Mary Astor

Mary Astor

Born: May 3, 1906
Died: September 25, 1987
in Quincy, Illinois, USA
Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 - September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s. She was sued for support by her parents and was later branded an adulterous wife by her ex-husband during a custody fight over her daughter.

Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life, Astor went on to even greater success on the screen, eventually winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Sandra Kovak in The Great Lie (1941). She was an MGM contract player through most of the 1940s and continued to act in movies, on television and on stage until her retirement from the screen in 1964.

Astor was the author of five novels. Her autobiography became a bestseller, as did her later book, A Life on Film, which was specifically about her career. Director Lindsay Anderson wrote of her in 1990: "...(W)hen two or three who love the cinema are gathered together, the name of Mary Astor always comes up, and everybody agrees that she was an actress of special attraction, whose qualities of depth and reality always seemed to illuminate the parts she played."

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The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Title: The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 3, 2006
Type: Movie
An appreciation and the story of the making of the 1941 film "The Maltese Falcon."
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Bogart: The Untold Story
Title: Bogart: The Untold Story
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 5, 1997
Type: Movie
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends and co-workers.
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Title: Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: January 8, 1980
Type: TV
A 1980 documentary series exploring the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and its impact on 1920s culture.
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Title: That's Entertainment, Part II
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 16, 1976
Type: Movie
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Title: The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Title: Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Character: Jewel Mayhew
Released: December 15, 1964
Type: Movie
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
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Youngblood Hawke
Title: Youngblood Hawke
Character: Irene Perry
Released: November 4, 1964
Type: Movie
An unknown Kentucky writer (James Franciscus) comes to New York and pursues fame and women (Suzanne Pleshette, Genevieve Page).
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Florence Roberts
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Title: Ben Casey
Released: October 2, 1961
Type: TV
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
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Title: Dr. Kildare
Character: Martha Lantzinge
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: TV
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
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Title: Dr. Kildare
Character: Aunt Frances
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: TV
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
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Title: The Defenders
Character: Flora Goode
Released: September 16, 1961
Type: TV
The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as neo-Nazis, conscientious objectors, civil rights demonstrators, a schoolteacher fired for being an atheist, an author accused of pornography, and a physician charged in a mercy killing.
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Return to Peyton Place
Title: Return to Peyton Place
Character: Mrs. Roberta Carter
Released: May 5, 1961
Type: Movie
Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren't pleased when they realize they're the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie's controversial first novel. A sequel to the hit 1957 film.
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Title: Checkmate
Character: Esther Brack
Released: September 17, 1960
Type: TV
Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Benny's production company, "JaMco Productions" in co-operation with Revue Studios. Guest stars included Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, and Lee Marvin, among many other commensurately prominent performers.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Rose French
Released: September 13, 1960
Type: TV
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Title: The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Character: Mrs. Leslie
Released: March 25, 1960
Type: Movie
A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection after a safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, after Earnest Hemingway's short story.
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A Stranger in My Arms
Title: A Stranger in My Arms
Character: Virgilnie Beasley
Released: March 3, 1959
Type: Movie
An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Emma Cardwell
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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This Happy Feeling
Title: This Happy Feeling
Character: Mrs. Tremaine
Released: June 18, 1958
Type: Movie
Janet Blake leaves a party when her boss drunkenly makes passes at her and is offered a ride to the subway with Bill Tremaine. When she thinks Bill is making advances too, she flees into a rainstorm and ends up at the house of his neighbor, retired actor Preston Mitchell. Preston hires her as his secretary, and soon both men are pursuing Janet.
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The Devil's Hairpin
Title: The Devil's Hairpin
Character: Mrs. Jargin
Released: October 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Cocky car racer Nick Jargin has retired since he nearly caused the death of his brother at a hairpin bend on a circuit. He now holds a trendy café who keeps him busy full time until one day, Tony Boari, a new champion racer, challenges him.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: Sarah Simmons
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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The Power and the Prize
Title: The Power and the Prize
Character: Mrs. George Salt
Released: September 26, 1956
Type: Movie
An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.
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A Kiss Before Dying
Title: A Kiss Before Dying
Character: Mrs. Corliss
Released: April 20, 1956
Type: Movie
A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
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Title: Playwrights '56
Released: October 4, 1955
Type: TV
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Grace Dolan
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Mrs. Fenimore
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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The Thief
Title: The Thief
Character: Isabelle Lagarde
Released: January 4, 1955
Type: Movie
The son of a French aristocrat is accused of stealing his father's money and of stealing his step-sister's heart.
