Theodore Roberts

Theodore Roberts

Theodore Roberts (October 8, 1861 – December 14, 1928) was an American movie and stage actor. He was a stage actor decades before becoming lovable old man in silents. On stage in the 1890s he acted with Fanny Davenport in her play called Gismonda (1894) and later in The Bird of Paradise (1912) with actress Laurette Taylor. He started his film career in the 1910s in Hollywood, and was often was associated in the productions of Cecil B. DeMille. He was buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

  • Title: Theodore Roberts
  • Popularity: 5.293
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1861-10-08
  • Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
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  • Also Known As: Theodore Nowlin Roberts, The Grand Duke of Hollywood
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Theodore Roberts Movies

  • 1923
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    The Ten Commandments

    The Ten Commandments

    6.566 1923 HD

    The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden...

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  • 1918
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    The Squaw Man

    The Squaw Man

    5.8 1918 HD

    Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918...

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  • 1915
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    Temptation

    Temptation

    1 1915 HD

    Opera singer Renee Dupree is in love with struggling composer Julian who falls very seriously ill. She goes to impresario Mueller for the money...

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  • 1917
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    The Cost of Hatred

    The Cost of Hatred

    1 1917 HD

    Justus Graves (Theodore Roberts) is a mean-spirited human being, so it's no surprise that when he returns home from a business trip, he finds his...

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  • 1919
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    The Woman Thou Gavest Me

    The Woman Thou Gavest Me

    1 1919 HD

    Mary Mac Neill (Katherine MacDonald), whose father (Theodore Roberts) marries her off to Lord Raa (Jack Holt) in order to satisfy an old grudge. But...

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  • 1914
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    Ready Money

    Ready Money

    1 1914 HD

    Edward Abeles and Theodore Roberts as a couple of prospectors who get involved with greedy city types on a business trip to New York.

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  • 1917
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    The Devil Stone

    The Devil Stone

    1 1917 HD

    Fishermaid Marcia Manot finds an emerald which once belonged to a Norse queen and is cursed. Greedy American Silas Martin marries her, then sets her...

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  • 1914
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    The Circus Man

    The Circus Man

    1 1914 HD

    David Jenison, accused of a crime which he did not commit, escapes his guards and joins a traveling circus.

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  • 1918
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    We Can't Have Everything

    We Can't Have Everything

    1 1918 HD

    A married couple, each in love with another, attempts to unentangle themselves from their marriage in order to be with the one each truly loves. But...

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  • 1923
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    Racing Hearts

    Racing Hearts

    1 1923 HD

    Automobile maker John Kent is an old-fashioned sort who refuses to advertise his car line. His daughter Ginger, however, is determined to get him...

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  • 1924
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    To the Ladies

    To the Ladies

    1 1924 HD

    Three clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are in competition for a promotion to factory manager.

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  • 1928
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    Ned McCobb's Daughter

    Ned McCobb's Daughter

    1 1928 HD

    Carol runs a restaurant out of her house, while her husband George collects the ferry's tolls. Unbeknownst to Carol, George is allowing his...

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  • 1919
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    Male and Female

    Male and Female

    6.3 1919 HD

    When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.

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  • 1921
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    The Affairs of Anatol

    The Affairs of Anatol

    5.6 1921 HD

    Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he...

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  • 1915
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    The Immigrant

    The Immigrant

    1 1915 HD

    Masha, a young Russian emigrant traveling to the U.S., is saved from an officer's advances by civil engineer David Harding. Upon landing in America,...

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  • 1918
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    The Source

    The Source

    1 1918 HD

    A young man of social standing chooses instead to live as a hobo. He gets work in a lumber camp, and there uncovers intrigue by German agents.

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  • 1921
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    Too Much Speed

    Too Much Speed

    1 1921 HD

    Egotistical race-car driver Dusty Rhoades learns that humility pays off even better than acclaim.

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  • 1915
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    Stolen Goods

    Stolen Goods

    1 1915 HD

    The lives of a poor orphan and a rich kleptomaniac intertwine after the former is framed for a robbery by the latter.

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  • 1914
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    What's His Name

    What's His Name

    1 1914 HD

    Soda jerk Harvey is the most popular man in Blakeville NY and deliriously happy through three years of poverty-stricken marriage to Nellie. After a...

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  • 1925
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    Locked Doors

    Locked Doors

    1 1925 HD

    A young woman marries a man several years her senior to provide a comfortable home for her invalid father and then feels the call of youth and falls...

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  • 1915
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    The Wild Goose Chase

    The Wild Goose Chase

    1 1915 HD

    Two American grandfathers in France try to arrange marriages for their grandson and granddaughter by promising them money. The young ones refuse and...

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  • 1917
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    A Little Princess

    A Little Princess

    5.1 1917 HD

    Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel,...

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  • 1923
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    Stephen Steps Out

    Stephen Steps Out

    1 1923 HD

    Stephen Steps Out is a 1923 comedy short.

