Conrad Nagel
Also Known As: John Conrad Nagel
Biography: Conrad Nagel was an American stage and film actor, as well as radio and television performer and host. He was a matinee idol and star of the Silent cinema era and beyond. He was a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and served as its President from 1932 to 1933. He was also a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Keokuk, Iowa, USA
Birthday: March 15, 1897
Deathday: February 24, 1970
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Tin Hats
Overview: Three United States soldiers are lost in the Rhineland on Armistice Day and accepted as conquering overlords by a village... except for Lady Bountiful.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-28
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There You Are!
Overview: George is a clerk who captures a bandit and in return gets the boss' daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-11-28
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The Kiss
Overview: An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-15
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Prospecting for Petroleum
Overview: All-puppet animation tells the story of how oil is formed through ages of geological change, how it is found, extracted and put to use by man.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Overview: An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-23
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The Fighting Chance
Overview: Sylvia Landis promises to marry the wealthy but unprincipled Quarrier because of his social standing. Avarice is the only emotion that Sylvia feels towards her fiance, and when she meets Stephen Siward, a young man afflicted with alcoholism, she falls in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-01
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All That Heaven Allows
Overview: Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-25
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The Vicious Circle
Overview: In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by villagers. He manages to convince all the property owners to sell to him, except for a few properties owned by Jewish families. Infuriated at their refusal to sell to him, he attempts, with the help of some corrupt local police, to have the men charged with the murder of a local woman, who in reality actually committed suicide.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-21
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Ann Vickers
Overview: After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-26
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The Divorcee
Overview: When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-19
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Wedding Present
Overview: Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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East Lynne
Overview: The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite being nearly blinded as the result of an explosion, she returns home to see her son again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-01
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Kongo
Overview: The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the day when he can get revenge on the man who ruined his life.
Genres: Drama Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-01
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Hidden Fear
Overview: A U.S. lawman busts Copenhagen counterfeiters to help his sister, falsely accused of murder.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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Dance Madness
Overview: May s married to Roger, an alcoholic hell-raiser. During one of their riotous parties, she tests his fidelity by impersonating a notorious masked dancer and trying to seduce him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-04
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Adventures of Rusty
Overview: Fearing that his recently-acquired step-mother, Ann Dennis, is competing with him for his father's affections, and saddened by the death of his dog, young Danny Mitchell seeks consolation in the companionship of a ferocious, Nazi-trained police dog, Rusty, brought to the U.S. by a returning WWII-veteran. The step-mother, with tender understanding, eventually wins Danny over while Danny pacifies his new dog.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-06
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The Ordeal
Overview: Sybil marries George Bruce, an alcoholic 20 years her senior, In order to provide for her crippled sister, Helen, and her brother, Geoffrey. Bruce becomes jealous of Sybil's attentions to young physician Robert Acton, and when Bruce suffers a heart attack and calls for digitalis, Sybil allows the vial to break and he dies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-21
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The Mysterious Lady
Overview: A beautiful Russian spy seduces an Austrian military officer in order to obtain secret plans. When she falls in love with him, both are placed in danger.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-04
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Stage Struck
Overview: A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-13
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The Thirteenth Chair
Overview: Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.
Genres: Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-19
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Divorce In The Family
Overview: A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932 drama stars Jackie Cooper, Lewis Stone, Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Jean Parker and Louise Beavers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-27
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The Bad Sister
Overview: Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-29
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The Reckless Hour
Overview: Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a warm-hearted artist-type who shows her that life -- and men -- ain't so bad in this early talkie drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-15
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The Constant Woman
Overview: A mother abandons her family only to become a crispy critter with her lover, the husband finds out about it AND that his son isn't really his, becomes an alcoholic, is being held prisoner in a speak-easy, is rescued by 'Beef', is sobered up, gets a good job, negotiates a great contract for lots 'o money, realizes he's in love, asks the girl to marry him, son returns from boarding school and freaks out when told this, runs off and joins the circus that now happens to catch fire.....
