William A. Seiter

William A. Seiter

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William A. Seiter (June 10, 1890 - July 26, 1964) was an American film director. He was born in New York City. After attending Hudson River Military Academy, Seiter broke into films in 1915 as a bit player at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, doubling a cowboy. He graduated to director in 1918. At Universal Studios in the mid-1920s, Seiter was principal director of the popular Reginald Denny vehicles, most of which co-starred Seiter's then wife Laura La Plante (his second wife was actress Marian Nixon). This period also included The Beautiful and Damned and The Family Secret. In the early talkie era, Seiter helped nurture the talents of RKO's comedy duo Wheeler & Woolsey in such rollicking features as Caught Plastered (1931) and Diplomaniacs (1933). He also directed the Laurel and Hardy feature Sons of the Desert (1933), their only film together. Other films include Sunny, Going Wild, Kiss Me Again, Hot Saturday, Way Back Home, Girl Crazy, Rafter Romance, Roberta, Room Service, Susannah of the Mounties, Allegheny Uprising, You Were Never Lovelier, Up in Central Park, and One Touch of Venus. Among the many stars directed by Seiter during his long career were Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Margaret Sullavan, Jack Haley, Deanna Durbin, Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Fred MacMurray, Lucille Ball, Rita Hayworth and the Marx Brothers. While many of his films were minor gems, Seiter was capable of turning out bad movies once in a while. For example, if he ran into friction from his star—as was the case with Lou Costello in 1946's Little Giant -- Seiter would get even by adhering religiously to the script, refusing to add any nuance or creativity to the project (this pettiness may have been the reason that one prominent actress of the 1930s referred to Seiter as the most unimaginative director she'd ever worked with). On his final four films, before he retired in 1954, Seiter functioned as both producer and director. These films included The Lady Wants Mink (1953), a gentle satire of the then topical "raise your own coat" craze. He died in Beverly Hills, California, of a heart attack, aged 74.

  • Title: William A. Seiter
  • Popularity: 0.4319
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1890-06-10
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: William Alfred Seiter, William Seiter
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William A. Seiter Movies

  • 1913
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    Pierre of the North

    Pierre of the North

    1 1913 HD

    Pierre and Baptiste, French-Canadian half-breed trappers, are enamored of Mary, the factor's daughter. Both men propose to the girl, both are refused. Baptiste, mad with jealous rage, abducts the girl and carries her off to a lonely cabin in the wilderness. She defies him, throws his proffered ring at him and is chained to the floor to change her mind.

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  • 1935
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    Roberta

    Roberta

    7 1935 HD

    Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose it immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her assistant, Stephanie. There they meet the singer Scharwenka (alias Huck's old friend Lizzie), who gets the band a job. Meanwhile, Madame Roberta passes away and leaves the business to John and he goes into partnership with Stephanie.

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  • 1936
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    Dimples

    Dimples

    6.4 1936 HD

    Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich lady makes it possible for the girl to go legit.

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  • 1941
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    Nice Girl?

    Nice Girl?

    5.333 1941 HD

    Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice girl" image when an associate of her father comes to town on his way to study Australian Aboriginal tribes.

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  • 1922
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    When Love Comes

    When Love Comes

    1 1922 HD

    Jane Coleridge and Peter Jamison are a pair of small town sweethearts. She's an old-fashioned girl and he's timid, but he manages to get up the nerve to propose and asks her to run away with him. Unfortunately, around the time Jane's supposed to meet him at the station her father dies and she has to take care of her brothers and sisters. Jamison believes she loves someone else and disappears for several years. When he finally returns, he has a three-year-old child in tow. But he explains that his wife has been unfaithful and he and Jane renew their romance. Then wife shows up and causes trouble by claiming that Jamison left her for Jane.

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  • 1936
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    Stowaway

    Stowaway

    6.673 1936 HD

    Chin-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for America. Susan Parker, also on the ship, marries Randall to give Chin-Ching a family.

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  • 1933
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    Sons of the Desert

    Sons of the Desert

    7 1933 HD

    Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.

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  • 1944
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    Belle of the Yukon

    Belle of the Yukon

    5.4 1944 HD

    Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.

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  • 1944
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    Belle of the Yukon

    Belle of the Yukon

    5.4 1944 HD

    Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.

