Sidney D'Albrook

Sidney D'Albrook

Born: May 3, 1886
Died: May 30, 1948
in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Movies for Sidney D'Albrook...

Slightly Dangerous
Title: Slightly Dangerous
Character: Customer (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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Mrs. Miniver
Title: Mrs. Miniver
Character: Man in Store (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
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The Man Who Returned to Life
Title: The Man Who Returned to Life
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
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Mystery Sea Raider
Title: Mystery Sea Raider
Character: Man on Wharf
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
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North West Mounted Police
Title: North West Mounted Police
Character: Anton
Released: October 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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Third Finger, Left Hand
Title: Third Finger, Left Hand
Character: Man at Railroad Station
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
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Our Leading Citizen
Title: Our Leading Citizen
Character: Workman
Released: August 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Stand Up and Fight
Title: Stand Up and Fight
Character: Deputy
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Trustee (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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The Chaser
Title: The Chaser
Character: Motorman
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
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Arsène Lupin Returns
Title: Arsène Lupin Returns
Character: Detective Alois (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Townsman
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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Trailing Trouble
Title: Trailing Trouble
Character: Stagecoach Passenger
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
When mild mannered Friendly Fields is sent to the Blair ranch to work, he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw Blackie Burke. When a drought develops and the ranchers look for new grazing land, he plays the part and forces them to give he best plot to his boss Miss Blair. But no sooner than his mother arrives to expose the hoax, the real Blackie also arrives.
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Boots of Destiny
Title: Boots of Destiny
Character: Sheriff (as Sis D'Albrook)
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Both Harmon and his men and a Mexican gang are after a treasure hidden on the Wilson ranch. Acey learns of their raid and goes to get Ken only to find him in jail for a murder he did not commit.
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The Man Who Found Himself
Title: The Man Who Found Himself
Character: Waiter
Released: April 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane that Jim crashes was a married woman, the resulting scandal prompts the hospital to put Jim on probation. His pride wounded, Jim takes to the open road and enjoys the simpler life of a vagabond. In Los Angeles--where he is arrested for vagrancy and put to work on a road crew--Jim runs into old pal Dick Miller, who gets him a job as a mechanic for Roberts Aviation. But maintaining his anonymity becomes more difficult, particularly when a pretty nurse, Doris King, decides to make Jim's redemption her personal crusade.
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Maid of Salem
Title: Maid of Salem
Character: Hunter (Uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
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The Country Doctor
Title: The Country Doctor
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
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Give Us This Night
Title: Give Us This Night
Character: Prisoner
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
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Journal of a Crime
Title: Journal of a Crime
Character: Truck Driver (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
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Night Flight
Title: Night Flight
Character: Airport Office Employee (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
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Huddle
Title: Huddle
Character: Job Foreman (uncredited)
Released: May 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale college. Over the four years of his college career he learns about football, love, and class prejudice.
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Corsair
Title: Corsair
Released: November 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.
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The Bat Whispers
Title: The Bat Whispers
Character: Police Sergeant
Released: November 13, 1930
Type: Movie
Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of the criminal as well. Meanwhile, Cornelia Van Gorder has various people arrive at her old mansion, including her niece, Dale, a bank employee, and police detective Anderson. When guests start turning up dead, Cornelia begins to suspect that The Bat may be lurking around the estate.
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Liliom
Title: Liliom
Character: Suicidal Train Passenger
Released: September 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends.
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Call of the Flesh
Title: Call of the Flesh
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1930
Type: Movie
A student nun falls in love with a Mexican singer starring in a cafe next door to her convent.
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Midnight Mystery
Title: Midnight Mystery
Character: Barker
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A fog-shrouded house provides the setting for this early talkies thriller.
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Party Girl
Title: Party Girl
Character: Investigator
Released: January 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a web involving an escort service or 'party girls' and trapped into an unhappy marriage.
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The Valiant
Title: The Valiant
Character: Prison Guard (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1929
Type: Movie
A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.
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Ship Ahoy
Title: Ship Ahoy
Character: Ship's Officer
Released: March 11, 1929
Type: Movie
Comedian Pat West performs his vaudeville act.
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The Matinee Idol
Title: The Matinee Idol
Character: J. Madison Wilberforce (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1928
Type: Movie
The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don?
