Florence Auer
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Albany, New York, USA
Birthday: March 03, 1880
Deathday: May 14, 1962
Adult: No
Gender: Female
Popularity:
Known For:
The Bard of Broadway
Overview: Newspaper columnist helps finishing school students get out of trouble after the night club in which they go to see him is raided.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-01
Popularity:
Blonde Dynamite
Overview: While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into an escort service, and soon find a group of beautiful girls as their first clients.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-12
Popularity:
Silver Lode
Overview: Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000. Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-23
Popularity:
That Forsyte Woman
Overview: Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosinny. The interactions between the Forsytes and the people and society around them is the truss for this love story set in the rigid and strict times of the Victorian age.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-03
Popularity:
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Overview: A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-17
Popularity:
Seeing Things
Overview: The heir to a fortune will only receive his inheritance if he spends the night in a supposedly haunted house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-25
Popularity:
Pardon My Nightshirt
Overview: Professor Clyde is on the lookout for a nightshirt bandit prowling the college campus.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-22
Popularity:
The Bishop's Wife
Overview: An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-25
Popularity:
Richard III
Overview: Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-26
Popularity:
Madame Bovary
Overview: A frivolous country girl married to a naïve small-town doctor goes down the path of destruction when she grows tired of her limited social status.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-25
Popularity:
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Overview: A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-11
Popularity:
Knock on Any Door
Overview: An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-22
Popularity:
The Fatal Hour
Overview: This one-reeler has been regarded as a classic example of a Griffith thriller. It engages with the Chinese White slave traffic from the perspective of a female detective, played by Marion Leonard, whose assignment is to expose and break the traffic ring. A fragment is widely available.
Genres: Crime Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-08-18
Popularity:
The Sculptor's Nightmare
Overview: At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him to sculpt a bust of the individual favorite. Instead, the sculptor spends their fees on a dinner with his model during which he becomes so inebriated that he is taken to jail. There he has a nightmare, wherein three busts are created and animated from clay (through stop-motion photography) in the likenesses of Democrat William Jennings Bryan and Republicans Charles W. Fairbanks and William Howard Taft. Finally an animated bust of Roosevelt appears.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-05-06
Popularity:
Hey, Pop!
Overview: Roscoe Arbuckle loses his job to protect a young boy from the orphanage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-12
Popularity:
The Chase
Overview: Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-16
Popularity:
Slappily Married
Overview: Joe's wife, who thinks he's been carrying on with another woman, moves out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-07
Popularity:
Over the Hills to the Poor House
Overview: The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property, decides to divide it up among her children. To her son Charles, a wild but kind young fellow, she leaves a small amount, feeling that he will soon run through it. The good-hearted boy is perfectly satisfied, believing in the wisdom of his mother's actions. He assumes she will find a home with one of his siblings, who are married and settled. The old woman moves in with her married son, but is driven out by his wife over an argument about her young granddaughter. She is forced to move into a squalid apartment in a cheap tenement house, but is evicted for failing to pay her rent. Mack Sennett appears as a bartender in this film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-06-26
Popularity:
The Kentuckian
Overview: Mack Sennett appears in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-07-07
Popularity:
The Beautiful City
Overview: For their mother's sake, a man takes the blame for a robbery committed by his brother and his brother's gangster boss. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-25
Popularity:
No More West
Overview: Bert Lahr is a big city boy hung up on tales of the Old West. When his playing cowboys and Indians causes a ruckus, he's brought before a judge who prescribes him rest and relaxation...out West.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-29
Popularity:
Wife Wanted
Overview: Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole, unknowingly, is used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond, who "commits suicide." Reporter William Tyler thinks otherwise.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-02
Popularity:
Bride for Sale
Overview: Nora Shelley is a tax expert for the accounting company which is led by Paul Martin. She thinks she can find a suitable husband by inspecting their clients' tax documents. Martin finds out and tries to dissuade her from this approach, later enlisting the help of his friend Steve Adams, who tries to woo Shelley.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-12
Popularity:
Double Talk
Overview: Orphanage manager Dr. Bergen tries to get a rich woman to adopt Charlie McCarthy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-26
Popularity:
The Heart of a Siren
Overview: This silent drama's story is based on the Broadway play Hail and Farewell by William Hurlbut.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-15
Popularity:
Adventure
Overview: A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-28
Popularity:
Love Nest
Overview: Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further upsetting Connie but pleasing Jim's friend Ed. Tenant Charley, who marries tenant Eadie, loans money to Jim to help him keep the building, money which this Casanova obtains from rich widows.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-10
Popularity:
That Royle Girl
Overview: Joan Royle, beautiful but naive model who came from the slums, falls for Fred Ketlar, the leader of a dance band. When Fred's estranged wife Adele is murdered, Fred is arrested and convicted of the crime. Joan believes that the real murderer is Baretta, a gangster who was keeping Adele as his mistress
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-07
Popularity:
Hold That Baby!
Overview: While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, who is the heir to a fortune, has been abandoned by his mother so that her two evil aunts can't cheat her and the baby out of the inheritance. The boys determine to help the woman claim her baby's rightful inheritance from her aunts, who have hired gangsters to find and eliminate the girl, the baby and anyone who helps them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-06
Popularity:
Fair Lady
Overview: Countess Margherita is a Sicilian girl who is about to be married, but Caesar Maruffi, the head of a criminal syndicate, wants her for himself. He arranges to have the bridegroom assassinated, and Norvin Blake, a young American (Robert Elliott), almost loses his life in his attempt to save him.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-19
Popularity:
Eradicating Aunty
Overview: A young couple must endure a tedious visit from their aunt until their friend offers to find a way to make her leave.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-31
Popularity:
At the Crossroads of Life
Overview: At the Crossroads of Life is a typically Victorian-style melodrama in which a girl's wishes to be an actress are condemned by her stern father, a man of the cloth who has no time for those in the acting profession.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-07-02
Popularity:
The Tavern Keeper’s Daughter
Overview: In the lonely wilds of Southern California there stands a rural tavern, kept by an old trapper, who had been widowed years ago; his wife leaving him a most precious legacy in the being of a pretty daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-07-24
Popularity:
The Fight for Freedom
Overview: In a saloon in a Mexican border town, a group of cowboys, including a Mexican named Pedro, play poker. One man is discovered cheating, and is shot dead by Pedro, who is wounded as he attempts to escape. Pedro is followed home by the local sheriff, who proves the next victim of Pedro's quick temper and pistol. Pedro's wife, Juanita, is thrown into jail, but he manages to break her out. They head for the border, unaware that a posse is waiting for them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-07-17
Popularity:
Nightmare Alley
Overview: Roustabout Stanton Carlisle joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband, Pete.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-09
Popularity:
Black Angel
Overview: A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-02
Popularity: