Louise Fazenda
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Louise Fazenda (June 17, 1895 – April 17, 1962) was an American film actress, appearing chiefly in silent comedy films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 17, 1895
Age: 129 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 17, 1962
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Main Street
Overview: The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-25
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-18
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The Bat
Overview: A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-14
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The Spoilers
Overview: Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-26
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Mike and Jake as Heroes
Overview: By deeds of valor both Mike and Jake seek to win the same girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-17
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Broadway Gondolier
Overview: A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-27
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The Old Soak
Overview: To the distress of his family, Clem Hawley, retired from his garage business, spends his time and money in the company of Al, the local bootlegger.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-11
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The Old Maid
Overview: The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-16
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Maggie's First False Step
Overview: Maggie's First False Step
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-25
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Mary of the Movies
Overview: Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-27
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Astray from the Steerage
Overview: While an immigrant couple are detained by authorities to see if they're fit, a smuggler tries to sneak a bottle into their luggage, but he accidentally gets trapped inside, and gets sent to the house where the new Americans will work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-23
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Poor Jake's Demise
Overview: Jake's wife fears he has made good his suicide threat after he has caught her making love to the Dude in his own home. During the last minute preparations for Jake's funeral, the mourners are suddenly surprised to find him sitting upright in their midst.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-16
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
Overview: Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-04
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The Wanters
Overview: Elliot Worthington falls in love with Myra, the maid in his sister's household. Myra is dismissed; Elliot finds her, proposes marriage, and returns home with his new bride. She is snubbed by his relatives and shocked by the hypocrisy of his wealthy friends. Disillusioned, she runs away: Elliot follows and saves her from being hit by a train when her foot gets caught in a switch.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-26
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The Unwritten Law
Overview: A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electrician.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-26
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Swing Your Lady
Overview: Promoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits against a hillbilly Amazon blacksmith, Sadie Horn. Joe falls in love with her and won't fight. At least not until Sadie's beau Noah shows up.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-08
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Willful Ambrose
Overview: Marksman Ambrose accidentally shoots a beer stein his wife has bought for him as a gift, so he tries to replace it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-01
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Wedding Yells
Overview: Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-07
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The Lady of the Harem
Overview: Rafi arrives in the city in search of Pervaneh who was taken by the Sultan. He is joined by Hassan the confectioner. Rafi is captured by the Sultan, but Hassan leads a surprise attack on the palace and the lovers are united.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-11-01
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A Texas Steer
Overview: Laconic cowboy Maverick Brander just happens to be a very wealthy rancher, but the money doesn't really mean that much to him. The same can't be said for his social-climbing wife and his man-crazy daughter Bossy. His wife, with the help of some political bosses, helps Maverick get elected to Congress, where he manages to get in all sorts of trouble, including getting blackmailed by opponents of a bill he's trying to get passed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-04
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The Winning Ticket
Overview: A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-08
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The Cuban Love Song
Overview: A guilt-ridden U.S. Marine returns to Cuba to try to find the woman he promised to marry.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-18
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The Casino Murder Case
Overview: When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the casino owned by Uncle Kinkaid, Lynn is indeed poisoned under the watchful eye of Philo. However, he recovers, but the same cannot be said for Lynn's wife Virginia, who is at the family home. Only a family member could have poisoned Lynn and Virginia and everyone has their dark motives. Philo will follow the clues and find the perpetrator.
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-15
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Noah's Ark
Overview: The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-01
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First Lady
Overview: A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-04
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Colleen
Overview: Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-21
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Fatty's Tintype Tangle
Overview: Hubby and wifey are in love, but he's henpecked by her mother. A nip of whiskey gives him Dutch courage, and he storms out, declaring he won't be a domestic slave anymore. He heads for a park bench where a photographer mistakes him for a seated woman's sweetheart. The tintype of the two of them falls into the hands of the woman's husband, whose jealous rage frightens our hero. He abruptly leaves town, telling wifey he'll be away on business. Wifey doesn't need her house while he's away, so, unknown to hubby, she moves in with mom and rents the house to the couple from the park. When our hero returns home sooner than expected, the renter has another attack of jealousy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-26
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Why Beaches Are Popular
Overview: This short was a promo piece for Mack Sennett's Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-10
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Loose Ankles
Overview: A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the approval of three of her stuffed-shirt relatives, and without scandal. Otherwise, the estate goes to the cat and dog hospital. Ann, not needing the money, rebels by seeking scandal with a gigolo.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-02
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Wonder Bar
Overview: Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
Genres: Crime Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-31
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The Red Mill
Overview: A servant girl plays matchmaker for the local burgomaster's daughter while setting her own sights on a visiting Irishman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-29
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On With the Show!
