John Steppling
John Steppling (8 August 1870 in Essen, Germany – 5 April 1932 in Hollywood, California) was a German-American silent film actor.
He moved to America at a young age and entered film in 1912 aged 42. He starred in a total of 230 films between then and 1928, beginning with one of the first feature films ever made, Tess of the d'Urbervilles. He is also credited with directing 7 films.
He is the grandfather of playwright John Steppling.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6708 |
| Birthday | 1870-08-08 |
| Place of Birth | Essen, Germany |
| Also Known As | John C. Steppling, |
1918
The Road Through the Dark
0/0
Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morgan, who her parents disapprove of. She is sent awa...
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The Road Through the Dark
1925
California Straight Ahead
7/3
Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on his wedding day.
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California Straight Ahead
1916
Miss Jackie of the Navy
0/0
All of the navy men in a California port town have fallen in love with Jackie Holbrook, except for Captain Robert Crowne. As a result, roused by the c...
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Miss Jackie of the Navy
1920
The Heart of a Child
9/1
A poverty-stricken Cockney girl rises through incredible adventures to become the wife of a nobleman.
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The Heart of a Child
1922
The Sin Flood
10/1
Stratton's café is a popular place with the people of Cottonia, a wealthy cotton town on the banks of the Mississippi, installs flood-proof doors as a...
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The Sin Flood
1926
High Steppers
9/1
Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In search of a change, he heads for London, where he meets...
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High Steppers
1919
Lombardi, Ltd.
10/1
Tito Lombardi a Fifth Avenue dress designer, causes his business to suffer by his generous dispensation of credit to clients, one of whom, Max Strohm,...
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Lombardi, Ltd.
1914
Jim
7/1
At the palatial home of a merchant the latter's wife entertains her husband's friends. The guests have all departed save one, the husband's most intim...
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Jim
1922
Glass Houses
8/1
When a wealthy young lady loses her inheritance, she decides to apply for work in disguise. In prim and proper working girl attire she becomes the res...
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Glass Houses
1917
The Promise
0/0
After an argument with his father, in which he is accused of stealing, Bill Carmody leaves home. His girlfriend Ethel is mad at him because of his car...
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The Promise
1932
Broken Lullaby
7.466/44
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each h...
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Broken Lullaby
1924
The Fast Worker
9/1
Roxbury asks his friend Terry to assume his identity and go on vacation with his wife, Edith, and their daughter. When Terry falls in love with Edith'...
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The Fast Worker
2007
American dream
0/0
What connected Harry and Scarlet when the mysterious Cadillac appeared in the rearview mirror? A story straight out of the American dream.
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American dream
1924
A Cafe in Cairo
0/0
When her British parents are killed when an Arabian desert bandit launches an attack on their encampment, their young daughter is spared and brought u...
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A Cafe in Cairo
1920
The Husband Hunter
8/1
Millionaire Kent Whitney is warned by Bob Harkness, one of her rejected suitors, about the fickleness of his girlfriend, socialite Myra Hastings. Toge...
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The Husband Hunter
1920
The County Fair
5.286/7
"The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the street--unless her niece (who lives with her) marries this man...
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The County Fair
1923
Bell Boy 13
7/2
Harry Elrod takes a job as a bellboy when he is disinherited by his uncle and fails in his efforts to elope with actress Kitty Clyde. He causes so muc...
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Bell Boy 13
1916
The Comet's Come-Back
7/1
The gases left in the wake of a comet that passed by earth have the effect of making everyone on the planet lazy and lethargic, and actually stops tim...
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The Comet's Come-Back
1915
Pretenses
9/1
Short comedy about a janitor at a bank that pretends to be a director in order to impress a girl.
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Pretenses
1921
The Silver Car
9/1
After serving in the Great War, international crook Anthony Trent resolves to go straight. He wants to track down the English private who saved his li...
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The Silver Car
1918
Johanna Enlists
5.8/8
A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.
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Johanna Enlists
1913
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
1/1
A peasant girl sent to make a claim on her family's ancestral home in England's Wessex is seduced and left with child by its current owner.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
1923
Let's Go
7.75/4
The no-good son of a company owner is sent to investigate a problematic business deal.
