Lydia Knott
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tyner, Indiana, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 30, 1866
Age: 158 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 30, 1955
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East Lynne

Overview: This most famous of Victorian melodramas was more than half a century old, and had already been filmed several times when it came to the screen once again in 1925. Director Emmett J. Flynn had an all-star cast and kept close to the original story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-23
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Rose of the World

Overview: In India, Rosamond English learns that her husband Capt. Harry English has been killed in battle. After a time, she marries Sir Arthur Gerardine but is unable to forget her first husband, and gradually her love for him is rekindled, especially when she contrasts him to the pompous and elderly Sir Arthur.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-09
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The Hushed Hour

Overview: Judge Robert Appleton (Winter Hall) has led an exemplary life. His four children, however, fell short once they grew up and had to fend for themselves. When Appleton dies, his widow (Lydia Knott) explains that his last request was that each child spend one hour of contemplation with his body. The first is the youngest daughter, Daisy (Rosemary Theby), an artist of note who was betrayed and left with a son to raise out of wedlock. Next is Luke (Milton Sills), a wild young man who ran away at 19, and even though he is now married and a father, he still can't quite settle down. The eldest son, Bob (Wilfred Lucas), is next -- he wed a wealthy woman, but the marriage has no love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-18
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In Wrong

Overview: Johnny Spivins adores Milly Fields, but since he's only an errand boy at the local grocery, he can't get her to look his way. Things get even worse when a city boy comes to town and boards at the Fields' home.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-10-31
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The Marriage Ring

Overview: Anne Mertons (Enid Bennett) is the unhappy wife of Hugo Mertons (Robert McKim), an unscrupulous brute. When the two struggle over a gun, Hugo is shot. Anne, thinking he is dead, flees to Hawaii, where she falls in love with Rodney Heathe (Jack Holt), who owns a sugar plantation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-26
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Turn to the Right

Overview: Joe is the son of a poor widow and in love with the daughter of the town’s richest and meanest man. The couple is determined to marry and plan their “dream house.”
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-23
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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

Overview: When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-01
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In Judgment of...

Overview: Debutante Mary Manners has inherited the power of mind-reading from her gypsy ancestors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-12
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Luck in Pawn

Overview: Country girl Annabel Lee has big dreams of being a famous artist. Her widowed mother encourages her to go to the city so she can study. Annabel works hard, but she sells only one painting. She discovers that a renowned artist is spending the summer at a nearby resort, so she sends him her best work for a critique. A friend recommends that she see him in person, so Annabel pawns a piece of jewelry and heads for the resort. The artist informs her that she doesn't have enough talent to achieve much.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-19
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Playing with Fire

Overview: Enid Gregory, a pianist at the Melody Shop, a music store on Broadway, is content with her snappy, routine existence until Janet Fenwick, a society girl whose father committed suicide under a cloud of financial disgrace, comes to Enid's boardinghouse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-19
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Those Who Dance

Overview: A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to break up the gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-27
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Rocky Rhodes

Overview: Rocky Rhodes returns to find his father dead and his best friend Joe accused of the murder. The culprit is Murtch who now lets Joe break jail and then has him shot escaping. When Rocky starts to interfere with Murtch's plans, he has Rocky framed for murder. Rocky now has to prove Murtch is guilty while escaping the law.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-24
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Chalk Marks

Overview: Young Herbert Thompson, wanting to attain wealth and social status, marries Ann Morton, who comes from a rich and prominent family, throwing over pretty young Angelina Kilboure, who really loves him. Years later Herbert has become the local District Attorney and has two children, Bert and Virginia. One night Bert, a patron at a seedy roadhouse, defends his sister's honor from a ruffian and winds up killing the man. Angelina persuades Herbert to leave his post as D.A. to defend his son in his murder trial. Herbert wins the case, but it turns out to have unexpected consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-14
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Racing for Life

Overview: Jack Grant agrees to drive in the big race in order to save his brother Carl from being charged with embezzlement.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-08
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If I Had a Million

Overview: An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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Beating the Game

Overview: Professional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a criminologist, and mistakenly believes that he has robbed a fellow safecracker. Out of "professional courtesy" he informs Lawson of what he has done. Instead of calling the police, Lawson--who believes in the philosophy of "honor among thieves"--makes a deal with Charlie: to show Charlie that it's actually more profitable to be a legitimate businessman then a crook, he'll give Charlie some money if Charlie will use it to establish a legitimate business in the small town of Plumfield, and at the end of a year they will divide up whatever profits Charlie is able to make honestly. Charlie agrees, but soon discovers that things aren't going to be quite as easy as he thought.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-01
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The Isle of Love

