Lila Leslie
Also Known As: Lilie Leslie
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Birthday: January 01, 1890
Deathday: September 08, 1940
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Gay and Devilish
Overview: Doris May plays Fanchon Browne, a poor girl about to enter into a marriage of convenience with wealthy old Peter Armitage (Otis Harlan). When she falls in love with Armitage's handsome nephew Peter (Cullen Landis), Fanchon is in quite a quandary.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-14
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The Best of Luck
Overview: Leslie MacLeod (Kathryn Adams) comes to England from the U.S. so that she can settle financial affairs with Lord Glenayr (Jack Holt), whom she has never met. She encounters Duke Lanzana (Fred Malatesta), who sees her as a way to pay off his mounting debts. He captures her and then heads to a nearby cape to steal a buried treasure that actually should belong to the MacLeods.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-01
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Being Respectable
Overview: Wealthy young Charles Carpenter is pressured by his family to marry Suzanne, even though he is really in love with young "flapper" Valerie. He gives in to his family's pressure, however, and marries Suzanne, after which Valerie leaves town. Years later, after Charles and Suzanne have had a child, Valerie comes back to town and Charles realizes he is still in love with her, and she with him. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-01
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No Fare
Overview: When Big Boy's mother leaves town for work, her son is left with a friend as she hasn't the money for his fare as well. Upset, he follows her and causes havoc on the train.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-08
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Away We Go
Overview: Bobby Vernon was a talented comic actor during the silent era, who became a writer and comedy supervisor at Paramount for W.C. Fields and Bing Crosby, when the sound era arrived. Here Vernon stars with Duane Thompson, Lila Leslie and Victor Rodman in a 1924 classic originally released as RENO OR BUST.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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The Huntress
Overview: Bela, reared by Indians, learns that she is a white orphan and runs away from the Indian village to avoid marrying a brave from the tribe. She determines to marry land prospector Sam Gladding, who resists her advances but later falls in love with Bela when an Indian sage gives him some advice.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-20
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Getting Gertie's Garter
Overview: Attorney Ken Walrick, not quite realizing the difference between a garter and a bracelet, gives Gertie Darling a bejewelled garter with his photograph in miniature attached. But then he must cover his indiscretion by getting the garter back before his fiancee finds out.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-28
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The Last Edition
Overview: A twenty-year veteran of the printing room of The San Francisco Chronicle is passed up for a promotion at the same time his son is accused of graft and involved in scandal. The historical landmarks of old San Francisco are present: The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building, City Hall and the Pickwick Hotel-- but they don't distract from the dramatic and emotional perforamces at the film's center.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-08
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The Spy's Fate
Overview: Once again, a secret agent risks life and limb for a packet of secret papers. This time around, the spy is a woman, attached to the United States secret service.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-01
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Kid Tricks
Overview: Big Boy, the charming little scoundrel wearing adult rags and boots was already performed by child actor Malcolm Sebastian at the age of two. As a child Big Boy’s fame went global, but could not likely maintain at adolescence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-07
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The Third Degree
Overview: The disowned son of a wealthy family is tried for the murder...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-29
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The Lion and the Mouse
Overview: Silent film drama...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-01
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The Hottentot
Overview: Mistaken for a famous jockey, a young man uses it to his advantage -- until he actually has to race a horse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-25
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Call the Wagon
Overview: Young Dick is pursuing pretty young Mary, but so are a lot of other young men. Dick decides to impersonate her butler and uses that position to keep all of Mary's suitors out of the house so he can work on her himself. When his ruse is discovered, he is thrown out of the house. That, however, doesn't stop him. He gets the maid to help him concoct a story about Mary actually being bald and having false teeth, hoping to drive them away. It works, but it doesn't quite have the effect he intended it to.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-30
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The Gray Horror
Overview: American horror movie from 1915.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-13
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Reno or Bust
Overview: Bobby Vernon has just been married to Lila Lee, but her parents object and kidnap her to Reno, where, if not rescued, they will be divorced. It probably wouldn't hold up before a judge, but it does produce a fairly funny movie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-22
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What's to Do?
