Jane Novak

Jane Novak

Born: January 11, 1896
Died: February 3, 1990
in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Movies for Jane Novak...

Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
Title: Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
Character: Self
Released: November 15, 1989
Type: Movie
A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.
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Scared Stiff
Title: Scared Stiff
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1953
Type: Movie
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...
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The Furies
Title: The Furies
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1950
Type: Movie
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.
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The File on Thelma Jordon
Title: The File on Thelma Jordon
Character: Mrs. Blackwell
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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Desert Fury
Title: Desert Fury
Character: Mrs. Lindquist
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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Man of Courage
Title: Man of Courage
Character: Mrs. Black
Released: January 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A crusading district attorney tries to stop a local mob boss who has connections in high places.
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The Yanks Are Coming
Title: The Yanks Are Coming
Character: Flora
Released: November 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A popular band joins the army with the idea of putting on shows for troops overseas. During rehearsals, a battle erupts and the musicians must exchange their musical instruments for guns and fight.
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Gallant Lady
Title: Gallant Lady
Character: Lucy Walker
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
A female doctor is sent to prison for a mercy killing. She manages to escape, get married and lead a model life, but one day her secret is exposed.
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Foreign Correspondent
Title: Foreign Correspondent
Character: Miss Benson (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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Hollywood Boulevard
Title: Hollywood Boulevard
Character: Mrs. Steinman
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
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Ghost Town
Title: Ghost Town
Character: Rose
Released: February 15, 1936
Type: Movie
An old miner is ambushed by outlaws trying to steal the $10,000 he is carrying to start up a new mine. A passing cowboy comes to the miner's aid, but winds up getting blamed for the attack.
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Redskin
Title: Redskin
Character: Judith Stearns
Released: September 22, 1929
Type: Movie
Wing Foot is a Navajo educated in an otherwise all-white school. He experiences prejudice from both the whites (because of his race) and the Navajos (who disown him because of his upbringing). Thus, Wing Foot is looked upon as neither Indian nor white, but simply a "redskin".
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What Price Love?
Title: What Price Love?
Character: Ruth Randall
Released: August 30, 1927
Type: Movie
A man who has been jilted by the woman he loves sets out to recover her stolen jewels in order that she can be happy with her new husband.
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One Increasing Purpose
Title: One Increasing Purpose
Character: Alice Paris
Released: January 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of his comrades died in battle, Paris returns home with nary a scratch. This convinces him that his life has a "greater purpose" in the scheme of things, so he sets about to find that purpose.
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The Danger Signal
Title: The Danger Signal
Character: Mary Browning
Released: January 26, 1926
Type: Movie
A recently widowed and destitute young mother (Jane Novak) appeals to her wealthy and heartless father-in-law (Robert Edeson) for financial aid. Instead, he convinces her to hand over her new baby to his care so that the child will be brought up with "everything money can buy." Unbeknownst to the grandfather, we learn that there are twin sons and our heroine keeps one baby to raise herself. The narrative jumps ahead to the boy's twenty-first birthday and we see what's become of them. Not surprisingly, the wealthy son has grown up spoiled and greedy while the poor one works hard and loves his mother.
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The Prude's Fall
Title: The Prude's Fall
Character: Beatrice Audley
Released: November 23, 1925
Type: Movie
A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.
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Lazybones
Title: Lazybones
Character: Agnes Fanning
Released: November 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.
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The Blackguard
Title: The Blackguard
Character: Princess Marie Idourska
Released: September 4, 1925
Type: Movie
A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..
