Vernon Steele
Also Known As: Vernon Steel, R. Vernon Steele, R.V. Steele , Victor Steele , Arturo Romeo Antonietti
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Vernon Steele (18 September 1882 – 23 July 1955) was a Chilean-born British actor known for his appearances on the Broadway stage and in American films. He often played patrician young men in silent films. Steele was born in Santiago, Chile, the son of Daniel Antonietti, a professor of music, and his English wife, the former Grace Emma Bolton. Vernon Steele was christened Arturo Romeo Antonietti and his family eventually settled in London, England. His sister was actress Hilda Anthony.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Santiago, Chile
Birthday: September 16, 1882
Deathday: July 23, 1955
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Gender: Male
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Temptation
Overview: A wealthy New York City stockbroker who sets out to prove that women are corrupted by wealth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-01
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Bonnie Scotland
Overview: Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-23
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Step Lively, Jeeves!
Overview: A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-30
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Captain Blood
Overview: Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
Genres: Adventure Action History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-26
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The Wanters
Overview: Elliot Worthington falls in love with Myra, the maid in his sister's household. Myra is dismissed; Elliot finds her, proposes marriage, and returns home with his new bride. She is snubbed by his relatives and shocked by the hypocrisy of his wealthy friends. Disillusioned, she runs away: Elliot follows and saves her from being hit by a train when her foot gets caught in a switch.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-26
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The Witness Vanishes
Overview: In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a rival publication before they are actually killed.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-22
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The Panther Woman
Overview: Orphan Patience Sparhawk grows up poor until she becomes the ward of the wealthy Miss Tremont. Eventually out of gratitude Patience marries Miss Tremont's nephew, Beverly Peale, out of gratitude only to discover he is a drug user, making their marriage unhappy. When Beverly is found dead from a drug overdose Patience is accused of murder, put on trial and sentenced to die in the electric chair but is saved at the eleventh hour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-25
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The Supreme Sacrifice
Overview: David Aldrich aspires to be an author. The publishers reject most of his manuscripts because they seem to lack realism. David struggles on, however, determined to succeed and kept happy by his love for Helen Chambers and for his bosom friend Morton, who is a young minister working among the people on the East Side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-20
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To the Ends of the Earth
Overview: A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-07
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Mrs. Miniver
Overview: Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-03
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Polly of the Circus
Overview: When circus aerialist Polly Fisher is injured, she is taken to the nearby home of minister John Hartley. The two fall in love and marry secretly. But when the news leaks out, the minister loses his pastorate over disdain by the parishioners for Polly's background as a performer. Polly must decide whether to stay with the man she loves or leave him for the good of his calling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-08
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His House in Order
Overview: A woman attempts to regain the love of her husband, who constantly compares her unfavorably to his first wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-07
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The Silk Express
Overview: As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to fulfill his contracts, manufacturer Donald Kilgore imports $3 million worth of silk to Seattle and accompanies it by special train to New York. But when his secretary is found murdered, Kilgore soon discovers Myton has planted three killers on board with orders to stop the express and its passengers dead in their tracks.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-01
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The Firing Line
Overview: Sheila Cardross Malcourt shares only a loveless marriage with Louis Malcourt, but is unwilling to divorce him even to marry the man she really loves, for fear of hurting her foster parents. Instead, she stifles her feelings for Garry Hamil and strives to maintain her marriage. But when tragedy ensues, she finds herself faced with a new dilemma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-06
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Big News
Overview: A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-06
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The King's Vacation
Overview: The king of an unnamed European country abdicates and tries to recapture the happiness with the wife he had to give up for the throne.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-25
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No matarás
Overview: Antonio Guerra is an unemployed Spanish immigrant in the USA. His brother and mother in Spain haven't heard about him for many years or even receive a letter. But one day, his brother receives a letter from him, telling that things are going well. But the reality is other. Antonio is passing a hard time in New Yor City, suffering the Years of Depression as many out of workers. One day, Antonio meets a nice Cuban seller, who invites him to eat at his poor house. The seller advices Antonio to visit a man, who has contacts and could help him to find a job. Nevertheless, Antonio is send with the leader of a group of gangsters, dedicated to the illegal traffic of alcohol. Antonio is offered a work of dealer, but he won't do anything out of the law.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 1937-03-13
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Dracula's Daughter
Overview: A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-11
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Where Sinners Meet
Overview: A pair of lovers are secreting away to Paris for a quick divorce and marriage when they find themselves trapped in a "hotel" where they are forced to get to know each other better and reconsider their plans. They learn a lot about each other, and themselves.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-17
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Kidnapped
Overview: Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-27
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The Girl Who Ran Wild
Overview: M'liss, raised in the mountains as an unruly tomboy, is orphaned and is offered "protection" by Calaveras John and Johnny Cake, friends of her father's murderer. She shows no interest in anything until the new schoolmaster persuades her to tidy herself and get some education. Believing the schoolmaster to be in love with some other girl, M'liss decides to run off with another man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-09
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Design for Living
Overview: An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-29
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Time Out for Romance
Overview: A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-10
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North of the Yukon
Overview: In this North western, a brave Canadian Mountie pursuing a gang of fur thieves finds himself drummed out of the RCMP and forced to run a gauntlet of Mountie whips. When the gang learns of this, they convince him to join them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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The Highest Bidder
Overview: Society miss Sally Raeburn is left penniless and is helped out by an older woman. The woman makes it clear that to repay her, Sally must marry wealth, so when the very well-heeled Lester comes to her village, Sally goes after him. Lester has been traveling incognito in the hopes that no one will discover him, so when Sally wins him she feels guilty and confesses that she knew who he was all along.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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Riders of the Northwest Mounted
Overview: Fur thieves, who murder trappers when they refuse to give up their pelts at a low price, occupy the attention of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. The leader of the gang is Victor Renaud, also the mayor of the small Canadian town where the gang is headquartered. Lucky Kerrigan is broken from the mounted service for apparent disobedience to orders, which results in the death of a fellow Mountie. Lucky, working undercover, aids the Mounties in rounding up the gang and gains back his uniform, and also the love of Gabrielle Renaud, Renaud's sister who was unaware of his criminal activities.