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Title: Producers' Showcase
Character: Nancy Blake
Released: October 18, 1954
Type: TV
Producers' Showcase is an American anthology television series that was telecast live during the 1950s in compatible color by NBC. With top talent, the 90-minute episodes, covering a wide variety of genres, aired under the title every fourth Monday at 8 p.m. ET for three seasons, beginning October 18, 1954. The final episode, the last of 37, was broadcast May 27, 1957. Showcase Productions, Inc., packaged and produced the series, which received seven Emmy Awards, including the 1956 award for Best Dramatic Series.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Mrs. Harriss
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Martha
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Clarissa Bowman
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Ethel Allen
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Yesterday and Today
Title: Yesterday and Today
Character: (archive footage)
Released: December 2, 1953
Type: Movie
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953.
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Title: The United States Steel Hour
Character: Isabelle Lagarde
Released: October 27, 1953
Type: TV
The United States Steel Hour is an anthology series which brought hour-long dramas to television from 1953 to 1963. The television series and the radio program that preceded it were both sponsored by the United States Steel Corporation.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Bea Hicks
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Margaret Eliot
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Mildred Le Brun
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Robert Montgomery Presents
Character: Norma Desmond
Released: January 30, 1950
Type: TV
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
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Any Number Can Play
Title: Any Number Can Play
Character: Ada
Released: July 15, 1949
Type: Movie
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
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Little Women
Title: Little Women
Character: Marmee
Released: March 10, 1949
Type: Movie
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother - a very outspoken women for her time. The story is of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
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Act of Violence
Title: Act of Violence
Character: Pat
Released: February 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Harriet Brand
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Ruth Sparling
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Cass Timberlane
Title: Cass Timberlane
Character: Queenie Havock
Released: November 6, 1947
Type: Movie
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of of Cass' Brad Criley. While quarreling the Judge tells Virginia to stay with Brad, but when she becomes sick he brings her home.
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Cynthia
Title: Cynthia
Character: Louise Bishop
Released: August 29, 1947
Type: Movie
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
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Desert Fury
Title: Desert Fury
Character: Fritzi Haller
Released: August 15, 1947
Type: Movie
The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.
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Fiesta
Title: Fiesta
Character: Señora Morales
Released: June 12, 1947
Type: Movie
When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.
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Okay for Sound
Title: Okay for Sound
Character: Adriana (archive footage)
Released: September 7, 1946
Type: Movie
This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.
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Claudia and David
Title: Claudia and David
Character: Elizabeth Van Doren
Released: February 25, 1946
Type: Movie
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Connecticut town.
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Blonde Fever
Title: Blonde Fever
Character: Delilah Donay
Released: December 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Peter and Delilah are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, with the arrival of the sultry Sally, a waitress who catches Peter's wandering eye. Delilah strikes back by hiring Sally's boyfriend as a waiter. Sally is initially dismissive of Peter's advances, but when he wins $40,000 in a lottery, she quickly pounces, turning on the charm and eyeing the easy life.
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Meet Me in St. Louis
Title: Meet Me in St. Louis
Character: Mrs. Anna Smith
Released: November 28, 1944
Type: Movie
The life of a St. Louis family in the year before the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
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Thousands Cheer
Title: Thousands Cheer
Character: Hyllary Jones
Released: September 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having an accident during his family's trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars.
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Young Ideas
Title: Young Ideas
Character: Josephine Evans
Released: August 2, 1943
Type: Movie
A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.
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Across the Pacific
Title: Across the Pacific
Character: Alberta Marlow
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveller Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
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The Palm Beach Story
Title: The Palm Beach Story
Character: The Princess Centimillia
Released: August 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry (Geraldine), decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
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Breakdowns of 1941
Title: Breakdowns of 1941
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.
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The Maltese Falcon
Title: The Maltese Falcon
Character: Brigid O'Shaughnessy
Released: October 18, 1941
Type: Movie
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
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The Great Lie
Title: The Great Lie
Character: Sandra Kovak
Released: April 5, 1941
Type: Movie
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
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Brigham Young
Title: Brigham Young
Character: Mary Ann Young
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
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Turnabout
Title: Turnabout
Character: Marion Manning
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
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Midnight
Title: Midnight
Character: Helene Flammarion
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
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Listen, Darling
Title: Listen, Darling
Character: Dottie Wingate
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn't love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family travel trailer to live a carefree life on the open road. They then get the idea to find Dottie a financially secure husband whom both she and Pinkie would like.
