Self (archive footage)
An appreciation and the story of the making of the 1941 film The Maltese Falcon.
Self (archive footage)
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends and co-workers.
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Segunda parte de "Érase una vez en Hollywood". A diferencia del primer documental, sólo hay dos narradores: Gene Kelly y Fred Astaire. Incluye escenas de comedias y dramas en los que intervienen los hermanos Marx, Laurel y Hardy o Katharine Hepburn.
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.
Jewel Mayhew
Cuando el Estado intenta expropiar su plantación para construir una autopista, Charlotte Hollis, una solterona acaudalada del Sur que lleva treinta años recluida llorando la muerte del hombre que amó, pide ayuda a su prima Miriam y a su viejo amigo Drew.
Irene Perry
Hawke es un camionero que llega a Nueva York con la intención de hacerse escritor. Al poco, conoce a Jeanne Green, una editora que, convencida de su talento, lo ayudará a publicar su primera novela. Aunque la obra no alcanza un gran éxito, su adaptación para ser estrenada en Broadway le abrirá las puertas de la fama.
Self
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.
Mrs. Roberta Carter
Peyton Place es una pequeña localidad situada en el estado de Massachusetts donde últimamente sus habitantes están bastante disgustados con su vecina Allison MacKenzie (Carol Lynley), una muchacha que ha escrito una novela basada en las vidas de algunas de las personas que viven en el pueblo y que está siendo un verdadero éxito de ventas. Aunque los nombres han sido convenientemente cambiados, es fácil adivinar quien es quien en el libro, motivo por el cual, casi todos los vecinos se han puesto en contra suya, liderados por Roberta Carter (Mary Astor). Se trata de una bibliotecaria de la escuela, una mujer extremadamente seria e implacable. Curiosamente, una de las pocas personas que apoya a Allison es su padrastro, quien tiene desavenencias con la madre de ésta por dicho motivo
Mrs. Leslie
A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection after a safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, after Earnest Hemingway's short story.
Virgilnie Beasley
Pike, un piloto de pruebas de las fuerzas aéreas, acude sin demasiadas ganas al funeral por un compañero con el que coincidió en la Guerra de Corea. Sucesivos flash-backs se combinan con la actualidad, en que una hermana y la viuda del difunto parecen mostrar un interés más allá de la amabilidad por Pike.
Mrs. Tremaine
Un maduro actor de teatro contrata como asistenta a una muchacha de la que se ha enamorado.
Mrs. Jargin
Cocky car racer Nick Jargin has retired since he nearly caused the death of his brother at a hairpin bend on a circuit. He now holds a trendy café who keeps him busy full time until one day, Tony Boari, a new champion racer, challenges him.
Mrs. George Salt
George Salt, un poderoso hombre de negocios, contrata a Cliff Burton para que lo sustituya al frente de su empresa. Lo envía a Gran Bretaña a negociar un contrato, pero allí, además de tener que resolver un dilema moral, encontrará el amor.
Mrs. Corliss
Bud Corliss, un hombre atractivo y muy ambicioso, asesina a su novia y hace que su muerte parezca un suicidio. Piensa que el embarazo de la joven le habría creado problemas con su adinerada familia. Sin embargo, la hermana de la fallecida no cree la historia del suicidio y comienza a investigar por su cuenta. Al mismo tiempo, conoce a Bud, un desconocido del que no sabe nada, y entre ellos surge un romance. (FILMAFFINITY)
Isabelle Lagarde
The son of a French aristocrat is accused of stealing his father's money and of stealing his step-sister's heart.
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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 Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953.
Ada
Melodrama sobre la adicción al juego en el cual, el propietario de un casino con problemas de conciencia intenta arreglar las cosas con su mujer e hijo. Cuando éste último comienza a tener malas compañías y entra en prisión, su padre le hace recapacitar para que no pierda la vida como él en negocios sucios y deudas de juego.
Marmee
Mientras su padre está en la guerra, cuatro jóvenes hermanas de caracteres muy diferentes realizan un aprendizaje, a veces doloroso, a veces fascinante, de la vida y del amor. A medida que van creciendo, abandonan, una a una, el hogar familiar para casarse y crear su propia familia. En casa sólo se queda Jo, que quiere ser escritora, y para conseguirlo se traslada a Nueva York, donde, gracias a su tenacidad y esfuerzo logra publicar su primera obra. Además, a pesar de estar convencida de que para ella el tiempo de la felicidad ya ha pasado, en Nueva York encontrará también el amor.
