Louise Dresser
Also Known As: Lulu Josephine Kerlin, Louise Josephine Kerlin
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Evansville, Indiana, USA
Birthday: October 03, 1878
Deathday: April 24, 1965
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Scarlet Empress
Overview: During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-09
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The Blind Goddess
Overview: Even though Big Bill Devens is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man's roots. His wife walked out on him 20 years before and his daughter, Moira, believes she is dead. Moira falls in love with Hugh Dillon, a handsome young attorney, and Devens gets him a job in the district attorney's office. One night, Devens' wife, now an old, decrepit woman known as Aileen Clayton, returns to ask forgiveness.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-04
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To the Ladies
Overview: Three clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are in competition for a promotion to factory manager.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-06
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Cheap Kisses
Overview: Refusing to join his family in their new social life when Henry Dillingham suddenly becomes wealthy, Donald Dillingham causes even greater disapproval by marrying chorus girl Ardell Kendall. Learning that famous sculptor Gustaf Borgstrom wishes to use Ardell as model, the Dillinghams suddenly welcome Donald and Ardell to their estate. Donald surrenders to both the jazzy pleasures and the attentions of Maybelle Wescott, but Ardell remains aloof and in order to pay off Maybelle threatens Mr. Dillingham with exposure of his infatuation with a chorus girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-21
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Percy
Overview: Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-05
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State Fair
Overview: The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-10
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Doctor Bull
Overview: In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-22
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The Three Sisters
Overview: A 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Paul Sloane and starring Louise Dresser, Tom Patricola and Kenneth MacKenna. It was distributed by Fox Film Corporation five years before they would become Twentieth Century Fox. It is unknown whether a print of the film still exists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-20
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Mammy
Overview: Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in cities and towns across the U.S. Jolson falls in love with an actress in the troupe (Lois Moran), but she loves another (Lowell Sherman). Sherman is shot onstage as part of a comedy bit, and it is assumed that Jolson is guilty of putting the bullet in the gun.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-26
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Overview: A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-24
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Maid of Salem
Overview: When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-12
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The Eagle
Overview: Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.
Genres: Adventure Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-08
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A Ship Comes In
Overview: Film which tells the story of immigrants coming to the United States.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-04
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The Garden of Eden
Overview: Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to marry, she comes to believe he is only after the wealth accompanying her new noble status. But truth, like true love, will not be kept secret long.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-04
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The Goose Woman
Overview: A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. When a murder is committed near her house, she invents a story in order to get herself back in front of the public again. However, the story she comes up with results in her son being arrested for the murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-02
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Overview: An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-07
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The Air Circus
Overview: Two eager young pilots at flight school compete over their flight instructor's aviatrix sister.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-29
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Cradle Song
Overview: In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-19
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A Girl of the Limberlost
Overview: Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with Margaret and Westley Sinton, a childless neighboring couple, who help her with her school costs, as does the wealthy Mrs. Parker, who takes an interest in the talented young girl. She meets and falls in love with Phillip Ammon, the nephew of Dr. Ammon, but learns that he is already engaged. The money that Elnora has saved for her college education is stolen, and when Mrs. Comstock goes to retrieve it from a suspect, she also learns of the duplicity of her husband, who had been courting a neighboring woman on the night he drowned. She begs forgiveness of Elnora, and the romance of Elnora and Phillip also begins to flourish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-14
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David Harum
Overview: Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse, making him Rogers' bank partner.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-02
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This Mad World
Overview: Parisot, a French spy in World War 1, returns home on a secret mission to visit his mother, and finds that Victoria, the wife of a German general, is billeted in the Parisot home while waiting to see her husband. Victoria discovers that Paul is a spy and, although fascinated by him, plans to reveal his identity to her husband. When the latter is unable to visit her, she attempts to go to the German army headquarters.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-11
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Mr. Wu
Overview: When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-26
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Gigolo
Overview: The heir to a family business travels to Paris to try to stop his youth-obsessed mother from squandering the family fortune with her new husband, who's married her for her money. After he returns from service in World War I, he finds his mother, now broke and abandoned by her gigolo husband....