Overview: With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-13
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Ready, Willing and Able
Overview: Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-06
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Millionaires
Overview: Meyer Rubens and his wife, Esther, own a pressing-shop in New York's Lower East Side. Esther wants to move on up to the Upper West Side. She has a rich sister, Reba, who persuades Meyer to invest in the worthless oil stock sold by her husband. The stock proves to be not worthless and Meyer and Esther become overnight millionaires. But Reba thinks Meyer, who has no taste for high society, is holding her sister back socially, so she devises some schemes that involve catching Meyer in a compromising situation with other women, so her sister can file for a divorce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-01
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Cradle Snatchers
Overview: To cure their flirtatious husbands of consorting with flappers, three wives-- Susan Martin, Ethel Drake, and Kitty Ladd-- arrange with three college boys-- Henry Winton, Oscar, and Joe Valley-- to flirt with them at a house party. Joe Valley, who poses as a hot-blooded Spaniard, is vamped by Ginsberg in female attire, and Oscar, a bashful Swede, uses caveman methods when aroused. During a rehearsal of the party, the three husbands arrive, followed by their flapper friends, leading to comic complications.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-28
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Wide Open
Overview: An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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Footloose Widows
Overview: Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Smith. Through a misunderstanding, they pick on the wrong J. A. Smith, a fortune hunter himself who assumes that Marian is a wealthy widow. Meanwhile, Marian falls for the real Smith, never dreaming that he's the millionaire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-19
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Merry Go Round of 1938
Overview: Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-14
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Spring Is Here
Overview: Musical about two sisters in love with the same man.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-13
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Crossed Love and Swords
Overview: It's love among the elite in this Keystone from 1915, in which normal-looking people in well-fitting clothes go through the same sort of hi-jinks that the hoi polloi do. It's a couple of minutes before the first weird mustache appears and it took me twice that to recognize that bright eyed, lanky girl with the snub nose as Louise Fazenda.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-12
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The Great Vacuum Robbery
Overview: A couple hatch a novel plan to rob a bank: they'll crawl down a heating duct and use a vaccum cleaner to suck the money out of the vault.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-01
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The Widow from Monte Carlo
Overview: In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-19
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Running Hollywood
Overview: Running Hollywood is a comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-27
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The Desert Song
Overview: French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert. Their dashing, daredevil leader is the mysterious "Red Shadow". Margot Bonvalet, a lovely, sassy French girl, is soon to be married at the fort to Birabeau's right-hand man, Captain Fontaine. Birabeau's son Pierre, in reality the Red Shadow, loves Margot, but pretends to be a milksop to preserve his secret identity. Margot tells Pierre that she secretly yearns to be swept into the arms of some bold, dashing sheik, perhaps even the Red Shadow himself. Pierre, as the Red Shadow, kidnaps Margot and declares his love for her.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-08
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When Joe Went West
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1913-12-01
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Viennese Nights
Overview: In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Elsa instead marries the wealthier officer Franz von Renner, in an attempt at social climbing.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-25
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Bride of the Regiment
Overview: As they are leaving the church following their wedding, Count Adrian Beltrami and Countess Anna-Marie are told that the Austrians are marching on the town to quell an Italian uprising. The bride and relatives induce the count to flee to his castle, but Tangy, a silhouette cutter, brings word from the revolutionary committee asking him to return; the count goes, asking Tangy to pose as the count and protect Anna-Marie.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-21
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Hearts and Flowers
Overview: A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-22
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Bad Boy
Overview: An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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A Hash House Fraud