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The Man Without a Heart
Title: The Man Without a Heart
Released: January 1, 1924
Type: Movie
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The Man Life Passed By
Title: The Man Life Passed By
Character: Hope Moore (courtesy of Chester Bennett)
Released: December 24, 1923
Type: Movie
The Man Life Passed By (1923)
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The Rosary
Title: The Rosary
Character: Vera Mather
Released: January 16, 1922
Type: Movie
After his uncle dies, founder of the fishing village of Sandy Bay, Kenwood Wright is cut off with only some marshland while his nephew, Bruce Wilton, inherits the bulk of the estate. Wright is further enraged by the engagement of Vera Mather, whom he loves, to Bruce. Wright joins forces with Donald MacTavish, a pirate captain, and wins the affections of Bruce's sister, Alice, who becomes his victim. Vera, in an attempt to save Alice, becomes involved in the scandal, and Bruce takes back the rosary he has given her to pledge his love.
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Kazan
Title: Kazan
Character: Joan Radisson
Released: October 28, 1921
Type: Movie
Kazan, a dog who reverts to the life of the wild when his master is killed, becomes docile when he develops a loyalty to a girl in distress.
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Three Word Brand
Title: Three Word Brand
Character: Ethel Barton
Released: October 15, 1921
Type: Movie
Ben Trego dies defending his twin sons from Indian attack. Separated, the two boys grow up very differently, one as Paul Marsden, the other as a cowboy named Three Word Brand. Paul becomes governor of Utah while Brand partners with George Barton in a ranch. The owner of the adjacent ranch plots to get Barton and Brand out of the way in order to control water rights. When Governor Marsden comes to the area to investigate, Brand sees the resemblance between them, though neither knows about his twin. Brand waylays Paul and takes his place as governor in an attempt to thwart the crooked rancher in the water rights scheme.
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The Barbarian
Title: The Barbarian
Character: Floria Heatherton
Released: April 29, 1921
Type: Movie
Elliot Straive is a college professor who has left the evils of civilization behind to raise his son Eric in the purity of the Canadian wilderness. James Heatherton sends Mark Grant to get the mining rights to Straive's land as vast deposits of iron ore have been discovered there. Grant arrives as the elder Straive lies dying and has written a final note to his absent son. Grant tears off the portion of the letter with Straive's signature and forges a concession to the mining rights above the signature. Heatherton, dissatisfied with the unwitnessed signature of a dead man, decides to to himself to get Eric Straive to sign the concession. He sends his family on ahead on vacation. The family hires Eric as a guide, thinking him to be a mere backwoods barbarian. Eric and Heatherton's daughter Floria fall in love, but the relationship falters when she confesses that she has lied to him about why they are there. Grant returns upon the scene and tries to force Eric to sign.
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Isobel or the Trail's End
Title: Isobel or the Trail's End
Character: Isobel Dean
Released: December 19, 1920
Type: Movie
In retaliation for an attack upon his wife Isobel, Scottie Dean, a passenger on a whaling ship, throws Captain Jim Blake overboard and, believing that he is responsible for the captain's death, flees to the Northwoods for safety.
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The Golden Trail
Title: The Golden Trail
Character: 'Faro' Kate / Jane Sunderlin
Released: September 1, 1920
Type: Movie
At the Golden Trail saloon in Alaska, Dave Langdon meets chorus girl Faro Kate who reminds him of his long-lost love, Jane Sunderlin. Meanwhile, back in the States, Harry Teal, scheming to steal a mine claim, hires Jane's brother Dick to do his dirty work in Alaska. After Jane accompanies her brother up North, Teal, who has designs on Jane, begins to fear that she will go back to Dave and so plots to discredit him by igniting the jealousy of Kate's admirer, Jim Sykes. Teal succeeds, and in the violent fight that erupts between Dave and Sykes, Sykes is shot by an unknown hand. While pursuing Sykes' assailant, Dave discovers Jane, but their reunion is cut short when Dave is arrested for the shooting.
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The River's End
Title: The River's End
Character: Miriam Kirkstone
Released: February 22, 1920
Type: Movie
In the gold fields of the Canadian Northwest, a man is falsely accused of a crime and determines that a lookalike is responsible.