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-03
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Everybody's Acting
Overview: Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the troupe adopted and raised her. When grown, she has become the leading lady in a San Francisco stock-company. She meets and falls in love with Ted, the millionaire son of a rich widow, but she thinks he is only a tax-cab driver. His mother objects to the romance and looks into Doris' past. She learns that her father had murdered, in a fit of jealousy, her mother, and tells Doris what she has found out. The four actors who had raised her had never told her how she happened to become an orphan. They persuade Ted's mother to send him on a voyage to the Orient in order to get him away from Doris. But they neglected to tell the mother they had also booked passage for Doris on the same ship.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-04
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Not Quite Decent
Overview: On her way to New York for her first stage appearance, Linda Cunningham meets Mame Jarrow, a nightclub singer; Linda later drops by to hear Mame sing, accompanied by their angel, Paul Nicholson, a wealthy roué. Mame gradually comes to realize that Linda is her own daughter, from whom she was separated years before by pious relatives. Using all her wiles, Mame attempts to keep Linda from falling prey to Nicholson, and when all else fails, she sends for Jerry Connor, Linda's small town sweetheart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-02
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Servants' Entrance
Overview: Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda falls in love with humble chauffeur Eric Landstrom.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-25
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The World Moves On
Overview: Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be able to withstand even such another calamity as the Napoleonic Wars from which Europe is slowly recovering. Then many years later, along comes World War One and the years that follow, to test the businesses.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-27
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Song of the Eagle
Overview: This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused upon a family endeavoring to keep their little brewery.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-27
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Lightnin'
Overview: Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California while establishing residency in Nevada. When Lightnin' refuses to sell his share of the hotel to a gang of crooks, Mary is coerced into divorcing her husband so that she can sign over the deed herself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-28
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Mother Knows Best
Overview: A stage-actress mother and her daughter in a battle-of-wills in a "don't do this, daughter" and "don't do that, daughter" story of youthful folly and over-zealous parental devotion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-28
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Stepping Sisters
Overview: A trio of former burlesque dancers now living in high society try to prevent their past occupation from being discovered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-09
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Caught
Overview: Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint (and runs a cattle rustling operation as a sideline). One day she hires a pretty but naive young woman to work as a saloon girl, and finds that the girl is bringing out the maternal instincts she never knew she had. Those instincts are put to the test when a US army cavalry troop arrives to clean up the town and the girl and the young lieutenant in charge of the troop fall in love, and Calamity Jane may know something about the lieutenant that the girl doesn't.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-08
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Enter Madame
Overview: Directed by Wallace Worsley.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-13
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Madonna of Avenue A
Overview: A young woman is shocked to discover that her mother, who she always believed was a stylish and successful member of upper-crust society, is actually a dance-hall "hostess" at a low-class nightclub. Wanting revenge on her mother, she marries a brutal bootlegger, which causes her mother to do something that turns out to have dire consequences for everybody. This is reportedly a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-21
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Enticement
Overview: Romantic complications and tragedy ensue when two former lovers, one of them now married to another, meet again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-01
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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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Prodigal Daughters
Overview: Elinor "Swifty" Forbes and her younger sister Marjory are the carefree daughters of wealthy J. D. Forbes. Their mother shows no restraint over her daughters, so they live among the flapper set. Lester Hodges, a songwriter, is enamored of Marjory, while Garside, who runs a card room, is interested in Swifty. While gambling at Garside's place, Swifty meets Roger Corbin, who works as an engineer at her father's business. Corbin falls in love with Swifty. When Mr. Forbes protests against both his daughters' behavior, they move out. Marjory marries Hodges, but eventually leaves him and returns to her parents. Swifty, who has gambled herself into debt, agrees to marry Garside. But when the couple are together in a café, prohibition agents raid the place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-15
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Woman-Proof
Overview: At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-28
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The County Chairman
Overview: Based on George Ade's play which, in part, was based on an incident in a 1902 election in Wyoming, with women's-right-to-vote playing a large role. Here, Jim Hackler, local party-boss in a Wyoming county, has to decide to do what's right and lose the election, or what's wrong and win it.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-11
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Broken Hearts of Hollywood
Overview: Virginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a comeback, but age has taken its toll and she is cast in small character roles. Meanwhile, her daughter, Betty Ann, has won a beauty contest, and heads for Hollywood. They end up in the same, film, with Mom playing her Mom. Marshall tries to take advantage of the naive Betty. Somebody gets shot. Somebody is put on trial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-14
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The Third Degree
Overview: Alicia, a circus artist, deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome lover. Fifteen years later, Annie Martin, Alicia's deserted daughter, is a trapeze performer in a sideshow at Coney Island, operated by Mr. and Mrs. Chubb, and has married Howard Jeffries in spite of opposition by his wealthy parents. Jeffries, Sr., hires a man (Underwood) to separate the young couple. Underwood convinces the newlyweds that each is being unfaithful to the other, and consequently, he is threatened by Howard. Driven to fury by Underwood's uncontrollable demands, Alicia shoots him in a quarrel and makes her escape just as Howard enters; despite his innocence, Howard confesses to the crime when subjected to the third degree. Annie, realizing her mother's guilt, claims to be guilty, but Alicia then confesses. Annie is saved from suicide by Howard, and they are united by love.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-01
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Fifth Avenue
Overview: When her cotton crop is burned, Barbara Pelham, a beautiful southern girl, comes to New York to find work as a fashion designer, staying with Mrs. Kemp, a woman she meets on the northbound train. In Mrs. Kemp's house, Barbara encounters Peter Heffner, a wealthy stockbroker, and discovers from him that she has taken up residence in a whorehouse. There is a police raid, but Barbara escapes arrest and returns home. Heffner's son, Neil, goes south to inspect some family property and there meets Barbara, with whom he falls in love. They decide to be married, and she accompanies him to New York, where she meets the elder Heffner for a second time. He denounces her as a whore, but Barbara goes to Mrs. Kemp, who explains the misunderstanding to everyone's satisfaction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-24
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The Fog
Overview: Silent World War I (WWI) romantic melodrama (based on the novel by William Dudley Pelly) .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-18
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Padlocked
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-02
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White Flannels
Overview: A smothering mother, Mrs. Jacob Politz, stands in the way of the engagement of her college son Frank Politz to local girl Anne, because she, as the wife of Jacob Politz, an ill-educated coal miner, believes their son should obtain a college education.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-19
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