Elliott Dexter
Also Known As: Adelbert Elliott Dexter, Elliot Dexter, Dell Dexter
Biography: Elliott Dexter (born Adelbert Elliott Dexter) was an American actor, in films from 1915 to 1925.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Galveston, Texas, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 21, 1879
Age: 145 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 23, 1941
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For Woman's Favor
Overview: A modern love story is the framework for a costume love story, based on Boccaccio's "The Falcon."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-01
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Wasted Lives
Overview: After the death of her brother, "Tommy" Carlton makes the acquaintance of a neighbor, Harold Graypon, who invites her to a party. Tommy, who is a bit of a hoyden, attends the party in overalls and shocks the guests. Tommy is later ejected from her home and takes refuge in a shack in the mountains, where she makes rustic furniture for a living. Despite the interference of Grace, Tommy and Harold finds happiness with each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-07
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We Can't Have Everything
Overview: A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But the more they untangle one knot, the faster more confusing knots appear.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-07
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The Inner Shrine
Overview: Bad woman turns good, but as a recent widow finds her past a roadblock in terms of accepting remarriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-14
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Mary of the Movies
Overview: Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-27
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Don't Change Your Husband
Overview: Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed James looks pretty good.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-26
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The Affairs of Anatol
Overview: Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he lets an apartment for her only to find that she cheats on him. He is subsequently robbed, conned, and booted from pillar to post. He decides to return to his wife and discovers her carousing with his best friend Max.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-25
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Stranded in Arcady
Overview: Lucy Millington is an independent woman who looks upon men with contempt. Novelist Donald Prime, who has written a book on women, considers himself an authority on the subject. Both are lured into the desolate backwoods of Arcady by adventurers who plan to keep them in captivity until a fortune bequeathed to them has been safely deposited in the hands of their rivals.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-14
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The Squaw Man
Overview: Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918 remake of the 1913 original, the first feature length Hollywood film. It is considered to be a lost film with only one reel still extant.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-15
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The Rise of Jenny Cushing
Overview: A resourceful young girl struggles to free herself from slum life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-11
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The Fast Set
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-20
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By Divine Right
Overview: Mildred, a young stenographer, seeks protection at the mission run by Austin Farrol, known as "The Prince," when her employer, Trent, an unscrupulous politician, attempts to seduce her. Mildred begins to work at the mission and falls in love with Farrol. Farrol is accused of arson when a fire started by Trent destroys the mission. However, he escapes when the train he rides crashes. Farrol assumes a disguise, and gets a position in Trent's household. During a party, Trent's child falls from a window and is believed to be permanently crippled, but Farrol, with "divine power," is able to cure her. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-17
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The Age of Innocence
Overview: Newland Archer is engaged to May Mingott of a prominent New York family. Shortly after the engagement is announced, Newland finds himself attracted to May's older married cousin Countess Ellen Olenska.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-10
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The Eternal Temptress
Overview: Austrian diplomats, seeking papers in the possession of the United States diplomat, work through the infatuation of his son, Harry, for an Italian widow. In his desperate financial straits, he is induced to turn traitor to his trust, but the woman, truly loving him, saves him from the consequences of his crime, at the cost of her own love and life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-09
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Only 38
Overview: The death of her clergyman husband causes Mrs. Stanley, young mother of teenage twins, to change her style of life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-17
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The Heart of Nora Flynn
Overview: Nora is nursemaid to a wealthy family and in love with their chauffeur Nolan. When she hides her mistress' lover in her room, jealous Nolan shoots him and Nora, who refuses to tell about her mistress affair, is dismissed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-22
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Daphne and the Pirate
Overview: Philip de Mornay, a courtier in the French royal court of the 18th century, falls in love with Daphne La Tour, the daughter of a nobleman. Knowing that her family would never approve of their marriage, he takes her and hides her in a brothel, but is soon captured by pirates. Soldiers looking for women to bring with them to a settlement across the ocean in Louisiana raid the brothel and take the girls, including Daphne. Later on the trip to the new world their ship is attacked by pirates--and she discovers that her lover Philip is on board the pirate ship.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-04
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Souls for Sale
Overview: A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-22
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Broadway Gold
Overview: Sunny Duane, a chorus girl, goes out to dinner with Cornelius Fellowes, a wealthy man who is murdered the same night. Anxious to avoid suspicion, she escapes and quickly marries a man who believes he is going to die and wants to leave her his fortune. He recovers but is helplessly crippled. With the law closing in a last minute change of fortune rescues Sunny future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Adam's Rib
Overview: Michael Ramsay only has time for gathering his fortune in wheat. His wife seeks comfort elsewhere and, to avoid a scandal, her daughter Matilda assumes her mother's guilt. Ramsay nearly goes broke but gets rich again; his wife returns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-24
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Something to Think About
Overview: Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a subway accident. Markley offers to marry her in name only to protect her new son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-16
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Flaming Youth
Overview: When Mona Frentiss dies, she has her confidante "Doctor Bobs" watch over her family, especially her youngest daughter Patricia. The family has been raised in a most unconventional manner, with Mona having a much younger lover and the father Ralph keeping his own lover on the side. As Patricia grows older, she attracts the attention of her mother's former lover, the much older (than Patricia, who in the book is in her early to mid teens) Carey Scott. Patricia tempts fate with her wild ways, nearly loses her virtue to a musician aboard an ocean-going boat, and is saved in time by Carey. Realizing that he is the man for her, she settles down into an experimental marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-12
