Billie Dove
Also Known As: Bertha Bohny, Lillian Bohny, Lillian 'Billie' Dove, Lillian Kenaston
Biography: Billie Dove (born Bertha Bohny) was an American star actress of 1920s Silent cinema and of the first few years of the 'talkies' era. She retired from show business in 1932.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 14, 1903
Age: 122 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 31, 1997
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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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Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Overview: Two confidence men pose as investors to fleece the denizens of a small town. They build a carpet-tack factory with the funds, but some stockholders are suspicious. Eventually, someone tries to take over the business by buying it from them. The film is presumed lost.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-04
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The Ancient Highway
Overview: When not cutting down trees and shouting "TIMMMM-BERRRRR!", Jack Holt has to deal with someone who's sabotaging the camp. The miscreant turns out to be the odious Montagu Love, whom Holt dispenses with in a climactic fisticuffs session. Billie Dove provides the toothsome romantic interest.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-08
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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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The Black Pirate
Overview: A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he single-handedly captures a merchant vessel, but things are complicated when he finds that there is a beautiful young woman of royal blood aboard.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-08
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-1
Overview: In the first entry of this series, the show open with a troupe of dancing chorus girls getting a salute from crossed-eyed Ben Turpin. Then the master of ceremonies, Fredric March, brings on the various acts, starting with a pre-teen Mitzi Green), dressed as an adult and singing "Was That the Human Thing to Do?" , followed by Ginger Rogers and Jack Oakie singing-and-dancing to "The Girl Who Used to be You." Then the Three Brox Sisters do a triple imitation of Marlene Dietrich singing 'Falling in Love Again." 'Jack Duffy' does a drunken hillbilly bit involving a lamp post, the the finale has Eddie Peabody, playing a banjo for some chorus girls on a pedestal.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-25
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A Notorious Affair
Overview: A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-26
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Kid Boots
Overview: A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife, only to find himself falling for the girlfriend of the customer who got him in trouble in the first place.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-03
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The Lady Who Dared
Overview: A blackmailer falls in love with his female victim.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-29
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Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies
Overview: A reclusive millionaire who owed his fortune to his father, Howard Hughes staked his fame on many things, including his credits as a producer, director and aviator. But he is perhaps best known for his skills as a Casanova, reportedly romancing Jean Harlow, Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth and Bette Davis. Actor Billy Zane narrates this documentary, which offers a glimpse of the man behind the glamour.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-27
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Overview: Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-20
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The Yellow Lily
Overview: Archduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triumphs. After a lifetime of loving 'em and leaving 'em, the Archduke finally meets a girl he can't leave, Hungarian lass Judith Peredy (Billie Dove). She resists his advances but can't hide the fact that she's in love with him. The Yellow Lily was the second of four cinematic collaborations between star Billie Dove and director Alexander Korda.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-28
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The Age for Love
Overview: A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-17
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Cock of the Air
Overview: An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-23
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The Circus: Premiere
Overview: Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-13
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Sensation Seekers
Overview: The prohibition is in full swing and Egypt Hagen, a new woman, is the constant subject of controversy in her religious small town. After a scandalous night of partying leaves her publicly shamed, she finds unlikely companionship in the town's new reverend. As their bond intensifies under the watchful eye of concerned townsfolk, her sullied reputation threatens his standing as a respected clergyman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-21
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One Night at Susie's
Overview: A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-19
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The Marriage Clause
Overview: A Broadway actress becomes a star due to the guidance of her director. The two fall in love, but are prevented from marrying due to a clause put into her contract by her producer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-12
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Wanderer of the Wasteland
Overview: Wanderer of the Wasteland is a 1924 American color silent Western film directed by Irvin Willat and starring Jack Holt, Noah Beery, and Billie Dove.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-09
