Kate Lester
Also Known As: Sarah Cody
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kate Lester (12 June 1857 – 12 October 1924) born Sarah Cody was an English theatrical and silent film actress born in Shouldham Thorpe, Norfolk, England. Her family, the Suydams of New York, were staying in England at the time of her birth. Description above from the Wikipedia article Patsy Kate Lester, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 11, 1857
Deathday: October 12, 1924
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Little Women
Overview: Jo March and her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy live in a happy family in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo yearns to be a writer, and through the course of the years, finds much within her own family. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-30
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The Volunteer
Overview: Madge Evans, World Film Corp. juvenile star, is sent to her Quaker grandparents, Timothy and Tabitha Mendenhall, when her father and mother go to serve in World War I. After bidding farewell to the World stars, Madge goes to her grandparent's home where she experiences stern discipline.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-24
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The Cross Bearer
Overview: Cardinal Mercier protects the altar of his church from desecration when German forces invade the Belgian city of Louvain during World War I. Although the soldiers commit widespread atrocities, the cardinal does his best to protect the townspeople.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-01
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The Marriage Market
Overview: The story of a wealthy young flapper, Theodora Bland (Pauline Garon), and the amorous adventures and misadventures she has after being expelled from a fashionable and costly east-coast boarding school.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-25
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Destiny's Toy
Overview: Young Nan was rescued from a shipwreck by a man who becomes her foster father. Years later, when he dies, she moves to a nearby city and unknowingly gets involved with a criminal gang. When the gang attempts and fails to rob wealthy Thomas Carter's home, Nan finally discovers what they are and tells the police all she knows, resulting in the imprisonment of Bad Riley, the gang's leader. Grateful, the Carter family takes Nan into their home, to replace a young daughter who had drowned years before, and the young son, Rev. Robert Carter, begins a romance with her. However, the jailed Riley soon escapes and comes after Nan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-15
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The Crimson Gardenia
Overview: Wastrel New York millionaire Roland Van Dam travels to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, looking for adventure and romance. Because the costume he is wearing includes a red gardenia, he is mistaken for escaped prisoner Emile Le Duc by a woman (who turns out to be a long-lost cousin) who was to meet Le Duc, who was to be wearing a red gardenia. It turns out that Le Duc is the head of a vicious gang of counterfeiters, and Roland winds up getting in more adventures than he had hoped for.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-14
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The Beautiful Sinner
Overview: To help secret serviceman Bill Parsons in pursuit of the thieving Benson gang wealthy criminologist Henry Avery sends his assistant Blinky to cover the waterfront while he attends a reception at the home of Mrs. Cornelius Westervelt. At the soiree he meets gang member Alice Carter while also discover the gang’s cache hidden there. Captured Parsons is saved by Blinky, and the pair foil the gang’s attempt to rob Mrs. Westervelt and her guests.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-01
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The Glorious Fool
Overview: Billy Grant, a wealthy young playboy, drunkenly crashes his car and appears near death. Afraid that his greedy and unpleasant relatives will get his estate, he convinces his nurse, Jane Brown, to marry him. When Billy regains his health, Jane finds herself in a situation she never imagined nor intended.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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The Wife of the Centaur
Overview: Jeffrey Dwyer is a writer and a poet who wrestles with the conflicts between his idealism and his passion. The two sides of his nature are personified in the women he loves: the sweetly innocent Joan Converse, and the sexy, charismatic Inez Martin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-01
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The Goldfish
Overview: A newly married husband and wife make an agreement that should either of them want to terminate their relationship then a bowl with goldfish would be presented to the other signalling the end of their marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-30
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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 Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Genres: Romance Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-06
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Bonds of Love
Overview: A young woman is hired as a governess for the son of a man grieving the loss of his wife. The governess's presence is unwelcome to the rest of the family, especially after the governess develops a romantic attachment to her employer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-02
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A Tailor-Made Man
Overview: A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-05
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The Woman in Room 13
Overview: Laura Bruce is married to John Bruce, police commissioner. She discovers her husband is enjoying a drunken revel with another woman, and vows she will obtain a divorce. After doing so she weds Paul Ramsey. His employer, Dick Turner, a libertine, offers his a responsible position in the west, and she faces a long separation. Ramsey later learns that Turner is interested in his wife and engages a man to protect her, who happens to be her former husband.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-01
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The Fortunes of Fifi
