Sidney Franklin
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Biography: Sidney Franklin (not to be confused with the director-producer-writer, and occasional actor, Sidney Franklin born 1893, died 1972) was an American stage and screen character actor, in films from 1919 to 1930.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 20, 1870
Age: 155 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 18, 1931
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Playing with Fire
Overview: Enid Gregory, a pianist at the Melody Shop, a music store on Broadway, is content with her snappy, routine existence until Janet Fenwick, a society girl whose father committed suicide under a cloud of financial disgrace, comes to Enid's boardinghouse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-19
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The Sleeping Lion
Overview: Italian potter Tony adopts an Italian waif, little Tony, and takes him from New York to the West to realize a long-held dream of owning a ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-23
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The Texas Trail
Overview: Rangy Pete Grainger is a cowboy who saves a rancher and his daughter from being kicked off their property by the ubiquitous evil landlord.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-01
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Puttin' on the Ritz
Overview: A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-19
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The King of Kings
Overview: The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-19
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A Boy of Flanders
Overview: An orphan boy wins a prize for his drawing.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-06
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Lummox
Overview: Lummox is a 1930 American Pre-Code sound film directed by Herbert Brenon, released through United Artists, and based on a 1923 novel by Fannie Hurst. The story of Bertha, a young immigrant woman who cleans the homes of the rich and is largely ignored by them, except for a young poet who considers her a muse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-13
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The Red Lily
Overview: Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor of low-class French society. All the while, the two desperately search for one another.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-08
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The Block Signal
Overview: Joe Ryan, a veteran train engineer, is demoted to a flagman position after a disastrous crash-- one caused by his cowardly and opportunistic partner. Though Ryan's failing eyesight is named as the cause of the crash, he's undeterred as he designs an automatic braking invention.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-15
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In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
Overview: A sequel of sorts, the Jewish ethnic comedy characters of Potash and Perlmutter return from their 1923 debut film, also produced by Goldwyn, but with a different actor for Potash.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-28
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1921-08-28
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The Fighting Failure
Overview: Cullen Landis starred in this silent Western melodrama about a prizefighter accused of cowardice who toughens up on a Western ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-02
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The Guttersnipe
Overview: Mazie, a shop-girl of New York City's Little Ireland, goes to the aid of a young man in formal attire involved in a street fight. Though badly beaten, he bears a strong resemblance to Lord Lytton, the hero of a magazine story Mazie is reading in installments. Although he is, in reality, a soda clerk, Mazie permits his attentions, and together they read the "Sloppy Stories" yarn about English nobility.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-30
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Pawnshop Politics
Overview: After several amusing gags, including one in which a tough character seems to be holding up the pawnshop but is only selling his gun, Abie sees Kitty Dolan, whose father is running for alderman, and it is love at first sight. A rival candidate makes trouble and plants a bomb in the shop but Abie turns the tables on him. Election day finds Dolan's followers too lazy to vote. Abie stirs them up by offering to lick them and then running to the polling place with the mob at his heels. Dolan wins and so does Abie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-07
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