Margaret Livingston
Also Known As: Marguerite Livingston, Margaret Livingstone, Marguerite Livingstone
Biography: Margaret (born Marguerite) Livingston was an American screen actress, in films from 1916 to 1934, most notably during the Silent era.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 24, 1895
Age: 129 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 13, 1984
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Overview: A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-04
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Love's Whirlpool
Overview: Toughened criminal Jim Reagan tries to persuade his brother, Larry, to go straight, but Larry attempts to rob a banker, Richard Milton, and is arrested. Milton refuses to be lenient, and when Larry is killed trying to escape from prison, Jim and his wife, Molly, resolve to have vengeance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-02
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A Trip to Chinatown
Overview: A young hypochondriac who believes that he has only a week to live. His name, by the way, is Welland Strong. He decides to visit his uncle in the short amount of time he has left in the world. Eventually Strong winds up in Chinatown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-06
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The Best People
Overview: Bertie and Marian Lenox are children of a wealthy family, and their mother intends that they marry "within their class". They, however, have different plans--Bertie is in love with chorus girl Sally O'Neil and Marian loves Henry Morgan, the family chauffeur. The family finds out about the impending marriages and determines to stop them. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-09
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Smart Money
Overview: Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-11
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A Woman's Way
Overview: Set in Paris, the story concentrates on the romantic triangle involving cabaret singer Liane, bon vivant Tony and petty crook Jean.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-18
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The Chain Invisible
Overview: James Wadsworth sets his sights on the lovely society girl Anna Dalton and determines to marry her. To achieve that goal, he follows her everywhere she goes, including on a ship to South America. He comes up with a plan to make her love him--he throws her overboard, follows her over the side and swims with her to a deserted island. His somewhat unorthodox method works and he wins over Anna, but problems arise when Richard Towne, Anna's fiancé who has been searching for her, finds the island and discovers the two.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-24
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I'll Show You the Town
Overview: British comedian Reginald Denny plays a professor who is escorting three different women and needs to make a choice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-07
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The Chorus Lady
Overview: When her latest show closes, Pat O'Brien returns home. The stable owned by her fiancé, Dan Mallory, catches fire, and Pat helps save his prize horse, Lady Belle, who is blinded. Because of the fire, Pat and Dan have to put their wedding plans on hold, and Pat returns to the stage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-23
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
Overview: A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six other people show up one-by-one, each for reasons of their own.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-25
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Kiki
Overview: A young Frenchwoman is determined to get into and stay in show business, no matter what. Then she's determined to win a recently divorced man's heart... again, no matter what.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-14
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The Lady Refuses
Overview: A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young woman to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-08
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The Blue Eagle
Overview: Waterfront rivals George Darcy and Big Tim Ryan are both in love with Rose Kelly, and continue their feud when they join the Navy. After the war, they call a temporary truce to take on dope peddlers who are destroying their neighborhood.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1926-09-12
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Broadminded
Overview: Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery. The father appoints Ossie, Jack's cousin, as guardian, not realizing that Ossie is just as bad. They set off on a transcontinental trip with mischief on their minds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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Greater Than a Crown
Overview: Tom Conway, a wealthy American from Yonkers, saves a girl from assailants while in London and, with the help of a friend, Tiger Bugg, finds her lodging for the night with Molly Montrose, their actress friend. The following day, Molly discovers that both her jewels and the girl are missing, and Tom supposes that the strange girl, who gave her name as Isabel Francis, is responsible for the theft. Tom later learns that Isabel is the Princess of Lividia, who has run away from her country rather than marry King Danilo (who has also run away and is in London, paying court to Molly Montrose). Danilo and Isabel are kidnapped by agents of Lividia and taken home to be forcibly wed. Tom and Molly follow them, and Tom prevents the marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-12
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God's Gift to Women
Overview: A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-13
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Wheel of Chance
Overview: A Russian family, the Turkeltaubs, emigrates to the US before the Communist revolution that overthrew the Czar. One of their twin sons, Schulke, disappears and is believed dead before they leave. After they settle into their new country, the family does well: the surviving twin, Nicholai, becomes a crusading District Attorney. One of the cases he is assigned to prosecute is that of small-time gangster Jacob Talinef, who has killed a former girlfriend of Nicholai's. Further investigation of the case, though, reveals a shocking secret.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-17
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Social Register
Overview: Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss. However, Charlie's snobbish, ever-loving mama doesn't think that Patsy is worthy and sets out to prove it.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-10
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The Last Warning
Overview: A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-25
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Married Alive
Overview: James Duxbury (Lou Tellegen) is an exponent of polygamy, which may not be legal but certainly provides him with several evenings of entertainment. Professor Charles Orme (Matt Moore) falls in love with Duxbury's fourth wife Amy (Margaret Livingston). Things get dicey indeed as Orme tries to figure out whether Amy is still married to Duxbury or not -- in fact, Duxbury isn't sure either.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-17
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Water, Water, Everywhere
Overview: Cowboy Billy Fortune is in love with Hope Beecher, who prefers Billy's friend Ben Morgan, but resists his advances because of his fondness for drink. Hope's discontent is echoed by the town wives' public outcry against drink. To divert their interest, Billy is nominated to make love to their leader, widow Fay Bittinger, who has already disposed of four husbands....
