Sylvia Ashton
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, USA
Birthday: January 25, 1880
Deathday: November 17, 1940
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Greed
Overview: A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-04
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Manslaughter
Overview: Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-24
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A Prince There Was
Overview: A wealthy socialite poses as a magazine editor living in a boardinghouse to learn more about an intriguing woman who wants to publish her stories.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-13
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For the Defense
Overview: Singer Anna Woodstock loses her voice, but a visit to a hypnotist, Dr. Joseph Kasimir, brings it back. What Anna doesn't realize is that her illness was purely psychosomatic and Kasimir is a swindler.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-04
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Cheating Cheaters
Overview: Nan Carey ( Betty Compson ), a shoplifter, is caught by the police but acquitted through the influence of Lazare ( Lucien Littlefield ), a crooked lawyer, who places her with a gang of crooks. Posing as the Brockton family, they move to a seaside home, where they plan to steal the jewel collection of the Palmers, their neighbours. Nan wins the confidence of the family by flirting with Tom ( Kenneth Harlan ), who becomes infatuated and wants to go away with her, but she refuses him. Tom is caught red-handed in the Brockton mansion attempting to steal their jewels while Nan is making a success of the Palmer robbery.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-05
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While Satan Sleeps
Overview: With the help of Red Barton (Wade Boteler), Phil (Jack Holt) makes a spectacular escape from jail. He obtains a parson's outfit from a pawnshop and shortly thereafter winds up in a barroom brawl. One of the other brawlers is Chuckwalla Bill (J.P. Lockney), the newly elected mayor of the town of Panamint.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-25
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The Head Man
Overview: Because he refuses to be a tool for a political mob, Watts, an ex-senator, is relegated to the public wastebasket. When he opposes a rival politician in a mayoral campaign, Watts evokes the public's sympathy and is elected to the mayor's chair, again becoming a power in local politics.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-08
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A City Sparrow
Overview: A drama starring Ethel Clayton. Milly West (Clayton) is a dancer who has her heart bent on stardom. She has an admirer in country boy Tim Ennis (Walter Hiers), who lives in the same boarding house as she does, but she turns down his marriage proposal. During a performance, Milly is injured and can't get her strength back to get another gig. Hughie Ray (William Boyd), a pal of Tim's, comes to town and offers to take Milly back to the country to recuperate. She takes him up on his offer and after she has been there a while he proposes. But Milly has been told that her injury makes it impossible for her to bear children; since she knows that Ray loves kids she tries to leave him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-17
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We Can't Have Everything
Overview: A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But the more they untangle one knot, the faster more confusing knots appear.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-07
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When the Fire-Bells Rang
Overview: They are brothers; one is a member of the village fire department, the other the property man at the "Opry House." A traveling dramatic company arrives, and. in putting on a Roman tragedy, needs twenty "supers" to play "Roman soldiers." "Props" engages the members of the fire company, who are rehearsed and dressed in Roman costumes. Everything goes fine until the fire-bells ring out an alarm, then, well...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-08
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The Love Charm
Overview: Orphaned Ruth Sheldon reads an article on "Love Charms" on her way to live in the home of her Aunt Julia and Cousin Hattie Nast. Upon her arrival, Ruth is put to work as housekeeper, cook, and seamstress. When Thomas Morgan, a young banker, is invited to dinner, he focuses his attention on Ruth, prompting the envious Hattie to claim him as her own. To oblige her cousin, Ruth attempts to discourage Thomas by behaving like a frivolous society "vampire," rather than the old-fashioned girl he believes her to be.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-01
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Why Change Your Wife?
