Marion Davies
Also Known As: Marion Cecelia Douras, Marion Davis, Меріон Дейвіс, Marion Cecilia Douras
Biography: From Wikipedia Marion Davies (January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American film actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Davies was already building a solid reputation as a film comedienne when newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, with whom she had begun a romantic relationship, took over management of her career. Hearst financed Davies' pictures, promoted her heavily through his newspapers and Hearst Newsreels, and pressured studios to cast her in historical dramas for which she was ill-suited. For this reason, Davies is better remembered today as Hearst's mistress and the hostess of many lavish events for the Hollywood elite. In particular, her name is linked with the 1924 scandal aboard Hearst's yacht where one of his guests, film producer Thomas Ince, became ill. Despite the legend surrounding Ince's death, likely from alcohol consumption, he did not die on the Hearst yacht. The producer died a few days later in the arms of his wife. In the film Citizen Kane (1941), the title character's wife—an untalented singer whom he tries to promote—was widely assumed to be based on Davies. But many commentators, including Citizen Kane writer/director Orson Welles himself, have defended Davies' record as a gifted actress, to whom Hearst's patronage did more harm than good. She retired from the screen in 1937, choosing to devote herself to Hearst and charitable work. In Hearst's declining years, Davies provided financial as well as emotional support until his death in 1951. She married for the first time eleven weeks after his death, a marriage which lasted until Davies died of stomach cancer in 1961 at the age of 64.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 03, 1897
Age: 128 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: September 22, 1961
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Blondie of the Follies
Overview: New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join the cast and gain the advantages. But the friendship goes awry when Lottie's sweetheart, wealthy Larry Belmont, falls for Blondie and she for him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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Citizen Hearst
Overview: Explore the life of William Randolph Hearst, the pioneering media mogul and inspiration for Orson Welles’ "Citizen Kane." Wielding unprecedented power, Hearst forever transformed the media’s role in American life and politics.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-27
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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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Ever Since Eve
Overview: Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-15
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Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the massive preparation in the production of Cosmopolitan's lavish musical comedy romance, 'Cain and Mabel."
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Overview: An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-23
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Going Hollywood
Overview: The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him. However, difficult problems lay ahead when Lili gets in the way.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-22
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Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
Overview: Another entry in the popular one-reel series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-05
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The Wife of the Centaur
Overview: Jeffrey Dwyer is a writer and a poet who wrestles with the conflicts between his idealism and his passion. The two sides of his nature are personified in the women he loves: the sweetly innocent Joan Converse, and the sexy, charismatic Inez Martin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-01
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The Patsy
Overview: An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-22
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Five and Ten
Overview: John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is falling apart due to his constant working. Wife and mother Jenny is lonely. Son Avery hates his job. Daughter Jennifer is snubbed by classmate Muriel and her friends. At a charity bazaar, Jennifer meets Berry and sparks are evident. However, he is engaged to Muriel and Muriel will make sure that she, and only she, marries Berry. After the marriage, Berry still thinks of Jennifer as Jennifer thinks of Berry. Avery laments about the state of his family since they were happy in Kansas City.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-13
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When Knighthood Was in Flower
Overview: Mary Tudor falls in love with a new arrival to court, Charles Brandon. She convinces her brother King Henry VIII to make him his Captain of the Guard. Meanwhile, Henry is determined to marry her off to the aging King Louis XII of France as part of a peace agreement.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-15
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The Cardboard Lover
Overview: A ditzy American girl visiting Monte Carlo is hired by a tennis champ to be his "cardboard lover"--to pretend to be in love with him so he can teach his two-timing fiancé a lesson and win her back. What he doesn't realize is that the girl isn't pretending --she actually is in love with him, and she sets out to win him for herself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-02
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Overview: A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-10
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Operator 13
Overview: American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-08
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Janice Meredith
Overview: It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Washington.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-08
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The Red Mill
Overview: A servant girl plays matchmaker for the local burgomaster's daughter while setting her own sights on a visiting Irishman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-29
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The Cinema Murder
Overview: A 1919 movie directed by George D. Baker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-14
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Marianne
Overview: At the conclusion of World War I, a French girl is romanced by an American doughboy even though she is promised to a French soldier who was sent to the front.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-24
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Peg o' My Heart
Overview: Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-26
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The Florodora Girl
Overview: A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-31
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Cain and Mabel
Overview: A chorus girl and a heavyweight boxer are paired romantically as a publicity stunt.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-26
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The Fair Co-Ed
Overview: Marion go off to college where she joins the basketball team to be near the coach, Bob. She instantly makes a rival of Betty, who's also interested in Bob.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-22
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Hearts Divided
Overview: Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
Genres: Drama Romance Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-20
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Beauty's Worth
Overview: Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir faire. When Henry and his friends try to embarrass her at a posh resort, Prudence turns the tables on them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-14
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Page Miss Glory
Overview: A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-07
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Little Old New York
Overview: An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-01
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Polly of the Circus
Overview: When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley. As she recuperates, they fall in love with each other and secretly marry. But when the truth leaks out , John's congregation rebels at having a circus woman as their minister's wife, and he is fired. Polly decides to leave John in hopes of giving back to him the calling that means so much to him. But fate steps in and rearranges all plans.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-27
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Not So Dumb
Overview: Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-02
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The Bachelor Father
Overview: Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses a ledger which keeps track of the payments he has been making to ex-lovers to locate 2 of them, and a third is found by a lawyer in New York, her mother was too proud to accept any money. Sir Basil is a curmudgeon, and his three adult children have a hard time with him at first. Toni, the American, is a free spirit who had a budding career in show business. Jeffery is English and a semi-gentleman, and Maria is Italian, with a Latin temperament. They begin to bond, especially Sir Basil and Toni, whose outgoing personality finally wins over the old man. But past lives begin to creep back into the picture and threaten the old man's plans for a life filled with his children.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-10
