John Gilbert
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5058 |
| Birthday | 1897-07-10 |
| Place of Birth | Logan, Utah, USA |
| Also Known As | John Cecil Pringle, Jack Gilbert, |
1925
The Big Parade
7.572/125
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working...
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The Big Parade
1934
Queen Christina
6.872/137
Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.
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Queen Christina
1929
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
5.867/30
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
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The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1916
The Eye of the Night
0/0
William H. Thompson plays a likeable old lighthouse keeper who must contend with his less likeable fellow villagers. One of Thompson's acts of kindnes...
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The Eye of the Night
1923
While Paris Sleeps
10/1
When a sculptor falls in love with his model but finds his love unrequited, he plans to kill his love rival with the help of the owner of a Horror Wax...
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While Paris Sleeps
1924
He Who Gets Slapped
7.543/104
After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown w...
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He Who Gets Slapped
1924
The Wolf Man
7/3
Gerald Stanley (John Gilbert) is an English gentleman who is engaged to Beatrice Joyce (Alma Frances). But Stanley's personality changes whenever he d...
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The Wolf Man
1921
Shame
10/1
William Fielding, a young widower, is living in Shanghai with his little boy, David. A young Chinese woman looks after the child, and Foo Chang, a tra...
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Shame
1917
Love or Justice
7.5/2
Promising young lawyer Jack Dunn,, becomes a victim of drugs and loses his standing in the legal world. He passes his idle hours in the slums where he...
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Love or Justice
1928
A Woman of Affairs
6.5/25
Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Neville have long been smitten with each other, but her...
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A Woman of Affairs
1953
Yesterday and Today
7/1
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Ye...
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Yesterday and Today
1924
The Wife of the Centaur
3.333/3
Jeffrey Dwyer is a writer and a poet who wrestles with the conflicts between his idealism and his passion. The two sides of his nature are personified...
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The Wife of the Centaur
1926
Flesh and the Devil
7.18/64
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station...
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Flesh and the Devil
1924
Married Flirts
9/1
Nelly is so intent on her writing career, that she neglects her appearance and her husband, Wayne. Jill Wetherell, who is looking for a rich husband,...
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Married Flirts
1929
A Man's Man
8/1
An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood to make movies and marries a soda jerk.
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A Man's Man
1926
The Merry Widow
6.732/41
Prince Danilo falls in love with dancer Sally O'Hara. However, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids the marriage due to her being a common...
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The Merry Widow
1918
More Trouble
0/0
Lemuel Deering's son Harvey graduates from college at the top of his class, then returns home to become a partner in his father's steel business. Beca...
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More Trouble
1918
Shackled
0/0
A destitute young woman named Lola Dexter falls in love with Walter Cosgrove, who establishes her in a luxurious apartment and promises to marry her....
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Shackled
1915
Matrimony
0/0
It all begins when Mrs. Rossmore (Dean) discovers that her husband (Howard Hickman) has begun "playing the field" with other women. Too much the lady...
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Matrimony
1917
The Weaker Sex
0/0
Jack Harding, a wealthy ne'er-do-well, becomes involved with a Broadway vamp. When she is murdered, Jack is falsely accused of the crime and must turn...
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The Weaker Sex
1931
The Phantom of Paris
6/8
Chéri-Bibi is a world class escape artist, but he cannot escape the false murder charge that is placed on him.
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The Phantom of Paris
1934
The Captain Hates the Sea
6.429/7
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are...
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The Captain Hates the Sea
1927
Love
5.686/35
In Imperial Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become his mistr...
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Love
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
7.333/3
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension th...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1927
The Show
6.115/13
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salo...
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The Show
1926
La Bohème
6.375/16
A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.
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La Bohème
1926
Bardelys the Magnificent
7.583/12
Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not abov...
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Bardelys the Magnificent
1922
The Love Gambler
7/1
Drifter Dick Manners arrives at a ranch owned by Colonel Angus McClelland. When he wagers that he will be able to ride a wild bronco and kiss the ranc...