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  • 1942
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    Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

    Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

    1 1942 HD

    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...

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  • 1928
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    The Masks of the Devil

    The Masks of the Devil

    1 1928 HD

    Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, an innocent schoolgirl who is engaged to his best...

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  • 1929
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    Uncle's Visit

    Uncle's Visit

    1 1929 HD

    Uncle comes on a visit.

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  • 1922
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    A Trip to Paramountown

    A Trip to Paramountown

    6 1922 HD

    Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at...

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  • 1915
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    Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo

    Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo

    1 1915 HD

    "Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo" is an interesting play of intrigue between the Grand Duke Augustus Peter of Russia, whose incognito is Mr. Grex, an English...

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  • 1921
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    Miss Lulu Bett

    Miss Lulu Bett

    5.6 1921 HD

    Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, whose timid soul has failed to break the bonds of...

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  • 1915
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    The Unafraid

    The Unafraid

    1 1915 HD

    In Montegro brothers Stefan and Michael kidnap American heiress Delight Warren. Stefan marries her so he can claim her wealth, but then they fall in...

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  • 1922
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    Saturday Night

    Saturday Night

    5.8 1922 HD

    Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class...

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  • 1918
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    M'Liss

    M'Liss

    5.8 1918 HD

    M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent,...

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  • 1919
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    The Winning Girl

    The Winning Girl

    1 1919 HD

    Because he had previously picked the name James for his first-born, when a female arrives, Major Milligan, a well-meaning but lazy dreamer, calls his...

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  • 1921
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    Hail the Woman

    Hail the Woman

    1 1921 HD

    Oliver Beresford is a stern, Puritanical, and uncompromisingly rigid father. When shameful stories about his daughter Judith surface, rather than...

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  • 1918
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    Arizona

    Arizona

    1 1918 HD

    A lost film. An Army lieutenant at a remote post in Arizona tells a young woman that he does not love her, so she contrives to marry his commanding...

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  • 1916
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    The Thousand-Dollar Husband

    The Thousand-Dollar Husband

    1 1916 HD

    A now lost film directed by James Young and starring Blanche Sweet

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  • 1919
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    The Roaring Road

    The Roaring Road

    5.8 1919 HD

    "Toodles" Waldron, racing enthusiast and the best salesman for J. D. Ward's automobile company, quarrels with his boss; Ward will not let him enter...

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  • 1920
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    Excuse My Dust

    Excuse My Dust

    5.7 1920 HD

    A top race-car driver leaves the sport to get married and settle down, because his new wife doesn't want him to race anymore. However, not long...

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  • 1919
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    Hawthorne of the U.S.A.

    Hawthorne of the U.S.A.

    5.6 1919 HD

    A light-hearted romantic adventure.

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  • 1921
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    Forbidden Fruit

    Forbidden Fruit

    6.1 1921 HD

    Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no real prospects of earning money. Mary's employers,...

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  • 1920
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    Something to Think About

    Something to Think About

    6.5 1920 HD

    Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs...

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  • 1917
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    All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan

    All-Star Production of Patriotic Episodes for the Second Liberty Loan

    1 1917 HD

    Short film with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford & W.S. Hart promoting war bonds.

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  • 1916
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    The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

    The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

    1 1916 HD

    Jack Hale, a revenue agent, is sent into the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to track down illegal alcohol producers.

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  • 1917
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    The American Consul

    The American Consul

    1 1917 HD

    Country lawyer Abel Manning is very passionate about his political party. Through the force of his oratory, he helps elect James Kitwell to the U.S....

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  • 1914
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    The Making of Bobby Burnit

    The Making of Bobby Burnit

    1 1914 HD

    Bobby Burnit, a naïve young man, inherits $300,000 from his father, a hard-working entrepreneur. Because the will specifies that the money must...

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  • 1914
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    Where the Trail Divides

    Where the Trail Divides

    1 1914 HD

    Col. Landers adopts two children, "How," an Indian boy, and Bess, whose parents were killed in an Indian uprising. When the children are grown, How...

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  • 1918
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    Old Wives for New

    Old Wives for New

    6.6 1918 HD

    Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.

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  • 1915
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    The Captive

    The Captive

    6.2 1915 HD

    Set during the Balkan Wars, The Captive tells the story of Sonia, a young woman living in Montenegro and left to care for her younger brother Milos...

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  • 1919
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    For Better, for Worse

    For Better, for Worse

    6.2 1919 HD

    Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed...

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  • 1916
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    Joan the Woman

    Joan the Woman

    5.6 1916 HD

    A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.

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  • 1920
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    Suds

    Suds

    6.5 1920 HD

    Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months...

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  • 1915
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    The Girl of the Golden West

    The Girl of the Golden West

    5.5 1915 HD

    A saloon hostess loves Ramerrez, a notorious highwayman. Sheriff Jack Rance, who loves the girl too, instigates a card game that will determine the...

