Claude Gillingwater
Also Known As: Claude Benton Gillingwater, Claude Gillingwater Sr.
Biography: Tall, balding character actor in US films from 1921 until the year he died, usually portraying obstinate or irascible types. A man so disagreeable on celluloid, Claude Gillingwater's characters seemed to subsist on a steady diet of persimmons. Fondly recalled as the cranky old skinflint whose seemingly cold heart could only be warmed by the actions of a cute little tyke, the tall and rangy Gillingwater invariably played much older than he was. He, with the omnipresent bushy brows, crop of silver hair and perpetually sour puss, had a much more versatile career than perhaps realized -- on both stage and in film. Most assuredly, this caustic screen image he perfected belied a softer, gentler off-screen demeanor for he was a kind and sympathetic gent and devoted husband to wife Carlyn Stiletz (or Stellith). Their only child, Claude Gillingwater Jr., briefly became an actor himself. Sadly, Gillingwater Sr.'s thriving character career ended on a grim and tragic note in 1939. A serious accident on the movie set of the picture Florida Special (1936) (he fell from a platform and injured his back) damaged his health and threatened his career, and the death of his long-time wife Carlyn left him irrevocably depressed. Fearing the possibility of becoming an invalid and wishing not to become a serious burden to anyone, the 69-year-old actor committed suicide at his Beverly Hills home with a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. Gillingwater left a fine Hollywood legacy and the fun of some of his old films is watching his vinegar turn to sugar. Date of Birth 2 August 1870, Louisiana, Missouri Date of Death 2 November 1939, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California (suicide)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Louisiana, Missouri, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 01, 1870
Age: 154 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 02, 1939
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Conquest
Overview: A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-22
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That's My Baby
Overview: On the eve of his wedding, businessman Alan Boyd gets a telegram notifying him that his "bride" has fallen in love with another man and eloped with him. Announcing that he is through with women, an hour he meets pretty Helen Raynor, who takes to him (and is also his business rival's daughter). Helen's mother, though, doesn't take to Alan at all. In addition, Schuyler Van Loon, who is also after Helen, comes up with a scheme to embarrass Alan in Helen's eyes and ruin his reputation in the bargain--he comes up with a "baby" he claims is Alan's illegitimate son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-19
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Just Around the Corner
Overview: Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-11
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Fools First
Overview: Tommy Frazer is one of a gang of crooks lead by "Tony the Wop". Frazer gets caught and is sent up the river for three years on a forgery rap. When he gets out of prison, he finds his girl, Ann Whittaker, waiting for him -- and she's got a scheme. She is working in a bank and wants to pull an inside heist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-27
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Together We Live
Overview: A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who are appalled by the burgeoning radical movement in America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-16
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There Goes My Heart
Overview: An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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My Boy
Overview: An orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-01
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Stark Mad
Overview: An expedition sets out through the jungle to find a missing explorer, but stumbles upon an ancient Mayan temple that houses a giant ape.
Genres: Crime Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-02
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The Prisoner of Shark Island
Overview: After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-28
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Green Eyes
Overview: The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-15
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I Loved a Woman
Overview: The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-23
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Illicit
Overview: Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-14
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The Great Divide
Overview: Stephen Ghent, a mineowner, falls in love with Ruth Jordan, an arrogant girl from the East, unaware that she is the daughter of his dead partner. Ruth is vacationing in Arizona and Mexico with a fast set of friends, including her fiancé, Edgar. Manuella, a Spanish halfbreed hopelessly in love with Ghent, causes Ruth to return to her fiancé when she insinuates that Ghent belongs to her. Ghent follows Ruth, kidnaps her, and takes her into the wilderness to endure hardship. There she discovers that she loves Ghent, and she discards Edgar in favor of him.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-15
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Mississippi
Overview: A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-22
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So Long Letty
Overview: Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty, which causes him to leave the hotel. When he finds Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife and likes her and the way she keeps a clean house. To get a big check from Uncle Claude and to see how life is with the other, the two couples switch spouses for a week.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-16
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Before Midnight
Overview: A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-18
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Overview: An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-15
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In Love with Life