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Woman Against Woman
Title: Woman Against Woman
Character: Cynthia Holland
Released: June 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
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Paradise for Three
Title: Paradise for Three
Character: Mrs. Irene Mallebre
Released: June 4, 1938
Type: Movie
A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.
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There's Always a Woman
Title: There's Always a Woman
Character: Lola Fraser
Released: April 20, 1938
Type: Movie
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.
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No Time To Marry
Title: No Time To Marry
Character: Kay McGowan
Released: February 5, 1938
Type: Movie
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big scoop".
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The Hurricane
Title: The Hurricane
Character: Mme. DeLaage
Released: November 9, 1937
Type: Movie
A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tropical storm.
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The Prisoner of Zenda
Title: The Prisoner of Zenda
Character: Antoinette de Mauban
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.
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Lady from Nowhere
Title: Lady from Nowhere
Character: Polly Dunlap
Released: December 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A manicurist witnesses a gangland murder. Realizing there was a witness to their crime, the killer tries to track her down and silence her.
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Dodsworth
Title: Dodsworth
Character: Edith Cortright
Released: September 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
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Trapped by Television
Title: Trapped by Television
Character: Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
Released: June 15, 1936
Type: Movie
An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.
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And So They Were Married
Title: And So They Were Married
Character: Edith Farnham
Released: May 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention of getting married again, they begin to fall for each other. Their children, however, are determined to see that the "romance" never gets off the ground and do everything they can to see that they are kept apart.
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Title: The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Character: Lillian Cooper
Released: January 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
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Man of Iron
Title: Man of Iron
Character: Vida
Released: December 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is promoted to an executive position.
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Page Miss Glory
Title: Page Miss Glory
Character: Gladys
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
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Dinky
Title: Dinky
Character: Martha Daniels
Released: May 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
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Straight from the Heart
Title: Straight from the Heart
Character: Marian Henshaw
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
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Red Hot Tires
Title: Red Hot Tires
Character: Patricia Sanford
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.
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I Am a Thief
Title: I Am a Thief
Character: Odette Mauclair
Released: November 24, 1934
Type: Movie
A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.
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The Hollywood Gad-About
Title: The Hollywood Gad-About
Character: Self
Released: October 4, 1934
Type: Movie
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
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The Case of the Howling Dog
Title: The Case of the Howling Dog
Character: Bessie Foley
Released: September 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
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The Man with Two Faces
Title: The Man with Two Faces
Character: Jessica Wells
Released: August 4, 1934
Type: Movie
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a theatrical producer she comes home incoherent and Vance is found dead in the vanished producer's hotel suite
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Return of the Terror
Title: Return of the Terror
Character: Olga Morgan
Released: July 7, 1934
Type: Movie
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
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Upperworld
Title: Upperworld
Character: Hettie Stream
Released: April 19, 1934
Type: Movie
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
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Easy to Love
Title: Easy to Love
Character: Charlotte
Released: January 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
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Convention City
Title: Convention City
Character: Arlene Dale
Released: December 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City.
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The World Changes
Title: The World Changes
Character: Virginia Claffin Nordholm
Released: November 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
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The Kennel Murder Case
Title: The Kennel Murder Case
Character: Hilda Lake
Released: October 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
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Jennie Gerhardt
Title: Jennie Gerhardt
Character: Letty Pace
Released: June 8, 1933
Type: Movie
This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
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The Little Giant
Title: The Little Giant
Character: Ruth Wayburn
Released: May 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
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Red Dust
Title: Red Dust
Character: Barbara "Babs" Willis
Released: October 22, 1932
Type: Movie
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives along with his refined wife Dennis is quickly infatuated by her.
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A Successful Calamity
Title: A Successful Calamity
Character: Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
Released: September 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
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Those We Love
Title: Those We Love
Character: May Ballard
Released: September 11, 1932
Type: Movie
Director Robert Florey's 1932 melodrama about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity stars Mary Astor, Kenneth MacKenna, Tommy Conlon, Lilyan Tashman, Hale Hamilton, Cecil Cunningham and Virginia Sale.