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Let's Go
1918
Good Night, Paul
0/0
Mrs. Richard is happily married, but still agrees to pose as the wife of a businessman to hoodwink the businessman's rich uncle. Unfortunately, uncle...
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Good Night, Paul
1923
Going Up
9/1
Going Up (1923)
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Going Up
1918
A Lady's Name
0/0
Bright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when she advertises for a husband in order to elicit ideas f...
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A Lady's Name
1917
A Bathtub Bandit
7.5/2
Bathtub movers on the job.
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A Bathtub Bandit
1926
Memory Lane
8/1
Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of their...
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Memory Lane
1920
Madame Peacock
10/1
Jane Goring, a ruthlessly ambitious actress, forsakes her life as a wife and mother for the stage. Returning home from a performance one night, Jane i...
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Madame Peacock
1920
Billions
6/2
Princess Triloff, an emigrée from Czarist Russia, escapes to America where she becomes a patron of the arts. She falls in love with the verses of impo...
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Billions
1925
Soft Shoes
7.5/2
Sheriff Pat Halahan comes into an inheritance and travels to San Francisco to collect. Faith O’Day, a cat burglar armed with pistol and flashlight bre...
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Soft Shoes
1921
Black Beauty
5/2
Anna Sewell's "autobiography" of a horse named Black Beauty is here expanded to include the adventures of the humans who surround the horse.
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Black Beauty
1924
The Reckless Age
5.667/3
Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick Minot...
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The Reckless Age
1926
The Better Man
8/1
Lord Hugh Wainwright is a Britisher who, on his way to his California ranch, rescues pretty American Nancy Burton from a brutal peddler. Interested in...
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The Better Man
1919
Luck in Pawn
7/1
Country girl Annabel Lee has big dreams of being a famous artist. Her widowed mother encourages her to go to the city so she can study. Annabel works...
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Luck in Pawn
1923
The Man Next Door
7/1
The story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a surge of popularity because his book The Covered Wagon ha...
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The Man Next Door
1921
Nobody's Kid
8/1
Because of the circumstances of her parents' marriage her grandfather rejects their child, Mary. Following her their deaths she is placed in an orphan...
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Nobody's Kid
1920
Sick Abed
7/1
When showing a woman customer some ranch property, real estate agent John Weems's car is disabled by a terrible storm, and he and his client are force...
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Sick Abed
1913
Caprice
1/1
A lost film. A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is disastrous until she abandons him and later reappears incogni...
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Caprice
1925
Eve's Lover
7/1
Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar to marry Eve so he can...
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Eve's Lover
1924
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
10/1
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
1928
Behind the Counter
8.5/2
Eddie, a prim store salesman, gets locked in overnight and battles hoodlums.
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Behind the Counter
1913
Billy McGrath on Broadway
6/2
John Steppling is Billy McGrath in this popular series directed by Archer McMackin, of which this is the only existing example. Billy wants to be a B...
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Billy McGrath on Broadway
1924
The Galloping Fish
7/1
Freddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her new husband home alone. Seeking distraction from his t...
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The Galloping Fish
1923
What a Wife Learned
10/1
A novelist's success causes a rift between her and her rancher husband.
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What a Wife Learned
1924
The Breathless Moment
9/1
Unwilling to arrest Billy Carson, a crook who once befriended him, Officer Quinn forces him and Dan, his confederate, to spend a year in a small town.
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The Breathless Moment
1913
In the Bishop's Carriage
1/1
A lost film. A successful stage actress with a hidden past as a criminal is kept on the path of righteousness by a benefactor.
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In the Bishop's Carriage
1922
Too Much Business
7/1
Through sheer bluff Rodney Marvin ( Edward Everett Horton ) gets a job on a newspaper; becomes editor Matt Hayward's ( James Corrigan ) partner; and b...
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Too Much Business
1915
Mixed Wires
0/0
Insurance adjuster John Smith leaves for a nearby town to adjust a loss. He tells Mrs. Smith that he will be home in a few days. Traveling salesman Jo...
