Helen Foster
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Helen Foster was born on May 23, 1906 in Independence, Kansas, USA. She was an actress, known for The Primrose Path (1931), The Road to Ruin (1928) and the remade The Road to Ruin (1934). She died on December 25, 1982 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Independence, Kansas, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 23, 1906
Age: 118 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 25, 1982
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Finders Keepers
Overview: This Vitaphone one-reel short, written by the author of "Show-Off", George Kelly
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-27
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Hoofbeats of Vengeance
Overview: Rex the wonder horse's owner is murdered by Joe Regan, the leader of a band of smugglers. RCMP Sgt. Jack Gordon has been sent to capture the villain. Rex vows vengeance on Regan and helps Gordon capture him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-04
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13 Washington Square
Overview: In this comedy, a wealthy matron is terribly upset when she learns that her socialite son is planning to marry a blue collar girl.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-28
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Circumstantial Evidence
Overview: Duplicitous businessman Henry Lord talks Tony Benton, the weakling brother of heroine Jean Benton, into forging a check. The evidence is framed so that innocent clerk Arthur Rowland is accused of the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-01
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Won in the Clouds
Overview: Nearly 7,000 Curtiss Jennies were built and they had a long and distinguished career in the movies. In this load of garbage, a Swahili village (somewhere in the sierras behind Hollywood) is affected by disease. The nearby diamond mine is using this as an excuse not to ship diamonds back to HQ in South Africa. The mine president has sent a doctor, his beautiful daughter and her duenna to find out what is going on and to cure the natives. They are travelling on foot. To speed things up the president sends his ace flyer up...
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-21
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The Outlaw Dog
Overview: When his master is attacked and left speechless, Ranger is held responsible. On the lam from the Law, the canine hero links up with telegrapher Bill Brady and Bill's girlfriend Helen Meadows. He gets a chance to clear his name by helping Bill trap a pair of outlaws who plan to blow up a mail train and abscond with the loot.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-22
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The Bandit's Baby
Overview: An American silent Western
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-17
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Gold Diggers of Broadway
Overview: Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-30
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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 Sky Skidder
Overview: Inventor Al Simpkins develops a new airplane fuel, "Economo," which he claims gets a thousand miles to the pint.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-13
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The Boiling Point
Overview: Jimmy's uncle gives him 30 days probation on Kirk's ranch to control his temper or lose his inheritance. There he gets tangled up with a gang of robbers whose boss is his rival for Kirk's daughter. With one day left in his probation, they goad him into a fight.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-15
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Cleaning Up
Overview: While his wife is away, the husband attempts to clean the house which ends up being a disaster. The house is completely destroyed by an overflowing bathtub, fire in the kitchen, feathers from the pillows everywhere, and a dog decides to chase a cat around the house wiping out what the water and fire didn't damage already.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-22
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The Tourist
Overview: The Tourist is a 1925 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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Haunted Island
Overview: Rosalind Joy (Helen Foster) is an heiress who has inherited a South Seas island known as Pleasure Island. A hidden cache of gold is allegedly buried on the island, which has several haunted structures. Rosalind's uncle, Spring Gilbert (Al Ferguson), wants the gold for himself and declares he will stop at nothing, not even the death of his niece, to get it. Rosalind, meanwhile, is befriended by Jerry Fitzjames (Jack Dougherty), a playwright. Unfortunately, Jerry has only recently escaped from a psychiatric hospital. Although he swears to protect Rosalind, she doubts Jerry's sanity. The two lovers race against Uncle Gilbert (who has set several traps for them) to find the treasure. In the end, Rosalind and Jerry are aided by the "Phantom Rider," a spectral horseman.