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The Air Mail
Overview: Russ Kane obtains work as a pilot in the airmail service with the purpose of robbing the mails. However, during his training period at the Reno field, he becomes imbued with the spirit of the service and dedicates himself to getting the mail through.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-15
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Night of 100 Stars II
Overview: This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-10
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The Lone Wolf Returns
Overview: The Lone Wolf Returns
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-15
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The Man and the Moment
Overview: Rich lout marries for freedom.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-06
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Sweethearts and Wives
Overview: An aristocrat tries to prevent her sister's divorce by attempting to recover a diamond necklace, which is being used as incriminating evidence against her.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-15
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The Fighting Heart
Overview: This film is the story of a small-town boy and girl. The hero, Denny Bolton, thrashes the town bully only to meet him later in the boxing ring in New York City. Ambition has swept him to Broadway, but the search for love brings him back to the Main Street of his home town.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-18
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Wild Horse Mesa
Overview: Desperate for money, a rancher decides to trap and sell wild horses, using barbed wire. The local Navajo tribe tries to persuade him not to do it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-13
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Adoration
Overview: Billie Dove, as Elena, pulls out all stops as a Russian princess and a woman-of-the-streets in Paris in an exotic romance and hand-wringing drama set in two countries and the way-stations in between.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-02
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Careers
Overview: In French Indochina, a magistrate is assigned to investigate the murder of his boss. Unknown to him, the boss had a policy of requiring the wives of his subordinates to sleep with him if they wanted their husbands to get promoted. What he also didn't know was that his wife was in the boss' office when he was killed. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-02
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Beyond the Rainbow
Overview: Marion Taylor is secretary to Edward Mallory, a wealth Wall Street businessman. She supports her invalid brother Tommy, who has been told by his doctors that he has to go to the mountains for his health. Marion doesn't have the money for that, but Mallory, who has made no secret of his intentions towards her, does. She resigns herself to submitting to his advances in order to get the money in order to keep her brother alive. However, circumstances arise in which she may possibly get the money without having to debase herself with her boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-19
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Her Private Life
Overview: A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-25
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The Lucky Horseshoe
Overview: Based on a story by Robert Lord, the film is about a ranch foreman who assumes responsibility for the ranch following the owner's death. He also cares for the owner's daughter who is taken to Europe by an aunt. Two year later the woman returns from Europe with her new wealthy fiancée and plans to hold their wedding at the ranch, which the foreman has turned into a successful tourist destination. The foreman's feelings for the woman have not been diminished by the years, and after learning some damaging information about the fiancée, the foreman must find a way to stop the wedding. (Wiki)
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-30
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All the Brothers Were Valiant
Overview: Mark is the captain of a whaling ship and he looks down on brother Joel, who has never gone to sea. But when Mark's ship arrives in port sans its captain, Joel takes over the command. His new bride, Priscilla, insists on coming along and they head for the South Seas, where Mark was last seen.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-15
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The Love Mart
Overview: Victor, an adventurous young swashbuckler in 19th-century New Orleans, takes possession of a barber shop as the result of winning a duel, and decides to settle down to a life as a barber. He meets a beautiful young woman and pursues her, but she dismisses his attentions because she thinks he is just a barber. Also pursuing the woman is the evil Capt. Remy, whom she also brushes off. He, however, doesn't take rejection so lightly, and forges papers "proving" that the girl is a "quadroon"--part black, which means that she can be sold as a slave. She is sold to Capt. Remy, and when Victor hears of it, he determines to rescue her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-18
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American Beauty
Overview: Millicent Howard, whose appearance and persona bring her a life of luxury. A millionaire named Claverhouse asks her to marry, but she values love more than wealth, and she sacrifices everything for another man, who is less wealthy, Jerry Booth. A lost film.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-09
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The Painted Angel
Overview: The story of Mamie Hudler, aka Rodeo West, from her days as a New Orleans singer to a California Western movie cowgirl, star to the queen of the New York City nightclubs and speakeasies. Considered a lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-01
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The Other Tomorrow
