Conrad Nagel

Conrad Nagel

Born: March 15, 1897
Died: February 24, 1970
in Keokuk, Iowa, USA
Conrad Nagel was an American stage and film actor, as well as radio and television performer and host. He was a matinee idol and star of the Silent cinema era and beyond. He was a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and served as its President from 1932 to 1933. He was also a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild.

Movies for Conrad Nagel...

Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Title: Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film boasted names like Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and John and Lionel Barrymore and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. This short documentary takes a look at the making of the classic film.
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London After Midnight
Title: London After Midnight
Character: Arthur Hibbs (archive footage)
Released: November 1, 2002
Type: Movie
A reconstruction, made from still photographs, of the lost 1927 Tod Browning film London After Midnight (1927) starring Lon Chaney.
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That's Entertainment!
Title: That's Entertainment!
Character: (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: June 21, 1974
Type: Movie
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
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Title: ABC Stage 67
Character: Mr. Mallory
Released: September 14, 1966
Type: TV
ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals. It premiered on American Broadcasting Company on September 14, 1966 with Murray Schisgal's The Love Song of Barney Kempinksi, directed by Stanley Prager and starring Alan Arkin as a man enjoying the sights and sounds of New York City in his last remaining hours of bachelorhood. Arkin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama and the program was nominated as Outstanding Dramatic Program. Future programs included appearances by Petula Clark, Bobby Darin, Sir Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Peter Sellers, David Frost, and Jack Paar. ABC's effort to bring culture to the masses was a noble but unsuccessful experiment. Scheduled first against I Spy on Wednesdays and then The Dean Martin Show on Thursdays, the show consistently received low ratings. Its last production, an adaptation of Jean Cocteau's one-woman play The Human Voice starring Ingrid Bergman, aired on May 4, 1967. "Stage 67" was not actually a part of the primary ABC facilities in Los Angeles. It was produced at the old Monogram Studios backlot that was later sold to KCET.
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Title: The Lieutenant
Character: Admiral Terence Havener
Released: September 14, 1963
Type: TV
The Lieutenant is an American television series, the first created by Gene Roddenberry. It aired on NBC on Saturday evenings in the 1963–1964 television schedule. It was produced by Arena Productions, one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most successful in-house production companies of the 1960s. Situated at Camp Pendleton, the West Coast base of the U.S. Marine Corps, The Lieutenant focuses on the men of the Corps in peace time with a Cold War backdrop. The title character is Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice, a rifle platoon leader and one of the training instructors at Camp Pendleton. An hour-long drama, The Lieutenant explores the lives of enlisted Marines and general officers alike. The series was released on DVD in two half-season sets by the Warner Archive Collection on August 14, 2012.
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Title: Ben Casey
Character: Mr. Schutz
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: Governor Matthew Evans
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: Route 66
Released: October 7, 1960
Type: TV
Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays on CBS from October 7, 1960 to March 20, 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for the first two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill for much of the third season, during which time Tod was shown traveling on his own. Tod met Lincoln Case, played by Glenn Corbett, late in the third season, and traveled with him until the end of the fourth and final season. Among the series more notable aspects were the featured Corvette convertible, and the program's instrumental theme song, which became a major pop hit.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Mayor Walker Wylie
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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Title: Mr. Lucky
Character: Julius Rutherford-Shank
Released: October 24, 1959
Type: TV
Mr. Lucky is a CBS adventure/drama television series that aired from October 24, 1959, to June 18, 1960, with repeats until September 3. Blake Edwards developed the program as a retooling of his Willie Dante character from Four Star Playhouse, where the role was played by studio boss Dick Powell. In the 1960–1961 season, Howard Duff assumed the role of Willie Dante in the NBC adventure/drama series Dante. Mr. Edwards directed and co-wrote the first episode of Mr. Lucky, and the credits of the first eighteen episodes included "Entire production supervised by Blake Edwards." Jack Arnold produced the show and directed fifteen of the thirty-four episodes. Henry Mancini's smooth theme music for the show reached Number 21 in the US singles charts. He released two successful LP's based on the show, Mr. Lucky and Mr. Lucky Goes Latin.
