Tom Ricketts

Tom Ricketts

Born: January 15, 1853
Died: January 19, 1939
in London, England, UK
Tom Ricketts (January 15, 1853 – January 19, 1939) was an English stage, later a Hollywood screen, actor. He also directed numerous early Hollywood Silent films, and was the writer of several.

Movies for Tom Ricketts...

The Big Parade of Comedy
Title: The Big Parade of Comedy
Character: Butler in 'After the Thin Man' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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Son of Frankenstein
Title: Son of Frankenstein
Character: Burgher
Released: January 13, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.
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The Cowboy and the Lady
Title: The Cowboy and the Lady
Character: Old Man Sitting next to Mary at the Banquet Table (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
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Gateway
Title: Gateway
Character: Old Man
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
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The Young in Heart
Title: The Young in Heart
Character: Andrew
Released: July 6, 1938
Type: Movie
A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.
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Young Fugitives
Title: Young Fugitives
Character: Tom Riggins
Released: June 30, 1938
Type: Movie
A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000.
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Four Men and a Prayer
Title: Four Men and a Prayer
Character: Stationmaster (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1938
Type: Movie
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
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Breakfast for Two
Title: Breakfast for Two
Character: Stockholder - Receivership Hearing Member
Released: October 22, 1937
Type: Movie
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.
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Dead End
Title: Dead End
Character: Old Man (Uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
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The Lady Escapes
Title: The Lady Escapes
Character: Uncle George
Released: July 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.
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Carnival in Paris
Title: Carnival in Paris
Character: Egyptologist (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1937
Type: Movie
In this short, the janitor of a Paris museum's Egyptology department agrees to help a girl hide from the police.
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A Star Is Born
Title: A Star Is Born
Character: Ray (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
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History Is Made at Night
Title: History Is Made at Night
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
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Maid of Salem
Title: Maid of Salem
Character: Giles Cory (Uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
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After the Thin Man
Title: After the Thin Man
Character: Henry the Butler (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
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Daniel Boone
Title: Daniel Boone
Character: Attorney General's Associate
Released: October 16, 1936
Type: Movie
In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.
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Sing, Baby, Sing
Title: Sing, Baby, Sing
Character: Old Man in Hospital
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
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To Mary - with Love
Title: To Mary - with Love
Character: Waiter
Released: August 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
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Trouble for Two
Title: Trouble for Two
Character: Sir Frederick (Uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called The Suicide Club, and so he seeks to become a member.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Released: May 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
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Human Cargo
Title: Human Cargo
Character: Reporter
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
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The Great Impersonation
Title: The Great Impersonation
Character: Villager (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1935
Type: Movie
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Pigeon Receiver
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Music Is Magic
Title: Music Is Magic
Character: Elderly Dancer in Music is Magic Number (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
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Hi, Gaucho!
Title: Hi, Gaucho!
Character: Don Salvador de Aragon
Released: October 10, 1935
Type: Movie
The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.
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Top Hat
Title: Top Hat
Character: Nervous Thackeray Club Waiter (uncredited)
Released: August 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
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Now or Never
Title: Now or Never
Character: Robert, the Butler
Released: July 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A visitor to a big city gets involved in intrigue when a look-alike jewel thief sets out to doublecross his gang.
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Cardinal Richelieu
Title: Cardinal Richelieu
Character: Agitator
Released: April 18, 1935
Type: Movie
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
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Forsaking All Others
Title: Forsaking All Others
Character: Wiff' Wiffens (Uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
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By Your Leave
Title: By Your Leave
Character: Old Man in Club
Released: November 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.
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The Curtain Falls
Title: The Curtain Falls
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
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One More River
Title: One More River
Character: Barrister (Uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1934
Type: Movie
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
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The Red Rider
Title: The Red Rider
Character: Judge
Released: July 16, 1934
Type: Movie
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.
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Manhattan Love Song
Title: Manhattan Love Song
Character: Rich Man
Released: April 29, 1934
Type: Movie
After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe their chauffeur and maid back wages they are unable to pay. They're forced to let their former employees live in their luxury apartment in lieu of paying the money they owe them.
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No Greater Glory
Title: No Greater Glory
Character: Janitor
Released: March 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
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Stolen Sweets
Title: Stolen Sweets
Character: Stoner, the Bennet Butler
Released: March 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a ship cruise and falls in love, much to the annoyance of her high-society, fortune-hunting fiance Barrington Thorne.
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I Am Suzanne!
Title: I Am Suzanne!
