Patsy Ruth Miller

Patsy Ruth Miller

Born: January 17, 1904
Died: July 16, 1995
in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Patsy Ruth Miller (born Ruth Mae Miller; January 17, 1904 – July 16, 1995) was an American film actress.

After being discovered by actress Alla Nazimova at a Hollywood party, Miller got her first break with a small role in Camille, which starred Rudolph Valentino. Her roles gradually improved, and she was chosen as a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1922. In 1923, she was acclaimed for her performance as Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame opposite Lon Chaney.

In the later part of the decade Miller appeared chiefly in light romantic comedies, opposite such actors as Clive Brook and Edward Everett Horton. Among her film credits in the late 1920s are Broken Hearts of Hollywood (1926), A Hero for a Night (1927), Hot Heels (1928), and The Aviator (1929). Miller retired from films in 1931. She made a cameo appearance in the 1951 film Quebec, and came out of retirement to do the film Mother in 1978.

Miller later achieved recognition as a writer. She won three O. Henry Awards for her short stories, wrote a novel, radio scripts, and plays. In 1988, BearManor Media published her autobiography My Hollywood: When Both of Us Were Young.

Movies for Patsy Ruth Miller...

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Title: Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Character: Self
Released: October 24, 2000
Type: Movie
Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary.
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Lon Chaney: Behind the Mask
Title: Lon Chaney: Behind the Mask
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A documentary on the life and career of actor Lon Chaney, with clips from his films and interviews with people who knew him.
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That's Dancing!
Title: That's Dancing!
Character: From 'So This is Paris' (archive footage)
Released: January 18, 1985
Type: Movie
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s.
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Quebec
Title: Quebec
Character: Germaine
Released: March 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Story of a revolt against England in 1830s Canada.
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Night Beat
Title: Night Beat
Character: Eleanor Patterson
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A young couple finds themselves mixed up with mobsters planning to rob a warehouse.
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The Great Junction Hotel
Title: The Great Junction Hotel
Character: The Bride
Released: October 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A Masquers' Club spoof short. Newly-weds spend their wedding night in a run-down hotel, watched over by an under-employed house detective. When the bride goes missing, the groom (Horton) is chief suspect number one. Fortunately, the cops are completely incompetent.
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Lonely Wives
Title: Lonely Wives
Character: Kitty 'Minty' Minter
Released: February 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line. When an actor-impersonator comes to see him, the two switch lives.
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The Last of the Lone Wolf
Title: The Last of the Lone Wolf
Character: Stephanie
Released: August 26, 1930
Type: Movie
In this entry in the Lone Wolf series, the first to have a soundtrack, the jealousies of the King and the coquettish Queen are chronicled. When His Majesty learns that his wife has given the ring he gave to her to her lover, the King plans a large ball and demands the she wear the token. As her lover is a military attache, he is not in the palace, and the queen must send her lady-in-waiting to bring it back. En route, the lady meets a thief and they team up. She does not know that he has been dispatched by the King to steal ring from the attache.
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Wide Open
Title: Wide Open
Character: Julia Faulkner
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
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The Aviator
Title: The Aviator
Character: Grace Douglas
Released: December 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Misadventures of a bogus flyer.
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Show of Shows
Title: Show of Shows
Character: Performer in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' & 'If I Could Learn to Love' Numbers
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
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The Sap
Title: The Sap
Character: Betty
Released: November 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A small town dimwit takes the blame for his brother-in-law's crime.
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So Long Letty
Title: So Long Letty
Character: Grace Miller
Released: October 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty, which causes him to leave the hotel. When he finds Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife and likes her and the way she keeps a clean house. To get a big check from Uncle Claude and to see how life is with the other, the two couples switch spouses for a week.
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Whispering Winds
Title: Whispering Winds