Overview: A swindle in a tiny downtown restaurant leads to a classic Keystone Cops finale. One and all have an easy time with the pretty and flirtatious cashier played by Louise Fazenda, who went on to great success as a character actress and married famed producer Hal B. Wallis in 1927. Released by Keystone Film Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-10
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Ever Since Eve
Overview: Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews, accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-15
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True As Steel
Overview: Successful middle-aged manufacturer Frank Parry takes a business trip to New York, where he becomes infatuated with Eva Boutelle, manager of the Swansea Cotton Mills. For a time, their affair develops, but Eva remains true to her husband ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-20
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Show of Shows
Overview: Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-21
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Heart to Heart
Overview: Princess Delatorre, young and beautiful widow of an Italian scion of royalty, returns with her fortune to the small American town where she grew up as Ellen Gutherie. Arriving by train a few days earlier than she planned, Ellen is mistaken for Mrs. Arden, a seamstress of doubtful repute from a neighboring town. She carries on the deception for fun when her nearsighted Aunt Katie and others believe she is Mrs. Arden. Phil, her old sweetheart, recognizes her, however, and shows her his new invention, a corkscrew that turns itself--a failure because of prohibition. Ellen leaves, having heard how much store is set on her coming; she returns on the proper train, elaborately made up as Princess Delatorre, and the big reception takes place as planned. Then she and Phil return to Italy, where they expect the corkscrew to be a success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-22
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The Lighthouse by the Sea
Overview: A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of liquor-smugglers is trying to destroy the lighthouse so they can land their illegal cargo on shore without being spotted.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-01
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A Submarine Pirate
Overview: A waiter tricks his way into command of a sub in order to rob a ship carrying gold bullion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-26
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Doughnuts and Society
Overview: Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their locally-famous doughnuts, engage in their favorite pastime, friendly quarreling between themselves. This changes when Belle suddenly becomes heir to a small fortune which allows her to crash high-society and make her daughter,Joan, a débutante. This creates a rift between the two former partners, with the result that the proud Kate refuses to accept her friend's good fortune nor allow her son, Jerry, who is in love with Joan, to do so.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-27
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High Society Blues
Overview: After selling his business in Iowa, Eli Granger and his family move to an exclusive Scarsdale area in New York, where by chance he occupies a house adjacent to Horace Divine, a wealthy businessman with whom he made his business transaction...
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-23
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Her Torpedoed Love
Overview: A wealthy invalid tries to add his hard-working cook to his will, but the conniving butler gets in the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-13
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Down on the Farm
Overview: The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand sees an opportunity to be the knight in shining armor to Louise, Roach's daughter, who he wants to marry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-17
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The Mad Parade
Overview: The story of eight women and how they served their country during World War I.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-18
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Hogan's Alley
Overview: Lefty O'Brien, a pugilist, becomes engaged to ex-tomboy Patsy Ryan against the wishes of her father, Michael. They both live in an Irish-Jewish neighborhood on New York's East Side known as "Hogan's Alley." Lefty defeats Battling Savage for the championship, breaking his left hand and leaving his opponent close to death.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-12
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Domestic Troubles
Overview: Twin brothers James and Horace Bullard have opposite personalities. James, a fun dandy, marries a club-woman. Horace, introvert and prudish, marries a butterfly. A lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-28
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Second Hand Kisses
Overview: Knockabout comedy in which woman marries widower each having a child of their own which the other knows nothing about.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-29
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Overview: Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.
Genres: History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-01
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Overview: The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-03
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Stark Mad
Overview: An expedition sets out through the jungle to find a missing explorer, but stumbles upon an ancient Mayan temple that houses a giant ape.