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-12
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The Marines Are Coming
Overview: Expelled from his lieutenancy in the Marine Corps, Bill Traylor reenlists as a private. His unit is sent to a Latin American country where a rebel leader called The Torch promotes insurrection. There Traylor encounters again Captain Benton, the man responsible for his disgrace and his rival for the love of a girl.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-19
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The Pagan Lady
Overview: Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a drink that sounds like something you'd consume on a dare. He drinks the concoction down in one swallow and also manages to outsmart Dot's boss and his rum-running hooligans. You see, Dingo is a bootlegger himself. He literally sweeps the lady off her feet and they set up housekeeping in a tropical hotel full of colorful characters, some of whom are in the bootlegging business too.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-07
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Dangerous Corner
Overview: Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-04
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Son of India
Overview: An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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Glorious Betsy
Overview: Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-25
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Redemption
Overview: In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée. Fedya quickly tires of domestic life and resumes his profligate ways, drinking and gambling away his family's fortune. Lisa refuses to leave him despite his deplorable ways, so he takes drastic measures to ensure that she will no longer be harmed by his actions and reputation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-05
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Hell Divers
Overview: The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-16
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Dynamite
Overview: Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn't know and doesn't want to.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-13
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One Romantic Night
Overview: A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-30
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Numbered Men
Overview: Prison drama from 1930. Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded King Callahan, set events in motion to prove that love and justice will prevail.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-07
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The Waning Sex
Overview: Nina Duane is a criminal lawyer whose gender was professionally resented by Philip Barry, the District Attorney. She wins acquittal for man-chasing widow Mary Booth, then defeats her in romancing the D.A.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-05
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Bank Alarm
Overview: A federal agent learns the gangsters he's been investigating have kidnapped his sister.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-07
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Yellow Cargo
Overview: An investigator looks into the activities of a movie producer he believes is involved in smuggling Asians into the U.S.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-07
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Lawful Larceny
Overview: During his wife's absence, Andrew Dorsey is snared by Vivian Hepburn, owner of a crooked gambling house, and her silent partner, Guy Tarlow. Dorsey loses so much money that Vivian persuades him to give her one of his firm's checks for a large sum of money. Hearing her husband's confession, Marion Dorsey, returned from Europe, determines to retrieve the check.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-22
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Sacred and Profane Love
Overview: Carlotta Peel, who though sheltered from the facts of life by her Victorian aunt has acquired some knowledge from indiscriminate reading, meets Diaz, a celebrated pianist, at a concert and spends the evening with him. Later, in London, she acquires fame as a novelist and is followed to France by married publisher Frank Ispenlove, who commits suicide when she spurns him. In Paris, Carlotta finds Diaz a physical wreck from drinking absinthe and devotes herself to his regeneration.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-22
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The Right of Way
Overview: Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients. In search of the thief, Steele is attacked and left for dead. He is rescued by a kindly couple, but suffers from amnesia. He starts life afresh and is happy, until the return of his memory sends him back to resolve his old involvements.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-11
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Overview: A young girl is seduced and raped by an older middle class man in Victorian England. After moving on with her path, she gets married. All is well until her husband discovers her past. Leading her on a life of wandering, murder, and execution.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-11
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Sun-Up
Overview: When she hears her boy has been killed in WWI a vengeful Kentucky hills mother shelters a deserter as a protest.When the boy returns she asks him to kill the deserter who she learns is the son of a murderous revenue agent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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I Want a Divorce
Overview: Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-20
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The Man Who Understood Women
Overview: A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-02
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The Gold Racket
Overview: At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gang that has been smuggling gold from Mexico to the U.S. and then selling it to the U.S. government.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-10
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Navy Spy
Overview: A federal agent and a female reporter team up to catch a criminal gang that has kidnapped a scientist in order to get his formula for a new type of poison gas.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-13
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The Ship from Shanghai
Overview: On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-31
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A Stranger in My Arms
Overview: An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-03
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Fast Life
Overview: Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all they succeed in doing is sinking the Admiral's barge. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the world. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.