Character: Puppeteer
Released: December 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
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The Invisible Man
Title: The Invisible Man
Character: Old Farmer with Barn (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Working in Dr. Cranley's laboratory, scientist Jack Griffin was always given the latitude to conduct some of his own experiments. His sudden departure, however, has Cranley's daughter Flora worried about him. Griffin has taken a room at the nearby Lion's Head Inn, hoping to reverse an experiment he conducted on himself that made him invisible. But the experimental drug has also warped his mind, making him aggressive and dangerous. He's prepared to do whatever it takes to restore his appearance.
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Secret Sinners
Title: Secret Sinners
Character: Pop - the Stage Doorman
Released: October 19, 1933
Type: Movie
A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that he is married and going through a messy divorce.
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Stage Mother
Title: Stage Mother
Character: Fred's Father
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
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Berkeley Square
Title: Berkeley Square
Character: Town Crier (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
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Gordon of Ghost City
Title: Gordon of Ghost City
Character: Amos Gray
Released: August 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying to run her grandfather's gold mine and other outlaws who are trying to stop her.
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Mama Loves Papa
Title: Mama Loves Papa
Character: Mr. Pierrepont
Released: July 14, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
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Pleasure Cruise
Title: Pleasure Cruise
Character: The Man from Manchester (Uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.
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He Learned About Women
Title: He Learned About Women
Character: Augus
Released: March 2, 1933
Type: Movie
He Learned About Women is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan and written by Lloyd Corrigan, Ray Harris and Harlan Thompson. The film stars Stuart Erwin, Susan Fleming, Alison Skipworth, Gordon Westcott, Grant Mitchell and Sidney Toler. The film was released on November 4, 1932, by Paramount Pictures
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Forgotten
Title: Forgotten
Character: Mr. Johnson
Released: February 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws' object to his smelly pipe smoking. Finally the family tucks him 'out of sight and out of mind' into a nursing home, with very little 'honor thy father' thought given to it. However, unmarried daughter, Lena, who loves her father dearly, has a bright fiancée, who makes a lot of money off of a patent, and they make a home for him.
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Cavalcade
Title: Cavalcade
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.
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Laughter in Hell
Title: Laughter in Hell
Character: Judge
Released: January 12, 1933
Type: Movie
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
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If I Had a Million
Title: If I Had a Million
Character: Mrs. Walker's Dancing Partner at Idylwood (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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Women Won't Tell
Title: Women Won't Tell
Character: Williams
Released: November 16, 1932
Type: Movie
A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is actually the rightful heir.
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Thrill of Youth
Title: Thrill of Youth
Character: Grandpa Zachary Thayer
Released: August 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Chet Thayer returns to his family and the loving arms of his long suffering sweatheart Marcia. Not being the faithful type he soon falls under the spell of the town vamp Jill Fenwick.
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Merrily We Go to Hell
Title: Merrily We Go to Hell
Character: Wedding Spectator (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
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Vanity Fair
Title: Vanity Fair
Character: Sir Pitt's Butler Parker
Released: March 15, 1932
Type: Movie
An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
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The Expert
Title: The Expert
Character: Dietenhofer
Released: March 5, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
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Ambassador Bill
Title: Ambassador Bill
Character: Littleton
Released: November 13, 1931
Type: Movie
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.
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Side Show
Title: Side Show
Character: Tom Allison
Released: September 19, 1931
Type: Movie
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
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The Common Law
Title: The Common Law
Character: Elderly Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1931
Type: Movie
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?
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Big Business Girl
Title: Big Business Girl
Character: Old Man at Graduation Dance (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1931
Type: Movie
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.
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Man of the World
Title: Man of the World
Character: Mr. Bradkin
Released: March 24, 1931
Type: Movie
A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.
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East Lynne
Title: East Lynne
Character: Rev. Hartley
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite being nearly blinded as the result of an explosion, she returns home to see her son again.
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Sea Legs
Title: Sea Legs
Character: Commander
Released: December 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a replacement for a wealthy slacker who must serve his country to receive a $2 million inheritance, a scheme concocted by attorney Gabriel Grabowski. All his shipmates, except Hyacinth Nitouche, assume that he is indeed the wastrel he purports to be. Doyle falls in love with Adrienne, the most beautiful of the captain's daughters, and wins her affections by treating his comrades in her teashop. Admiral O'Brien, grandfather of the man Doyle is impersonating, comes to visit, and mistaking him for a civilian, Doyle throws him overboard and to everybody's surprise is complimented on his vigilance. But his real identity is exposed by some American sailors, and he is suspected of killing young O'Brien; he is cleared of suspicion, however, and is reinstated by the admiral, thereby gaining Adrienne's love.
