Renée Adorée
Birthday: 1898-09-30
Place of Birth: Lille, Nord, France
Biography: Renée Adorée (born Jeanne de la Fonte; 30 September 1898 – 5 October 1933) was a French actress who appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. She is most famous for her role as Melisande in the melodramatic romance and war epic The Big Parade.
Movies
The Big Parade
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to figh...
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Day Dreams
In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, a young man goes to the city in search of wo...
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Made in Heaven
William Lowry rescues Claudia Royce from a burning building, and upon hearing that her parents are t...
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Mr. Wu
When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance....
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The Mating Call
A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman. Pr...
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The Show
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. ...
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The Blackbird
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub ...
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Tide of Empire
California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for ban...
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Redemption
In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and ma...
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The Pagan
Henry, the pagan son of a white father and native mother, has inherited land and a store, but he pre...
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The Cossacks
Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and ch...
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Call of the Flesh
A postulant falls in love with a flamboyant singer from a cafe next door to her convent....
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The Spieler
After being released from jail, two con artists take their grift to a carnival....
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of editio...
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La Bohème
A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be p...
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The Exquisite Sinner
Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man who forsake...
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Show People
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic s...
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1925 Studio Tour
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and giv...
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The Michigan Kid
The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to h...
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Monte Cristo
A film adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those je...
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Mixed Faces
Judge Granger, a candidate for mayor, attempts to persuade Mary Allen Sayre to marry him. She meets ...
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Tin Gods
In a mountain village in South America, Dr. McCoy and the padre watch Roger Drake enter a small chap...
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The Eternal Struggle
Believing she's responsible for the death of her would-be seducer, a young woman flees to North Vanc...
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Twenty Years After
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...
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Women Who Give
Jonathan Swift, stern Cape Cod businessman, has ambitions for his children, Emily and Noah, which ar...
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Forbidden Hours
Set in the fictitious European kingdom of Balanca, Prince Michael IV is being coerced, by his advise...
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Heaven on Earth
Young Edmond Durand (Conrad Nagel) has been reared under the autocratic influence of his aunt (Marci...
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The Flaming Forest
North-West Mounted Police Sgt. David Carrigan takes a breather from fighting as he brings a convict ...
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Excuse Me
A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them....
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The Movies March On
A "March of Time" presentation of the evolution of movies compiled primarily from film clips of sile...
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Parisian Nights
American sculptress Adele La Rue, working in Paris, lacks the inspiration to create a masterpiece, u...
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Honor First
Twin brothers are serving in the French army during the Great War. Jacques, a private, leads his bro...
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West of Chicago
West of Chicago is a 1922 American silent western film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and starring Buck...
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The Bandolero
When his wife is killed by the evil Marques de Bazan, Spanish army officer Dorando becomes a notorio...
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A Self-Made Man
Jack Spurlock, the lazy son of a railroad tycoon, is estranged from his fiancée, Anita Gray, because...
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Blarney
Young Irish boxer James Carabine arrives in New York from Ireland, his way having been paid by Peggy...
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A Certain Young Man
An aristocratic English womanizer is forced to take a fishing trip to avoid the husbands of his conq...
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Defying the Law
Discouraged with life, Michelo throws his daughter Lucia into the sea, but she falls into a fisherma...
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A Man's Mate
Paul Bonard an artist, loses his memory when he receives a blow on the head from one of two apaches ...
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Exchange of Wives
A serious young man and his emotional wife become acquainted with a frivolous young man and his seri...
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Man and Maid
Boulevardier Sir Nicholas Thormonde (Lew Cody) has to choose between his mistress Suzette (Renée Ado...
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On Ze Boulevard
On Ze Boulevard is a 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Harry F. Millarde and written by E...
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The Strongest
Harle, a successful French businessman, is so absorbed with his factory that he neglects his wife Cl...
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£500 Reward
Drama about a couple who travel from the Rocky Mountains to Seattle then wind up shipwrecked en rout...
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The Six-Fifty
After 2 years of marriage, farmer's wife Hester Taylor tires of her life of hardship and accepts an ...
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