Released: September 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Jim, a Maine Fisherman, marries Dora on the rebound after his sweetheart, Eve, leaves him to pursue a singing career. Years later, Eve proves to be genuinely in love with Jim, but acts indifferent for Dora's sake.
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The Fall of Eve
Title: The Fall of Eve
Character: Eve Grant
Released: June 17, 1929
Type: Movie
The Fall of Eve
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Tropical Nights
Title: Tropical Nights
Character: Mary Hale
Released: December 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Patsy Ruth Miller stars as the romantic bone of contention between pearl divers Malcolm McGregor and Wallace MacDonald. When McGregor's brother is murdered, Miller is arrested for the crime. The actual killer, however, is MacDonald, who does an expert job covering his tracks.
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Fashion News
Title: Fashion News
Character: Self (1930)
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
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We Americans
Title: We Americans
Character: Beth Levine
Released: May 6, 1928
Type: Movie
We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well, director Edward H. Sloman concentrates on the trials and tribulations of three first-generation American families: The Jewish Levines, the German Schmidts and the Italian Albertinis.
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Red Riders of Canada
Title: Red Riders of Canada
Character: Joan Duval
Released: April 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Mountie does battle with half-breed trappers.
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The Tragedy of Youth
Title: The Tragedy of Youth
Character: Paula Wayne
Released: March 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Neglected by shallow husband Dick, young bride Paula Wayne seeks male companionship outside the marital nest. She soon finds it in the form of mature lover Frank Gordon. Lost film.
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The Circus: Premiere
Title: The Circus: Premiere
Character: Self
Released: January 13, 1928
Type: Movie
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
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A Hero for a Night
Title: A Hero for a Night
Character: Mary Sloan
Released: December 18, 1927
Type: Movie
Cab driver falls for rich model.
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Once and Forever
Title: Once and Forever
Character: Antoinette
Released: October 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Once and Forever film
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Painting the Town
Title: Painting the Town
Character: Patsy Deveau
Released: August 7, 1927
Type: Movie
Glenn Tryon and Patsy Ruth Miller, headed the cast of Universal's Painting the Town. In his first starring role, Tryon is cast as bucolic inventor Hector Whitmore, who falls for flirtatious city gal Patsy Deveau (Miller). Misinterpreting her fluttering eyelashes as a sign of true and lasting love, Hector follows Patsy to New York, much to the dismay of the girl's wealthy fiance.
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The First Auto
Title: The First Auto
Character: Rose Robbins
Released: June 27, 1927
Type: Movie
The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.
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Private Izzy Murphy
Title: Private Izzy Murphy
Character: Eileen Cohannigan
Released: October 30, 1926
Type: Movie
Isadore "Izzy" Goldberg changes his name to I. Patrick Murphy because his store is in an Irish-neighborhood in New York City. He meets Eileen Cohannigan, the daughter of a meat-packer, and he tells her he is Irish and a romance begins. When America enters World War I, "Izzy" enlists, is sent to France, and is wounded while engaged in a heroic rescue during a big battle. While recovering in an overseas hospital, he writes Eileen and tells her he is Jewish and not Irish. Returning home, he is parading with his regiment and he sees Eileen with Robert O'Malley, his old rival. He thinks she has thrown him over because he is Jewish. An Irish lodge comes to bestow an honor on the man they think is Patrick Murphy, an Irish hero. But O'Malley tells them his real name is Goldberg. But Eileen tels him it is he she loves, and they head for the marriage-license bureau.
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Broken Hearts of Hollywood
Title: Broken Hearts of Hollywood
Character: Betty Anne Bolton
Released: August 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Virginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a comeback, but age has taken its toll and she is cast in small character roles. Meanwhile, her daughter, Betty Ann, has won a beauty contest, and heads for Hollywood. They end up in the same, film, with Mom playing her Mom. Marshall tries to take advantage of the naive Betty. Somebody gets shot. Somebody is put on trial.
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So This Is Paris
Title: So This Is Paris
Character: Mme. Suzanne Giraud
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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Hell-Bent for Heaven
Title: Hell-Bent for Heaven
