Robert Cain
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 03, 1886
Age: 138 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 27, 1954
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My Lady Incog.
Overview: Financial troubles force Nell Carroll, a thoroughbred, to seek employment in a detective agency which has just taken up the trail of a very baffling jewelry robbery in an exclusive summer colony. In order to work from the inside, she is sent to the place as the Baroness Du Vassey.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-16
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The Bachelor's Romance
Overview: The Bachelor's Romance
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-11
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Hollywood
Overview: Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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The Everlasting Whisper
Overview: Cowboy Mark King (Tom Mix) comes to the aid of an old miner, Honeycutt (George Berrell) who, in gratitude, reveals the location of a secret gold mine. To get to the mine, however, King must fight an evil claim jumper, Gratton (Robert Cain), whose fiance, Gloria (Alice Calhoun), he once saved from falling off a cliff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-10
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Husband Hunters
Overview: Marie Devere and Helen Gray are two sophisticated, gold-digging chorus girls on the look-out to marry a rich man, who measure the men they meet by their Bradshaw ratings. They befriend Lettie Crain, a country girl who comes near being deceived by Bartley Mortimer, a rich playboy. She is saved by another girl, Cynthia Kane, whose life Mortimer has ruined, and Lettie finds happiness with Bob Garrett, a poor but honest working man.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-15
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Racing Hearts
Overview: Automobile maker John Kent is an old-fashioned sort who refuses to advertise his car line. His daughter Ginger, however, is determined to get him some publicity and goes speeding around town in one of his cars, hoping to get arrested. Roddy Smith, posing as a cop, stops her. His father owns a rival firm and he suggests that Ginger convince her father to enter his car in the Vanderbilt road race.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-15
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The Golden Bed
Overview: Femme fatale Flora marries a titled European to save the family planation. Her husband and a rival fall to their deaths in a glacier. Next Flora weds her sister Margaret's love Admah. She bleeds him dry, until he goes to prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-25
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Male and Female
Overview: When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-23
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The Crossroads of New York
Overview: A young man from the country travels to the city to find his fortune. Although he has a letter of introduction from his wealthy uncle, the best job he can find is that of a street cleaner. He catches the eye of his landlady, who somehow manages to get the man to propose to her, but he then falls in love with a pretty young socialite, and when his rich uncle dies finds himself being sued by a gold-digging vamp who wants to her her hands on his inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-22
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He Comes Up Smiling
Overview: Jerry Martin quits his dull job as a bank clerk and falls in with a band of hobos. He takes on the guise of Bachelor, the "king of the market," and finds himself pursued by dangerous men who are after the real Bachelor. *Only fragments are known to exist. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-09
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The Eternal Grind
Overview: Louise (Pickford) is a sewing-machine girl in a sweatshop in New York City. She lives together with her sisters Amy (Loretta Blake) and Jane (Dorothy West) and are all deprived by bad conditions at work and sickness. Louise tries for the three of them to survive and regards herself as the keeper of her sisters. Meanwhile, she stands up to her bosses and complains about the dreadful circumstances they work in. When Amy is seduced by the son of the shop-owner, Louise butts in and stops the romance. He eventually abandons Amy and becomes seriously injured in a cave-in. Louise has a secret crush on the son herself and tries to rescue him, hoping he will admit he loves her. The film is inspired by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which took place in 1911. The only version of the film is a nitrate print in the Cinematheque Francaise, but only the first half remains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-17
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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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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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Eastward Ho!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-23
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Children of Jazz
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-08
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Wings of Youth
Overview: Mrs. Katherine Manners loves her three grown daughters who are in boarding school. When she plans a party for them at home, they phone from the school that they cannot come because they are too busy. But she hears the sounds of a party in the background, so she goes to the school where she finds her daughters with young men. She is told that two of the daughters plan to be married, while the third plans to marry Grantland Dobbs as soon as he gets a divorce, and the mother is frightened by this announcement. She goes abroad and returns with a man, gets an apartment at a wealthy center, and lives with him. Her daughters are shocked when the mother entertains guests at drinking parties. When Mrs. Manners proves to her daughters that their fiancées are not respectable, she reveals to them that she was acting a part just to prove to them that she was right about their chosen mates. She reveals that the man she was living with was her cousin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-21
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The White Pearl
Overview: A silent romantic drama film directed by Hugh Ford and Edwin S. Porter
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-10
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The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Overview: A young girl who lives in the slums of London, is in love with a thief. She persuades him to give up his life of crime. Meanwhile, an eccentric millionaire, who has been diagnosed with an incurable dementia, becomes so despondent, he decides to commit suicide. He disguises himself as a vagrant, and wanders into the slums. As he tries to find the courage to kill himself, he is encountered by the young girl. She rationalizes him out of the cowardly act. Her genuine sweetness and strong faith, effects him to such an extent, he begins to believe a recovery is possible. Now the girl's sweetheart has been falsely accused of murder and only the millionaire's licentious nephew can give him an alibi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-07
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The End of the Road