Pat
Por su participación en la construcción de viviendas para las personas de bajos recursos, Frank Enley (Van Heflin) acaba de ser homenajeado por la gente de Santa Lisa, que ve en él a un hombre bueno y comprometido. Pero, de repente, a la vida de Enley llega Joe Parkson, un hombre discapacitado que le busca con un único objetivo: matarle. Un penoso incidente ocurrido durante la II Guerra Mundial, será removido entonces y la vida para Enley y para su esposa Edith (Janet Leigh), entrará en un agudo conflicto.
Queenie Havock
El juez Timberlane se casa con la chica equivocada. Ella se dedica cada vez más al amigo del juez Brad Criley. Durante una pelea, el juez le dice a Virginia que se quede con Brad, pero cuando enferma se la lleva a casa.
Louise Bishop
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
Fritzi Haller
Fritzie, dueña de una casa de juego, no desea que su hija Paula se relacione con los tipos que pululan por ahí. Pero cae en las redes de Eddie, un mafioso.
Señora Morales
En los años 20, un grupo de jóvenes norteamericanos se exilian a París huyendo de los horrores de la guerra y de sus problemas personales. Allí llevan una vida bohemia de desenfreno. Entre ellos se encuentran Jake y Lady Brett, una pareja que puso fin a su relación después de que él se quedara impotente por las heridas recibidas en combate. A pesar de la indiferencia que él pretende demostrar hacia ella, la mujer sigue enamorada de él.
Adriana (archive footage)
This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.
Elizabeth Van Doren
The follow-up film to "Claudia", with Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young reprising their earlier roles as a young married couple living in a small Connecticut town.
Delilah Donay
Delilah es la joven camarera de un restaurante. El dueño se siente fuertemente atraído por ella, pero Delilah sólo le hace caso porque está obsesionada con conseguir dinero.
Mrs. Anna Smith
Año 1903. El matrimonio Smith, afincado en San Luis, tiene cuatro preciosas hijas. Una de ellas, Esther, de diecisiete años, se enamora de un vecino que acaba de instalarse en la ciudad. Sin embargo; la familia, y especialmente Esther, tienen un enorme disgusto cuando su padre les anuncia que deben trasladarse a vivir a Nueva York por motivos de trabajo.
Josephine Evans
La autora de best-sellers Josephine Evans desaparece sin dejar rastro. Su agente, Adam Trent, recurre a los hijos de la escritora para encontrarla.
Hyllary Jones
El joven Eddy (Gene Kelly) intenta montar un espectáculo musical y en el proceso se enamora de la bella Kathryn (Kathryn Grayson), la hija de un coronel.
Alberta Marlow
Bogart interpreta a un oficial de artillería del ejército nortamericano que, en 1941, tras un juicio militar, cae en desgracia y decide abandonar el país. Consigue un trabajo en América Central, pero cuando está a punto de irse descubre que los japoneses proyectan atacar el Canal de Panamá y las bases americanas en Pearl Harbor.
The Princess Centimillia
Inexplicablemente, un novio y una novia no pueden asistir a su propia boda porque se lo impiden sus dobles, que son los que se casan. Seis años más tarde, el administrador del piso de Park Avenue de Tom y Gerry Jeffers enseña la casa, aunque todavía viven en ella, a otros posibles inquilinos, ya que ellos se han retrasado en el pago del alquiler. Gerry se siente frustrada porque su marido, un arquitecto que intenta sacar adelante sus proyectos, no permite que ella utilice su belleza para conseguir que alguien se los financie. Entonces, Gerry conoce accidentalmente a John D. Hackensacker III, uno de los hombres más ricos del mundo.
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Blooper out-takes from Torrid Zone, Four Mothers, The Wagons Roll at Night, The Sea Wolf, No Time for Comedy, The Bride Came C.O.D., and Affectionately Yours, among other Warner Brother productions of 1940 and 1941.