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The Lost Squadron
Title: The Lost Squadron
Character: Follette Marsh
Released: March 12, 1932
Type: Movie
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.
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Men of Chance
Title: Men of Chance
Character: Marthe
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A gambler falls for a fake countess.
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Smart Woman
Title: Smart Woman
Character: Nancy Gibson
Released: September 12, 1931
Type: Movie
A society man's loving, devoted wife, upon learning that he has been unfaithful and is planning to leave her for the other woman, strategically pretends to be having an affair of her own. The woman's friends gladly assist in the deception.
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White Shoulders
Title: White Shoulders
Character: Norma Selbee
Released: May 17, 1931
Type: Movie
In this drama, an impoverished young woman meets a millionaire who marries her on the spot and then begins pampering her with jewels and furs. When not attending to her every need, the business magnate works his mines so he can buy her some more. While he is gone, a gigolo makes advances upon her.
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The Sin Ship
Title: The Sin Ship
Character: Frisco Kitty
Released: April 18, 1931
Type: Movie
A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers.
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Behind Office Doors
Title: Behind Office Doors
Character: Mary Linden
Released: March 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.
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Other Men's Women
Title: Other Men's Women
Character: Lily Kulper
Released: January 17, 1931
Type: Movie
The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife.
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The Royal Bed
Title: The Royal Bed
Character: Princess Anne
Released: January 15, 1931
Type: Movie
The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming general.
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The Lash
Title: The Lash
Character: Dona Rosita Garcia
Released: December 14, 1930
Type: Movie
A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.
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Holiday
Title: Holiday
Character: Julia Seton
Released: July 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
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Ladies Love Brutes
Title: Ladies Love Brutes
Character: Mimi Howell
Released: May 14, 1930
Type: Movie
The movie stars George Bancroft, Mary Astor and Fredric March who are all excellent in their roles. The story begins as Joe Forziati (Bancroft), an Italian immigrant who has battled his way to success as a New York building contractor, decides to embark on a social career.
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The Runaway Bride
Title: The Runaway Bride
Character: Mary Gray
Released: May 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through. Desperate, Mary trusts the shifty chambermaid Clara who whisks her away to the mansion of wealthy George Blaine. There, Mary must pretend to be a lowly cook, but that seems better than sticking with the guy she was engaged to.
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Show of Shows
Title: Show of Shows
Character: Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
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The Woman from Hell
Title: The Woman from Hell
Character: Dee Renaud
Released: April 20, 1929
Type: Movie
Dee Renaud is a girl playing the "Devil" in an amusement concession at a beach resort. Slick Glicks, the barker, promises the yokels that if they're able to catch the "Lady From Hell," she will reward them with a kiss. But when Glicks tries to go beyond kissing, Dee is rescued by Jim Coakley, son of a New England lighthouse keeper...
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New Year's Eve
Title: New Year's Eve
Character: Marjorie Ware
Released: February 24, 1929
Type: Movie
Taking place over 24 hours, "New Year's Eve" is the story of Marjorie Ware, broke and unemployed, who despairs as her ailing younger brother languishes at home. She runs into rich gambler Larry Harmon and rejects his overtures. She later finds a wallet with 10 $100 bills belonging to Edward Warren.
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Romance of the Underworld
Title: Romance of the Underworld
Character: Judith Andrews
Released: November 10, 1928
Type: Movie
When a gangster's speakeasy is raided by the police, one of the people picked up is the gangster's pretty young girlfriend. A kind-hearted cop takes pity on her and helps her get out of that life. While waitressing to earn money for college, she meets a wealthy and handsome young man and they fall in love--but he doesn't know about her somewhat shady past and her relationship with the gangster.
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Dry Martini
Title: Dry Martini
Character: Elizabeth Quimby
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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Heart to Heart
Title: Heart to Heart
Character: Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
Released: July 22, 1928
Type: Movie
Princess Delatorre, young and beautiful widow of an Italian scion of royalty, returns with her fortune to the small American town where she grew up as Ellen Gutherie. Arriving by train a few days earlier than she planned, Ellen is mistaken for Mrs. Arden, a seamstress of doubtful repute from a neighboring town. She carries on the deception for fun when her nearsighted Aunt Katie and others believe she is Mrs. Arden. Phil, her old sweetheart, recognizes her, however, and shows her his new invention, a corkscrew that turns itself--a failure because of prohibition. Ellen leaves, having heard how much store is set on her coming; she returns on the proper train, elaborately made up as Princess Delatorre, and the big reception takes place as planned. Then she and Phil return to Italy, where they expect the corkscrew to be a success.
