Tom Ricketts
Birthday: 1853-01-15
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Biography: Tom Ricketts (January 15, 1853 – January 19, 1939) was an English stage, later a Hollywood screen, actor. He also directed numerous early Hollywood Silent films, and was the writer of several.
Movies
Strangers of the Night
A rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for exciteme...
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The Cowboy and the Lady
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out ...
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Never the Twain Shall Meet
Exemplifying Kipling's adage, a white man falls to pieces when he is in the South Seas....
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Bonnie May
Young actress Bonnie May finds work in a private play given at Mrs. Baron’s mansion, where she endea...
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The Killer
Claire Adams as a girl forced to marry the man she suspects killed her father. When she refuses, she...
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Dead End
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, droppin...
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Sham
Based upon a description in a film publication,[3] Katherine Van Riper (Clayton) is an extravagant y...
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Three Women
A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conni...
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The Old Soak
To the distress of his family, Clem Hawley, retired from his garage business, spends his time and mo...
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The Young in Heart
A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss ...
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Dry Martini
Upon hearing that his daughter Elizabeth, is coming from America to visit him in Paris, wealthy Will...
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The Dangerous Maid
Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself...
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Cheap Kisses
Refusing to join his family in their new social life when Henry Dillingham suddenly becomes wealthy,...
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My Wife and I
In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both...
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Show Boat
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the ...
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Love's Blindness
A British nobleman, heavily in debut to a moneylender, agrees to marry the man's daughter in exchang...
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A Tailor-Made Man
A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes....
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Forsaking All Others
A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man....
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Beating the Game
Professional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a criminologist, an...
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The Desperate Hero
Henry Baird, a young newspaperman with a second-hand car but little money, decides to raffle off the...
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Manhattan Love Song
After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy so...
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Interference
Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose loft...
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My Friend from India
Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith ...
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Shattered Idols
This exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at leas...
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Side Show
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps....
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Now or Never
A visitor to a big city gets involved in intrigue when a look-alike jewel thief sets out to doublecr...
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Oh, Doctor!
Rufus Billings was born premature and after a lifetime of doctors doting on his frail health he is n...
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Daniel Boone
In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites....
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Secrets of the Night
At a lavish house party, bank president Robert Andrews stages his own “murder” to distract a visitin...
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Women Won't Tell
A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a...
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Black Oxen
A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double for a ...
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Sweet Kitty Bellairs
Kitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts and...
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Young Fugitives
A young man befriends the last surviving Civil War veteran, intending to rob him of $50,000....
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Sea Legs
Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fle...
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Ambassador Bill
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and ...
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Breakfast for Two
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted hi...
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The Common Law
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent pas...
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Forgotten
Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son's home to the other, and is un...
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The Paliser Case
A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from rui...
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Light Fingers
"Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper petty th...
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The Great Lover
Ethel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera company in...
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Mama Loves Papa
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new ...
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When the Wife's Away
Mistaken identity and female impersonation take place when indigents Billy Winthrop (George K. Arthu...
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Hi, Gaucho!
The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love....
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History Is Made at Night
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her ...
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Skirt Shy
Harry must pose as a woman to help the women he works for get a marriage proposal....
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The Expert
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago....
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I Am Suzanne!
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The...
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The Curtain Falls
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and rea...
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Cardinal Richelieu
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle....
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Music Is Magic
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the ...
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Pleasure Cruise
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruis...
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East Lynne
The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships...
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Get Your Man
A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an ...
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Stage Mother
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls eve...
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Son of Frankenstein
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and re...
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The Lady Escapes
A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a Euro...
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Gordon of Ghost City
A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying t...
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The Vagabond King
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Loui...
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Stolen Sweets
Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-lov...
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The Life of the Party
Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results....
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The Belle of Broadway
Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a y...
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Cavalcade
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-...
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No Greater Glory
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang....
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The Red Rider
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his ...
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Secret Sinners
A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to anothe...
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Man of the World
A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets...
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Within the Law
When Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to take...
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Five and Ten Cent Annie
Street cleaner Elmer Peck (Clyde Cook) inherits a million dollars from his uncle Adam Peck (Tom Rick...
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Thrill of Youth
Chet Thayer returns to his family and the loving arms of his long suffering sweatheart Marcia. Not ...
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He Learned About Women
He Learned About Women is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan and writte...
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The Three Musketeers
In 17th century France, young d'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends ...
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To Mary - with Love
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes success...
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Gateway
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists th...
