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    The Angel of Broadway

    Glamorous Broadway actress Babe (Leatrice Joy) is cast as a Salvation Army lass in her latest...

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    Anna Ascends

    Victor Fleming was still a relatively new director when he helmed this melodrama, an adaptation of...

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    Any Wife

    Tired of making serials and suffering from a back injury sustained in her latest, Pearl White (of...

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    Ashes of Vengeance

    The massacre of the Huguenots, previously dramatized in broad strokes by Griffith's Intolerance,...

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    Bandolero

    Director Tom Terriss took his cast and crew to Cuba and Spain to give this romantic drama authentic...

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    Be My Wife

    Although he had just recently returned to the United States and formed his own studio, comedian Max...

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    Black Oxen

    When Madame Zatianny appears, seemingly from nowhere on the social scene, everyone is taken by her...

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    Blue Skies

    Better known for her work in talkie "weepers," Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary appearances...

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    Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

    This romantic drama gave filmgoers everything they expected from a Gloria Swanson picture -- fancy...

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    The Brat

    Alla Nazimova went from heavy-handed dramatic spectaculars to light comedy-drama with this picture,...

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    Breakfast at Sunrise

    Breakfast at Sunrise was the penultimate movie vehicle for Constance Talmadge, who retired when...

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    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)

    The first of two film versions of Thornton Wilder's novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey begins at the...

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    Camille (1921)

    A glamorous courtesan (Alla Nazimova) ends her affair with a young man (Rudolph Valentino) at the...

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    The Canary Murder Case

    This early talkie is the film that destroyed the career of popular silent leading lady Louise...

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    Caprice

    Co-directed by Edwin S. Porter and J. Searle Dawley, this Pygmalion-inspired melodrama was Mary...

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    Chicago (1927)

    Based on a real-life incident, Maurine Watkins' semi-satirical novel and play Chicago was first...

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    Circe the Enchantress

    Mae Murray's pictures were the ultimate in jazz-era extravagance. This one is based on the novel by...

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    The Clemenceau Case

    This was Theda Bara's third starring film, and the first which she carried all on her own, with no...

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    Coast of Folly

    Although this isn't one of her top pictures, Gloria Swanson was near the peak of her career when she...

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    Cowardice Court

    Lord and Lady Bazelhurst (Arthur Hoyt and Katherine Adams respectively) own an estate in the...

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    The Deadwood Coach

    Filmed on magnificent locations at Cedar City, Utah and Zion Canyon, this lavishly mounted Tom Mix...

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    Delicious Little Devil

    A woman (Mae Murray) poses as a notorious dancer to land a job as the hostess of a roadhouse....

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    Do and Dare

    When trade paper Motion Picture News said, "As a comedian, Tom Mix is a good tragedian," it's clear...

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    Dollar-A-Year Man

    After the success of his two prior comedies, Brewster's Millions and Life of the Party, the...

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    Dove

    Adapted from the warhorse stage play by Willard Mack, The Dove proved a so-so vehicle for Norma...

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    Dressed to Kill

    Most of Dressed to Kill takes place at a swank nightclub which serves as an Underworld rendezvous....

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    Drifting

    Priscilla Dean made a name for herself at Universal by playing charming female crooks in a number of...

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    East Lynne (1925)

    This most famous of Victorian melodramas was more than half a century old, and had already been...

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    East of Suez

    The exotic Pola Negri is given the role of a half-English, half-Chinese girl in this drama based on...

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    Bitter Apples

    One of seven Monte Blue vehicles filmed by Warner Bros. in 1927, Bitter Apples casts the reliable...