Ernest Hilliard
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: January 31, 1890
Deathday: September 03, 1947
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Let It Rain
Overview: Let-It-Rain Riley (MacLean) is a devil-may-care Marine sergeant who falls in love with a girl (Shirley Mason) who he assumes to be rich. His rival for the girl's affection is his pal, Kelly (Wade Boteler). The guys find out that the object of their affections is but a modest switchboard operator but she proves to be invaluable when she deciphers a code and discovers that a mail train is about to be robbed.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-12
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The Wheel of Destiny
Overview: After suffering a blow on the head, brilliant scientist Forrest Stanley totally loses his memory. Wandering into a travelling carnival, Stanley manages to land a job as a fast-talking spieler. In this capacity, he meets and falls in love with fellow "carnie" Georgia Hale.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-30
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The Big Diamond Robbery
Overview: Tom Mix starred in this late-silent Wild West melodrama from poverty row company FBO as a ranch foreman assigned to escort his employer's daughter (Kathryn McGuire) from the big city back to the ranch. The girl, Ellen, is carrying the valuable Regent diamond, and the pair become the target of a gang of thieves led, it turns out, by Ellen's former fiancée Rodney (Ernest Hilliard).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-13
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The Awful Truth
Overview: Story of a wealthy couple whose individual infidelities lead inexorably to the divorce court.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-10
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Man and Wife
Overview: Dora Perkins is a country girl who runs away to New York City. She gets work as a nurse and marries Dr. Howard Fleming, a famed brain surgeon. Supposedly she dies in a fire, and some time later Fleming takes a vacation in the country, where by some odd coincidence he winds up meeting Dolly, Dora's sister. Without realizing her relationship to Dora, he marries her. Soon Dolly is expecting, and not long after, Dora pops up -- she survived the fire, but has been left hopelessly insane.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-25
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Show Boat
Overview: Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Genres: Music Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-17
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The Divine Sinner
Overview: Lillia is a small town girl who gets involved with the wrong crowd in Paris. Arrested by police prefect Nigel De Brulier, Lillia agrees to seduce a politically important foreign prince Ernest Hilliard in exchange for her freedom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-15
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The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
Overview: A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Lady Raffles
Overview: Interrupted during a robbery, thief Lady Raffles hides in an adjacent mansion and is mistaken for a maid during a party thrown by Warren Blake, who plans to present his mother with a diamond necklace. Also in attendance are Lillian and Dick, two jewel thieves who recognize Lady Raffles and fear that she is there to rob Warren as well. But sparks fly between Warren and Lady Raffles, despite Dick and Lillian's attempts at sabotage.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-15
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The Silent Hero
Overview: Bud Taylor loves Mary Stoddard but is leaving for Alaska in search of gold, leaving a police-dog pup with her that he has named "Phantom." Wade Burton is anxious to win Mary and her father's money. Later, Wade follows Bud to Alaska and attempts to claim-jump Bud's gold strike, but is foiled by Bud and "Phantom."
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-01
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The Matinee Idol
Overview: The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. in 1997.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-14
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Smart Girl
Overview: Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designing business, providing the sole support for herself and her sister Kay (Gail Patrick). So devoted is Pat to Kay's welfare that she stands by in stoic silence as Kay begins romancing Pat's sweetie Nick Graham (Kent Taylor).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-16
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The Frontier Trail
Overview: Dolly Mainard, en route to her father, a major at Fort Blaine, is escorted through dangerous Sioux territory by a cavalry detachment and Army scout Jim Cardigan. When Captain Blackwell offends some braves of Chief Gray Wolf's tribe, Jim is sent ahead to the Indian camp to ask for peace. Imprisoned by the Indians, he sends a message to Blackwell not to advance; Donlin, a renegade scout, tears the note in such a way that the message is distorted, and the entire force is killed. When Jim escapes, he is accused of treason by Blackwell, court-martialed, and sentenced to death; however, he escapes and rescues Dolly, her father, and Blackwell from Donlin's band of renegades. Jim discovers the missing portion of the note in Donlin's hat, proving his innocence. Dolly remains to become his wife.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-20
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Go-Get-'Em, Haines
Overview: Reporter Steve Haines, on the trail of a business tycoon, follows his subject onto an ocean liner and gets wound up in a cruise full of intrigue, romance and murder.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-16
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Second Honeymoon
Overview: A wealthy man's wife becomes bored with him, so his friend decides to trick her into believing her husband is having an affair to "wake her up".
