Ruth Clifford
Also Known As: Ruth Clifford Cornelius, Ruth Cornelius
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ruth Clifford (February 17, 1900 – November 30, 1998) was an American actress of leading roles in silent films, whose career lasted from silent days into the television era. Clifford got work as an extra and began her career at 15 at Universal, in fairly substantial roles. She received her first film credit for her work in Behind the Lines (1916). By her mid-twenties, she was playing leads and second leads, including the role of Abraham Lincoln's lost love, Ann Rutledge, in The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924). But sound pictures found her roles diminishing, and throughout the next three decades she played smaller and smaller parts. She was a favorite of director John Ford (they played bridge together), who used her in eight films, but rarely in substantial roles. She was also, for a time, the voice of Walt Disney's Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck. Clifford's obituary in the Los Angeles Times noted that she "became a prime source for historians of the silent screen era".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Birthday: February 16, 1900
Deathday: November 30, 1998
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Mr. Celebrity
Overview: A couple attempts to win custody of their orphaned grandson, who's being raised by his veterinarian uncle in a racetrack environment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-10
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The Invisible Ray
Overview: A scientist discovers a death ray and locks it in a box, giving the key to his daughter, who soon finds herself hunted by criminals looking to steal the deadly mineral.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-01
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As Man Desires
Overview: The story of a man who was robbed of his greatest love and the South Seas wildflower who found it for him, in the land of pawn trees where men of all nations gather; some seeking vengeance and some forgiveness.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-11
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The Devil's Apple Tree
Overview: Unable to pay for her passage upon setting sail to the tropics to meet her mail-order husband, Dorothy Ryan assumes the identity of a wealthy passenger who is presumed dead. Enjoying the preferential treatment she receives; Dorothy continues the masquerade when she arrives at her destination. She forgets all about her husband-to-be and falls for local aristocrat John Rice (Larry Kent). The party ends when the woman whom Dorothy is pretending to be suddenly shows up, very much alive and incredibly angry. Disgraced in the eyes of John's family, Dorothy wanders into the jungle only to be captured by natives and sentenced to be burned at the stake. Will true love John be able to rescue her in time?
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-20
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Wagon Master
Overview: Two young horse traders guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter rugged terrain, the cutthroat Clegg gang, hospitable Navajo, and moral challenges on the journey.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-22
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Pluto's Christmas Tree
Overview: Pluto comes bounding outside to help Mickey get a Christmas tree. Chip 'n Dale see him and make fun of him, but the tree they take refuge in is the one Mickey chops down. They like the decorations, especially the candy canes and Mickey's bowl of mixed nuts. But Pluto spots them and goes after them long before Mickey spots them. Minnie, Donald, and Goofy drop by to sing carols.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-21
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Holiday Inn
Overview: Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and his manager.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Mickey's Delayed Date
Overview: Even though Mickey's evening started slow and lazy, things get moving in a hurry when Minnie calls from outside the big dance, wondering why he's late. Luckily his best pal Pluto is happy to help wrangle the uncooperative evening wear and help get him out the door...without the tickets
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-03
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First Aiders
Overview: Minnie's learning first aid; she asks Pluto and Figaro for help. Pluto keeps throwing Figaro into buckets and otherwise getting him into trouble. Then, when Minnie has Pluto all trussed up in splints, Figaro taunts him.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-22
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Hell's Hole
Overview: Cowboy Tod Musgrave and his pal Del Hawkins steal a ride on a train after being kicked out of a saloon. The conductor throws them off when he discovers they have no tickets, and the two men swear revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-23
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Donald's Dream Voice
Overview: Donald is trying to sell brushes door-to-door, but since nobody can understand him, nobody will buy anything. He happens across a street vendor selling voice pills. They work great, but he's only got a limited number so of course, the last pill ends up in various inconvenient places.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-21
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You're My Everything
Overview: In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-22
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The Cobweb
Overview: Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but drapes are the least of their problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-07
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Mother Wore Tights
Overview: In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-20
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The Keys of the Kingdom
Overview: A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-15
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Bath Day
Overview: Minnie gives Figaro a bath and ties a ribbon around his neck. Figaro feels like a sissy, and when he mixes it up with some alley cats, they mock him, and the leader attacks. But Figaro is so afraid that his shaking topples a series of trash cans onto the aggressor. The rest of the cats didn't see this happen, and think Figaro defeated their leader. Of course, now he's all dirty, and he needs another bath.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-11
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Midnight Madness
Overview: In the act of robbing a set of rare jewels from a museum, a robber is wounded in the hand. Prentice Tiller, while dressing a wound in his hand, overhears the woman in the next hotel room, Gertrude Temple, telephoning Aaron Molitor, to whom she is to deliver some jewels. Posing as Molitor, Prentice calls on Gertrude but disappears when Molitor, who also has been wounded in the hand, suddenly arrives. Molitor's men capture Prentice, who narrowly escapes death in the ruins of an old church and then continues to track Molitor.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-08
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
