Renée Adorée
Also Known As: Jeanne de la Fonte, Renee Adoree, Renee La Fonte, Jeanne Renée de la Fonte
Biography: Renée Adorée (born Jeanne de la Fonte; 30 September 1898 – 5 October 1933) was a French actress who appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. She is most famous for her role as Melisande in the melodramatic romance and war epic The Big Parade.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lille, Nord, France
Birthday: September 30, 1898
Deathday: October 06, 1933
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Big Parade
Overview: The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-05
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Day Dreams
Overview: In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, a young man goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes of his various jobs which her imagination expands into much nobler ones than those that he is actually attempting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-27
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Made in Heaven
Overview: William Lowry rescues Claudia Royce from a burning building, and upon hearing that her parents are trying to force her to accept millionaire Leland, whom she does not love, he proposes a marriage of convenience to himself. She accepts, and Bill arranges a fake ceremony; but when she falls in love with Davidge, Bill refuses her a "divorce." Later, Bill gets rich in the manufacture of a patented fireman's pole, and when he buys a house for Claudia she realizes her love for him and they are legally married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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Mr. Wu
Overview: When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-26
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The Mating Call
Overview: A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-21
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The Show
Overview: Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-22
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The Blackbird
Overview: Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-13
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Tide of Empire
Overview: California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-23
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Redemption
Overview: In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée. Fedya quickly tires of domestic life and resumes his profligate ways, drinking and gambling away his family's fortune. Lisa refuses to leave him despite his deplorable ways, so he takes drastic measures to ensure that she will no longer be harmed by his actions and reputation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-05
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The Pagan
Overview: Henry, the pagan son of a white father and native mother, has inherited land and a store, but he prefers the simple life. When he falls in love with a native girl, her guardian, who is trying to bring her up as a 'proper' Christian, but who also lusts after her himself, plots to keep them apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-26
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The Cossacks
Overview: Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and chivalry. A mighty picturization of Count Leo Tolstoi's famous novel of the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-23
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Call of the Flesh
Overview: A postulant falls in love with a flamboyant singer from a cafe next door to her convent.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-16
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The Spieler
Overview: After being released from jail, two con artists take their grift to a carnival.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-20
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Overview: The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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La Bohème
Overview: It is 1830 in Paris and the rent is due, but the money is not there. An article here, a painting there and a monkey with a cup gives them enough money for the rent, but not for food. Fortunately, Musette from downstairs has enough food for everyone including Mimi - the poor little waif from next door who Rodolphe has met. But Count Paul also has his lusting eye on Mimi and uses her embroidery to get close to her. Rodolphe and Mimi fall in love and Mimi works endlessly to support Rodolphe who is writing his play with a new found passion. He does not know that he has been discharged from writing for 'Dog and Cat Fanciers'. Mimi wants to get his play produced and Count Paul offers to help, but there is a terrible fight when Rodolphe thinks that Mimi is faithless to him with Count Paul. After the fight, he seeks out a doctor as she is sick, but she has left when Rodolphe returns and will stay away until his play is finished.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-13
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The Exquisite Sinner
Overview: Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man who forsakes the humdrum business world for the bohemian life of an artist. Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused to release it. When the film finally surfaced in 1926 (a full year after its completion), it had been radically altered by staff director Phil Rosen.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-28
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1925 Studio Tour
Overview: A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-09
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Show People
Overview: Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-20
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The Michigan Kid
Overview: The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to his hometown and impress the girl he loves. His childhood rival for the girl happens to turn up at his casino, in trouble and doesn't want his girl to find about it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-20
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Monte Cristo
Overview: A film adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-03
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Mixed Faces
Overview: Judge Granger, a candidate for mayor, attempts to persuade Mary Allen Sayre to marry him. She meets his double, a young traveling salesman named Jimmy Gallop, mistaking him for the judge. Granger’s opponents bribe Jimmy to impersonate the judge in public while they kidnap the magistrate almost wrecking his chances of election and nearly getting Gallop murdered. Jimmy saves himself, helps in the judge's campaign, and finds that Mary is in love with him. The judge realizes he is in love with his devoted secretary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-21
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Tin Gods
Overview: Tin Gods is a lost 1926 silent film drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky, released by Paramount Pictures, and based on the play Tin Gods by William Anthony McGuire. Allan Dwan directed and Thomas Meighan starred.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-19
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The Eternal Struggle
Overview: Believing she's responsible for the death of her would-be seducer, a young woman flees to North Vancouver.
