses it as an excuse to sue his wife for divorce. In the ensuing trial he wins, due to fraudulent evidence, and gets custody of the child. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-29
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Black Oxen
Overview: A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the century. At first he thinks it's just a coincidence, as the beautiful young woman he's romancing is much younger than the woman who vanished, who would be in her late 50s or early 60s by now. Soon, however, he begins to believe that maybe it's not such a coincidence after all.
Genres: Drama Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-29
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The False Madonna
Overview: A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-05
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Fifteen Wives
Overview: Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his apartment at the Savoia Hotel. Inspector Decker Dawes investigates the case and although the cause of death is described as apoplexy, Dawes is convinced it as murder, especially after he learns that Humbolt had been married fifteen times.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-15
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Altars of Desire
Overview: Mae Murray plays a willful American lass whose wealthy dad (Robert Edeson) sends her to Paris so that she may pick up some "refinement." Instead, she picks up a fortune-hunting nobleman, played as a frivolous fop by a monocled Andre Beranger. True-blue hero Conway Tearle prevents Murray from making a bigger fool of herself than she already is.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-15
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School for Wives
Overview: School for Wives is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Conway Tearle, Sigrid Holmquist, and Peggy Kelly. It provided an early role for the future star Brian Donlevy. Based on Leonard Merrick's 1907 melodramatic novel The House of Lynch, it was not well-received by critics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-05
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Morals for Men
Overview: Joe (Tearle) and Bessie (Ayres), living in sin and just scraping by. Bessie thinks Joe has stolen their meagre savings, so she leaves him and becomes a manicurist eventually marrying a wealthy man who turns out to be stingy and cruel. Joe saves heiress Marion (Mills) from drowning, makes good as a civil engineer and eventually marries her. Joe and Bessie meet again by chance and Joe, in helping her to keep her secret, incurs Marion's jealousy. Bessie, extorted by a former acquaintance in desperation, decides to tell everything to her husband. However, to aid Joe she accuses Wallace (Miljan), with whom Marion is preparing to go away. Finally, Joe and Marion are reconciled, but Bessie learns that the world never forgives a woman who sins even when she has reformed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-01
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The Mystic
Overview: Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man crashes — and proceeds to swindle — American high society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1925-09-26
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Bella Donna
Overview: Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-31
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Man About Town
Overview: In a plan to trap potential enemy spies in Washington, an American secret agent sets up a gambling house. He soon finds himself in a rivalry with his old friend the British ambassador over a beautiful Hungarian woman, and it leads to espionage, blackmail and murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-22
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The Way of a Woman
Overview: A 1919 film directed by Robert Z. Leonard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-27
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She Loves and Lies
Overview: When Marie Callender is left a fortune by a wealthy old admirer on the condition that she marry the man she loves, Marie targets Ernest Lismore but is too shy to ask him to marry her. Instead, Marie disguises herself as an elderly woman of considerable wealth and offers to bail Ernest out of his impending bankruptcy in exchange for marriage, with the understanding that if Ernest ever falls in love with another woman she will grant him a divorce. Then Marie disguises herself as June Dayne in order to make her husband fall in love with her. She succeeds, and when Ernest confesses his love for another woman, Marie discards her disguise and Ernest discovers that the woman with whom he is in love is his own wife.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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The Eternal Flame
Overview: A 1922 film directed by Frank Lloyd.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-17
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The Foolish Virgin
Overview: A 1916 film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-26
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Captivation
Overview: A woman meets a conceited young novelist aboard a yacht, and decides to teach him a lesson he won't forget.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-19
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The Forbidden Woman
Overview: A beautiful French actress is the unwitting force behind the suicide of one of her admirers. A scandal erupts, threatening to destroy her reputation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-22
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April Folly