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3-Ring Marriage
Title: 3-Ring Marriage
Character: Anna
Released: June 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Anna runs away from her wealthy father's ranch and becomes a trick rider in a circus to be with her sweetheart, Cal Coney, a circus cowboy, when her father disapproves the match. There she achieves fame as "Anna Montana," but she remains unhappy because Cal refuses to admit that he loves her. Meanwhile, Rawl Souvane, manager of the circus, plans to woo and marry Anna when he preceives that she is wealthy.
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Dressed to Kill
Title: Dressed to Kill
Character: Jeanne
Released: March 17, 1928
Type: Movie
A mob boss' gang gets suspicious about their boss' new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl who doesn't seem to be the type who'd hang out with gangsters. They're not quite certain if she's actually a police agent or just a "groupie".
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Sailors' Wives
Title: Sailors' Wives
Character: Carol Trent
Released: January 22, 1928
Type: Movie
Informed by her doctor that she is going blind, Carol Trent tearfully breaks off her engagement with Don Manning, hoping to spare him the stigma of a sightless bride. When Hughes catches up with her and demands an explanation, Astor pretends to have fallen out of love with him and further convinces him that she has turned into a shameless hussy.
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No Place to Go
Title: No Place to Go
Character: Sally Montgomery
Released: October 30, 1927
Type: Movie
Starry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her like it.
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The Rough Riders
Title: The Rough Riders
Character: Dolly
Released: September 30, 1927
Type: Movie
The story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its adventures in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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Rose of the Golden West
Title: Rose of the Golden West
Character: Elena
Released: September 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Juan is about to elope with the convent-bred Elena, when he is chosen to assassinate the governor who is about to hand California over to the Russians. Since the governor also happens to be Elena's father, this puts him in quite a fix.
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Two Arabian Knights
Title: Two Arabian Knights
Character: Mirza
Released: September 23, 1927
Type: Movie
During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl.
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The Sunset Derby
Title: The Sunset Derby
Character: Molly Gibson
Released: June 5, 1927
Type: Movie
After suffering a fall during a race, rider Jimmy Burke loses his nerve. But with the help of his girlfriend Molly Gibson, Jimmy regains his confidence just in time to achieve victory during the Big Race.
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The Sea Tiger
Title: The Sea Tiger
Character: Amy Cortissos
Released: February 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Silent Film drama...now a lost film. Julian Ramos is a fisherman in the Canary Islands. As the guardian of his hotheaded younger brother Charles, Julian regards it as his duty to protect the boy from women -- and vice versa. When Charles begins pitching woo at aristocratic Amy, Julian runs interference by pretending to be in love with the girl himself. As time passes, of course, he stops pretending.
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Forever After
Title: Forever After
Character: Jennie Clayton
Released: October 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A wounded captain recalls his youth, his time at college, and the woman he fell in love with.
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Don Juan
Title: Don Juan
Character: Adriana della Varnese
Released: August 6, 1926
Type: Movie
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.
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The Wise Guy
Title: The Wise Guy
Character: Mary
Released: May 23, 1926
Type: Movie
A carnival huckster who decides to turn pennies into dollars by passing himself off as a hellfire-and-brimstone evangelist.
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High Steppers
Title: High Steppers
Character: Audrey Nye
Released: March 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In search of a change, he heads for London, where he meets Audrey Nye, a former jazz baby who has gotten a responsible job on a newspaper. She helps Perryam get hired as a reporter.
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Scarlet Saint
Title: Scarlet Saint
Character: Fidele Tridon
Released: November 8, 1925
Type: Movie
Heroine Fidele Tridon has grown up with the knowledge that her father has promised her in marriage to Baron Kurt Badeau. When Fidele comes of age, the Baron shows up expecting to claim his young bride. In the interim, however, Fidele has fallen in love with wealthy horseman Philip Collett.