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Mixed Wires
1915
The Jilt
7/1
Roy Norman and Marie Thompson are betrothed. However, a friend of Roy's, Allan Boyd, arrives and he and Marie are mutually attracted to each other. Th...
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The Jilt
1915
Comrades Three
10/1
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Comrades Three
1915
Detective Blinn
9/1
The intrepid Detective Blinn investigates a series of baffling jewel thefts targeting wealthy women.
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Detective Blinn
1915
The Deception
9/1
Discovering the day before her marriage that her fiancé is already married Violet Day has a breakdown. To recover her physician, Dr. King advises her...
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The Deception
1915
Wait and See
9/1
Young Beth Manners ekes out a living painting china. One day she finds a shoe that had been lost by the wealthy Rodney Norton’s valet. When he tracks...
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Wait and See
1915
The Zaca Lake Mystery
8/1
After Outlaw Slippery Joe robs a miner and his daughter, a sheriff pursues him. While on the outlaw’s trail, the sheriff finds the miner's horse, aban...
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The Zaca Lake Mystery
1915
The High Cost of Flirting
8/1
Ethel Dunne and Jack Blakeney are sweethearts, despite the objections of Ethel's father. Mr. Dunne has just admonished the young couple when he is ent...
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The High Cost of Flirting
1915
By Whose Hand?
9/1
Chester Rowe commits a robbery and murder, then flees to the mountains where he meets and falls in love with Lottie Toby. Lottie's father receives new...
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By Whose Hand?
1915
His Obligation
9/1
Young Mary Lehner is deceived and abandoned by Ralph Moore, a manipulative social climber. Mary, daughter of a blacksmith, falls for Moore while he's...
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His Obligation
1915
The Guiding Light
7/1
The secluded life of sturdy young lighthouse-keeper Robert and his wife Anna is interrupted by a visit from a stranger, Harry Nelson, a sportsman and...
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The Guiding Light
1915
The Resolve
8/1
Steven Brooks, a young man who finds himself entangled in a complicated situation involving his wife, Mrs. Steven Brooks, and another woman named Nell...
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The Resolve
1915
Reprisal
7/1
A maid in the politician's household is bribed to call on the young man late at night, for the purpose of establishing a scandal which he is to be for...
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Reprisal
1915
The Greater Strength
7/1
After accidentally injuring a friend in a wrestling match and swearing off violence of any kind, Dr. Hart becomes the physician at Big Creek Mines. Wh...
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The Greater Strength
1915
The Broken Window
7/1
A group of boys are playing baseball on a playground, and one of them hits the ball over the fence, breaking the window of a house belonging to a prof...
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The Broken Window
1915
One Summer's Sequel
0/0
Mary, a farmer's daughter in New England. The summer boarders who had been staying at her family's farm have departed, but two of them, Lloyd Norman a...
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One Summer's Sequel
1915
Wife Wanted
10/1
Andy is searching for a woman whose photo he found in an envelope with the challenge "Find me." Meanwhile, J.D.P. Moore and his daughter, Ruth, are al...
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Wife Wanted
1915
The Castle Ranch
8/1
Rancher Algy discovers oil on his property and outsmarts a land shark named Todd who tries to buy the land back at a lower price after learning of the...
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The Castle Ranch
1915
The Wishing Stone
10/1
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The Wishing Stone
1915
The Problem
0/0
Fred Rees proposes to Edith Shanlon, contingent on her mother's approval, which is initially denied due to the mother's desire for a wealthy match. A...
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The Problem
1915
His Brother's Debt
7/1
After his brother's death, Arnold Downs, to save the reputation of his brother's sweetheart, Clara Myers, marries her, though he is in love with Sada...
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His Brother's Debt
1915
Reformation
7/1
Jimmie and Molly are a pair of sibling thieves-he a burglar, she a shoplifter. When Jimmie is arrested after a bungled job, he advises Molly to move s...