Overview: Robert and Beth Bordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with Sally's superficiality, Beth strives to improve her looks. The original couple falls in love again at a summer resort.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-21
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Hearts and Skirts
Overview: Mabel Russell, on her return from Europe, is informed by James Leonard, administrator of the Russell Estate, that it was her father's dying wish that she should marry Billy Jones, the son of William Jones, her father's schoolmate and lifelong friend. Mabel, however, has ideas of her own and rather resents being disposed of like a parcel of goods, so when Billy calls upon her, she takes advantage of the fact that he has not seen her since she was a child, and induces her maid (a young woman who has a good figure and passable manners, but is extremely homely), to impersonate her, while she dresses up as the maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-04
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Her Friend, the Doctor
Overview: Jane Carston was to return tomorrow from Ohio, where she had been for the past three years in school, and the ranch was all agog with expectancy and cleanliness. Bob Evans, head cowboy, was most eager and most anxious of the lot. Tomorrow finally became today and Pa had gone to the station in his best linen duster and the buckboard to meet Jane. Finally, in a cloud of dust. Bob discerns them on the brow of the hill. Arriving at the house Jane greets mother with a rousing smack.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-18
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Sharps and Chaps
Overview: Professor De Risque, anxious to escape for a time the too solicitous attention of Madame De Risque, arrives at Roaring Gulch and, noting that the town numbers some very pretty girls amongst its population, he hangs out his shingle announcing the fact that he teaches the piano and violin. The professor is charming and the young ladies are impressionable, they readily desert the constant cowboys for the professor. The cowboys get their heads together and plan a counter-move.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-08
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The Cowboy Guardians
Overview: A pioneer caravan is attacked by Indians, who greatly outnumber the pale faces. The whole party are massacred, with the exception of a year-and-one-half old baby, who being hidden by its mother, escapes detection. Whitey is a big, bashful cowpuncher, who secretly worships at the shrine of the only eligible woman in camp, a buxom widow.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-29
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The Lottery Man
Overview: Young Jack Wright offers his hand in marriage to the winner of a lottery, but after committing to the winner falls in love with another woman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-12
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A Dash Through the Clouds
Overview: Aviation enthusiast Josephine rescues her suitor, Chubby, from an angry mob with the help of Slim and his airplane.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-24
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The Suffragette Minstrels
Overview: Two wives of Jenksville at least did not intend their husbands should be corrupted by the arrival of these enticing ladies in town. That show should be investigated. It resulted in their becoming one of the sensations of the performance, while the husbands became an awful example.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-18
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Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
Overview: Ma and Pa Slocum sell up their thriving packed-lunch business (based on Ma's home cooking, Pa's packaging design, and pretty daughter Helen's salesmanship), and move 'uptown' to live the life of the idle rich on the proceeds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-31
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Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Overview: Conrad Warrener, a man of near middle-age, reflects nostalgically on the happy times of his youth and decides to recapture them. However, what he learns about the "second time around" is neither what he expected nor what he hoped for.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-06
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Papa's Baby
Overview: To be a fond and devoted parent, and to be unable to play with the heaven of your heart is indeed a cruel decree. That was the case of Papa Binks, but he outwitted Mrs. Binks and the nurse in a very effective, yet unostentatious manner, while he and the baby had the time of their lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-14
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Saturday Night
Overview: Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class differences lead to divorces and remarriages.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-29
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Pretenses
Overview: Short comedy about a janitor at a bank that pretends to be a director in order to impress a girl.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-07
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Under the Top
Overview: Jimmie, a small-town boy, visits a traveling circus passing through town. he falls in love with Pansy, the daughter of the circus' tightrope walker, after he saves her from a gang of thugs...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-04
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Souls for Sale
Overview: A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-22
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A Daughter of Luxury
Overview: When a lawsuit deprives a rich woman, Mary Fenton, of her wealth, she decides to impersonate another woman, Mary Cosgrove. The situation becomes sticky when Cosgroge turns up and demands Fenton be arrested.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Black and White
Overview: They were two hobos, black and white, master and man, a regular slave driver white, while black went off for the eats. But Cleopatra and her sweet-potato pies ended the despotism. She saved the "lovin' man" of her race. Tabasco and an officer of the law did it, while white made a fast retreating speck up the track.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-27
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Her Fame and Shame
Overview: A slapstick comedy with Charles Murray & Louise Fazenda.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-24
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Father's Chicken Dinner
Overview: Clarence Barr comes home to discover that Sylvia Ashton and Charles West are getting ready to butcher a chicken for his dinner… but he thinks they're talking about him and not a bird! Fortunately, Charles Murray has prepared his squad of policemen for rapid response by equipping them with roller skates…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-17
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Queen Kelly
Overview: A prince betrothed to a mad queen falls in love with an orphan girl from a convent.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-18
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The Barker
Overview: A successful carnival barker deals with the arrival of his eager son, who he'd hoped would stay far from the carnival world, his son's entanglement with a showgirl, and his own jealous mistress.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-02
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The Speed Demon
Overview: An ambitious race driver who is not allowed to compete decides to outwit his competitors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-14
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Overview: The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-04
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Old Wives for New