Brigid O'Shaughnessy
Un detective privado es abordado por una misteriosa mujer, que dice estar amenazada. Pero tanto el perseguidor como el hombre encargado de su protección aparecen muertos. Todo parece girar alrededor de una estatua de un halcón de valor incalculable.
Sandra Kovak
La tempestuosa y ambiciosa concertista de piano Sandra Kovac (Mary Astor) mantiene una estrecha relación con Maggie Van Allen (Bette Davis) y su hijo Pete. Sus elegantes amigos de Nueva York no alcanzan a imaginar qué pueden tener en común estas dos mujeres. Lo que ocurre es que ignoran que Pete es hijo de Sandra y de un heroico aviador (George Brent) a quien aman las dos mujeres.
Mary Ann Young
La verdadera historia del famoso líder mormón Brigham Young y su batalla para el transporte de su pueblo a través de las montañas Rocosas a establecerse en Salt Lake City. La trama se centra en dos personajes, Jonathan Kent y Zina Webb y las dificultades que tienen que enfrentar en el camino.
Marion Manning
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
Helene Flammarion
Clásica "screwball comedy" (escrita por Billy Wilder y su guionista habitual, Charles Brackett) en la que una chica americana, perdida en París y sin un centavo, se hace amiga de un taxista. Éste la lleva en su taxi a una fiesta de la alta sociedad, donde se hará pasar por una dama rica y elegante.
Dottie Wingate
Con la ayuda de un amigo (Freddie Bartholomew), una chica (Judy Garland) hace todo lo posible para evitar que su madre viuda se case con una persona que no le conviene.
Cynthia Holland
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
Mrs. Irene Mallebre
A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.
Lola Fraser
Un matrimonio regenta una agencia de detectives privados. Uno de los casos que cambiará su relación es el de una mujer que ofrece al marido 300 dólares por un trabajo, en teoría, sencillo.
Kay McGowan
In this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic difficulties in their competitive pursuit of a "big scoop".
Mme. DeLaage
Manikoora es una isla de los mares del Sur azotada desde siempre por los tifones, aunque hace años que no ha sufrido ninguno. Es una colonia francesa cuyo gobernador ejerce el poder al margen de de las tradiciones y costumbres de los nativos. Según una leyenda local, cuando la tiranía rebasa ciertos límites, los pájaros abandonan la isla y el mar ruge enfurecido. La relación amorosa entre dos nativos, Marama (Dorothy Lamour) y Terangi (Jon Hall), se verá en peligro cuando él sea encarcelado injustamente en Tahiti...
Antoinette de Mauban
En un imaginario país, la víspera de su coronación, Rodolfo V, es secuestrado por su ambicioso hermano que desea arrebatarle el trono. Los súbditos más leales convencen a un turista, que se parece asombrosamente al rey, para que lo suplante por unas horas. Al día siguiente, se prepara una expedición para rescatar al rey, que está encerrado en el Castillo de Zenda. El turista, enamorado de una princesa de la corte, participará activamente en la lucha.
Polly Dunlap
A manicurist witnesses a gangland murder. Realizing there was a witness to their crime, the killer tries to track her down and silence her.
Edith Cortright
Samuel Dodsworth es un magnate de la industria del automóvil, el típico hombre de negocios que empezando desde abajo ha llegado a la cima del éxito. Él y su esposa deciden pasar una segunda luna de miel en Europa, pero durante el viaje descubre que ella le es infiel, y su mundo empieza a tambalearse. En tal circunstancia, conoce a una mujer que le devuelve la fe en el amor y lo convence de que vale la pena vivir. Gracias a ella, pondrá todos los medios a su alcance para salvar su matrimonio, pero quizá sea demasiado tarde.
Barbara 'Bobby' Blake
An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.
Edith Farnham
A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention of getting married again, they begin to fall for each other. Their children, however, are determined to see that the "romance" never gets off the ground and do everything they can to see that they are kept apart.
Lillian Cooper
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
Vida
A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is promoted to an executive position.
Betty
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Martha Daniels
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
Marian Henshaw
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
Patricia Sanford
An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.
Odette Mauclair
A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.
Herself
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
Bessie Foley
A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
Jessica Wells
Un actor de teatro de reconocido prestigio ve como su hermana, también actriz, cambia totalmente de personalidad cuando se reencuentra ésta con su marido, al que creía muerto.