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The Man Who Understood Women
Title: The Man Who Understood Women
Character: G.K. Brody
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: Movie
A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.
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A Stranger in My Arms
Title: A Stranger in My Arms
Character: Harley Beasley
Released: March 3, 1959
Type: Movie
An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.
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Title: Bat Masterson
Character: Harry Varden
Released: October 8, 1958
Type: TV
Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
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Title: Naked City
Character: Darrington
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Nathan Claver
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Hidden Fear
Title: Hidden Fear
Character: Arthur Miller
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A U.S. lawman busts Copenhagen counterfeiters to help his sister, falsely accused of murder.
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All That Heaven Allows
Title: All That Heaven Allows
Character: Harvey
Released: December 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
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Title: Matinee Theater
Released: October 31, 1955
Type: TV
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
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Title: The 20th Century Fox Hour
Character: William T. Stinson
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.
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Title: Playwrights '56
Character: Mr. President
Released: October 4, 1955
Type: TV
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Title: Hollywood Preview
Character: Self - Host
Released: September 14, 1955
Type: TV
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Major
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Mr. Diamond
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: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Title: Robert Montgomery Presents
Character: Norman Maine
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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Title: The Silver Theatre
Character: Self- Host
Released: October 3, 1949
Type: TV
The Silver Theatre is a television series that was broadcast on the CBS television network from 1949 to 1950. It was a live anthology series consisting of dramatic teleplays about romance. It was sponsored by the International Silver Company.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Richard Elton
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: Professor Anson
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: Dr. Thorne
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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The Vicious Circle
Title: The Vicious Circle
Character: Karl Nemesch
Released: July 21, 1948
Type: Movie
In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by villagers. He manages to convince all the property owners to sell to him, except for a few properties owned by Jewish families. Infuriated at their refusal to sell to him, he attempts, with the help of some corrupt local police, to have the men charged with the murder of a local woman, who in reality actually committed suicide.
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Stage Struck
Title: Stage Struck
Character: Police Lt. Williams
Released: June 13, 1948
Type: Movie
A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
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Prospecting for Petroleum
Title: Prospecting for Petroleum
Character: The Voice of Oil (voice)
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
All-puppet animation tells the story of how oil is formed through ages of geological change, how it is found, extracted and put to use by man.
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Adventures of Rusty
Title: Adventures of Rusty
Character: Hugh Mitchell
Released: September 6, 1945
Type: Movie
Fearing that his recently-acquired step-mother, Ann Dennis, is competing with him for his father's affections, and saddened by the death of his dog, young Danny Mitchell seeks consolation in the companionship of a ferocious, Nazi-trained police dog, Rusty, brought to the U.S. by a returning WWII-veteran. The step-mother, with tender understanding, eventually wins Danny over while Danny pacifies his new dog.
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Forever Yours
Title: Forever Yours
Character: Dr. Randall
Released: January 26, 1945
Type: Movie
A young woman who has been stricken with infantile paralysis gives up hope and is trying to "will herself" to die. A doctor who has been conducting experiments with patients with paralyzed nerves is convinced he can cure her.
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Dangerous Journey
Title: Dangerous Journey
Character: Narrator
Released: September 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Expeditions to parts of North and South America, India and Burma (Myanmar). Record of a journey to illustrate the life of countries in which allied servicemen are stationed.
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I Want a Divorce
Title: I Want a Divorce
Character: David Holland Sr.
Released: September 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
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One Million B.C.
Title: One Million B.C.
Character: Narrator
Released: April 5, 1940
Type: Movie
One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and His Mate, and Tumak. The film stars Victor Mature as protagonist Tumak, a young cave man who strives to unite the uncivilized Rock Tribe and the peaceful Shell Tribe, Carole Landis as Loana, daughter of the Shell Tribe chief and Tumak's love interest, and Lon Chaney, Jr. as Tumak's stern father and leader of the Rock Tribe.
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The Mad Empress
Title: The Mad Empress
Character: Maximilian
Released: December 16, 1939
Type: Movie
The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico and his struggles against Benito Juarez.