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The Pace That Thrills
Title: The Pace That Thrills
Character: Doris
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Paula, a chorus girl, marries into an aristocratic family. Unfortunately, her husband is a drunk. When he tries to give some liquor to their infant son, she brandishes a pair of scissors at him. He wrestles them away from her, then falls down the stairs and stabs himself. Due to the perjured testimony of the maid and butler, Paula is convicted of murder and sent to jail. Her son, Danny, grows up to be a movie star. There is a controversy surrounding him because he refuses to do his own stunts. The reason he won't take any chances is that he is using all his money to get his mother out of jail. Finally, to redeem himself, he agrees to participate in a charity auto race, but his mother's hearing is scheduled for the race day.
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Don Q Son of Zorro
Title: Don Q Son of Zorro
Character: Dolores de Muro
Released: June 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Don Cesar De Vega crosses swords with a vicious member of the Queen's Guard, and steals the affection of a young heiress. When the officer frames the young upstart for murder, Don Cesar fakes his own death and retreats to the crumbling ruins of the family castle he plots his vengeance.
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Playing with Souls
Title: Playing with Souls
Character: Margo
Released: April 30, 1925
Type: Movie
Amy and Matthew Dale separate and they place their young son, Matthew Jr., in a London boarding school. The boy grows up without knowing his parents, and is taunted by his schoolmates, who doubt the legitimacy of his childhood. By the time he is 20, Matt wants to find out about his parentage, so he travels to Paris, leaving behind his sweetheart, Margo.
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Enticement
Title: Enticement
Character: Leonore Bewlay
Released: March 1, 1925
Type: Movie
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Oh, Doctor!
Title: Oh, Doctor!
Character: Dolores Hicks
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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Inez from Hollywood
Title: Inez from Hollywood
Character: Fay Bartholdi
Released: December 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Inez Laranotta is an actress who is notorious for her vamp roles and for the wild parties she attends. But images are deceiving -- the parties (and police raids) are staged by Inez's press agent, and she is actually very devoted to her innocent younger sister, Fay Bartholdi.
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The Price of a Party
Title: The Price of a Party
Character: Alice Barrows
Released: November 23, 1924
Type: Movie
An unscrupulous broker discovers his hated business rival has secured a valuable option in Brazil and determines to delay the latter in New York until it expires. He uses a cabaret dancer to use her wiles to keep him there.
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To the Ladies
Title: To the Ladies
Character: Undetermined Secondary Role
Released: October 6, 1924
Type: Movie
Three clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are in competition for a promotion to factory manager.
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Unguarded Women
Title: Unguarded Women
Character: Helen Castle
Released: June 22, 1924
Type: Movie
Unguarded Women is a lost 1924 silent film drama. In a battle during the World War, Douglas Albright has a moment of cowardice which causes the death of his friend, Captain Banning. When Albright comes back from the war, his fiancée, Helen Castle and her father, George, can see that something is bothering him. So Castle sends him to take care of business in China -- and to pull himself together. While in China, Albright runs across Bannings' widow, Breta, who has buried her sorrows behind a mask of revelry and fast living. Because he feels responsible for what she has become, Albright attempts to regenerate her and proposes marriage.
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The Fighting American
Title: The Fighting American
Character: Mary Brainard
Released: May 26, 1924
Type: Movie
On the wager that he will propose marriage to any girl selected by his fraternity brothers, Bill finds himself making love to Mary, an old-fashioned girl who is secretly in love with him…
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Beau Brummel
Title: Beau Brummel
Character: Lady Margery Alvanley
Released: March 30, 1924
Type: Movie
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
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The Fighting Coward
Title: The Fighting Coward
Character: Lucy
Released: March 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Southerner Tom Rumford was sent up north to be raised by relatives who happen to be Quakers. As a result, he returns home a passive, peace-loving young man, completely out of place in an area where men kill over issues of honor.
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Woman-Proof
Title: Woman-Proof
Character: Violet Lynwood
Released: October 28, 1923
Type: Movie
At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.
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The Marriage Maker
Title: The Marriage Maker
Character: Vivian Hope-Clarke
Released: September 30, 1923
Type: Movie
A matchmaker sets out to have a rich woman marry the not-so-rich boy she loves, and tries to persuade a poverty-stricken nobleman to marry the commoner he loves.
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Puritan Passions
Title: Puritan Passions
Character: Rachel
Released: September 9, 1923
Type: Movie
Goody Rickby has a child out of wedlock, but it dies when the father, Gillead Wingate, refuses to acknowledge the child or help the mother get medical aid. Wingate becomes one of the foremost figures in the witch hunts, and Goody plots her revenge with Dr. Nicholas, who is really the Devil.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Mary Astor
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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The Bright Shawl
Title: The Bright Shawl
Character: Narcissa Escobar
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves.