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Behind the Door
Title: Behind the Door
Character: Alice Morse
Released: December 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Oscar Krug is looked upon with suspicion by his neighbors because of his German name. When the US is drawn into the war with Germany, he enlists and travels the seas with his wife, Alice Morse. During a submarine attack Alice is snatched from Krug's side by a German officer. Krug now lives to have his revenge, and when the opportunity presents itself, he will have it.
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Wagon Tracks
Title: Wagon Tracks
Character: Jane Washburn
Released: July 28, 1919
Type: Movie
Buckskin Hamilton guides a wagon train across the wasteland, caring well for the pioneers he escorts, but hoping to solve the murder of his brother by one of the travellers.
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Man's Desire
Title: Man's Desire
Character: Mary Larkin
Released: July 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Tom Denton comes from the East to the Northwest lumber region and becomes co-owner of a lumber camp with Howard Patton, whose bored wife Vera insists on flirting with Tom despite his discouragement.
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The Fire Flingers
Title: The Fire Flingers
Character: Winifred Olwell
Released: April 21, 1919
Type: Movie
A poor man assumes the identity of a wealthy look-alike after accidentally killing him; his wife prefers the new, non-abusive version and falls in love him.
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The Money Corral
Title: The Money Corral
Character: Rose
Released: April 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Cowhand Lem Beason wins a shooting contest at a Western rodeo, and as a result is hired by railroad president Gregory Collins to return to Chicago with Collins to take charge of security for Collins' vaults. Lem is reluctant to go, but Collins' pretty niece Rose changes his mind. In Chicago, Lem finds a great deal of criminal activity, but none of it can get the best of him.
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Treat 'Em Rough
Title: Treat 'Em Rough
Character: Mary Radford
Released: January 5, 1919
Type: Movie
Cowboy star Tom Mix was cast as Ned Ferguson, a sure-shot frontiersman with a nose for trouble.
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String Beans
Title: String Beans
Character: Jean Morris
Released: December 22, 1918
Type: Movie
Farmer Toby Watkinsm whose fanciful poetry does not impress his exasperated uncle, leaves the farm to become a subscription solicitor for the "Sawbert Weekly Clarion." In Sawbert, Toby meets Mayor Lot Morris' daughter Jean, and the shy young people fall in love. Crooked stock promoter Kendall Reeves arrives in town and unveils his plan to open a string-bean cannery. - From IMDB
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The Temple Of Dusk
Title: The Temple Of Dusk
Character: Ruth Vale
Released: October 20, 1918
Type: Movie
Japanese poet Akira living in Tokyo, loves American Ruth Vale, who was placed in the care of Akira's father when her missionary parents died. Ruth returns Akira's affections until she meets Edward, but the American proves an unfaithful husband. Three years later, Ruth is gravely ill while Edward amuses himself with his new lover, Adrienne Chester, but Akira comforts the dying woman with the promise that he will protect her little daughter Blossom.
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The Claws of the Hun
Title: The Claws of the Hun
Character: Virginia Lee
Released: July 8, 1918
Type: Movie
An American munitions manufacturer and his son become ensnarled with enemy agents from Germany during the First World War.
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Selfish Yates
Title: Selfish Yates
Character: Mary Adams
Released: May 12, 1918
Type: Movie
The story is set in Arizona, where the aptly nicknamed Yates is the proprietor of the local saloon. Unable to find any other work, pretty Mary Adams is forced to scrub floors in Yates' establishment. At first treating her with the same disdain that he extends to the rest of the townsfolk, Yates slowly but surely falls in love with Mary.
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The Tiger Man
Title: The Tiger Man
Character: Ruth Ingram
Released: April 30, 1918
Type: Movie
Outlaw Hawk Parsons, notoriously successful in his pursuits, has been caught by the local sherif of a New Mexico town in the 1850s. The overly prideful sherif and his lawmen are outsmarted and Parsons escapes. In the desert, he falls in with a reverend, his wife, and their group of missionaries, who hope to establish a church. After coming under attack by a tribe of Native Americans, Parsons strikes a deal: in exchange for the safe keeping of the missionaries, he takes the reverend's wife for himself. Ultimately a parable of Christian values, the film's narrative establishes and overcomes obstacles that test the virtue of men in the American West.
