Lois Wilson

Lois Wilson

Birthday: 1894-06-26

Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography: A schoolteacher who became a stage actress (briefly), Lois Wilson entered films in 1916 at Paramount (her sisters, Diana Kane and Connie Lewis, also worked as actresses). Wilson played leading roles well into the sound era, and after she retired from the screen she worked sporadically in television and again appeared on stage.

Movies

Once a Gentleman
Once a Gentleman

A butler goes on vacation, where he is wrongly taken to be a wealthy man....

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The Thundering Herd
The Thundering Herd

Story of a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre....

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Bright Eyes
Bright Eyes

An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, ...

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Fascinating Youth
Fascinating Youth

Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris L...

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French Dressing
French Dressing

Philip and Cynthia Grey are a pair of recently-wed Bostonians, and Cynthia is properly back-bay no-a...

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Rugged Water
Rugged Water

After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin ...

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Welcome Home
Welcome Home

Fred Prouty and his wife, Nettie, are living happily until the day that his aged father shows up on ...

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Monsieur Beaucaire
Monsieur Beaucaire

The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with ...

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Bad Little Angel
Bad Little Angel

A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town....

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The Decoy
The Decoy

Glory Moore, a young girl, finds herself left unprovided for after her father's death, as the farm h...

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Female
Female

Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of bu...

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The Bells
The Bells

A murderer is driven slowly insane by a sequence of coincidences and suggestive events which will no...

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The Hell Diggers
The Hell Diggers

Teddy Darman is the construction superintendent for the Continental Gold Dredging Company. But the f...

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Hollywood
Hollywood

Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She l...

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The Furies
The Furies

Fifi Sands, whose husband is constantly unfaithful, is prevented from obtaining a divorce by Bedlow,...

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The Show Off
The Show Off

A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young...

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Prisoners of the Pines
Prisoners of the Pines

Hillaire Latour, a warmhearted Canadian trapper, marries Rosalie Dufresne and then travels into the ...

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Life Returns
Life Returns

A doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his th...

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Divorce In The Family
Divorce In The Family

A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932 drama ...

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Ruggles of Red Gap
Ruggles of Red Gap

An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life....

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The Vanishing American
The Vanishing American

A tribe of Navajo live on a reservation overseen by an Indian-hating agent....

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Manslaughter
Manslaughter

Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of moto...

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The Crash
The Crash

Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips fro...

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The Expert
The Expert

An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago....

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There's Always Tomorrow
There's Always Tomorrow

Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a for...

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In the Money
In the Money

When the chemical company owned by eccentric Professor Higginbottom files for bankruptcy, the former...

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Seed
Seed

Bart is a clerk for a publishing company; he has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he have five ch...

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Nobody's Children
Nobody's Children

A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage....

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Public Opinion
Public Opinion

A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marria...

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Lovin' the Ladies
Lovin' the Ladies

A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling th...

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Ticket to a Crime
Ticket to a Crime

After a jeweler hires a private detective to help him find $50,000 missing from his company, he is m...

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Drifting Souls
Drifting Souls

A pretty young lawyer discovers that her father needs an expensive operation to save his life. She g...

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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby

Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the myste...

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The Devil Is Driving
The Devil Is Driving

Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when hi...

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The Age for Love
The Age for Love

A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and...

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Obey the Law
Obey the Law

In this drama, an immigrant barber becomes a US citizen and works hard to uphold his ideals of perso...

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The Covered Wagon
The Covered Wagon

Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon....

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The Secrets of Wu Sin
The Secrets of Wu Sin

A murder mystery about the smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens into America through Chinatown....

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Miss Lulu Bett
Miss Lulu Bett

Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, w...

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The Lost Romance
The Lost Romance

Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by stag...

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Midsummer Madness
Midsummer Madness

Because Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson) feels ...

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Icebound
Icebound

Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. H...

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Only 38
Only 38

The death of her clergyman husband causes Mrs. Stanley, young mother of teenage twins, to change her...

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Wedding Present
Wedding Present

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involve...