Overview: Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the curriculum, and soon finds himself dead broke when publishers show no interest in the dry material he brings to them. He meets a young boy, Laury and his mother, Sharon in the park and is quite taken with them. He gets a job-prospect letter, as a private tutor, and applies at once. His employer is Mr. Morley, a surly, sour, mean-tempered old man who informs John he is to act as a tutor for his grandson, who turns out to be Laury. Sharon, Morleys daughter had eloped against her father's wishes and was abandoned by her husband after Laury's birth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-11
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Back Page
Overview: A former New York reporter (Peggy Shannon) is hired as editor of a failing, small town newspaper in California.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-07
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Ticket to Paradise
Overview: A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-24
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Gold Dust Gertie
Overview: Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-27
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Ann Carver's Profession
Overview: Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-09
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Winds of Chance
Overview: A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-15
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Dumb-bells in Ermine
Overview: In a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though her straitlaced mother wants her to marry Siegfried, a spellbinding "missionary reformer." Though Grandma Corey promotes the romance with the prizefighter, Mike, the fighter's hardboiled, wisecracking manager, tries to keep them apart; following a quarrel, Faith reconciles herself to marrying Siegfried, but when he invites a group of "weak sisters" to a revival meeting, he is disgraced when one accuses him of her downfall. Finally, with Mike's advice, Jerry wins back Faith and they are united with the family's blessings.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-10
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The Flirting Widow
Overview: An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. However, the lie comes back to haunt her.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-11
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Daddy Long Legs
Overview: Wealthy Jervis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-05
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Running Hollywood
Overview: Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-27
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Little Miss Broadway
Overview: An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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Tess of the Storm Country
Overview: When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long. A local millionaire, Frederick Garfield, lays a false claim to the property and has them evicted. Later, when Tess saves a young man about her age from drowning, she is a bit dismayed to learn that he is Garfield's son. But when her father is jailed on a false-accusation charge of murder, the younger Garfield comes to their aid and proves he himself.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-20
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Kiss Me Again
Overview: An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-07
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Daddies
Overview: A group of confirmed bachelors finds their informal "anti-matrimony club" turned into a home for adopted orphans when six orphaned children are suddenly foisted on them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-09
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Calm Yourself
Overview: A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-28
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The Wide Open Spaces
Overview: A Wild West spoof by The Masquers Comedy Club of Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-28
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Baby Face Harrington
Overview: Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2."
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-12
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The Captain Hates the Sea
Overview: Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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Remembrance
Overview: Although he graduated from that time-worn university, the college of hard knocks, the tireless efforts of John P. Grout have paid off. He owns a number of department stores and his wife and children are well provided for. However, his family is completely ungrateful and takes him -- and his money -- for granted. Grout's attempts to keep them all happy are driving him to bankruptcy and he eventually becomes seriously ill. Eventually his wife and kids come to realize how badly they've treated Pops.....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-01
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The Christian
Overview: Glory Quayle and John Storm, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory to become a nurse and John to enter a monastery. Instead, Glory becomes a theater star, and John renounces his vows because he cannot forget his love for her. Lord Robert Ure, who has already betrayed Glory's friend, Polly Love, incites the London populace against John....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-14
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Skyway
Overview: A cocky young pilot, at the urging of his girlfriend, takes a nice, "safe" job at the bank where her father is president.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-29
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A Thief in Paradise
Overview: Years of failure and bad luck have made Maurice Blake a beachcomber on an island in the Samoas, earning a precarious living by diving for pearls with Philip Jardine, the disinherited son of a San Francisco millionaire. When Philip is killed by a shark, his half caste common-law wife, Rosa, informs Maurice that Philip had been forgiven by his father, and she persuades him to assume Philip's identity and return to the States - The film is now considered a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-18
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Poor Little Rich Girl
Overview: Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.