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The King of Kings
Title: The King of Kings
Character: Thomas, the Doubter
Released: April 19, 1927
Type: Movie
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
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The Princess from Hoboken
Title: The Princess from Hoboken
Character: Tony
Released: March 1, 1927
Type: Movie
To enliven their business, the O'Tooles, restaurant owners in Hoboken, New Jersey, transform their restaurant into the Russian Inn when they hear that a famous Russian princess is stranded in Chicago. Sheila, the daughter, is persuaded to impersonate the princess, who unfortunately arrives at the restaurant on opening night.
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So This Is Paris
Title: So This Is Paris
Character: French Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: July 31, 1926
Type: Movie
Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers in revealing outfits, she demands Paul speak to them about their lack of morality. Paul discovers that the woman is Georgette Lalle, an old flame.
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Transcontinental Limited
Title: Transcontinental Limited
Character: Telegraph Operator
Released: February 4, 1926
Type: Movie
War veteran returns home to find his sweetheart totally upset. Her father will lose his sight unless she can get funds for an expensive procedure. He and some army mates hatch a plot. For the railway safe to be utilized. A rival though robs the safe and the money is taken by the pals. A train journey later involving high speed the money is needed before the rival can send the hero to prison.
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Charley My Boy!
Title: Charley My Boy!
Character: Assistant
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A daughter's rich father wants to marry her off to a rich but older man. The daughter has other ideas however and sets out to find a nice young man she can fall in love with.
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Without Mercy
Title: Without Mercy
Character: Sugden - Craven's Butler
Released: October 4, 1925
Type: Movie
In this silent melodrama Sir Melmoth Craven is running against John Orme for a seat in Parliament. Orme is an honest man, but Craven is on the shady side. For campaign money, he borrows money from an equally shady establishment called Gordon, Ltd. Orme's sweetheart, Margaret Garth, becomes infatuated with Craven, much to the dismay of her mother, Enid.
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Hot Stuff
Title: Hot Stuff
Character: Brother Ambrose
Released: November 1, 1924
Type: Movie
In the 16th episode of Hal Roach's Spat Family series, the Spats order a fire engine from a mail catalogue-- and soon they'll need it!
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Stolen Goods
Title: Stolen Goods
Character: Store Detective
Released: June 29, 1924
Type: Movie
A man starts working in a department store and has to deal with a female kleptomaniac.
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Heavy Seas
Title: Heavy Seas
Character: Brother Ambrose
Released: October 7, 1923
Type: Movie
Second release in 'The Spat Family' series of 2-reel comedies. In this episode the three of them win a yacht in a tombola and quarrel over the captaincy while Mrs TS goes swimming and risks getting lost.
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The Call of the Wild
Title: The Call of the Wild
Character: Charles
Released: September 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A dog is stolen from his home in England and shipped to Canada to become a sled dog. Based on the novel by Jack London.
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Let's Build
Title: Let's Build
Character: Ambrose
Released: September 16, 1923
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Angelica and J. Tewkesbury Spat along with Mrs. Spat's brother Ambrose decide to build a house. It is finished in only 48 hours, but their carpentry skills may not be up to snuff. The first episode of The Spat Family series.
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West of Chicago
Title: West of Chicago
Character: English Kid
Released: September 3, 1922
Type: Movie
West of Chicago is a 1922 American silent western film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and starring Buck Jones, Renée Adorée and Philo McCullough.
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Across the Continent
Title: Across the Continent
Character: Tom Bryce
Released: June 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Jimmy Dent , son of John Dent, the maker of the reliable but plain Dent automobile, is dismissed from the firm after he refuses to drive a Dent. He goes west with the Tyler family, owners of a rival automobile firm, in one of their expensive high speed cars. 
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Over the Border
Title: Over the Border
Character: Snow Devil
Released: June 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Jen Galbraith is in love with Sgt. Tom Flaherty of the Royal Mounted. She is the daughter of Peter Galbraith, who is engaged in smuggling moonshine whiskey across the Canadian border. When she tries to warn her father and brother of the approaching police, she is arrested with the entire gang.
