Julien Josephson
Nacimiento : 1881-10-24, Roseburg - Oregon - USA
Muerte : 1959-04-14
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An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence.
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A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.
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El médico hindú Rama Safti, después de hacer unas prácticas en Estados Unidos, regresa a su país para curar a los pobres de Ranchipur. Allí conoce a Lady Edwina, una mujer infelizmente casada, que intenta paliar su soledad con efímeras aventuras. La vida de ambos cambiará cuando se produzca un gran terremoto.
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Henry M. Stanley acepta una inusual propuesta del director del periódico para el que trabaja. Se trata de localizar al misionero escocés David Livingstone, desaparecido en plena selva africana. Cuando por fin le localiza, descubre que éste ha contraído una grave enfermedad, y que se siente cómodo viviendo entre los nativos.
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Ferdinand de Lesseps fue un joven aristócrata e ingeniero francés que proyectó la construcción del Canal de Suez (inaugurado en 1869), pero tuvo que afrontar numerosos problemas para llevar a cabo su proyecto.
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Cuando su tía se cansa de cuidarla, Heidi, una niña huérfana, debe ir a vivir a las montañas suizas con su arisco abuelo (Jean Hersholt), un ermitaño que pronto se encariña con ella. Pero la tía regresa para llevársela a vivir con una familia que necesita una compañera para su hija inválida (Marcia Mae Jones). A pesar de que una malvada institutriz (Mary Nash) le hace la vida imposible, Heidi consigue ganarse el cariño de todos los de la casa y no ceja en su intento de volver a reunirse con su querido abuelo.
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Joyce Williams y su hija Priscilla viajan hasta la India para instalarse en una base militar británica junto al abuelo de la pequeña. Una vez allí, la niña se ganará el cariño de todos y jugará un papel muy importante en una rebelión local.
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Una joven piensa que, en su novio, ha encontrado al marido perfecto, hasta que éste cae rendido ante una joven adinerada, la típica niña mimada, y deshace el compromiso para casarse con la niña rica.
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Abel Frake y su familia aguardan ansiosos la Feria Estatal de Iowa. Abel confía en ganar el lazo azul con su cerdo campeón, Blue Boy. Su esposa Melissa quiere presentar su relleno al concurso de alimentos, su hijo Wayne quiere ajustar cuentas con un fullero que se burló de él en la última feria y su hija Margy sólo quiere divertirse un rato.
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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.
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An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
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La oculta providencia cuenta la historia de un ilustre concertista de piano, Montgomery Royale (George Arliss), que se queda sordo al explotar una bomba en París muy cerca de él. Primer papel protagonista de Bette Davis.
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Lane and Diane are a young married couple living in a coastal town whose lives are about to be torn apart by an old book of magic.
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Ellen, a young American girl who married a European prince and moved to his country, is preparing to return to the US, after having paid off all the debts left by her now-deceased husband. However, when she returns early, no one recognizes her and even her aunt Kate mistakes her for the princess' dressmaker. Her ex-boyfriend Joe, who recognizes her immediately, suggests that Ellen continue with the charade and have some fun, but a series of misunderstandings causes trouble for her.
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Un oficial del ejército francés y una cantante de cabaret se persiguen por Europa.
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An airplane carrying three Brits crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to execute his three half-brothers in neighboring India.
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Young Italian girl wants to become a great opera singer.
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Young Italian girl wants to become a great opera singer.
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Young Italian girl wants to become a great opera singer.
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Biografía del Primer Ministro británico, Benjamin Disraeli, que se enfrentó a los rusos y a la oposición dentro de su partido para mantener los derechos ingleses sobre el Canal de Suez. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Film which tells the story of immigrants coming to the United States.
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A wounded captain recalls his youth, his time at college, and the woman he fell in love with.
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Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac. Ricardo Cortez stars as Sazarac, a bold American pirate captain who proves to be putty in the hands of New Orleans belle Louise Lestron (Florence Vidor).
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Fernie Schmidt (Colleen Moore) lives with her parents in the rear of their delicatessen. The smells of the business - cheeses, sausages, garlic and pickled herrings - repulses Fernie, who dreams of leaving this environment and moving into a life that's more rarified. Her father, Pop Schmidt (Jean Hersholt) has plans for his daughter to marry Peter Halitovsky (Arthur Stone), a sausage salesman, but Fernie is repulsed by the idea. At a dance, Fernie meets Jack Dugan (Malcolm McGregor), who tells her that he is in stocks, a paper-counter, and she falls for him. Because of her rejection of her father's chosen candidate for matrimony, Pop puts Fernie out of the house.
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A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.
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La señora Erlynne, mujer de dudosa reputación, regresa a Londres y manda llamar a Lord Windermere. Le revela que es la madre de su esposa, a quien ésta cree muerta, y exige dinero por su silencio. También solicita una invitación a la fiesta de cumpleaños de Lady Windermere, pero ésta se niega. La señora Erlynne toma la carta de rechazo por la invitación y se presenta en la fiesta, desatando los celos de Lady Windermere.
