Betty Compson
Birthday: 1897-03-17
Place of Birth: Beaver, Utah, USA
Biography: Betty Compson (March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974) was an American actress and film producer. Most famous in silent films and early talkies, she is best known in her performances in The Docks of New York and The Barker, the latter earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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The Docks of New York
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woma...
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She Got What She Wanted
Mahyna, a dissatisfied Russian peasant girl, marries Boris and comes to New York in search of "the s...
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The Time, the Place and the Girl
A musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose swollen he...
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if...
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Cheating Cheaters
Nan Carey ( Betty Compson ), a shoplifter, is caught by the police but acquitted through the influen...
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Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She l...
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Over the Border
Jen Galbraith is in love with Sgt. Tom Flaherty of the Royal Mounted. She is the daughter of Peter G...
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The Woman with Four Faces
Elizabeth West, a young woman who is both a thief and a con artist and allied with a gang of crooks,...
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The Wise Guy
A carnival huckster who decides to turn pennies into dollars by passing himself off as a hellfire-an...
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For Those We Love
Berenice Arnold spends her time trying to keep her family happy. This is easier said than done -- he...
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Prisoners of Love
Blanche Henry, a vivacious young woman, finds what she believes is true love with a handsome young m...
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The Garden of Weeds
The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg, a man of great wealth and few morals. He installs cho...
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Strange Cargo
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure....
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The Barker
A successful carnival barker deals with the arrival of his eager son, who he'd hoped would stay far ...
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The Devil's Trail
Whiskey smuggler Dubec, trades liquor to the Indians, takes revenge on the Royal North West Mounted ...
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Street Girl
A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love...
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Locked Doors
A young woman marries a man several years her senior to provide a comfortable home for her invalid f...
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The White Shadow
The White Shadow is a British drama film directed by Graham Cutts based on the novel "Children of Ch...
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The Lady Refuses
A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young woman to distract his playboy son from marry...
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The Great Gabbo
For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts re...
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On With the Show!
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters,...
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Destination Unknown
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind....
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Woman to Woman
While on leave in WW I France an English officer and French cabaret star fall in love with one anoth...
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Blondes at Work
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself a...
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Here Comes Trouble
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the p...
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False Pretenses
A girl who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire on a bridge who's just lost his money. They...
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Paths to Paradise
Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are thrown...
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Torchy Blane in Panama
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from Ne...
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The Case of Sergeant Grischa
This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this cate...
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Cowboys from Texas
Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman...
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Notorious But Nice
A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the good...
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Escort Girl
A pair of nightclub owners run a string of escort bureaus where men pay for the "companionship" of y...
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Bulldog Edition
Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gan...
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The Millionaire Kid
The Millionaire Kid is young Tommy Neville whose wealthy parents, Thomas and Gloria Neville are prep...
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August Week End
At a high-society dinner party, a wealthy, older and married man sets his sights on a beautiful youn...
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The Drag-Net
A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss...
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Crazy by Proxy
A young man is about to marry; it is the dawn of his wedding morn. The bride-to-be is also present; ...
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The Gay Diplomat
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit...
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Under the Big Top
Director Karl Brown's 1938 circus drama stars Marjorie Main as a tough, fur-coat-wearing circus boss...
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Hotel Imperial
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrian...
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Weary River
A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the ...
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Three Who Loved
A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling....
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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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Guilty or Not Guilty
Ruth Payne, innocent to begin with, is trying to extradite herself from the clutches of a gang-mob w...
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West of Singapore
Tropical "heat" drives a man into the arms of a disreputable tramp, making things tough for the woma...
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Religious Racketeers
A wealthy young woman, racked with guilt because she wasn't there when her mother died, is so desper...
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Port of Missing Girls
Nightclub singer Della Mason witnesses a murder and is forced by the killer to flee with him from th...
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Hubby's Night Out
Neal hates to give up his evenings with "the boys." even for his wife Betty. She gets a burglar scar...
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Inside the Lines
During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibra...
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A Trip to Paramountown
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, feat...
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The Miracle Man
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leade...
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The Czar of Broadway
Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular...
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Say It with Diamonds
American silent drama film following an early Vitagraph leading man and matinee idol. Prints of the ...
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Invisible Ghost
The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him....
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Woman to Woman
Lost film. David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Mou...
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Beggar on Horseback
Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy...
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Danger! Women at Work
Three women inherit a 10-ton truck and decide to go into business. Hi jinks ensue....
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The Making Over of Mother
Neal and Betty are newlywed when her father dies. Betty goes to visit her mother and decides to take...
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Two Minutes to Play
Martin Granville Jr., a star track-and-field athlete, has intentions of going to Claxton College, bu...
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Midnight Mystery
A fog-shrouded house provides the setting for this early talkies thriller....
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Scarlet Seas
A sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes he...
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Mad Youth
A rich society mother hires a male escort, but he falls for her daughter instead. The mother-daughte...
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The Green Temptation
Genelle and Gaspard operate an itinerant Parisian theatre in which the greatest profits are realized...
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (192...
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News Is Made at Night
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a co...
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Hard Boiled Mahoney
Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with hi...
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The Palace of Pleasure
Don Sebastian, Portuguese Premier, sets a price on the head of royalist Ricardo Madons. Madons is in...
