Diana Allen
Also Known As: Diana Allen Booth
Biography: Diana Allen was a Swedish actress. She moved to Hollywood
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Visby, Gotlands län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1898
Age: 127 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: June 12, 1949
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Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Overview: Two confidence men pose as investors to fleece the denizens of a small town. They build a carpet-tack factory with the funds, but some stockholders are suspicious. Eventually, someone tries to take over the business by buying it from them. The film is presumed lost.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-04
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Roulette
Overview: Before he can avenge a crooked card game, Dan Carrington suffers heart failure and dies in his chair. John Tralee, the cheater, feels a pang of guilt when he discovers that he has taken all of Carrington's money and adopts the dead man's little girl, Lois. The girl grows up and the gambling hall becomes her second home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-19
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The Face at Your Window
Overview: Two factory owners, Hiram Maxwell and Nicholas Harding are almost polar opposites -- Maxwell pays careful attention to his employees needs, while Harding totally disregards them. Maxwell's son, Frank, is very much like his father, and he is engaged to Harding's daughter, Ethel, who, unfortunately, has some of her father's less appealing traits. Naturally, she's not thrilled when he goes to work amongst the laborers at her father's factory. One of the other workers is Ruth Kravo, and both Frank and Ivan Koyloff are attracted to her. One night when Frank calls on Ruth, Ivan jealously stabs him. The trouble this causes loses Ruth her job, but she goes to work as a secret service agent amongst her own people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-31
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Miss 139
Overview: France is being swamped by counterfeit bills that are being made by a ring in the US. A beautiful female member of the French gang circulating the bills negotiates a deal with the counterfeiters' ringleader in the US, and in so doing falls in love with a returning US soldier who has his own reasons for trying to destroy the gang.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-15
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Woman
Overview: A series of stories reflecting the changing position of women in the world, including the familiar tales of Adam and Eve, Messalina and Claudius, Abelard and Heloise, Cyrene and the Fisherman, as well as that of a young girl and an officer in the American Civil War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-27
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The Beauty Shop
Overview: Dr. Budd is a New York physician specializing in "beauty". His business is successful but he is still plagued by money problems. One day he gets an idea--he obtains the coat-of-arms of a long-forgotten Italian noble family, the Bolognias, and uses it as his logo on his line of beauty products.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-13
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Salome
Overview: Herodias, spurned by Egyptian prince who is in love with Salome, has him secretly thrown in dungeon next to the Baptist. Herodias threatens to kill her lover if Salome does not ask for death of the Baptist. Salome does so, later rescues the prince and flees with him into the desert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Man Wanted
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-13
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The Way of a Maid
Overview: A silent film comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-30
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Voices
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-26
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The Conquest of Canaan
Overview: Joe Louden is an outcast in the small town of Canaan, and is especially disliked by Judge Pike. There is one inhabitant, however, who is fond of Joe -- the pretty but poor Ariel Tabor. But she inherits some money and goes to Paris with her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-10
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Heliotrope
Overview: A prison inmate obtains his release from prison in order to rescue his daughter from the clutches of her unscrupulous mother's plot to implicate the girl in a blackmail scheme.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-28
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The Exciters
Overview: Ronnie Rand, Required to marry before she is 21 or lose her inheritance, Ronnie Rand meets Pierre Martel, member of a gang of thieves, and, convinced that he is a "real man," she marries him. Pierre's confederates attempt to blackmail Ronnie, and when she refuses to sign a check they try to kill Pierre; but police arrive in time to save him. Pierre is revealed to be a U. S. Intelligence Service agent. Ronnie, though somewhat disappointed that her husband is not at all a crook, accepts the situation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-03
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The Open Door
Overview: After serving fifteen years of a twenty-year prison term for embezzlement, Joe Moore is released early for good behavior. In New York, he finds Matthew Owens and James Horton, his former business associates, and demands that they pay what they owe him.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-12
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Flying Fists
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-23
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The Jazz Fight
