Ethel Clayton

Ethel Clayton

From Wikipedia Ethel Clayton (November 8, 1882 — June 6, 1966) was an American actress of the silent film era. Clayton's screen debut came in 1909, in a short called Justified. She jockeyed her early film appearances with a burgeoning stage career. Her pretty blond looks were reminiscent of the famous Gibson Girl drawings by Charles Dana Gibson. On the stage she appeared mainly in musicals or musical reviews such as The Ziegfeld Follies of 1911. These musical appearances indicate a singing talent Clayton may have possessed but went unused in her many silent screen performances. In 1912 she appeared in "The Country Boy" on stage at the Lyceum Theatre in Rochester New York and made her feature length film debut in For the Love of a Girl. The film was directed by Barry O'Neil. She was cast with Harry Myers, Charles Arthur, and Peter Lang. She was also directed by William Demille, Robert G. Vignola, George Melford, Donald Crisp, Dallas M. Fitzgerald, and Clifford Sanforth. Like many silent film actors Clayton's career was hurt by the coming of sound to motion pictures. She continued her career in small parts in movies until she retired in 1948. Her screen credits number more than 180. Clayton was first married to actor-director Joseph Kaufman until his death in 1918 in the Spanish Influenza epidemic. She later married silent film actor and former star Ian Keith twice and they divorced twice. In both cases Clayton cited cruelty and excessive drinking. Clayton and Keith were first married in Minneapolis in 1928 and first separated on January 13, 1931. Ethel Clayton died on June 6, 1966 at St. John's Hospital in Oxnard, California, aged 83. She was buried at Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in Ventura, California. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Ethel Clayton has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

  • Title: Ethel Clayton
  • Popularity: 1.207
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1882-11-08
  • Place of Birth: Champaign, Illinois, USA
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  • 1937
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    Artists & Models

    Artists & Models

    6 1937 HD

    An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.

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  • 1917
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    Man's Woman

    Man's Woman

    1 1917 HD

    A 1917 silent drama film

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  • 1917
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    The Volunteer

    The Volunteer

    1 1917 HD

    Madge Evans, World Film Corp. juvenile star, is sent to her Quaker grandparents, Timothy and Tabitha Mendenhall, when her father and mother go to...

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  • 1937
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    Easy Living

    Easy Living

    7.018 1937 HD

    J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

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  • 1926
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    Merry Widower

    Merry Widower

    6 1926 HD

    Julius loses his wife to Rudy because he's too busy going on hunting trips. But when she arranges to meet with a fortune teller, Julius hatches a...

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  • 1922
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    If I Were Queen

    If I Were Queen

    1 1922 HD

    While studying in Paris, Princess Oluf of Kosnia (Andree LeJon) befriends an American girl, Ruth Townley (Clayton), and gives her a locket bearing...

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  • 1922
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    Her Own Money

    Her Own Money

    1 1922 HD

    After five years of marriage, Mildred comes to the realization that her husband, Lew, is going nowhere in the real estate business. Mildred, however,...

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  • 1910
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    The Tout's Remembrance

    The Tout's Remembrance

    1 1910 HD

    "Bullets" Brown, the hero of our story, is a rare track tout, and a true type or this particular parasite.

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  • 1917
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    The Bondage of Fear

    The Bondage of Fear

    1 1917 HD

    Vesta Wheatley is the daughter of a Virginia physician; John Randolph is a New Yorker who buys a tract of land from her father. Vesta and John fall...

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  • 1916
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    The New South

    The New South

    1 1916 HD

    The New South is a silent 1916 drama.

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  • 1914
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    The Wolf

    The Wolf

    1 1914 HD

    Upon his father’s death Jules Beaubien's is left a rich man but also one with a mission. Find his until now unknown half-sister, take her in...

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  • 1921
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    The Price of Possession

    The Price of Possession

    1 1921 HD

    After Jim Barston is mysteriously killed in Australia, his wife, Helen, lays claim to the estate of Gerald Mortimer Barston in England, asserting...

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  • 1937
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    Rich Relations

    Rich Relations

    1 1937 HD

    A secretary finds herself being romanced by a "ladies man". What she doesn't know is that it's her boss who really loves her.

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  • 1912
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    Pilgrim's Progress

    Pilgrim's Progress

    1 1912 HD

    Consists of two parts: Part One: The Life of John Bunyon (2 reels); Part Two: The Pilgrim's Progress (3 reels).

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  • 1932
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    The Crooked Circle

    The Crooked Circle

    4.8 1932 HD

    A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.

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  • 1926
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    Risky Business

    Risky Business

    6 1926 HD

    A domineering mother sets out to break up the romance and possible marriage of her daughter, Cecily Stoughton, with Ted Pyncheon by several contrived...

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  • 1938
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    Say It in French

    Say It in French

    1 1938 HD

    An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are...

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  • 1917
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    Yankee Pluck

    Yankee Pluck

    1 1917 HD

    Once a wealthy man, John Pollard now resides in reduced circumstances in Washington, D.C. with his pretty daughter Polly. Despite the poor...