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The Life of the Party
Title: The Life of the Party
Character: Elderly Fashion Show Spectator
Released: October 25, 1930
Type: Movie
Two gold diggers try a French dressmaker, two Mr. Smiths and Havana.
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Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Title: Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Character: King's Aide
Released: October 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position as she saunters through the woods, and attracted by a pool of water, she disrobes and plunges in. Cosse de Brissac, a handsome private in the King's Guards, comes to her rescue and they become sweethearts. Meanwhile, Jean Du Barry, a shrewd roué, takes note of her at the millinery shop and tricks her into staying at La Gourda's, where she soon becomes a favorite among the men.
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Sweet Kitty Bellairs
Title: Sweet Kitty Bellairs
Character: Rheumatic Old Man
Released: September 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Kitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts and romantic conquests as she visits a resort with her sister.
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Prince of Diamonds
Title: Prince of Diamonds
Character: Williams
Released: March 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Eve Marley (Aileen Pringle)is forced to marry a wealthy jeweler that she does not love in order to save the man she loves, Rupert Endon (Ian Keith), from being unjustly arrested as a thief. Rupert, unaware of the reason his sweetheart married his rival, goes to the Far East where he grows rich after discovering a diamond mine. He breaks Eve's husband by underselling him and then returns to England to exact his revenge on the woman he thinks did him wrong.
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The Vagabond King
Title: The Vagabond King
Character: The Astrologer
Released: February 17, 1930
Type: Movie
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His hanging will be postponed for 24 hours, and in that time he must defeat the invading Burgundians and win the love of the beautiful Katherine.
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Skirt Shy
Title: Skirt Shy
Character: Edgar, the old beau
Released: November 30, 1929
Type: Movie
Harry must pose as a woman to help the women he works for get a marriage proposal.
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Light Fingers
Title: Light Fingers
Character: Edward Madison
Released: July 29, 1929
Type: Movie
"Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper petty thief.
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Glad Rag Doll
Title: Glad Rag Doll
Character: Admiral
Released: May 4, 1929
Type: Movie
She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song with the same title and the trailer survives.
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Bulldog Drummond
Title: Bulldog Drummond
Character: Colonel
Released: May 2, 1929
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.
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Red Hot Speed
Title: Red Hot Speed
Character: Colonel Long (as Thomas Ricketts)
Released: January 27, 1929
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher's daughter is arrested for speeding. In order to avoid embarrassing her father, since his newspaper is in the midst of an anti-speeding campaign, she uses an assumed name. She is paroled into the custody of an assistant district attorney, who doesn't know who she really is.
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Interference
Title: Interference
Character: Charles Smith
Released: November 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did not necessarily qualify him to be a director. Evelyn Brent heads the cast as scheming Deborah Kane, who sets out to blackmail Faith Marley (Doris Kenyon), the above-reproach wife of Sir John Marlay.
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Freedom of the Press
Title: Freedom of the Press
Character: Wicks
Released: October 28, 1928
Type: Movie
When a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician with criminal associations.
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Dry Martini
Title: Dry Martini
Character: Joseph
Released: October 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Upon hearing that his daughter Elizabeth, is coming from America to visit him in Paris, wealthy Willoughby Quimby, decides to give up dry martinis and women. However, Elizabeth seeks a wild time and ends up leaving France with her father's drinking buddy, Freddie, and Willoughby goes back to his dry martinis.
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Just Married
Title: Just Married
Character: Makepeace Witter
Released: August 18, 1928
Type: Movie
After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.
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Five and Ten Cent Annie
Title: Five and Ten Cent Annie
Character: Adam Peck
Released: May 26, 1928
Type: Movie
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.
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Doomsday
Title: Doomsday
Character: Percival's Butler
Released: February 19, 1928
Type: Movie
A woman must choose between a life on the farm and a life of luxury.
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The Law and the Man
Title: The Law and the Man
Character: Quintus Newtoon
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A silent film from the end of the silent era.
