Theodore Roberts
Theodore Roberts (October 8, 1861 – December 14, 1928) was an American movie and stage actor. He was a stage actor decades before becoming lovable old man in silents. On stage in the 1890s he acted with Fanny Davenport in her play called Gismonda (1894) and later in The Bird of Paradise (1912) with actress Laurette Taylor. He started his film career in the 1910s in Hollywood, and was often was associated in the productions of Cecil B. DeMille. He was buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5339 |
| Birthday | 1861-10-08 |
| Place of Birth | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Theodore Nowlin Roberts, The Grand Duke of Hollywood, |
1923
The Ten Commandments
6.539/90
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden cal...
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The Ten Commandments
1918
The Squaw Man
5.8/2
Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918 re...
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The Squaw Man
1915
Temptation
0/0
Opera singer Renee Dupree is in love with struggling composer Julian who falls very seriously ill. She goes to impresario Mueller for the money Julian...
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Temptation
1917
The Cost of Hatred
1/2
Justus Graves (Theodore Roberts) is a mean-spirited human being, so it's no surprise that when he returns home from a business trip, he finds his wife...
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The Cost of Hatred
1919
The Woman Thou Gavest Me
10/1
Mary Mac Neill (Katherine MacDonald), whose father (Theodore Roberts) marries her off to Lord Raa (Jack Holt) in order to satisfy an old grudge. But M...
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The Woman Thou Gavest Me
1914
Ready Money
0/0
Edward Abeles and Theodore Roberts as a couple of prospectors who get involved with greedy city types on a business trip to New York.
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Ready Money
1917
The Devil Stone
0/0
Fishermaid Marcia Manot finds an emerald which once belonged to a Norse queen and is cursed. Greedy American Silas Martin marries her, then sets her u...
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The Devil Stone
1914
The Circus Man
0/0
David Jenison, accused of a crime which he did not commit, escapes his guards and joins a traveling circus.
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The Circus Man
1918
We Can't Have Everything
0/0
A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But t...
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We Can't Have Everything
1923
Racing Hearts
8/1
Automobile maker John Kent is an old-fashioned sort who refuses to advertise his car line. His daughter Ginger, however, is determined to get him some...
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Racing Hearts
1924
To the Ladies
8/1
Three clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are in competition for a promotion to factory manager.
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To the Ladies
1928
Ned McCobb's Daughter
9/1
Carol runs a restaurant out of her house, while her husband George collects the ferry's tolls. Unbeknownst to Carol, George is allowing his bootlegger...
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Ned McCobb's Daughter
1919
Male and Female
6.44/25
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
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Male and Female
1921
The Affairs of Anatol
5.909/11
Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he let...
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The Affairs of Anatol
1915
The Immigrant
0/0
Masha, a young Russian emigrant traveling to the U.S., is saved from an officer's advances by civil engineer David Harding. Upon landing in America, J...
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The Immigrant
1918
The Source
0/0
A young man of social standing chooses instead to live as a hobo. He gets work in a lumber camp, and there uncovers intrigue by German agents.
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The Source
1921
Too Much Speed
8/1
Egotistical race-car driver Dusty Rhoades learns that humility pays off even better than acclaim.
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Too Much Speed
1915
Stolen Goods
0/0
The lives of a poor orphan and a rich kleptomaniac intertwine after the former is framed for a robbery by the latter.
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Stolen Goods
1925
Locked Doors
3.333/3
A young woman marries a man several years her senior to provide a comfortable home for her invalid father and then feels the call of youth and falls d...
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Locked Doors
1914
What's His Name
0/0
Soda jerk Harvey is the most popular man in Blakeville NY and deliriously happy through three years of poverty-stricken marriage to Nellie. After a mu...
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What's His Name
1915
The Wild Goose Chase
0/0
Two American grandfathers in France try to arrange marriages for their grandson and granddaughter by promising them money. The young ones refuse and r...
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The Wild Goose Chase
1917
A Little Princess
5.2/14
Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, s...
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A Little Princess
1923
Stephen Steps Out
8/1
Stephen Steps Out is a 1923 comedy short.
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Stephen Steps Out
1942
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
0/0
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1928
The Masks of the Devil
8/1
Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, an innocent schoolgirl who is engaged to his best...