Overview: As a derelict paints the face of a girl on a barroom floor, the plot is developed in a series of flashbacks: Robert Stevens, an artist engaged to marry Marion, a society girl, becomes charmed with a fisherman's daughter who poses for him. The society girl's brother brings dishonor upon the fisherman's daughter, and when she commits suicide the artist shields the brother. Stevens is blamed by his fiancée, who terminates their engagement. The artist becomes a derelict and is wrongfully imprisoned. Eventually Stevens is exonerated and reunited with Marion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Funny Girl
Overview: The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-19
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Tropical Love
Overview: In San Juan, Puerto Rico, The Drifter, young and educated, and The Seeker, old and feeble-minded, meet and form a partnership. The Seeker meets Rosario, unaware that she is his daughter, left there 20 years previously when his mind was affected by a tropical storm that killed his wife and wrecked his home. Rosario is deeded land belonging to her father and is about to sell it to Clifford Fayne when The Seeker discovers gold there and urges her to desist. Fayne lures her to a cabin and tries to force her to sign the bill of sale; The Drifter and her father rescue her; the father is mortally wounded but lives long enough to learn that Rosario is his daughter and that she will be happy with The Drifter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-23
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Key to the City
Overview: At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is proud of his rough and tumble background. Standish is mayor of "Winona, Maine", and is equally proud of her education and dedication to the people who elected her. Thrown together, the two opposites attract and their escapades during the convention get each of them in hot water back home. Written by Ron Kerrigan
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-02
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The Luck of the Irish
Overview: Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-15
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The Constant Woman
Overview: A mother abandons her family only to become a crispy critter with her lover, the husband finds out about it AND that his son isn't really his, becomes an alcoholic, is being held prisoner in a speak-easy, is rescued by 'Beef', is sobered up, gets a good job, negotiates a great contract for lots 'o money, realizes he's in love, asks the girl to marry him, son returns from boarding school and freaks out when told this, runs off and joins the circus that now happens to catch fire.....
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-12
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The Hitchhiker
Overview: Harry Langdon messes up a movie shoot, hitches a ride on an airplane, and ruins everyone's trip. What will the passengers on the unlucky airplane do, when they learn they are stuck flying with "THE HITCHHIKER"?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-11
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Woman Unafraid
Overview: A dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mob associations. Crime drama.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-27
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My Dad
Overview: Tom's father, Barry, lives at a lonely trading post up north and is constantly in fear the post's factor, who has threatened to turn him in to the Mounted Police for a murder committed many years before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-23
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To Mary - with Love
Overview: Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-01
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Leave Her to Heaven
Overview: A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-25
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Cry of the City
Overview: Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-29
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Father Was a Fullback
Overview: Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-and-stuffy but influential alumni Roger Jessup, and also having trouble at home with his oldest daughter, Connie. The team keeps losing and Coach Cooper is about to lose his job as his efforts to win the last game of the season, against the team's Big Rival, end in disaster. But, unknown to he and his wife, Elizabeth, Connie has sold an article, called "I Was a Bubble Dancer" to a 'True-Confession" magazine, and the girl-who-couldn't-get-a-date becomes suddenly popular and, because of her, the high-school football star from another town decides to play his college-ball for Coach Cooper. Jessup is forced to keep Cooper on as the school's football coach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-30
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Stolen Harmony
Overview: Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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Sergeant Rutledge
Overview: Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-25
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Paddy O'Day
Overview: A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-17
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Face in the Sky
Overview: Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one side. The meet Madge, who is cruelly treated by a her father who plans to marry her off to someone she despises.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-15
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Not Wanted
Overview: After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-24
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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Overview: Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-12
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Wife, Husband and Friend
Overview: Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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Swanee River
Overview: Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
Genres: Drama Music Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-29
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Along the Rio Grande
Overview: A trio of cowboys infiltrate a cattle rustler's gang to seek vengeance for one of their fathers' murder.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-07
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Pluto's Sweater
Overview: Minnie Mouse knits a sweater for Pluto. When she puts it on him, Pluto does whatever he can to try to get it off, eventually shrinking it to the perfect size for Figaro.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-29
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Overview: A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-11
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She Married Her Boss
Overview: A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-19
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The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
Overview: A documentary exploring the origins of the pioneers of women directors during the silent era.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-30
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The Last Hurrah
Overview: In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-31
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My Darling Clementine
Overview: Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They decide to take revenge on the culprits.