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Bank Alarm
Title: Bank Alarm
Character: Alan O'Connor
Released: June 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A federal agent learns the gangsters he's been investigating have kidnapped his sister.
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The Gold Racket
Title: The Gold Racket
Character: Alan O'Connor
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gang that has been smuggling gold from Mexico to the U.S. and then selling it to the U.S. government.
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Navy Spy
Title: Navy Spy
Character: Alan O'Connor
Released: March 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A federal agent and a female reporter team up to catch a criminal gang that has kidnapped a scientist in order to get his formula for a new type of poison gas.
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Yellow Cargo
Title: Yellow Cargo
Character: Alan O'Connor
Released: November 7, 1936
Type: Movie
An investigator looks into the activities of a movie producer he believes is involved in smuggling Asians into the U.S.
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Wedding Present
Title: Wedding Present
Character: Roger Dodacker
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
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The Girl from Mandalay
Title: The Girl from Mandalay
Character: John Foster
Released: April 19, 1936
Type: Movie
John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Foster's fiancée, Mary Trevor, writes him that their engagement is off, he goes off to Mandalay.
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Ball at Savoy
Title: Ball at Savoy
Character: John Egan, posing as Baron Dupont
Released: January 9, 1936
Type: Movie
A British diplomat falls in love with a famous singer when he meets her in Cannes.
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One New York Night
Title: One New York Night
Character: Kent
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel telephone operator who takes a liking to him, and also Countess Louise Browssiloff, who innocently had left some personal belongings in the murdered man's room and is most anxious to recover the incriminating evidence, Foxhall solves the murder mystery.
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Death Flies East
Title: Death Flies East
Character: John Robinson Gordon
Released: February 28, 1935
Type: Movie
Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row inmate who accused her of the deed in the first place. On board the airliner, Evelyn makes the acquaintance of John Robinson Gordon (Nagel), who is transporting a revolutionary munitions formula to Washington, D.C. Another passenger, Baker (Robert Allen), complains of having been poisoned and leaves the plane during a stopover in Dallas. Back in the air, Gordon's bodyguard, Lieutenant O'Brien (Fred Kelsey), suffers the same fate, but this time the poison proves fatal. The plane returns to Dallas, where Police Captain Barrie (William B. Davidson) accused poor Evelyn of the crime. Happily, Gordon can prove otherwise and the real culprit is unmasked.
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One Hour Late
Title: One Hour Late
Character: Stephen Barclay
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose marriage to her.
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Dangerous Corner
Title: Dangerous Corner
Character: Robert Chatfield
Released: December 4, 1934
Type: Movie
Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide.
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The Marines Are Coming
Title: The Marines Are Coming
Character: Capt. Edward 'Ned' Benton
Released: November 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Expelled from his lieutenancy in the Marine Corps, Bill Traylor reenlists as a private. His unit is sent to a Latin American country where a rebel leader called The Torch promotes insurrection. There Traylor encounters again Captain Benton, the man responsible for his disgrace and his rival for the love of a girl.
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Ann Vickers
Title: Ann Vickers
Character: Lindsey Atwell
Released: September 26, 1933
Type: Movie
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
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The Constant Woman
Title: The Constant Woman
Character: Walt Underwood
Released: March 12, 1933
Type: Movie
A mother abandons her family only to become a crispy critter with her lover, the husband finds out about it AND that his son isn't really his, becomes an alcoholic, is being held prisoner in a speak-easy, is rescued by 'Beef', is sobered up, gets a good job, negotiates a great contract for lots 'o money, realizes he's in love, asks the girl to marry him, son returns from boarding school and freaks out when told this, runs off and joins the circus that now happens to catch fire.....
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Fast Life
Title: Fast Life
Character: Burton
Released: December 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all they succeed in doing is sinking the Admiral's barge. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the world. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.
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Kongo
Title: Kongo
Character: Kingsland
Released: October 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the day when he can get revenge on the man who ruined his life.
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Divorce In The Family
Title: Divorce In The Family
Character: Dr. Phil Shumaker
Released: August 27, 1932
Type: Movie
A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932 drama stars Jackie Cooper, Lewis Stone, Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Jean Parker and Louise Beavers.
