Frank Hayes
Also Known As: Frank Rowell Hayes, Frank Hays, Фрэнк Хэйес, Фрэнк Хейс
Biography: Frank Hayes was born on May 17, 1871 in San Francisco, California, USA as Frank Rowell Hayes. He was an actor, known for Vanity Fair (1923), When Do We Eat? (1918) and Golden Dreams (1922). He was married to Lottie Harriet Ward Christensen Kemp (maiden name: Ward). He died on December 28, 1923 in Hollywood, California.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 16, 1871
Age: 154 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 28, 1923
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The Killer
Overview: Claire Adams as a girl forced to marry the man she suspects killed her father. When she refuses, she is virtually kept a prisoner along with kid-brother Frankie Lee until a handsome stranger (Jack Conway) rescues them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-30
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A Scoundrel's Toll
Overview: Slapstick comedy about a poor and unlucky life of a inventor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-17
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Who's Your Father?
Overview: This comedy starts with the rescue by a cowboy's dog of a baby that is floating down a gorge toward a cataract in a tiny crib. The cowboy takes the foundling to his cabin. Then the cowboy finds himself not only beset with the troubles of feeding an infant, but also is the object of a spinster who, by claiming the baby, hopes to compromise the cowboy
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-30
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Those Country Kids
Overview: Those Country Kids is a 1914 short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and directed by Fatty Arbuckle.[1]
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-19
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How Heroes Are Made
Overview: It has been arranged between the fathers that their children shall marry. When the young people meet, the intended husband, who is somewhat rakish in appearance, falls desperately in love with the girl, but she spurns him. He bribes two young men to kidnap the girl, in order that he may play the hero and rescue her. However, he does not know that one of the "kidnappers" is the young man whom Mabel really is in love with, and his confidential friend, who, of course, delight in the deception.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-14
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He Wouldn't Stay Down
Overview: A man plots to kill a friend and marry his wife in order to get hold of insurance money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-02
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Mabel, Fatty and the Law
Overview: When Mabel catches her husband flirting with their maid, it leads to a sharp dispute. As part of making up, the couple decide to take a walk to the park. Nearby, another married couple have just had a similar domestic squabble, and they too go to the park together. But at the park, all parties involved find it difficult to avoid getting themselves into further trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-18
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Their Fatal Bumping
Overview: A Keystone comedy of rival suitors fighting over a girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-24
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His Musical Career
Overview: Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-07
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The Old Homestead
Overview: Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-08
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The Mysterious Rider
Overview: Hell Bent Wade is the victim of an attack in which is wife is killed and daughter kidnapped. A couple of decades later, he is a sheriff known only as the "mysterious rider," because of his nighttime prowls in search of cattle rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-23
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Fatty's Tintype Tangle
Overview: Hubby and wifey are in love, but he's henpecked by her mother. A nip of whiskey gives him Dutch courage, and he storms out, declaring he won't be a domestic slave anymore. He heads for a park bench where a photographer mistakes him for a seated woman's sweetheart. The tintype of the two of them falls into the hands of the woman's husband, whose jealous rage frightens our hero. He abruptly leaves town, telling wifey he'll be away on business. Wifey doesn't need her house while he's away, so, unknown to hubby, she moves in with mom and rents the house to the couple from the park. When our hero returns home sooner than expected, the renter has another attack of jealousy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-26
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The Simple Life
Overview: The Simple Life is a silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-04
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Double Dealing
Overview: The servant girl of a wealthy young man helps him fend off criminals who are trying to steal his property.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-21
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That Minstrel Man
Overview: That Minstrel Man is a 1914 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-17
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Golden Dreams
Overview: Oil is discovered on the Countess de Elberca's estate in a mythical Spanish American country. Mercedes McDonald, her niece, falls in love with Sandy Buchanan, a young Scotch engineer hired by the countess. Don Felipe, a neighbor in need of money to avoid arrest for embezzlement, conspires with his nephew, the Duke of Othomo, for the latter to wed Mercedes. The aunt approves the suit. Felipe and Othomo attempt to kill Mercedes' sweetheart, but Buchanan, with the aid of her brother and a traveling American circus, foils their plans. Felipe and Othomo are killed by the circus animals, and the aunt consents to Mercedes' marriage to Buchanan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-11
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When Romance Rides
Overview: Lucy Bostil, daughter of a Colorado ranch owner, is led by a dog to his master, Lin Slone, who is exhausted from a struggle to capture a wild horse; she revives Lin and they christen the horse "Wildfire." The Bostils have entered Sage King in a race, but Lucy agrees to tame and train the wild horse, since Buckles, her favorite colt, has been stolen. When Joel Creech, a half-witted stable hand, is discharged, he becomes a tool of the Cordtses--who also have entered a horse (Buckles) in the race--in drugging Sage King. Lin and Lucy enter Wildfire under the Bostil colors, and she rides him to victory, When Cordts is disgraced and discovered to be a horse thief, he persuades Joel to abduct Lucy. Joel does so, but first he kills Cordts. Warned by his dog of Lucy's danger, Lin pursues and rescues the girl.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-16
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Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance
Overview: Fatty and his domineering wife visit the park, where they encounter a pair of pickpockets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-07