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Reformation
1915
Ancestry
8/1
After the Duke of Lorenzo discovers the Duchess with her lover, Count Riccardo the men duel leading the Duke’s 20-year banishment. During that time, t...
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Ancestry
1915
The Truth of Fiction
8/1
Following a cattle roundup, rancher Burton provides a holiday for his cowboys. During the celebrations, they entertain Margaret with daring feats of h...
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The Truth of Fiction
1915
The Derelict
7/1
Within earshot of her fiancé Leo Holmes and his friend Bruce Morgan Louise Wilke says she could never marry a man who was a drunkard. Morgan, secretly...
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The Derelict
1915
The Decision
8/1
Ida Price has been cheated out of her share in her father's estate by her cousin Charles. She puts the appeal of the case in the hands of Judge Clark...
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The Decision
1915
Saints and Sinners
10/1
In a village where appearances reigned, a wealthy woman, known as "The Saint," presided from her grand estate, her charity a public spectacle. She pro...
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Saints and Sinners
1915
Justified
10/1
Tom Allen, a hardworking young miner. He cautions his wife, Beatrice, about the presence of a "worthless chap" named Joe Hills, who frequently loiters...
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Justified
1927
The Gay Old Bird
8/1
A maid is forced to take the place of the lady of the house when she is temporarily incapacitated.
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The Gay Old Bird
1919
Life's a Funny Proposition
8/1
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Life's a Funny Proposition
1914
Damaged Goods
1/2
"Damaged Goods" pictures the terrible consequences of vice and the physical ruin that follows the abuse of moral law. It is a stirring plea for a pure...
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Damaged Goods
1917
A Man's Man
0/0
John Stuart Webster, mining engineer, having accumulated a fortune in Death Valley, Calif., starts for Denver. On the train is Dolores Ruey, a beautif...
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A Man's Man
1920
Live Sparks
10/1
Wealthy wastrel Neil Sparks devotes more attention to the pursuit of pleasure than to his inherited oil business. Neil's neglect allows two schemers,...
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Live Sparks
1919
Fools and Their Money
7/1
Although her husband and children want to continue living modestly after they acquire a fortune from munitions, Mrs. Tompkins has social aspirations a...
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Fools and Their Money
1927
Her Father Said No
7/1
While taking a morning workout, young prizefighter Danny Martin encounters Charlotte Hamilton in distress over her balky roadster. Martin wins his fig...
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Her Father Said No
1920
The Inferior Sex
10/1
When his honeymoon is over, Knox Randall shifts his attention from his wife Ailsa to his business. Feeling neglected, Ailsa accepts her sister-in-law...
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The Inferior Sex
1921
Garments of Truth
10/1
Lester Crope, who has a penchant for inventing imaginative stories, alarms his village by reporting that the dam above the mayor's house has burst; in...
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Garments of Truth
1917
The Butterfly Girl
8/1
After her mother dies, a young girl is sent with her little sister to live with their aunt and uncle, who treat her terribly. The aunt and uncle run a...
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The Butterfly Girl
1922
Confidence
10/1
Bob Mortimer, an unsuccessful traveling salesman, picks up the wrong valise and finds it full of money. This gives him the confidence, which he has pr...
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Confidence
1927
California or Bust
8/1
Jeff Daggett, owner of a garage in Rockett, Arizona, neglects his business for work on a new type of automobile motor, while Johnny Fox, his assistant...
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California or Bust
1927
By Whose Hand?
9/1
By Whose Hand? is a lost 1927 American silent crime drama film directed by Walter Lang and released by Columbia Pictures.
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By Whose Hand?
1924
Fools in the Dark
7/1
Percy Schwartz is the son of a rich trash-can manufacturer but forgoes joining the company business in order to write thriller movie stories about big...
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Fools in the Dark
1927
Wedding Bills
8/1
The best man at an upcoming wedding goes to a jeweler to pick up the wedding ring and is also given a bracelet, on approval, worth $25,000. On his way...
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Wedding Bills
1928
Their Hour
7/1
A shipping clerk falls under the spell of a socialite, but eventually returns to the girl from his own social class who really loves him.
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