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  • 1938
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    Room Service

    Room Service

    6.5 1938 HD

    Broke Gordon Miller tries to land a backer for his new play while he has to deal with with the hotel manager trying to evict him and his cast.

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  • 1948
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    One Touch of Venus

    One Touch of Venus

    6.7 1948 HD

    A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.

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  • 1942
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    You Were Never Lovelier

    You Were Never Lovelier

    7.018 1942 HD

    An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

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  • 1939
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    Allegheny Uprising

    Allegheny Uprising

    5.6 1939 HD

    South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who are armed with rifles supplied by white traders.

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  • 1950
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    Borderline

    Borderline

    5.5 1950 HD

    The Los Angeles police know that Pete Ritchie has been bringing drugs into the city, but they can't pin a single piece of evidence on him. After many botched attempts to get at the crook, they resort to having cop Madeleine go undercover and seduce her way into Ritchie's circle. Before she can get anywhere, she's abducted by Johnny, a government agent posing as a thug. But Johnny and Madeleine have no idea they're on the same side of the law.

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  • 1943
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    A Lady Takes a Chance

    A Lady Takes a Chance

    5.75 1943 HD

    A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.

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  • 1939
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    Susannah of the Mounties

    Susannah of the Mounties

    6.313 1939 HD

    This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Margaret Lockwood). The couple takes Susannah under their wing and soon learn that having a precocious child around can come in handy; when the Indians return, the girl uses her charm to broker peace.Shirley is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in...

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  • 1932
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    Hot Saturday

    Hot Saturday

    6.5 1932 HD

    A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.

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  • 1945
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    That Night with You

    That Night with You

    1 1945 HD

    In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and tells him that she is the daughter who resulted from his day-long marriage to a young woman he knew years ago. The producer is delighted and soon puts his daughter up on stage. The trouble begins when the girl's "mother" suddenly pays a call. For her own reasons, the woman decides to play along with the girl's ruse. Fortunately, by the story's end, the truth is revealed, all differences are reconciled and happiness ensues.

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  • 1954
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    Make Haste to Live

    Make Haste to Live

    5.8 1954 HD

    A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker.

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  • 1931
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    Caught Plastered

    Caught Plastered

    5.8 1931 HD

    Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.

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  • 1931
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    Peach-o-Reno

    Peach-o-Reno

    6 1931 HD

    After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get their parents back together. Joe and Aggie, accidentally, are becoming clients at the same law-firm, Wattles and Swift, which is the biggest and most successful in town.

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  • 1932
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    Girl Crazy

    Girl Crazy

    3.8 1932 HD

    New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there. There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he doesn't like the ranch and announces running for sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavy and his friend.

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  • 1940
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    Hired Wife

    Hired Wife

    6.8 1940 HD

    Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.

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  • 1932
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    If I Had a Million

    If I Had a Million

    6.6 1932 HD

    An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

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  • 1926
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    What Happened to Jones?

    What Happened to Jones?

    5.8 1926 HD

    On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by the police, he escapes into a Turkish bath on ladies night, ending up disguised in drag and with difficult explanations to make.

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  • 1942
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    Broadway

    Broadway

    5.5 1942 HD

    Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.

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  • 1943
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    Destroyer

    Destroyer

    6.6 1943 HD

    Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.

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  • 1944
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    Four Jills in a Jeep

    Four Jills in a Jeep

    6.25 1944 HD

    Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.

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  • 1936
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    The Moon's Our Home

    The Moon's Our Home

    6.9 1936 HD

    A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During the honeymoon, all hell breaks loose as a comedic war of the sexes leads inevitably to love.

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  • 1934
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    The Richest Girl in the World

    The Richest Girl in the World

    5.7 1934 HD

    Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be considered fortune-hunters. That's why she trades identities with her secretary Sylvia before embarking on her next romance with Tony Travers. This causes numerous complications not only for Dorothy and Tony but for Sylvia, whose own husband Philip is not the most patient of men.

