King Baggot
Also Known As: William King Baggot, King Baggott
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William King Baggot (November 7, 1879 – July 11, 1948) was an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent film era. The first individually publicized leading man in America, Baggot was referred to as "King of the Movies", "The Most Photographed Man in the World", and "The Man Whose Face Is As Familiar As The Man In The Moon". Baggot appeared in over 300 motion pictures from 1909 to 1947, wrote 18 screenplays, and directed 45 movies from 1912 to 1928, including The Lie (1912), Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (1925), and The House of Scandal (1928). He also directed William S. Hart in his most famous western, Tumbleweeds (1925). Among his film appearances, Baggot was best known for The Scarlet Letter (1911), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913), and Ivanhoe (1913). Baggot began his career on the stage, in a Shakespearean stock company, and toured throughout the U.S. While acting in stock in St. Louis in 1909, he was cast as supporting player in the Schubert touring production of The Wishing Ring. When The Wishing Ring closed in Chicago, Baggot returned to New York to join another company. Upon a chance meeting with Harry Solter, who was directing movies for Carl Laemmle at Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP), he was persuaded to go with Solter to the studio. Baggot became interested in the fledgling industry and decided to turn picture player. His first film was the romance short The Awakening of Bess (1909) opposite Florence Lawrence. It was directed by Harry Solter, her husband, at IMP in Fort Lee, New Jersey. At a time when screen actors worked anonymously, Baggot and Lawrence became the first "movie stars" to be given billing, a marquee, and promotion in advertising. Baggot starred in at least 42 movies opposite Lawrence from 1909 to 1911. In the latter year, he starred in at least 16 movies with Mary Pickford. He also began writing screenplays and directing, all the while becoming a major star internationally. When he appeared "in person" at theatres he was mobbed at stage doors. By 1912, he was so famous that when he took the leading part in forming the prestigious Screen Club in New York, the first organization of its kind strictly for movie people, he was the natural choice for its first president. King Baggot died in Los Angeles, California in 1948, age 68. For his contributions to the film industry, Baggot received a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. His star is located at 6312 Hollywood Boulevard.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 06, 1879
Age: 145 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 11, 1948
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The Temptress
Overview: Gilbert Irving and Bertie Erroll have been inseparable companions since boyhood. At a house party Mrs. Allen announces the engagement of her daughter, Lucille, to Gilbert and the pair are congratulated. At the reception Madam Eloise and her companion, a count, are introduced. Gilbert is at once infatuated by her charms, and neglects Lucille.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-04
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Once a Gentleman
Overview: A butler goes on vacation, where he is wrongly taken to be a wealthy man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-01
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Think It Over
Overview: A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-24
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Come Live with Me
Overview: Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-31
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Shamus O'Brien
Overview: Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library of Congress and British Film Institute.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-14
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The Cheater
Overview: Lilly Meany has grown up amongst charlatans, including her father. She decides to become a faith healer, and her first victim, a rich hypochondriac woman, is easy enough to "cure." In fact, the woman's so happy with Lilly, now calling herself Vashti Dethic, that she recommends her to her nephew, Judah, Lord Asgarby, who has a crippled sister, Eve. The little girl gives Lilly so much innocent trust and love that she actually is able to walk for the first time ever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-07
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-06
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The Marble Heart
Overview: A modern artist named Raphael dreams that he is the ancient Greek sculptor Phidias, who has been commissioned by the wealthy Georgias to carve a number of statues. When Phidias refuses to give up his work, Diogenes appears and suggests that the sculptor ask the statues themselves whom they would prefer as their owner. After coming to life, the statues abandon the sculptor for the rich man. Awakening, Raphael continues his pursuit of the beautiful Marco, a society woman who has posed for him. Marco ultimately spurns his love in favor of a wealthy viscount, however, leaving Raphael to seek happiness with the humble but loving Marie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-02
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Mission of the War Chest
Overview: Mission of the War Chest is a 1918 silent film.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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I Loved a Woman
Overview: The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-23
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A Night at the Opera
Overview: The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-15
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My Brother Talks to Horses
Overview: Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-04
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Life's Twist
Overview: Socially prominent but penniless Stephen De Koven marries Muriel Chester, a woman whose loveliness he admires but whose money he really desires. Discovering this on her wedding night, Mrs. De Koven, because of her love for her husband and her wounded pride, elects to live her life alone, seeing her husband only when formalities demand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-11
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Overview: Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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It May Happen to You