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The Eyes of the World
Title: The Eyes of the World
Character: Sybil Andres - Nature
Released: January 27, 1917
Type: Movie
Based on the novel of the same name by Harold Bell Wright, The Eyes of the World was told almost exclusively via flashbacks. The basic plotline concerns a pretty violinist, the handsome artist who falls in love with her, and the double-dyed villain who hopes to seduce the girl.
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The Spirit of '76
Title: The Spirit of '76
Character: Cecil Steuart
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Catherine Montour, a striking half-breed Indian princess, and mistress of King George III aspires to become the first Queen of America when the revolution breaks out.
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The Iron Hand
Title: The Iron Hand
Character: Enid Winslow
Released: May 29, 1916
Type: Movie
After political boss Tim Noland adopts Roy, the infant son of a dead crony, he reluctantly gives the boy up to a doctor who claims that, if raised in an respectable environment, the child will grow into a model citizen. Twenty years later, Roy comes back to live with Tim, and is appalled at his unscrupulous methods of conducting business. Then, he falls in love with Enid Winslow, the daughter of a social reformer who is running for office against Tim. Largely due to Roy's financial support, Winslow wins the election, but, holding a grudge against Tim and anyone connected to him, he refuses to let Enid marry Roy.
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The Target
Title: The Target
Character: Nita
Released: March 6, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Harbor Transportation Trust
Title: The Harbor Transportation Trust
Character: Dorothy Maxwell
Released: February 12, 1916
Type: Movie
Bruce Larnigan, in connection with Jack Stevens, is editing the "Independent," the newspaper which Ben Travers had bought to assist the fight against the trusts.
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The Insurance Swindlers
Title: The Insurance Swindlers
Character: Dorothy Maxwell
Released: February 5, 1916
Type: Movie
The insurance companies, organized in one mighty trust, have been using the policy holders' money to speculate with. Tom Larnigan has announced that he will investigate and proceed against the trust.
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Old King Coal
Title: Old King Coal
Character: Dorothy Maxwell
Released: January 29, 1916
Type: Movie
Stone assures Weisner, head of the Coal Trust, that Larnigan will never start for Pennsylvania. Weisner is skeptical and informs Stone that if he does go he may be killed, as a strike is in progress. Weisner, a little later in Maxwell's home repeats the statement of it being an easy matter to kill Tom should be come to the coal country. Dorothy Maxwell and Kitty Rockford overhear the conversation. They decide to go to the coal country and lend their aid to Tom.
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America Saved from War
Title: America Saved from War
Character: Dorothy Maxwell
Released: January 22, 1916
Type: Movie
The plan is this: a foreign man of war is interned in the harbor. By blowing up this boat, Carney figures that strained relation existing between this country and warring nations will snap and the United States will be drawn into the conflict. This would mean untold orders and profit for the Steel Trust. Stone and Carney plan to carry out the plot with aid of an eccentric inventor named Bill Bean.
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The Railroad Monopoly
Title: The Railroad Monopoly
Character: Dorothy Maxwell
Released: January 15, 1916
Type: Movie
Tom Larnigan, encouraged by his victory over the Textile Trust, turns his attention to the Railroad Monopoly. Tom receives warning from the Graft Trust to cease his activities or suffer the fate of his father and brother.
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Grinding Life Down
Title: Grinding Life Down
Character: Dorothy Maxwell
Released: January 8, 1916
Type: Movie
The experience of Bruce on the grain steamer has been a great shock to Dorothy. She thinks Stone responsible and breaks her engagement, despite the pleadings of her father. Tom Larnigan is working for the Textile Trust in Lyndham. The low wages have caused a strike. Tom does what he can for the workers.