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  • 1930
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    Going Wild

    Going Wild

    6 1930 HD

    Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what Story looks like. So they get free room and meals at the Palm Inn and everything is going well until they want Story to fly in the race on Saturday. Rollo has never even be up in a plane, never mind fly one, so he must figure a way out. But the girls have everything bet on his winning the race. Written by Tony Fontana

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  • 1933
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    Chance at Heaven

    Chance at Heaven

    5.7 1933 HD

    A young woman's ambitious boyfriend falls for a ditzy socialite.

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  • 1940
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    It's a Date

    It's a Date

    5.9 1940 HD

    An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.

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  • 1947
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    I'll Be Yours

    I'll Be Yours

    6 1947 HD

    A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.

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  • 1935
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    If You Could Only Cook

    If You Could Only Cook

    7.4 1935 HD

    An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.

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  • 1931
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    Big Business Girl

    Big Business Girl

    6 1931 HD

    A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.

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  • 1933
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    Rafter Romance

    Rafter Romance

    6.5 1933 HD

    A working girl shares her apartment with an artist, taking the place in shifts.

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  • 1937
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    This Is My Affair

    This Is My Affair

    7.3 1937 HD

    President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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  • 1931
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    Kiss Me Again

    Kiss Me Again

    6 1931 HD

    An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star.

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  • 1926
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    Take It from Me

    Take It from Me

    1 1926 HD

    Tom Eggett, with the help of his pals, Dick and Van, loses the last cent of his inheritance, is evicted from his apartment, and is rejected by Gwen, his fiancée. A codicil to his uncle's will, however, stipulates that he shall inherit the Eggett department store provided that he operate it for 3 months at a profit. Cyrus Crabb, manager of the store, is determined to gain possession of the business and arranges for the company's credit to be canceled during Tom's management, though Grace Gordon, a stenographer, has evidence of his perfidy.

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  • 1935
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    Orchids to You

    Orchids to You

    5.5 1935 HD

    An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.

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  • 1936
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    The Case Against Mrs. Ames

    The Case Against Mrs. Ames

    3.75 1936 HD

    An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge.

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  • 1923
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    Little Church Around the Corner

    Little Church Around the Corner

    5.9 1923 HD

    A wealthy minister in a mining town is something of an advocate for the miners' safety, but he doesn't really get involved in the issue. He is soon snapped out of that attitude, however, when his daughter is trapped underground in a mine explosion, along with the mine's owner.

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  • 1924
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    Helen's Babies

    Helen's Babies

    5.625 1924 HD

    A young man, who has vowed never to marry and doesn't particularly like children, is left in charge of his two very young nieces. At first they drive him to distraction, but then he begins to warm to them, and also to a beautiful young local girl.

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  • 1945
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    The Affairs of Susan

    The Affairs of Susan

    6.1 1945 HD

    Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.

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  • 1951
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    Dear Brat

    Dear Brat

    3.333 1951 HD

    Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of her father, elects him to the position of honorary president. When the family's new gardener, Baxter, turns out to be a notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, Wilkins considers firing him until his daughter points out that would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on society.

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  • 1934
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    Sing and Like It

    Sing and Like It

    4 1934 HD

    While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue

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  • 1937
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    The Life of the Party

    The Life of the Party

    5.2 1937 HD

    A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.

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  • 1930
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    Sunny

    Sunny

    6.5 1930 HD

    A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family.

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  • 1933
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    Hello, Everybody!

    Hello, Everybody!

    6 1933 HD

    The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town, depends on Kate to hold everything together. The power company wants to build a dam which will require flooding many of the farms; Kate is holding out; if Kate sells, everyone else will sell; if Kate refuses, the rest of the town will refuse as well. Randolph Scott meets Kate's beautiful sister, Sally Blane, at a dance. Randolph Scott, as it turns out, is an agent for the power company. Kate thinks he's just using Sally; Sally believes that he truly likes her. Randolph comes to the farm and appears to woo Kate. Kate remains unconvinced about selling out, but falls for Randolph.

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  • 1945
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    It's a Pleasure

    It's a Pleasure

    4.7 1945 HD

    A star hockey player with the Wildcats is barred from Hockey for hitting a referee. Through the actions of Chris, Don is able to get a job with Buzz Fletcher's ice-show as the novelty act.

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  • 1930
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    The Truth About Youth

    The Truth About Youth

    5.7 1930 HD

    A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.