Overview: From MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Mobsters convince a meat packing company employee to help them hijack a truckload of beef.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-05
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The Wanderer
Overview: In the valley the world's best "eternal triangle" is being worked between a husband, a much younger wife and "one who covets." On the heights, the shepherd hears the call and for the nonce becomes a wanderer, and descends into the valley of Passions and Pain. It is the gentle, unfelt, almost unseen influence of the wanderer that stops a maddened husband from first murder and then suicide; exposes the frailty of a wife to her own consideration, and points out to her the grim consequences of a moment's folly, and finally takes the "one who covets" away from the born passions of the valley a far journey up the heights, and disaster to three souls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-07
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The Hawk's Trail
Overview: Through a forged will, a crook assumes control of a valuable estate. He poses as the brother of a dead man, and endeavors to dispose of the deceased man's two daughters, one of whom is in love with the forger's son.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-13
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The Forbidden Thing
Overview: Puritanical Abel Blake is planning to marry the domestically oriented Joan when she is called away to a neighboring fishing village to care for her sick uncle. In her absence, Abel falls under the corrupting influence of some friends who take him to Ryan's, a notorious dance hall, where he meets seductress Glory Prada. Glory determines to make a conquest of Abel, who gradually falls under her spell and finally marries her. After learning of the news, Abel's mother dies of grief and Joan marries Dave, a fisherman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-01
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Girl of the Rio
Overview: A café dancer bluffs a Mexican landowner to save her lover.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-15
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Sweet Memories
Overview: An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her now-departed husband and the things they did together. Though it is sad that these times are now gone, she is comforted by her memories and by the hope of sharing in the lives of her child and grandchildren.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-27
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A Notorious Gentleman
Overview: A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-21
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The Devil-Doll
Overview: Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When the scientist dies during the escape, Lavond heads for his lab, using the shrinking technology to get even with those who framed him and vindicate himself in both the public eye and the eyes of his daughter, Lorraine. When an accident leaves a crazed assistant dead, however, Lavond must again make an escape.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-10
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The Mirror
Overview: A love story filled with amusing complications, but the contest is won by Dick because he believes that all is fair in love and manages to circumvent the fates which often decree otherwise. The fortune teller prescribed the mirror test for the girl saw to it that the test was in his favor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-02-09
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Overview: Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-03
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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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Sweepstakes
Overview: A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-10
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The Big Store
Overview: A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-20
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A Night at the Movies
Overview: A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer through a night at the movies. The film was nominated for an Academy Award at the 10th Academy Awards, held in 1937, for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-06
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Stronger Than Desire
Overview: An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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Sworn Enemy
Overview: A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-11
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Snow Gets in Your Eyes
Overview: A department store has an indoor ski slide for the annual contest for store employees. Salesgirl June has two admirers - a sausage salesman in the store and the store's snooty ski instructor. The Dandridge Sisters (Dorothy, Vivian and non-sister Etta Jones) perform two numbers.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-14
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Mississippi
Overview: A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-22
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That Mothers Might Live
Overview: That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of the need for cleanliness in 19th-century maternity wards, thereby significantly decreasing maternal mortality, and of his struggle to gain acceptance of his idea. Although Semmelweis ultimately failed in his lifetime, later scientific luminaries advanced his work in spirit like microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who provided a scientific theoretical explanation of Semmelweis' observations by helping develop the germ theory of disease and the British surgeon, Dr. Joseph Lister who revolutionized medicine putting Pasteur's research to practical use. In 1939, at the 11th Academy Awards, the film won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-30
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The Call of the Savage
Overview: Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-14
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Dancing Co-Ed
Overview: After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-29
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Arsène Lupin Returns
Overview: A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-25
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The Red Rider
Overview: "Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.