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  • 1916
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    His Brother's Wife

    His Brother's Wife

    1 1916 HD

    When Richard Barton's health fails, his wife Helen, desperate for money to pay the medical bills, agrees to spend the night with the wealthy Howard...

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  • 1925
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    Lightnin'

    Lightnin'

    5.2 1925 HD

    Set in a hotel straddling the border between California and Nevada, this early John Ford comedy follows a female hotel owner's efforts to turn a...

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  • 1917
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    The Web of Desire

    The Web of Desire

    1 1917 HD

    When his wife Grace inherits her father's stock, John Miller, the president of the Western Power and Development Company, becomes a millionaire and...

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  • 1937
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    Wells Fargo

    Wells Fargo

    5.1 1937 HD

    In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...

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  • 1943
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    Dixie

    Dixie

    3 1943 HD

    A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music...

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  • 1939
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    Boy Trouble

    Boy Trouble

    5 1939 HD

    A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.

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  • 1933
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    Let's Fall in Love

    Let's Fall in Love

    7.5 1933 HD

    A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.

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  • 1937
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    Waikiki Wedding

    Waikiki Wedding

    5.444 1937 HD

    Tony Marvin is a laid back but incredibly successful promoter and fair-haired boy for J. P. Todhunter's pineapple company located in beautiful...

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  • 1920
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    The 13th Commandment

    The 13th Commandment

    1 1920 HD

    Disillusioned by the transience of wealth when her father's bank balance can no longer support his family's posh lifestyle, and when her...

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  • 1938
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    Cocoanut Grove

    Cocoanut Grove

    1 1938 HD

    Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.

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  • 1920
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    Crooked Streets

    Crooked Streets

    1 1920 HD

    Gail Ellis, a secretary, accompanies Professor Silas Griswold and his wife to China on an expedition to acquire antique vases. Curiosity draws her to...

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  • 1937
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    Make Way for Tomorrow

    Make Way for Tomorrow

    7.532 1937 HD

    At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with...

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  • 1938
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    Men with Wings

    Men with Wings

    6 1938 HD

    Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight....

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  • 1937
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    Exclusive

    Exclusive

    6 1937 HD

    When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government...

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  • 1916
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    The Hidden Scar

    The Hidden Scar

    1 1916 HD

    Janet Hall (Ethel Clayton) is "wronged" by Henry Dalton (Montagu Love) and becomes pregnant. She has the child and begs Dalton to marry her but he...

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  • 1913
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    When the Earth Trembled

    When the Earth Trembled

    4.3 1913 HD

    A mother with two young children survives the San Francisco earthquake disaster.

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  • 1914
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    The Lion and the Mouse

    The Lion and the Mouse

    1 1914 HD

    Silent film drama...

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  • 1916
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    Husband and Wife

    Husband and Wife

    1 1916 HD

    When Doris Baker spends her husband Dick into serious debt, he embezzles funds from the bank where he works to cover some speculative investments. He...

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  • 1916
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    A Woman's Way

    A Woman's Way

    1 1916 HD

    Marion Livingston, daughter of General Livingston, boss of the Elsinore coal mines, rescues Jack Stanton, a young superintendent of the mines, from a...

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  • 1936
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    Hollywood Boulevard

    Hollywood Boulevard

    2.5 1936 HD

    With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

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  • 1930
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    Call of the Circus

    Call of the Circus

    1 1930 HD

    A retired circus clown, Herbert Rawlinson, finds love entering his life when he marries a member of the circus troupe, Ethel Clayton and the adoption...

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  • 1942
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    Beyond the Blue Horizon

    Beyond the Blue Horizon

    1 1942 HD

    A young girl's parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown...

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  • 1943
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    Mardi Gras

    Mardi Gras

    1 1943 HD

    The first of a series of six two-reel "Musical Parade" shorts produced in Technicolor for the Paramount 1943-44 production season. The series would...

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  • 1932
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    Thrill of Youth

    Thrill of Youth

    5 1932 HD

    Chet Thayer returns to his family and the loving arms of his long suffering sweatheart Marcia. Not being the faithful type he soon falls under the...

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  • 1940
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    Love Thy Neighbor

    Love Thy Neighbor

    6.5 1940 HD

    Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each...

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  • 1939
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    Geronimo

    Geronimo

    5 1939 HD

    The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud...

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  • 1925
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    Wings of Youth

    Wings of Youth

    1 1925 HD

    Mrs. Katherine Manners loves her three grown daughters who are in boarding school. When she plans a party for them at home, they phone from the...

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  • 1939
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    Cafe Society

    Cafe Society

    6 1939 HD

    A pampered heiress (Madeleine Carroll) elopes with a shipboard reporter (Fred MacMurray) just to get her name in a society column.

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  • 1933
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    Secrets

    Secrets

    5.1 1933 HD

    In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his...

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  • 1938
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    Say It in French

    Say It in French

    1 1938 HD

    An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are...

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  • 1912
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    Just Maine Folks

    Just Maine Folks

    4.5 1912 HD

    Out in the farm-lands near Portland, the Widow Walters lives with her daughter Ethel. As far as affections are concerned, those of the widow are...