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The Man Called Back
Title: The Man Called Back
Character: Dr. David Yorke
Released: July 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.
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Hell Divers
Title: Hell Divers
Character: Duke Johnson
Released: January 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
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The Pagan Lady
Title: The Pagan Lady
Character: Ernest Todd
Released: September 7, 1931
Type: Movie
Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a drink that sounds like something you'd consume on a dare. He drinks the concoction down in one swallow and also manages to outsmart Dot's boss and his rum-running hooligans. You see, Dingo is a bootlegger himself. He literally sweeps the lady off her feet and they set up housekeeping in a tropical hotel full of colorful characters, some of whom are in the bootlegging business too.
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The Reckless Hour
Title: The Reckless Hour
Character: Edward 'Eddie' Adams
Released: August 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Seduced and abandoned, with child, by a charming cad, a former New York fashion model learns to detest the male race in general until befriended by a warm-hearted artist-type who shows her that life -- and men -- ain't so bad in this early talkie drama.
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Son of India
Title: Son of India
Character: William Darsay
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.
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Three Who Loved
Title: Three Who Loved
Character: John Hanson
Released: July 3, 1931
Type: Movie
A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.
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The Bad Sister
Title: The Bad Sister
Character: Dr. Dick Lindley
Released: March 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
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East Lynne
Title: East Lynne
Character: Robert Carlyle
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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The Right of Way
Title: The Right of Way
Character: Charley 'Beauty' Steele
Released: December 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients. In search of the thief, Steele is attacked and left for dead. He is rescued by a kindly couple, but suffers from amnesia. He starts life afresh and is happy, until the return of his memory sends him back to resolve his old involvements.
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Free Love
Title: Free Love
Character: Stephen Ferrier
Released: December 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A wife's psychiatrist tells her that she is being dominated by her husband. Her solution is to divorce him.
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Today
Title: Today
Character: Fred Warner
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A wealthy young society couple loses their fortune. When the husband is forced to take a job like everyone else, the wife cannot deal with the sudden downward plunge of her once-privileged life and drifts into prostitution.
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Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Title: Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Character: Cosse de Brissac
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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A Lady Surrenders
Title: A Lady Surrenders
Character: Winthrop Beauvel
Released: October 6, 1930
Type: Movie
A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean trip. He thinks she's left him for good, so he marries another woman. When his first wife returns, complications ensue.
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Numbered Men
Title: Numbered Men
Character: 26521
Released: June 7, 1930
Type: Movie
Prison drama from 1930. Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded King Callahan, set events in motion to prove that love and justice will prevail.
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One Romantic Night
Title: One Romantic Night
Character: Dr. Nicholas Haller
Released: April 30, 1930
Type: Movie
A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.
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The Divorcee
Title: The Divorcee
Character: Paul
Released: April 19, 1930
Type: Movie
When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind.
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Redemption
Title: Redemption
Character: Victor Karenin
Released: April 5, 1930
Type: Movie
In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée. Fedya quickly tires of domestic life and resumes his profligate ways, drinking and gambling away his family's fortune. Lisa refuses to leave him despite his deplorable ways, so he takes drastic measures to ensure that she will no longer be harmed by his actions and reputation.
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Second Wife
Title: Second Wife
Character: Walter Fairchild
Released: February 9, 1930
Type: Movie
A man's pregnant second wife gets upset when he decides to go overseas to his young son, who may be dying of typhoid fever.
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The Ship from Shanghai
Title: The Ship from Shanghai
Character: Howard Vazey
Released: January 31, 1930
Type: Movie
On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.
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Dynamite
Title: Dynamite
Character: Roger Towne
Released: December 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn't know and doesn't want to.
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The Sacred Flame
Title: The Sacred Flame
Character: Col. Maurice Taylor
Released: November 24, 1929
Type: Movie
Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is non-functional in most of the physical areas of marriage that count, but Stella attends to his other needs faithfully for three years. Then his brother, Colin, shows up from South America, and he and Stella fall passionately in love and are making plans to run away together. Mother Taylor is aware of the romance, as is Nurse Weyland, who is secretly in love with Maurice, and now hates Stella for her careless attitude toward Maurice's patiently-borne sufferings. Maurice is also aware of the affair. He has a talk with his wife and brother. Complications arise.