Overview: In the gritty streets of Detroit, *The Jazz Fight* follows Benny "The Hammer" Leonard, a once-promising boxer whose career has been derailed by his own demons—alcoholism, anger, and a destructive past. After a brutal loss in the ring and a nearly fatal bar fight, Benny is pushed to the edge of self-destruction. But when he receives an offer for one last fight, his shot at redemption hangs in the balance.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-01
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The Surprise Fight
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-15
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The Come-Back
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-01
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Soft Muscles
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-15
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Hitting Hard
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-01
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Breaking In
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-15
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After Dark
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-13
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The Spirit of Evil
Overview: Nick Carter investigates the mysterious death of a man attending a Spiritualistic seance held in the home of a psychic scientist, friend of the man who suddenly died.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-01
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The Last Call
Overview: Episode #3 (of 4) in the silent Nick Carter serial starring Edmund Lowe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-01
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A Game of Graft
Overview: Nick Carter is hired by a rich man to verify his suspicions that the young man that is paying his daughter attentions is deceiving her. It is discovered that the boy is being lured by society crooks into blackmail. Fourth and final episode of the Nick Carter series starring Edmund Lowe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-01
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Unseen Foes
Overview: Nick Carter, called to a prominent New York hotel room by a wealthy mine owner, finds him dead when he arrives. His investigation involves a number of supposed reputable business men, but he solves the mystery and brings all to justice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-01
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Divorce Coupons
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-02
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Beyond the Rainbow
Overview: Marion Taylor is secretary to Edward Mallory, a wealth Wall Street businessman. She supports her invalid brother Tommy, who has been told by his doctors that he has to go to the mountains for his health. Marion doesn't have the money for that, but Mallory, who has made no secret of his intentions towards her, does. She resigns herself to submitting to his advances in order to get the money in order to keep her brother alive. However, circumstances arise in which she may possibly get the money without having to debase herself with her boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-19
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The Kentuckians
Overview: Boone Stallard, elected to the Kentucky Legislature by a mountain district, clashes with Randolph Marshall, a Blue Grass aristocrat who is engaged to Anne, the governor's daughter. When a feud breaks out in the mountains between the Keatons and the Stallards, Boone returns home and with the help of Marshall restores law and order; later, Marshall obtains a commutation of the sentence of Stallard's brother, who has been condemned to death. Boone, now realizing the differences between a rugged, simple mountaineer and an aristocrat, decides not to ask Anne to marry him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-20
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Man and Woman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-15
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Even as Eve
Overview: Eileen O'Hara lives as a member of a cult in a remote retreat in the Adirondacks with her father, an embittered man since his wife's infidelity years earlier. Because his wife was untrue, O'Hara is determined that his daughter, Eileen, shall never marry. Peyster Sproul was the man who had the affair Mrs. O'Hara's infidelity, and when he shows up as president of the Sagamore Club and attempts to buy O'Hara's land, the two men come to blows.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-15
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Three Black Eyes
Overview: Four wealthy young men, Larry Van Cortlandt, Castleton, "Fatty" Harriman and Payne, become intoxicated in a cabaret where munitions maker Stanhope Shelton is giving a party for his daughter Natalie. Larry is attracted to Natalie, but he is ejected with his friends before he can secure an introduction. Plainclothes detective Hogan vows to capture Larry, who seeks asylum on his yacht with his friends. After the crew quits, Larry and his friends handle the boat. The next morning Castleton and Payne place a "for hire" sign on the boat and the Sheltons engage it. Larry teaches Natalie to steer and runs into several boats in the process. Four people in the Shelton party turn out to be burglars and rob the other guests. Meanwhile two other crooks rob the Shelton mansion. Larry manages to capture all the crooks at the Shelton home, and he wins over both Natalie and her father.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-31
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Her Ambitious Ambition
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-01
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His Blooming Bloomers
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-01
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His Matrimonial Moans
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-29
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Way Up in Society
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-01
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His Fatal Fate
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-01
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