John Gilbert
Birthday: 1897-07-10
Place of Birth: Logan, Utah, USA
Biography: American actor John Gilbert (born John Cecil Pringle) was one of the biggest stars of the Silent films era. His career subsequently significantly waned during the first years of the sound era.
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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Queen Christina
Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when sh...
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The Eye of the Night
William H. Thompson plays a likeable old lighthouse keeper who must contend with his less likeable f...
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While Paris Sleeps
When a sculptor falls in love with his model but finds his love unrequited, he plans to kill his lov...
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He Who Gets Slapped
After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a...
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The Wolf Man
Gerald Stanley (John Gilbert) is an English gentleman who is engaged to Beatrice Joyce (Alma Frances...
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Shame
William Fielding, a young widower, is living in Shanghai with his little boy, David. A young Chinese...
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Love or Justice
Promising young lawyer Jack Dunn,, becomes a victim of drugs and loses his standing in the legal wor...
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A Woman of Affairs
Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Nevill...
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Yesterday and Today
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the m...
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The Wife of the Centaur
Jeffrey Dwyer is a writer and a poet who wrestles with the conflicts between his idealism and his pa...
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Flesh and the Devil
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo ...
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Married Flirts
Nelly is so intent on her writing career, that she neglects her appearance and her husband, Wayne. J...
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A Man's Man
An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood to make movies and marries a soda jerk....
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The Merry Widow
When Prince Danilo falls in love with American dancer Sally O'Hara, his uncle, King Nikita I of Mont...
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More Trouble
Lemuel Deering's son Harvey graduates from college at the top of his class, then returns home to bec...
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Shackled
A destitute young woman named Lola Dexter falls in love with Walter Cosgrove, who establishes her in...
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Matrimony
It all begins when Mrs. Rossmore (Dean) discovers that her husband (Howard Hickman) has begun "playi...
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The Weaker Sex
Jack Harding, a wealthy ne'er-do-well, becomes involved with a Broadway vamp. When she is murdered, ...
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The Phantom of Paris
Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is plac...
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The Captain Hates the Sea
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit dri...
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Love
In Imperial Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and ...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t...
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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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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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Bardelys the Magnificent
Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could w...
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The Love Gambler
Drifter Dick Manners arrives at a ranch owned by Colonel Angus McClelland. When he wagers that he wi...
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Downstairs
In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristo...
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Desert Nights
Jewel thieves pull a heist on a diamond mining operation in Africa and take the foreman hostage befo...
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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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West of Broadway
A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry h...
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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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Monte Cristo
A film adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those je...
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Man, Woman and Sin
A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy himself and his moth...
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Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews wit...
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Golden Rule Kate
The setting is the Old West town of Paradise, Nevada, where a young woman, Mercedes Murphy (played b...
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Fast Workers
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is...
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Heart o' the Hills
Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the ...
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The Masks of the Devil
Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, ...
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Cameo Kirby
Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villa...
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His Glorious Night
Being engaged against her will with a wealthy man, Princess Orsolini (Catherine Dale Owen) is in lov...
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Doing Their Bit
Little Kate and Janie O'Dowd are sent to their wealthy American uncle, Michael O'Dowd, after their I...
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Shell 43
William Berner is an English spy who is doing his job behind German lines. While working for the all...
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The Coward
Set during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel and Charles Ray as his weak-wi...
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Hell's Hinges
When Reverend Robert Henley and his sister Faith arrive in the town of Hell's Hinges, saloon owner S...
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The Busher
A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his cha...
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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 Man Beneath
The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland a...
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Twelve Miles Out
Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. While runni...
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Princess of the Dark
James Herron, a consumptive, has built a shack in the hope that the mountain air may prolong his lif...
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The Dark Road
Jim Morrison is an English army officer who comes from a very old and prominent family. He marries t...
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The Hater of Men
Convinced that her impending marriage to fellow reporter Billy Williams will result in a loss of her...
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We're switching to Hollywood
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who ...
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The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Overview of director King Vidor's filmography....
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Wedlock
Unknown to his proud and wealthy family, Granger Hollister marries Margery Harding, a telephone oper...
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Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life i...
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Civilization
Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless passenge...
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The Aryan
Steve Denton, rich from years of prospecting, is fleeced by the citizens of Yellow Ridge. In his rag...
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The Great Redeemer
A murderer and a thief, imprisoned together, find their lives changed forever when the thief's drawi...
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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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Should a Woman Tell?
A village girl, on a visit to the city of Boston, is taken advantage of by a man there, and returns ...
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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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The Snob
Two schoolteachers, married for love, are parted by the husband's obsessive desire for wealth and so...
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman of...
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Complicated Women
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, u...
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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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The Exiles
Finding herself accused of a murder she didn't commit, Alice Carroll flees to Tangier, Morocco. Dist...
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to m...
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A Little Brother of the Rich
Captain of the Yale football team, Paul Potter becomes engaged to his small-town Indiana sweetheart ...
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well...
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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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Four Walls
After completing his prison sentence for killing a rival gang leader in self-defence, Benny Horowitz...
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His Hour
Gritzko, a prince of pre-World War I Russia, is the ultimate ladies' man. Women fall at his feet -- ...
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The Madness of Youth
After eluding authorities, Jaca Javalie goes to the home of wealthy Theodore Banning, where he profe...
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Calvert's Valley
Page Emlyn travels with his friend Jim Calvert to the Calvert family home. It doesn't turn out well:...
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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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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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The Dawn of Understanding
The Dawn of Understanding is a lost 1918 American silent Western comedy film produced by The Vitagra...
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St. Elmo
St. Elmo is a man who killed his romantic rival in a brawl. Traveling the world as a confirmed misog...
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Rediscovering John Gilbert
This documentary features an on-camera interview with John Gilbert's daughter and biographer, Leatri...
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The White Circle
Having endangered his life by foolishly gambling away funds entrusted to him by the Carbonari, an It...
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The White Heather
Lord Angus Cameron's marriage to a woman of his titled Scottish class is thwarted by his secret marr...
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Truxton King
An American seeking adventure in Graustark strikes up an acquaintance with six-year-old Prince Robin...
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Widow by Proxy
Spinster sisters Sophronia and Angelica Pennington of Massachusetts refuse to meet Dolores, the brid...
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The Red Viper
David Belkov, a newsboy born of foreign parents who live in "New York's crucible," the East Side, ad...
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Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
Documentary providing a career overview of the great Greta Garbo....
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The Millionaire Vagrant
Wealthy young man Steven du Peyster encounters more adventures than he might have expected when he a...
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Bullets and Brown Eyes
Countess Olga and Prince Carl, although from two European countries that have been longtime enemies,...
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Garbo, by Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford narrates this documentary about the career of Greta Garbo....
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Romance Ranch
Carlos Brent's grandfather informs him that he is rightful owner of a ranch in the possession of the...
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The Lone Chance
Penniless inventor Jack Saunders, in search of a girl he loves, assumes the guilt for a murder in re...
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Arabian Love
Nadine Fortier is captured by a band of desert marauders. "The Sheik" wins her in a game of dice but...
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