Genres: Crime Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-02
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No, No, Nanette
Overview: A bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-03
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In the Year 2014
Overview: On this certain afternoon in the year 2014, Mrs. Jones, and her daughter, stock brokers, advertise for a first-class stenographer. Charles Van Doren, a defenceless young man, striving to make a livelihood in the big city, and at the same time retain his good name, calls on Jones' daughter, and is at once accepted as the new stenographer. He has not been there long, however, when Mrs. Jones takes advantage of his innocence, and makes improper advances to him.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-31
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Caravan
Overview: A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-30
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Rain or Shine
Overview: Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune back to her ragtag band of ragged shoeleather performers.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-15
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What a Night!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-30
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Her Fame and Shame
Overview: A slapstick comedy with Charles Murray & Louise Fazenda.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-24
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Compromise
Overview: Compromise is a silent film drama produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Alan Crosland. The film is now thought to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-24
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Riley the Cop
Overview: In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-25
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Blondes Prefer Bonds
Overview: Louise Fazdenda decides to get a make-over to rekindle the romance in her marriage. Somehow the rejuvenation process takes them back to the time of their courtship...the big hats and big bustles. Neither does much to rekindle the husband's dying flame but does attract the attention of a couple of other men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-14
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Hard to Get
Overview: A dress shop employee falls in love with a millionaire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-04
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A Versatile Villain
Overview: After being falsely accused of theft, Pete, the station master's assistant, rescues his girlfriend from the genuine villain, marauding crook Desperate Dan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-29
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The Feathered Nest
Overview: Keystone-Triangle comedy starring Louise Fazenda and Charles Murray.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-06
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Five and Ten Cent Annie
Overview: Street cleaner Elmer Peck (Clyde Cook) inherits a million dollars from his uncle Adam Peck (Tom Ricketts) on the conditions that he retains the uncle's valet, Briggs (William Demarest). until such time as Elmer marries, and that he appears at the office of the probate judge (Douglas Gerrard), at 5 P.M. on an appointed day. Complications arise as a result of the valet's determination to ruin the arrangement, and the equal determination by Elmer and his sweetheart Annie (Louise Fazenda) to see that he doesn't.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-26
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Newly Rich
Overview: Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-02
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I Married a Doctor
Overview: City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-25
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots'
Overview: Golf expert Bobby Jones arrives on the golf course to join actors James Cagney, Anthony Bushell, Donald Cook, Evalyn Knapp, and Louise Fazenda in shooting a golf instruction film. Louise Fazenda however has no knowledge of golf and her ongoing commentary disrupts Jones's attempts to practice. While Cagney and Bushell hold Louise's mouth shut, Jones demonstrates his approach to golf. Later, upon arrival of director George Marshall, Louise is sent off "to practice" alone while the cast and crew go about shooting the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-15
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Once in a Lifetime
Overview: Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-02
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A Bear Affair
Overview: Keystone comedy mayhem with bears, chases and whatnot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-28
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When Ambrose Dared Walrus
Overview: Walrus and his wife run the Walrus Hotel, which acrobats Mr. & Mrs. Ambrose are staying at. Walrus gets a letter from his insurance broker Mr. Cinder demanding a payment. Short on cash, Walrus decides to get his tenants' money now. Ambrose and his wife are in the middle of a domestic squabble when Walrus pays a visit, and his presence only makes things worse. Mr. Cinder visits Walrus himself, and he carelessly throws his cigarette into a trash can. After he leaves, the hotel catches on fire and the rest of the film is a thrilling five-minute race to pay off the insurance!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-11
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Misbehaving Ladies
Overview: Ellen, a young American girl who married a European prince and moved to his country, is preparing to return to the US, after having paid off all the debts left by her now-deceased husband. However, when she returns early, no one recognizes her and even her aunt Kate mistakes her for the princess' dressmaker. Her ex-boyfriend Joe, who recognizes her immediately, suggests that Ellen continue with the charade and have some fun, but a series of misunderstandings causes trouble for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-16
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Ambrose's Fury
Overview: A couple of roving husbands are caught at the seashore by their wives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-24
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The Marble Heart
Overview: Therese Roger, daughter of a West Indian planter, whose parents are murdered while she is a baby, becomes the adopted daughter of her aunt, Madame Roger, keeper of a haberdashery shop in one of the smaller villages in southern France. She grows up with Camille, Madame Roger's son, a sickly, sexless creature, whom she ultimately marries in deference to her aunt's wishes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-05
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The Night Club
Overview: After having been stood up at his own wedding, a young man vows that he will have nothing more to ever do with women. However, he soon discovers that he has been left a fortune--on condition that he gets married. Deciding that being rich and married would be preferable to being broke and single, he goes in search of a wife, but things don't turn out quite the way he planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-26
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Gun Smoke
Overview: Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there until things cool down back in Chi or NYC, or wherever they lammed from.They are welcomed with open arms by the citizens under the impression they are there as capital investors with money to spend. Before long, Darvas figures the town is ripe for the taking and sends word for reinforcements, and each arriving train unloads a few suits and snappy-brim hats.Then they get rough, kill Sheriff Posey Meed and rile up the citizens, led by cowhand Brad Farley, who had Darvas spotted for a wrong number just by the way he made moves on Sue Vancey.