Overview: The Other Tomorrow, a love-triangle drama, is a lost American Pre-Code film, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-09
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The Stolen Bride
Overview: The daughter of a count and the son of a shoemaker, both Hungarian, fall in love in America. As they're about to marry, the young woman is called back to Europe. When her betrothed goes after her, difficulties ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-10
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The Tender Hour
Overview: Marcia Kane, daughter of an American capitalist, is persuaded by her father to marry the expatriated Russian Grand Duke Sergei, and believing Wally, her real love, to be dead, she consents. Discovering after the ceremony that her father has tricked her, Marcia vows to be the duke's wife in name only, though she refuses Wally's proposal that she go away with him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-01
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The Lone Star Ranger
Overview: An outlaw named Duane ( Tom Mix ), captured by the Texas Rangers, is promised a pardon if he rounds up a gang of cattle thieves. The man he suspects as the leader is revealed to be the father of Duane's sweetheart, Helen ( Billie Dove ). Duane captures the gang, gets a pardon for Helen's father, and marries Helen.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-09
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The Roughneck
Overview: Beautiful Felicity Arden, is forced by a storm to take refuge in Mad Marrat's dwelling on the South Sea Isle.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-30
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The Thrill Chaser
Overview: In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood westerns impresses a visiting sheikh with his boxing skills and is engaged to go to Arabia, where he becomes involved in warring and falls in love with a beautiful princess.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-26
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Night Watch
Overview: Night Watch is a 1928 American drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Billie Dove, Paul Lukas, and Donald Reed. It was an adaptation of the dramatic 1921 play In the Night Watch, written by Michael Morton. The film is set almost entirely on a French warship at the beginning of the First World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-09
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The Madness of Youth
Overview: After eluding authorities, Jaca Javalie goes to the home of wealthy Theodore Banning, where he professes to be a man of magic who learned his skills in India. He demonstrates his ability by bringing peace to the Banning home. In actuality, he plans to rob Banning's private vault. When he tries to commit the robbery, he is stopped by a guest who promises to say nothing in exchange for a portion of the loot. Javalie makes another attempt to break into the vault, but the same power that he had exerted over the Banning family compels him to stop. He confesses what he had planned to do and wins the hand of Banning's daughter Nanette. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-08
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An Affair of the Follies
Overview: Young husband Jerry, a clerk, loses his job, and in order to bring money into the house, his wife Tamara goes back to her old job as a dancer in the Follies. The husband doesn't like the idea at all, and they wind up separating. One night the clerk and his friend, an inventor, are dining at a restaurant, and the inventor is lamenting that he has a great invention but can't get in to see a millionaire named Hammersley in order get get financial backing. They don't know that Hammersley happens to be sitting at the next table. The three strike up a conversation and become friends. However, there's another thing Jerry also doesn't know--Hammersley is in love with Tamara and, in fact, she is going to his house that night to see him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-13
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Soft Boiled
Overview: John Steele, a rich uncle, threatens to disinherit his nephew, Tom Steele, unless the latter learns to curb his violent temper. Tom is put on a 30-day trial and must resist all temptation to get mad or fight back no matter how provoked. And he is easily provoked, especially when called a lavender sissy-boy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-26
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Folly of Vanity
Overview: This drama had two directors: Maurice Elvey handled most of the film, but the fantasy sequence was directed by Henry Otto. Newlyweds Alice and Robert are already having differences over money. He gets angry at her extravagances, especially when she spends more than they can afford on an imitation pearl necklace. Ridgeway, a client of Robert's, invites the couple to a party. Robert wants to decline, but Alice insists that they go. Ridgeway loans Alice a real pearl necklace, to "restore their lustre," and everyone heads for his yacht. Ridgeway pays Alice a lot of attention, while a young widow tries to vamp Robert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-26
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On Time
Overview: A scientist attempts to transplant a gorilla's brain into a man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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Polly of the Follies
Overview: A romantic comedy, focusing on the love triangle between Bob Jones, Alysia Potter and Polly Meachum. Originally engaged, Bob and Alysia elope to Bowling Green, Connecticut, where they meet Silas Meachum, a campaigner against motion pictures, and his daughter, Polly. The eloping couple’s family arrive, chasing them, and persuade them to wait to get married. Polly goes to New York to join the Ziegfeld Follies, but is ultimately replaced by Alysia. As Bob consoles Polly, Alysia breaks off the engagement, and Bob and Polly may now marry.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-30
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