Genres: Comedy Western Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-16
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Overview: A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-13
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The Silent Stranger
Overview: The man is a mystery in the little town. He lives alone in his cabin and will not meet the advanced of his neighbors. One night he talks and tells the story of his life. He had been a prosperous lawyer in an eastern town and was engaged to be married to the sweetest of girls. The night before the wedding day she died and in his anguish he called in the devil. The devil said that he would bring back the departed life, but that if the man laughed he would lose his love again. And in the man's joy at his sweetheart's recovery he forgot and laughed and straight the girl died. "Here is Satan now," said the man, as he fell over dead.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-10
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I Take This Woman
Overview: On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-02
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Merton of the Movies
Overview: In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-11
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The Scarlet Letter
Overview: Hester Prynne has left Holland in advance of her husband, Roger, to join the colonists in Salem, Maxx. Roger follows her to the new world but upon landing in New England is captured by Indians and Hester waits for him in vain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-27
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Dangerous Partners
Overview: A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-07
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Police Court
Overview: A once great stage and screen actor has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son is determined to see his father "make good" again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-19
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Ivanhoe
Overview: Wilfred of Ivanhoe (played by King Baggot), son of Sir Cedric (played by Wallace Bosco), returns to England from the Crusades in the Holy Land. As Ivanhoe, disguised, discovers that his beloved Lady Rowena (played by Evelyn Hope) has remained faithful, two weary travelers, Isaac of York (played by Herbert Brenon) and his pretty daughter Rebecca (played by Leah Baird), are admitted to Sir Cedric's castle, but after the knights learn that Isaac has money they abduct the visitors to the Norman stronghold of Torquilstone Castle.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-22
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The Philadelphia Story
Overview: When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-05
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Gallant Sons
Overview: When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-15
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Bitter Sweet
Overview: A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-08
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The Bad Sister
Overview: Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-29
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A Cave Man Wooing
Overview: George, a somewhat "unathletic" young man, falls for Clarice, a healthy, athletically inclined young woman. Unfortunately for George, however, a strapping, musclebound stud is also after Clarice, and she seems to prefer him to George. After reading an article by a female writer saying that women prefer the "caveman" type of man, George decides that if that what it takes to get Clarice, then that is what he will be.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-19
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Up Against It
Overview: Amos Bentley was up against it in more senses than one. Times were so hard with him that he had to part with the furniture of his little apartment in order to pay his debts. However, things were inclined to take a better turn for him. He was invited to be a guest of some friends of his. And between him and the daughter of the family some sort of heart interest was supposed to exist. Disinclined to accept the invitation at first, he yielded to the persuasions of his friend, the brother of the girl, and made his way to the host's house. Unfortunately his nether garment gave way in a somewhat conspicuous place and in his attempts to conceal the tear while the evening party was in progress, poor Amos suffered a great deal of torture. Finally, he was shown into the room of his probable fiancée. And while in the act of searching for a needle and thread, was discovered by her father, who had not yet made the acquaintance of Amos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-31
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Graft
Overview: Cub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-21
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Afraid to Talk
Overview: Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-17
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Her Cardboard Lover
Overview: A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-16
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The Wife’s Awakening
Overview: The Harrington's first born has died and the father and mother are inconsolable in their grief. Mrs. Harrington later seeks diversion in society, but the husband is engrossed in his work as a scientist, having a laboratory in his house. He conducts several experiments and is on the verge of success in his invention when an explosion of the chemicals occurs and it subsequently develops that he is blinded for life, his eyesight being permanently destroyed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-03
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Chinatown Squad
Overview: Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-31
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Jackass Mail
Overview: An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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Stablemates
Overview: A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-07
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Honky Tonk
Overview: Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Genres: Western Drama Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-01
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Opening Day
Overview: The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-12
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What Price Hollywood?