Genres: Adventure Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-18
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Three Wise Fools
Overview: Sydney Fairchild, the daughter of a woman who was once loved by three bachelors, surprises the men with a visit. Findley, Trumbull, and Gaunt honor their former sweetheart's last request by becoming Sydney's guardians.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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How to Educate a Wife
Overview: Business failure Ernest Todd is advised by his friend, Billy Breese, to enlist his wife's charms as a means of winning customers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-01
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Strange Wives
Overview: When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-30
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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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The Strangers' Banquet
Overview: In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John Trevelyan, an anarchist labor agitator. Derith's brother John is off in pursuit of an adventuress, and Angus Campbell, her superintendent, resigns in exasperation. Angus returns, however, to help Derith persuade Trevelyan to settle a strike, which Trevelyan accomplishes in spite of being shot by one of his own men.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-31
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The Show-Off
Overview: Aubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. When he loses his job he takes one wearing a sandwich board. After he helps Joe sell his patent for a good price and an old railroad deal comes through, he's back on top and ready to marry Amy again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-09
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City Limits
Overview: The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up with a pair of hoboes from whom he starts to learn how to really enjoy life in ways he never knew were possible.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-14
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Cafe Society
Overview: A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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Florida Special
Overview: A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears while carrying $11-million in unset jewels.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-01
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A Yank at Oxford
Overview: A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-18
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
Overview: A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-26
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Mexicali Rose
Overview: The owner of a border town gambling saloon falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an affair with another, he tosses her out of town. She gets revenge by marrying his younger brother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-26
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Compromised
Overview: Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through contentious times with the Brock patriarch, but when Stella becomes a mother, she seems to becomes accepted, although it's used as a way to shift Sidney's and the child's affections from her. Connie comes back into their lives, now seeking to reclaim Sidney, and manipulates the situation to convince Stella that he's been seeing her. So Stella decides to get a divorce, but fortunately, Sidney becomes aware of the deception in time.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-19
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The Woman in Red
Overview: A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust Long Island family in this horsy-set drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-16
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Counterfeit
Overview: A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-25
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Husbands for Rent
Overview: A newlywed couple, after six months of marriage, decides that they've made a mistake and plan to divorce. Her father, however, has other ideas and hatches a plot to make them realize that they really do love each other and should stay married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-31
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Barbed Wire
Overview: During WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-09
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Unknown Blonde
Overview: An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-23
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Top of the Town
Overview: In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-17
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Tiger Rose
Overview: Originally a Broadway play by Willard Macks, Lenore Ulric played the lead on Broadway and reprises her role for this film. At the Wutchi Wum trading post In the peaceful Loon River Valley, deep in the Canadian Northwest comes a story of love, vengeance and sacrifice. Having lived at the trading post following the death of her father, Rose will soon fall in love. But when her new love is in trouble, Rose will discover that she is capable of much more than she thought in order to keep him safe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-09
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Seven Sinners
Overview: Six burglars separately break into the Vickers mansion on Long Island to loot the safe but catch each other in the act. They all pretend to be members of the household when locked in by a well meaning police officer.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1925-11-07
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Naughty But Nice
Overview: Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenice Summers (Colleen Moore) is catapulted head-first into High Society when her Uncle Seth (Burr McIntosh) strikes oil. Shipped off to a fancy boarding school, Berenice suffers at the hands of her snooty classmates, but the last straw comes when she's publicly humiliated by local wise-guy Paul Carroll (Donald Reed).
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-25
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We Moderns
Overview: Mary Sundale is a young woman who spurns her childhood sweetheart to attach herself to a large group of riotous, semi-artistic young people and becomes infatuated with a superficial poet and critic. One night this poet becomes too bold in his advances and is thrashed by the man who has been rejected. On a later night, the group holds a party in a dirigible. The ship crashes and fear grips the revelers. Mary, now disgusted with the group and all it represents, mends her manner of living and plans a future with the man who has always sincerely loved her. A lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-15
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Women They Talk About
Overview: Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequences, starring Irene Rich, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It is considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-10
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Stolen Kisses
Overview: A crotchety old coot wants his son and daughter-in-law to have kids so he can have grandchildren, but so far they haven't done so. In a somewhat ham-handed attempt to bring them closer together so they'll be in the mood to give them the grandchildren he wants, he winds up bringing them to the point where they're considering divorcing. He decides to change his tactics in order to achieve his goal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-23
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Glad Rag Doll
Overview: She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song with the same title and the trailer survives.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-04
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The Gorilla
Overview: An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-13
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The Avenger
Overview: A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-10
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You Can't Buy Everything
Overview: A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-26
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Crinoline and Romance
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-05
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 8: 'The Brassie'
Overview: Bobby Jones teaches an angry old man how to use the Brassie, while simultaneously freeing his daughter from his oppressive clutches.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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Oh Kay!
Overview: On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to sea and she is rescued by a passing rumrunner bound for the Long Island Sound. Once they arrive in the States, Kay makes her escape and hides in the deserted mansion of Jimmy Winter. Jimmy is due to marry the following day. He comes home to the mansion unexpectedly, and finds Kay, who persuades him to let her pose for a night as his wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-26
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The Conquering Horde
Overview: Not long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and make it near impossible to get their cattle to market. Many ranchers are being forced to sell their land, and crooked state treasure Marvin Fletcher buys up the land at pennies on the dollar. However, Laguna del Sol Ranch owner Taisie Lockhart and her ranch hands are holding out. Cowboy Dan McMasters returns to the ranch and tries to rekindle his romance with Taisie, but she rejects him because he fought for the North during the war. But what she doesn't know is that Dan is on an undercover mission from the President to investigate Fletcher, and in order to do that he has to pretend to be sympathetic to Fletcher and goes to work for him, angering Taisie even more. Complications ensue.