Overview: Fifi is an actress in Napoleon-era France. She wins a lottery and leaves Cartouche, the man she loves to go live with a rich family. The conniving Louis Bourcet tries to woo her because he wants her money. But Fifi wants nothing to do with him, and ultimately she gives up her money and returns to Cartouche. But Cartouche, believing he is too old, refuses to marry her until Napoleon himself orders him to do it.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-26
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Mine to Keep
Overview: Former playboy Victor Olney becomes jealous of his wife's love soon after he and Constance are married. He is especially hostile toward Clint Mowbray, a former suitor. When Mowbray implies that there was an affair between Olney and a dancer who was injured at Olney's bachelor party, Constance leaves her husband to nurse the girl back to health. Olney's mother-in-law convinces him that Constance was not unfaithful. They are reconciled when Olney goes to Constance and it is ascertained that there was nothing between him and the dancer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-20
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The Hole in the Wall
Overview: When spiritualist Madame Mysteria is killed in a train wreck, her three associates decide to replace her instead of declaring her dead. One of them, the Fox, calls on Jean Oliver, who he knew from prison. Jean was serving time after being framed by her former employer, Mrs. Ramsey, for a theft just to keep her and her son, Donald Ramsey, from marrying. Jean agrees to the crooks' scheme providing that they help her kidnap the baby that belongs to Donald and the woman that his mother had him marry.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-12
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Stop Thief
Overview: When Jack Dougan and Snatcher Nell, partners in crime as well as love, decide to purloin the gifts at the wedding of Madge Carr to James Cluney, Nell poses as a maid to gain entrance to the household. Soon after, articles begin to disappear and Madge's father, a kleptomaniac, begins to feel guilty, while the groom almost suspects himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-01
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The Gay Lord Quex
Overview: Having followed the road of romance through many countries, Lord Quex finally falls in love with Muriel Eden. After resisting Lord Quex because of his reputation, Muriel finally capitulates to his charms and agrees to marry him. In her heart, however, Muriel still treasures an affection for Caption Bastling, a fortune hunting womanizer, and when Muriel is told of Lord Quex's continuing contact with the Duchess of Dowager, a situation brought about through the scheming of the Duchess, Muriel turns to Bastling and agrees to meet him at her friend Sophie Fullgarney's manicurist shop.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-21
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The Meddler
Overview: Richard Gilmore, a staid Wall Street broker, is jilted by Dot Parkhurst when he fails to provide her with the romance and adventure that she wants out of life. Richard then goes west in an effort to prove himself a man and becomes a highwayman known as "The Meddler," robbing people only to return to them all that he stole, keeping only a valueless memento for himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-28
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Black Oxen
Overview: A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the century. At first he thinks it's just a coincidence, as the beautiful young woman he's romancing is much younger than the woman who vanished, who would be in her late 50s or early 60s by now. Soon, however, he begins to believe that maybe it's not such a coincidence after all.
Genres: Drama Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-29
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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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The Cup of Fury
Overview: Sir Joseph and Lady Webbing are the foster parents of Marie-Louise. The couple are also in league with Verrinder, a German spy. When their work against England is discovered, they commit suicide. Marie-Louise, who has been an unwitting part of their schemes, is allowed to go to the U.S. if she promises to keep everything a secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Doing Their Bit
Overview: Little Kate and Janie O'Dowd are sent to their wealthy American uncle, Michael O'Dowd, after their Irish father loses his life on a World War I battlefield. Having been locked accidentally into O'Dowd's munitions plant one evening, the children catch sight of their intoxicated cousin Miles O'Dowd admitting two men into the factory. The girls recognize the two as spies they had seen on the boat to America sending signals to a German submarine. After the spies knock Miles cold, the children trap them in a die-stamping machine until help arrives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-04
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God's Man
Overview: Arnold L'Hommedieu and his friends Archie Hartogensis and Hugo Waldemar go to New York to find work after being unfairly expelled from college. Arnold starts off as helpful and idealistic, but after being beaten down by life, he decides he is only after money and becomes an opium smuggler. His pals have fared no better: Archie becomes a drug addict and is in debt thanks to his spendthrift fiancee, while Hugo has lost his money after investing in a show that flopped. The two go to Arnold for financial aid. They await a shipment of opium, but the police are onto them and raid the hideout; only Arnold evades the cops.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-01
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Lord and Lady Algy
Overview: Lord and Lady Algy separate amicably after he breaks his promise not to gamble again on the horses. When the wife of soap magnate Brabazon Tudway, is courted by Algy's philandering elder brother, Algy tries to help his brother escape Tudway's wrath by hiding Mrs. Tudway in his apartments. Tudway discovers her there ....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-01
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The Paliser Case
Overview: A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from ruin. When her marriage is disrupted by a murder, three different people confess to it.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-15
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Officer 666