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The Love Gambler
1932
Downstairs
6.556/18
In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive....
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Downstairs
1929
Desert Nights
5.429/14
Jewel thieves pull a heist on a diamond mining operation in Africa and take the foreman hostage before escaping into the Kalahari Desert, but when the...
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Desert Nights
1930
Redemption
5.667/3
In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée. Fedya qui...
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Redemption
1930
Way for a Sailor
5.333/6
A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.
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Way for a Sailor
1931
West of Broadway
6.75/4
A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry him, and weds an admitted gold-digger he's just met...
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West of Broadway
1928
The Cossacks
7.375/8
Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and chivalry. A mighty picturization of Count Leo Tolsto...
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The Cossacks
1922
Monte Cristo
6.462/13
A film adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spe...
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Monte Cristo
1927
Man, Woman and Sin
4.4/5
A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy himself and his mother a house. He lands a position in a newspaper off...
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Man, Woman and Sin
1931
Gentleman's Fate
6.143/7
A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
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Gentleman's Fate
1999
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
8.25/4
Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.
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Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1917
Golden Rule Kate
0/0
The setting is the Old West town of Paradise, Nevada, where a young woman, Mercedes Murphy (played by Louise Glaum), co-owns and operates a combinatio...
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Golden Rule Kate
1933
Fast Workers
5/8
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she...
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Fast Workers
1919
Heart o' the Hills
6.3/10
Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.
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Heart o' the Hills
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
1923
Cameo Kirby
6/10
Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his lo...
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Cameo Kirby
1929
His Glorious Night
8/1
Being engaged against her will with a wealthy man, Princess Orsolini (Catherine Dale Owen) is in love with Captain Kovacs (John Gilbert), a cavalry of...
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His Glorious Night
1918
Doing Their Bit
0/0
Little Kate and Janie O'Dowd are sent to their wealthy American uncle, Michael O'Dowd, after their Irish father loses his life on a World War I battle...
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Doing Their Bit
1916
Shell 43
0/0
William Berner is an English spy who is doing his job behind German lines. While working for the allies, he proves sympathetic toward a German Lieuten...
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Shell 43
1915
The Coward
5.8/15
Set during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel and Charles Ray as his weak-willed son. The son is forced, at gunpoint, by his f...
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The Coward
1916
Hell's Hinges
6.129/31
When Reverend Robert Henley and his sister Faith arrive in the town of Hell's Hinges, saloon owner Silk Miller and his cohorts sense danger to their e...
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Hell's Hinges
1919
The Busher
5.1/11
A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues.
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The Busher
1925
1925 Studio Tour
6.294/17
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
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1925 Studio Tour
1990
The Divine Garbo
0/0
Profile of actress Greta Garbo, narrated by Glenn Close
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The Divine Garbo
1919
The Man Beneath
6.333/3
The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland and falls in love with Kate Erskine, whose sister M...
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The Man Beneath
1927
Twelve Miles Out
6.5/2
Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. While running booze into the U.S. during Prohibition, Jerry s...
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Twelve Miles Out
1917
Princess of the Dark
0/0
James Herron, a consumptive, has built a shack in the hope that the mountain air may prolong his life. With him dwells his daughter, Fay, whom he idol...
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Princess of the Dark
1917
The Dark Road
10/1
Jim Morrison is an English army officer who comes from a very old and prominent family. He marries the ravishingly beautiful but unscrupulous Cleo, wh...
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The Dark Road
1917
The Hater of Men
0/0
Convinced that her impending marriage to fellow reporter Billy Williams will result in a loss of her freedom, Janice breaks her engagement and enters...
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The Hater of Men
1931
We’re Switching to Hollywood
5.2/5
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak...
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We’re Switching to Hollywood
1973
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
6.5/2
Overview of director King Vidor's filmography.
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The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
1918
Wedlock
0/0
Unknown to his proud and wealthy family, Granger Hollister marries Margery Harding, a telephone operator. Granger presents his new wife at an engageme...
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Wedlock
1986
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
8/2
Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films. Narrate...