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My Friend from India
Title: My Friend from India
Character: Judge Elmer Elderberry Egbert Belmore
Released: December 18, 1927
Type: Movie
Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith (Elinor Fair). But before he can learn anything about Barbara, her social climbing Aunt Bedelia (Ethel Wales), whisks her away. On a mission to "find the girl," Tommy looks for her everywhere. He unknowingly befriends her brother Charlie, who invites him to spend the evening in Smith's palatial home. The next morn Aunt Bedelia finds Tommy with his head wrapped in a towel and assumes him to be the Hindu prince that Charlie promised to bring to her society party. Introduced to all as a Prince from Calcutta, Tommy is forced to see the charade through. But the local con-man Charlie had previously arranged to appear at the party as the Prince shows up as well. At least Tommy is able to reconnect with Barbara, that is until the police show up with orders to arrest all fake fakirs.
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Get Your Man
Title: Get Your Man
Character: Old Man in Wax Museum
Released: December 6, 1927
Type: Movie
A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.
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A Sailor's Sweetheart
Title: A Sailor's Sweetheart
Character: Professor Meekham
Released: September 24, 1927
Type: Movie
Cynthia Botts is the headmistress of a girls' school who has left a fortune on the condition that no scandal could ever be associated with her name. But scandal, in the form of Sandy McTavish, a romantic sailor and Charlotte Ralston is just around the corner.
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Children of Divorce
Title: Children of Divorce
Character: The Secretary
Released: April 25, 1927
Type: Movie
A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.
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Too Many Crooks
Title: Too Many Crooks
Character: Butler
Released: April 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft, El Brendel, William V. Mong, John St. Polis, and Otto Matieson. It was released on April 2, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.
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Venus of Venice
Title: Venus of Venice
Character: Bride's Father
Released: March 20, 1927
Type: Movie
A slick caper movie about a petty thief falls for a wealthy American artist.
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Casey at the Bat
Title: Casey at the Bat
Character: Laughing Spectator (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable ability to play baseball. An unscrupulous New York scout signs him up, so Casey and his equally dishonest manager go to the big leagues. Eventually, the scout and manager conspire to get him drunk and bet against him for a crucial game with the pennant at stake.
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Love's Blindness
Title: Love's Blindness
Character: Marquis of Hurlshire
Released: December 4, 1926
Type: Movie
A British nobleman, heavily in debut to a moneylender, agrees to marry the man's daughter in exchange for his debt being cleared. However, since the girl is Jewish, her new "husband" lets her know that the marriage is strictly a business matter and that he could never have romantic feelings for one of "her kind".
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Ladies at Play
Title: Ladies at Play
Character: Deacon Ezra Boody
Released: November 15, 1926
Type: Movie
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.
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When the Wife's Away
Title: When the Wife's Away
Released: October 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Mistaken identity and female impersonation take place when indigents Billy Winthrop (George K. Arthur) and Ethel Winthrop (Dorothy Reviere) rent a fashionable apartment for a few days in order to impress rich uncle Hiram (Tom Ricketts.) Complications and misunderstanding arise.
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The Old Soak
Title: The Old Soak
Character: Roue
Released: October 11, 1926
Type: Movie
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.
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The Lily
Title: The Lily
Character: Jean (as Thomas Ricketts)
Released: October 3, 1926
Type: Movie
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Dancing Days
Title: Dancing Days
Character: Stubbins
Released: September 27, 1926
Type: Movie
Despite the fact that he has a beautiful wife who loves him and a good home, gold-digger Lillian Loring discovers that Ralph Hedman is a pushover for her winsome wiles and ways. Ralph's wife, Alice, becomes suspicious when she sees them together at lunch one day. He asks for a divorce but Alice says she wants to keep the marriage going for at least a year, for appearances sake, and says she will agree to a divorce then if he still wants it. Alive stays home alone for three months while Ralph is living it up as a full member of the Jazz Age. He gets sick and Alice invites Lillian to come over and help get him well. Lillian decides that lots of saxophone playing and wild dancing is the best cure. Alice takes all she can stand, leaves a note for Ralph and departs the premises. Ralph also takes his own departure, after leaving a note for Alice. Lillian keeps on partying. Alice and Ralph, driving their respective cars into an intersection, have a collision.
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Poker Faces
Title: Poker Faces
Character: Henry Curlew
Released: September 5, 1926
Type: Movie
In order to secure a lucrative contract, a businessman hires a woman to pose as his wife at a business dinner when his own wife can't make it. Unfortunately, the woman he hires is the wife of an insanely jealous prizefighter.
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The Belle of Broadway
Title: The Belle of Broadway
Character: Maurice Penelli
Released: August 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a young American performer, Marie Duval, to perform as the Madame Adele of old, and both become the darlings of Paris, one again and the other newly-crowned.