Overview: Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-18
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For Better, for Worse
Overview: Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children. Sylvia thinks him a coward and marries Burton. After Burton is presumed dead, Meade and Sylvia are to wed, but Burton returns maimed and scarred.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-26
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A Pair of Silk Stockings
Overview: Molly is a wife of wealthy Britisher Sam Thornhill. Though devoutly loyal to her husband, the capricious Molly can't seem to avoid getting herself into compromising situations. The limit comes when a pair of Molly's stockings find their way into the boudoir of another man.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-19
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Jack Straw
Overview: Jack Straw (Warwick) is an iceman who becomes a waiter to be closer to the girl (McComas) he is interested in. Later, to impress her, he impersonates an Archduke from Pomerania. A Count from Pomerania (Brower) who is the ambassador arrives and learns of the long-missing son of royalty. The girl's mother (Ashton) learns of the trick being played by Jack. Just when Jack is exposed as being a fraud, it turns out that he is the genuine article.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-14
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Don't Change Your Husband
Overview: Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed James looks pretty good.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-26
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The Crash
Overview: The Crash (1928)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-07
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The Love Special
Overview: Jim Glover is an engineer in charge of constructing a railroad to the sea. He gives the company president Gage a tour of the area of land coveted for its use as a short cut that can save hours on the journey. After the officials visit a recently constructed dam, the train makes a stop in a dull town, and Gage's daughter Laura throws a charity bazaar to combat the boredom. Jim puts together a mock-holdup that saves the event from financial ruin, endearing Laura to him. Later, an accident traps three workers in a cave, and Jim is called away to rescue the victims.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-20
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The Fourteenth Man
Overview: This adaption of F. Anstey's play, The Man from Blankley's was remade a decade later with sound under its original title by Warner Brothers with John Barrymore in the lead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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Dancing Days
Overview: Despite the fact that he has a beautiful wife who loves him and a good home, gold-digger Lillian Loring discovers that Ralph Hedman is a pushover for her winsome wiles and ways. Ralph's wife, Alice, becomes suspicious when she sees them together at lunch one day. He asks for a divorce but Alice says she wants to keep the marriage going for at least a year, for appearances sake, and says she will agree to a divorce then if he still wants it. Alive stays home alone for three months while Ralph is living it up as a full member of the Jazz Age. He gets sick and Alice invites Lillian to come over and help get him well. Lillian decides that lots of saxophone playing and wild dancing is the best cure. Alice takes all she can stand, leaves a note for Ralph and departs the premises. Ralph also takes his own departure, after leaving a note for Alice. Lillian keeps on partying. Alice and Ralph, driving their respective cars into an intersection, have a collision.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-27
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The White Flower
Overview: Konia Markham, the daughter of an American father and a Hawaiian mother, is told by a sorceress that the man who presents her with a perfect white flower will be her true love. When Bob Rutherford offers a gardenia to Konia at a banquet, David Panuahi, a rejected suitor, becomes even more jealous and persuades Konia to have the kahuna put a death curse on Bob's fiancee, Ethel Granville. Bob's devotion to a failing Ethel softens Konia, however, and she has the curse removed. She is about to jump into a volcano when Bob, now released by Ethel from their engagement, finds her and declares his love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-04
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Mrs. Temple's Telegram
Overview: Jack Temple (Washburn) adores his wife, Clara Temple (Hawley) but she is extremely jealous, and accuses him of flirting with a pretty woman in a department store tearoom. After Clara leaves, the woman follows Jack around the store even eventually onto the roof of the building and they are locked in by the night watchman and must remain on the roof all night. Jack realizes his wife will never believe this story, so he invents a yarn about visiting his friend John Brown (White) in a distant town. Clara suspects that story and contacts Brown, while Jack convinces a friend to impersonate Brown and come to his house, but the real Brown shows up too and things become complicated with the arrival of Mrs. Brown (Schaefer), the pretty young woman who caused all the trouble, but, after she introduces herself as one of Clara's cousins, all ends happily.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-09
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Jenny Be Good
Overview: When a young woman's great romance is interrupted by the influence of her lover's parents, she turns to her art as a violinist to console herself. As she is about to achieve her highest triumph, she is suddenly confronted by the return of the man she loves, and she must make a choice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-30
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The Nick of Time Baby
Overview: The Nick of Time Baby is a 1916 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Gloria Swanson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-22
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Red Signals
Overview: Sabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La Grande Station that was demolished in 1939 due to earthquake damage.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-01
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Sham
Overview: Based upon a description in a film publication,[3] Katherine Van Riper (Clayton) is an extravagant young society girl who is very much in debt, and her wealthy aunts and uncle refuse to give her any money. Katherine is desperate enough that she is considering marrying the wealthy Montee Buck (Hiers), although she is in love with the westerner Tom Jaffrey (Fillmore), who says he is poor. Finally, Katherine decides to sell the famous Van Riper pearls, pay off her debts, and marry Tom. However, upon examination the jewelry turns out to be paste, with her father having sold the genuine pearls several years earlier before his death. Montee is assured by the aunts that Katherine will marry him and tells this to Tom. Tom is about to leave town when Uncle James (Ricketts) steps in and pays off Katherine's debts, leaving the niece free to marry Tom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-05
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The Soul of Youth
Overview: Ed Simpson has been raised in an orphanage where he has caused much trouble. He can't stand living there anymore and runs away. On the streets, he finds a friend in newsboy Mike. Mike teaches him how to survive, but inevitably Ed gets hauled into court. The judge sees potential in him and hands him over to be adopted by a young politician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-15
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Secrets of a Beauty Parlor
Overview: Short comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-22
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