Overview: Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-24
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The Master and the Man
Overview: A lost film. Henry Jenkins, just released from prison visits his old confederate in crime, Basil King, who is living in affluence. King is not overjoyed to see him, but Jenkins comes just in time as King's butler has left and he is about to entertain lavishly. King loves Elsie Graham, who has given her heart to Ralph Webster and both are guests at the reception. Ralph takes advantage of an opportunity and asks Elsie to marry him and she consents. He has forgotten the ring and announces he will leave the party to get it. King cannot resist the temptation to steal an expensive neckless from one of the guests but the act is noted by Jenkins. The loss is discovered and suspicion falls upon Ralph, who had just left the party.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-15
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In the Sultan's Garden
Overview: Lieutenant Robbins, a young naval officer, sees Haydee the favored inmate of the sultan's harem and is smitten by her charms. She is also interested in the handsome young American. She manages to write him a note that is delivered to him on the deck of his warship lying at anchor in a harbor and implores him to effect her rescue,
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-03
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For the Queen's Honor
Overview: A lost film. The king is good-natured and doesn't suspect that the queen is plainly beginning to think too much of one of the courtiers. The queen's sister is aware of the situation and saves the queen by taking her place. This deceives the king, but he requires that the villain and the queen's sister be married which complicates the situation as the sister is in love with another courtier entirely.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-06
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Science
Overview: A lost film. Dr. Crawford and his wife with their little daughter, Elsie, are at home amusing themselves with the Scotch collie puppy, Imp, when another doctor is announced and he is shown an article in a newspaper which describes the providential rescue from drowning of the doctor's child by Lassie, the mother of Imp. Two more physician's arrive and announce that they have come to try an experiment with a newly discovered anesthetic. Dr. Crawford has a guinea pig, on which the experiment is to be tried, but it is discovered the animal has died, and the men of medicine are in a quandary. It is finally decided to use Imp, the puppy, for the experiment, despite the mild protest of Elsie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-24
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At a Quarter of Two
Overview: A lost film. Dan Nolan is on strike and in the depths of despair. He resolves to steal to help his plight. He enters the home of Homer Warren and the household is saddened by the serious illness of a little daughter. Nolan is prowling about the house, enters the room in which the child is ill and secretes himself in a closet, watching procedings through the keyhole. He watches the doctor impress upon the family the importance of administering the medicine promptly at the appropiate hour. When that time arrives everyone is asleep and he finds that he must be the one to help the child.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-13
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Pictureland
Overview: Americans arrive at their hotel in Cuba in a car, to make a movie. Romantic complications ensue while the cast and crew attempt to finish the movie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-02-20
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Tracked
Overview: A lost film. Dan Barret, a forger, is sought by Balfour, a detective. Barret finding the States a rather dangerous abiding place, goes to Cuba to avoid the officers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-06
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The Secret of the Palm
Overview: A lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-13
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Second Sight
Overview: A lost film. Gertrude Edgar is loved by Tom Moreland and Owen Jackson, and Gertrude, being a woman, is inclined to a mild flirtation with Jackson, while loving Moreland devotedly. Very soon Moreland is invited to join a party to discover the headwaters of the Amazon River. After reading reports of Tom's supposed death Gertrude promises Owen that she will marry him he if he can find and bring back Tom safely to her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-01
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While There is hope, There is Life
Overview: Two men attempt to commit suicide for vastly different reasons. They try various methods but find it increasingly difficult to finish the job.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-24
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The Call of the Song
Overview: A lost film. Hugh Norton and Amy Gordon are sweethearts. Hugh receives an offer to enter the office of a business firm in the city. Hugh goes to the city, and mingles with the fast set. Amy visits the post office every day, awaiting news from her sweetheart that never comes.sweetheart. At school she reads the engagement of Hugh to a wealthy city woman. The shock is too much for her; it turns her brain. At a dinner, surrounded by his companions, a street singer appears and sings, "With the Last Rose of Summer, I'll Come Back to You." Hugh listens. In an instant it all comes back to him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-13
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The Fair Dentist
Overview: A lost film. Claude Marlow, Eugene Wilson and Fred Strong pose as a trio of mashers whom women cannot resist. However, They soon find have have met their match with the arrival of Edith Morton, the new dentist.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-08
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The Rose's Story
Overview: A lost film. Gerald Kinney is a man with plenty of money and wild excesses. one day he leaves his club and motors out into the country. In a pretty wooded dell he meets pretty Myrtle Edgar, a simple country maiden. She is a revelation to him, unlike any woman he has ever seen. Endeavoring to take liberties with her, he is repulsed, kindly but firmly. This is a new experience for him, seeing in her only the pure and holy. Roses grow in profusion in the pretty spot and she plucks one and fastens it on his lapel. The rose acts as a talisman. Whenever he is tempted to do wrong, he regards the flower. His friends rail at him and wish to learn his secret, but he guards it jealously.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-02
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The Better Way