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Ladies of Leisure
Title: Ladies of Leisure
Released: March 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Rich, spoiled Marian pressures Eric to marry her. Her brother is in love with her friend Mamie, but a scheming ex-husband tries to blackmail her. Mamie is saved from suicide by Eric, who's in a compromising position when he brings her home.
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The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
Title: The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
Character: Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
Released: February 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard up Grand Duchess. She finds him impertinent and clumsy, but also quite fascinating. She takes him into her employ insisting he does everything she asks.
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Bobbed Hair
Title: Bobbed Hair
Character: Mr. Brewster
Released: October 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.
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Never the Twain Shall Meet
Title: Never the Twain Shall Meet
Character: Andrew J. Casson (as Thomas Ricketts)
Released: September 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Exemplifying Kipling's adage, a white man falls to pieces when he is in the South Seas.
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The Girl Who Wouldn't Work
Title: The Girl Who Wouldn't Work
Character: The Rounder (as Thomas Ricketts)
Released: August 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Mary Hale hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent comes around, she flirts with him and is fired. Because she is mad at her fiancé, William Norworth, Mary takes off in Kent's car and she doesn't come home until the early hours. Her father is furious and slaps her, so she leaves home. Kent offers to let her stay in his apartment, while he sleeps at the club.
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My Wife and I
Title: My Wife and I
Character: Valet
Released: May 16, 1925
Type: Movie
In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both compete for the affections of a pretty young temptress.
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Oh, Doctor!
Title: Oh, Doctor!
Character: Mr. Peck
Released: February 23, 1925
Type: Movie
Rufus Billings was born premature and after a lifetime of doctors doting on his frail health he is now a hypochondriac of the first order. Now an adult Rufus has learned his late father has left him $750,000 but he won't inherit the sum for three more years. Rufus is certain he is on death's door and will never last three years so his Doctor arranges for a loan of $100,000 to pay for a live in nurse. Rufus only has to sign over his inheritance to the greedy trio of Clinch, McIntosh and Peck who along with the doctor are confident he'll live long enough to pay his debt.
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Cheap Kisses
Title: Cheap Kisses
Character: The Old Man
Released: December 21, 1924
Type: Movie
Refusing to join his family in their new social life when Henry Dillingham suddenly becomes wealthy, Donald Dillingham causes even greater disapproval by marrying chorus girl Ardell Kendall. Learning that famous sculptor Gustaf Borgstrom wishes to use Ardell as model, the Dillinghams suddenly welcome Donald and Ardell to their estate. Donald surrenders to both the jazzy pleasures and the attentions of Maybelle Wescott, but Ardell remains aloof and in order to pay off Maybelle threatens Mr. Dillingham with exposure of his infatuation with a chorus girl.
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Secrets of the Night
Title: Secrets of the Night
Character: Jerry Hammond
Released: November 12, 1924
Type: Movie
Robert Andrews hosts a large party and there stages his own murder, to keep bank examiner Alfred Austin from examining the records of his bank.
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Circe the Enchantress
Title: Circe the Enchantress
Character: Archibald Crumm
Released: October 6, 1924
Type: Movie
Mae Murray as a Jazz Age baby who treats men like swine until she falls for the upright doctor living next door.
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Three Women
Title: Three Women
Character: Butler
Released: August 18, 1924
Type: Movie
A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for the daughter, leaving the young boyfriend crushed.
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Black Oxen
Title: Black Oxen
Character: Charles Dinwiddie
Released: December 29, 1923
Type: Movie
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.
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The Dangerous Maid
Title: The Dangerous Maid
Character: John Standish Lane
Released: November 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he has fallen for Barbara's charms so he lets her go. As a result they are both arrested and imprisoned.
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Strangers of the Night
Title: Strangers of the Night
Character: Lush
Released: September 10, 1923
Type: Movie
A rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for excitement. He gets more than he bargained for when two Russian thieves, Anna Valeska and her partner Borolsky, arrive at the mansion one dark night.
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Within the Law
Title: Within the Law
Character: General Hastings
Released: April 28, 1923
Type: Movie
When Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to take vengeance on those who wronged her, always staying however within the letter of the law.
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The Eternal Flame
Title: The Eternal Flame
Character: Vidame de Pameir (as Thomas Ricketts)
Released: September 17, 1922
Type: Movie
A 1922 film directed by Frank Lloyd.