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Roman Candles
Title: Roman Candles
Released: April 1, 1922
Type: Movie
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Little Miss Smiles
Title: Little Miss Smiles
Character: The Spider
Released: January 15, 1922
Type: Movie
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The Right Way
Title: The Right Way
Character: The Poor Boy
Released: February 28, 1921
Type: Movie
Two young boys get in trouble with the law and wind up in prison. One, who was raised in poverty in the slums, goes to a reformatory and picks up tips on how to become a master criminal.
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The Son of Wallingford
Title: The Son of Wallingford
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Lost film.
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The Lost Battalion
Title: The Lost Battalion
Character: The Burglar
Released: July 2, 1919
Type: Movie
World War I, October 1918. The more than 500 men of the 77th Infantry Division of the United States Army, who have been recruited in New York City and trained in Yaphank, are sent to France, to help break down the German defenses located in the Argonne forest…
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Life's Greatest Problem
Title: Life's Greatest Problem
Character: An Agitator
Released: November 3, 1918
Type: Movie
Big Steve and Little Lefty, a pair of hobos, are happily drifting through life until the First World War comes and enter it and find their lives forever changed.
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Heart of the Wilds
Title: Heart of the Wilds
Character: Grey Cloud
Released: September 1, 1918
Type: Movie
In the Canadian Northwest, Jen Galbraith lives in a tavern with her brother Val and her father Peter, a bootlegger who sells whiskey to the Indians. Val's friend Pierre resolves to win Jen, even though she is in love with Sergeant Tom Gellatly of the Mounted Police. When Val tries to retrieve some liquor sold illegally by the elder Galbraith to an Indian named Grey Cloud, the Indian insults Jen and Val shoots him. Tom is assigned to track down the murderer, but after he arrives at the tavern, Galbraith and Pierre drug him. Jen delivers the papers he is carrying to police headquarters, but when she discovers that they contain orders to arrest her brother, she shoots Tom to prevent him from going after Val.
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Draft 258
Title: Draft 258
Character: Italian
Released: November 15, 1917
Type: Movie
Mary Alden and her brothers Matthew and George have extremely different political views. Matthew is a committed pacifist, and is constantly giving speeches against war. George is notified that his draft number, 258, has been called and to report for induction, but he refuses. Mary, on the other hand, is intensely patriotic and comes up with a plan to shame him into reporting for induction. Meanwhile, Matthew is being set up for a patsy by a gang of German secret agents, led by Van Bierman, who are planning to blow up an airplane factory.
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Two Little Imps
Title: Two Little Imps
Character: Burglar
Released: July 8, 1917
Type: Movie
Jane and Katharine are the sweetest youngsters in the world, in their mother's eyes. The family is summering at a seaside resort when mama is called to town for a week. Not wishing to interrupt her darling's good time, she has her young bachelor brother come to the hotel to take care of the children until she returns. "Billy" Parke undertakes the job.
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The Dancer's Peril
Title: The Dancer's Peril
Character: Boris
Released: March 12, 1917
Type: Movie
The Grand Duke Alexis has been happy with his wife, Lola, formerly the queen of the St. Petersburg ballet, and their baby daughter, Vasta. But the lowering cloud that has always hung over them through the refusal of the Russian Court to recognize their marriage breaks when the Duke learns there is an intrigue against his wife's life.
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The Gilded Cage
Title: The Gilded Cage
Character: Nickolai
Released: October 9, 1916
Type: Movie
In The Gilded Cage, Alice Brady plays Princess Honore, who falls in love with a handsome prince who doesn't know her true identity (nor does she know his).
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The Power of the Press
Title: The Power of the Press
Released: October 1, 1914
Type: Movie
An innocent man, serving a sentence of five years in prison through the perjured testimony of the real criminal, Steve Carson, foreman of a shipyard, strikes up a warm friendship with his cellmate, Harold Norwood, a defaulting paying teller. No less strange than their friendship is the befriending of Steve's wife, Annie, by Julia Seymour, prima donna, who is Norwood's wife. As a reward of good behavior, the men are released on Christmas morning. Annie is bewildered by the receipt of a bank book which shows that large deposits of gold have been made in her name and that of her sister, Mary, by their uncle, George Hosford, who, dying in Alaska, has entrusted the book to Joe Hawes, a fellow prospector.