Hallam Cooley
Also Known As: Hal Cooley, Hallam Burr
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hallam Cooley (February 8, 1895 – March 20, 1971) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 106 films between 1913 and 1936. He was born in Brooklyn, and died in Tiburon, California.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 07, 1895
Age: 130 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 20, 1971
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The Long Arm of Mannister
Overview: Walking aimlessly in the desert, crazed by thirst and hunger, Lucy Mannister and Gaston Sinclair are overtaken by her husband George, who has pursued them around the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-15
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The Monster
Overview: A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-16
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The Brass Bullet
Overview: Rosalind Joy is a constantly imperiled heiress to a fortune in gold. An 18 part adventure serial
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-10
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Playing with Fire
Overview: Enid Gregory, a pianist at the Melody Shop, a music store on Broadway, is content with her snappy, routine existence until Janet Fenwick, a society girl whose father committed suicide under a cloud of financial disgrace, comes to Enid's boardinghouse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-19
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No Place to Go
Overview: Starry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her like it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-30
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A Dog Catcher's Love
Overview: The dog catcher of the title is arrow-narrow Slim , and his "love" is pert Peggy. Alas, his rival is handsome bow-wow fancier E.R. Ketchum, whose luck with women borders on the fantastic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-24
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Stop Flirting
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-30
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Seven Days
Overview: Jim Wilson is separated from his wife Bella, so when his maiden Aunt Selina -- who thoroughly disapproves of divorce -- comes to visit, Wilson is compelled to locate a temporary wife. His friend, Kit Eclair, is happy to fill in, but during a party, his home is quarantined for smallpox. To complicate matters, a burglar is hiding from a cop in Wilson's home, and wacky Anne Brown is busy trying to hold a seance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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An Old Fashioned Boy
Overview: David Warrington is an old-fashioned boy, not very familiar with modern girls. When the girl of his dreams lets her kiss him, he thinks that seals their betrothal. But when he finds out that she has other ideas, David tries a trickier method of winning her for his bride.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-31
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A Light Woman
Overview: Young Doris Kane suspects that her fiance, Paul Evans, doesn't love her anymore. She finds out that he is now infatuated with a "vamp", Jeanne DuPre. Paul's father is appalled at his son's behavior, and devises a plan to break up the romance between his son and the vamp by making her fall for him and exposing her perfidy to his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-20
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One of the Finest
Overview: Traffic cop Larry Hayes takes care of four-year-old Mary Jane, the daughter of Gus Andrews, a criminal sent to prison because of Larry, and Nellie, a shop girl who visits often.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-01
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Beauty's Worth
Overview: Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir faire. When Henry and his friends try to embarrass her at a posh resort, Prudence turns the tables on them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-14
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Back Pay
Overview: Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-01
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Sporting Blood
Overview: A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-08
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The Deciding Kiss
Overview: The first part is pathetic and shows Eleanor Hamlin (Edith Roberts) severing home ties with her grandparents to be "adopted" by a party of idle rich on the cooperative plan. The parties adopting her are single, and one of them, Beulah Page (Winifred Greenwood), has her own ideas on the subject of raising the young - these ideas absolutely precluding the main requisite, love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-22
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Paris Bound
Overview: Jim Hutton and Mary Archer are two liberals who are content to remain faithful to each other in spirit only. They are married with all the ritual of a church wedding, the bride believing that each should be allowed perfect freedom in personal contacts. Complications arise when these ideals are put into practice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-03
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Are You a Failure?
Overview: Coddled by his maiden aunts and apparently unable to make decisions, Oliver Wendell Blaine signs up for a mail-order course in "Success." Oliver follows the instructions step by step, builds his self-confidence, and proves himself a hero when a log jam threatens the town. He is made river boss and marries Phyllis Thorpe, daughter of the owner of the lumber-mill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-15
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Frisco Jenny
Overview: Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the custody of a wealthy married couple. Years later, thanks to the protection of a corrupt politician, she becomes the main "madame" of San Francisco, in addition to participating in various illegal activities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-14
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The Little Wildcat
Overview: A pair of elderly Civil War veterans, Judge Holt and his friend Joel Ketchum, spent most of their time reminiscing about their wartime experiences. In the meantime, Holt's granddaughter falls in love with a devil-may-care aviator. The only problem is that Holt hates aviators and will do whatever he can to break up the romance.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-08
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Pinto
Overview: When Pinto reaches her eighteenth birthday, the five wealthy Arizonans who adopted her upon the death of her parents decide that ranch life will never make a lady of her. Their old friend Pop Audry, formerly of Arizona and now a member of New York society, agrees to provide Pinto with the necessary education. Accordingly, Pinto and her cowboy nursemaid Looey are dispatched to New York where they lose Audry's address. ...
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-10
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So Long Letty
Overview: Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty, which causes him to leave the hotel. When he finds Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife and likes her and the way she keeps a clean house. To get a big check from Uncle Claude and to see how life is with the other, the two couples switch spouses for a week.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-16
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Upstairs
Overview: While working as a dishwasher in a fashionable New York hotel, Elsie MacFarland often sneaks upstairs to enviously peek at the people dancing to jazz music. Seeing the attractive Elsie dressed in a boy's uniform, wealthy Lemuel Stallings wagers a friend that he can get Elsie onto the dance floor....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-03
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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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Just Show Folks
Overview: A day in the life of a family of circus performers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-02
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Ladies Must Dress
Overview: Joe and Eve are engaged, but Joe cannot help contrasting the drabness of her attire with the dressy clothes of their friends. Eve overhears him talking of this and breaks with him. Then, with the help of her friend, Mazie, she metamorphoses into a ravishing beauty. Joe is remorseful, but the situation is made more complex when he suspects Eve of questionable relations with her boss.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-20
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Oh, Sailor, Behave!