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  • 1930
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    Back Pay

    Back Pay

    4 1930 HD

    Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.

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  • 1932
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    Is My Face Red?

    Is My Face Red?

    4.714 1932 HD

    William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of his information from his showgirl gal-pal, Peggy. Eventually Bill's reckless tattling gets him in deep trouble with friends and enemies, putting his career and life in jeopardy.

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  • 1935
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    In Person

    In Person

    6.333 1935 HD

    Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected by her star status.

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  • 1931
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    Way Back Home

    Way Back Home

    6.2 1931 HD

    A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.

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  • 1933
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    Professional Sweetheart

    Professional Sweetheart

    5 1933 HD

    Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.

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  • 1946
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    Lover Come Back

    Lover Come Back

    6.2 1946 HD

    A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.

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  • 1948
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    Up in Central Park

    Up in Central Park

    6.3 1948 HD

    A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.

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  • 1937
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    Life Begins in College

    Life Begins in College

    1 1937 HD

    When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be on the team.

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  • 1932
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    Young Bride

    Young Bride

    3.6 1932 HD

    A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.

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  • 1934
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    We're Rich Again

    We're Rich Again

    5.8 1934 HD

    A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.

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  • 1931
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    Too Many Cooks

    Too Many Cooks

    2.5 1931 HD

    A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.

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  • 1938
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    Three Blind Mice

    Three Blind Mice

    6 1938 HD

    Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with, Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.

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  • 1924
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    The Family Secret

    The Family Secret

    6.1 1924 HD

    The daughter of a wealthy man secretly marries a man below her station— one whom her father violently disapproves of. The father, in an excess of parental concern, separates the lovers by sending his daughter away so that she might forget her lover, unaware of their married state. During this time, she gives birth to a daughter. After some months, the young mother returns to her family manor and presents her father with his new granddaughter, which causes a most unfortunate scene. Unbeknownst to the young woman, her enraged father falsely accuses his son-in-law of theft and has him incarcerated in order to separate the lovers in an irrational attempt to force his daughter to forget this "unworthy" young man.

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  • 1930
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    The Flirting Widow

    The Flirting Widow

    4 1930 HD

    An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. However, the lie comes back to haunt her.

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  • 1933
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    Diplomaniacs

    Diplomaniacs

    7 1933 HD

    Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual barbershop banter about foreign debts, they force them to be ambassadors of their nation at the Peace conference in Geneva. Ammunition industry executive Winkelreid is scheming to prevent their mission becoming an success, but the vamp Dolores aboard the ship fails, falling in love with Nilly, and so does Fifi, the toughest person of the world in Paris, falling for Glub. Although Winkelreid is able to steal their secret papers, Nilly and Glub don't give up after being reminded by constant observation of their Indians and enter the Peace conference, which turns out to be a battlefield...

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  • 1925
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    Where Was I?

    Where Was I?

    2 1925 HD

    A young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.

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  • 1953
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    The Lady Wants Mink

    The Lady Wants Mink

    6 1953 HD

    A woman raises mink to get the coat she's always wanted.

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  • 1926
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    Skinner's Dress Suit

    Skinner's Dress Suit

    6.7 1926 HD

    Honey Skinner is proud of her successful husband. When he tells her he's going to ask for a raise, she knows he'll get it. He asks his boss just as their big client announces he's not renewing his contract. He doesn't get the raise, but he's too embarrassed to tell his wife the truth. She starts making plans to spend that extra $10 a week; the first thing is a new dress suit for him and a new outfit for her so they can fit in at a swanky party. They're the hit of the party, and Honey is embraced by the 'smart set.' Meanwhile, business is bad and Skinner loses his job. The tailor is after him for payment on the suit, and Honey is still spending the salary he doesn't have.

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  • 1926
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    The Cheerful Fraud

    The Cheerful Fraud

    4 1926 HD

    A young man fakes his identity to impress a girl.

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  • 1941
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    Appointment for Love

    Appointment for Love

    5.375 1941 HD

    Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.

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  • 1938
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    Sally, Irene and Mary

    Sally, Irene and Mary

    6 1938 HD

    Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

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  • 1938
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    Thanks for Everything

    Thanks for Everything

    5 1938 HD

    Promoters set up a radio contest to find the average American and use him to sell food, apparel and notions. All goes well until he falls in love with a girl who upsets things.