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Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
1916
Civilization
5.2/14
Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless passenger ship during wartime. His submarine is sunk in th...
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Civilization
1916
The Aryan
5.5/2
Steve Denton, rich from years of prospecting, is fleeced by the citizens of Yellow Ridge. In his rage, he kidnaps the woman most responsible and makes...
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The Aryan
1920
The Great Redeemer
10/1
A murderer and a thief, imprisoned together, find their lives changed forever when the thief's drawing of Christ's crucifixion on the cell wall comes...
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The Great Redeemer
1928
Show People
7.164/55
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
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Show People
1919
Should a Woman Tell?
6/3
A village girl, on a visit to the city of Boston, is taken advantage of by a man there, and returns to her home feeling sullied and ashamed. A young m...
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Should a Woman Tell?
1921
Ladies Must Live
9/1
Schooled by her wealthy brother-in-law William Hollins, Christine Bleeker plans to marry Ralph Lincourt when he is divorced. He, however, is equally p...
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Ladies Must Live
1924
The Snob
7/1
Two schoolteachers, married for love, are parted by the husband's obsessive desire for wealth and social position.
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The Snob
1925
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
7.299/112
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy,...
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
2003
Complicated Women
6.917/12
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered fi...
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Complicated Women
1944
Twenty Years After
8/2
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
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Twenty Years After
1923
The Exiles
7/1
Finding herself accused of a murder she didn't commit, Alice Carroll flees to Tangier, Morocco. District Attorney Henry Holcombe, meanwhile, has disco...
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The Exiles
1934
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
7.333/3
Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and...
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
1919
A Little Brother of the Rich
7/1
Captain of the Yale football team, Paul Potter becomes engaged to his small-town Indiana sweetheart Sylvia Castle but once in the big city he becomes...
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A Little Brother of the Rich
2007
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
4.3/5
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines t...
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
1964
The Big Parade of Comedy
7.167/6
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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The Big Parade of Comedy
1928
Four Walls
7.25/4
After completing his prison sentence for killing a rival gang leader in self-defence, Benny Horowitz decides to go straight.
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Four Walls
1924
His Hour
7/1
Gritzko, a prince of pre-World War I Russia, is the ultimate ladies' man. Women fall at his feet -- all except for a young but cold British widow, Tam...
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His Hour
1923
The Madness of Youth
8/1
After eluding authorities, Jaca Javalie goes to the home of wealthy Theodore Banning, where he professes to be a man of magic who learned his skills i...
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The Madness of Youth
1922
Calvert's Valley
8/1
Page Emlyn travels with his friend Jim Calvert to the Calvert family home. It doesn't turn out well: Calvert's fiancée breaks up with him and he later...
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Calvert's Valley
1917
The Devil Dodger
0/0
A gambler runs a frontier town with an iron fist.
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The Devil Dodger
1922
Honor First
10/1
Twin brothers are serving in the French army during the Great War. Jacques, a private, leads his brother's company to attack when Honoré, a lieutenant...
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Honor First
1924
A Man's Mate
8/1
Paul Bonard an artist, loses his memory when he receives a blow on the head from one of two apaches fighting over Wildcat, a sultry stepper in a cafe....
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A Man's Mate
1918
The Dawn of Understanding
0/0
The Dawn of Understanding is a lost 1918 American silent Western comedy film produced by The Vitagraph Company of America and directed by David Smith....
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The Dawn of Understanding
1923
St. Elmo
7/1
St. Elmo is a man who killed his romantic rival in a brawl. Traveling the world as a confirmed misogynist, St. Elmo returns to home and hearth only to...
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St. Elmo
2010
Rediscovering John Gilbert
0/0
This documentary features an on-camera interview with John Gilbert's daughter and biographer, Leatrice Gilbert Fountain.
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Rediscovering John Gilbert
1920
The White Circle
9/1
Having endangered his life by foolishly gambling away funds entrusted to him by the Carbonari, an Italian secret society, London banker Bernard Huddle...