Overview: The original film featured the then unknown Rudolph Valentino. To cash in on his rise to stardom, it was re-edited to feature more of him. Various shots were repeated several times; long shots were blown up into close-ups and inter-cut with other footage; some scenes were projected on a loop, so that Rudolph Valentino repeated the same motions several times over; one scene was used as a flashback; and out-takes from the original were inserted into the new film. In addition, the locale of the new picture was switched from World War 1 Germany to a desert island by the simple expedient of inserting shots of bathing beauties on a palm-fringed beach throughout the film.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-10
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Held to Answer

Overview: John Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become a minister in a western town. Marian appears, and failing to win him back she tries to ruin his reputation. Hampstead is accused of stealing some jewelry though actually he is protecting the scapegrace brother of his current sweetheart, Bessie.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-22
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The Primrose Path

Overview: Alcoholic playboy Wallace MacDonald (as Bruce Armstrong) would like to sober up and become more responsible, after a drinking accident causes him to cripple little brother Pat Moore (as Jimmy Armstrong). Still, the lure of liquor makes him to sneak drinks at home, and go out partying with carefree showgirl Clara Bow (as Marilyn Merrill). He's promised Ms. Bow he'll quit drinking and gambling. Further complicating Mr. MacDonald's life are the bad checks he's been accumulating. Nasty Stuart Holmes (as Tom Canfield) and Tom Santschi (as "Big Joe" Snead) force MacDonald to join their diamond smuggling racket, in lieu of payment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-14
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Paying the Price

Overview: While developing a powerful explosive, naval officer Paul Towne introduces his friend Richard Tracy to Judith Corbin, his friend since childhood. For years, Paul had assumed that he would marry Judith, but when Richard proposes, Judith, tired of waiting for Paul, accepts. Soon after the marriage, Richard becomes more interested in the new explosive than in his new wife, and to pay off gambling debts, he agrees to steal the formula and sell it to a foreign government.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-09
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After the Dance

Overview: Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry Davis (George Murphy), and he's sent to jail. In a riot, a hostile convict (Jack La Rue) forces Jerry to help him escape, so Jerry takes to the streets himself. Nightclub entertainer Anne Taylor (Nancy Carroll) meets him, and convinces her boss Louis (Arthur Hohl) to hire him as her partner.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-25
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The Defense Rests

Overview: A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-15
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Home

Overview: A young woman of humble origins hides her family's lack of wealth and prestige from her boarding school friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-31
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Life of an Actress

Overview: The film explores the journey of Nora Dowen as she rises to fame and stardom, facing the challenges and temptations that come with the industry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-15
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The Dark Road

Overview: Jim Morrison is an English army officer who comes from a very old and prominent family. He marries the ravishingly beautiful but unscrupulous Cleo, who has no qualms about using her sexual allure to get the luxuries her husband can't provide. When Jim is sent off to war, Cleo embarks on a series of affairs, one of which results in her becoming the love slave of a German spy, the very spy that her husband has been assigned to track down.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-31
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Overland Bound

Overview: Trying to trick Ma (Lydia Knott) and Mary Winters (Allene Ray) into selling their rundown ranch, which will be in the path of a future railroad, Underwood (Charles K.French) hires Keno Creager (Albert Smith) to impersonate Jimmy Winters, not seen by his mother and sister for many years.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-23
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The Clodhopper

Overview: Everett Nelson is a naive young farmboy. Following unjust treatment on the farm, he runs away to the big city. There he encounters a showman who decides Everett is perfect for the part of a bumpkin in his new play. Everett takes the role and becomes a big star. But there are complications...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-24
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The Unfoldment

Overview: Katherine Nevin and her brother Jack are given positions on the newspaper of James Osborne following their father's death. Osborne's city editor, Charles MacLaughlin, who is hated and feared by his business associates, is strongly attracted to Katherine, who accepts his mother's invitation to dinner. In spite of his ruthless manner Katherine tries to change the atheistic views of "Mac" and his embittered crippled brother, Angus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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The Super-Sex

Overview: The Super-Sex is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Robert Gordon, Charlotte Pierce and Tully Marshall.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-19
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Fair Warning

Overview: In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-05
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The Perfect Flapper

Overview: A 1924 film directed by John Francis Dillon.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-25
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Should a Woman Tell?