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The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Title: The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Character: Self - Master of Ceremonies
Released: November 23, 1929
Type: Movie
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
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The Kiss
Title: The Kiss
Character: André Dubail
Released: November 15, 1929
Type: Movie
An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.
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The Thirteenth Chair
Title: The Thirteenth Chair
Character: Richard Crosby
Released: October 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.
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The Idle Rich
Title: The Idle Rich
Character: William van Luyn
Released: June 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her family, part of "the great middle class" (as blowhard nephew Henry keeps reminding us), is happy for Joan, but reluctant to take charity from Will. He moves in with them, and they keep resisting, until one day he takes drastic action.
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Kid Gloves
Title: Kid Gloves
Character: Kid Gloves
Released: March 23, 1929
Type: Movie
When a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker Kid Gloves and a trio of bootleggers, Ruth is injured. She is taken to a nearby apartment, and The Kid helps to care for her. John Stone, Ruth's fiance and a bootlegger with a respectable front, finds them together and blackmails The Kid into marrying the girl.
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The Redeeming Sin
Title: The Redeeming Sin
Character: Dr. Raoul de Boise
Released: February 16, 1929
Type: Movie
The Redeeming Sin (1929) is a crime drama part-talking silent film with Vitaphone music and sound effects. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and stars Dolores Costello. This film is currently a lost film.
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The Michigan Kid
Title: The Michigan Kid
Character: Jimmy Cowan, the Michigan Kid
Released: October 20, 1928
Type: Movie
The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to his hometown and impress the girl he loves. His childhood rival for the girl happens to turn up at his casino, in trouble and doesn't want his girl to find about it.
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: Narrator of Spoken Credit Titles (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
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Caught in the Fog
Title: Caught in the Fog
Character: Bob Vickers
Released: August 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Wealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles upon a bobbed-hair bandit and her male accomplice, who mistake him for another burglar. A fight is broken up by the arrival of an elderly couple (still more burglars) who are posing as guests. Bob keeps his identity secret and passes himself off as the butler; the girl and her partner pretend to be the maid and the cook. A couple of idiotic detectives, arrive on the scene, closely followed by a heavy fog that traps them all on board.
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State Street Sadie
Title: State Street Sadie
Character: Ralph Blake
Released: August 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery.
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The Mysterious Lady
Title: The Mysterious Lady
Character: Capt. Karl von Raden
Released: August 4, 1928
Type: Movie
A beautiful Russian spy seduces an Austrian military officer in order to obtain secret plans. When she falls in love with him, both are placed in danger.
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Diamond Handcuffs
Title: Diamond Handcuffs
Character: John
Released: May 5, 1928
Type: Movie
German actress Lena Malena starred in this lavishly budgeted and potentially intriguing melodrama about the influence of a valuable gem on its owners.
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Glorious Betsy
Title: Glorious Betsy
Character: Jérôme Bonaparte
Released: April 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
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Tenderloin
Title: Tenderloin
Character: Chuck White
Released: March 14, 1928
Type: Movie
Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the gang that uses the place as their hangout. Chuck's interest in her is only just as another toy to play with. Rose is unknowingly placed in a position in which she is implicated in a crime which she knows nothing about.
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If I Were Single
Title: If I Were Single
Character: Ted Howard
Released: December 17, 1927
Type: Movie
Rich girl Joan Whitney does her flirtatious best to break up the marriage of May and Ted Howard and almost succeeds, but not before May Howard has a light flirtation with a light-in-the-slippers specimen named Claude.
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London After Midnight
Title: London After Midnight
Character: Arthur Hibbs
Released: December 3, 1927
Type: Movie
The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants. (This movie was lost in 1965 during a fire.)