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The White Circle
1919
The White Heather
7/1
Lord Angus Cameron's marriage to a woman of his titled Scottish class is thwarted by his secret marriage years before to Marion Hume, the housekeeper...
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The White Heather
1923
Truxton King
7/1
An American seeking adventure in Graustark strikes up an acquaintance with six-year-old Prince Robin and his Aunt Lorraine. The next day, Truxton over...
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Truxton King
1919
Widow by Proxy
7/1
Spinster sisters Sophronia and Angelica Pennington of Massachusetts refuse to meet Dolores, the bride of their nephew Jack, because she formerly was a...
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Widow by Proxy
1919
The Red Viper
9/1
David Belkov, a newsboy born of foreign parents who live in "New York's crucible," the East Side, admires the late Theodore Roosevelt, but when he see...
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The Red Viper
2014
Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
3/1
Documentary providing a career overview of the great Greta Garbo.
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Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo
1917
The Millionaire Vagrant
0/0
Wealthy young man Steven du Peyster encounters more adventures than he might have expected when he accepts a wager that he can live successfully on si...
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The Millionaire Vagrant
1916
Bullets and Brown Eyes
0/0
Countess Olga and Prince Carl, although from two European countries that have been longtime enemies, are madly in love with each other. Olga's brother...
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Bullets and Brown Eyes
1969
Garbo, by Joan Crawford
6/2
Joan Crawford narrates this documentary about the career of Greta Garbo.
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Garbo, by Joan Crawford
1924
Romance Ranch
7/1
Carlos Brent's grandfather informs him that he is rightful owner of a ranch in the possession of the Hendley family. A belated letter establishes his...
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Romance Ranch
1924
The Lone Chance
9/1
Penniless inventor Jack Saunders, in search of a girl he loves, assumes the guilt for a murder in return for $20,000 and promise of a pardon at the en...
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The Lone Chance
1922
Arabian Love
8/1
Nadine Fortier is captured by a band of desert marauders. "The Sheik" wins her in a game of dice but then lets her go - for now.
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Arabian Love
1918
Three X Gordon
0/0
Spoiled, lazy Harold Chester Winthrop Gordon finds that he has been disinherited, barred from seeing his sweetheart, and expelled from his club. He de...
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Three X Gordon
1922
A California Romance
10/1
In 1800s California, Patricio and Dolores are in love but are torn by politics--he believes California should join the US, while she believes it shoul...
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A California Romance
1922
The Yellow Stain
7/1
Donald Keith, a young lawyer who takes up residence in the small town of Owasco, Michigan, finds himself opposed by lumber king Quartus Hembly, feared...
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The Yellow Stain
1924
Just Off Broadway
7/1
Jean Lawrence, unsuccessful as a musical comedy actress, is near starvation when she is rescued by Nan Norton, a gangland sweetheart, in a restaurant...
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Just Off Broadway
1915
Aloha Oe
0/0
Brilliant but besotted attorney, David Harmon, wins a big case but ends the day in a dingy waterfront flophouse. His fiancée puts him on a sailing shi...
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Aloha Oe
1919
For a Woman's Honor
10/1
British India Medical Corps Captain Clyde Mannering returns to England to marry Helen Rutherford, but the wedding is postponed when her father dies. W...
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For a Woman's Honor
1970
Brasileiros em Hollywood
0/0
Brazilian documentary film directed by Salvyano Cavalcanti de Paiva that showcases the evolution of Brazilian artists in the American film industry be...
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Brasileiros em Hollywood
1920
Deep Waters
8/1
Henry Sanford, contracted to build a lighthouse at Keyport, is attracted to Kate, the wife of wealthy Morgan Leroy, who becomes jealous of Henry.
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Deep Waters
1917
The Mother Instinct
0/0
When her baby daughter Eleanor is traumatized after her father perishes in a storm at sea, Mother Coutierre sends the girl to live with her aunt in Pa...
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The Mother Instinct
1921
The Servant in the House
9/1
A man goes to work at a curate's house who is in denial about his poor social background.
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