Alma Bennett
Also Known As: Alma Long
Biography: Alma Bennett, born Alma Long, was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 64 films between 1915 and 1931, mostly as alluring vamps.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, U.S.A
Birthday: April 09, 1904
Deathday: September 16, 1958
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Lost World
Overview: The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-02
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The Silent Lover
Overview: Based on the 1922 play Der Legionër by Lajos Biró.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-21
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The Light of Western Stars
Overview: Jack Holt, Billie Dove, and Noah Beery Sr., who starred together in Wanderers of the Wasteland, appear together again. Madeline Hammond, the sister of ranchman Al Hammond, arrives from the East. Gene Stewart, a rough and rowdy cowboy, convinces Madeline to marry him while he is on a drunken spree. Madeline sets out to reform him, and he sets out to rid their little section of the West of a band of outlaws.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-22
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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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Gold Digger of Weepah
Overview: Gold Digger of Weepah is a silent comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-02
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Motorboat Mamas
Overview: Motorboat Mamas is a silent comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-30
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Meet My Girl
Overview: Ralph is the poor inventor of an automobile motor with revolutionary claims. Marvin is the wealthy and one time college pal. Unknown to either of them, they both seek the hand of a charming young lady whose creditor-hounded parents' desires are for a well-to-do son-in-law. However, the girl's affection leans toward Ralph. In the meantime Ralph enlists the aid of his wealthy pal in the matter of financing the motor factory. Thus assured of success, he hastens to his sweetheart with matrimonial plans all set. All is well until the four meet at a restaurant party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-07
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The Jolly Jilter
Overview: Silent comedy short film starring Ben Turpin
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-13
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Catalina, Here I Come
Overview: Wanda is a gum-chewing waitress; dim Eddie, the pastry boy at the café, likes her. So does Mr. Hamhocks, the café owner, whose head is also turned by the arrival of Pearl Minnow, a gold digger in town for the annual Catalina Channel Swim, sponsored by Wrigley's. Wanda and Pearl take a dislike to each other; Hamhocks is charmed by Pearl and Eddie stays loyal to Wanda. The day of the swimming contest arrives, the two women compete, and the two men try to help their respective gals. Their trials and tribulations mix with documentary footage of the event. An angry swordfish gets in the act.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-16
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Long Pants
Overview: Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of long pants. Almost immediately, he is expected to marry his childhood sweetheart Priscilla... but instead, Harry's first heady whiff of manhood has got him panting after Bebe, a "fast" woman from the big city. Mistakenly thinking that Bebe fancies him too, Harry risks everything to help her out when she lands in jail, only to end up in hot water himself. Through it all, sweet Priscilla waits for her man to come to his senses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-26
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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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Thieves' Clothes
Overview: A ranchman sets fire to his trousers with a cigarette. In the morning the hotel attendant furnishes him with a pair borrowed from a cattle rustler. A note in one of the pockets gets the hero into trouble, but he clears himself and wins the girl of his choice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-22
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The Best Man
Overview: A bride and groom are all set to get married, but they can't until the best man shows up. When the best man eventually does show up, he causes a few problems since he ran through some tar just before entering the church. The groom doesn't seem to mind too much, just as long as the best man brought the ring, which he did. But as the wedding proceeds, that sticky tar just can't help but get the best man into one disastrous incident after another, including with the ring. That havoc, which leads into the reception, the wedding night and the honeymoon send off, may end the marriage even before it begins... or at least the couple's friendship with their best man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-08
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A Sweet Pickle
Overview: A Sweet Pickle is a 1925 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-25
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Midnight Daddies
Overview: Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-03
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Lilies of the Field
Overview: A young mother, Mildred, doesn't know that her husband Walter is cheating on her. One night she attends a party with a friend of her husband's, and the man gets drunk and begins groping her when they get home. Her husband sees this and uses it as an excuse to sue his wife for divorce. In the ensuing trial he wins, due to fraudulent evidence, and gets custody of the child. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-29
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The Affairs of Anatol
Overview: Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he lets an apartment for her only to find that she cheats on him. He is subsequently robbed, conned, and booted from pillar to post. He decides to return to his wife and discovers her carousing with his best friend Max.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-25
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The Head of the Family
Overview: Silent Comedy of the battle of the sexes for dominance within the home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-18
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The Golf Nut