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The Girl from Chicago
Title: The Girl from Chicago
Character: Handsome Joe
Released: November 9, 1927
Type: Movie
Mary Carlton, who lives with her invalid father on a cotton plantation, receives a letter from Bob, her brother, in New York, stating that he faces death in the electric chair for a crime of which he claims to be innocent. Determined to save him, she goes there, learns of his association with an underworld gang, and begins to suspect Handsome Joe of a connection with the crime.
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Quality Street
Title: Quality Street
Character: Dr. Valentine Brown
Released: November 1, 1927
Type: Movie
A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she disguises herself as her own niece in order to test his loyalty.
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Slightly Used
Title: Slightly Used
Character: Major John Smith
Released: September 3, 1927
Type: Movie
Slightly Used film
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Life in Hollywood No. 7
Title: Life in Hollywood No. 7
Character: Himself
Released: August 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
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Heaven on Earth
Title: Heaven on Earth
Character: Edmond Durand
Released: March 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Young Edmond Durand (Conrad Nagel) has been reared under the autocratic influence of his aunt (Marcia Manon), who directs a large silk mill in southern France. He revolts against a stifling career planned for him and leaves home with Marcelle, a Gypsy girl (Renée Adorée). They roam the countryside with a Gypsy caravan in romantic bliss; they are inadvertently separated but at the outbreak of war are reunited. When peace is restored, the lovers find happiness together.
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Tin Hats
Title: Tin Hats
Character: Jack Benson
Released: November 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Three United States soldiers are lost in the Rhineland on Armistice Day and accepted as conquering overlords by a village... except for Lady Bountiful.
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There You Are!
Title: There You Are!
Character: George Fenwick
Released: November 28, 1926
Type: Movie
George is a clerk who captures a bandit and in return gets the boss' daughter.
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The Waning Sex
Title: The Waning Sex
Character: Philip Barry
Released: September 5, 1926
Type: Movie
Nina Duane is a criminal lawyer whose gender was professionally resented by Philip Barry, the District Attorney. She wins acquittal for man-chasing widow Mary Booth, then defeats her in romancing the D.A.
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The Exquisite Sinner
Title: The Exquisite Sinner
Character: Dominique Prad
Released: March 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man who forsakes the humdrum business world for the bohemian life of an artist. Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was dissatisfied with the picture and refused to release it. When the film finally surfaced in 1926 (a full year after its completion), it had been radically altered by staff director Phil Rosen.
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Memory Lane
Title: Memory Lane
Character: Jimmy Holt
Released: February 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of their relationship.
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Dance Madness
Title: Dance Madness
Character: Roger Halladay
Released: January 4, 1926
Type: Movie
May s married to Roger, an alcoholic hell-raiser. During one of their riotous parties, she tests his fidelity by impersonating a notorious masked dancer and trying to seduce him.
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The Only Thing
Title: The Only Thing
Character: Harry Vane, Duke of Chevenix
Released: November 22, 1925
Type: Movie
Thyra arrives in Chekia to wed its old and ugly king. The Duke falls in love with her. A revolution erupts and the king is assassinated. Chief revolutionary Gigberto also falls in love with Thyra. The revolutionaries plan to drown Thyra and Gigberto in a boat, but the Duke takes Gigberto's place. And the loving couple are rescued.
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Lights of Old Broadway
Title: Lights of Old Broadway
Character: Dirk de Rhonde
Released: October 31, 1925
Type: Movie
Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums.
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Sun-Up
Title: Sun-Up
Character: Rufe
Released: September 20, 1925
Type: Movie
When she hears her boy has been killed in WWI a vengeful Kentucky hills mother shelters a deserter as a protest.When the boy returns she asks him to kill the deserter who she learns is the son of a murderous revenue agent.
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Pretty Ladies
Title: Pretty Ladies
Character: Maggie's Dream Lover
Released: September 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to another, they fall in love and get married. Al becomes a famous songwriter and Maggie stays home and has children. One day Al is hired to write a big number for Selma Larson, one of the Follies' most beautiful stars, and falls for her.
