Dorothy Cumming
Also Known As: Dorothy Greville Cumming
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia
Adult: No
Birthday: April 12, 1899
Age: 126 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 10, 1983
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The Wind
Overview: When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors leave Letty increasingly disturbed.
Genres: Drama Western Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-15
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The New Commandment
Overview: Billy Morrow (Ben Lyon), who comes from a wealthy family, is sailing to Europe with his father (Holbrook Blinn) on their yacht. Along for the ride is Mrs. Parr (Claire Eames) and her stepdaughter. Near the French coast, Billy discovers that Mrs. Parr wants to arrange a marriage between him and the girl, so he escapes and takes a lifeboat ashore.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-01
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In Old Kentucky
Overview: Young Brierly struggles to save his father, Major Brierly, from the clutches of alcohol after the Great War. At the same time, he prepares Major Brierly's horse, which served bravely with the Major at the front, for the Kentucky Derby.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-20
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Our Dancing Daughters
Overview: A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold-digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-01
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The King of Kings
Overview: The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-19
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Manslaughter
Overview: Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-24
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The Divine Woman
Overview: [For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another soldier to love. They argue then embrace and, when the clock strikes midnight, he is still in her arms. Is desertion in the cards? Can the relationship survive the military demands and a soldier's obligations? A lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-13
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Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
Overview: Nellie Horton, when mistreated by her father, is taken in charge by Thomas Lipton. She grows up in poverty not knowing her true identity as the heiress to her mother's millions. Upon the death of her benefactor, she becomes a model in a fashionable shop. There she falls into the hands of her mother's unscrupulous nephew, who contrives to do away with her in order to obtain her fortune. ....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-16
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The Divine Lady
Overview: Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-26
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A Kiss for Cinderella
Overview: An adaption of a novel by Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-22
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The Thief
Overview: When jealousy and envy lead Mary Vantyne to make a foolish decision and commit an impulsive act she sets off a series of events that nearly bring heartbreak to all those in her circle.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-11
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The Coast of Folly
Overview: Unable to abide her self-righteous husband, Nadine Gathway leaves home and drops out of sight for 20 years. When Mr. Gathway dies, he leaves his huge fortune to his daughter, Joyce, on the condition that she never become involved in scandal. Joyce becomes interested in Larry Fay, whose wife sues her for alienation of affections. In Paris, Nadine, who has become the Countess de Tauro, hears of the scandal and returns to the United States, intent on helping the daughter she once deserted. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-21
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The Man From Home
Overview: A fairly conventional romance of an American heiress, loved by boy back home, bedazzled by a glamorous prince in beautiful Italian surroundings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-30
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The Manicure Girl
Overview: A manicurist in the beauty shop of a large metropolitan hotel, is engaged to Antonio Luca an electrician. However she a meets James Morgan a wealthy guest who wants to go out with her, but she declines so he sends her ten dollars for theater tickets.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-06
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The Cheat
Overview: After losing money she embezzled, a socialite borrows cash from a foreign "prince" who expects sexual favors in return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-27
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A Self Made Wife
Overview: Tim Goodwin and his wife Corrie are living in poverty when Tim's oil well strikes it rich. He soon works his way to the top of the social scale, but Corrie doesn't change at all--she stays a dour, drab woman with no social skills whatsoever. Tim gets so embarrassed by her that he hires a "social secretary" for her to teach her how to function in the social strata in which they find themselves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-08
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Forbidden Hours
Overview: Set in the fictitious European kingdom of Balanca, Prince Michael IV is being coerced, by his advisers, to marry a young woman of royal blood. However, he has fallen for a peasant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-16
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The Next Corner
Overview: While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who takes her to Countess Longueval after her husband must go for work to Argentine.When her husband returns he is shocked how have Elsie change.Elsie goes to a party in Arturos hunting lodge,where he forces himself on her.Arturo is shot by a Stranger and Elsie confesses all to her forgiving husband.Juan Serafin is found shot.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-18
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Snow White
Overview: Snow White, a beautiful girl, is despised by a wicked queen who tries to destroy her. With the aid of dwarfs in the woods, Snow White overcomes the queen.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-24
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Idols of Clay
Overview: A girl raised isolated from society in the South Seas falls in love with a visiting sculptor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-28
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Mademoiselle Modiste
Overview: Hiram Bent, impressed with the sales ability of Fifi, opens a fashionable establishment, and exploits her beauty and capabilities to advantage. Cavalry officer Etienne, her fiancé, is shocked by the seeming lack of modesty of Fifi, who is now known as Mademoiselle Modiste, becomes disillusioned and leaves her. Disheartened, Fifi asks Hiram to take her to Deauville, where she meets Etienne. Enraged with jealousy, Etienne challenges Hiram to a duel. Fifi says that Hiram is her husband, but the truth is later revealed. Etienne proposes and Fifi accepts. A lost film.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-21
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The Female
Overview: A Sam Wood silent South Africa romance is a love story (based on Cynthia Stocklet Story) with a sad...and then happy ending. antic love triangle melodrama, from the Cynthia Stocklet Story. Dalla (Betty Compson) is a pretty orphan who is adopted by a wealthy man. When she matures, he invites her to England (leaving her beau behind),and eventually marries her. After her husband is murdered, she is accused of the crime, because she has still been seeing her old beau Col. Valentia (Warner Baxter). After eventually being cleared of the crime Della maries her first love...Valentia.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-31
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Kitty
Overview: Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front. But his snobbish mother disapproves of the match, and when Alex returns home paralysed and in a cataleptic state, Mrs. St. George plots to keep him from his wife until she can arrange an annulment. But the determined Kitty has plans of her own....
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-15
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Applause
Overview: This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated daughter April from following in mom's footsteps.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-07
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Twenty-One
Overview: The McCulloughs agree to separate when Julian is seven years of age. His mother raises him according to her own ideas and fourteen years pass. He meets by accident Lynnie Willis, a poor girl, at a home for girls. He takes her to a dance, where he encounters Peter Straski, her affianced husband. Straski shoots a hole in the gas tank of Julian's car, and they are forced to stay all night at a hotel. A scandal results. A lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-17
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Don't Tell Everything
Overview: Two men in love with the same woman are further complicated by the arrival of a second woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-13
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Butterflies in the Rain
Overview: Tina, who is from an aristocratic English family, believes in the new freedom for women and is an ardent follower of a group of pseudo-bohemians. While riding through the neighboring estate of John Humphries, a wealthy commoner resented by the Carteret family, she is retrieved from a fall by John and blames him for the accident. The following day, she invites him to dinner, pretending repentance, but taking pleasure in ridiculing his old-fashioned dignity.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-20
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