Olga Morgan
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
Hettie Stream
Un magnate del ferrocarril es chantajeado por el novio y manager de la chica con la que comete adulterio.
Charlotte
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
Arlene Dale
Durante una convención de una empresa de neumáticos, se suceden toda clase de desmanes sexuales y alcohólicos.
Virginia Claffin Nordholm
Ambicioso largometraje que engloba a tres generaciones de la familia Nordholm en sesenta años de historia. Una saga que arranca con cierto toque de western, al presentar una granja de Dakota del Sur, donde el joven Orin marcha en busca de mejores oportunidades de vida. Una vez instalado en Chicago alcanza un gran éxito al inventar un sistema de refrigeración para automóviles. Cuando todo parece irle sobre ruedas (nunca mejor dicho), el crack del 29 le golpea duramente.
Hilda Lake
Archer Coe es hallado muerto en su inaccesible dormitorio. Todo parece indicar que se trata de un suicidio, pero el inspector Philo, que piensa que ha sido un asesinato, considera que el principal sospechoso es el hermano de Archer.
Letty Pace
This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
Ruth Wayburn
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
Barbara Willis
Un matrimonio llega a una plantación de caucho en Indochina, regentada por un hombre duro, al mismo tiempo que una aventurera. Surge así un peligroso triangulo amoroso.
Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
May Ballard
Director Robert Florey's 1932 melodrama about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity stars Mary Astor, Kenneth MacKenna, Tommy Conlon, Lilyan Tashman, Hale Hamilton, Cecil Cunningham and Virginia Sale.
Follette Marsh
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.
Marthe
Marthe Preston vive con apuros en París, hasta que un jugador acude en su ayuda. Agradecida, accede a seducir y contraer matrimonio con el rival del jugador, con el fin de llevarle a la ruina. (Filmaffinit)
Nancy Gibson
Nancy Gibson, una millonaria que cuando vuelve a Nueva York tras una estancia en París, se entera que su marido se ha encaprichado de una joven bailarina con la que pretende casarse. Para evitarlo, Nancy trama un plan aportando la 'astucia de mujer' de su título y se muestra completamente indiferente hacia la nueva situación. Todo se complicará aún más cuando ella...
Norma Selbee
In this drama, an impoverished young woman meets a millionaire who marries her on the spot and then begins pampering her with jewels and furs. When not attending to her every need, the business magnate works his mines so he can buy her some more. While he is gone, a gigolo makes advances upon her.
Frisco Kitty
A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers.
Mary Linden
Mary Linden es una secretaria que se enamora de un compañero que no está ni por asomo a su altura, rechazando a muchos otros, por el que considera el hombre de sus sueños, y al que llevará “sutilmente” a la cima en el mundo de los negocios.
Lily Kulper
The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife.
Princess Anne
The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming general.
Dona Rosita Garcia
A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.
Julia Seton
Julia quiere casarse con John, un apuesto hombre cuyas ideas no encajan con la tradicional forma de pensar de la familia de ella. Linda, la hermana pequeña de Julia, también se sentirá atraída por John. En 1938 George Cukor la versionó con Katharine Hepburn y Cary Grant como protagonistas.
Mimi Howell
The movie stars George Bancroft, Mary Astor and Fredric March who are all excellent in their roles. The story begins as Joe Forziati (Bancroft), an Italian immigrant who has battled his way to success as a New York building contractor, decides to embark on a social career.
Mary Gray
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through. Desperate, Mary trusts the shifty chambermaid Clara who whisks her away to the mansion of wealthy George Blaine. There, Mary must pretend to be a lowly cook, but that seems better than sticking with the guy she was engaged to.
Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
It's 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice gave offered the audiences a chance to see their favorite actors and actresses from the silent screen era to see and for the first time can be heard in a gaudy, grandiose music comedy revue. But also appear actors and actresses from the first 'talkies', stars from Broadway and of course the German shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay is the host of the more than 70 well-known stars who show various acts.
Dee Renaud
Dee Renaud is a girl playing the "Devil" in an amusement concession at a beach resort. Slick Glicks, the barker, promises the yokels that if they're able to catch the "Lady From Hell," she will reward them with a kiss. But when Glicks tries to go beyond kissing, Dee is rescued by Jim Coakley, son of a New England lighthouse keeper...