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Who's Your Servant?
Who's Your Servant?

When Rear Admiral Bancroft discovers the plans missing for his new battleship, suspicion falls on Lt...

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Deluge
Deluge

A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massiv...

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The Rider of Death Valley
The Rider of Death Valley

Rigby, Larribee, and Grant each have one third of Bill Joyce's map locating his gold mine. The three...

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The Show of Shows
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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North of 36
North of 36

A young woman inherits her father's large Texas ranch and plans to begin a cattle drive to Abilene, ...

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The End of the Game
The End of the Game

A love story that takes place at the time of the gold rush. Prospector Allister Burke is in love wit...

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Irish Luck
Irish Luck

Tom Donahue, a New York traffic cop, wins a trip to Europe in a newspaper contest, and he decides to...

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A Man's Fight
A Man's Fight

An impertinent son of a wealthy New Yorker, Roger Carr takes the blame for the murder of Norman Evan...

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The Road to Paradise
The Road to Paradise

Third episode in the New Adventures of Terence O'Rourke series of 2-reel shorts....

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The Show-Off
The Show-Off

Aubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. When he loses his job he takes one wearing a s...

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Laughing at Trouble
Laughing at Trouble

A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publ...

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No Greater Glory
No Greater Glory

A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang....

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Society Fever
Society Fever

A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to din...

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The Girl from Jones Beach
The Girl from Jones Beach

Glamour artist Bob Randolph is world famous for his paintings of a stunning beauty dubbed "The Rando...

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Maid o' the Storm
Maid o' the Storm

Scottish fisherman Andy MacTavish rescues a baby whom he discovers washed up on the shore during a s...

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Cappy Ricks Returns
Cappy Ricks Returns

"Cappy" Ricks comes out of retirement to fight against a bill, sponsored by his old political rivals...

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna

Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. ...

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Alias the Lone Wolf
Alias the Lone Wolf

Michael Lanyard, aka the Lone Wolf, is sailing to America when he meets pretty Eve de Montalais. Eve...

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The Man Who Fights Alone
The Man Who Fights Alone

John Marble, a construction engineer is stricken by paralysis and begins to envision the growth of l...

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Alimony
Alimony

Bernice Bristol Flint, an attractive grass widow (a woman divorced or separated from her husband), a...

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Temptation
Temptation

Pre-code crime drama directed by E. Mason Hopper starring Lois Wilson, Lawrence Gray, Billy Bevan an...

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The Gamblers
The Gamblers

A father-and-son team of cons gamble their firm’s assets. The son is caught investing money that doe...

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New York
New York

A product of the Bowery, Trent Regan grows up to become a powerful gangster. Regan's girlfriend Angi...

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On Trial
On Trial

A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful...

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Conquest
Conquest

Two pilots are in love with the same girl. On a flight over the Antarctic, the plane suddenly spins ...

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Kid Gloves
Kid Gloves

When a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker K...

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Your Uncle Dudley
Your Uncle Dudley

A paint store owner turns his attention to civic affairs while his business falls apart....

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Broadway Nights
Broadway Nights

Fannie joins Johnny to perform a music-hall act which becomes a success, until two Broadway producer...

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Let's Get Married
Let's Get Married

College football star Billy Dexter is prone to getting into public fights. His father demands he ref...

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Broad Daylight
Broad Daylight

A young woman agrees to marry the son of a well-known man in order to get a chance to take revenge o...

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Coney Island
Coney Island

Tammany Burke, young owner of a giant roller coaster, is fighting heavy odds against a syndicate led...

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Pied Piper Malone
Pied Piper Malone

Pied Piper Malone (1924)...

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What Every Woman Knows
What Every Woman Knows

Alick Wylie agrees to give railroad porter John Shand $300 to help him secure his education and poli...

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The World's Champion
The World's Champion

Young William Burroughs comes from wealth but not nobility, so despite his income he is not welcomed...

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Bluebeard's Seven Wives
Bluebeard's Seven Wives

Bank clerk John Hart is about to marry Mary Kelly, but she insists that before that happens he must ...

