Dorothea Wolbert
Also Known As: Dorothy Wolbert , Dotty Wolbert , Ella Wolbert , Miss Wolbert
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 11, 1874
Age: 151 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: September 15, 1958
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La La Lucille
Overview: John Smith inherits two million dollars from his wealthy aunt on the condition that he divorce his wife Lucille, a former vaudeville performer. In order to qualify for his inheritance, John concocts the idea of divorcing his wife and then remarrying her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-19
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Two Seconds
Overview: A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne) dupe a high rise riveter (Edward G. Robinson) into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in his face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable, he is eventually driven to desperate measures.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-28
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The College Boob
Overview: Ally Appleby is a country boy headed for the college campus, courtesy of his Aunt Polly and Uncle Lish. They're financing his education providing that he stay away from sports. Before his train even arrives at its destination, he earns the enmity of senior Horatio Winston. Winston is determined to make Appleby into the college boob and his plan is working until pretty coed Angel Boothby reveals the plot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-15
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The Ninety and Nine
Overview: Melodramatic thriller, presented in 9.5mm format
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-17
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Birds of a Feather
Overview: Luke, running a chili parlor, inherits a million dollars and joins high society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-07
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Over the Fence
Overview: Snitch steals Ginger's (stolen) baseball tickets and takes Ginger's girl to the game. Finding himself without tickets, Ginger dresses as a baseball player and wins the game. A possible debut of the "Glasses" or "Boy" character.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-09
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The Mayor of Hell
Overview: Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-24
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Pinched
Overview: Harold's checked cap, blown from his head by a freakish wind, gets him into trouble. First he comes into conflict with the police as a highwayman, then the cap serves to identify him as a housebreaker and lands him in jail, while the innocent cause of his trouble becomes his cellmate for another reason. Eventually a distracted wife rescues both her husband and Harold from the clutches of the law, the cap this time aiding him to regain his freedom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-23
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The Night of Nights
Overview: A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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The Guilty One
Overview: The Guilty One is a 1924 mystery film.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-08
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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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The Flirt
Overview: Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to Richard Lindley but is attracted to Val Corliss, who has come to town to promote oil stock. When Cora's father refuses to become involved, she forges his name on some papers, thus enabling Corliss to sell many shares.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-24
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Borrowed Wives
Overview: Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-20
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Pistols for Breakfast
Overview: A young man goes out to eat breakfast with his friend. As a restaurant "regular" with a pistol threatens to eat everyone's bacon, the two friends flee.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-08
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Swat the Crook
Overview: The adventures of a penniless young man, who finds himself in a house full of crooks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-15
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Lonesome Luke, Lawyer
Overview: Lonesome Luke, Lawyer is a 1917 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-18
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Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire
Overview: Directed by Hal Roach. With Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, 'Snub' Pollard, Bud Jamison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-25
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Lonesome Luke, Messenger
Overview: While on the job, delivering a message, Luke finds himself in a girl's seminary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-05
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Lonesome Luke, Mechanic
Overview: Lonesome Luke, Mechanic is a 1917 American short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-19
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Kicked Out
Overview: Harold has trouble with his father and is ordered out of the house. He becomes a waiter and pulls off some highly amusing stunts at a swell dinner party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-05
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Sic 'Em, Towser
Overview: At a masquerade ball, our hero, in a tramp costume, is arrested when they think he is a real hobo. In the meantime, an actual hobo, at the party, is treated like a guest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-09
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Hear 'Em Rave
Overview: Hear 'Em Rave is a 1918 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-01
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She Loves Me Not
Overview: A short film starring Harold Lloyd.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-29
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I'm on My Way
Overview: Harold Lloyd's character loves Bebe Daniels' character and is about to marry her. But then he meets the clan of Snub Pollard where it's a riot all the time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-08
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Pink Tights
Overview: When a circus troupe comes to a small, extremely conservative New England town, the residents go to their minister to have him protest the scandalous fact that the female tightrope walker wears a pair of pink tights. When she has an accident and is forced to recuperate at the minister's house, he has to hide her in order to avoid even more of a scandal. Mazie Darton, a high-wire performer with a traveling circus, longs for a peaceful country life. Forced to stay in a small town while laid up with an injury, Darton is spurned by the conservative townspeople. Rev. Jonathon Meek, the local parson, befriends the circus troupe, especially Darton. But he, too, opens himself to criticism from his flock, who protest his closeness with the show people. Eventually, Darton's boyfriend arrives and the pair become closer. The parson fades from the scene as a possible mate for Darton, who ends up winning the hearts of the townspeople.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-25
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The Little Minister
Overview: A Lord's fiancée poses as a gypsy and falls in love with the new minister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Three Husbands
Overview: When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-10
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A Woman of the World
Overview: A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather puritanical community members.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-28
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Dangerous Paradise
Overview: Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms...
Genres: Crime Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-13
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The Solitary Sin
Overview: Bob, John, and Edward--three young boys growing up in the same neighborhood--have vastly-different experiences with sex. Bob's father patiently explains "the birds and the bees" to him, and even takes him to a hospital to see the effects of venereal disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-01
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Young Mr. Jazz
Overview: While running away from his girl's father, Harold's car breaks down in front of a dance hall run by crooks. Harold has to not only stay one step ahead of the girl's father, but also those trying to rob them of everything they have.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-20
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The Marathon
Overview: Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-25
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Heir to Trouble
Overview: Ken Armstrong (Ken Maynard) finds himself a mine owner and a daddy simultaneously when a friend dies and wills him his mine and his baby. The outlaws eying the mine try to frame the hero for the death.