Genres: Western Action Crime Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-10
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The Terror
Overview: Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-06
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House of Horror
Overview: House of Horror is a 1929 American comedy-horror mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen. The film stars Louise Fazenda and Chester Conklin and was released in both a silent and sound version which featured a Vitaphone soundtrack with talking sequences, music and sound effects. Both the silent and sound versions of House of Horror are now presumed lost.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-28
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Hot Stuff
Overview: An uptight society aunt sends her too sexy niece to college so she can land a man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-05
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Hunting Trouble
Overview: A wife tries to hide a surprise birthday present from her husband but the butler causes trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-08
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Bright Eyes
Overview: An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-24
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The Gold Diggers
Overview: Stephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he believes all chorus girls to be ruthless gold diggers, always chasing after the men's money. Violet's friend Jerry La Mar decides to 'gold dig' Stephen, to show him what a nice and unselfish girl Violet is, but then she realizes that she's really in love with Stephen Lee....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-22
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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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Faro Nell
Overview: Sweet Nell is the jewel of Dry Gulch and all of the eligible bachelors seek her hand. The townsfolk are willing to shoot any stranger who casts aspersions on her honor - and rule it a legal suicide. The men are crestfallen when she chooses Dick to be her beau. A jealous suitor frames the lucky cowpoke for murder.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-05
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The Beauty Shop
Overview: Dr. Budd is a New York physician specializing in "beauty". His business is successful but he is still plagued by money problems. One day he gets an idea--he obtains the coat-of-arms of a long-forgotten Italian noble family, the Bolognias, and uses it as his logo on his line of beauty products.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-13
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Breakdowns of 1938
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-31
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A Dream Comes True
Overview: A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-31
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Leathernecking
Overview: Chick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-12
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Bobbed Hair
Overview: Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-25
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Ladies at Play
Overview: Ann Martin will inherit six-million dollars if she marries a man her two spinster-aunts approve of, but, so far, her aunts haven't approved of any man she knows. Ann tries to get a bashful hotel clerk to marry her in name only, and then get a divorce, but he refuses to because he is in love with her. Her cousin then brings in another clerk and Ann now has two men on her hands. Ann now wants to marry the first clerk, having discovered she also loves him, but the aunts object. She then hires two gigolos to charm her aunts into a compromising situation.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-15
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Vamping Venus
Overview: A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head. This film is lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1928-05-13
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Ambrose's Lofty Perch
Overview: King Ambrose chooses a queen from among the maidens of his kingdom. After they are married, Robin, a young man the queen had known earlier, attempts to steal her from her royal husband. Robin shoots arrows with notes attached and the queen initially runs away with him. The queen, however, rejects her former suitor in favor of the king after Ambrose saves her from a snake. Her rejected suitor plots with the jester to bomb the palace but their plot backfires.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-02
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The Quack Doctor
Overview: In one of the handful of Sennett/ Paramount Films to survive we visit a traveling medicine show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-04
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Miss Nobody
Overview: The father of an heiress dies broke leaving her destitute without inheritance. She falls in with a group of hobos traveling incognito cross country dressed as a man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-27
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Dizzy Daisy
Overview: Louise gets hired as a maid for a swank society party, but the it's really a set up for a bunch of tough jewel robbers. She gets hold of the swag and a big slapstick chase along a highway and beach ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-29
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Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Overview: This short film takes a nostalgic look at the Mack Sennett comedies of the silent cinema era.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Down on the Farm
Overview: Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-11
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Racing Youth
Overview: A young man is mistaken for his boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-26
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The Price of Pleasure
Overview: Their only sim was that they loved too much: lovers never stop to count the cost. He was a young millionaire and she was only a "Bargain "Basement" girl, but they had one week of paradise that started two years of drama. The truest, sweetest love story in years.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-15
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Are Waitresses Safe?