Overview: April Poole (Davies), a young writer in love with publisher Kerry Sarle (Tearle), visits the office of Mr. Sarle and his partner Ronald Kenna (Frank) and reads her latest story to them. She has made Sarle the hero, Kenna the villain, and herself the heroine. In the story, April changes places with Lady Diana Mannister (Marshall), who is being sent to South Africa to separate her from her lover, a young artist. A famous diamond that Lady Diana is to deliver at the end of her journey is given to April. Thieves trail her during her journey. With efforts by Kenna to steal the diamond prevented by the intervention of Sarle, the story comes to a close.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-20
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Evidence
Overview: Lord Cyril Wimborne, a barrister, divorces his wife, Myra, and takes custody of their child, Kenyon, when he finds her name linked with the profligate Major Pollock. Myra goes into seclusion while Pollock, intending to conceal Myra's innocence, goes to Burma. A few years later Myra sees Kenyon in the park with Mrs. Debenham, a widow with designs on Wimborne. Noting the resemblance between the lady in the park (whom he calls his "princess") and a photograph of his mother, Kenyon invites Myra to dinner at a time when his father, who has curtailed the visits to the park, plans to be away. At the same time Harold Courtenay, an old family friend, sees an opportunity to reunite the estranged couple.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-05
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Human Desire
Overview: The orphan Bernice (Stewart) is raised almost to womanhood by the good sisters in an Italian convent. Worshiping a picture of the Madonna and Child, she is seized by a great desire to have a child she can call her own. Running away to America, where she has been told babies are plentiful, she is taken in by Robert Bruce, an artist whose wife has refused to divorce him, and poses for his projected masterpiece, a Madonna. Bernice falls in love with the baby borrowed for this posing and is filled with sorrow when the child is taken away. Robert, who has become sincerely but honorably in love with the girl, adopts a baby for her. His wife meets Bernice and the baby, believes the worst, and insults her. Bernice takes the child and leaves the house, becoming lost in the city and finally finding refuge in a hospital where the child dies. Robert learns from his wife the reason for Bernice's departure, locates the girl, and, after divorcing his wife, marries her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-31
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 9: 'The Driver'
Overview: Bobby Jones uses some unorthodox (some might say magical) methods to help a man with his drive.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-18
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The Common Law
Overview: Valerie West, a beautiful artist's model, falls for wealthy artist Louis Neville. However, his aristocratic family doesn't approve of the relationship and persuades Valerie to promise that she won't marry him. She does, however, tell Louis that she will become his common-law wife on a certain date the following summer. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-30
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The Common Law
Overview: Based on the Novel by Robert W. Chambers of New York City life among the upper-crust, Valerie West , artist/model and philosopher, undergoes much sorrow and joy, many trials and tribulations, and final triumph on her journey to become the living personification of sweet and noble womanhood.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-15
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The Next Corner
Overview: While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who takes her to Countess Longueval after her husband must go for work to Argentine.When her husband returns he is shocked how have Elsie change.Elsie goes to a party in Arturos hunting lodge,where he forces himself on her.Arturo is shot by a Stranger and Elsie confesses all to her forgiving husband.Juan Serafin is found shot.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-18
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The Great Divide
Overview: Alone and unprotected in an isolated wilderness cabin, Ruth Jordan is discovered by three drunken brutes who begin to barter for her. In desperation, she appeals to Stephen Ghent, the least degraded of the desperadoes, promising herself to him if he saves her from the others. Ghent buys off Shorty with a chain of gold nuggets and knocks Dutch senseless. Ghent then sends Dutch off with Shorty and takes Ruth to the next town, where he forces her to marry him. During the 3-day ride across the desert to Ghent's gold mine, the idealistic Ruth learns that he is a man of rough passions.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-15
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My Official Wife
Overview: A glittering drama of Imperial Russia in the days before the Revolution and the reckless life of the aristocracy in the days of the Czar, featuring gorgeous gowns, beautiful women and spectacular settings.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-16
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The Greater Glory
Overview: A story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mother-love and sacrifice.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-02
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Moulders of Men
Overview: In order to raise money for surgery for his crippled brother, Jim Barry accepts a job with Warner, leader of a gang of narcotics smugglers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-27
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The Dancer of Paris
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-28
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The Fall of the Romanoffs
Overview: The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema couldn't help but jump on it immediately and create a couple of dramatizations.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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The Sporting Lover
Overview: Captain Terrance Connaughton loses his stable of horses in a card game with Algernon Cravens.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-16