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-08
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The Busher
Overview: A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-17
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The Home Stretch
Overview: Johnny Hardwick (Douglas MacLean) is the owner of the fastest horse in the next race. Although it's almost guaranteed that he will win big, Hardwick ruins his chance by saving a little girl who has run out onto the track. The child's father shows his gratitude later on when he offers Hardwick a job as a clerk in his hotel -- Hardwick has been forced to flee after a fight in a roadhouse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-23
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Innocents of Paris
Overview: A Parisian junk dealer has to choose between love and fame after he rescues a boy.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-02
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Slaves of Beauty
Overview: Comedic send-up of the beauty salon industry...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-05
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The Canary Murder Case
Overview: A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-16
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The Bellamy Trial
Overview: The Bellamy Trial is a 1929 American drama film directed by Monta Bell and written by Monta Bell and Joseph Farnham.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-23
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Call Her Savage
Overview: A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-24
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Alimony
Overview: Bernice Bristol Flint, an attractive grass widow (a woman divorced or separated from her husband), associates herself intimately with a number of divorce attorneys who live well on their percentage from unscrupulously secured divorces carrying a large alimony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-03
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Havoc
Overview: A war drama produced only 7 years after the end of World War I. Based on the play by Henry Wallace it chronicles two Englishmen, Dick Chappell (George O'Brien) and Roddy Dunton (Walter McGrail) at the dawn of The Great War. Both men are in love with the same woman, Violet Deering (Margaret Livingston). Chappell, whose proposal has been accepted by Violet, enlists for the war in Europe hoping to distinguish himself and make his fiancé proud of him.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-27
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Passing Through
Overview: Passing Through is a 1921 American silent comedy drama film, directed by William A. Seiter and written by Agnes Christine Johnston, and Joseph F. Poland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-14
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Tonight at Twelve
Overview: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tonight at Twelve is a 1929 American drama film directed by Harry A. Pollard and written by Matt Taylor, Harry A. Pollard and Owen Davis. It is based on the 1928 play Tonight at 12 by Owen Davis. The film stars Madge Bellamy, Robert Ellis, Margaret Livingston, Vera Reynolds, Norman Trevor and Hallam Cooley. The film was released on September 29, 1929, by Universal Pictures.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-29
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The Girl from Gay Paree
Overview: Mary Davis, alone and destitute in New York City, pilfers a meal from a restaurant and eludes the police by ducking into the Cafe Royale, where she is shuffled along a line of aspiring chorines awaiting job interviews. In desperation, Mary agrees to impersonate Mademoiselle Fanchon, formerly of the Folies-Bergère, who has walked out on her contract. Reporter Kenneth Ward interviews Mary, believing her to be the notorious Frenchwoman, and due to a misunderstanding, she rushes wildly into his arms. When Robert Ryan, a bachelor friend of the real Fanchon, investigates Mary’s deception, she violently repels his advances and believes she has killed him. Later, the real Fanchon threatens to kill Robert. Following a series of amusing complications, Mary finds love with Kenneth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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The Way of the Strong
Overview: A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-18
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Say It with Sables
Overview: In this silent film, now considered lost, Doug Caswell falls for Irene, his wealthy father's mistress. It's up to Doug's stepmother Helen to put things right.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-13
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The Charlatan
Overview: A woman goes to a sideshow fortune-teller to have her fortune told, and is astonished when the man looks into his crystal ball and goes into great detail about events in her past that few people ever knew about. Shaken, she leaves and later tells her girlfriend about the incident. The girlfriend insists that she invite the fortune-teller to a party they're having at her house. What the woman doesn't realize is that the "fortune-teller" is actually the ex-husband she abandoned years ago, when she took their daughter and ran off with her lover. When the "charlatan" is invited to the party, he sees an opportunity to take his revenge on his faithless ex-wife.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-13
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Beware of Bachelors
Overview: A young doctor is accused by his pretty wife of paying too much attention to one of his woman patients when she makes a pass at him. Ferris, assuming that her husband is having an affair, decides to have one herself with a perfumer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-27
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What a Widow!