Genres: Comedy Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-16
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Three Who Loved
Overview: A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-03
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Name the Man
Overview: Victor Stowell, son of the deemster of the Isle of Man, is engaged to Fenella Stanley. He becomes involved in an intrigue with local girl Bessie Collister, becomes the deemster on his father's death, and is forced to try Bessie for killing her illegitimate child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-27
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The Idle Rich
Overview: Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her family, part of "the great middle class" (as blowhard nephew Henry keeps reminding us), is happy for Joan, but reluctant to take charity from Will. He moves in with them, and they keep resisting, until one day he takes drastic action.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-15
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A Lady Surrenders
Overview: A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean trip. He thinks she's left him for good, so he marries another woman. When his first wife returns, complications ensue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-06
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Overview: Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film boasted names like Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and John and Lionel Barrymore and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. This short documentary takes a look at the making of the classic film.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-03
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A Trip to Paramountown
Overview: Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-10
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The Exquisite Sinner
Overview: Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man who forsakes the humdrum business world for the bohemian life of an artist. Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused to release it. When the film finally surfaced in 1926 (a full year after its completion), it had been radically altered by staff director Phil Rosen.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-28
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Death Flies East
Overview: Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row inmate who accused her of the deed in the first place. On board the airliner, Evelyn makes the acquaintance of John Robinson Gordon (Nagel), who is transporting a revolutionary munitions formula to Washington, D.C. Another passenger, Baker (Robert Allen), complains of having been poisoned and leaves the plane during a stopover in Dallas. Back in the air, Gordon's bodyguard, Lieutenant O'Brien (Fred Kelsey), suffers the same fate, but this time the poison proves fatal. The plane returns to Dallas, where Police Captain Barrie (William B. Davidson) accused poor Evelyn of the crime. Happily, Gordon can prove otherwise and the real culprit is unmasked.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-28
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The Lost Romance
Overview: Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by staging the kidnaping of her nephew's son, in the hope that the married couple will be drawn closer together by the experience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-08
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Nice People
Overview: Teddy Gloucester, one of the group of jazz age "nice people," is caught in a farmhouse during a storm with her intoxicated companion, Scotty. A stranger (Billy Wade) also seeking shelter saves her from Scotty's unwelcome attentions but not from the scandal which results from her father's discovery of her and Scotty--alone--the next morning. Hurt by the snubbing she receives from her friends, Teddy settles down and agrees to become an old-fashioned wife to Billy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-12
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Midsummer Madness
Overview: Because Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson) feels the romance has ebbed away from their marriage. One night, while Meredith is at the office, family friend Julian Osborn (Conrad Nagel) -- whose own spouse (Lila Lee) is out of town -takes Margaret to a dance. They wind up at a hunting lodge and begin to get carried away, but stop before things get out of hand. The pair agree to keep their encounter a secret, but unfortunately, they've been seen and word gets back to their spouses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-23
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Today
Overview: A wealthy young society couple loses their fortune. When the husband is forced to take a job like everyone else, the wife cannot deal with the sudden downward plunge of her once-privileged life and drifts into prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-01
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Saturday Night
Overview: Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class differences lead to divorces and remarriages.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-29
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The Michigan Kid
Overview: The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to his hometown and impress the girl he loves. His childhood rival for the girl happens to turn up at his casino, in trouble and doesn't want his girl to find about it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-20
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Three Weeks
Overview: A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-10
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Tenderloin
Overview: Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the gang that uses the place as their hangout. Chuck's interest in her is only just as another toy to play with. Rose is unknowingly placed in a position in which she is implicated in a crime which she knows nothing about.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-14
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London After Midnight
Overview: A reconstruction, made from still photographs, of the lost 1927 Tod Browning film London After Midnight (1927) starring Lon Chaney.
Genres: Horror Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-01
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London After Midnight
Overview: The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants. This film was lost in the 1965 MGM vault fire; only a few stills exist.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1927-12-03
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One New York Night
Overview: Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel telephone operator who takes a liking to him, and also Countess Louise Browssiloff, who innocently had left some personal belongings in the murdered man's room and is most anxious to recover the incriminating evidence, Foxhall solves the murder mystery.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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Unseen Forces
Overview: In the film, Breamer’s character, Miriam Holt (“the girl who sees around corners”), proves her psychic powers by locating children who went missing during the war. Her childhood love Clyde Brunton (Conrad Nagel) is unhappily married to a social climber, but Miriam’s ability to commune with the spirits of the dead (“those we love are always with us”) finds a way to resolve the problem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-29
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The Only Thing
Overview: Thyra arrives in Chekia to wed its old and ugly king. The Duke falls in love with her. A revolution erupts and the king is assassinated. Chief revolutionary Gigberto also falls in love with Thyra. The revolutionaries plan to drown Thyra and Gigberto in a boat, but the Duke takes Gigberto's place. And the loving couple are rescued.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-22
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That's Entertainment!