Released: May 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Sid Hunt and Jude Lowery are Carolina sweethearts but hired-hand Rufe Pryer also has his eyes on her. Rufe lies to Andy, Jude's brother, and a family-feud is started when Andy goes gunning after Sid. But Sid quiets the drunken Andy, and is taking him home when a shot is fired from ambush and Sid's horse comes home riderless. But he shows up unhurt, and the jealous-maddened Rufe sends him on a ruse to the big dam. Rufe sets off a dynamite explosion to catch Sid in the swirling waters but Jude is the one who is caught.
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Oh! What a Nurse!
Title: Oh! What a Nurse!
Released: March 7, 1926
Type: Movie
Oh! What a Nurse! is a 1926 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and written by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film stars Sydney Chaplin, Patsy Ruth Miller, Gayne Whitman, Matthew Betz, Edith Yorke, and David Torrence. The film was released by Warner Bros. on March 7, 1926.
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Why Girls Go Back Home
Title: Why Girls Go Back Home
Character: Marie Downey
Released: March 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Trusting country girl Marie Downey falls in love with touring stage-actor Clifford Dudley. As he becomes a matinee idol on Broadway, she turns a chorus girl.
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The King of the Turf
Title: The King of the Turf
Character: Kate Fairfax
Released: February 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Genteel southern horse-breeder Col. Richard Fairfax is framed on the charge of embezzlement by Martyn Selsby, his business partner, and sentenced to jail.
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The Fighting Edge
Title: The Fighting Edge
Released: January 8, 1926
Type: Movie
Juan de Dios O'Rourke, an American Secret Service, of Spanish-Irish descent, leads the cattle ranchers and border patrol in a fight to suppress a gang of cattle rustlers, who have been driving large herds north-to-south from Texas into Mexico, and smuggling illegal, no-passport Chinese aliens south-to-north from Mexico into Texas, operating from a rambling mansion on the Texas side of the border, aided by his sweetheart, a rancher's daughter, Phoebe Joyce.
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Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
Title: Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
Character: Sadie
Released: January 1, 1926
Type: Movie
A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. Appearances are made by many socialites of 1920s Paris and New York.
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Hogan's Alley
Title: Hogan's Alley
Character: Patsy Ryan
Released: December 12, 1925
Type: Movie
Lefty O'Brien, a pugilist, becomes engaged to ex-tomboy Patsy Ryan against the wishes of her father, Michael. They both live in an Irish-Jewish neighborhood on New York's East Side known as "Hogan's Alley." Lefty defeats Battling Savage for the championship, breaking his left hand and leaving his opponent close to death.
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Rose of the World
Title: Rose of the World
Character: Rose Kirby
Released: November 9, 1925
Type: Movie
In India, Rosamond English learns that her husband Capt. Harry English has been killed in battle. After a time, she marries Sir Arthur Gerardine but is unable to forget her first husband, and gradually her love for him is rekindled, especially when she contrasts him to the pompous and elderly Sir Arthur.
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Red Hot Tires
Title: Red Hot Tires
Character: Elizabeth Lowden
Released: October 31, 1925
Type: Movie
The first time Al Jones sees Elizabeth Lowden, he becomes so distracted that he runs his car into a steamroller. The second time he sees her, Elizabeth's car frightens his horse, causing him to fall. ....
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Lorraine of the Lions
Title: Lorraine of the Lions
Character: Lorraine
Released: October 11, 1925
Type: Movie
A ship carrying a touring circus troupe sinks at sea, and Lorraine, a young girl, is washed up on a deserted island. Her only companion is a gorilla from the circus, Bimi, who raises her as its own. Several years later Lorraine's wealthy grandfather, who has hired a psychic to help find her, is led by the psychic to Lorraine's island, and she and Bimi are taken back to "civiliation" in San Francisco, but things don't work out exactly as planned.
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Head Winds
Title: Head Winds
Character: Patricia Van Felt
Released: March 29, 1925
Type: Movie
Peter kidnaps Patricia to prevent her from marrying the wrong man.
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Singer Jim Mckee
Title: Singer Jim Mckee
Character: Betty Gleason
Released: March 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Jim McKee and his friend Buck rob a stagecoach to get money to support Buck's daughter. Buck is killed, but Jim and the daughter escape. Fifteen years later, Jim finds that he must turn robber again to continue to provide for Buck's daughter.
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The Yankee Consul
Title: The Yankee Consul
Character: Margarita
Released: February 24, 1924
Type: Movie
A whale of a comedy thriller. It's a Niagra of roaring laughter Faster Than the Wind!
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Name the Man
Title: Name the Man
Character: Fenella Stanley