Marjorie Ware
Taking place over 24 hours, "New Year's Eve" is the story of Marjorie Ware, broke and unemployed, who despairs as her ailing younger brother languishes at home. She runs into rich gambler Larry Harmon and rejects his overtures. She later finds a wallet with 10 $100 bills belonging to Edward Warren.
Judith Andrews
When a gangster's speakeasy is raided by the police, one of the people picked up is the gangster's pretty young girlfriend. A kind-hearted cop takes pity on her and helps her get out of that life. While waitressing to earn money for college, she meets a wealthy and handsome young man and they fall in love--but he doesn't know about her somewhat shady past and her relationship with the gangster.
Elizabeth Quimby
Upon hearing that his daughter Elizabeth, is coming from America to visit him in Paris, wealthy Willoughby Quimby, decides to give up dry martinis and women. However, Elizabeth seeks a wild time and ends up leaving France with her father's drinking buddy, Freddie, and Willoughby goes back to his dry martinis.
Princess Delatorre / Ellen Guthrie
Princess Delatorre, young and beautiful widow of an Italian scion of royalty, returns with her fortune to the small American town where she grew up as Ellen Gutherie. Arriving by train a few days earlier than she planned, Ellen is mistaken for Mrs. Arden, a seamstress of doubtful repute from a neighboring town. She carries on the deception for fun when her nearsighted Aunt Katie and others believe she is Mrs. Arden. Phil, her old sweetheart, recognizes her, however, and shows her his new invention, a corkscrew that turns itself--a failure because of prohibition. Ellen leaves, having heard how much store is set on her coming; she returns on the proper train, elaborately made up as Princess Delatorre, and the big reception takes place as planned. Then she and Phil return to Italy, where they expect the corkscrew to be a success.
Anna
Anna runs away from her wealthy father's ranch and becomes a trick rider in a circus to be with her sweetheart, Cal Coney, a circus cowboy, when her father disapproves the match. There she achieves fame as "Anna Montana," but she remains unhappy because Cal refuses to admit that he loves her. Meanwhile, Rawl Souvane, manager of the circus, plans to woo and marry Anna when he preceives that she is wealthy.
Jeanne
A mob boss' gang gets suspicious about their boss' new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl who doesn't seem to be the type who'd hang out with gangsters. They're not quite certain if she's actually a police agent or just a "groupie".
Carol Trent
Informed by her doctor that she is going blind, Carol Trent tearfully breaks off her engagement with Don Manning, hoping to spare him the stigma of a sightless bride. When Hughes catches up with her and demands an explanation, Astor pretends to have fallen out of love with him and further convinces him that she has turned into a shameless hussy.
Sally Montgomery
Starry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her like it.
Dolly
La historia de la unidad militar organizada por el futuro presidente de los Estados Unidos, Teddy Roosevelt, y sus aventuras en Cuba durante la Guerra Hispanoamericana de 1898.
Elena
Juan is about to elope with the convent-bred Elena, when he is chosen to assassinate the governor who is about to hand California over to the Russians. Since the governor also happens to be Elena's father, this puts him in quite a fix.
Mirza
Dos soldados norteamericanos, que luchan en la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918) se escapan de una prisión alemana para vivir aventuras en Arabia. (FILMAFFINITY)
Molly Gibson
After suffering a fall during a race, rider Jimmy Burke loses his nerve. But with the help of his girlfriend Molly Gibson, Jimmy regains his confidence just in time to achieve victory during the Big Race.
Amy Cortissos
Silent Film drama...now a lost film. Julian Ramos is a fisherman in the Canary Islands. As the guardian of his hotheaded younger brother Charles, Julian regards it as his duty to protect the boy from women -- and vice versa. When Charles begins pitching woo at aristocratic Amy, Julian runs interference by pretending to be in love with the girl himself. As time passes, of course, he stops pretending.
Jennie Clayton
A wounded captain recalls his youth, his time at college, and the woman he fell in love with.
