Renée Adorée

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

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 in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.

A "March of Time" presentation of the evolution of movies compiled primarily from film clips of silent movies through the early sound pictures to the present (1939) date. Industry executives such as Jack and Harry Warner, Walt Disney, Cecil B. DeMille, et al are seen taking bows in the live (non-archive) footage.

A student nun falls in love with a Mexican singer starring in a cafe next door to her convent.

Feyda is a man of wealth and has many fine qualities, but he is powerless to resist gambling and beautiful women. Feyda falls instantly in love with Lisa, who is engaged to his dear friend Victor.

Henry, el hijo pagano de un padre blanco y madre nativa, ha heredado la tierra y una tienda, pero él prefiere la vida sencilla. Cuando se enamora de una chica nativa, su tutor, que está tratando de educarla como un 'buen' cristiano, pero que también la desea, conspira para mantenerlos separados.

El descubrimiento de oro en California en el año 1848 provoca un éxodo masivo a la zona, convirtiéndose en caldo de cultivo para bandidos.

After being released from jail, two con artists take their grift to a carnival.

Peggy Pepper (Marion Davies) sueña con ser una actriz dramática y su padre se dispone a llevarla a Hollywood para que le hagan un casting, donde piensa demostrarle a todos que su hija es una verdadera actriz. Ayudada por Billy Boone (William Haines), la chica conseguirá la dichosa prueba... pero algunas cosas van a cambiar en lo que han sido sus pretensiones, mientras entre ellos nace algo que es mucho más que una simple amistad. (FILMAFFINITY)

The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to his hometown and impress the girl he loves. His childhood rival for the girl happens to turn up at his casino, in trouble and doesn't want his girl to find about it.

A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman.

Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and chivalry. A mighty picturization of Count Leo Tolstoi's famous novel of the same name.

Set in the fictitious European kingdom of Balanca, Prince Michael IV is being coerced, by his advisers, to marry a young woman of royal blood. However, he has fallen for a peasant.

An aristocratic English womanizer is forced to take a fishing trip to avoid the husbands of his conquests, meets a young American lady on the train, and follows her to Biarritz.

Two men fight for the love of a young woman in the far north.

On Ze Boulevard is a 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Harry F. Millarde and written by Earl Baldwin, William Scott Darling, Joseph Farnham and Richard Schayer. The film stars Lew Cody, Renée Adorée, Anton Vaverka, Dorothy Sebastian and Roy D'Arcy.

When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.

Young Edmond Durand (Conrad Nagel) has been reared under the autocratic influence of his aunt (Marcia Manon), who directs a large silk mill in southern France. He revolts against a stifling career planned for him and leaves home with Marcelle, a Gypsy girl (Renée Adorée). They roam the countryside with a Gypsy caravan in romantic bliss; they are inadvertently separated but at the outbreak of war are reunited. When peace is restored, the lovers find happiness together.

Película muda ambientada en el mundo del circo que tanto le gustaba a Browning. Incluye la actuación de un ilusionista cuyo número principal consiste en separar la cabeza de su cuerpo. Pero, además, los artistas se ven involucrados en pasiones e intrigas diversas.

Based on a James Oliver Curwood yarn, the outsized Northwest Mountie adventure The Flaming Forest stars Antonio Moreno as RCMP sergeant David Carrigan.

Young Irish boxer James Carabine arrives in New York from Ireland, his way having been paid by Peggy Nolan, a girl from his hometown who's sweet on him. Unfortunately, James falls for the trampy Marcolina, who hooks up with him when her boxer husband loses a fight due to the shady doings of friends of fighter Blanco Johnson. Peggy sets out to rescue him from the bad crowd he's hanging with and get him back into prime boxing form.

Tin Gods is a lost 1926 silent film drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky, released by Paramount Pictures, and based on the play Tin Gods by William Anthony McGuire. Allan Dwan directed and Thomas Meighan starred.

Romance inspirado en la ópera de Giacomo Puccini, situado en el París de 1830. Un grupo de bohemios (pintores, escritores, músicos) sobreviven en las calles como pueden, acosados por el alquiler y el hambre. El dramaturgo pobre Rodolphe intenta sacar adelante su obra de teatro. Mimi, su novia, acude a un vizconde para poner en marcha la producción... siendo malinterpretadas por ambos hombres las intenciones de Mimi.