Overview: Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo clock and the baby paints its face with jam. In her next job in a restaurant kitchen, Louise scrambles up her powder puff and her biscuits. The cook orders her to lighten them up. She blows them up like balloons, but they come out like rubber balls and so she is bounced out of that job. In her next position as housekeeper to a rich family, she throws a party for her friends when the family goes on vacation and they turn the house topsy-turvy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-18
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Outcast
Overview: Outcast is a 1928 silent film drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was directed by William A. Seiter and stars Corinne Griffith, often considered one of the most beautiful women in film. This story had been filmed in 1917 as The World and the Woman with Jeanne Eagels. In 1922 a Paramount film of the same name with Elsie Ferguson reprising her stage role was released. Both films were based on a 1914 play, Outcast, by Hubert Henry Davies which starred Ferguson. The Seiter/Griffith film was an all silent with Vitaphone music and sound effects. In the sound era, the story was filmed once again as The Girl from 10th Avenue starring Bette Davis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-11
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The Passionate Quest
Overview: The Passionate Quest is a 1926 American drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and written by Marian Constance Blackton. It is based on the 1924 novel The Passionate Quest by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The film stars May McAvoy, Willard Louis, Louise Fazenda, Gardner James, Jane Winton, and Holmes Herbert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-10
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A Broadway Butterfly
Overview: Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets up with Cookie, a worldly chorus girl who takes Irene under her wing. When Irene falls for young Ronald, his rival Crane sets out to break up the pair so he can have Irene for his own--and he doesn't much care how he does it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-29
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Being Respectable
Overview: Wealthy young Charles Carpenter is pressured by his family to marry Suzanne, even though he is really in love with young "flapper" Valerie. He gives in to his family's pressure, however, and marries Suzanne, after which Valerie leaves town. Years later, after Charles and Suzanne have had a child, Valerie comes back to town and Charles realizes he is still in love with her, and she with him. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-01
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The Itching Hour
Overview: Comedy spoof of THE CAT AND THE CANARY. A female athlete and her entourage take refuge on a stormy night in a strange hotel that seems to be haunted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-01
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The Beautiful and Damned
Overview: Gloria, the daughter in a wealthy family, has finally spent most of her father's money. She marries Tony, whose as much of a reckless spendthrift as she is, and they continue indulging themselves. Tony's wealthy grandfather Adam Patch dies, but to their surprise he leaves Tony nothing. The couple try their hands at actually working for a living, but they don't like it and return to their spendthrift ways. Something has to give, and it soon does.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-10
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Déclassé
Overview: The last of the impetuous Varicks, Lady Helen Haden is married to Sir Bruce Haden, a brute who treats her shamefully. She falls in love with Ned Thayer, a young American, but refuses to divorce her husband because of the attendant scandal and disgrace. Sir Bruce gains possession of a love letter written to Ned by Lady Helen and divorces her. Ned goes to Africa, and Lady Helen comes to the United States, where she encounters Rudolph Solomon, an art collector who wants her to become his mistress. The noblewoman at first refuses, but when her money runs out, she agrees to the proposal and attends a party at his home. Ned, who has learned of the divorce, comes looking for Helen and meets her at Solomon's party. Lady Helen is so humiliated and ashamed that she rushes from the house and throws herself in front of an automobile.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-11
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Pay as You Enter
Overview: Trolley car conductor Clyde Jones and bus conductor "Terrible Bill" Jones are arch rivals for the hand of coffee-shop owner Mary Smith.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-12
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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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Ham and Eggs at the Front
Overview: Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-29
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Finger Prints
Overview: A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-08
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Simple Sis
Overview: Simple Sis is a 1927 American silent comedy-melodrama directed by Herman C. Raymaker and starring Louise Fazenda as a poor, plain laundress hoping for romance, supported by Clyde Cook as a shy suitor and Myrna Loy as a cruel beauty. No copies of Simple Sis are known to exist; it is presumed lost.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-01
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Ambrose's Little Hatchet
Overview: Mack Swain is making a dress for Louise Fazenda. He discovers his dressmaker's dummy requires his adjustment, so he pulls out his hatchet for the job. Through the window shade, onlookers -- including her husband -- see him as killing a woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-15
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This Woman
Overview: Facing poverty, Carol Drayton is prevented from suicide by Rose, a woman of the streets, who buys Carol a meal in a cafe of questionable reputation. The cafe is raided, and Carol is arrested and jailed on the false testimony of wealthy Gordon Duane. When she is released, Carol is again penniless until intoxicated Bobby Bleeker pays her to sing beneath the window of his sweetheart, Aline Sturdevant, where she is discovered by Stratini, a famous impresario. While studying with Stratini, Carol is blackmailed by the butler. Whitney Duane (Gordon's brother) falls in love with her but doubts her because of the gossip, and Carol incurs Aline's wrath by borrowing money from Bobby for Rose. Carol finally realizes her love for Stratini, who has remained loyal to her, and they are married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-02
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The Village Chestnut
Overview: Comedy and romantic shenanigans set in a one-classroom school.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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Grounds for Divorce
Overview: Divorce lawyer Maurice (Matt Moore) does not pay much attention to his wife Alice (Florence Vidor). When he spends their anniversary with famous actress Marianne (Louise Fadenza) Alice decides to seek a divorce herself.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-27
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Tea- With a Kick!