Adriana della Varnese
La acción se desarrolla en Roma, en la época de los Borgia, Lucrecia (Estelle Taylor), César (Warner Orland), y el Conde Donati (Montagu Love). Don Juan (John Barrymore), a quién su padre Don José (también John Barrymore) enseñó que las mujeres sólo traen tres cosas: vida, desilusión y muerte, tiene múltiples romances a sus espaldas, pero vive obsesionado con la única mujer que nunca pudo tener, Doña Isabel (Jane Winton). Ella y él sufrirán la ira de Lucrecia, despechada por ser ignorada por Don Juan, así como por matar este al conde Donati en un duelo...
Destaca por ser la primera película de la historia con una banda sonora completa y efectos de sonido sincronizados, al ser el primer largometraje de la Warner Bros que utilizó el sistema de sonido Vitaphone. Sin embargo, en esencia, y al margen de estos detalles técnicos, se concibió y produjo como una película muda, sin ningún diálogo sonoro, siendo todos los diálogos a base de intertítulos al igual que en el cine mudo.
Mary
A carnival huckster who decides to turn pennies into dollars by passing himself off as a hellfire-and-brimstone evangelist.
Audrey Nye
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 Audrey Nye, a former jazz baby who has gotten a responsible job on a newspaper. She helps Perryam get hired as a reporter.
Fidele Tridon
Heroine Fidele Tridon has grown up with the knowledge that her father has promised her in marriage to Baron Kurt Badeau. When Fidele comes of age, the Baron shows up expecting to claim his young bride. In the interim, however, Fidele has fallen in love with wealthy horseman Philip Collett.
Doris
Paula, a chorus girl, marries into an aristocratic family. Unfortunately, her husband is a drunk. When he tries to give some liquor to their infant son, she brandishes a pair of scissors at him. He wrestles them away from her, then falls down the stairs and stabs himself. Due to the perjured testimony of the maid and butler, Paula is convicted of murder and sent to jail. Her son, Danny, grows up to be a movie star. There is a controversy surrounding him because he refuses to do his own stunts. The reason he won't take any chances is that he is using all his money to get his mother out of jail. Finally, to redeem himself, he agrees to participate in a charity auto race, but his mother's hearing is scheduled for the race day.
Dolores de Muro
Don César (Douglas Fairbanks), hijo de don Diego De la Vega, el Zorro, se ve envuelto en un caso de asesinato durante su visita a España, y aprovecha su habilidad con el látigo para convertirse en Don Q, ocultando su verdadera identidad. (FILMAFFINIT)
Margo
Amy and Matthew Dale separate and they place their young son, Matthew Jr., in a London boarding school. The boy grows up without knowing his parents, and is taunted by his schoolmates, who doubt the legitimacy of his childhood. By the time he is 20, Matt wants to find out about his parentage, so he travels to Paris, leaving behind his sweetheart, Margo.
Leonore Bewlay
Enticement (1925)
Dolores Hicks
Nadie creía que Rufus Billop sobreviviría como recién nacido. Luego vivió su infancia y adolescencia rodeado de médicos y medicinas, preocupado por su frágil salud y convirtiéndose en un hipocondríaco consumado. Cuando tres comerciantes consideran que su caso es una buena inversión a cambio de una futura fortuna, un médico sabio le prescribe una vista encantadora para contemplar desde su cama de enfermo y todo empieza a cambiar. (filmaffinit)
Fay Bartholdi
Inez Laranotta is an actress who is notorious for her vamp roles and for the wild parties she attends. But images are deceiving -- the parties (and police raids) are staged by Inez's press agent, and she is actually very devoted to her innocent younger sister, Fay Bartholdi.
Alice Barrows
An unscrupulous broker discovers his hated business rival has secured a valuable option in Brazil and determines to delay the latter in New York until it expires. He uses a cabaret dancer to use her wiles to keep him there.
Undetermined Secondary Role
Three clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are in competition for a promotion to factory manager.
Helen Castle
Unguarded Women is a lost 1924 silent film drama. In a battle during the World War, Douglas Albright has a moment of cowardice which causes the death of his friend, Captain Banning. When Albright comes back from the war, his fiancée, Helen Castle and her father, George, can see that something is bothering him. So Castle sends him to take care of business in China -- and to pull himself together. While in China, Albright runs across Bannings' widow, Breta, who has buried her sorrows behind a mask of revelry and fast living. Because he feels responsible for what she has become, Albright attempts to regenerate her and proposes marriage.