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-12
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Tropical Love
Overview: In San Juan, Puerto Rico, The Drifter, young and educated, and The Seeker, old and feeble-minded, meet and form a partnership. The Seeker meets Rosario, unaware that she is his daughter, left there 20 years previously when his mind was affected by a tropical storm that killed his wife and wrecked his home. Rosario is deeded land belonging to her father and is about to sell it to Clifford Fayne when The Seeker discovers gold there and urges her to desist. Fayne lures her to a cabin and tries to force her to sign the bill of sale; The Drifter and her father rescue her; the father is mortally wounded but lives long enough to learn that Rosario is his daughter and that she will be happy with The Drifter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-23
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Let's Have Fun
Overview: When a musical star discovers her leading man is married, she quits the show and takes its financial backer with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-04
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Lovin' the Ladies
Overview: A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-06
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The Drums of Jeopardy
Overview: A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-01
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Annabelle Lee
Overview: Young Annabelle succumbs to tuberculosis and dies, leaving her admirer distraught and without an emotional anchor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-20
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Dugan of the Dugouts
Overview: A young man joins the army to impress his girlfriend. He soon finds out that his sergeant is actually an enemy spy, but before he can take any action, he and his girlfriend are kidnapped by enemy soldiers, and devise an unusual method of escape from capture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-15
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Evidence
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-05
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Weary River
Overview: A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations abound.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-10
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Smile, Brother, Smile
Overview: A hot young salesman at a cosmetics company finds out that, because the company is losing a lot of money, he may soon be out of a job.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-11
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Racing Luck
Overview: Racehorse-owner Dan Morgan is ruled off the track and out of racing when his horse is doped by a rival owner who knows that Dan's horse can win a high-stakes race. Trying to clear his name, Dan runs into many difficulties and incidents, including a blazing barn filled with valuable horses, before he is able to gather the needed evidence against the guilty man.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-19
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Parole Girl
Overview: A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-04
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Gilda
Overview: A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-25
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Say It with Songs
Overview: Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison for a few years, and when he is released he visits his son, Little Pal, at school and is begged by him to run away together.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-05
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The Lost Weekend
Overview: Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-29
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The Noose
Overview: In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his biological father, a blackmailing gangster who has been threatening to destroy the mother's happy marriage to the governor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-29
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Sea Spoilers
Overview: Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship. Instead, he is replaced by Lieutenant Mays, son of the area commander. Mays is afflicted with a fear of the sea, although he has served well in Coast Guard aviation. His father, however, thinks Mays can overcome his fear by taking command of the Niobe. When seal poachers kidnap Bob Randall's girlfriend Connie, Bob and Mays disagree about the proper means of rescuing her and capturing the seal poachers. When Mays's inexperience and phobia foil their attempts at rescue, Bob comes up with his own plan.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-30
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Lucky Legs
Overview: Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-01
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Reveille with Beverly
Overview: Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-04
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The Soul of a Monster
Overview: A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive?
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-17
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White Mice
Overview: Roddy Forrester has formed the White Mice club with a pal. The purpose of the club is to help those in trouble. When Roddy's father sends him to the South American republic of Montebello, he gets his chance to be of service. General Rojas, the former president, is locked away in a prison and slowly dying. Roddy decides to rescue him, especially since he has been inspired by the general's pretty daughter, Inez.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-31
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The Broadway Hoofer
Overview: Broadway dancing star Adele Dorey who, overworked and exhausted, suddenly ups and leaves New York in favor of a country village. But when promoter Bobby Lewis (Egan) of the barnstorming Gay Girlies Burlesque Company arrives in town, he picks an incognito Adele among all the pretty village girls to star in his new show. On a lark, Adele introduces her maid Jane (Louise Fazenda) as her mother and accepts a contract. When Adele's identity is finally revealed, the slumming star apologizes for her deception by offering Bobby a Broadway job.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-15
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Red Hot Rhythm
Overview: A 1929 film by Leo McCarey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-23
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A Broadway Lady
Overview: Chorus girl Rosalie Ryan catches the eye of Bob Westbrook, a wealthy playboy. He proposes to her but she refuses, mainly because of his heavy drinking. However, after being brazenly insulted by his family, she accepts his proposal, just to get under their skin. She finds out that Bob's sister Phyllis is planning to run off with Martyn Edwards, a cad who once betrayed a close friend of Rosalie's. Rosalie goes to Phyllis' apartment to talk her out of it, but soon finds herself involved in, and arrested for, a murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-15
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Undercurrent
Overview: After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-11
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The Big Hop
Overview: Jones plays Buck Bronson, a ranch hand taking to the air as a barnstorming pilot.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-31
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Make Your Own Bed
Overview: Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-10
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The Fighting Failure
Overview: Cullen Landis starred in this silent Western melodrama about a prizefighter accused of cowardice who toughens up on a Western ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-02
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On Stage Everybody
Overview: Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-13
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Mother and Son
Overview: A woman loses all her money in the 1929 stock market crash, and in order to support her family, goes back to her previous occupation--owner of a gambling house--which her son is dead set against.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-31
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Kitty
Overview: Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-16
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Wall Street
Overview: A very topical early talkie from low-budget company Columbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Ince, brother of producer Thomas H. Ince, as Roller McCray, a steelworker turned ruthless tycoon whose tough business methods leads a rival (Philip Strange) to commit suicide. The widow (Aileen Pringle), believing she can ruin Ince by using his own methods, conspires with her husband's former partner (Sam De Grasse), but a strong friendship between Ince and Pringle's young son (Freddie Burke Frederick) changes things dramatically. According to future Three Stooges director Edward Bernds, who worked as a sound mixer on Wall Street, Ince's reaction to his rival's suicidal jump from a window ledge was changed from a sneering "I didn't think he had the guts" to the more respectful "I didn't think he'd do it" due to derisive laughter from the film's crew.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-01
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The Missing Juror
Overview: A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-16
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Flirting with Danger
Overview: Three brash and cocky powder mixers are sent to South America to work at a dynamite plant there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-01
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The Matrimonial Web
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-02
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The More the Merrier
Overview: It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-13
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Trouping with Ellen
Overview: Ellen Llewellyn is a chorus girl who is loved by orchestra leader Andy Owens, a genuinely nice guy. When Ellen meets the aristocratic Tony Winterslip, she's impressed by his family tree and vast wealth. When Winterslip's car breaks down during a rainstorm, Ellen gets drenched and contracts pneumonia. It takes much persuasion, but finally Ellen agrees to recuperate at the Winterslip country home.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-05
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Who Are My Parents?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-26
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The Midnight Watch
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Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-01
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The Ruling Passion
Overview: A millionaire's health deteriorates when his doctor and family prevail upon him to retire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-22
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Dynamite
Overview: Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn't know and doesn't want to.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-13
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Compassion
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-26
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