Overview: Many of its members are spending a leisurely day at the the El Caballero Golf Club, the most beautiful in California. Also visiting for the day is non-member, Billy Divott, a golf enthusiast who is a little too enthusiastic. He seems to cause havoc everywhere he goes, especially as he plays a round of golf and tries to teach who he considers some of the less experienced members the finer points of the game. That havoc is compounded whenever he deals with sand traps, water traps or especially flying insects with stingers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-03
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Her Boy Friend
Overview: Young and beautiful Iva Method is spying for the police at the Dropem Inn, a sleazy club that the police suspect is a front for a bootlegging operation run by gangster Slim Chance. Chance discovers Iva's identity and kidnaps her, and the police chief sends his bumbling son Larry to rescue her.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-27
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The Campus Carmen
Overview: A campus set-up of Carmen featuring Daphne Pollard & Carole Lombard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-22
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A Fool and His Money
Overview: John Smart (William Haines), a hack writer, inherits a fortune from a distant relative and buys a castle in Laupheim. He pursues what appears to be a ghost of a beautiful woman but he learns that the so-called ghost is the estranged wife, Countess von Pless (Madge Bellamy), of the castle's previous owner, the cruel Count von Pless (Stuart Holmes). A romance blossoms despite the efforts of Count von Pless to convict Smart of obstructing justice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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The Silent Watcher
Overview: A lawyer (Bosworth) running for Congress decides to end his relationship with a showgirl (Bennett), so that he will be more presentable candidate. When the showgirl commits suicide, the police arrest the lawyer for murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-05
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Why Men Leave Home
Overview: John and Irene Emerson's marriage begins well enough, but it is not long before John becomes less attentive. Feeling neglected, Irene spends more time with her girl friends, and John, consequently, falls prey to the vamping wiles of his secretary, Jean Ralston. When John comes home from the theater smelling of Jean's perfume, Irene procures a divorce; John then marries Jean.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-03
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New Orleans
Overview: Billy, a jockey, and Jim, an assistant manager of a New Orleans racetrack, are close friends. They become bitter enemies because of Marie, an unprincipled young woman who marries Jim after betraying her first fiancé, Billy, on their wedding day. Marie's extravagance causes Jim to steal money from the office safe and to bet on Billy. Billy wins, but Jim is arrested and sent to jail when Marie neglects to replace the stolen money. Jim serves his term and is reunited with Billy after Marie and her lover are turned out of the house.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-01
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Three Jumps Ahead
Overview: John Ford both directed and wrote the story (based on his published work The Hostage), a typical western romance in which Mix falls for the daughter of an imperiled rancher. This above-average Tom Mix western contains one of the star's more spectacular stunts -- a jump on horseback across the 20-foot Beale's Cut. Truth be told, the star, who frequently did his own stunt work, was forced to use a double this time
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-25
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Don Juan's 3 Nights
Overview: A concert pianist who is popular with women tries to discourage a teenage admirer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-04
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My Lady's Past
Overview: Mamie Reynolds has been engaged to Sam Young for ten years. But when Sam's novel is published after many years of waiting, Sam falls for a gold digger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-01
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Orchids and Ermine
Overview: Set in New York City, flapper Pink Watson works a telephone operator at a cement factory who dreams of marrying rich. Her constant daydreaming of wealth annoys her fellow workers, and ruins the heart of one of her worshiping colleagues.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-06
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Without Compromise
Overview: When the ability of Dick Leighton (William Farnum), Sheriff of Randolph, Oregon, to enforce law and order is tested by the leader of the political opposition, he stands his ground and overpowers the unruly element.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-29
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The Right to Happiness
Overview: The story of twin sisters, one raised in Russia, the other in America, and how their lives diverge and re-entangle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-30
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The Prince of Broadway
Overview: "The Prince of Broadway" George Burke, heavyweight boxing champion of the world, trains by drinking and dancing all night. After he is knocked out, his manager tears up his contract and tells him he is through. His sweetheart, actress Nancy Lee rescues him from the gutter and asks her admirer, Wade Turner to take him to his ranch to get back in shape. Wade, jealous of George, tells his foreman, Buck Marshall, to hinder George's comeback. Wade’s neighbor, former champ Jim Jeffries offers to help George get back into condition. Trying for the advantage Wade tells Nancy that George is not training, but when she goes out to the ranch, she uncovers the conspiracy. George regains the championship and wins Nancy's hand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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Compassion
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-26
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Girl Crazy
Overview: A rich widower finds unexpected romance after rescuing a young woman from drowning.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-09
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