Genres: Action Western Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-17
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Too Many Cooks
Overview: A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-18
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Paris in Spring
Overview: Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with thoughts of suicide. In another part of Paris and also afraid of marriage, Mignon (Ida Lupino) breaks it off from her young lover (James Blakely). Despairing, Mignon also climbs to the top of the The Eiffel Tower intending to leap to her death. There she meets Paul and the two compare stories. After discussion, Paul dissuades her from leaping and the two conspire to make their respective partners jealous by pretending to have an affair with each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-27
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The Expert
Overview: An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-05
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Friends and Lovers
Overview: British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to lure men into romance with her, then blackmailing them to save their careers.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-03
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The Medicine Man
Overview: The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-14
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By the Sad Sea Waves
Overview: Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-30
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Hey There
Overview: In this early short Harold Lloyd sneaks into a movie studio in order to locate an attractive young lady he's just met at a snack bar. He's retrieved a letter she dropped and wants to return it to her, but it's pretty clear that his interest extends beyond mere politeness. (She's the adorable young Bebe Daniels, so this is easy to understand.) The movie studio setting provides Harold with lots of opportunities to do what comedians do in comedies like this one: flirt with actresses, anger the studio brass, and dash through sets disrupting everything.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-28
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Abysmal Brute
Overview: A young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great strength and athletic skill, he is completely out of his league when it comes to women. He becomes a successful boxer in San Francisco and is given the name "The Abysmal Brute". When he rescues a drowning man, he meets a beautiful socialite named Maude Sangster and falls in love. His lack of social skills proves a hindrance when a rival suitor competes with him for Maude's affections.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-15
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Do You Love Your Wife?
Overview: Stan plays a janitor at a hotel dropping letters and trying to retrieve them with a vacuum, getting wet, helping a lady shoot her cheating husband and being chased by the police.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-05
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Within the Law
Overview: Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful ways.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-17
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Overview: A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-03
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Fury
Overview: Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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The Battle of the Century
Overview: Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-31
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Postal Inspector
Overview: Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-16
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Overview: Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-22
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Hustling for Health
Overview: Stan Laurel is picked up at the train depot and brought back by the husband to the family home where the wife is having a suffragette meeting. None too pleased they cause mayhem and then the neighbours are brought into it as Stan cleans up the backyard by throwing all the rubbish into their award winning garden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-02
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Exit Smiling
Overview: The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of stepping in as their melodramatic production's (Flaming Women) female lead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-06
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Fireman Save My Child
Overview: In this popular two reeler where Harold runs to the rescue of a woman on a fire engine, he is seen hanging on the moving vehicle by the released water hose that forces him closer to the ground.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-25
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Look Pleasant, Please
Overview: A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-10
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Just Rambling Along
Overview: A nervy young man follows a pretty lady into a diner to flirt with her, but winds up getting stuck with the tab.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-03
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The Dawn of Understanding
Overview: The Dawn of Understanding is a lost 1918 American silent Western comedy film produced by The Vitagraph Company of America and directed by David Smith. It stars Bessie Love in the first film of her nine-film contract with Vitagraph.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-02
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Motive for Revenge
Overview: Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty...
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-15
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A Lady of Quality
Overview: Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a rich nobleman, Mertoun, the Duke of Osmonde. Clorinda accidentally kills Sir John when he, infuriated by her forthcoming marriage, threatens to blackmail her. She buries the body in the cellar and admits her act to the forgiving Osmonde before marrying him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-14
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Snowbound
Overview: Assuming he is marrying a wealthy girl, Peter Foley passes a fraudulent check. To save him from jail, Julia Barry poses as his wife. Peter is actually in love with Alice Blake. He encounters complications with motorcycle cop Bull, who is engaged to Julia. A friend of Alice adds to the mix-up. All wind up snowbound together in a mountain lodge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-01
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Action
Overview: Three Outlaws came across a stranded baby and must decide to save the child or escape from the law.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-12
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The Front Page
Overview: Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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A Sailor's Sweetheart
Overview: Cynthia Botts, the headmistress of a girls’ school, stands to inherit a fortune on the condition that no scandal ever be associated with her name. But scandal, in the form of con man Mark Krisel, is just around the corner.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-24
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Invisible Stripes
Overview: A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-30
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Autobuyography
Overview: Leon trades in his old car for an expensive new car, which promptly begins to fall apart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-16
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The Enchanted Barn
Overview: The Hollisters, a bright, spirited, wholesome family, are compelled to move into the country. After many efforts to secure a home, Shirley, eldest of the Hollisters, contrives a way out by renting a magnificent old stone barn at a ridiculously low price, transforming it into a house. The owner of the barn is not an ordinary landlord, as you will see, for he is a young man with fine ideals, and he is not content with establishing Shirley and her family in the quaintly beautiful old place, but makes the world a much happier place to live in for all of them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-27
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Cupid Forecloses
Overview: Geraldine Farleigh, a timid village schoolteacher, supports her family and must pay off her late father's debt to Bruce Cartwright.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-12
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Bashful
Overview: In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-23
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Love and Learn
Overview: In love with political candidate Anthony Cowles, heroine Nancy Blair gets wind of the opposition's scheme to ruin Cowles' reputation. At the risk of her own good name, Nancy decides to turn the tables on the crooked politicos by framing Cowles' opponent in a compromising situation. Things don't go quite as planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-14
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Crack-Up
Overview: Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-06
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Next Aisle Over
Overview: A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-30
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Vagabond Lady
Overview: Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-03
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