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Fatty’s Faithful Fido
Overview: Fatty and Al are Minta's suitors. After Fatty sics his dog on him, Al marks Fatty for roughing up by two thugs, but the plan backfires.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-19
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Lover's Luck
Overview: A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Keystone comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-15
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Fatty's Jonah Day
Overview: Fatty's Jonah Day is a 1914 short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-15
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Droppington's Family Tree
Overview: Pa Droppington sneaks out of the house to go to the theatre. Amid comic capers he is smitten by a dancer. Meanwhile his son is telling Ma that he's in love with a dancer! She is not happy but he takes her to the theatre (for her birthday). She sees hubby and chases him around, he's also chased by another performer. The son calls a clergyman, Pa saves the girl and they marry at the end.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-11
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The Yellow Dog
Overview: In the small shipbuilding town of Danforth, Albert Walker realizes, to his distress, that German sympathizers, spies and draft evaders, by voicing doubts about the United States' involvement in the war, are having a disastrous effect on the patriotic spirit of the townspeople.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-04
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Fatty and Mabel Adrift
Overview: Villains launch Fatty and Mabel's beachfront house into the ocean.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-09
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Madcap Ambrose
Overview: Ambrose likes his mother's assistant, but when she inherits a fortune, the obstacles to their relationship keep mounting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-16
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Her Torpedoed Love
Overview: A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-13
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His Trysting Places
Overview: On his way to a restaurant, Ambrose, a happily married man, obliges to mail a letter for a woman in the apartment lobby. Unbeknownst to him, the letter is about a rendezvous with her own lover at their "trysting place". Elsewhere, after some domestic frustration, Charlie runs an errand to buy a baby bottle before stopping at the same restaurant. After a confrontation there, they both inadvertently leave with each other's coats. Later, their wives independently discover what appears to be incriminating evidence of extramarital affairs from the pockets of the swapped garments. It all comes to a head when all four of them find themselves at the "trysting place" in the park.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-09
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The New Janitor
Overview: The hero, a janitor played by Chaplin, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of water out the window and onto his boss the chief banker (Tandy). Meanwhile, one of the junior managers (Dillon) is being threatened with exposure by his bookie for gambling debts unpaid. Thus the manager decides to steal from the company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-14
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Fatty's New Role
Overview: Fatty gets kicked out of a bar, and then the place gets a bomb threat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-01
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Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Overview: Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-23
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Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
Overview: When a woman's husband leaves town, she begins to see odd things happening in her house. Afraid that gangsters are after her, she becomes increasingly anxious.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-10
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Love
Overview: "Fatty", a poor good hearted farm boy is deeply in love with Winifred, a farmer's daughter. A rich neighbor offers the farmer a large plot of land if Winifred marries his slow witted son Al. "Fatty" has less then one day to save heartbroken Winifred from the rushed ceremony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-01
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Leading Lizzie Astray
Overview: A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-30
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When Love Took Wings
Overview: Three men in love with the same woman contend with each other and with her father, until one of them takes her on an airplane in an attempt to elope with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-01
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That Little Band Of Gold
Overview: A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-14
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Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
Overview: American law clerks Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne and Rodney Blake are nearly broke in Monte Carlo when Hawthorne breaks the bank. While driving through the impoverished kingdom of Bovinia, Hawthorne falls in love with a woman he meets when he retrieves his blown-off cap. Deciding to stay, Hawthorne is persuaded to finance a revolution until he learns that the woman he loves is Princess Irma and that she is in danger of being assassinated.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-30
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Don't Be Foolish
Overview: Billy gets into trouble with a couple of cops by littering in the park, and must use all his ingenuity to elude them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-11
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The Barnyard
Overview: Lay Zee works on a farm and has won the heart of the farmer's daughter. There is oil on the farmland, and some swindlers are determined to get their hands on the property, by force if necessary. Lay Zee, who knows that oil has been found on nearby farms, convinces the farmer not to sell, and the swindlers enlist the help of another farmhand, who is jealous of Lay Zee's relationship with the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-11
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Their Social Splash
Overview: Pretty Dixie Chene is abut to be married to Slim Summerville besides a swimming pool stocked with baby alligators -- wait for it -- but before the minister shows up, Charles Murray and a drunken Polly Moran manage to cause quite a fuss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-26
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A Prohibition Monkey