Genres: Western Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-17
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Free For All
Overview: The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-01
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Hollywood Boulevard
Overview: With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-20
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Circumstantial Evidence
Overview: A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-20
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It Happened in Flatbush
Overview: A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-28
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Blue, White, and Perfect
Overview: In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-06
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The Quiet Man
Overview: An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-21
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Sunset Boulevard
Overview: A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-10
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Lillian Russell
Overview: Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-24
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Hazard
Overview: A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-28
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Two Rode Together
Overview: Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-24
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Pilgrimage
Overview: A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-12
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Free, Blonde and 21
Overview: Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-28
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Road to Happiness
Overview: A struggling singer, devoted to his young son, fears the child's super-spoiled, unloving but wealthy mother will gain custody of the boy.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-19
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3 Godfathers
Overview: Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-31
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The Lodger
Overview: In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-19
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Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Overview: This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-26
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The Dangerous Age
Overview: Married for 22 years, Mary Emerson treats her husband, John, more like a son than a husband. He is stung by her rebuffs and, therefore, succumbs to the youthful charms of Gloria Sanderson, whom he meets on a business trip. But just after he mails a letter to Mary telling her that he will not return, John finds Gloria in the arms of her fiancé.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-04
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The Searchers
Overview: As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-16
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Brooding Eyes
Overview: Slim Jim Carey, the leader of a criminal gang, is in reality a nobleman called Lord Talbois, and his daughter is the rightful heir to the family estate. When "Slim Jim"'s gang finds out about this, they conspire to cheat her out of her inheritance by passing off one of the gangster's girlfriends as the real daughter. Unbeknownst to the gang, however, their leader isn't dead and finds out what they're up to. Complications ensue.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-15
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Making the Rounds
Overview: Two drunks cheat on their wives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-06
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Four Men and a Prayer
Overview: The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-29
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Coney Island
Overview: Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-18
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Safety in Numbers
Overview: The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-30
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The Cabaret Girl
Overview: Ann Reid moves to the city to study opera but is discouraged by her teachers and so becomes a cabaret singer instead. At Balvini’s cabaret, Ann’s friend Dolly introduces her to Ted Vane, who asks Ann to be his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-30
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The Desire of the Moth
Overview: The Desire of the Moth is a 1917 American silent western film directed by Rupert Julian
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-22
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Behind the Lines
Overview: The daughter of an American diplomat is forced to spy for Mexican revolutionaries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-11
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The Whispered Name
Overview: Anne Gray (Ruth Clifford) runs off with Robert Gordon (William E. Lawrence), believing that he is going to marry her. When they arrive at a hotel, another guest, Langdon Van Kreel (Charles Clary), sees though Gordon's ploy and chases him away.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-21
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The Door Between
Overview: The Door Between was based on Anthony the Absolute, a novel by Samuel Merwyn. The story begins in Japan, where American musicologist Anthony Eckert (Monroe Salisbury) is busily collecting records of authentic Japanese folk songs. While thus preoccupied, Eckert makes the acquaintance of a drunkard who has vowed to track down and murder his errant wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-10
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Fires of Youth
Overview: Lucille, a beautiful and romantic young woman, marries John Linforth, a wealthy businessman, who is twice her age, and too distracted by his business affairs to give her the attention she craves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-26
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The Savage
Overview: When Marie Louise, the daughter of the town factor, returns home from school, Julio Sandoval, a reckless young half-breed ruled by his animal instincts, develops a passion for the girl, even though she is engaged to Captain McKeever of the mounted police. Meeting Marie when she is alone in the woods one day, the half-breed carries her to his cabin on the mountain top where he collapses from an attack of mountain fever brought on by overexertion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-19