Overview: Based on the farcical stage play written by Pulitzer Prize-winning* writer Elmer Rice, Oh, Sailor Behave! is a movie Musical with a split personality. Nanette Dodge (Irene Delroy) falls for newspaper reporter Charlie Carroll (Charles King) who is on assignment in Venice to land an interview with Romanian General Skulany (Noah Beery). Our couple is split apart by a pair of storylines - Nanette tries to woo a Russian prince (Lowell Sherman) who is blackmailing her sister, while Charlie, following a lead to the general, finds himself Romantically involved with Kunegundi (Vivien Oakland), "the general's favorite."
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-15
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The Kingdom Within
Overview: Silent film directed by Victor Schertzinger
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-24
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Tonight at Twelve
Overview: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tonight at Twelve is a 1929 American drama film directed by Harry A. Pollard and written by Matt Taylor, Harry A. Pollard and Owen Davis. It is based on the 1928 play Tonight at 12 by Owen Davis. The film stars Madge Bellamy, Robert Ellis, Margaret Livingston, Vera Reynolds, Norman Trevor and Hallam Cooley. The film was released on September 29, 1929, by Universal Pictures.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-29
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Naughty But Nice
Overview: Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenice Summers (Colleen Moore) is catapulted head-first into High Society when her Uncle Seth (Burr McIntosh) strikes oil. Shipped off to a fancy boarding school, Berenice suffers at the hands of her snooty classmates, but the last straw comes when she's publicly humiliated by local wise-guy Paul Carroll (Donald Reed).
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-25
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Her Wild Oat
Overview: In this feature comedy, silent film star Colleen Moore plays a woman who owns a small lunch wagon and falls for a duke’s son, played by Larry Kent, who is pretending to be his own chauffeur. With her savings, she pursues him to a resort hotel, only to be mistaken for a duchess. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Národní filmový archív in 2007.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-25
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Black Waters
Overview: A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
Genres: Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-05
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Soup to Nuts
Overview: Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out; things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-28
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Fancy Baggage
Overview: In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-26
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Stolen Kisses
Overview: A crotchety old coot wants his son and daughter-in-law to have kids so he can have grandchildren, but so far they haven't done so. In a somewhat ham-handed attempt to bring them closer together so they'll be in the mood to give them the grandchildren he wants, he winds up bringing them to the point where they're considering divorcing. He decides to change his tactics in order to achieve his goal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-23
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What Men Want
Overview: A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-12
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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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Going Up
Overview: Going Up (1923)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-30
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What Do Men Want?
Overview: According to this Lois Weber production, men don't really seem to know what they want at all -- first Frank (J. Frank Glendon) wants to be an inventor. Then he wants to marry his childhood sweetheart, Hallie (the lovely Claire Windsor). Then he wants children. Then, when his inventions bring him financial success, he becomes restless, so he takes up with another woman. Eventually he figures out that the woman's reputation is less than squeaky clean, so he wants his wife back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-13
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The White Sin
Overview: Wealthy playboy Grant Van Gore means to have his way with his beautiful maid, the innocent Hattie Lou. He swears his love to the naive girl, and in an act so heinous as to defy belief, has the captain of his yacht perform a fake marriage ceremony. He ruins poor Hattie Lou, and then abandons her ashore the very next morning. A year later, the destitute girl and her starving baby are wandering the streets. When she sees a newspaper headline announcing that Grant has drowned at sea, Hattie Lou hatches a desperate plan for survival. She will present herself to the wealthy Van Gore's, who cannot fail to provide for their late son's widow and child!
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-24
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Forever After
Overview: A wounded captain recalls his youth, his time at college, and the woman he fell in love with.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-24
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Sporting Youth
Overview: Jimmy Wood, a chauffeur, is mistaken for famous racing driver Splinters Wood. Because he is deeply in debt, he enters a race on the advice of Betty Rockford, daughter of a wealthy automobile manufacturer.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-04
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The Foolish Age
Overview: After graduating from college, rich girl Margery Carr decides to do some good in the world. Much to the chagrin of her father, she decides to open an office to help derelicts. For her secretary, she picks an ex-gangster named Bubbs out of the throng.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-16
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Free to Love
Overview: An ex-reformatory girl seeks a new life with the help of a fatherly judge and an earnest young minister. Trouble ensues when a criminal gang catch up with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-19
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Her Night of Nights
Overview: Molly, a glamorous clothing model in New York, though yearning for a life of luxury, spurns the advances of her boss's son in favor of a shipping clerk, late of the backwoods.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-26
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One Week of Love
Overview: Spoiled society girl Beth Wynn agrees to stake her marriage to Francis Fraser on the outcome of an airplane race with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-01
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Trumpet Island
Overview: Richard moves to a remote island to escape from the memory of Eve. Who had been forced to marry another man. But fate still has more in store.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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Holiday
Overview: A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-03
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Wedding Rings
Overview: Two sisters battle for the love of a man.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-29
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Happy Though Married
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-23
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Rose o' the Sea
Overview: Tells of a waif from the sea, who on the death of her guardian and protector, is forced to make her own way in New York. Her lack of guile and sophistication wins her a place and esteem. Entering a romance which involves both father and son, the girl is the pivot around which revolve petty jealousies, aristocratic conventions and gambling affrays. She eventually casts aside the worthless son and marries the father.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-01
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Up and at 'Em
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-06
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The Girl Dodger
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-09
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