Erville Alderson
Birthday: 1882-09-10
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia Erville Alderson (September 11, 1882, Kansas City, Missouri – August 4, 1957, Glendale, California) was an American film actor. He appeared in nearly 200 films between 1918 and 1957.
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Santa Fe Trail
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, G...
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The Feathered Serpent
In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague, the on...
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The Postman Didn't Ring
Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The let...
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The Scarlet Empress
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Gr...
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Salvation Jane
An ambitious tenement girl forced into a life of crime has a change of heart when her victim tries t...
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Commandos Strike at Dawn
A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes...
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Along Came Jones
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it woul...
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Objective, Burma!
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to loc...
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lin...
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Sergeant York
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...
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Trifles of Importance
Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant thing...
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The Fighting Code
The death of a young woman's father puts a cowboy on the trail of a killer....
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The Bishop's Wife
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new c...
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Haunted Gold
John Mason returns to the Sally Ann mine to claim his half share. Janet Cater also returns although ...
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Fleetwing
Capturing a beautiful horse and slave girl, Thurya young Arab Jaafor’s happiness is short lived when...
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The Actress
The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom....
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Outside These Walls
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After se...
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The Monroe Doctrine
The story of President Monroe's response to attempts by Spain to interfere in South America....
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The Exciters
Ronnie Rand, Required to marry before she is 21 or lose her inheritance, Ronnie Rand meets Pierre Ma...
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When the Daltons Rode
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Dalto...
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An American Romance
A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family....
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Pursuit
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of Cali...
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Isn't Life Wonderful
A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and str...
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Arrowsmith
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of ...
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate ...
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Boys' Ranch
A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublema...
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The Man in the Barn
After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was disco...
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Public Opinion
A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marria...
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Parachute Battalion
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join t...
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Small Town Boy
Henry Armstrong was past being a spring chicken, still believes in Santa Claus and the maxim that "h...
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Woman Wanted
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into anoth...
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The Lash
A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mis...
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Career Woman
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds he...
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Hello, Everybody!
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sis...
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Judge Hardy's Children
Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambass...
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My Favorite Blonde
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an...
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And the Angels Sing
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing t...
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They Call It Sin
A young, innocent small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and th...
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Tobacco Road
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors ...
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Land of Liberty
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939....
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First Comes Courage
Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When...
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Captain China
The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losin...
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Summer Stock
To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's siste...
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Too Many Cooks
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause ...
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John Meade's Woman
"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she...
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Wells Fargo
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, wil...
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Love Finds Andy Hardy
Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time....
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The Stranger's Return
A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she une...
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Station West
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator Jo...
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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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Mountain Justice
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prej...
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Stand Up and Fight
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom....
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Jesse James
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn t...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his...
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The Hardys Ride High
Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney Geo...
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Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by bo...
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme...
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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life....
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The Dawn Trail
Dissension arises between cattlemen in Osage County, Texas, and sheepherders who have settled there ...
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Judge Hardy and Son
Judge Hardy guides Andy through problems with girls, money and an essay contest....
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Lincoln in the White House
This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Get...
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Square Shooter
Tim returns from prison after being framed for murder to clear his name and retrieve the ranch taken...
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Fury
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the ...
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The Black Cat
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first....
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The White Rose
A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge o...
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Rangers of Fortune
An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they ...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...
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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 Valley of the Giants
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the g...
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Edison, the Man
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story star...
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The Spiral Staircase
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer....
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Fazil
An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and...
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economi...
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The Fortune Hunter
The Fortune Hunter is a lost 1927 silent film comedy directed by Charles Reisner and starring Syd Ch...
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The Sea of Grass
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by t...
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founde...
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The Richest Man in Town
The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a...
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage ...
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Flowing Gold
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and th...
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Hangmen Also Die!
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assass...
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The Greatest Show on Earth
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though t...
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Hazard
A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before h...
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Knute Rockne All American
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne....
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The Spirit of St. Louis
Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Pa...
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic....
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Maryland
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with ho...
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Sally of the Sawdust
Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with...
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To the Last Man
In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison ...
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Geronimo
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage o...
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Arizona Trail
A young cowboy returns home to help his father fight off a gang trying to take over the family ranch...
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Something to Live For
Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alc...
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Bad Men of Missouri
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of Wi...
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Incendiary Blonde
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York n...
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Honky Tonk
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his...
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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual pro...
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Cynara
A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have hi...
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Mr. Whitney Had a Notion
Historical short showing how Eli Whitney (best known for the invention of the cotton gin) played a s...
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What's Buzzin', Cousin?
Musicians help a woman and her friends make some money with a ghost-town hotel....
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The Cabin in the Cotton
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance....
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Careful, Soft Shoulders
In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has become a ...
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The Girl from Chicago
Mary Carlton, who lives with her invalid father on a cotton plantation, receives a letter from Bob, ...
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Again Pioneers
Citizens of Fairview are outraged when they learn children from the "Patch", a squalid migrant camp ...
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The Thirteenth Guest
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining gu...
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Speakeasy
Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight...
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Eyes Aloft
In this documentary short film, a woman volunteer for the civilian aviation observer corps in World ...
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Oklahoma Outlaws
In this short western, a gang of outlaws plots to gain control of the town of Tulsa, Oklahoma....
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Out West with the Hardys
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his fami...
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The Man Without a Country
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his...
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The Shanghai Chest
Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three m...
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Her Man
A wealthy woman moves to Appalachia to educate illiterate mountaineers, but gets caught up between t...
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The Heart of Maryland
At the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick, son ...
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Dancing in the Dark
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the ...
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Pursued
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighb...
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Hoopla
A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager....
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Sorrowful Jones
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her fath...
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Educating Father
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becomi...
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The Tall Target
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train rid...
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Back to Bataan
An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines....
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Two Sisters from Boston
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New...
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Magnificent Doll
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending B...
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Marie Antoinette
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, ...
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Gold Is Where You Find It
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a ...
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Cynthia
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date....
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Wild and Woolly
Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Se...
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The Good-Bad Wife
William Carter, a young Virginian in Paris, becomes enchanted with music hall dancer Fanchon La Fare...
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Kidnapped
In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil ...
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You Can't Escape Forever
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpi...
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State Fair
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair....
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Canyon Passage
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty ...
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Mobs, Inc.
Captain Braddock of the Los Angeles Racket Squad schools a group of cadet policemen by telling them ...
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The Merry Widow
Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if t...
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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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The Farmer Takes a Wife
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm....
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Heavenly Days
Fibber McGee and Molly innocently get mixed up with the federal government....
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The Music Goes 'Round
Harry Wallace (Harry Richman) is the star of a musical comedy who, while on a leave of absence from ...
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Tall in the Saddle
When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been...
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A Thief in the Dark
Ernest, a young drifter, joins a troupe of mystics led by a Professor Xeno in a carnival. Ernest lea...
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The White Black Sheep
Robert Kincairn, the dissolute son of a British colonel, is gallant enough to take the blame for a r...
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The Price of Honor
Directed by Edward H. Griffith. With Dorothy Revier, Malcolm McGregor, William V. Mong, Gustav von S...
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