Overview: A young woman's elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes part of the "Continental" set and is pursued by a rich playboy and a lawyer who works for her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-12
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Up the Ladder
Overview: An inventor invents a television telephone while going through some love troubles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-02
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The Apache
Overview: Sonya, a Marseilles Cafe performer involved with a pack of thieves is rescued from her criminal life by a police official who sends her lover and partner in a knife-throwing act to jail and then tries to seduce her. Not submitting to the official's advances, she falls in love with an Apache dancer in Paris and works with him, holding her other admirer at a distance. The official is mysteriously killed, presumably by her lover, it then falls to Sonya to find the real felon.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-19
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The Office Scandal
Overview: Haver, a newspaper reporter persuades a judge to release the suspected killer of a wealthy racetrack owner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-03
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When the Door Opened
Overview: "When the door opened" Clive Grenfel sees his wife in another man's arms. A tussle ensues leading Clive to believe he has killed the other man, and he flees to the Northwoods. There he becomes acquainted with an old gentleman and his lovely granddaughter but keeps his distance because of his past. A stranger’s arrival proves a catalyst to the whole fraught situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-06
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His Private Life
Overview: Story of a Frenchman who seduces women all over Paris, but he meets his match in a proper American tourist. He does everything he can to seduce her, but he will only find romance when he does so on her terms!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-17
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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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Womanpower
Overview: Spoiled rich boy Johnny Bromley, goaded by the sneering laughter of the cheap Dot and by his father's open contempt, retires to a prizefighters' training camp for rehabilitation. There he meets Jenny Killian, daughter of the camp owner whose encouragement and love help him overcome the unpleasant memories of Dot's accusations of cowardice. When at last he is a success, he wins the hand of Jenny in marriage and his parent's forgiveness; upon meeting his former rival (The Broker) with Dot, he surprises him with a swift punch in the jaw.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-19
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All Wrong
Overview: Salesman Warren Kent develops the idea of "The Unending Courtship" and manages to convince his new wife Betty of his theory, which entails their living separately and only meeting on Wednesday evenings, as they did while they were engaged. Warren's boss, however, who was never enamored of the idea, fires him when he bungles an account and loses the company a large order. On top of that, through a series of misunderstandings Warren comes to believe that his wife is pregnant and his mother-in-law believes that Warren is having an affair with Betty's friend Ethel. Things go downhill for Warren from there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-01
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Capital Punishment
Overview: This is not a Clara Bow vehicle, and yet it is clearly the aspect/asset of Clara Bow which elevates a fairly serious melodrama to a timeless and profound social statement. Opening the film on death row where the handsome youth awaits the chair, a stirring test of the legal system evolves after two elite types conspire to expose its inadequacies. Elite, jaded society lawyer Gordon Harrington fabricates a murder, implicating an entirely "hired" fall-guy, one Dan O'Connor, while the bored playboy-type hides away on a yacht until the points are proven and the legal system has been disgraced. Naturally, something goes wrong, the playboy really turns up murdered, and O'Connor is now the accused, imprisoned murderer scheduled to be hanged.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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The Girl Who Wouldn't Wait
Overview: A pair of youthful lovers are separated by war and misunderstanding.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-01
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Lying Lips
Overview: A spoiled rich girl from England encounters a wonderful young man who, unfortunately, has no money. Will love or money win out?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-30
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What's Your Husband Doing?