Overview: Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
Genres: Documentary Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-21
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The Man Called Back
Overview: Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-16
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Quality Street
Overview: A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she disguises herself as her own niece in order to test his loyalty.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-01
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The Girl from Mandalay
Overview: John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Foster's fiancée, Mary Trevor, writes him that their engagement is off, he goes off to Mandalay.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-19
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Forbidden Fruit
Overview: Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no real prospects of earning money. Mary's employers, are trying to strike an oil related business deal with a rich man by the name of Nelson Rogers. The deal does not seem to be on the table, as Mr. Rogers is leaving town shortly and does not have the time to work out the details of such a deal. In an order to entice him to stay, Mrs. Mallory - wife of Mr. Mallory who is proposing the business deal - convinces Mary to be her guest at a dinner party with the intent of making Mr. Rogers fall for her and thus stay long enough for Mr. Mallory to make him agree to a business deal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-03
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The Rejected Woman
Overview: Diane Duprez falls in love with Leslie in the snows of a Canadian village. And when they are trapped by a blizzard, her father thinks wrong of her...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-04
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Forever Yours
Overview: A young woman who has been stricken with infantile paralysis gives up hope and is trying to "will herself" to die. A doctor who has been conducting experiments with patients with paralyzed nerves is convinced he can cure her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-26
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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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The Fatal Impulse
Overview: A man fleeing from an attempt to assassinate a political candidate puts a small bomb in the bag of a woman in an elevator. The police spend the evening looking for the mystery girl and the bomb. Originally aired November 29, 1960, in the "Thriller" series, Season 1, Episode 11.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-29
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One Million B.C.
Overview: One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and His Mate, and Tumak. The film stars Victor Mature as protagonist Tumak, a young cave man who strives to unite the uncivilized Rock Tribe and the peaceful Shell Tribe, Carole Landis as Loana, daughter of the Shell Tribe chief and Tumak's love interest, and Lon Chaney, Jr. as Tumak's stern father and leader of the Rock Tribe.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-05
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Lights of Old Broadway
Overview: Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-31
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The Voice of Hollywood
Overview: The Voice of Hollywood hosted by Pat O'Brien. Features Joan Blondell, Robert Montgomery, Elissa Landi, Warner Baxter, and the coronation of Mary Pickford as "Queen of the Arts." It is not currently clear which number in the series this is because it isn't on IMDB or any listing).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-30
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State Street Sadie
Overview: Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-25
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Caught in the Fog
Overview: Wealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles upon a bobbed-hair bandit and her male accomplice, who mistake him for another burglar. A fight is broken up by the arrival of an elderly couple (still more burglars) who are posing as guests. Bob keeps his identity secret and passes himself off as the butler; the girl and her partner pretend to be the maid and the cook. A couple of idiotic detectives, arrive on the scene, closely followed by a heavy fog that traps them all on board.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-25
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Pretty Ladies
Overview: Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to another, they fall in love and get married. Al becomes a famous songwriter and Maggie stays home and has children. One day Al is hired to write a big number for Selma Larson, one of the Follies' most beautiful stars, and falls for her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-06
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Life in Hollywood No. 7
Overview: Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-25
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The Terror
Overview: Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-06
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The Redeeming Sin
Overview: The Redeeming Sin (1929) is a crime drama part-talking silent film with Vitaphone music and sound effects. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and stars Dolores Costello. This film is currently a lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-16
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Kid Gloves
Overview: When a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker Kid Gloves and a trio of bootleggers, Ruth is injured. She is taken to a nearby apartment, and The Kid helps to care for her. John Stone, Ruth's fiance and a bootlegger with a respectable front, finds them together and blackmails The Kid into marrying the girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-23
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Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Overview: Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position as she saunters through the woods, and attracted by a pool of water, she disrobes and plunges in. Cosse de Brissac, a handsome private in the King's Guards, comes to her rescue and they become sweethearts. Meanwhile, Jean Du Barry, a shrewd roué, takes note of her at the millinery shop and tricks her into staying at La Gourda's, where she soon becomes a favorite among the men.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-10
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Ball at Savoy
Overview: A British diplomat falls in love with a famous singer when he meets her in Cannes.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-09
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The Snob
Overview: Two schoolteachers, married for love, are parted by the husband's obsessive desire for wealth and social position.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-10
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One Hour Late
Overview: A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose marriage to her.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Singed Wings
Overview: Singed Wings 1922
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-26
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Slightly Used
Overview: Cynthia Martin’s father insists she marry before her two younger sisters Helen and Grace. So, she invents a husband for herself called Major Smith. Trouble begins when the fictitious husband Major John Smith materializes, bringing with him chaos and confusion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-03