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  • 1953
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    The Lady Wants Mink

    The Lady Wants Mink

    6 1953 HD

    A woman raises mink to get the coat she's always wanted.

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  • 1925
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    The Mad Whirl

    The Mad Whirl

    6.5 1925 HD

    A teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life.

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  • 1929
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    Why Be Good?

    Why Be Good?

    6.5 1929 HD

    A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.

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  • 1927
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    The Small Bachelor

    The Small Bachelor

    1 1927 HD

    What must a man do in order to put an end to his bachelorhood? For George Finch, one of nature's white mice and probably the worst artist ever to put brush to canvas, there are many obstacles. Undoubtedly the greatest is his beloved Molly's fearsome stepmother, Mrs. Waddington, who has her eye on an eligible English lord for a son-in-law. Luckily, George has an ally in sharp-witted Hamilton Beamish, an old family friend of the Waddingtons, not to mention George's butler, Mullett, and his light-fingered girlfriend, Fanny, whose valuable skills are of particular interest to the would-be father-in-law.

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  • 1922
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    Gay and Devilish

    Gay and Devilish

    1 1922 HD

    Doris May plays Fanchon Browne, a poor girl about to enter into a marriage of convenience with wealthy old Peter Armitage (Otis Harlan). When she falls in love with Armitage's handsome nephew Peter (Cullen Landis), Fanchon is in quite a quandary.

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  • 1929
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    Synthetic Sin

    Synthetic Sin

    1 1929 HD

    A young woman impulsively marries a young playwright who whisks her away to New York promises her a role in his next production. Unfortunately the production is a disaster and her husband proclaims her unfit for the role. Rather then return home in defeat, she stays in New York and accidentally gets involved with some vicious gangsters.

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  • 1923
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    Bell Boy 13

    Bell Boy 13

    6 1923 HD

    Harry Elrod takes a job as a bellboy when he is disinherited by his uncle and fails in his efforts to elope with actress Kitty Clyde. He causes so much confusion that Uncle Elrod buys the hotel so that he may fire Harry. But Harry induces the other employees to strike until Uncle Elrod consents to Harry's marriage to Kitty.

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  • 1924
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    Daddies

    Daddies

    5 1924 HD

    A group of confirmed bachelors finds their informal "anti-matrimony club" turned into a home for adopted orphans when six orphaned children are suddenly foisted on them.

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  • 1924
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    His Forgotten Wife

    His Forgotten Wife

    5 1924 HD

    During the World War, Donald Allen is reported killed in action but is really a victim of amnesia. His French nurse, Suzanne, gives him a new identity, and they marry.

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  • 1918
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    Camouflage

    Camouflage

    1 1918 HD

    A detective pursues a woman suspected of spying for the Kaiser.

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  • 1928
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    Good Morning, Judge

    Good Morning, Judge

    1 1928 HD

    Freddie, a rich young idler, meets Julia Harrington, a wealthy social service worker who runs a haven for reformed criminals. By telling her he is a hardened criminal, he is allowed to stay at the mission.

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  • 1933
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    Sons of the Desert

    Sons of the Desert

    7 1933 HD

    Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.

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  • 1926
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    Skinner's Dress Suit

    Skinner's Dress Suit

    6.7 1926 HD

    Honey Skinner is proud of her successful husband. When he tells her he's going to ask for a raise, she knows he'll get it. He asks his boss just as their big client announces he's not renewing his contract. He doesn't get the raise, but he's too embarrassed to tell his wife the truth. She starts making plans to spend that extra $10 a week; the first thing is a new dress suit for him and a new outfit for her so they can fit in at a swanky party. They're the hit of the party, and Honey is embraced by the 'smart set.' Meanwhile, business is bad and Skinner loses his job. The tailor is after him for payment on the suit, and Honey is still spending the salary he doesn't have.

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  • 1935
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    The Daring Young Man

    The Daring Young Man

    1 1935 HD

    The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.

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  • 1929
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    The Love Racket

    The Love Racket

    1 1929 HD

    A beautiful girl exposes her shameful past to save the life of a girl she has never met.