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A Tailor-Made Man
Title: A Tailor-Made Man
Character: Anton Huber
Released: August 5, 1922
Type: Movie
A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.
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Shattered Idols
Title: Shattered Idols
Character: Rev. Dr. Romney
Released: February 6, 1922
Type: Movie
This exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at least one title change before reaching the screen as Shattered Idols. Jean Hurst, the widow of a British Army officer in India, hates her crippled son David because she thinks he is a coward and a weakling. She sends him away to England for his education. When he returns to India, he falls in love with native girl Sarasvati, who he saves from being burned on a funeral pyre.
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Beating the Game
Title: Beating the Game
Character: Jules Fanchette
Released: September 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Professional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a criminologist, and mistakenly believes that he has robbed a fellow safecracker. Out of "professional courtesy" he informs Lawson of what he has done. Instead of calling the police, Lawson--who believes in the philosophy of "honor among thieves"--makes a deal with Charlie: to show Charlie that it's actually more profitable to be a legitimate businessman then a crook, he'll give Charlie some money if Charlie will use it to establish a legitimate business in the small town of Plumfield, and at the end of a year they will divide up whatever profits Charlie is able to make honestly. Charlie agrees, but soon discovers that things aren't going to be quite as easy as he thought.
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Sham
Title: Sham
Character: Uncle James (as Thomas Ricketts)
Released: May 5, 1921
Type: Movie
Based upon a description in a film publication,[3] Katherine Van Riper (Clayton) is an extravagant young society girl who is very much in debt, and her wealthy aunts and uncle refuse to give her any money. Katherine is desperate enough that she is considering marrying the wealthy Montee Buck (Hiers), although she is in love with the westerner Tom Jaffrey (Fillmore), who says he is poor. Finally, Katherine decides to sell the famous Van Riper pearls, pay off her debts, and marry Tom. However, upon examination the jewelry turns out to be paste, with her father having sold the genuine pearls several years earlier before his death. Montee is assured by the aunts that Katherine will marry him and tells this to Tom. Tom is about to leave town when Uncle James (Ricketts) steps in and pays off Katherine's debts, leaving the niece free to marry Tom.
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Puppets of Fate
Title: Puppets of Fate
Released: March 28, 1921
Type: Movie
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The Killer
Title: The Killer
Character: Tim Westmore
Released: January 30, 1921
Type: Movie
Claire Adams as a girl forced to marry the man she suspects killed her father. When she refuses, she is virtually kept a prisoner along with kid-brother Frankie Lee until a handsome stranger (Jack Conway) rescues them.
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The Great Lover
Title: The Great Lover
Character: Potter
Released: November 15, 1920
Type: Movie
Ethel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera company in which Jean Paurel, world-famous baritone, is the star. Carlo Sonino, also a member of the company, falls in love with Ethel and warns her against becoming infatuated with the amorous singer.
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Bonnie May
Title: Bonnie May
Released: June 10, 1920
Type: Movie
Young actress Bonnie May finds work in a private play given at Mrs. Baron’s mansion, where she endears herself to all, especially Victor Baron, the invalid son who has written the play. He begs her to stay on to help him write another play, despite the reluctance of his mother.
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The Desperate Hero
Title: The Desperate Hero
Character: Butler
Released: June 7, 1920
Type: Movie
Henry Baird, a young newspaperman with a second-hand car but little money, decides to raffle off the car at a county picnic, so that he can take out his sweetheart, Mabel Darrow, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. However, as soon as Henry gets the money, his tailor demands that he pay off his debt. Also, youngsters set the car on fire before he can give to the winner, Joseph Plant, whose wife Evelyn was formerly Henry's sweetheart.
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The Paliser Case
Title: The Paliser Case
Character: Major Archie Phipps
Released: February 15, 1920
Type: Movie
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.
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The Willow Tree
Title: The Willow Tree
Character: Priest
Released: January 31, 1920
Type: Movie
After Ned Hamilton is rejected by his girlfriend, he travels to Japan where he hears an old legend about the Willow Tree Princess, who kills herself so that her lover will go off to battle. When he makes a purchase from Tomotada, an image maker, he meets his pretty daughter O-Riu, and they recreate the events of the legend.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Ebenezer Scrooge
Released: December 9, 1908
Type: Movie
Scrooge goes into his office and begins working. His nephew, along with three women who wish for Scrooge to donate enter. However, Scrooge dismisses them. On the night of Christmas Eve, his long-dead partner Jacob Marley comes as a ghost, warning him of a horrible fate if he does not change his ways.