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A Kentucky Cinderella
Overview: After the death of her father, a young girl goes to live with her uncle in Kentucky. She immediately comes into conflict with her uncle's shrewish wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-25
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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
Overview: A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1924-02-02
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The Game's Up
Overview: Struggling young painter Ruth Elliott has written her Eastern friend Mildred Colburn that she has gained fame in the West as an artist. When Mildred stops to visit on her way to Honolulu, Ruth hires Peter Neyland to pose as her chauffeur for five hours. Peter is actually a wealthy young man who accepts the offer as a lark.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-20
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The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
Overview: Police headquarters has been plagued by a series of robberies, culminating in the theft of a priceless necklace smuggled from Europe. The detectives are on the track of a gang led by master thief Ramon Mordant and his accomplice known as "the Face" because of his twisted and hideous countenance.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-17
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Mickey's Family Album
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Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-11
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The Tornado
Overview: a tornado, flood, and log jam of astounding realism..a love theme as overwhelming as the tornado itself, acclaimed by critics as the most thrilling screen drama ever presented.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-04
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Only Yesterday
Overview: On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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April Showers
Overview: This silent romantic melodrama is believed to be lost.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-21
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The Phantom of the Opera
Overview: The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-22
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Show of Shows
Overview: Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-21
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The Spider
Overview: An ex-cop is suspected of murder after he is found with a dead woman. The private detective is on the run -- attempting to prove his innocence.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-01
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Charlie Chan in Honolulu
Overview: While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
Genres: Mystery Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-30
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The Thrill Seekers
Overview: Minor silent action hero James F. Fulton starred in this low-budget melodrama distributed by Poverty Row company Hi-Mark. Fulton, who would later play The Air Mail Pilot and direct the airborne serial The Eagle of the Night (both 1928), here starred as a lumberjack whose thrill-seeking girlfriend (Ruth Clifford) is kidnapped by a romantic rival (Robert McKim).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-01
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Ball of Fire
Overview: A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-02
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Whirlpool
Overview: The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-13
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Designing Woman
Overview: A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-16
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Butterfly
Overview: Silent Feature Film by Clarence Brown
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-11
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Hands Down
Overview: Miner Dan Stuyvesant finally strikes it rich, but on his way to report his claim, he is shot. When Jack Dedlow, the head of a gang of outlaws, hears this news, he rides to Stuyvesant's cabin intending to secure the claim for himself. There the outlaws find Stuyvesant's daughter Hilda, the sweetheart of Tom Flynn, and are about to draw cards for her when Dago Sam pulls out his guns and spirits her out the door. Because Tom is his only friend, Sam determines to protect Hilda from the gang, but when Tom suspiciously questions his intentions toward Hilda, Sam decides to live up to the town's poor opinion of him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-11
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Don Mike
Overview: Following the "no good deed goes unpunished" idiom, when after rescuing a group of settlers, hero Don Miguel Arguella is double-crossed by the group leader who files a claim on his land and makes a move towards his girlfriend. Sadly, this is a lost film.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-25
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Mother o' Mine
Overview: Mrs. Standing, an old-fashioned country mother, sacrifices to put her son John through college so that he might have a better life. Upon completing school, John goes to the city where his financial success blinds him to the basic values taught to him by his mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-02
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Eternal Love
Overview: Traveling from the Latin Quarter of Paris to Brittany to seek inspiration for his painting, artist Paul Dachette finds it in the person of Mignon, an orphan who consents to pose for him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-07
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The Lure of Luxury
Overview: Dale Aldis and John Coventry, who were sweethearts as children, meet again after the death of Dale's mother and discover that they are still in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-07
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Drums Along the Mohawk