Genres: Crime Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-08
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Twenty Years After
Overview: This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Women Who Give
Overview: Jonathan Swift, stern Cape Cod businessman, has ambitions for his children, Emily and Noah, which are thwarted when they take romantic interests in Capt. Joe Cradlebow and Becky Keeler, respectively. Not realizing that Becky expects a child and has been promised marriage, Swift has Noah shanghaied, while Becky stows away on Cradlebow's vessel. There is a terrific storm; but Cradlebow rescues Noah, and the fleet returns safely to shore--thanks to lighthouse keeper Bijonah Keeler, Becky's father, who sets his house afire to give the sailors light. Realizing his foolishness Swift relents allowing his children marry whom they please.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-03
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Forbidden Hours
Overview: Set in the fictitious European kingdom of Balanca, Prince Michael IV is being coerced, by his advisers, to marry a young woman of royal blood. However, he has fallen for a peasant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-16
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Heaven on Earth
Overview: Young Edmond Durand (Conrad Nagel) has been reared under the autocratic influence of his aunt (Marcia Manon), who directs a large silk mill in southern France. He revolts against a stifling career planned for him and leaves home with Marcelle, a Gypsy girl (Renée Adorée). They roam the countryside with a Gypsy caravan in romantic bliss; they are inadvertently separated but at the outbreak of war are reunited. When peace is restored, the lovers find happiness together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-05
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The Flaming Forest
Overview: North-West Mounted Police Sgt. David Carrigan takes a breather from fighting as he brings a convict to trial and woos the lovely Jeanne-Marie.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-21
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Excuse Me
Overview: A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-19
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The Movies March On
Overview: A "March of Time" presentation of the evolution of movies compiled primarily from film clips of silent movies through the early sound pictures to the present (1939) date. Industry executives such as Jack and Harry Warner, Walt Disney, Cecil B. DeMille, et al are seen taking bows in the live (non-archive) footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-03
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Parisian Nights
Overview: American sculptress Adele La Rue, working in Paris, lacks the inspiration to create a masterpiece, until Jean Ballard, a wild apache leader, takes refuge from the police in her apartment.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-27
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Honor First
Overview: Twin brothers are serving in the French army during the Great War. Jacques, a private, leads his brother's company to attack when Honoré, a lieutenant, panics and flees. Jacques, dressed in Honoré's coat, wins a vital victory, but he is mistaken for Honoré and decorated for gallantry in his brother's name. Jacques assumes Honoré's identity and goes to Paris where he meets Honoré. Honoré, after a serious disagreement, plots to have Jacques murdered but is himself killed by mistake. Jacques finds happiness with Moira, Honoré's wife from a loveless war marriage of convenience. 'Honor First' was the first film Adorée and John Gilbert made together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-27
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West of Chicago
Overview: West of Chicago is a 1922 American silent western film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and starring Buck Jones, Renée Adorée and Philo McCullough.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-03
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The Bandolero
Overview: When his wife is killed by the evil Marques de Bazan, Spanish army officer Dorando becomes a notorious outlaw known as El Bandolero. He kidnaps Bazan's son Ramon and has him raised by one of his own men. When Ramon grows up to be a man he meets and falls in love with El Bandolero's beautiful daughter Petra. Bandolero forbids his daughter from seeing Ramon, so Ramon leaves to become a bullfighter. A vengeful young woman he has spurned sets up Ramon to be gored by a vicious young bull. Complications ensue.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-20
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Blarney
Overview: Young Irish boxer James Carabine arrives in New York from Ireland, his way having been paid by Peggy Nolan, a girl from his hometown who's sweet on him. Unfortunately, James falls for the trampy Marcolina, who hooks up with him when her boxer husband loses a fight due to the shady doings of friends of fighter Blanco Johnson. Peggy sets out to rescue him from the bad crowd he's hanging with and get him back into prime boxing form.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-26
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A Self-Made Man
Overview: Jack Spurlock, the lazy son of a railroad tycoon, is estranged from his fiancée, Anita Gray, because he refuses to work. When his father disowns him, Jack is forced to take responsibility and save his father from ruin with Anita's help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-25
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A Certain Young Man
Overview: An aristocratic English womanizer is forced to take a fishing trip to avoid the husbands of his conquests, meets a young American lady on the train, and follows her to Biarritz.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-19
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A Man's Mate
Overview: Paul Bonard an artist, loses his memory when he receives a blow on the head from one of two apaches fighting over Wildcat, a sultry stepper in a cafe. He becomes an apache himself, falls in love with Wildcat and paints her portrait--his masterpiece. Wildcat learns Paul's identity and restores him to his family, though realizing that she will lose him. Surgery restores Paul's memory, but some subconscious force guides him back to the cafe and Wildcat's love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-16
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Defying the Law
Overview: Discouraged with life, Michelo throws his daughter Lucia into the sea, but she falls into a fisherman's boat and is taken to a fishing village. Francisco kidnaps her and takes her to the headquarters of smuggler Dr. Chong Foo, located in a studio occupied by Pietro Savori, an unwilling partner. Chong Foo kills Savori to gain the girl for himself, but Bevani comes to the rescue and saves Lucia for her sweetheart, Guido.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-03
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Exchange of Wives
Overview: A serious young man and his emotional wife become acquainted with a frivolous young man and his serious minded wife, and it is not long before like attracts like, to the discomfiture of all. The four agree to an exchange of wives during a trip into the mountains, with the result that each is soon glad to go back to the original marital arrangement.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-04
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Man and Maid
Overview: Boulevardier Sir Nicholas Thormonde (Lew Cody) has to choose between his mistress Suzette (Renée Adorée) and his virtuous secretary Alathea (Harriet Hammond) in wartime Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-20
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On Ze Boulevard
Overview: On Ze Boulevard is a 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Harry F. Millarde and written by Earl Baldwin, William Scott Darling, Joseph Farnham and Richard Schayer. The film stars Lew Cody, Renée Adorée, Anton Vaverka, Dorothy Sebastian and Roy D'Arcy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-25
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Back to God's Country
Overview: Two men fight for the love of a young woman in the far north.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-23
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The Strongest
Overview: A lost silent drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Renée Adorée, Carlo Liten, Harrison Hunter, Beatrice Noyes, Florence Malone, and Jean Gauthier DeTrigny. It is based on the 1919 French novel Les Plus Fort by Georges Clemenceau.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-02-01
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£500 Reward
Overview: Drama about a couple who travel from the Rocky Mountains to Seattle then wind up shipwrecked en route to Queensland. The heroine Irene is kidnapped by a ship captain and winds up wrecked on the Queensland coast.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-18
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