Genres: Western Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-15
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The Vampire
Overview: The Vampire is a surviving 1915 silent film drama directed by Alice Guy and starring Olga Petrova. It is one of Petrova's and Guy's few surviving silent films.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1915-08-09
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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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Madame Bovary
Overview: A frivolous country girl married to a naïve small-town doctor goes down the path of destruction when she grows tired of her limited social status.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-25
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They Were Expendable
Overview: After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-07
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The Phantom Honeymoon
Overview: Professor Tidewater tours Ireland with his two daughters to investigate the origins of ghost stories. After the girls leave him at Belmore Castle, reputed to be haunted, the Hindu caretaker Sakes relates the following tale: Henry Claven, Sakes' master, courted his beautiful neighbor Betty Truesdale, but when she became engaged to Captain Bob Lambert, Claven precipitated a duel by telling Lambert that he knew his mother was a negress
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-19
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The Bill of Rights
Overview: This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-19
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The Great Flirtation
Overview: An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-15
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Lloyd's of London
Overview: Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-25
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For the Defense
Overview: Singer Anna Woodstock loses her voice, but a visit to a hypnotist, Dr. Joseph Kasimir, brings it back. What Anna doesn't realize is that her illness was purely psychosomatic and Kasimir is a swindler.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-04
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Silks and Satins
Overview: On the eve of her wedding to a man she does not love, young Felicite (Marguerite Clark) stumbles upon a diary written by one of her ancestors.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-12
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Overview: Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautiful Lola, Drummond uncovers a scheme to ship illegal cargo into the country. He must rely on his cunning to survive when the prince offers a reward for his capture.
Genres: Action Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-15
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The Witness for the Defense
Overview: Stella Derrick and Dick Hazelwood love each other, but their families want them to make better financial matches.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-14
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Flight to Fame
Overview: An evil villain steals a newly invented death ray.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-12
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Hearts in Exile
Overview: In Czarist Russia, attractive Anna Ivanovna has consecrated her life to work among Russia's persecuted poor. She dispenses food, medicine, and funds to the needy, from a busy charity headquarters. Two men, separate in station, are in love with Ivanovna: Poor doctor Paul helps as much as he can, and wealthy merchant Serge donates money. The relentless and lascivious Chief of Police, also attracted by Ivanova's beauty and virtue, determines to possess her, and sentences all three to fifteen years in Siberia and East Russia on false charges.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-11
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Out of the Chorus
Overview: Dancer Florence Maddis marries Ross Van Beekman, son of an aristocratic New York family, and despite her friends’ doubts manages to fit into the family. Her scheming mother-in-law disapproves of her however colluding with Ned Ormsby, who wants Flo for himself, to make her appear faithless. When Ross suspects Flo of harboring Ormsby, he fires a pistol at her closet. Later when Ormsby is found shot in his house, Ross confesses, believing himself guilty. Sick at heart, Flo returns to the stage of the Winter Palace. Ross is freed, however, when Ormsby’s enemy, Maddox, confesses to the crime, and Flo is happily reconciled with Ross.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-01
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Her Great Match
Overview: While vacationing in America, Prince Adolph of Syravia meets Jo Sheldon and they fall in love. Wealthy Mr. Bote, a friend of Jo's family whose ambition is to become a baron, gives Jo's stepmother money to pay her creditors, in return for a forged note in Jo's name which promises that Jo will marry the prince and have him bestow the title on Bote.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-30
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Alice Adams
Overview: Alice (Florence Vidor) is not satisfied with her family's financial situation and tries to convince others that she comes from a wealthy family. In the end she discovers that she is only fooling herself and decides to go to work to help her father's failing business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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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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The House of Youth
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-19
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