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A Son of the Immortals
A Son of the Immortals

A general ousts the king of Kosnovia, and makes the king's idle son ruler. Unexpectedly, the new rul...

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The Silent Battle
The Silent Battle

Inheriting his father's alcoholism, Lawyer Tom Gallatin goes into the woods to rehabilitate himself....

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School for Girls
School for Girls

After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered...

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The Gay Lord Waring
The Gay Lord Waring

Though a spendthrift and a layabout, Lord Arthur Waring (J. Warren Kerrigan) is universally loved by...

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The Pool of Flame
The Pool of Flame

J. Warren Kerrigan plays the standard Vance hero, a devil-may-care Irish mercenary named Terrence O'...

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Treason
Treason

The enemy's success in smuggling a spy through the lines places the Stratiria armies in a dangerous ...

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What's Your Hurry?
What's Your Hurry?

Truckdriver Dusty Rhoades leads a team of truckers over dangerous roads to deliver emergency supplie...

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The Call of the Canyon
The Call of the Canyon

Returning from World War I, Glenn Kilbourne travels to Arizona to regain his health. He meets a loca...

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To the Last Man
To the Last Man

Feuding ranchers and sheepherders....

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The Best Man
The Best Man

The Library of Congress lists this as a ‘lost’ film, however a copy exists in the UK. Gordon, disgui...

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Without Compromise
Without Compromise

When the ability of Dick Leighton (William Farnum), Sheriff of Randolph, Oregon, to enforce law and ...

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The Gingham Girl
The Gingham Girl

Sweeter, faster, breezier than a flapper's kiss. Better than a buggy ride on a June night. The comed...

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Born to Gamble
Born to Gamble

A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family....

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Too Much Johnson
Too Much Johnson

Augustus Billings has a domineering mother-in-law, and to get away from both her and his wife, he ta...

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The Morals of Hilda
The Morals of Hilda

Recent immigrants August and Hilda cannot understand the American emphasis on weddings, because in t...

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The Beckoning Trail
The Beckoning Trail

Carter Raymond is a New York playboy who squanders his inherited fortune. All he has left is an aban...

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The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922

The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association ...

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For Beauty's Sake
For Beauty's Sake

A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang o...

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Wedding Rings
Wedding Rings

Two sisters battle for the love of a man....

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Another Scandal
Another Scandal

Beatrix and Pelham Franklin marriage is tested by jealousy and a scheming woman. Beatrix, about to h...

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Gates of Brass
Gates of Brass

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Her Husband's Women
Her Husband's Women

Low budget infidelity drama with synchronized sound....

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Come Again Smith
Come Again Smith

Joe Smith Jr., the son of a millionaire, is challenged by his father to earn his own living instead ...

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Sally's Shoulders
Sally's Shoulders

American drama film based on the 1927 novel Sally's Shoulders by Beatrice Burton....

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Our Leading Citizen
Our Leading Citizen

Story of a war hero who preferred fishing to politics....

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The Turn of a Card
The Turn of a Card

When he strikes it rich in Oklahoma oil fields, Jimmie Farrell is talked into risking everything in ...

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A Man's Man
A Man's Man

John Stuart Webster, mining engineer, having accumulated a fortune in Death Valley, Calif., starts f...

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The City of Silent Men
The City of Silent Men

Jim Montgomery receives a life sentence for a murder he did not commit. He escapes upon hearing that...

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His Robe of Honor
His Robe of Honor

Julian Randolph, a disreputable lawyer, gains an ad interim appointment to the Supreme bench as a re...

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Burglar Proof
Burglar Proof

When John Harlow loses his sweetheart Jenny Larkin as a result of poverty, he vows never to be broke...

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Is Matrimony a Failure?
Is Matrimony a Failure?

Mr. and Mrs. Amos Saxby's silver wedding anniversary is interrupted by the surprise elopement of the...

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Contraband
Contraband

After inheriting a newspaper in a small country town, Carmel Lee leaves her home in the city to take...

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