Overview: Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-10
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Hungry Eyes
Overview: Ex-convict Dale Revenal arrives at Dudley Appleton's ranch bearing a letter of introduction from John Silver, Appleton's old friend. Appleton hires Dale, who, through his winning manner, soon wins the respect of the ranch hands and the love of the ranch owner's daughter Mary Jane. Believing himself unworthy of her, Dale tells Mary Jane that he has a wife and child in Arizona, and she reluctantly agrees to marry Jack Nelda, a local rancher. Nelda realizes that Mary Jane is still in love with Dale and plots with Bessie Dupont and her brother Pinto to kill him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-11
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Shock
Overview: In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart. As Janet attempts to convince her husband of the doctor's dastardly deed, Cross shows up to advise him that Janet is in dire need of some in-depth counseling.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-01
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Cadet Girl
Overview: A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-28
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Figaro and Frankie
Overview: Figaro is hungry for a small, yellow canary named Frankie but must pass a barrier; Minnie Mouse.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-31
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Ponjola
Overview: Ponjola is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the novel of the same name by Cynthia Stockley and directed by Donald Crisp. The film stars Anna Q. Nilsson in a role in which she masquerades as a man. A print of Ponjola still exists and is held by a private collector.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-28
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Polly Put the Kettle On
Overview: To support her younger sisters, Polly Vance finds work as a live-in companion to the aging Johanna Webb. Johanna's nephew, Chester Creigg, quarrels with his aunt and severs relations with her, because of her cruel treatment of her new employee, after which Polly returns to her old home. Then, when a fire breaks out at Polly's house, Chester rushes over to save her sisters, but loses his eyesight during the rescue. Convalescing from his burns, Chester learns that Johanna has died and marvels at the similarity between her and the old housemaid who is now taking care of him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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The Eternal Woman
Overview: Olive Borden returns home to Buenos Aires and discovers her father has been murdered and her sister has been attacked by an American.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-18
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The Millionaire Pirate
Overview: In the early eighteenth century, pirate captain Jean Lafitte fights a rival pirate and wins a treasure and a beautiful female captive. Although the girl offers herself to Lafitte to save her English lover, Lafitte makes him walk the plank. The girl then places a curse on Lafitte and his descendants, preventing them from ever knowing the true love of woman. Two hundred years later, in the West Antilles, painter Paul Winthrop poses Joe, a pearl diver, as a pirate. Upon seeing the completed painting, each envisions the earlier situation. Later, Joe finds the buried treasure and sails to New York, where he learns that the portrait has also attracted wealthy Lily Demorest and her suitor, Robert Spurr, a "financial pirate."
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-10
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Stand Up and Cheer!
Overview: President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.
Genres: Comedy Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-04
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Mothers-in-Law
Overview: Farmer's son David Wingate marries city girl Vianna Courtleigh over his parents' objections. Her father gives him a job with the company; a baby is born to the young couple; but their happiness is marred by David's desire for a quiet domestic life in opposition to Vianna's love of excitement. David's mother comes to live with them when her husband dies. She observes their unhappiness and, after deciding that Vianna is at fault, determines to teach her a lesson. Eventually Vianna sees the folly of her ways and seeks forgiveness from David.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-09
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She Married Her Boss
Overview: A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-19
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Whom the Gods Destroy
Overview: Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show but the ship strikes a derelict wreckage and is sinking rapidly. In the ensuing wild panic, Forrester saves many lives, until finally, panic stricken by sudden fear, he dons a woman's clothes and is among the rescued. On the coast of Newfouldland, the villagers, not aware of his true identity, curse him but he is befriended by Alec who helps him conceal his identity. With a planned story of his survival, he returns to New York but cannot face his family or friends after he sees the plaque to his heroism on his New York theatre. Deciding to remain thought of as dead, he becomes a derelict himself, surviving on odd jobs as he watches from afar his now-grown son begin his career as a producer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-12
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
Overview: A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-05
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Let's Live Tonight
Overview: Nick Kerry (Tullio Carminati) is a rich rounder who holds tremendous fascination over women......mainly because he is rich and has his own yacht. At Monte Carlo one evening he romances Kay Routledge (Lilian Harvey), a romantic young and gullible American girl. She takes the dilettante seriously and when he sails away on his yacht, she is heartbroken. But the memory of her haunts him, and brings him back from India and the arms of another woman,Countess Margot de Legere (Tala Birell),only to find Kay now engaged to his friend. Oh, what's a rich guy to do?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-16
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