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A Romance of the Redwoods
Overview: A young girl travels west to live with her uncle during the California Gold Rush only to find that he has been killed by Indians and his identity assumed by an outlaw.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-14
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Old Wives for New
Overview: Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-18
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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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Grand Larceny
Overview: Directed by Wallace Worsley.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-26
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For Better, for Worse
Overview: Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children. Sylvia thinks him a coward and marries Burton. After Burton is presumed dead, Meade and Sylvia are to wed, but Burton returns maimed and scarred.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-26
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The Lash
Overview: A silent drama film directed by James Young
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-01
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Diplomacy
Overview: The story takes place in Monte Carlo, where the impoverished Julian proposes marriage to the wealthy Dora, only to be turned down by the girl's mercenary mother. Several years later, Julian manages not only to obtain a huge fortune, but also a prominent position in the British diplomatic service. Now a suitable husband for Dora, Julian marries the girl. Alas, their happiness is short-lived.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-27
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Lost and Won
Overview: A newswoman meets a man who has bet his colleagues he can make her beautiful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-21
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Castles for Two
Overview: An American heiress who goes to Ireland meets a bankrupt lord. She switches places with her maid to avoid fortune hunters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-05
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Stella Maris
Overview: Based on a novel by William J. Locke, Stella Maris is a remake of the 1918 Mary Pickford vehicle of the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-13
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Hello, 'Frisco
Overview: A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-28
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The Common Law
Overview: Valerie West, a beautiful artist's model, falls for wealthy artist Louis Neville. However, his aristocratic family doesn't approve of the relationship and persuades Valerie to promise that she won't marry him. She does, however, tell Louis that she will become his common-law wife on a certain date the following summer. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-30
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Forever
Overview: Architect Peter Ibbetson is hired by the Duke of Towers to design a building for him. Ibbetson discovers that the Duchess of Towers, Mary, is his now-grown childhood sweetheart. Their love revives, but Peter is sentenced to life in prison for an accidental killing. Mary comes to him in dreams and they are able to live out their romance in a dream world.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-16
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Capital Punishment
Overview: This is not a Clara Bow vehicle, and yet it is clearly the aspect/asset of Clara Bow which elevates a fairly serious melodrama to a timeless and profound social statement. Opening the film on death row where the handsome youth awaits the chair, a stirring test of the legal system evolves after two elite types conspire to expose its inadequacies. Elite, jaded society lawyer Gordon Harrington fabricates a murder, implicating an entirely "hired" fall-guy, one Dan O'Connor, while the bored playboy-type hides away on a yacht until the points are proven and the legal system has been disgraced. Naturally, something goes wrong, the playboy really turns up murdered, and O'Connor is now the accused, imprisoned murderer scheduled to be hanged.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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The Triflers
Overview: Marjorie Stockton is a fickle flapper who has loads of suitors. She won't give any of them the time of day, however, until she meets her match in the equally fickle Monte Covington.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-15
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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 Whispering Chorus
Overview: John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his place. He is later arrested for murdering himself. During the trial his mother, before dying from shock, asks him to keep his identity secret since his wife is now married to the Governor and expecting a child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-28
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An International Marriage
Overview: Florence Brent is the daughter of Bennington Brent, who runs a successful laundry business. Florence's childhood friend, John Oglesby, is a Congressman. When Florence visits her friend, Eleanor Williamson, in Washington D.C., she meets Eleanor's fiancé, who is a Count. The Duke of Buritz, a countryman of the Count, tries to corrupt Oglesby for political reasons. Meanwhile, the Count breaks his engagement to Eleanor, having become enamored of Florence. Oglesby eventually exposes the duplicity of the Count and Duke.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-23
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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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Women's Weapons
Overview: The children of a a novelist, Nicholas, contract scarlet fever. His wife Anne stays in the house to take care of them, but the house is quarantined by the authorities and Nicholas, not being allowed in the house, takes a room in town until the quarantine is lifted. Lonely, he begins to feel attracted to his illustrator, Esmee. They begin an affair, but soon Nicholas finds that Esmee's expensive tastes are driving him to bankruptcy. His wife finds out about the affair, and devises a plan to teach her husband a lesson and get his mistress out of the picture at the same time.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-24
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Vengeance Is Mine
Overview: Ruined by a powerful financial ring, Farrington commits suicide, after which his daughter Paula vows to take vengeance in her own hands and hunt the man behind the ring. At a house party, Paula meets Dr. Smith, who falls in love with her, but a misunderstanding separates them. Unsuccessful in locating the man but knowing that papers in the house of Van Brunt, one of the ring members, will identify the leader, Paula secures the papers with the aid of Old Bill Fitch, a reformed burglar. To her horror, she discovers that the man is Dr. Smith's father. Paula relinquishes vengeance for love, and Dr. Smith's father, realizing the error of his ways, agrees to make reparations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-16
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An Old Sweetheart of Mine
Overview: A husband goes through a trunk in an attic and finds a memento that reminds him of childhood sweetheart. The pair grow up and marry, facing tribulations. At the end, back in the present, she comes to the attic with their kids.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-16
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Maggie Pepper
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Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-23
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