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The Masks of the Devil
1929
Uncle's Visit
0/0
Grumpy uncle comes to visit but the gang of kids soon have him smiling!
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Uncle's Visit
1922
A Trip to Paramountown
7.75/4
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at wor...
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A Trip to Paramountown
1915
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
0/0
"Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo" is an interesting play of intrigue between the Grand Duke Augustus Peter of Russia, whose incognito is Mr. Grex, an English...
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Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
1921
Miss Lulu Bett
5.938/16
Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, whose timid soul has failed to break the bonds of f...
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Miss Lulu Bett
1915
The Unafraid
0/0
In Montegro brothers Stefan and Michael kidnap American heiress Delight Warren. Stefan marries her so he can claim her wealth, but then they fall in l...
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The Unafraid
1922
Saturday Night
5.9/5
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class diff...
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Saturday Night
1918
M'Liss
5.7/7
M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, a...
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M'Liss
1919
The Winning Girl
9/1
Because he had previously picked the name James for his first-born, when a female arrives, Major Milligan, a well-meaning but lazy dreamer, calls his...
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The Winning Girl
1921
Hail the Woman
7/1
Oliver Beresford is a stern, Puritanical, and uncompromisingly rigid father. When shameful stories about his daughter Judith surface, rather than dete...
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Hail the Woman
1918
Arizona
0/0
A lost film. An Army lieutenant at a remote post in Arizona tells a young woman that he does not love her, so she contrives to marry his commanding of...
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Arizona
1916
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
0/0
Olga Nelson, a Swedish maidservant, working at a boarding house that caters to college students, is particularly fond of one of them, wealthy Tom Gord...
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The Thousand-Dollar Husband
1919
The Roaring Road
6.136/11
"Toodles" Waldron, racing enthusiast and the best salesman for J. D. Ward's automobile company, quarrels with his boss; Ward will not let him enter th...
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The Roaring Road
1920
Excuse My Dust
5.875/8
A top race-car driver leaves the sport to get married and settle down, because his new wife doesn't want him to race anymore. However, not long afterw...
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Excuse My Dust
1919
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
6.313/8
American law clerks Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne and Rodney Blake are nearly broke in Monte Carlo when Hawthorne breaks the bank. While driving through...
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Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
1921
Forbidden Fruit
6.583/12
Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no real prospects of earning money. Mary's employers,...
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Forbidden Fruit
1920
Something to Think About
6.833/6
Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs...
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Something to Think About
1917
All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
8/1
Short film with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford & W.S. Hart promoting war bonds.
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All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan
1916
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
0/0
Jack Hale, a revenue agent, is sent into the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to track down illegal alcohol producers.
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1917
The American Consul
0/0
Country lawyer Abel Manning is very passionate about his political party. Through the force of his oratory, he helps elect James Kitwell to the U.S. S...
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The American Consul
1914
The Making of Bobby Burnit
0/0
Bobby Burnit, a naïve young man, inherits $300,000 from his father, a hard-working entrepreneur. Because the will specifies that the money must be inv...
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The Making of Bobby Burnit
1914
Where the Trail Divides
0/0
Col. Landers adopts two children, "How," an Indian boy, and Bess, whose parents were killed in an Indian uprising. When the children are grown, How pr...
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Where the Trail Divides
1918
Old Wives for New
6.5/8
Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
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Old Wives for New
1915
El cautivo
6/8
During the Balkan Wars, Sonia is a young woman living in Montenegro and left to care for her younger brother Milos and the family farm while elder bro...
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El cautivo
1919
For Better, for Worse
6.318/11
Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children....
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For Better, for Worse
1916
Joan the Woman
5.6/25
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.
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Joan the Woman
1920
Suds
6.556/9
Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months a...
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Suds
1915
The Girl of the Golden West
5.5/6
A saloon hostess loves Ramerrez, a notorious highwayman. Sheriff Jack Rance, who loves the girl too, instigates a card game that will determine the fa...
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The Girl of the Golden West
1916
Common Ground
0/0
Crusading Judge Evans wants to expose the unscrupulous Judge Mordant even though he is engaged to Mordant's daughter, Doris. Hearing of Evan's plan, M...
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Common Ground
1919
Don't Change Your Husband
6.833/18
Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries tw...