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  • 1946
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    Little Giant

    Little Giant

    5.1 1946 HD

    Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.

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  • 1931
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    Big Business Girl

    Big Business Girl

    6 1931 HD

    A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.

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  • 1934
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    Love Birds

    Love Birds

    6 1934 HD

    ZaSu Pitts and Slim Summerville meet when both are sold deeds to an abandoned ranch in the California desert. Their lonely lives become much more crowded when a drifter discovers gold on the property—though all he’s found is Slim’s missing filling. (adapted from MoMA capsule)

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  • 1929
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    Footlights and Fools

    Footlights and Fools

    1 1929 HD

    Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona.

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  • 1929
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    Smiling Irish Eyes

    Smiling Irish Eyes

    1 1929 HD

    A pretty, young violinist who travels from Ireland to America to seek fame and fortune on Broadway finds a bit more than she expected. A lost film.

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  • 1929
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    Prisoners

    Prisoners

    1 1929 HD

    Prisoners was released as a part-talking, part-silent feature. An Austrian showgirl working in a cabaret moonlights as a thief. When she is caught in the act, a young lawyer offers to defend her. Unfortunately, he loses the case, causing her to spend several months in jail. Fortunately, the two have fallen in love, and he promises to wait for her.

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  • 1924
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    The Fast Worker

    The Fast Worker

    1 1924 HD

    Roxbury asks his friend Terry to assume his identity and go on vacation with his wife, Edith, and their daughter. When Terry falls in love with Edith's sister, a scandal erupts at the resort.

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  • 1940
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    Hired Wife

    Hired Wife

    6.8 1940 HD

    Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.

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  • 1930
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    The Flirting Widow

    The Flirting Widow

    4 1930 HD

    An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. However, the lie comes back to haunt her.

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  • 1930
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    Strictly Modern

    Strictly Modern

    1 1930 HD

    Strictly Modern is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Dorothy Mackaill and Sidney Blackmer. A lady novelist falls deeply in love.

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  • 1918
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    Oh! What a Day

    Oh! What a Day

    1 1918 HD

    A short comedy

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  • 1918
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    Oh! What a Day

    Oh! What a Day

    1 1918 HD

    A short comedy

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  • 1953
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    Champ for a Day

    Champ for a Day

    6 1953 HD

    An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a heavily-favored Frankie Sebastian. George arrives but his manager Dolan is nowhere to be found. But Ma and Pa Karlsen, owners of Karlsen's Kozy Kottages motel and restaurant take him under their wing. He meets Miss Gormley who is also there to meet the no-show manager who is blackmailing her brother. Dolan still hasn't arrived by the date of the fight but, to the surprise of sports-promoters Tom Healy and Dominic Guido, George shows up and wins the fight. This wins him the friendship of trainer Al Muntz and the enmity of Willie Foltis, a punchy ex-fighter and a Healy henchman. This leads George to a fight with "Soldier" Freeman, whose manager Scotty Cameron has made arrangements for the favored-Freeman to take a dive, so he and Healy and Guido can clean up betting on the underdog. But Honest George has other plans.

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  • 1953
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    Champ for a Day

    Champ for a Day

    6 1953 HD

    An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a heavily-favored Frankie Sebastian. George arrives but his manager Dolan is nowhere to be found. But Ma and Pa Karlsen, owners of Karlsen's Kozy Kottages motel and restaurant take him under their wing. He meets Miss Gormley who is also there to meet the no-show manager who is blackmailing her brother. Dolan still hasn't arrived by the date of the fight but, to the surprise of sports-promoters Tom Healy and Dominic Guido, George shows up and wins the fight. This wins him the friendship of trainer Al Muntz and the enmity of Willie Foltis, a punchy ex-fighter and a Healy henchman. This leads George to a fight with "Soldier" Freeman, whose manager Scotty Cameron has made arrangements for the favored-Freeman to take a dive, so he and Healy and Guido can clean up betting on the underdog. But Honest George has other plans.