Overview: A lost film. Louis Perry is discharged from the penitentiary, having served his sentence. He immediately resumes relations with his evil companions. One day he happens to meet Lillian Garvey, a Salvation Army worker. One of his companions insults her and Louis resents it and incurs his enmity. Lillian is the only good woman he has known for years and he learns to love her. Her influence tempts him to abandon the life he is leading, and he attends the services and becomes converted. Just at this juncture Madeline Raymond, a woman of the underworld, who was his sweetheart before he was arrested, again comes into his life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-12
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The Girl in the Taxi
Overview: The story begins with a man and a woman, both married, who flag the same taxi and then decide to share it, as they have the same restaurant destination. Various naughty supper rendezvous, and much hiding under tables or behind screens, ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-01
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The Death Kiss
Overview: When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-05
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Boys Town
Overview: Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-08
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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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Torture Money
Overview: In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-02
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The Eagle's Eye
Overview: A criminologist and a government agent team up to expose a ring of German spies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-27
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Romance in the Rain
Overview: The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-13
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The Czar of Broadway
Overview: Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however, the managing editor of the Times is determined to expose him. Jay Grant, a San Francisco reporter, is assigned to investigate Mort, who believes Jay to be a country boy and is delighted to see him fall in love with Connie Colton, of whom Mort has tired. Dismayed to learn that Jay is a reporter, Mort plans to have his gunman, Francis, kill him, but both Mort and Francis are shot by rival gangsters. Jay, believing that Mort will recover, rushes to the newspaper with an exposé, but while writing it he learns of Mort's death and decides their friendship would not permit him to submit the story. He leaves his paper and embarks on a new life with Connie.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-25
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The Secret Heart
Overview: Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase, and stepmother, Lee, work to help Penny process her grief through psychotherapy and revisiting their past, but only the revelation of long-buried family secrets -- including her mother's secret lover and the true nature of her father's death -- can bring Penny out of her intense despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-25
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Absinthe
Overview: A Parisian artist becomes addicted to the liquor absinthe and sinks to robbery and murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-22
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Fingers at the Window
Overview: In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-22
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3 Kids and a Queen
Overview: An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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Rio Rita
Overview: Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-11
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Overview: When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-05
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Over the Hills
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-30
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Sweepstake Annie
Overview: A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and not necessarily for the better.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-29
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At the Duke's Command
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-02-16
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The Ice Follies of 1939
Overview: Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-10
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Marie Antoinette
Overview: The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
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San Francisco
Overview: A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-26
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Mad Holiday
Overview: A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-13
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Ziegfeld Girl
Overview: Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-25
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Swing Fever
Overview: Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-01
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The Awakening of Bess
Overview: The Awakening of Bess is a silent short film of 1909 directed by Harry Solter . The protagonists of the film are Florence Lawrence (wife of the director) and King Baggot , a well-known theatrical actor, here in his cinematographic debut.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-27
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His Second Wife
Overview: A dramatic love triangle between two women and a man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-04-07
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The Call of the Circus
Overview: A circus girl must decide to stay under the big top or marry the minister who loves her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-07-07
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Debt
Overview: An extravagant wife leaves her husband, but returns when he strikes it rich.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-19
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The Count of Montebello
Overview: Gerald and Percy inherit a fortune and spend all of it in pursuit of a young heiress.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-10-24
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A Game for Two
Overview: A wife tries to drive away her husband's best friend by flirting with him, but trouble arises when the friend flirts back.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-06-30
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The Eternal Triangle
Overview: A young wife instigates a duel between a dashing count, with whom she has been having an affair, and her elderly husband. In the duel, the husband is mortally wounded and his now repentant wife chooses to join him in death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-23
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The Irony of Fate
Overview: A rejected suitor rebuffs the woman he loves after the death of her husband.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-08-01
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Jane and the Stranger
Overview: Jane thinks she has witnessed a murder and the suspect is arrested; she later learns the truth and saves him from hanging.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-02-21