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  • 1916
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    Common Ground

    Common Ground

    1 1916 HD

    Crusading Judge Evans wants to expose the unscrupulous Judge Mordant even though he is engaged to Mordant's daughter, Doris. Hearing of Evan's plan,...

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  • 1919
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    Don't Change Your Husband

    Don't Change Your Husband

    6.7 1919 HD

    Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries...

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  • 1914
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    The Man From Home

    The Man From Home

    5 1914 HD

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  • 1923
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    Prodigal Daughters

    Prodigal Daughters

    1 1923 HD

    Elinor "Swifty" Forbes and her younger sister Marjory are the carefree daughters of wealthy J. D. Forbes. Their mother shows no restraint over her...

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  • 1919
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    Secret Service

    Secret Service

    1 1919 HD

    Lewis Dumont, a Northern officer in the American Civil War, works undercover behind Confederate lines in an attempt to lead Southern forces away from...

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  • 1921
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    The Love Special

    The Love Special

    1 1921 HD

    Jim Glover is an engineer in charge of constructing a railroad to the sea. He gives the company president Gage a tour of the area of land coveted for...

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  • 1914
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    The Call of the North

    The Call of the North

    5.2 1914 HD

    Graehme, Ned Stewart's father, was accused of adultery and killed being innocent. Ned decided to avenge his father, but got captured and sent to the...

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  • 1915
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    The Woman

    The Woman

    1 1915 HD

    William C. DeMille adapted his screenplay for The Woman on the stage play by DeMille's father Henry and David Belasco. The story is set in Washington...

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  • 1915
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    The Unknown

    The Unknown

    2 1915 HD

    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...

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  • 1915
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    The Case of Becky

    The Case of Becky

    1 1915 HD

    When a young girl is placed under hypnotism, it's discovered that she has a split personality.

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  • 1918
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    Hidden Pearls

    Hidden Pearls

    1 1918 HD

    Hawaiian prince Tom Garvin (Sessue Hayakawa) receives an American college education and falls in love with Enid Benton (Florence Vidor).

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  • 1920
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    The Furnace

    The Furnace

    1 1920 HD

    Folly Vallance marries millionaire Anthony Bond for his money, but he insists on a marriage in name only. Entering the social scene she befriends...

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  • 1926
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    The Cat's Pajamas

    The Cat's Pajamas

    1 1926 HD

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  • 1922
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    The Old Homestead

    The Old Homestead

    1 1922 HD

    Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.

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  • 1920
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    Double Speed

    Double Speed

    1 1920 HD

    Auto racer Speed Carr enters a marathon race across the United States, from New York to Los Angeles. He encounters numerous obstacles not related to...

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  • 1919
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    You're Fired

    You're Fired

    1 1919 HD

    Railroad magnate Gordon Rogers agrees to allow his daughter, Helen, to marry wealthy idler Billy Deering, Jr., but only if the latter can hold the...

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  • 1916
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    The Dream Girl

    The Dream Girl

    1 1916 HD

    The father of San Francisco waif Meg runs an illegal liquor club and supports "English" Hal in scheme to blackmail a wealthy girl. Meg is put on...

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  • 1920
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    Judy of Rogues' Harbor

    Judy of Rogues' Harbor

    1 1920 HD

    Judy, an orphaned waif, lives with Grandpap Ketchel, a cruel and often brutal man. The sole protector of little Denny, Ketchel's grandson, Judy is...

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  • 1919
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    Everywoman

    Everywoman

    1 1919 HD

    Everywoman is a lost 1919 American silent film allegory film directed by George Melford based on a 1911 play Everywoman by Walter Browne.

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  • 1919
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    The Only Way

    The Only Way

    1 1919 HD

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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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  • 1925
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    Forty Winks

    Forty Winks

    1 1925 HD

    The Butterworth family attorney Gaspar Le Sage, and a suitor for the hand of Eleanor Butterworth, persuades a beautiful adventuress, Annabelle Wu, to...

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  • 1917
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    Nan of Music Mountain

    Nan of Music Mountain

    1 1917 HD

    Henry de Spain is determined to find the man who murdered his father. He becomes sort of an outsider with Duke Morgan's gang, cattlemen, and outlaws....

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  • 1922
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    Across the Continent

    Across the Continent

    1 1922 HD

    Jimmy Dent , son of John Dent, the maker of the reliable but plain Dent automobile, is dismissed from the firm after he refuses to drive a Dent. He...

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  • 1914
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    The Ghost Breaker

    The Ghost Breaker

    1 1914 HD

    Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaines, a New York art collector, not knowing that the...

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  • 1916
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    Pudd'nhead Wilson

    Pudd'nhead Wilson

    1 1916 HD

    A slave switches her light-skinned baby with her master's baby. The child grows up raised by whites.

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  • 1919
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    Fires of Faith

    Fires of Faith

    1 1919 HD

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