Edward Connelly
Also Known As: E.J. Connelly, Edward J. Connelly, Edward Connolly
Biography: Edward Connelly was an American stage and Silent screen actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: December 30, 1859
Deathday: November 21, 1928
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Great Secret
Overview: A wealthy young athlete comes to the aid of a beautiful heiress, whose fortune is being threatened by two arch villains, The Great Master and Doctor Zulph.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-08
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The Unholy Three
Overview: Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-20
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Red Hot Romance
Overview: After his father's death, Roland Stone learns that his will stipulates that he must go to the South American country of Bunkonia and sell life insurance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-13
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
Overview: Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-04
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The Saphead
Overview: Nick Van Alstyne owns the Henrietta silver mine and is very rich and his son Bertie is naive and spoiled. His daughter Rose is married to shady investor Mark. Mark wrecks Bertie's wedding plans by making him take the blame for Mark's illegitimate daughter, and also nearly ruins the family business by selling off some stock at too low a price.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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The Show
Overview: Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-22
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Revelation
Overview: Paul Granville becomes a famous painter for his portraits of great women as modeled by the beautiful Joline Hofer. When one of Paul's paintings appears to result in a miracle, Joline's life is changed forever. She leaves her previous life to live one of service and piety, a decision that ultimately saves Paul's life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-23
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Across to Singapore
Overview: While Joel and his older ship's captain brother Mark are at sea, the latter is abandoned in Singapore by devious ship's mate Finch who, upon their return, convinces the townspeople that Joel abandoned his brother. Joel, determined to not only find Mark but to see justice done, returns the ship to Singapore.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-07
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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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Toys of Fate
Overview: A gypsy girl whose mother committed suicide after being seduced and abandoned by a rich man finds herself twenty years later being wooed by the same man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-12
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A Good Little Devil
Overview: A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-01
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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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Lovers
Overview: Young José lives with his guardian, Don Julian, a middle-aged diplomat recently married to young Felicia. Society gossips in Madrid find the situation increasingly scandalous.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-01
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The Red Lantern
Overview: Mahlee and Blanche Sackville are half-sisters, Blanche the daughter of an Englishman and his wife, Mahlee of the Englishman and his Chinese mistress. Mahlee rejects her people and attempts to find a life for herself among the Europeans. But she finds the color line impossible to pass and returns to lead her Chinese people in rebellion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-04
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Brown of Harvard
Overview: Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-02
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The Merry Widow
Overview: When Prince Danilo falls in love with American dancer Sally O'Hara, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids him to marry her because Sally is a commoner. Thinking she has been jilted by her prince, Sally marries wealthy Baron Sadoja. When the elderly man dies suddenly, Sally must be wooed all over again by Danilo.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-27
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Where the Pavement Ends
Overview: South Seas romantic drama. This is a lost Silent film, that no negative of or print materials from are known to exist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-02
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The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Overview: A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-30
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The World and Its Woman
Overview: A Russian peasant girl rises to fame as an operatic diva. She becomes beloved of a Russian prince. When the 1917 revolution overthrows the czar's government, the pair attempts to cross the icy steppes and find their way to America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-06
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Overview: Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-06
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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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Winners Of The Wilderness
Overview: During the French and Indian War the Indians under Pontiac kidnap Rene. Colonel O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-15
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The Lion's Den
Overview: A reverend attempts to raise the money necessary to open up a boys' club and clashes with a wealthy grocer in the process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-19
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The Conquering Power
Overview: Young playboy Charles Grandet is sent to live with his miserly uncle after his father loses his fortune. He and his cousin Eugenie fall in love, but his uncle sends him away and tries to arrange a marriage more to his liking (and profit!). Will true love triumph?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-08
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Love
Overview: In Imperial Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become his mistress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-29
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Slave of Desire
Overview: Poet Raphael de Valentin is down on his luck until a friend introduces him into society. He meets the Countess Fedora, and after she reads his poems, his work becomes an overnight sensation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-04
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Seeing's Believing
Overview: Because of a storm wealthy Diana Webster and Jimmy Harrison, her Aunt Sue's fiancé, must stay all night at a country hotel. Getting a single room, they pretend they are married to satisfy the concerns of the hotel manager though Jimmy sleeps on a cot in the hall. Another hotel guest, Bruce Terring misconstrues the situation and later when he meets Diana his scandalous interpretation of her escapade infuriates the young woman. She decides to teach him a lesson and show him that "seeing is not always believing" by placing him in a similar unusual position. She hires an acting couple to frame a badger game on Bruce, but they double-cross her, forcing Diana into an extorting scheme from which Bruce must rescue her, resulting in a snappy but happy ending for Bruce and Diana.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-01
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The Prisoner of Zenda
Overview: A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-11
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Scaramouche
Overview: A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.