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Success
Title: Success
Character: Rose Randolph
Released: February 25, 1923
Type: Movie
The often-told film story of a drunken actor hitting the skids, making a comeback, and helping his grown daughter in the bargain.
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Second Fiddle
Title: Second Fiddle
Character: Polly Crawford
Released: January 14, 1923
Type: Movie
Jim Bradley has always played second fiddle in his family -- while his older brother, Herbert, goes off to college, Jim becomes a garage mechanic. When Herbert returns home, it's easy for him to steal Jim's girl, Polly Crawford. But trouble comes to the Bradley's town when Cragg murders his daughter and breaks into the family's home. Herbert goes for help, leaving Jim with an empty gun to protect their mother and Polly.
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The Rapids
Title: The Rapids
Character: Elsie Worden
Released: October 30, 1922
Type: Movie
Robert Fisher Clarke is a promoter who comes to a small Canadian town. He harnesses the power of the rapids and builds a pulp mill. One of his employees, Jim Belding, has a fiancée, Elsie Worden, with whom Clarke falls in love.
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The Man Who Played God
Title: The Man Who Played God
Character: Young Woman
Released: October 1, 1922
Type: Movie
En eminent pianist is made deaf by an anarchist's bomb during a command performance.
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Hope
Title: Hope
Character: Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
Released: July 16, 1922
Type: Movie
Hope is a silent 1922 drama.
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John Smith
Title: John Smith
Character: Irene Mason
Released: June 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Upon being released from prison, Lawrence Hilliard takes the name of John Smith and looks for work, and falls in love with Irene Mason, a social secretary, but is reluctant to tell her about his past.
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The Young Painter
Title: The Young Painter
Character: Helen Seymour
Released: February 19, 1922
Type: Movie
A 1922 silent film.
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The Angelus
Title: The Angelus
Character: Bit Part
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
The Angelus is a 1922 silent film
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Wings of the Border
Title: Wings of the Border
Released: October 9, 1921
Type: Movie
Wings of the Border is a 1921 drama.
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The Beggar Maid
Title: The Beggar Maid
Character: Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
Released: September 25, 1921
Type: Movie
The painter Burne-Jones and his famed painting "The Beggar Maid" are depicted in this speculative drama about the creation of the painting. Burne-Jones plays matchmaker for a young British nobleman who has fallen in love with a servant girl on his estate. The artist shows that love can thrive between members of different classes by depicting on canvas a picture from Tennyson's poem about the love of King Cophetua for a beggar maid. As he relates the story of the poem in words and through his painting, the young earl sees the application to his own situation.
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My Lady o' the Pines
Title: My Lady o' the Pines
Character: Norah Collison
Released: September 11, 1921
Type: Movie
Norah Collison is a young woman who owns a huge timberland in Maine, full of white pines. As she arrives to take control of her company, the manager and agent are planning to log the woods and steal the pines.
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Sentimental Tommy
Title: Sentimental Tommy
Released: March 26, 1921
Type: Movie
Grizel is the daughter of the Painted Lady, who believes that her lover will one day return. Grizel is ostracized by the other children of the town. Tommy and his sister come to the town. Tommy is friendly, but Elspeth keeps her distance. When the Painted Lady dies, Dr. Gemmell makes Grizel his housekeeper. Time passes and after the doctor dies, Grizel, who is now twenty-one years old, loves Tommy, who is an author in London. Tommy visits the town but cannot decide whether he loves Grizel. Grizel knows that Tommy does not love her, and after he returns to London her unhappiness leads to insanity. Tommy returns and marries Grizel, although he believes that she will hate him when she gets better. After two years under Tommy's care, she regains her sanity. After Tommy lets her know that he cared for her out of his love for her; not for pity, Grizel is happy.
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Brother of the Bear
Title: Brother of the Bear
Character: Marcia Harthorn
Released: February 18, 1921
Type: Movie
A bad-tempered lumber mill foreman is in love with the mill owner's daughter. But the owner would rather have his daughter marry a rich man. Gordon gets fired after he berates his workers and then starts a fight with his rival after papers are found that show he's been cheating the boss.
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Bullets or Ballots
Title: Bullets or Ballots
Character: Bit Part
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A 1921 silent film