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The Girl from Chicago
Overview: Mary Carlton, who lives with her invalid father on a cotton plantation, receives a letter from Bob, her brother, in New York, stating that he faces death in the electric chair for a crime of which he claims to be innocent. Determined to save him, she goes there, learns of his association with an underworld gang, and begins to suspect Handsome Joe of a connection with the crime.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-09
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What Every Woman Knows
Overview: Alick Wylie agrees to give railroad porter John Shand $300 to help him secure his education and political ambitions on condition that his daughter Maggie has the option of marrying him within five years. Though not in love they marry, and John becomes successful, thanks to Maggie’s input on his speeches, in time being elected to Parliament. Eventually John strays with Lady Sybil and Maggie diplomatically arranges for them to be together. However his next speech without her assistance is a failure and Sybil leaves him out of boredom, it’s then he sees Maggie’s true worth.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-24
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Free Love
Overview: A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-01
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Heaven on Earth
Overview: Young Edmond Durand (Conrad Nagel) has been reared under the autocratic influence of his aunt (Marcia Manon), who directs a large silk mill in southern France. He revolts against a stifling career planned for him and leaves home with Marcelle, a Gypsy girl (Renée Adorée). They roam the countryside with a Gypsy caravan in romantic bliss; they are inadvertently separated but at the outbreak of war are reunited. When peace is restored, the lovers find happiness together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-05
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Memory Lane
Overview: Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of their relationship.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-01
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Diamond Handcuffs
Overview: German actress Lena Malena starred in this lavishly budgeted and potentially intriguing melodrama about the influence of a valuable gem on its owners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-05
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Second Wife
Overview: A man's pregnant second wife gets upset when he decides to go overseas to his young son, who may be dying of typhoid fever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-09
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If I Were Single
Overview: Rich girl Joan Whitney does her flirtatious best to break up the marriage of May and Ted Howard and almost succeeds, but not before May Howard has a light flirtation with a light-in-the-slippers specimen named Claude.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-17
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Married Flirts
Overview: Nelly is so intent on her writing career, that she neglects her appearance and her husband, Wayne. Jill Wetherell, who is looking for a rich husband, finds Wayne to be easy prey and Nelly catches them together. She divorces Wayne and travels to Europe. Jill, however, throws Wayne over for Perley Rex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-27
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Little Women
Overview: Jo March and her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy live in a happy family in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo yearns to be a writer, and through the course of the years, finds much within her own family. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-30
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Cheaper to Marry
Overview: Dick Tyler is the junior partner in the law firm of Knight and Tyler. He tries to convince his partner, Jim Tyler, than it's cheaper to be married than to continually "play the field". The main reason he's doing that is because Jim is obsessed with the beautiful Evelyn, a gold-digger on whom Jim is spending prodigious amounts of money. Things take a turn for the worse when his spending on her gets to the point where it's placing the firm dangerously close to bankruptcy. Something has to be done.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-09
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The Mad Empress
Overview: The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico and his struggles against Benito Juarez.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-16
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Fool's Paradise
Overview: In a Mexican border town Arthur befriends cantina girl Poll. She falls for him but he still loves the dancer Rosa. When the cigar Poll gives him explodes and blinds him, Arthur is duped into thinking Poll is Rosa and marries her. When his vision is surgically restored, he leaves for Siam to find Rosa.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-09
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Dangerous Journey
Overview: Expeditions to parts of North and South America, India and Burma (Myanmar). Record of a journey to illustrate the life of countries in which allied servicemen are stationed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-30
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The Sacred Flame
Overview: Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is non-functional in most of the physical areas of marriage that count, but Stella attends to his other needs faithfully for three years. Then his brother, Colin, shows up from South America, and he and Stella fall passionately in love and are making plans to run away together. Mother Taylor is aware of the romance, as is Nurse Weyland, who is secretly in love with Maurice, and now hates Stella for her careless attitude toward Maurice's patiently-borne sufferings. Maurice is also aware of the affair. He has a talk with his wife and brother. Complications arise.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-24
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Excuse Me
Overview: A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-19
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So This Is Marriage?
Overview: The only known copy of this film copy was reported to have been destroyed in the 1967 MGM Vault fire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-26
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The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
Overview: Lance Bellew ignores his wife, Betty, for his mistress, Naomi Templeton, but becomes so enraged when he finds Betty in the company of Jerry Woodruff that he shoots this family friend. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-22
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Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
Overview: In 1879, the American Indian lived under severe handicaps: having no legal status as a human being and with the requirement to stay on reservations. Defying the law, Ponca Chief Standing Bear leads his people off their disease-ridden reservation. Though they're captured, the Poncas are given three days to find a lawyer and find a legal way to become their own people once again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-23
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The Rendezvous
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-11
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