Margaret McWade
Also Known As: Margaret May Fish
Biography: Margaret McWade (born Margaret May Fish; September 3, 1871 – April 1, 1956) was an American stage and film actress. She began her career in vaudeville in the early 1890s. Her most memorable role was as one of the Pixilated Sisters, a comedic stage act with actress Margaret Seddon. Later in 1936, she reprised her roles in the movie Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 03, 1872
Age: 152 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 01, 1956
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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 Horror Romance Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-02
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Scattergood Survives a Murder
Overview: Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-01
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Overview: Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-09
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High Steppers
Overview: Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In search of a change, he heads for London, where he meets Audrey Nye, a former jazz baby who has gotten a responsible job on a newspaper. She helps Perryam get hired as a reporter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-14
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The Ne'er to Return Road
Overview: A mother is waiting for her boy, not knowing that he is dead. An escaped convict falls exhausted at her door, and she gives him food and drink while the story is told, in flashback, of how he committed his crime. An unfaithful wife, a bar room, a dude and self-defense; these were the elements that made him a convict. The mother learns that it was her boy that he killed. Although the mother helps him to escape, the prison officials capture him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-09
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White Fang
Overview: Silent version of the classic Jack London tale.
Genres: Adventure Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-24
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Broken Barriers
Overview: A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and falls for a young man at a party, only to discover that he's married. As if that weren't bad enough, he is soon seriously injured in an automobile accident, and doctors say that he may never walk again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-18
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The Bishop's Wife
Overview: An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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The Last Days of Pompeii
Overview: In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-18
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Lost Horizon
Overview: British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, idyllic valley of Shangri-La. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-La provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-03
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-29
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It's a Joke, Son!
Overview: Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merkel) who appears to have a good chance to beat the political hack backed by the machine. Claghorn is in to siphon votes and ensure his wife's opponent will win and is expected to run a campaign that will defeat himself and his wife. But, he runs to win and the machine's henchies abduct him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-15
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Danger – Love at Work
Overview: A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-30
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Sundown
Overview: Cattlemen attempt to keep their lands and herds from being overrun by nesters.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-30
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Blue Jeans
Overview: June, a young orphan, is befriended by Perry Bascom when he shares his lunch with her on the road to Rising Sun. They soon fall in love and marry, only to find out that a woman in Perry's past has come to town to make trouble. Teaming up with the local political bully, the schemers set out to make Perry's life miserable, but June sticks by her husband to the end.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-10
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A Tale of Two Worlds
Overview: A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-13
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The Blot
Overview: Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any. When the professor's rich student Phil West falls for beautiful Griggs daughter Amelia and also befriends the poor Reverend Gates (a young man who is also in love with Amelia), he observes the difference in his life and theirs and tries to help make a difference.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-04
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Theodora Goes Wild
Overview: The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-12
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We Have Our Moments
Overview: A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-28
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Wings Over Honolulu
Overview: A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-16
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Postal Inspector
Overview: Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-16
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Women Who Dare
Overview: Film directed by Burton L. King
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-31
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It Should Happen to You
Overview: Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-15
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Remedy for Riches
Overview: A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-29
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Forbidden Valley
Overview: In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it and so flees into the rugged mountains. He brings his boy with him. In those lonely hills lives a sad, but wealthy young woman. Love blossoms between the son and the girl as the son struggles to clear his father's name and bring the real villains to justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-13
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The Confession
Overview: A priest hears a murderer's confession but can't reveal the truth, even though his brother is being tried for the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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I Stole a Million
Overview: A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-01
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The Remarkable Andrew
Overview: When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
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Stronger Than Death
Overview: Sigrid, A French dancer, diagnosed with a weak heart, is ordered by her doctor never to dance again. But when her dancing skills are needed by her lover's father to help quell a native uprising on the East Indian frontier, she determines to dance whatever the cost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-11
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Her Mad Bargain
Overview: After the death of her benefactress, Mrs. Beresford, Alice Lambert is evicted by Ruth, Mrs. Beresford's jealous niece; and in despair Alice seeks employment as a model. Her refusal to accept the attentions of Monsieur Armand ends in her dismissal
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-12
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The President’s Special
Overview: John Farley and his wife were in very comfortable circumstances. They owned their own little farm and, as a result, were able to live very nicely on John's income as a railroad switchman, and to put money in the bank as well. The one great drawback to the farm, was the fact that it was so far from the tower in which John worked.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-07
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The White Mouse
Overview: Sergeant Blake of the Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the border to break up a ring of smugglers who are bringing illegal Chinese immigrants into Canada. The ring is led by Ah Ming, a "half-breed" who goes by the name of Dr. Lawler. When Blake encounters Lawler, he is experimenting on a white mouse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-06
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Flower of the Dusk
Overview: Blind Ambrose North is tormented by the suspicion that his wife Constance committed suicide when their crippled daughter Barbara was only two, because she did not love him. Before her death, Constance wrote Barbara a letter to be opened on the girl's twenty-first birthday, but when Barbara opens it and learns that her mother killed herself to escape a doomed love affair with Lawrence Austin, she invents a different story for Ambrose, knowing that the truth would hurt him too deeply.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-12
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Let's Make a Million
Overview: A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Darling Mine
Overview: Persuaded by a letter from her Aunt Agnes in America, Kitty McCarthy ( Olive Thomas ) travels from Ireland to New York City, there she meets Gordon Davis, a successful playwright, who directs her to her aunt's address on the East Side. Kitty soon discovers her aunt living in a tenement, a confirmed alcoholic. Through her niece's care, Agnes is cured, and one day Davis appears and offers Kitty a part in a comedy that he has written. She accepts, and once backstage meets Vera Maxwell, the victim of an unhappy affair with Oscar Savoy. Kitty brings the lovelorn couple back together but is unsuccessful in arranging her own romance with Davis' nephew Roger until Davis finally intervenes, and a happy ending prevails for all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-16
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The Painted Lady
Overview: After being released from imprisonment for a crime committed by her sister, Violet is forced to become a woman of easy virtue, and on an excursion to a South Sea isle she meets Luther Smith, a sailor seeking vengeance for the death of his sister. She feels unworthy of his love, but their paths cross again when he rescues her from Captain Sutton, the man responsible for the other girl's tragedy. This film is lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-28
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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 Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns
Overview: After a prologue where we are shown the backgrounds of Wilhelm II and Woodrow Wilson, we see the story of Conrad Le Brett from Alsace-Lorraine. Forced to fight for Germany Conrad, sees soldiers taking girls into a church to rape them and kills one who murders a baby. Shot in the encounter he is taken to a Brussels hospital run by nurse Edith Cavell where he falls in love with American nurse, Amy Gordon. After Edith Cavell assassination and the murder of Conrad’s sister Vilma by the evil Lieutenant Ober Conrad honors her dying request that he go to America and defend Alsace-Lorraine's reputation. Once there he convinces President Wilson that Alsatians should be allowed to enlist. Fighting with the "doughboys," Conrad kills Ober, and after the armistice, returns to Amy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Food for Scandal
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-12
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Her Beloved Villain
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-10
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Love in a Bungalow
Overview: A radio contest brings together a woman renting a bungalow, and her squatter. Version of Hi, Beautiful! (1944), both from the story "Be It Ever So Humble," by Eleanore Griffin and William Rankin.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-27
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