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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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Esmeralda
Released: September 6, 1923
Type: Movie
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
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Souls for Sale
Title: Souls for Sale
Character: Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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The Girl I Loved
Title: The Girl I Loved
Character: Mary
Released: February 15, 1923
Type: Movie
John Middleton is distressed to learn that his family is taking in an orphan girl named Mary. He turns aside all her attempts to befriend him. But with the passage of time, John discovers (long after everyone else has) that he loves Mary. But by now it's too late. She plans to marry his friend Willie.
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Omar the Tentmaker
Title: Omar the Tentmaker
Character: Little Shireen
Released: December 22, 1922
Type: Movie
About Omar Khayyam of Persia, the poet and mathematician, who wrote the Iranian first solar calendar circa A.D. 1073. His fiancé was forced to marry the shah, but she eventually escaped and, with help of grand Vazir, joined Omar Khayyam. Hollywood made a film based on the same story with Connell Wilde, the life and adventures of Omar Khayyam.
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Remembrance
Title: Remembrance
Character: Mab
Released: October 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Although he graduated from that time-worn university, the college of hard knocks, the tireless efforts of John P. Grout have paid off. He owns a number of department stores and his wife and children are well provided for. However, his family is completely ungrateful and takes him -- and his money -- for granted. Grout's attempts to keep them all happy are driving him to bankruptcy and he eventually becomes seriously ill. Eventually his wife and kids come to realize how badly they've treated Pops.....
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Trimmed
Title: Trimmed
Character: Alice Millard
Released: July 3, 1922
Type: Movie
Returning from service in the A. E. F., Dale Garland is given a rousing reception by his townsmen. County political boss Nebo Slayter persuades the community to nominate Dale for sheriff--thinking he can be easily manipulated--against John Millard, the incumbent, who refuses political compromises. Dale easily wins and pledges to give the citizens an honest deal. Millard's daughter, Alice, who is Dale's childhood sweetheart, learns of Slayter's dishonest schemes and sees his men murder a moonshiner for whom they had been furnishing protection.
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For Big Stakes
Title: For Big Stakes
Character: Dorothy Clark
Released: June 18, 1922
Type: Movie
"Clean-Up" Sudden is a drifter restoring law and order to a small farming community run by a corrupt sheriff in this silent Western.
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The Fighting Streak
Title: The Fighting Streak
Character: Ann Withero
Released: May 13, 1922
Type: Movie
Based on a 1921 story by George Owen Baxter (alias Frederick Faust and Max Brand)
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The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
Title: The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
Character: Self
Released: March 15, 1922
Type: Movie
The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers, which honored 13 (15 in 1932) young actresses each year whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. 1922 was the first.
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Watch Your Step
Title: Watch Your Step
Character: Margaret Andrews
Released: February 16, 1922
Type: Movie
Elmer Slocum has just served a jail sentence for speeding. On his first day of liberty he encounters a physician whose car has broken down and offers to take him to his patient; he is pursued by motorcops for speeding, wrecks his car in a closed street, and knocks down and believes he has killed a policeman. Elmer boards a freight train and makes his way to a small town in Iowa, where he meets Margaret Andrews.....
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Where's my Wandering Boy Tonight?
Title: Where's my Wandering Boy Tonight?
Released: February 5, 1922
Type: Movie
Garry Beecher, forgetting his mother and sweetheart, Lorna, falls in love with Veronica, a chorus girl, and heads for the city; finding her with a millionaire, he returns home and robs his former employer, then returns to Veronica and begins a career of reckless spending. When he is unable to pay for a diamond necklace, Garry is threatened with arrest and is betrayed by Veronica.
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Handle with Care
Title: Handle with Care
Character: Marian
Released: January 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Handle with Care is a 1922 silent comedy.
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Camille
Title: Camille
Character: Nichette
Released: September 26, 1921
Type: Movie
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
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One a Minute
Title: One a Minute
Character: Assembly Line Worker (uncredited)
Released: June 19, 1921
Type: Movie
An excellent silent comedy starring unjustly forgotten star Douglas MacLean. Its indictment of pharmaceutical entrepreneurs is far sharper than Side Effects'.