I.A.R. Wylie
Рождение : 1885-03-16, Melbourne, Australia
Смерть : 1959-11-04
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Одинокая звезда, комедийная актриса, встречается со слепым аккомпаниатором, ветераном войны. Она притворяется, что тоже ничего не видит, чтобы быть вместе с ним...
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В автокатастрофе погиб национальный герой Роберт Форрест, и вся Америка погрузилась в траур. Из Европы возвращается его горячий поклонник журналист Стив О'Мэлли, с намерением написать биографию этого великого человека, однако вскоре он приходит к убеждению, что вдова Кристин Форрест скрывает какую-то тайну.
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Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.
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A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
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Семейка Карлтонов зарабатывают на жизнь игрой в карты. Они находятся в постоянном поиске новых жертв, которых можно обмануть. Когда очередная афёра Карлтонов проваливается, они вынуждены покинуть Монте-Карло. На железнодорожном вокзале они знакомятся с приятной пожилой дамой мисс Фортуна, которая очень богата и очень одинока. Во время поездки происходит железнодорожная катастрофа и Карлтоны спасают жизнь мисс Фортуны. Старушка в награду приглашает Карлтонов пожить в её лондонском особняке…
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Питер Морган — молодой профессор биологии в Старом Шаронском университете, приезжает срочно в Нью-Йорк, чтобы вернуть «заблудшую овцу» двоюродного брата Кита Моргана домой. Когда он, наконец, находит брата, неожиданно для себя знакомится, влюбляется и скоропалительно женится на певичке из ночного клуба Фрэнси. По возвращении домой в небольшой городок, которым заправляет Питер Морган-старший — его консервативный отец, с диктаторскими замашками, Питер никак не может набраться смелости, чтобы поставить в известность о своей женитьбе тирана-отца и больную матушку. Он просит Фрэнси поселиться у Кита, пока он придумает выход из создавшегося положения…
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An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In order to keep her near him, he wangles a job for her as a maid at the building.
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After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.
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Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball. There he meets lovely Lela Fischer and falls in love with her. A chance meeting with his former butler, brings a job offer as a gigolo.
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A paralysed farmer watches his brother fall in love with the woman he intended to marry.
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Young Nowheres is a 1929 American drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Richard Barthelmess, Marian Nixon and Bert Roach.
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A man falsely accused of crime joins Foreign Legion, and when trouble develops is saved by the self sacrifice of the commanding officer, his own father.
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A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.
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Jeff Farnell, forced by circumstances to take a job on a New York scandal sheet while he awaits the settlement of his claim against a steel company. Job Hardcastle, the hardened city editor of the paper, sends Jeff to get a story on "Mops" Collins, a society divorcée who has been reduced to dancing in a cabaret. Jeff takes pity on Mops, who is dying of consumption, and takes her into his apartment, telling Hardcastle that he could not find her. Afraid of losing his job, Jeff hunts for a big story, finding it when he discovers that Clive Ross-Fayne, a friend he thought lost in the war, has been arraigned on charges of narcotics peddling. (Pamela Short)
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A paralytic dominates his brother and wife until their child reforms him.
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This exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at least one title change before reaching the screen as Shattered Idols. Jean Hurst, the widow of a British Army officer in India, hates her crippled son David because she thinks he is a coward and a weakling. She sends him away to England for his education. When he returns to India, he falls in love with native girl Sarasvati, who he saves from being burned on a funeral pyre.
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Sigrid, A French dancer, diagnosed with a weak heart, is ordered by her doctor never to dance again. But when her dancing skills are needed by her lover's father to help quell a native uprising on the East Indian frontier, she determines to dance whatever the cost.
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Richard Farquhar, the ne'er-do-well nephew of a titled Englishman, after a protracted "good time" finds himself penniless in an Algerian hotel. He expects money from England, but instead receives a cablegram stating his allowance has been stopped and that his uncle will have nothing further to do with him.