Overview: Childhood friends Mary Lee and Vera receive two different versions of the 'birds and the bees' from their mothers. Mary Lee gets the facts, while Vera gets a prudish fairytale version. Their lives separate after graduation, Mary Lee becomes a nurse who falls in proper love with a Doctor, whereas Vera follows her mother's advice and seeks to marry a rich man, but falls for the unlawful and syphilitic charms of a wealthy cad. Mary Lee and her Doctor rescue Vera and help her get proper care after a series of revelations showing actual patients of the loathsome disease. Finally, Mary Lee and her new husband volunteer to help our boys fighting the Huns in France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-16
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When the Door Opened
Overview: "When the door opened" Clive Grenfel sees his wife in another man's arms. A tussle ensues leading Clive to believe he has killed the other man, and he flees to the Northwoods. There he becomes acquainted with an old gentleman and his lovely granddaughter but keeps his distance because of his past. A stranger’s arrival proves a catalyst to the whole fraught situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-06
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Kidnapped
Overview: In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-07
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Man-Woman-Marriage
Overview: Victoria marries David, the man of her dreams. After a number of years and two children, the marriage turns out not to be what she had expected. Then she discovers her faith, and everything turns out for the best. In several scenes Victoria has visions of love and marriage throughout history: she appears in the Stone Age, with a tribe of Amazonians, in the Middle Ages and in the Roman era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-27
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Secret Service
Overview: Lewis Dumont, a Northern officer in the American Civil War, works undercover behind Confederate lines in an attempt to lead Southern forces away from an area in which a Northern attack is planned. But Dumont falls in love with a Southern girl and when she proves useful to his plan, his conscience begins to tear at him.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-15
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The Dancer of Paris
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-28
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The Rose of Paris
Overview: A French orphan who grew up in a convent sets out to see Paris. It turns out that she is the heir to a fortune but doesn't know it, and has been lured to Paris by one of the heirs who does know who she is; he plans to swindle her out of her inheritance so he can have everything.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-09
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The Witching Hour
Overview: Clay Whipple is convicted of murdering the governor following an incident involving a cat's eye pin. Whipple is sentenced to death, but a mentalist named Psychic Jack believes he is innocent since Whipple had been hypnotized at the time of the murder. The psychic persuades the judge to grant the condemned man a retrial, and he sets out to uncover the identity of the real killer, during which time he manages to prevent a second murder from occurring.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-10
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The Death Dance
Overview: Arnold Maitland is devastated when he finds out that his wife Cynthia is having an affair with a man named Boresky. He falls in love with Flora Farnsworth, a cabaret dancer, and sets out to divorce his wife and marry Flora. Unfortunately, Arnold is killed in an accident, and Flora turns for comfort to his business partner Philip Standish, and soon falls for him. Enter Cynthia, who has tired of Boresky and wants Philip for herself. She hatches a plan that will get rid of both Flora and Boresky and leave Philip for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-01
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The Tiger's Claw
Overview: Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from a tiger's attack, but is badly wounded himself. The girl, Chameli Brentwood, nurses him back to health and out of gratitude he marries her, ignoring the fact that he has a fiancée, Harriet Halehurst (Eva Novak), back home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-22
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Held by the Enemy
Overview: During the Civil War, Rachel Hayne, a young widow, is among those "held by the enemy" when her old family home is within the lines occupied by the Northern troops. Protected by Colonel Prescott from looters and the unwelcome attentions of Surgeon Fielding, Rachel begins to fall in love with the gallant Yankee officer. Their romance is disrupted when Rachel's husband Gordon, long reported dead, is captured as a spy and condemned to death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-24
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Too Much Money
Overview: Millionaire Robert Broadley, in order to curb his wive's enthusiasm for spending money foolishly, inform her that he is now broke and penniless, which might have been a good plan if a friend of his, with some crooked ways, hadn't gotten involved. A lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-03
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Conductor 1492
Overview: A young Irish immigrant gets a job as a conductor on a streetcar and fights off an attempt by crooks to take over the company, all the while pursuing the boss' beautiful daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-12
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The Innocent Lie
Overview: Nora O'Brien leaves Ireland to visit her brother in America. On the trip she suffers a concussion, and soon is mistaken for another Irish girl named Nora who is on her way to visit her aunt in the US, Mrs. Watson, who has not seen her niece in many years. Nora, still somewhat dazed from her injury, is taken to the Watsons' home, and when Mrs. Watson's son Jack returns from college, he falls in love with her but cannot express it to her because he believes she is his cousin. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-20
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Paid in Full
Overview: A bookkeeper's embezzling scheme is discovered by his wife, while his boss's romantic feelings for her complicate matters further.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-23
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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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Seven Deadly Sins: Envy
Overview: Eve Leslie is a poor country girl, who wishes she could have fine clothes, motors and wealthy friends. The person she envies most is Betty Howard, a famous actress. Eve does not know that Betty's life has been full of sorrow
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-29
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The Running Fight
Overview: Crooked banker Peter V. Wilkinson intentionally drives his own company into bankruptcy and puts the bank's deposits into a secret account he has set up using his daughter Leslie's name. A series of events occurs in which Leslie finds out what her father has done and sets out to get him to return all the money he has stolen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-15
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A Woman of Impulse
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-29
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Peg o' My Heart
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Men
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-15
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