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Don't Change Your Husband
1914
The Man From Home
5/1
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The Man From Home
1923
Prodigal Daughters
3.333/3
Elinor "Swifty" Forbes and her younger sister Marjory are the carefree daughters of wealthy J. D. Forbes. Their mother shows no restraint over her dau...
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Prodigal Daughters
1919
Secret Service
8/1
Lewis Dumont, a Northern officer in the American Civil War, works undercover behind Confederate lines in an attempt to lead Southern forces away from...
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Secret Service
1921
The Love Special
8/1
Jim Glover is an engineer in charge of constructing a railroad to the sea. He gives the company president Gage a tour of the area of land coveted for...
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The Love Special
1914
The Call of the North
5.2/4
Graehme, Ned Stewart's father, was accused of adultery and killed being innocent. Ned decided to avenge his father, but got captured and sent to the l...
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The Call of the North
1915
The Woman
0/0
William C. DeMille adapted his screenplay for The Woman on the stage play by DeMille's father Henry and David Belasco. The story is set in Washington...
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The Woman
1915
The Case of Becky
0/0
When a young girl is placed under hypnotism, it's discovered that she has a split personality.
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The Case of Becky
1915
The Unknown
2/1
Richard Farquhar, the ne'er-do-well nephew of a titled Englishman, after a protracted "good time" finds himself penniless in an Algerian hotel. He exp...
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The Unknown
1918
Hidden Pearls
0/0
Hawaiian prince Tom Garvin (Sessue Hayakawa) receives an American college education and falls in love with Enid Benton (Florence Vidor).
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Hidden Pearls
1920
The Furnace
9/1
Folly Vallance marries millionaire Anthony Bond for his money, but he insists on a marriage in name only. Entering the social scene she befriends Bond...
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The Furnace
1926
The Cat's Pajamas
9/1
Sally, seamstress for a fashionable modiste, supports a disabled father and adores her kitten, Tommy. Though loved by Jack a taxi driver, she is infat...
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The Cat's Pajamas
1922
The Old Homestead
8/1
Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.
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The Old Homestead
1920
Double Speed
8/1
Auto racer Speed Carr enters a marathon race across the United States, from New York to Los Angeles. He encounters numerous obstacles not related to t...
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Double Speed
1919
You're Fired
9/1
Railroad magnate Gordon Rogers agrees to allow his daughter, Helen, to marry wealthy idler Billy Deering, Jr., but only if the latter can hold the sam...
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You're Fired
1916
The Dream Girl
0/0
The father of San Francisco waif Meg runs an illegal liquor club and supports "English" Hal in scheme to blackmail a wealthy girl. Meg is put on proba...
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The Dream Girl
1920
Judy of Rogues' Harbor
8/1
Judy, an orphaned waif, lives with Grandpap Ketchel, a cruel and often brutal man. The sole protector of little Denny, Ketchel's grandson, Judy is for...
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Judy of Rogues' Harbor
1919
Everywoman
8/1
Everywoman is a lost 1919 American silent film allegory film directed by George Melford based on a 1911 play Everywoman by Walter Browne.
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Everywoman
1919
The Only Way
7/1
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The Only Way
1921
Sham
8/1
Based upon a description in a film publication,[3] Katherine Van Riper (Clayton) is an extravagant young society girl who is very much in debt, and he...
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Sham
1925
Forty Winks
8/1
The Butterworth family attorney Gaspar Le Sage, and a suitor for the hand of Eleanor Butterworth, persuades a beautiful adventuress, Annabelle Wu, to...
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Forty Winks
1917
Nan of Music Mountain
0/0
Henry de Spain is determined to find the man who murdered his father. He becomes sort of an outsider with Duke Morgan's gang, cattlemen, and outlaws....
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Nan of Music Mountain
1922
Across the Continent
8/1
Jimmy Dent , son of John Dent, the maker of the reliable but plain Dent automobile, is dismissed from the firm after he refuses to drive a Dent. He go...
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Across the Continent
1914
The Ghost Breaker
0/0
Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaines, a New York art collector, not knowing that the...
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The Ghost Breaker
1916
Pudd'nhead Wilson
0/0
A slave switches her light-skinned baby with her master's baby. The child grows up raised by whites.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
1919
Fires of Faith
10/1
The story of the Salvation Army, told through the tale of two men and two women who serve in the First World War.