Overview: Upon learning that notorious art thief Alf Wilson plans to steal his valuable paintings, idle millionaire Travers Gladwyn decides to amuse himself by guarding his own home. After bribing Policeman Phelan, Officer 666, with a $500 bill, Travers dons the officer's uniform and identity. When Wilson appears at his mansion, Travers questions him and discovers that Wilson is posing as Travers, claiming that he is packing up his paintings for safe keeping. ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-30
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Don't Neglect Your Wife
Overview: The wife of a prominent San Francisco doctor, feeling neglected by her husband, finds herself attracted to a young newspaper reporter. ...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-31
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Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
Overview: Raffles is an English gentleman with a secret life—he is the notorious jewel thief known as "The Amateur Cracksman." While sailing from India to England accompanied by his friend, Bunny Manners, it is rumored that the infamous cracksman is aboard ship. Raffles warns a lady passenger to keep an eye on her necklace, which is stolen soon afterward. Although a search reveals no evidence, the necklace is returned upon reaching London.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-23
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Oh Mary Be Careful
Overview: "Mary Meacham, the most popular girl in college, goes to live with her maiden aunt, Miss Myra. Auntie is a man-hater who has various theories for testing the desirable qualities of the male sex. Mary sees a dreary man-less time before her and sends an S. O. S. to various sisters and their brothers to visit her while Auntie is away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-01
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Remembrance
Overview: Although he graduated from that time-worn university, the college of hard knocks, the tireless efforts of John P. Grout have paid off. He owns a number of department stores and his wife and children are well provided for. However, his family is completely ungrateful and takes him -- and his money -- for granted. Grout's attempts to keep them all happy are driving him to bankruptcy and he eventually becomes seriously ill. Eventually his wife and kids come to realize how badly they've treated Pops.....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-01
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The Stronger Vow
Overview: During the Easter Carnival, Dolores de Cordova flirts with Juan Estudillo, not knowing that he is a member of the family with whom her ancestors have long feuded. Dolores' cousin, Pedro Toral, jealous of her attentions to Juan, kills her brother that night and after leaving Juan's handkerchief by the body, makes Dolores swear to avenge the death with her own hands....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-27
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Betsy Ross
Overview: Revolutionary War heroine Betsy Ross finds herself in competition with her sister for the affections of a British soldier.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-16
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Gimme
Overview: A young woman borrows money from her boss for her wedding dress. After the marriage he asks to be repaid, and she--not liking to ask her husband for money--writes a check on her husband's account. When he discovers that his wife has written a check to another man and not told him, complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-14
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The Unbeliever
Overview: A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1918-02-15
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Earthbound
Overview: When Jim Rittenshaw learns that his friend Richard Desborough is having an affair with Jim's wife Daisy, Jim kills Richard. The murdered man's ghost then takes up residence and attempts to positively influence the lives of those he had wronged.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-10
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The Social Secretary
Overview: An attractive young girl struggles to hold a job as she deals with unwanted romantic advances from her boss.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-16
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The Beautiful Liar
Overview: Directed by Wallace Worsley.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-26
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The Eternal Flame
Overview: A 1922 film directed by Frank Lloyd.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-17
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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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To-Day
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-01
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A Man And His Money
Overview: Inheriting a fortune allows Harry Lathrop to indulge in extravagant spending and wild wine parties with chorus girls, decides to change his ways after his childhood sweetheart, Betty Dalrymple, gives back her engagement ring because he arrives drunk for dinner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-16
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Her Accidental Husband
Overview: After attempting to succeed in his father-in-law’s fishing business, Gordon Gray persuades his wife, Rena, to return to his home and wealthy family. Once they arrive, she learns from Gordon's aunt, Mrs. Gray, how to become a lady.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-16
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The Fourteenth Lover
Overview: Vi Marchmont (Viola Dana) is a spoiled rich girl who has thirteen lovers. Her Aunt Letitia (Kate Lester) wants her to halt her flirtatious ways and has picked Clyde Van Ness (Theodore Von Eltz) as the right one out of the bunch -- not that Vi agrees. Aunt Letitia sends her off to the country, along with Van Ness and the gardener, Richard Hardy (Jack Mulhall). Vi winds up falling for the gardener, much to her aunt's horror, and in spite of the class differences, he becomes her fourteenth lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-09
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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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Made in Heaven