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  • 1941
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    New York Town

    New York Town

    10 1941 HD

    Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter...

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  • 1933
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    Private Jones

    Private Jones

    1 1933 HD

    After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter...

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  • 1941
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    West Point Widow

    West Point Widow

    6 1941 HD

    In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage...

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  • 1936
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    The Accusing Finger

    The Accusing Finger

    4.7 1936 HD

    A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and...

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  • 1943
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    True to Life

    True to Life

    6 1943 HD

    A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins...

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  • 1917
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    The Dormant Power

    The Dormant Power

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1920
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    The Sins of Rosanne

    The Sins of Rosanne

    1 1920 HD

    Roseanne (Ethel Clayton) has grown up near some diamond mines in South Africa. As a child, she became ill and a Malay nurse, Rachel Bangat (Fontaine...

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  • 1922
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    For the Defense

    For the Defense

    1 1922 HD

    Singer Anna Woodstock loses her voice, but a visit to a hypnotist, Dr. Joseph Kasimir, brings it back. What Anna doesn't realize is that her illness...

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  • 1921
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    Beyond

    Beyond

    1 1921 HD

    Avis Langley's dying mother begs her to look after Avis's errant brother and continues after death to reappear in spirit form to remind Avis of her...

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  • 1922
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    The Cradle

    The Cradle

    1 1922 HD

    A socialite couple thinks only of themselves. When they become bored with one another, they divorce and marry others (several times). The person who...

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  • 1915
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    The Great Divide

    The Great Divide

    7 1915 HD

    The Jordans, Phil and Ruth, accompanied by Philip's wife, Polly, and Dr. Winthrop Newbury, a suitor for Ruth's hand, bid old Mrs. Jordan good-bye at...

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  • 1918
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    The Witch Woman

    The Witch Woman

    1 1918 HD

    Seduced and abandoned by the caddish Louis La Farge shepherdess Marie Beaupre is cast out of the village and forced to survive in the mountains...

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  • 1919
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    A Sporting Chance

    A Sporting Chance

    1 1919 HD

    A young lady takes on a convict as her chauffeur, believing him to be a burglar. In reality, however, he is an innocent broker.

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  • 1917
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    The Stolen Paradise

    The Stolen Paradise

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1918
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    Stolen Hours

    Stolen Hours

    1 1918 HD

    During a raid on a gambling establishment run by her father, Cosmo Lester, Diana Lester rescues Hugh Carton, a member of the English Parliament and a...

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  • 1938
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    If I Were King

    If I Were King

    6.7 1938 HD

    King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the...

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  • 1927
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    The Princess from Hoboken

    The Princess from Hoboken

    1 1927 HD

    To enliven their business, the O'Tooles, restaurant owners in Hoboken, New Jersey, transform their restaurant into the Russian Inn when they hear...

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  • 1942
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    The Major and the Minor

    The Major and the Minor

    7 1942 HD

    Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old...

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  • 1937
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    Hold 'Em Navy

    Hold 'Em Navy

    3 1937 HD

    Two football players fight over the same girl.

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  • 1926
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    Sunny Side Up

    Sunny Side Up

    1 1926 HD

    Sunny sings in the streets to obtain funds for a country outing. A theatre owner hears her and takes her up. During a fishing trip Sunny is about to...

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  • 1929
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    Hit the Deck

    Hit the Deck

    9 1929 HD

    A sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner's affections.

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  • 1921
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    Sham

    Sham

    1 1921 HD

    Based upon a description in a film publication,[3] Katherine Van Riper (Clayton) is an extravagant young society girl who is very much in debt, and...

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  • 1932
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    The All-American

    The All-American

    5 1932 HD

    The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.

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  • 1939
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    The Sap Takes a Wrap

    The Sap Takes a Wrap

    1 1939 HD

    Charley gives his girlfriend a mink coat he was supposed to be guarding for three showgirls; when the ladies want their coat back, Charley goes to...

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  • 1920
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    A Lady in Love

    A Lady in Love

    1 1920 HD

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  • 1920
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    A City Sparrow

    A City Sparrow

    1 1920 HD

    A drama starring Ethel Clayton. Milly West (Clayton) is a dancer who has her heart bent on stardom. She has an admirer in country boy Tim Ennis...

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  • 1913
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    The Price Demanded

    The Price Demanded

    1 1913 HD

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  • 1918
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    Women's Weapons

    Women's Weapons

    1 1918 HD

    The children of a a novelist, Nicholas, contract scarlet fever. His wife Anne stays in the house to take care of them, but the house is quarantined...

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  • 1939
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    King of Chinatown

    King of Chinatown

    5.9 1939 HD

    A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.

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  • 1918
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    The Mystery Girl

    The Mystery Girl

    1 1918 HD

    Prince Sebastian of Lurania is forced to go into hiding when German forces invade his country. His niece, Countess Therese, is an ambulance driver...

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  • 1916
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    Beyond the Wall

    Beyond the Wall

    1 1916 HD

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