Genres: Western History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-01
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Wives Never Know
Overview: The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. Hugh Ramsay, author of the bestselling book, "Marriage—The Living Death".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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A Chapter in Her Life
Overview: Jewel stays with her grizzled, angry grandfather while her parents are overseas on business. Family squabbling is brought to heel through love and understanding from Jewel's pure love for others and trust in Divine Love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-17
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Into Her Kingdom
Overview: In Czarist Russia, a young peasant boy is sent to Siberia for insulting the Grand Duchess. Released years later, he joins the fighting to overthrow the royal family. The entire royal family is condemned to death when fighting ceases.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-08
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Madonna of the Streets
Overview: Rev. John Morton, who is determined to follow as closely as possible the teachings of Jesus, inherits a considerable fortune when his uncle dies. Shortly thereafter he succumbs to the wiles of Mary Carlson and marries her. To Mary's dismay, John uses his money for charitable work. When John learns that not only has Mary been unfaithful to him but she was also his uncle's mistress and became Mrs. Morton in order to share the inheritance she believed to be rightfully hers, he sends her away with his secretary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-19
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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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Fast and Furious
Overview: When Tom Brown, a wealthy young bachelor with a reckless penchant for speed, wrecks his car in an accident, he is assisted by Mr. Smithfield… When he meets Ethel, Mr. Smithfield's beautiful daughter, Tom falls in love with her at first sight…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-12
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Dulcy
Overview: Dulcy, a devoted but scatterbrained bride, tries to improve her absent husband's finances by inviting two of his business prospects to dinner. Though at first thoroughly confusing the deal, she does get her husband a bigger share than he bargained for.The film is now considered to be lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-27
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A Tale of Two Cities
Overview: The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on the eve of the revolution where we witness 'the best of times and the worst of times' - love, hope, the uncaring French Aristocrats and the terror of a revolutionary citizen's army intent on exacting revenge.
Genres: History Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-25
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Can This Be Dixie?
Overview: A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-13
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Idle Tongues
Overview: After serving 5 years in prison for embezzling church funds, Dr. Ephraim Nye returns to Ostable and the scornful gossip of its residents, led by Althea Bemis. There is a typhoid epidemic, and Dr. Nye believes it to be caused by the water in a pond that Judge Copeland, the brother of Dr. Nye's dead wife, Fanny, wishes to use as the source of municipal water supply. Only Katherine Minot supports Dr. Nye, but biologists prove him correct; and Dr. Nye confronts Copeland with proof that he went to prison to protect Fanny, the actual criminal. Copeland finally consents to the marriage of his daughter, Faith, to Tom Stone, the son of his enemy; and Katherine spreads the news of her engagement to Dr. Nye through Althea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-21
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Smiling Irish Eyes
Overview: A pretty, young violinist who travels from Ireland to America to seek fame and fortune on Broadway finds a bit more than she expected. A lost film.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-22
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Wages for Wives
Overview: Nell Bailey, taking a lesson from the married lives of her sister, Luella Logan, and her mother, agrees to marry Danny Kester provided that he will split his paycheck 50-50 with her. When, after marriage, he refuses to honor the agreement, she goes on strike, getting her sister and mother to join in. The three deserted husbands have a difficult time but hate to give in. A vamp complicates matters, but everything is straightened out in the end with each side meeting the other halfway. —Pamela Short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-15
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Alice Adams
Overview: Alice (Florence Vidor) is not satisfied with her family's financial situation and tries to convince others that she comes from a wealthy family. In the end she discovers that she is only fooling herself and decides to go to work to help her father's failing business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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The Dust Flower
Overview: Trying to escape her gloomy existence, Letty attempts suicide but is stopped by Rashleigh Allerton, a millionaire, who asks her to be his wife to spite his fiancée who has just jilted him. The irate ex-fiancée succeeds in breaking up the new marriage. Rash, realizing his love for Letty, rescues her from the cafe where her cruel stepfather has forced her to work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-02
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