Genres: Horror Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-26
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The Sunshine Spreader
Overview: A young girl from the hills spreads sunshine and saves her employer from financial ruin.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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Young Blood
Overview: A reformed gunfighter battles a crooked sheriff who used to be a member of his gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-05
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Painted Faces
Overview: After a vaudeville performer is murdered backstage, framed-up evidence lead the police to arrest a troupe member. At his trial, Hermann, a Scandinavian clown known as Beppo, is the lone juror holding out against conviction and pleading for his innocence and acquittal.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-19
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The Road to Ruin
Overview: A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-14
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The Primrose Path
Overview: A naive high school girl falls for the school's star football player. Her ignorance in the matters of sex leads to pregnancy and heartbreak.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-25
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So Long Letty
Overview: Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty, which causes him to leave the hotel. When he finds Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife and likes her and the way she keeps a clean house. To get a big check from Uncle Claude and to see how life is with the other, the two couples switch spouses for a week.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-16
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The Saddle Buster
Overview: A rodeo rider can't face the game after he's almost killed by a wild bronco
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-18
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Never Wave at a WAC
Overview: A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant with the Army, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs who are testing new equipment.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-28
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Hellship Bronson
Overview: A ship's captain, believing that his wife has cheated on him, takes their young son and leaves her. he comes back 20 years later. His wife stows away on his ship when he leaves, hoping to see her son, who is aboard. She takes along with her Mary, the daughter of a woman the captain once loved. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-30
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Temptation's Workshop
Overview: A wealthy family loses all of its money, but a foreign count who has married into the family helps them out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-20
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The Big Flash
Overview: Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent gangster and his girl. Harry and another photographer first visit the gangster's girl, and then wait at the scene of an expected robbery. But before they can get the pictures they want, they must first distract a policeman whose presence would otherwise deter the gangster from appearing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-05
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Linda
Overview: A young woman is forced by her abusive father to marry an older man even though she is in love with a kindly young doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-31
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Irish Fantasy
Overview: An Irish grandfather tells his young grandson stories of his roots, his courtship with his grandmother and love of freedom through stories and song.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-14
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The Westerner
Overview: Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-18
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The Road to Ruin
Overview: A controversial, low-budget drama about the life of a young teenage girl that goes on the "road to ruin." Sally is a 16-year-old New York City teen who, neglected by her parents, takes up smoking and drinking, engages in affairs with a series of older men, gets arrested by the police during a strip poker game, is sent home only to discover later that she's pregnant, and after getting an illegal abortion, the words "The Wages of Sin is Death" inexpliably appear over her bed in fire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1928-03-23
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Overview: Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-17
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Call Northside 777
Overview: In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-13
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Parachute Nurse
Overview: Nurses parachuting.
Genres: Drama War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-06
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Maid in Morocco
Overview: Lupino and his wife Helen are honeymooning in Morocco and the local Caliph wants to add Helen to his harem. Lupino saves her, loses her again and saves her again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-11
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On the Go
Overview: Bill Drake is a cowpoke who must prove himself innocent of robbing the general store. The real culprit, as our hero detects, is Tom Evans, the weakling son of a local rancher.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-04
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The Harvest of Hate
Overview: Purchasing the Carney Carnival and Road Show, unscrupulous sportsman Martin Trask assumes he has ownership of Rex, the world's greatest trained horse, and its rider, Margie Smith. The girl releases Rex, flees from Trask in a runaway wagon, and finds shelter with young cowboy farmer Jack Merritt, with whom she falls in love.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-04
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Naughty Nanette
Overview: The Jazz Age rages in this comedy film starring Viola Dana as the madcap title character madly dashing through a series of adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-15
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School for Girls
Overview: After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-22
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Move Along
Overview: Dreamy little comedy as down-on-his-luck Ham looks for work, gets thrown out of his rooming house and tries to make it on the street -- in the best, gag-filled 20s comedy style.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-24
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Ghost City
Overview: Newspaper editor Bill Temple arrives in Boom Town planning to expose Jim Blane as a crook. When Blane's henchman Buck fails to kill Temple, Blane prepares to flee with his money. But a sudden announcement of a gold strike empties the town. Blane heads after his henchmen who have taken his money and Temple heads after Blane.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-02
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Lucky Larrigan
Overview: Craig Larrigan's father and his partner own a large cattle ranch that is losing stock to rustlers. Craig, an easterner, heads west but in the disguise of a Mexican bandit. He is eventually thrown in jail with his identity still unknown. His cellmate is one of the rustlers and when they break out, the rustler takes him to the gang and Craig now has a chance to capture them all.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-01
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Brotherly Love
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-17
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The Courage of Collins
Overview: In this rare surviving two-reeler for Edmund Cobb's Universal series, the taciturn star plays Constable Collins, a Northwest Mounted police officer assigned to help pretty Rose Foster (Helen Foster) and her brother, Jack (Newton House), who are in trouble with a gang of claim jumpers. Unbeknownst to Rose, the gang is headed by Jim Murdock, whom the girl considers her only friend. Collins, who pretends to be a drifter, immediately becomes suspicious of Murdock's motives and the villain strikes back by having Rose kidnapped. There is a climactic fight in an abandoned shack in the wilderness but young Jack arrives in the nick of time with the Mounties.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-04
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