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The Power of the People
Title: The Power of the People
Character: Dorothy Maxwell
Released: January 1, 1916
Type: Movie
Bruce Larnigan finds himself so bitterly opposed by the administration that he resigns his office as District Attorney. He enters into an agreement with Editor Nash of the Independent, whereby he intends to continue his attacks on the criminal trusts through the press. His first effort is directed against the combine of the grain interests and the subsequent raising of the price of bread. His investigation takes him to Chicago. Stone immediately has a tough character, known as "Red Mike," sent after him with instructions that he must prevent the return of Larnigan if possible, but there will be no reward unless the fatality "looks like an accident."
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Graft
Title: Graft
Character: Dorothy Maxwell
Released: December 11, 1915
Type: Movie
Graft is a 1915 silent drama
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The Greater Courage
Title: The Greater Courage
Character: Jane
Released: October 21, 1915
Type: Movie
The Greater Courage is a 1915 silent film.
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A Little Brother of the Rich
Title: A Little Brother of the Rich
Character: Sylvia Castle
Released: September 6, 1915
Type: Movie
While working his way through college, Paul Potter acquires a flock of wealthy friends who encourage him to give up his hometown fiancée, Sylvia Castle, for Muriel Evers, a flirtatious married woman. After Sylvia releases Paul, and Muriel's husband divorces her for infidelity, Paul and Muriel marry. Meanwhile, when Sylvia's father dies after being ruined in the stock market, she goes from one job to another in the city until she tries acting in a stock company. There she befriends Henry Leamington, an alcoholic leading man, who, as he tutors her, falls in love and stops drinking because of her. When Paul discovers Muriel's unfaithfulness, he renews his acquaintance with Sylvia, who still loves him.
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The Scarlet Sin
Title: The Scarlet Sin
Character: Cecelia Nortn
Released: August 2, 1915
Type: Movie
Against the wishes of Cecelia, his wife, the Reverend Eric Norton leaves his position in a fashionable New York congregation to preach in a poor mining town.
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The Hungry Actors
Title: The Hungry Actors
Character: Jane
Released: June 17, 1915
Type: Movie
The Hungry Actors is a 1915 Comedy short.
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From Italy's Shores
Title: From Italy's Shores
Character: Angelica
Released: May 19, 1915
Type: Movie
Tony Gardella and his pretty wife, Angelica, sailed from Italy in the steerage of a Mediterranean liner for New York. They had a small sum saved up to give them a start in the new world. The ordeal of Ellis Island over and the trip to Battery Park on board the municipal ferry boat completed, Tony and Angelica found themselves in a little park in the shadows of the downtown scrapers
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Just Nuts
Title: Just Nuts
Character: The Pretty Girl
Released: April 18, 1915
Type: Movie
Just Nuts is a 1915 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd playing the character that preceded his glasses character. It is also the only surviving film featuring Lloyd as Willie Work
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Willie Runs the Park
Title: Willie Runs the Park
Character: The Pretty Girl
Released: January 2, 1915
Type: Movie
Willie Runs the Park is a 1915 Comedy short.
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A Little Madonna
Title: A Little Madonna
Released: April 22, 1914
Type: Movie
Terrorized by Guido, her drunken and brutal father, Marie receives assurance from her dying mother that the Madonna will always protect her. The father reels in just after the mother has expired, too drunk to realize the woman is dead, and finding the whiskey bottle empty, abuses the child. Marie appeals to the image of the Madonna and Guido, in a frenzy of rage, smashes it on the floor. Horrified at the sacrilege, Marie screams.
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The Kiss
Title: The Kiss
Character: Mazie - a Saleslady
Released: April 14, 1914
Type: Movie
Directed by Ulysses Davis, the screenplay was based on a story by Marc Edmund Jones. Long thought to have been a lost film, a copy was found and put on YouTube. The film is the only known surviving film in which director William Desmond Taylor appears as an actor. In 1964 Taylor's co-star Margaret Gibson, shortly before her death, reportedly confessed to having murdered him in 1921.