Overview: A village girl, on a visit to the city of Boston, is taken advantage of by a man there, and returns to her home feeling sullied and ashamed. A young man who had once sought her hand returns from years away in Europe and reiterates his suit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-29
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The Man Life Passed By

Overview: Inventor John Turbin vows vengeance when "Iron Man" Moore, a wealthy iron industrialist, steals his plans. Poverty and disappointment make him a derelict, but he forgives his enemy and finds happiness after Moore's daughters, Hope and Joy, befriend him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-24
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The Conquering Horde

Overview: Not long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and make it near impossible to get their cattle to market. Many ranchers are being forced to sell their land, and crooked state treasure Marvin Fletcher buys up the land at pennies on the dollar. However, Laguna del Sol Ranch owner Taisie Lockhart and her ranch hands are holding out. Cowboy Dan McMasters returns to the ranch and tries to rekindle his romance with Taisie, but she rejects him because he fought for the North during the war. But what she doesn't know is that Dan is on an undercover mission from the President to investigate Fletcher, and in order to do that he has to pretend to be sympathetic to Fletcher and goes to work for him, angering Taisie even more. Complications ensue.
Genres: Western History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-01
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Going Crooked

Overview: A young women is part a jewel theft ring, but opts out of a robbery because guns will be used. A man gets killed in that operation and the district attorney convicts an innocent man.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-12
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Danger, Go Slow

Overview: Muggsy Mulane, a waif who wears boy's clothing, jumps a freight train to the country after Jimmy "the Eel," the leader of the gang of crooks with whom she works, is arrested. In the village of Cottonville, Muggsy befriends Aunt Sarah, whom she later discovers is Jimmy's mother. When Muggsy learns that the greedy Judge Cotton, who holds the mortgage on Aunt Sarah's property, is planning to foreclose, she threatens to blackmail him, and he relents.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-16
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The Pointing Finger

Overview: Mary Murphy, the oldest waif in an orphanage, steals a dress and three dollars, then escapes to the city. Grosset, the superintendent of the institution, steals $10,000 on the same night, and Mary is suspected of the theft.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-01
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Crime and Punishment

Overview: Dramatization of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1866 novel transplanted to America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-25
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His Mother's Boy

Overview: After his father dies amidst rumors that he was an oil swindler, Matthew Denton goes to Texas to discover the truth. But he has been spoiled by his mother and he has a hard time adjusting to his rough surroundings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-24
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The Flirt

Overview: Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to Richard Lindley but is attracted to Val Corliss, who has come to town to promote oil stock. When Cora's father refuses to become involved, she forges his name on some papers, thus enabling Corliss to sell many shares.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-24
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Afraid to Fight

Overview: Former A. E. F. boxing champion Tom Harper, who suffered gas poisoning, is sent to the mountains to regain his health so that he can re-enter the ring and earn the money needed for his crippled sister's operation. Under strict orders not to exert himself, Tom allows himself to be beaten up by Phillip Brand, the town bully, in front of his girl, Harriet Monroe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-24
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Courtmartialed

Overview: Jules, the son of French General Bleriot, agrees to give a masked blackmailer his father's secret military papers when threatened with exposure of his gambling debts. Masked, Jules steals the papers, but during a struggle with his father, Jules receives a knife wound in his arm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-21
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Men Without Law

Overview: Returning from the war, Buck finds his younger brother in trouble.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-15
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St. Elmo

Overview: St. Elmo is a man who killed his romantic rival in a brawl. Traveling the world as a confirmed misogynist, St. Elmo returns to home and hearth only to fall in love with the daughter of the local blacksmith. The film is based on the 1867 novel of the same name written by Augusta Jane Evans. Today, St. Elmo is a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-30
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Dynamite Smith

Overview: Gladstone Smith, a fearful young reporter, gets on the wrong side of a murderous criminal and flees to Alaska, along with the killer's wife, who is equally frightened of her husband. But the murderer pursues them to the frozen north and Gladstone must overcome his cowardice in order to overcome his nemesis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-12
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Across the Dead-Line

Overview: Gilead is a lumber town that is dominated by two branches of the Kidder family: the puritanical, ultra-conservative side led by Enoch and his son John, and the hedonistic branch led by Enoch's brother Aaron. Aaron plans to sway John to come over to his side by using a young girl who has lost her memory to lure him over, but when he kidnaps her John sets out to free her. Complications ensue.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-09
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I'll Fix It

Overview: A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the school football team, he meets his match in school-teacher Anne Barry.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-10
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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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A Bachelor's Wife

Overview: Mary O'Rourke, an Irish immigrant, arrives in America to find her friend Norah and their baby deserted by Norah's husband, John Stuyvesant, later claiming to be his cousin and finding a way to prove John married Norah, leading to a happy ending for all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-01
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The Hired Man

Overview: Ezry is a hardworking hired man who saves his money carefully in the hopes one day of going to college. But when his girlfriend's brother gets in trouble for bank robbery, Ezry tries to help out by offering his savings in exchange for the stolen funds.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-27
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