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Fires of Faith
1915
After Five
0/0
Thinking that he has lost both his money and his beloved Nora's in a bad investment young New Yorker Ted Ewing arranges for his own murder. Suddenly h...
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After Five
1915
The Marriage of Kitty
0/0
A young woman who agrees to a sham wedding with Lord Riginald Belsize because his inheritance prohibits him from marrying his girlfriend who is an act...
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The Marriage of Kitty
1917
What Money Can't Buy
10/1
Madison Hale, a wealthy American financier, is bidding against Govrian Texler, the financial advisor to the King Stephen III of Maritizia, for the con...
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What Money Can't Buy
1922
Our Leading Citizen
9/1
Story of a war hero who preferred fishing to politics.
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Our Leading Citizen
1919
The Poor Boob
8/1
When he loses both his father’s canning factory and his girl “Tiny” to Stephen Douglas modest Simpson Hightower goes to work in a New York provisions...
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The Poor Boob
1919
Peg o' My Heart
10/1
"Peg" O'Connell, a cheerful, unrefined Irish girl from a fishing village, moves in with her wealthy, haughty aunt, Mrs. Chichester, in England to sati...
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Peg o' My Heart
1920
Sweet Lavender
7/1
Ruth Holt, owner of a boardinghouse in a small college town, lives with her pretty niece "Sweet Lavender," who believes that Ruth is her mother. When...
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Sweet Lavender
1922
If You Believe It, It's So
8/1
The story of a crook who achieves regeneration through association rather than reformation through faith. It is a slow and arduous process till he rea...
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If You Believe It, It's So
1916
The Storm
0/0
A young woman asks her former sweetheart, a minister, to perform the marriage service in her wedding to another man.
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The Storm
1922
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
7/1
In trying to decide whom to marry--Rita Pring, the daughter of a South Seas ship captain, or Lady Helen Deene, an Englishwoman with wealth and influen...
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The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
1916
The Sowers
0/0
Headed by a young nobleman, the Russian League of Freedom determines to free the peasants from oppression by the government. Prince Paul Alexis is in...
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The Sowers
1921
Exit the Vamp
10/1
Marion Shipley is happily devoted to her husband, John, until Mrs. Willy Strong, a society "vampire," succeeds in capturing his affections. A jewelry...
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Exit the Vamp
1919
What Every Woman Learns
7/1
Because Amy Fortesque's dying grandfather advises her to get all the joys out of life, she marries Dick Gaylord because he is funny, rather than Walte...
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What Every Woman Learns
1915
The Secret Orchard
0/0
The Secret Orchard is a 1915 American drama silent film directed by Frank Reicher.
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The Secret Orchard
1917
The Varmint
0/0
John Humperdink Stover, otherwise known as "The Varmint" for his pestiferousness or as "Dink" when in special favor, was expelled from a boarding scho...
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The Varmint
1916
The Plow Girl
0/0
A story that begins on the South African veldt and goes to the drawing rooms of fashionable London Society.
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The Plow Girl
1916
Anton the Terrible
0/0
Cossack Anton Kazoff seeks revenge for the wrongs inflicted on his sister Olga.
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Anton the Terrible
1918
Such a Little Pirate
0/0
Planning on sailing his schooner, the Laughing Lass, to his ancestors' treasure island in the South Seas, veteran seaman Obadiah Wolf makes his last p...
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Such a Little Pirate
1923
Grumpy
8/1
Andrew Bullivant, a retired lawyer known as "Grumpy" for his irascibility, calls on all his experience and powers of deduction to expose Chamberlin Ja...
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Grumpy
1919
Love Insurance
9/1
Posing as a nobleman, Allan Harrowby takes out a policy with Lloyd's to insure that his upcoming marriage will occur, Dick Minot, Lloyd's assistant ma...
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Love Insurance
1929
Noisy Neighbors
9/1
A family of down-and-out vaudevillians discover that they are the last of the Van Revels, heirs to a Southern plantation and a blood feud with the Car...
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Noisy Neighbors
1918
A Petticoat Pilot
0/0
When the third partner in their small Cape Cod trading business dies, Shad Gould and Zoeth Hamilton adopt his little daughter Mary-'Gusta. After sever...
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