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Cheaper to Marry
Title: Cheaper to Marry
Character: Dick Tyler
Released: February 9, 1925
Type: Movie
Dick Tyler is the junior partner in the law firm of Knight and Tyler. He tries to convince his partner, Jim Tyler, than it's cheaper to be married than to continually "play the field". The main reason he's doing that is because Jim is obsessed with the beautiful Evelyn, a gold-digger on whom Jim is spending prodigious amounts of money. Things take a turn for the worse when his spending on her gets to the point where it's placing the firm dangerously close to bankruptcy. Something has to be done.
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Excuse Me
Title: Excuse Me
Character: Harry Mallory
Released: January 19, 1925
Type: Movie
A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.
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So This Is Marriage?
Title: So This Is Marriage?
Character: Peter Marsh
Released: November 26, 1924
Type: Movie
The only known copy of this film copy was reported to have been destroyed in the 1967 MGM Vault fire.
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The Snob
Title: The Snob
Character: Herrick Appleton
Released: November 10, 1924
Type: Movie
Two schoolteachers, married for love, are parted by the husband's obsessive desire for wealth and social position.
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Married Flirts
Title: Married Flirts
Character: Perley Rex
Released: October 27, 1924
Type: Movie
Nelly is so intent on her writing career, that she neglects her appearance and her husband, Wayne. Jill Wetherell, who is looking for a rich husband, finds Wayne to be easy prey and Nelly catches them together. She divorces Wayne and travels to Europe. Jill, however, throws Wayne over for Perley Rex.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Title: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Character: Angel Clare
Released: August 11, 1924
Type: Movie
A young girl is seduced and raped by an older middle class man in Victorian England. After moving on with her path, she gets married. All is well until her husband discovers her past. Leading her on a life of wandering, murder, and execution.
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The Rejected Woman
Title: The Rejected Woman
Character: John Leslie
Released: May 4, 1924
Type: Movie
Diane Duprez falls in love with Leslie in the snows of a Canadian village. And when they are trapped by a blizzard, her father thinks wrong of her...
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Three Weeks
Title: Three Weeks
Character: Paul Verdayne
Released: February 10, 1924
Type: Movie
A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks.
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Name the Man
Title: Name the Man
Character: Victor Stowell
Released: January 27, 1924
Type: Movie
Victor Stowell, son of the deemster of the Isle of Man, is engaged to Fenella Stanley. He becomes involved in an intrigue with local girl Bessie Collister, becomes the deemster on his father's death, and is forced to try Bessie for killing her illegitimate child.
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Lawful Larceny
Title: Lawful Larceny
Character: Andrew Dorsey
Released: July 22, 1923
Type: Movie
During his wife's absence, Andrew Dorsey is snared by Vivian Hepburn, owner of a crooked gambling house, and her silent partner, Guy Tarlow. Dorsey loses so much money that Vivian persuades him to give her one of his firm's checks for a large sum of money. Hearing her husband's confession, Marion Dorsey, returned from Europe, determines to retrieve the check.
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Bella Donna
Title: Bella Donna
Character: Nigel Armine
Released: March 31, 1923
Type: Movie
Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
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Singed Wings
Title: Singed Wings
Character: Peter Gordon
Released: November 26, 1922
Type: Movie
Singed Wings 1922
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The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
Title: The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
Character: John Helstan
Released: October 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Lance Bellew ignores his wife, Betty, for his mistress, Naomi Templeton, but becomes so enraged when he finds Betty in the company of Jerry Woodruff that he shoots this family friend.
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Nice People
Title: Nice People
Character: Scotty White
Released: July 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Teddy Gloucester, one of the group of jazz age "nice people," is caught in a farmhouse during a storm with her intoxicated companion, Scotty. A stranger (Billy Wade) also seeking shelter saves her from Scotty's unwelcome attentions but not from the scandal which results from her father's discovery of her and Scotty--alone--the next morning. Hurt by the snubbing she receives from her friends, Teddy settles down and agrees to become an old-fashioned wife to Billy.