Mary Brainard
On the wager that he will propose marriage to any girl selected by his fraternity brothers, Bill finds himself making love to Mary, an old-fashioned girl who is secretly in love with him…
Lady Margery Alvanley
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
Lucy
Southerner Tom Rumford was sent up north to be raised by relatives who happen to be Quakers. As a result, he returns home a passive, peace-loving young man, completely out of place in an area where men kill over issues of honor.
Violet Lynwood
At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.
Vivian Hope-Clarke
A matchmaker sets out to have a rich woman marry the not-so-rich boy she loves, and tries to persuade a poverty-stricken nobleman to marry the commoner he loves.
Rachel
Goody Rickby has a child out of wedlock, but it dies when the father, Gillead Wingate, refuses to acknowledge the child or help the mother get medical aid. Wingate becomes one of the foremost figures in the witch hunts, and Goody plots her revenge with Dr. Nicholas, who is really the Devil.
Mary Astor
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Narcissa Escobar
Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves.
Rose Randolph
The often-told film story of a drunken actor hitting the skids, making a comeback, and helping his grown daughter in the bargain.
Polly Crawford
Jim Bradley has always played second fiddle in his family -- while his older brother, Herbert, goes off to college, Jim becomes a garage mechanic. When Herbert returns home, it's easy for him to steal Jim's girl, Polly Crawford. But trouble comes to the Bradley's town when Cragg murders his daughter and breaks into the family's home. Herbert goes for help, leaving Jim with an empty gun to protect their mother and Polly.
Elsie Worden
Robert Fisher Clarke is a promoter who comes to a small Canadian town. He harnesses the power of the rapids and builds a pulp mill. One of his employees, Jim Belding, has a fiancée, Elsie Worden, with whom Clarke falls in love.
Young Woman
En eminent pianist is made deaf by an anarchist's bomb during a command performance.
Joan - the Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
Hope is a silent 1922 drama.
Irene Mason
Upon being released from prison, Lawrence Hilliard takes the name of John Smith and looks for work, and falls in love with Irene Mason, a social secretary, but is reluctant to tell her about his past.
Helen Seymour
A 1922 silent film.
Bit Part
The Angelus is a 1922 silent film
Wings of the Border is a 1921 drama.
Peasant Girl / Beggar Maid
The painter Burne-Jones and his famed painting "The Beggar Maid" are depicted in this speculative drama about the creation of the painting. Burne-Jones plays matchmaker for a young British nobleman who has fallen in love with a servant girl on his estate. The artist shows that love can thrive between members of different classes by depicting on canvas a picture from Tennyson's poem about the love of King Cophetua for a beggar maid. As he relates the story of the poem in words and through his painting, the young earl sees the application to his own situation.
Norah Collison
Norah Collison is a young woman who owns a huge timberland in Maine, full of white pines. As she arrives to take control of her company, the manager and agent are planning to log the woods and steal the pines.
Grizel is the daughter of the Painted Lady, who believes that her lover will one day return. Grizel is ostracized by the other children of the town. Tommy and his sister come to the town. Tommy is friendly, but Elspeth keeps her distance. When the Painted Lady dies, Dr. Gemmell makes Grizel his housekeeper. Time passes and after the doctor dies, Grizel, who is now twenty-one years old, loves Tommy, who is an author in London. Tommy visits the town but cannot decide whether he loves Grizel. Grizel knows that Tommy does not love her, and after he returns to London her unhappiness leads to insanity. Tommy returns and marries Grizel, although he believes that she will hate him when she gets better. After two years under Tommy's care, she regains her sanity. After Tommy lets her know that he cared for her out of his love for her; not for pity, Grizel is happy.
Marcia Harthorn
A bad-tempered lumber mill foreman is in love with the mill owner's daughter. But the owner would rather have his daughter marry a rich man. Gordon gets fired after he berates his workers and then starts a fight with his rival after papers are found that show he's been cheating the boss.
Bit Part
A 1921 silent film
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Los jornaleros Keaton y Roberts comparten una casita de campo llena de aparatos mecánicos que les hace la vida más fácil. Ambos rivalizan por el amor de la hija del granjero. Keaton, disfrazado de espantapájaros, causará todo tipo de problemas a su rival y al del granjero.