Genres: History Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-15
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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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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 Desert Rider
Overview: Jack Hoxie pledges to take care of a prospector's son before the man dies from shooting wounds. Jack Hoxie must find the killer before he disappears with the prospector's gold. A young woman also searches the killer for motives of her own.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-11
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Trifling Women
Overview: Leon de Severac is fed up with his daughter Jacqueline, who is constantly seducing men. Hoping to discourage her from her flirtatious behavior, he tells her the story of Zareda, an attractive fortune teller who is having an affair with Ivan de Maupin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-06
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The Fall of the Romanoffs
Overview: The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema couldn't help but jump on it immediately and create a couple of dramatizations.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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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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In Old Kentucky
Overview: Illiterate Blue Ridge Mountain girl Madge Brierly falls in love with vacationing Blue Grass aristocrat Frank Layson, when he stops Horace Holten from defrauding her of her coal-rich lands. For revenge, Holten tells moonshiner Joe Lorey, who loves Madge, that Frank is a revenue officer. After Madge rescues Frank from Joe's attack, they go to Frank's home, where he teaches her reading and writing, and she rescues his racehorse, Queen Bess, from a fire set by Holten. Because Frank has nearly all of his family's money riding on the big Kentucky race, Holten gets Frank's jockey drunk. Madge, discovering this, disguises herself and rides Queen Bess to victory. She leaves for home unnoticed, and comes across the Night Riders chasing Lorey. After she persuades them that Holten killed her father years earlier, and was responsible for Lorey's attack, they chase Holten who falls from a mountain and dies. Years later, Madge's and Frank's children play at feuding.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-15
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The Devil
Overview: The Devil, in the guise of a human, meets a young couple who remark upon looking at a Renaissance painting of a martyr that Evil could never triumph over Good. The Devil, taking this as a challenge, decides to bring about the couple's downfall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-01
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Bardelys the Magnificent
Overview: Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-30
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The Willow Tree
Overview: After Ned Hamilton is rejected by his girlfriend, he travels to Japan where he hears an old legend about the Willow Tree Princess, who kills herself so that her lover will go off to battle. When he makes a purchase from Tomotada, an image maker, he meets his pretty daughter O-Riu, and they recreate the events of the legend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-31
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False Evidence
Overview: Promised in marriage to wealthy Lot Gordon , Scottish lassie Madelon MacTavish prefers Lot's poor relation Burr Gordon. The wisdom of her choice is proven later on, when a vengeful Lot tries to rape the girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-21
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Her Fatal Millions
Overview: Mary Bishop, a clerk in a jewelry store, finds out that her ex-boyfriend Fred Garrison, who left town to make his fortune, is coming back and wants to see her. Having heard that Fred has married a wealthy society girl and is quite rich, Mary borrows some jewelry from the store, dresses up in her finest and when she sees Fred, tells him that she has married the richest man in town and is now quite well-off. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-09
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Conflict
Overview: A society girl goes to live in the woods with her evil uncle and his wicked housekeeper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-23
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The Goldfish
Overview: A newly married husband and wife make an agreement that should either of them want to terminate their relationship then a bowl with goldfish would be presented to the other signalling the end of their marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-30
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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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Brotherly Love
Overview: Oscar, a tough guard at Newberry Prison, gets into an argument with Jerry, a smallish barber. He causes Jerry to be arrested as a fugitive, and gets him sent to Newberry. It's not long before both men fall in love with Mary, the daughter of the warden. Oscar gets Jerry put on the prison football team, where he is the smallest guy there, figuring that he will look like a fool in front of Mary and then she will pick Oscar. However, things don't turn out quite the way Oscar planned.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-23
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The First Law
Overview: When her surgeon father loses his fortune, Norma Webb (Castle) turns her family home into a boarding house.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-28
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Someone in the House
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-15
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The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Love in the Dark
Overview: "I hope people see me as an artist, not a blind artist." Tou suffered a severe eye injury in an accident at a young age. The journey into complete blindness was a torment to him. Yet, he doesn't want his struggle and vulnerability to be seen. It is not until he meets Iris that light seems to come into his sight again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-20
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