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Stranded in Paris
American shop-girl Julie McFadden, wins a free passage to Paris; en route she meets Robert Van Wye, ...
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The Lavender Bath Lady
Young shop-girl Mamie Conroy and wealthy Jeanette Gregory become close friends. When Mamie foils an ...
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The Invisible Man
After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to...
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Sing, Baby, Sing
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed i...
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Carnival in Paris
In this short, the janitor of a Paris museum's Egyptology department agrees to help a girl hide from...
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Children of Divorce
A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, bu...
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Casey at the Bat
Casey is a slovenly junk man in a turn of the twentieth century hick town who has a remarkable abili...
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After the Thin Man
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, an...
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Vanity Fair
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the positio...
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Glad Rag Doll
She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no...
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Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position...
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A Star Is Born
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at...
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Human Cargo
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end...
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The Girl Who Wouldn't Work
Mary Hale hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent comes around, she flirts...
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Bobbed Hair
Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier....
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Just Married
After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee....
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Prince of Diamonds
Eve Marley (Aileen Pringle)is forced to marry a wealthy jeweler that she does not love in order to s...
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Ladies at Play
Ann Martin will inherit six-million dollars if she marries a man her two spinster-aunts approve of, ...
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Bulldog Drummond
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humd...
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Big Business Girl
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfrie...
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The Grand Duchess and the Waiter
Albert Durant, a young millionaire, poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled and financially hard...
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If I Had a Million
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight st...
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Venus of Venice
A slick caper movie about a petty thief falls for a wealthy American artist....
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Laughter in Hell
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover....
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A Christmas Carol
Scrooge goes into his office and begins working. His nephew, along with three women who wish for Scr...
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Dancing Days
Despite the fact that he has a beautiful wife who loves him and a good home, gold-digger Lillian Lor...
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Circe the Enchantress
Mae Murray as a Jazz Age baby who treats men like swine until she falls for the upright doctor livin...
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The Great Impersonation
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in...
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Maid of Salem
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a sc...
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A Sailor's Sweetheart
Cynthia Botts, the headmistress of a girls’ school, stands to inherit a fortune on the condition tha...
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....
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Red Hot Speed
A newspaper publisher's daughter is arrested for speeding. In order to avoid embarrassing her father...
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The Willow Tree
After Ned Hamilton is rejected by his girlfriend, he travels to Japan where he hears an old legend a...
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One More River
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship....
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Freedom of the Press
When a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician with...
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Puppets of Fate
Gabriel Palombra, a Venetian Punchinello Street show operator decides to move to America leaving his...
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Ladies of Leisure
Rich, spoiled Marian pressures Eric to marry her. Her brother is in love with her friend Mamie, but ...
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Poker Faces
In order to secure a lucrative contract, a businessman hires a woman to pose as his wife at a busine...
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Trouble for Two
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London dis...
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Top Hat
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new ...
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Too Many Crooks
Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by ...
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Berkeley Square
A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution...
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Merrily We Go to Hell
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prenti...
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Wages for Wives
Nell Bailey, taking a lesson from the married lives of her sister, Luella Logan, and her mother, agr...
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Vagabond Lady
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store o...
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The Phantom President
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for sav...
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Alice Adams
Alice (Florence Vidor) is not satisfied with her family's financial situation and tries to convince ...
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Parnell
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his re...
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Blind Adventure
Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, wi...
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The Nutcracker
A man flees his frustrating home and work life and is injured by a streetcar....
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Orchids and Ermine
Set in New York City, flapper Pink Watson works a telephone operator at a cement factory who dreams ...
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In Love with Life
Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecti...
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The Fate of a Flirt
Sir James Gilbert, a British peer, wagers that he can win the love of a particular young American wo...
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Zoo in Budapest
Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true frien...
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Girls
Man-haters Pamela Gordon, Violet and Kate West, each disappointed in love, vow never to marry, and r...
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Please Get Married
Muriel Ashley is engaged to Ferdie Walton. Ferdie's father opposes the marriage; Muriel's parents fa...
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A Fight to the Finish
Directed by B. Reeves Eason. With William Fairbanks, Phyllis Haver, Tom Ricketts, Pat Harmon....
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When Husbands Flirt
Directed by William A. Wellman. With Dorothy Revier, Forrest Stanley, Tom Ricketts, Ethel Wales....
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The Gaiety Girl
Forced to abandon his ancestral castle, William Tudor accompanies his granddaughter Irene to London,...
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The Price of Success
Directed by Tony Gaudio. With Alice Lake, Lee Shumway, Gaston Glass, Florence Turner....
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