Overview: Sonny Rogers has just gotten elected class president, he's a star baseball player, and has a cute girlfriend. But, thanks to the conniving of his rival, Harry Vanderpool, he and his whole family are going to have to move to Seattle! Sonny needs the help of his pals and his pesky little sister, Mary Lou, to get out of this one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-23
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Why Men Leave Home
Overview: John and Irene Emerson's marriage begins well enough, but it is not long before John becomes less attentive. Feeling neglected, Irene spends more time with her girl friends, and John, consequently, falls prey to the vamping wiles of his secretary, Jean Ralston. When John comes home from the theater smelling of Jean's perfume, Irene procures a divorce; John then marries Jean.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-03
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A Little Brother of the Rich
Overview: Captain of the Yale football team, Paul Potter becomes engaged to his small-town Indiana sweetheart Sylvia Castle but once in the big city he becomes involved with married society girl Muriel Evers and finds Sylvia too provincial, ending their engagement. In time Sylvia meets alcoholic actor, Henry Leamington, who encourages her to become an actress while she helps him get sober. In New York she finds success and becomes reacquainted with Paul for whom she still has feelings, but comes to realize he is a lout and returns to Henry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-07
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Bluebeard, Jr
Overview: Newlyweds Tom and Nan Beech have trouble settling into their tiny new apartment, and once they have, they get into an argument that sends Nan storming out. Almost as soon as she is gone, Tom gets word that his uncle will give him 50 thousand dollars if he can prove he is a happily married, successful businessman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-19
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Forever After
Overview: A wounded captain recalls his youth, his time at college, and the woman he fell in love with.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-24
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Home Sweet Home
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-24
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Blue Streak McCoy
Overview: Ranger Job "Blue Streak" McCoy helps a miner and his pretty young daughter who are trying to protect their valuable mine from a gang leader who wants to take it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-23
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Any Night
Overview: While Jim Barlow is hiding from the cops, his wife Ann goes to a mission The minister, Reverend John Matthews, gives her the address of a good Samaritan, Dr. LeRoy Clifford . When her child is hit by an automobile, she takes him to Clifford, who proceeds to operate right at his house. Meanwhile, one of Barlow's former associates, known as the Weasel tracks him down and convinces him to come on a job. The home they break into is Clifford's, while he is in the middle of working on Barlow's little boy. Barlow helps the doctor by holding a spotlight so he can complete the operation. The Library of Congress holds a 35 mm shortened version.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Satan Junior
Overview: Famous playwright Paul Worden decamps to a country bungalow to work on a new play, rehearsing with his leading lady, Marjorie Sinclair, who is staying nearby. Going riding one day to relax, Paul rescues his neighbor, teenager Diana Ardway when her horse runs wild. The pair clash initially, as she does with Marjorie, but after a series of misunderstandings true love triumphs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-03
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The Butterfly Man
Overview: Sedgewick Blynn is determined to marry a rich woman. One night he saves a child from a fire. Bessie Morgan, an heiress charmed by his act of heroism, promises to marry him, but at the last minute her father forbids it. Soon after, Blynn receives a telegram informing him of the death of his mother, and he realizes that he has wasted his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-18
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Skinner's Dress Suit
Overview: Honey Skinner is proud of her successful husband. When he tells her he's going to ask for a raise, she knows he'll get it. He asks his boss just as their big client announces he's not renewing his contract. He doesn't get the raise, but he's too embarrassed to tell his wife the truth. She starts making plans to spend that extra $10 a week; the first thing is a new dress suit for him and a new outfit for her so they can fit in at a swanky party. They're the hit of the party, and Honey is embraced by the 'smart set.' Meanwhile, business is bad and Skinner loses his job. The tailor is after him for payment on the suit, and Honey is still spending the salary he doesn't have.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-18
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The Silent Woman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-02
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Marah, the Pythoness
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-01
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