Overview: The tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college for serving tea in her room. She goes on to open up a tearoom in a fancy hotel, saving all the profits to pay the legal fees for her father who has been unjustly jailed. Mr. Day's rival has embroiled him in a crooked stock deal and made him appear to be the guilty party. Meanwhile, Bonnie is in the midst of a romantic dilemma; her Aunt Pearl wants her to wed Napoleon Dobbings, but Bonnie much prefers helpful young lawyer Art Binger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-26
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Cheaper to Marry
Overview: Dick Tyler is the junior partner in the law firm of Knight and Tyler. He tries to convince his partner, Jim Tyler, than it's cheaper to be married than to continually "play the field". The main reason he's doing that is because Jim is obsessed with the beautiful Evelyn, a gold-digger on whom Jim is spending prodigious amounts of money. Things take a turn for the worse when his spending on her gets to the point where it's placing the firm dangerously close to bankruptcy. Something has to be done.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-09
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The Fog
Overview: Nathan Forge, romantic son of a cruel businessman, publishes in a local newspaper a poem about a girl who once befriended him. The girl, a student in a nearby school, reads the poem and recognizes herself. Years pass, and Nathan goes through various hardships, including an unhappy marriage, imprisonment, and the war. Then in Siberia, working for the International Red Cross, he meets the girl who is the subject of his poem and thus achieves happiness. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-18
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Babe Comes Home
Overview: A baseball-styled sports filmed centered on Babe Ruth and Anna Q. It is considered a lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-22
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Bombs!
Overview: A World War 1 slapstick comedy from Keystone.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-07
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Ambrose's Nasty Temper
Overview: Ambrose's nasty temper gets him in trouble when he accidentally puts his boss's attractive daughter in danger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-16
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Boarding House Blues
Overview: A boarding house maid is treated mean, until inheriting oil gives her a new gleam.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-20
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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
Overview: A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1924-02-02
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The Road Back
Overview: After the First World War a group of German soldiers try to readjust to civilian life. A sequel to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-01
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The Galloping Fish
Overview: Freddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her new husband home alone. Seeking distraction from his troubles, Freddy enters a vaudeville theater where Undine, "the diving Venus," and her trained seal, Bubbles, are performing. Outside the theater, Freddy meets Undine's fiancé, George Fitzgerald, and becomes involved in George's effort to hide Undine's seal from a bill collector armed with an order of attachment because of an unpaid hotel bill. Complications arise when Freddy Wetherill's dying rich uncle, Cato Dodd, notifies him that he wants Hyla to nurse him. To insure he stays in his uncle's will, Freddy substitutes Undine for Hyla and takes George along to act as his "valet." Naturally, Bubbles comes along, too. This movie is presumed to be lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-10
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The Kitchen Lady
Overview: Louise is sentimentally inclined, but her passion is unrequited. She loves the landlady's long, handsome son Slim best, and next to him Glen the lion tamer. Both these gentlemen, sadly enough, love Alice, the pretty star boarder. But things change when it is rumored that Louise is to be an heiress, Both the triflers declare their affection and things seem to be looking up for Louise. This is too good to last, however, and before long she is sent back to the kitchen in a hurry--alone and unloved. But at last she does get the money, then has the satisfaction of spurning both her recreant lovers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-13
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Bullin' the Bullsheviki
Overview: As early as 1919, Russian Communists (then known as Bolsheviks) were convenient movie villains. This heavy-handed comedy uses the Russian revolution as an excuse for a series of slapstick set pieces.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-01
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Lost: A Cook
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-12
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The Spider and the Rose
Overview: In Southern California during the Mexican regime, Don Marcello, son of the territorial governor, returns home to find that his father's secretary, Mendozza, has seized power. The coup arouses the anger of the revolutionary faction, which forms an alliance with Don Marcello.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-15
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So This Is Paris Green
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-16
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The Gay Old Bird
Overview: A maid is forced to take the place of the lady of the house when she is temporarily incapacitated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-26
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