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A Trip to Paramountown
Title: A Trip to Paramountown
Character: Self
Released: July 10, 1922
Type: Movie
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
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The Ordeal
Title: The Ordeal
Character: Dr. Robert Acton
Released: May 21, 1922
Type: Movie
Sybil marries George Bruce, an alcoholic 20 years her senior, In order to provide for her crippled sister, Helen, and her brother, Geoffrey. Bruce becomes jealous of Sybil's attentions to young physician Robert Acton, and when Bruce suffers a heart attack and calls for digitalis, Sybil allows the vial to break and he dies.
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Saturday Night
Title: Saturday Night
Character: Richard Prentiss
Released: January 29, 1922
Type: Movie
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class differences lead to divorces and remarriages.
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Fool's Paradise
Title: Fool's Paradise
Character: Arthur Phelps
Released: December 9, 1921
Type: Movie
In a Mexican border town Arthur befriends cantina girl Poll. She falls for him but he still loves the dancer Rosa. When the cigar Poll gives him explodes and blinds him, Arthur is duped into thinking Poll is Rosa and marries her. When his vision is surgically restored, he leaves for Siam to find Rosa.
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Sacred and Profane Love
Title: Sacred and Profane Love
Character: Emilie Diaz, a pianist
Released: May 22, 1921
Type: Movie
Carlotta Peel, who though sheltered from the facts of life by her Victorian aunt has acquired some knowledge from indiscriminate reading, meets Diaz, a celebrated pianist, at a concert and spends the evening with him. Later, in London, she acquires fame as a novelist and is followed to France by married publisher Frank Ispenlove, who commits suicide when she spurns him. In Paris, Carlotta finds Diaz a physical wreck from drinking absinthe and devotes herself to his regeneration.
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The Lost Romance
Title: The Lost Romance
Character: Allen Erskine, M.D
Released: May 8, 1921
Type: Movie
Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by staging the kidnaping of her nephew's son, in the hope that the married couple will be drawn closer together by the experience.
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What Every Woman Knows
Title: What Every Woman Knows
Character: John Shand
Released: April 24, 1921
Type: Movie
What Every Woman Knows (1934)
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Midsummer Madness
Title: Midsummer Madness
Character: Julian Osborne
Released: January 23, 1921
Type: Movie
Because Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson) feels the romance has ebbed away from their marriage. One night, while Meredith is at the office, family friend Julian Osborn (Conrad Nagel) -- whose own spouse (Lila Lee) is out of town -takes Margaret to a dance. They wind up at a hunting lodge and begin to get carried away, but stop before things get out of hand. The pair agree to keep their encounter a secret, but unfortunately, they've been seen and word gets back to their spouses.
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Forbidden Fruit
Title: Forbidden Fruit
Character: Actor In Play 'Forbidden Fruit' (uncredited)
Released: January 3, 1921
Type: Movie
Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no real prospects of earning money. Mary's employers, are trying to strike an oil related business deal with a rich man by the name of Nelson Rogers. The deal does not seem to be on the table, as Mr. Rogers is leaving town shortly and does not have the time to work out the details of such a deal. In an order to entice him to stay, Mrs. Mallory - wife of Mr. Mallory who is proposing the business deal - convinces Mary to be her guest at a dinner party with the intent of making Mr. Rogers fall for her and thus stay long enough for Mr. Mallory to make him agree to a business deal.
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Unseen Forces
Title: Unseen Forces
Character: Clyde Brunton
Released: November 29, 1920
Type: Movie
In the film, Breamer’s character, Miriam Holt (“the girl who sees around corners”), proves her psychic powers by locating children who went missing during the war. Her childhood love Clyde Brunton (Conrad Nagel) is unhappily married to a social climber, but Miriam’s ability to commune with the spirits of the dead (“those we love are always with us”) finds a way to resolve the problem.
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The Fighting Chance
Title: The Fighting Chance
Character: Stephen Siward
Released: August 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Sylvia Landis promises to marry the wealthy but unprincipled Quarrier because of his social standing. Avarice is the only emotion that Sylvia feels towards her fiance, and when she meets Stephen Siward, a young man afflicted with alcoholism, she falls in love.
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Little Women
Title: Little Women
Character: Laurie Laurence
Released: November 30, 1918
Type: Movie
Jo March and her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy live in a happy family in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo yearns to be a writer, and through the course of the years, finds much within her own family.