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    The Impossible Mrs. Bellew

    As Gloria Swanson's star rose higher and higher, Paramount endlessly repeated the formula that...

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    Joan of Plattsburg

    Comedienne Mabel Normand came a cropper trying to play it straight in the WWI propaganda piece Joan...

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    Kid Boots

    Based on the musical comedy of the same name, Kid Boots was the first of two silent vehicles for...

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    London After Midnight (1927)

    Silent. A Scotland Yard inspector (Lon Chaney) investigates grave goings-on at the mansion of a...

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    Movie Crazy (1932)

    A bumpkin seeks fame and fortune in the big city under the impression he's been offered a screen...

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    Mr. Wu

    This first film version of the Harry Maurice Vernon-Harold Owen stage perennial Mr. Wu stars...

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    Seventh Heaven

    A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.

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    Slim Princess

    Mabel Normand appears a little bit on the chunky side to modern filmgoers, but during the silent era...

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    Street Angel (1928)

    Fox's follow-up to Seventh Heaven, The Street Angel reunited stars Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor...

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    Stronger Than Death

    Because of a heart condition, Sigrid Freson (Alla Nazimova) has to give up her career as a dancer....

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    Synthetic Sin

    Colleen Moore's starring vehicles were never as "naughty" as their titles suggested. In Synthetic...

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    Terror Island

    Inventor Harry Harper (Harry Houdini) travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure...

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    Woman's Faith

    When Donovan Steele (Percy Marmont) discovers his fiancée with another man, he loses faith in both...

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    It (1927)

    A salesgirl with plenty of "it" (sex appeal) pursues a handsome playboy.

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    The Avenging Arrow

    Young action director W.S. "Woody" Van Dyke was thrown into the lion's den in this 15-chapter...

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    The Butcher Boy (1917)

    The Butcher Boy is the first film that Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle made for his own production company...

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    High Society

    Adopted by his wealthy Aunt Kate, freckle-faced Mickey Daniels at first enjoys his newly luxurious...

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    Raggedy Rose (1926)

    Rose, who works for a penny-pinching junk dealer, dreams of romance with wealthy bachelor Ted Tudor.

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    The Shock

    A crippled criminal (Lon Chaney) falls in love with the daughter (Virginia Valli) of the banker he...

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    The Temptress

    An unhappy Paris wife (Greta Garbo) loves an Argentine engineer (Antonio Moreno) who learns of her...

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    The Adventurer

    The Adventurer was Charlie Chaplin's last film in his contract for Lone Star/Mutual, and it is the...

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    Beau Brummell

    John Barrymore is virtually the entire show as 18th-century British fashion plate Beau Brummel....

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    Broken Blossoms (1919)

    A Mongolian Buddhist (Richard Barthelmess) takes in a London boxer's (Donald Crisp) abused daughter...

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    The Buckaroo Kid

    Universal's humorously sloppy western hero Hoot Gibson starred in this average silent oater about a...

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    Charley's Aunt

    Sidney Chaplin, Charlie's talented half-brother, was well known on the Hollywood-party circuit for...

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    Dante's Inferno (1924)

    Bearing only a tenuous connection to Dante Alighieri's epic poem, the 1924 Dante's Inferno bears...

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    Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925)

    Don Cesar, son of Zorro, is framed for murder while visiting Spain, and becomes the whip-wielding...

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    Down to the Sea in Ships

    This whaling drama is most famous as the screen debut of Clara Bow (Bow had actually made one...

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    The Extra Girl

    Mabel Normand's last feature-length film is also one of her most entertaining. Sue Graham (Normand)...

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    The Black Pirate (1926)

    A noble pirate (Douglas Fairbanks) walks the plank, rescues a princess (Billie Dove) and slides down...