Overview: The town of Beer Bottle Bend is so tough that the babies chew tobacco. It is run in a high, wide, and handsome manner by the owner of Riley's Saloon. There is a little church in the town built in haste many years ago but it has been securely boarded up for years. Mr. Riley intended it to remain so for his Sunday business was booming. A traveling evangelist who learned his profession as a circus performer arrives in the town with Charles Bullephant, a peevish elephant; Joe Martin, a highly-cultured orang-outang; and Buster, a famous trained horse. With help from his friends, he sets out to make Beer Bottle Bend a church-going community.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-13
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Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Overview: Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-02
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Hogan the Porter
Overview: A porter works hard in an understaffed hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-08
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His Home Sweet Home
Overview: Larry Semon is in the kitchen preparing food for a high society musical evening.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-06
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Gussle's Wayward Path
Overview: Gussle (Syd Chaplin) comes home with a cute little dog but doesn't want the wife to see it--leading up to a rather funny bit you'll have to see for yourself. The marriage, at first, seems ideal and Gussle and his wife seem devoted. However, it soon seems that this is an act for Syd and it's obvious he's quite the philanderer. Eventually, the wife catches on and sets out to catch him--leading to a rather cute and unexpected ending.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-09
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Greed
Overview: A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-04
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School Days
Overview: Larry in school and always gets in trouble until he falls asleep and dreams of when he's all grown up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-03
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Heart's Haven
Overview: A fine cast brings depth to this melodrama of a crippled boy, an unhappy marriage, an injured young lady and the miracle of faith.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-08
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Hogan Out West
Overview: After arriving in a hostile Western town, Hogan meets the Wild West head-on. A shack loaded with dynamite aids his return to urbanity. "Plenty of western color helps to make the production an attractive one apart from its comic attributes. In this film Charles Murray as Hogan is his usual comical self." -The Moving Picture World, March 13, 1915.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-27
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Sunless Sunday
Overview: A girl gets trapped by racketeers and chaos happens at a gambling house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-31
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The Grocery Clerk
Overview: Big Ben has the largest store in the town of New Ralgia. His chief clerk is in love with the post mistress. The three of them get involved in a series of mishaps with their customers and with the town ladies' man, whose advances conceal a more sinister purpose.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-01
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The Man Of The Forest
Overview: Ailing ranch owner Al Auchincloss (Harry Lorraine) sends for his two nieces, Helen and Bo Raynor (Claire Adams and Charlotte Pierce), who are his heirs. Milt Dale, who lives in the forest (Gantvoort), comes down to help round up the cattle, and a romance springs up between him and Helen. This does not please Harvey Riggs (McKim), who is trying to get control of the ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-01
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Seeing It Through
Overview: Swindled out of her small property by crooked money lender Bogrum, Betty Lawrence turns to large estate owner and old friend Jim Carrington. On a tip supplied by Bolter, Bogrum's secretary, Jim investigates and after Bogrum's crooked dealings are exposed, and he is imprisoned, Betty and Carrington join their property through matrimony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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The Stage Hand
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-20
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A Hoosier Romance
Overview: Pretty Patience Thompson, a "girl with a singing soul," lives with her cold-hearted and avaricious father, Jeff Thompson, on their Indiana farm. Her life of drudgery is brightened by John, the hired hand, but when he asks for her hand in marriage, the old man flies into a rage and discharges him. Soon an aged but wealthy widower courts Patience, and although she still loves John, "Old Jeff" orders her to marry the widower, claiming that a father's will is the law.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-18
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Cupid Forecloses
Overview: Geraldine Farleigh, a timid village schoolteacher, supports her family and must pay off her late father's debt to Bruce Cartwright.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-12
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She Loved Him Plenty
Overview: “ Polly Moran, known as Becky O'Brien in this picture, conducts a pawn shop with Ben Turpin and Charles Lynn as her appraisers and clerks. Ben is her sweetheart and Polly sure does love him, but Ben is not quite so enthusiastic, excepting when the cash register is made to tingle, then all his love is for Becky. ” - Synopsis from Motion Picture News
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-11
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The Grab Bag Bride
Overview: A knock-off of those charming rustic comedies in which Roscoe and Mabel Normand would play young lovers. Lake is a pretty good stand-in for Mabel, but the husky young man who is supposed to be Arbuckle is pretty much of a nullity. Al is a money-hungry villain, up to no good and achieving no good end.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-27
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When Do We Eat?
Overview: Impersonating Little Eva in a third-rate travelling production of Uncle Tom's Cabin fails to earn Nora enough for a square daily meal, and to make thing worse, her stage career comes to a sudden end when the sheriff arrives with a writ of seizure. Nora hops a passing freight but is frightened by a tramp, jumps off, and literally rolls into the town of Wattelville. After being arrested as a suspicious character, Nora is adopted by the kindly Ma Forbes, whose son James works in the local bank. "Pug" Hennessy and "Soup" McCool, two crooks, inveigle the scrupulously honest James into a poker game and, as a result, he is forced to steal $300 from the bank to cover his losses. Impersonating expert safe-cracker Velvet Mary, Nora helps the crooks to break into the bank, but upon opening the safe, she sounds the alarm, and the crooks are arrested. Having learned his lesson, James proposes to Nora, who never again is forced to go hungry.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-13
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