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Overview: Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film boasted names like Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and John and Lionel Barrymore and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. This short documentary takes a look at the making of the classic film.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-03
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A Trip to Paramountown
Overview: Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-10
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Overview: A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-10
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The Christmas Party
Overview: In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM help him out.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-17
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Enchantment
Overview: The frothy experiences of a vain little flapper. Her father induces an actor friend to become a gentlemanly cave man and the film becomes another variation of the 'Taming of the Shrew' theme.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1921-10-29
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The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Overview: Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). Features interviews with Welles' and Hearst's co-workers also acts as a relatively complete biograph of Hearst's career.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-29
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Beverly of Graustark
Overview: Beverly Calhoun impersonates the Prince of Graustark to claim his birthright while he recovers from a skiing injury. In the meantime, she falls for her bodyguard Dantan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-18
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Zander the Great
Overview: Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with the lad, and nicknames him "Zander". When Mrs. Caldwell dies, the authorities decree that the boy must be placed in the same orphanage where Mamie was mistreated. Horrified, Mamie determines to see to it that the boy will be spared the same treatment that she had to suffer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-01
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Adam and Eva
Overview: An extravagant girl reforms when her father goes bust.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-11
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Quality Street
Overview: A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she disguises herself as her own niece in order to test his loyalty.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-01
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The Restless Sex
Overview: A love triangle drama, based on a novel by Robert W. Chambers, who is better-known for weird fiction (which is not noticeable in this story.)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-12
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It's a Wise Child
Overview: In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-10
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The Pilgrim
Overview: The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-19
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Getting Mary Married
Overview: Early feature from American cinema pioneer Allan Dwan, starring Marion Davies
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-19
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Lights of Old Broadway
Overview: Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-31
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The Bride's Play
Overview: A sweet-natured young Irish woman is courted by a romantic poet and a local country gentleman. Which man will she choose?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1922-01-22
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That's Entertainment! III
Overview: Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-01
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April Folly
Overview: April Poole (Davies), a young writer in love with publisher Kerry Sarle (Tearle), visits the office of Mr. Sarle and his partner Ronald Kenna (Frank) and reads her latest story to them. She has made Sarle the hero, Kenna the villain, and herself the heroine. In the story, April changes places with Lady Diana Mannister (Marshall), who is being sent to South Africa to separate her from her lover, a young artist. A famous diamond that Lady Diana is to deliver at the end of her journey is given to April. Thieves trail her during her journey. With efforts by Kenna to steal the diamond prevented by the intervention of Sarle, the story comes to a close.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-20
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The Belle of New York
Overview: An old inventor is robbed of his inventions by an unscrupulous rich man. When the inventor dies, his daughter Violet goes to New York and joins the "Follies," where she is advertised as "The Belle of New York." The rich man's son is infatuated with Violet, and is introduced to her anonymously as Jack. When Violet learns of Jack's identity, she casts him off. He takes to drinking and she joins the Salvation Army. Jack is attacked in an underworld saloon just as Violet enters in Salvation Army attire. She nurses him at his home. When Jack's father discovers with whom Jack is in love, he begs forgiveness for the wrong he did Violet's father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-26
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Buried Treasure
Overview: Strung around the idea of reincarnation, this film goes back in time to the days of the Spanish galleons and pirates burying their treasure; treasure to be found centuries later.
Genres: Romance Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-09
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A Dream Comes True
Overview: A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-31
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Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Overview: Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-20
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Overview: Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-25
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The Young Diana
Overview: Mr. May wants his daughter Diana to marry into society. The man he wishes her to wed is a scientist, Dr. Dimitrius, but Diana is in love with an officer, Commander Cleeve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-27
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Tillie the Toiler
Overview: Tillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire named Pennington Fish. Once she gets a stenographic position at Mr. Simpkins's company she sets her cap for the general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple. Eventually Tillie announces that she is going to "catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm."
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-05
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Yolanda
Overview: The backdrop is fifteenth century France, and Charles, Duke of Burgundy has promised his daughter, Princess Mary, that she can marry the man she loves, Prince Maximilian of Styria. But when the Swiss threaten war, the duke is compelled to take back his word and he arranges for Mary to wed the half-witted dauphin of France's King Louis XI .
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-15
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Overview: Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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Cecilia of the Pink Roses
Overview: Cecilia is a spunky Irish girl from a struggling family, faced with the imminent death of her mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-02
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Runaway Romany
Overview: Press agent "Inky" Ames, in a quandary to publicize showgirl Anitra St. Clair, convinces her to paint a birthmark on her shoulder and pose as millionaire mine owner Theodore True's long-lost daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-23
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The Burden of Proof
Overview: Elaine Brooks marries Robert Ames, a junior member of the Department of Justice. Mrs. Durand, a spy uses underhanded means to steal important papers from Ames, which she gives to her superior, Dr. Kemp. Although she is innocent, Elaine becomes implicated in this plot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-21
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The Dark Star
Overview: A fabulous jewel known as the 'Dark Star' is stolen; a pastor's daughter gets involved, falling into the depths of a spy plot concerning war plans and fortifications...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-03
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Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
Overview: Blonde, beautiful and talented, Marion Davies was the first and funniest screwball comedienne. As star of two of the best comedies ever made, Show People and The Patsy, she combined zany slapstick and exuberant mimicry. Glamorous, witty and kind, both on screen and off, Davies was also famous for her 35-year-long love affair with William Randolph Hearst.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-14
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