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Two Gun Justice
A western town is being overrun and ruled by a gang of outlaws led by Bart (John Merton). Former Ran...
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Hollywood Boulevard
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of ...
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The Pony Express
The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by P...
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The Big City
Gangster boss Chuck Collins, despite his ruthlessness, is a basically decent fellow. Collins is plag...
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The Beloved Brat
Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club ...
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The Little Minister
In 1840 Scotland, a young lass named Babbie revels in the country life and frolics with the locals, ...
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Federal Bullets
Federal Bullets is a leisurely paced Monogram crime melodrama with not a few clever plot twists. The...
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Laughing at Danger
Frankie Kelly, pageboy at the beauty salon ran by Madam Celeste, and his helper Jefferson find the r...
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Skin Deep
Skin Deep is a 1929 American talking drama film directed by Ray Enright and starring Monte Blue. It ...
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The Spoilers
On a voyage to Nome, Roy Glenister, one of the several owners of a rich mine, The Midas, is captivat...
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That Doggone Baby
That Doggone Baby (1916) is about a small puppy who is supposed to be a baby....
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As Luck Would Have It
Eddie Barry wants to keep wife Betty Compson happy, and she wants him to be a race car driver, so he...
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The Show of Shows
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and ...
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Cafe Hostess
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to...
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Roar of the Press
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists....
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A Slight Case of Murder
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law...
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Ladies Must Live
Schooled by her wealthy brother-in-law William Hollins, Christine Bleeker plans to marry Ralph Linco...
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Isle of Escape
On a South Sea island, Stella operates a hotel for her mother, who is constantly drunk on liquor smu...
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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The Boudoir Diplomat
A ladies' man flirts with the wives of other governments' officials....
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The Enemy Sex
A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, ...
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The Stranger
"The Stranger," an outcast who works in a saloon frequented by Peggy Bowlin, a poor girl suffering t...
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The Silver Lining
A women in prison tale. One's rich, one's poor. Can they prosper after prison?...
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The Desert Bride
Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists w...
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Ramshackle House
Don Counsel, a New Yorker who is traveling through southern Florida, is being framed by Ernest Rieve...
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Love Me and the World Is Mine
In Old Vienna in the days prior to The Great War, a beautiful woman, Hannerl, has her choice of two ...
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At the End of the World
This dramatic adventure finds the flirtatious Cherry O'Day as the daughter of the Shanghai saloon ke...
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The House That Shadows Built
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pict...
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The White Flower
Konia Markham, the daughter of an American father and a Hawaiian mother, is told by a sorceress that...
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Kick In
After serving time in Sing Sing, Chic Hewes wants to go straight, but when he refuses to be a stool ...
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The Rustle of Silk
Lola de Breze loves Lord Arthur Fallaray from afar, though there seems to be no way to bring them to...
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To Have and to Hold
King James I gives his consent to the marriage between Lord Carnal and Lady Jocelyn Leigh. Lady Joce...
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Court Martial
During the American Civil War, A Union-Army officer is ordered by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln to...
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Eve's Secret
Eve's Secret is that she's not the elegant society woman she seems to be. In fact, Eve is an unkempt...
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New Lives for Old
Olympe is a cabaret dancer who offers her services to France when her country goes to war. She becom...
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The Bonded Woman
Angela Gaskell travels and sails around the Pacific Ocean to rescue the man she loves, John Somers. ...
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Border Raiders
Ranch owner John Hardy becomes the dupe of Cleo Dade when he marries her and brings her home to be ...
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Her Adventurous Night
A boy's tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail....
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The Female
A Sam Wood silent South Africa romance is a love story (based on Cynthia Stocklet Story) with a sad....
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The Light of Victory
U.S. Navy Lieutenant George Blenton becomes drunk at an official reception, and his fiancee, Jane Ra...
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Blaze o' Glory
On trial for the murder of Carl Hummel, Eddie Williams tells his story, which begins just before the...
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Killer at Large
A master of disguise poses as a wax figure to rob a safe of its jewels....
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Confessions of a Vice Baron
On the eve of his execution, a vice-rackets bigshot recalls his various exploits in crimes such as a...
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The Royal Oak
King Charles flees and hides in a huge oak tree when the troops loyal to Oliver Cromwell close in. T...
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God's Country and the Man
Cowboy and his friends set out to track down his father's killer. On the way, they discover a vein o...
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The Sheriff
Roscoe Arbuckle plays a Douglas Fairbanks fan who becomes a rotund version of his hero. As "The Sher...
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Law and the Woman
Although Margaret and Julian Rolfe are deeply in love, Rolfe has a bit of a past. At one time he had...
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Virtuous Husband
When a rich young man marries, he lets the books and letters left him by his dead mother guide his l...
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Hollywood Halfbacks
Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides tha...
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No Sleep on the Deep
A playboy's affairs on an ocean liner are making all the men on the ship angry. One husband, whose w...
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The Masked Angel
The Masked Angel is a 1928 silent romantic drama film directed by Frank O'Connor....
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Miami
Joan Bruce, leader of the jazz set at Miami, is courted by two men--Ranson Tate, an unscrupulous vil...
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Counsel for the Defense
Typhus specialist Dr. David West has fought long and hard for the construction of the new municipal ...
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Always the Woman
In ancient Egypt, Queen Neco Tokris angers the high priest by falling in love with a minor cleric. T...
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