Paulette Duval
Also Known As: Pauline Duval
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Birthday: May 05, 1889
Deathday: June 12, 1951
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Marthe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-01-03
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Monsieur Beaucaire
Overview: The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and flees to England when Louis XV insists that the two marry. He goes undercover as Monsieur Beaucaire, the barber of the French Ambassador, and finds that he enjoys the freedom of a commoner’s life. After catching the Duke of Winterset cheating at cards, he forces him to introduce him as a nobleman to Lady Mary, with whom he has become infatuated. When Lady Mary is led to believe that the Duke of Chartres is merely a barber she loses interest in him. She eventually learns that he is a nobleman after all and tries to win him back, but the Duke of Chartres opts to return to France and Princess Henriette who now returns his affection.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-11
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The Skyrocket
Overview: In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are separated when Sharon is placed in an orphanage. In the story we see Sharon as a young Hollywood star whose quick rise to fame leaves her self-centered, superficial, and a spendthrift. Ironically, the film that skyrocketed her to fame was written by Mickey. But her success is brief; and when it comes crashing to earth, Mickey is there to pick up the pieces.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-14
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The Magic Garden
Overview: Story about a little boy and girl that meet in a beautiful garden and the little girl promises the boy that some day she would meet him there again. He goes off to study the violin in Italy and when he returns he finds the girl in the garden.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-30
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The Divine Woman
Overview: [For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another soldier to love. They argue then embrace and, when the clock strikes midnight, he is still in her arms. Is desertion in the cards? Can the relationship survive the military demands and a soldier's obligations? A lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-13
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Nero
Overview: Biography portraying the life of the Roman Emperor Nero.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1922-05-22
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The Exquisite Sinner
Overview: Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man who forsakes the humdrum business world for the bohemian life of an artist. Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused to release it. When the film finally surfaced in 1926 (a full year after its completion), it had been radically altered by staff director Phil Rosen.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-28
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Twelve Miles Out
Overview: Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. While running booze into the U.S. during Prohibition, Jerry seizes Jane's seaside home. When she tries to turn him in, he kidnaps her and her fiance John. Jane, now in love with Jerry, must watch as Jerry and Red shoot it out on board Jerry's boat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-08
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The Lady
Overview: A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been disinherited by his father, loses what little money he has left gambling in casinos and then dies, leaving her penniless and with an infant son. When her former father-in-law tries to get custody of the child, she leaves him with a couple she trusts, but when she later goes to reclaim her son, she can't find the people she left him with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-08
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Sporting Life
Overview: A young British nobleman, impoverished and desperate, clings to the hope that either a prizefighter or a racehorse in which he holds interests can save his fortunes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-29
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No Other Woman
Overview: Frenchman is engaged to marry South American heiress but a fortune-hunting friend disrupts the romance and marries the girl himself. She later realizes her mistake after her no-good husband has frittered away most of her fortune and she turns back to her first love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-10
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Breakfast at Sunrise
Overview: While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-23
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Lidoire
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Beverly of Graustark
Overview: Beverly Calhoun impersonates the Prince of Graustark to claim his birthright while he recovers from a skiing injury. In the meantime, she falls for her bodyguard Dantan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-18
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Cheaper to Marry
Overview: Dick Tyler is the junior partner in the law firm of Knight and Tyler. He tries to convince his partner, Jim Tyler, than it's cheaper to be married than to continually "play the field". The main reason he's doing that is because Jim is obsessed with the beautiful Evelyn, a gold-digger on whom Jim is spending prodigious amounts of money. Things take a turn for the worse when his spending on her gets to the point where it's placing the firm dangerously close to bankruptcy. Something has to be done.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-09
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He Who Gets Slapped
Overview: After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-22
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Blarney
Overview: Young Irish boxer James Carabine arrives in New York from Ireland, his way having been paid by Peggy Nolan, a girl from his hometown who's sweet on him. Unfortunately, James falls for the trampy Marcolina, who hooks up with him when her boxer husband loses a fight due to the shady doings of friends of fighter Blanco Johnson. Peggy sets out to rescue him from the bad crowd he's hanging with and get him back into prime boxing form.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-26
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Man and Maid
Overview: Boulevardier Sir Nicholas Thormonde (Lew Cody) has to choose between his mistress Suzette (Renée Adorée) and his virtuous secretary Alathea (Harriet Hammond) in wartime Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-20
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Alias the Lone Wolf
Overview: Michael Lanyard, aka the Lone Wolf, is sailing to America when he meets pretty Eve de Montalais. Eve wants to sneak her valuable necklace through U.S. customs so that she can use the money from its sale to help straighten out her brother. The only problem is that there is a gang of jewel thieves on board who are just as determined to steal the necklace.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-22
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Beware of Widows
Overview: The handsome Dr. John Waller specializes in the ailments of women, or more specifically, wealthy widows.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-23
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