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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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Two Weeks
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Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-25
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A Virtuous Vamp
Overview: A flirtatious young woman takes a job in a busy office, where her presence is terribly disruptive. None of the men in the office can concentrate on their jobs while her charms are on display. Of course, she sets her eye on the one man who seems oblivious to her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-16
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The Rustle of Silk
Overview: Lola de Breze loves Lord Arthur Fallaray from afar, though there seems to be no way to bring them together -- he is England's Colonial Secretary and married, while she is merely a working class maiden. But when she is given a maid's position in his household, it brings her that much closer to her idol. She puts on a fancy gown and heads to the Ritz in hopes of getting a formal introduction. After being fired from the household, she follows Fallaray to his country home and nurses him when he falls ill. Lord Fallaray's wife Lady Feo doesn't love him and is having an affair with Paul Chalfont. When it looks like he will be faced with scandal, Fallaray contemplates giving up politics and marrying Lola.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-13
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Atonement
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-01
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The Heart of a Siren
Overview: This silent drama's story is based on the Broadway play Hail and Farewell by William Hurlbut.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-15
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The White Moth
Overview: When a girl tries to drown herself in the Seine, she is rescued by dancer Gonzalo Montrez. She then becomes a famous dancer known as the White Moth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-11
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One Week of Love
Overview: Spoiled society girl Beth Wynn agrees to stake her marriage to Francis Fraser on the outcome of an airplane race with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-01
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Flirting with Love
Overview: When Wade Cameron, chairman of the Better Plays Society, stops the production of actress Gilda Lamont's first stage success, she attempts to revenge herself by affecting another personality and earning his confidence. He assigns her a role in an improvised production of a new play as an unknown actress, derails her attempt to expose him, and ends by winning her heart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-17
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Desert Guns
Overview: Kirk Allenby is hired by the Cattleman's Association to track down and arrest a rancher who they believe is stealing cattle. Allenby finds his quarry but is astounded to discover that that man, Bob Enright, looks enough like him to be his twin. He is forced to shoot Enright, but as the man lay dying he gets Allenby to promise that he will help Enright's sister, who is being forced to marry the real boss of the cattle rustling operation, who has framed Enright in order to take over his ranch.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-02
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The Seven Sisters
Overview: Mici is the middle of seven sisters, who all believe if a younger sister marries first, the oldest sisters all doomed to be old maids. The elder sisters conspire to have the younger, pretty Mici sent away to a convent school. Mici manages to slip away and attend a fancy party, where she meets Count Horkoy. They fall in love and to the delight of Mici's sisters, the Count also finds suitable husbands for all of them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-26
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Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure
Overview: The story is set in the final days of the Civil War and spies from the North and the South. And, in the midst of this, a Yankee falls in love with Southern belle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-09
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A Man of Stone
Overview: Capt. Deering, a British war hero whose exploits in the Arabian desert have earned him the nickname "The Man of Stone", returns home to London to discover that his fiancé, the wealthy Lady Mary Fortescue, has left him for another man. Devastated, he returns to the desert and begins to drink heavily, which results in his becoming gravely ill. He is cared for by the lovely Laila, an Arab woman who falls in love with him. Meanwhile, Lady Mary has broken up with the man she dumped Deering for and travels to the desert, determined to get him back and to let nothing stand in her way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-10
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The Judgment House
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Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-19
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After Midnight
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-20
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Marooned Hearts
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-15
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Mind the Paint Girl
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-10
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Virtuous Wives
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-29
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Shadows of the Sea
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Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-10
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