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In India, Rosamond English learns that her husband Capt. Harry English has been killed in battle. After a time, she marries Sir Arthur Gerardine but is unable to forget her first husband, and gradually her love for him is rekindled, especially when she contrasts him to the pompous and elderly Sir Arthur.
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His Majesty, Bunker Bean is a 1925 silent film comedy directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Matt Moore. It is based on a 1916 play, His Majesty, Bunker Bean by Lee Wilson Dodd, taken from a novel Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers.
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In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both compete for the affections of a pretty young temptress.
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Simon Haldane works in the office of the Faulkner Iron Works, but he has been raised by his two maiden aunts in an extremely sheltered manner and is basically afraid of everyone and everything. One morning he finds a strange girl shivering in his bedroom, and although he's terrified of her, he manages to call a doctor for her. This starts a rumor that Simon is married. Complications ensue.
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A ranch owner saves a pretty young woman from committing suicide, and later marries her. They are very happy together until a former girlfriend visits him. Then the trouble begins.
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Ben Applegate's father dies, leaving him and his brothers Joe and Andy orphans and having to run the family farm. Their Uncle Grimes is their legal guardian, but he's only concerned with getting his hands on the farm. He has Ben declared incompetent and packs off Joe and Andy to an orphanage. When things look darkest for the three boys, help comes from an unexpected source.
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The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.
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All the Brothers Were Valiant (1923)
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A family of Russian Jews living in New York struggles to survive, while the mother strives to better their lives, but she finds that most of her efforts costs more then they are worth.
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Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.
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A conservative young man inherits his uncle's pearl fishery concession in the South Pacific. Upon his arrival there, he becomes involved with a woman and a mystery.
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Jeremy Dice, a finisher in a New York East Side tailor shop who prides himself on being a smart dresser and dancer, proves to be cowardly when he retreats from a bully who gets fresh with his girl, and his employer discharges him. Deciding to go out west, Jeremy is caught hitching the rails and comes upon two outlaws in the desert disputing over booty; they are both killed in a shoot-out, and Jeremy is proclaimed a hero by the sheriff.....
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When theatrical agent Sterling, a ladies man known for signing his latest paramours onto his agency's talent roster, returns to New York from a trip to Europe, he tells his more down-to-earth partner, Lawson, that he has hired a beautiful Neopolitan acrobat he saw onstage in Italy. When the acrobat, Tina Bambinetti, arrives in their office, though, Sterling is shocked to find that, offstage, she is plain, unkempt and badly dressed. Crushed by Sterling's dismissive treatment, Tina performs some acrobatics that almost destroy the office...
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Elmer Slocum has just served a jail sentence for speeding. On his first day of liberty he encounters a physician whose car has broken down and offers to take him to his patient; he is pursued by motorcops for speeding, wrecks his car in a closed street, and knocks down and believes he has killed a policeman. Elmer boards a freight train and makes his way to a small town in Iowa, where he meets Margaret Andrews.....
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Engaged to Harley Jones, fickle Phoebe Mabee flirts with Anson Newton. She and Harley, as a result, break their engagement, but within six months they are reconciled and married. Phoebe becomes a mother, and when Harley is sent abroad by his business firm she and her two children go to a summer resort where she renews her romance with Newton.
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Assistant to freight express agent Dave Haskell in the town of Pitt's Junction, Jim Kelly develops strong biceps lifting egg crates onto the daily train. Jim soon falls in love with Dave's lovely daughter Kitty, who, he worries, is interested in city slicker Perry Woods. When Woods steals $2,000 from the station safe, Jim, thinking that Dave took the money, confesses the crime and leaves for Chicago.
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Bill Henry Jenkins is a country boy on the lookout for a good career. He faces numerous obstacles, including losing his sales job when his bicycle is lost. A bigtime poker game turns out to be the key to Bill Henry's success.
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Silent military romantic love triangle comedy (based on the story by Julien Josephson), about a soldier named Ulysses S. Grant Briggs, who comes from the south and enlists in the army. He and his best friend, who is from the north, compete for a beautiful stage actress, and risks court-martial to win her.
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Andy Fletcher is a blacksmith in a country village, but he dreams of racing automobiles. He gets his chance to enter a big race, but winning is complicated by a band of bank robbers.
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Farmer Toby Watkinsm whose fanciful poetry does not impress his exasperated uncle, leaves the farm to become a subscription solicitor for the "Sawbert Weekly Clarion." In Sawbert, Toby meets Mayor Lot Morris' daughter Jean, and the shy young people fall in love. Crooked stock promoter Kendall Reeves arrives in town and unveils his plan to open a string-bean cannery. - From IMDB
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Officer Terence Shannon is the head man of the Los Angeles Flying Squadron. In this capacity, Shannon does battles with ruthless opium smugglers in LA's Chinatown
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Millionaire Larry Prentiss inherits a ranch. He decides to visit his new property incognito and gets a job as a ranch-hand. He falls in love with the ranch foreman's daughter and complications ensue.