Dan (Lon Chaney), un delincuente habitual del miserable distrito londinense de Limehouse, tiene una doble personalidad. Unas veces es The Bishop, un hombre tullido que tiene fama de bienhechor de los desheredados. En cambio, cuando asume el papel de The Blackbird es un hombre separado de su mujer y enamorado de una artista que actúa en un café cantante. La generosidad y la falsa invalidez de The Bishop sirven de sofisticada tapadera para los delitos de The Blackbird. Pero la llegada de otro ladrón, West End Bernie (Owen Moore), que empieza a hacerle la competencia, pone en peligro su impunidad.

Jim es un niño rico que nunca ha trabajado. Cuando estalla la Primera Guerra Mundial, Jim, presionado por su novia, se alista junto a otros dos jóvenes, Bull y Slim. Cuando llegan a Francia se dan cuenta de que la guerra no es lo que esperaban. Película muda cuya estética la convertió enseguida en todo un clásico del séptimo arte.

Two couples engage in an exchange.

American sculptress Adele La Rue, working in Paris, lacks the inspiration to create a masterpiece, until Jean Ballard, a wild apache leader, takes refuge from the police in her apartment.

Boulevardier Sir Nicholas Thormonde (Lew Cody) has to choose between his mistress Suzette (Renée Adorée) and his virtuous secretary Alathea (Harriet Hammond) in wartime Paris.

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.

A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.

Cuando su esposa es asesinada por el malvado Marqués de Bazán, el oficial del ejército español Dorando se convierte en un conocido forajido conocido como El Bandolero. Secuestra al hijo de Bazán, Ramón, y lo cría uno de sus propios hombres. Cuando Ramón se convierte en un hombre, conoce y se enamora de la hermosa hija de El Bandolero, Petra. Bandolero le prohíbe a su hija ver a Ramón, por lo que Ramón se va para convertirse en torero. Una joven vengativa a la que ha rechazado hace que Ramón sea corneado por un toro vicioso. Surgen complicaciones.

A 1924 film starring Lew Cody and Renée Adorée directed by Bertram Bracken

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. He becomes an apache himself, falls in love with Wildcat and paints her portrait--his masterpiece. Wildcat learns Paul's identity and restores him to his family, though realizing that she will lose him. Surgery restores Paul's memory, but some subconscious force guides him back to the cafe and Wildcat's love.

Women Who Give (1924)

Believing she's responsible for the death of her would-be seducer, a young woman flees to North Vancouver.

Buster se marcha a la ciudad para demostrarle al padre de la chica que puede tener éxito. El escribe acerca de sus trabajos y ella le glorifica en su imaginación. Ella se lo imagina como cirujano, cuando sólo es ayudante de veterinario: ella le imagina como broker en Wall Street, cuando en realidad es el hombre de la limpieza.

West of Chicago is a 1922 American silent western film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and starring Buck Jones, Renée Adorée and Philo McCullough.

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 spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of...

'Honor First' was the first film Adorée and John Gilbert made together.

A 1922 film starring William Russell and Renée Adorée.

William Lowry rescues Claudia Royce from a burning building, and upon hearing that her parents are trying to force her to accept millionaire Leland, whom she does not love, he proposes a marriage of convenience to himself. She accepts, and Bill arranges a fake ceremony; but when she falls in love with Davidge, Bill refuses her a "divorce." Later, Bill gets rich in the manufacture of a patented fireman's pole, and when he buys a house for Claudia she realizes her love for him and they are legally married.

The Strongest is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Renée Adorée, Carlo Liten, Harrison Hunter, Beatrice Noyes, Florence Malone, and Jean Gauthier DeTrigny. It is based on the 1919 French novel Les Plus Fort by Georges Clemenceau.

Drama about a couple who travel from the Rocky Mountains to Seattle then wind up shipwrecked en route to Queensland. The heroine Irene is kidnapped by a ship captain and winds up wrecked on the Queensland coast.