Overview: Insecure Beatrice Ridley lets her jealousy of her husband get the better of her when he begins receiving letters each morning from the Honeysuckle Inn, a roadhouse frequented by sportsmen. Consulting young attorneys, Widgast and Pidgeon, she finds their wives also suspicious about the goings on at the Honeysuckle Inn. Madcap complications ensue when all the characters meet there before everything is straightened out for all three couples.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-25
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Through the Breakers
Overview: Through the Breakers, the 1928 Joseph C. Boyle silent South Seas tropical island seafaring romantic love triangle melodrama about a London socialite who loves a man who is assigned to be a plantation manager on a South Seas island. She agrees to join him after a year, but puts it off, but later winds up shipwrecked on the same island. An island girl there is in love with him, but when he refuses to reciprocate her love and returns to his old sweetheart, she chooses to commit suicide rather than marry one of her own kind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-28
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A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
Overview: A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios (1920) presents a fascinating glimpse into the Thomas H. Ince studios at Culver City.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-15
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For the Love o' Lil
Overview: Directed by James Tinling. With Jack Mulhall, Sally Starr, Elliott Nugent, Margaret Livingston.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-29
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The Yankee Señor
Overview: A cowboy estranged from his family and unsure of his heritage becomes a hero and falls for a beautiful Mexican beauty.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-10
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Mad Hour
Overview: Mad Hour is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Boyle and starring Sally O'Neil, Alice White and Donald Reed. It was adapted from a novel by Elinor Glyn.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-04
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Big Money
Overview: A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-28
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Butterfly
Overview: A woman (Ruth Clifford) dedicates her life to her ungrateful younger sister (Laura La Plante), a brilliant violinist. “…a real gem of a photoplay…[Laura La Plante] does about the best work of her career in this role. She acts without showing she is acting, and she makes human and lovable the most trying character she has yet been called upon to essay.” – Moving Picture World.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-11
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Streets of Shanghai
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-15
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Wandering Husbands
Overview: Diana Moreland, suspecting that her husband is cheating on her with Marilyn Foster, catches the two of them having a rendezvous at a roadhouse. Instead of screaming at them, she invites Marilyn back to her home. However, Diana has prepared a test to see just who it is that her husband really loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-20
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Acquitted
Overview: A doctor is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-15
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Hell's Four Hundred
Overview: A chorus girl breaks a deal with her boss by marrying the rich man she was supposed to ruin.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-14
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Lightning
Overview: A film adaptation of the Zane Grey novel of the same name.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-15
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Murder on the Roof
Overview: This primarily two-set programmer has a has-been criminal lawyer, Anthony Sommers (William V. Mong) wrongly accused of murder and follows the efforts of his daughter, Molly Sommers (Dorothy Revier), a nightclub singer and two newspapers reporters, Ted Palmer (David Newell) and the inaptly-named Drinkwater (Raymond Hatton), posing as a drunk, to clear him.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-29
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The Scarlet Dove
Overview: The Scarlet Dove is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Arthur Gregor and starring Lowell Sherman, Robert Frazer, and Josephine Borio.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-15
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Wages for Wives
Overview: Nell Bailey, taking a lesson from the married lives of her sister, Luella Logan, and her mother, agrees to marry Danny Kester provided that he will split his paycheck 50-50 with her. When, after marriage, he refuses to honor the agreement, she goes on strike, getting her sister and mother to join in. The three deserted husbands have a difficult time but hate to give in. A vamp complicates matters, but everything is straightened out in the end with each side meeting the other halfway. —Pamela Short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-15
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Eden and Return
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-25
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Her Marriage Vow
Overview: A man sees his wife flirting with a former boyfriend. Enraged, he decides to end the marriage. After cooling down, though, he begins to have second thoughts about the separation, especially since there are children involved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-20
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