Overview: William Lowry rescues Claudia Royce from a burning building, and upon hearing that her parents are trying to force her to accept millionaire Leland, whom she does not love, he proposes a marriage of convenience to himself. She accepts, and Bill arranges a fake ceremony; but when she falls in love with Davidge, Bill refuses her a "divorce." Later, Bill gets rich in the manufacture of a patented fireman's pole, and when he buys a house for Claudia she realizes her love for him and they are legally married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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The Satin Girl
Overview: The story revolves around a young woman named Lenore Vance (Mabel Forrest), who loses her memory after witnessing the death of her father Silas Gregg (William H Turner). She commits a series of robberies due to being brainwashed by her elderly, reclusive, chemist uncle, Fargo (Marc Mac Dermott). She later becomes the person of interest in the murder, being labelled by the authorities as "The Satin Girl". Dr. Richard Taunton (Norman Kerry) and becomes infatuated with her. After discovering that Lenore has taken pieces of jewelry from him, he uses a piece of evidence left behind to investigate the crimes himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-30
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Dangerous Curve Ahead
Overview: Engaged to Harley Jones, fickle Phoebe Mabee flirts with Anson Newton. She and Harley, as a result, break their engagement, but within six months they are reconciled and married. Phoebe becomes a mother, and when Harley is sent abroad by his business firm she and her two children go to a summer resort where she renews her romance with Newton.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-02
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Through the Wrong Door
Overview: A young woman goes to visit friends but mistakenly rings at the wrong address. She is greeted and taken in out of the storm by a handsome young man to whom she is immediately attracted. What she does not know, however, is that this young man has been fleeced by her father and has sworn vengeance against him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-20
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The Rendezvous
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-11
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The Hand Invisible
Overview: Steel magnate Rodney Graham divorces his wife, Alice, after she suffers an injury that renders her unable to give him an heir. He pursues debutante Katherine Dale, whose fiancé, Dick Allen, died on the eve of their wedding. With the help of Katherine's ambitious mother, Rodney persuades her to marry him. Katherine dies after giving birth to Rodney, Jr., and the elder Graham's stepbrother, Arthur Haynes, angrily predicts the magnate's sad demise. Rodney devotes himself to raising his son, who later falls in love with Arthur's' daughter, Ruth. Although he objects to the match, Rodney is persuaded by Alice to allow it. Upon discovering that his son was actually Dick Allen's child, Rodney plans to disinherit the boy, but is paralyzed by a stroke before he can change his will. He attends the wedding in a wheelchair and dies soon after.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-17
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Love Net
Overview: Little Patty Barnes lives with her grandfather, Captain Amos Barnes, in a rickety shack on the New England coast. The wealthy Mrs. Gaythorne, who wishes to adopt Patty, instructs James Henley to secure the mortgage on the shack, and when Amos, now homeless and penniless, departs for the poor farm, Patty is forced to live with the cruel old woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-23
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The Golden Wall
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Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-15
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His Royal Highness
Overview: Football star Jack Christie accompanies his college roommate Victor Borden to France, where the latter becomes attached to gangster's daughter Lisette. He is injured trying to save her from a forced marriage, and while he is confined in a hospital, he reveals to Jack that he is actually Prince of Wallarya, a small country in the Balkans. Because Prince Ferdinand, who wishes to seize the throne, has convinced the King of Terresta to declare war on Wallarya, Jack agrees to take Victor's place temporarily at the head of the army. Posing as the prince, Jack foils Ferdinand's attempts to assassinate him and then prevents war by agreeing to marry the king of Terresta's daughter Diana. Victor wires Jack that he plans to settle permanently in America with Lisette, leaving the football hero to rule Wallarya with his bride.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-25
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The Good for Nothing
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-10
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Darkest Russia
Overview: Ilda Barosky, a Jewess whose father was killed by Russian soldiers, is a violin student in love with Alexis Nazimoff, son of the Russian aristocracy. Alexis' father arranges a marriage of convenience between Alexis and Olga Karischeff, the daughter of the ambitious minister of police and attempts to shame Ilda at the betrothal celebration. Defiant, Ilda is whipped before the entire assembly. Alexis rushes in to rescue her and terminates his engagement to Olga. In retaliation, Karischeff sentences both Ilda and Alexis to ten years in Siberia as his last official act. The couple attempt to escape their Siberian captivity, are caught and face a firing squad until Count Nazimoff, who has assumed Karischeff's position as minister of police, arrives with a pardon. The couple return home, and the penitent count finally grants them his blessings.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-23
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The Divorce Game
Overview: Young marrieds Paul, the Viscount De Sallure, and his bride Florence are in financial straits. Florence’s inheritance is available to her only if she separates from her husband so the pair concoct a scheme to give that appearance. Problems emerage when Paul seems to be taken the ploy to heart with Mlle. Fifi but all turns out well in the end.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-25
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Rose o' the Sea
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Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-01
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Broken Ties
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-18
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