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Bear Ye One Another’s Burdens
Overview: When an infirm husband learns of the dire circumstances his wife must endure, he makes every effort to bring himself back to health.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-07-28
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The Blind Man’s Tact
Overview: Five days more! Only five more days says the physician, and the man who has for so long a time been totally blind will be able to take off the bandage, and have the great, light world before him!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-02-14
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The Miser’s Daughter
Overview: A young woman pulls a fast switch on the fiance handpicked by her father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-04-04
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The Maelstrom
Overview: A young woman marries a man she hardly knows or understands; in a moment of crisis, the two suddenly realize what they mean to each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-04-21
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The New Shawl
Overview: A husband becomes jealous when he finds his wife's shawl in a suspicious location.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-04-28
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Once Upon a Time
Overview: A woman is forced to reevaluate the quiet man in her life when she finds he actually could be her knight in shining armor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-08-08
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Transfusion
Overview: After an accident, a young girl desperately needs a blood transfusion to save her life. A young blacksmith agrees to be the donor and wins her heart as well.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-03-28
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The Winning Punch
Overview: A girl's affections waver between the winner of a boxing match, and a greedy count.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-01-03
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Old Heads and Young Hearts
Overview: Two old gentlemen who have been pals from boyhood decide that their children ought to marry. This intention is a commendable one, to be sure, and what is more, their son and daughter like each other pretty well, still more, the wish of the parents would have been automatically done if the old men only had sense enough to remember the adage about the cooks and the broth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-07-11
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The Right of Love
Overview: Two girls fall for the same boy.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-01-10
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Two Men
Overview: An orphaned girl raised by a miner in the wilderness falls in love with a tenderfoot, even though the miner loves her as well.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-02
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The Taming of Jane
Overview: A fickle tomboy eventually falls for the suitor who had previously been annoying her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-08-21
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Pressed Roses
Overview: Roses and trousers have little in common and pressed roses presage something wrong in the scheme of things. When roses are pressed instead of a pair of trousers, chaos and confusion is the result
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-26
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A Reno Romance
Overview: A couple goes to Reno to be divorced, but change their minds at the last moment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-30
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The Doctor's Perfidy
Overview: A young doctor is jealous of one of his patient's romantic interest in his nurse.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-16
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Love's Stratagem
Overview: A short romance starring Florence Lawrence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-11-01
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All the World’s a Stage
Overview: A jealous husband misinteprets the performance his actress wife is putting on with his best friend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-10-03
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The Great Universal Mystery
Overview: A promotional one-reel film promoting the stars of Universal Pictures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-10
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The Ghost Comes Home
Overview: Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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Beloved
Overview: Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-22
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Half a Rogue
Overview: When New York playwright Richard Warrington returns to his home town, Republican bosses nominate him for mayor. The Democrats, alarmed at Richard's popularity, decide to unearth a scandal that will ruin his chances of winning and quickly discover that, months before, actress Katherine Challoner had spent the night in Richard's apartment. Although it simply had been the result of Katherine's fainting spell, the home-town Democratic newspaper turns the overnight visit into an illicit rendezvous between two lovers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-22
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
Overview: A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-02
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The Man from Nowhere
Overview: Although Dorenzo murders Betty Herron, a jury convicts her brother James, and sentences him to life imprisonment. Then, after James saves the governor's life during a prison revolt, he is made a trustee and falls in love with the governor's daughter Ruth, even though he has yet to meet her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-19
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The Suburban
Overview: Robert Gordon wants Donald, his son, to marry Sir Ralph Fisher's sister, but Donald loves Alice, a working-class girl, and weds her in secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-17
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Parnell
Overview: Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-04
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Building for Democracy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-01
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Kildare of Storm
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-16
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The Time-Lock Safe
Overview: Early movie star Florence Lawrence appears in this dramatic farce, in which the police pay a famous burglar to save the life of a child thought to be trapped inside a bank’s time-lock safe. Also stars King Baggot and Owen Moore (Mary Pickford’s first husband).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-07-08
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