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  • 1924
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    The White Sin

    The White Sin

    6 1924 HD

    Wealthy playboy Grant Van Gore means to have his way with his beautiful maid, the innocent Hattie Lou. He swears his love to the naive girl, and in an act so heinous as to defy belief, has the captain of his yacht perform a fake marriage ceremony. He ruins poor Hattie Lou, and then abandons her ashore the very next morning. A year later, the destitute girl and her starving baby are wandering the streets. When she sees a newspaper headline announcing that Grant has drowned at sea, Hattie Lou hatches a desperate plan for survival. She will present herself to the wealthy Van Gore's, who cannot fail to provide for their late son's widow and child!

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  • 1921
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    Passing Through

    Passing Through

    1 1921 HD

    Passing Through is a 1921 American silent comedy drama film, directed by William A. Seiter and written by Agnes Christine Johnston, and Joseph F. Poland.

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  • 1931
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    The Aviator

    The Aviator

    9 1931 HD

    Alain's uncle sends him to France to toughen him with his aviator friend Pierre. He meets Suzanne on the voyage and fights for her love against José in an airplane.

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  • 1926
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    Rolling Home

    Rolling Home

    1 1926 HD

    Nat Alden, a promoter, has had bad luck on his deal and is broke. He meets an old army pal who is now a chauffeur of the businessman who threw the luckless Nat out of his office. Nat is on his way back to his small hometown, where he is believed to be a millionaire. To keep the belief alive he has his pal drive him there in the businessman's automobile. Complications arise quickly.

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  • 1928
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    Outcast

    Outcast

    1 1928 HD

    Outcast is a 1928 silent film drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was directed by William A. Seiter and stars Corinne Griffith, often considered one of the most beautiful women in film. This story had been filmed in 1917 as The World and the Woman with Jeanne Eagels. In 1922 a Paramount film of the same name with Elsie Ferguson reprising her stage role was released. Both films were based on a 1914 play, Outcast, by Hubert Henry Davies which starred Ferguson. The Seiter/Griffith film was an all silent with Vitaphone music and sound effects. In the sound era, the story was filmed once again as The Girl from 10th Avenue starring Bette Davis.

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  • 1921
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    The Foolish Age

    The Foolish Age

    1 1921 HD

    After graduating from college, rich girl Margery Carr decides to do some good in the world. Much to the chagrin of her father, she decides to open an office to help derelicts. For her secretary, she picks an ex-gangster named Bubbs out of the throng.

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  • 1921
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    The Foolish Age

    The Foolish Age

    1 1921 HD

    After graduating from college, rich girl Margery Carr decides to do some good in the world. Much to the chagrin of her father, she decides to open an office to help derelicts. For her secretary, she picks an ex-gangster named Bubbs out of the throng.

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  • 1927
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    Out All Night

    Out All Night

    1 1927 HD

    A young man marries an actress, but meanwhile her uncle has signed a contract binding her to spinsterhood, many complications arise.

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  • 1928
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    Happiness Ahead

    Happiness Ahead

    1 1928 HD

    Happiness Ahead is a persumed lost 1928 silent film drama directed by William A. Seiter and starring Colleen Moore and then husband and wife Edmund Lowe and Lilyan Tashman.

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  • 1955
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    The Wild Bunch

    The Wild Bunch

    1 1955 HD

    On the way home after their honeymoon, a bride confesses two things to her groom: She's wealthy and has three teenage children plus a dog waiting for them at her home. He soon learns that they're a wild bunch in need of taming.

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  • 1925
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    Dangerous Innocence

    Dangerous Innocence

    1 1925 HD

    Ann, a 19-year-old girl who looks much younger, meets a dashing army major on a boat sailing from Liverpool to Bombay, India, and falls in love with him. Her love appears to be unrequited, though, because the major thinks she is far too young--and also, unknown to her, because he had once been in love with her mother. When a fellow passenger on the ship takes advantage of the naive girl the major comes to her rescue, but in the process the girl finds out about the past relationship between he and her mother.

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  • 1925
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    The Teaser

    The Teaser

    1 1925 HD

    Ann Barton, the daughter of a once-wealthy family, is forced to clerk at the cigar counter of a village hotel, where she meets James McDonald, a breezy, handsome salesman. Ann is adopted by an aristocratic aunt, who disapproves of James's manners and breaks up Ann's relationship with him. Ann soon revenges herself on her aunt by placing both her aunt and herself in compromising positions.

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  • 1955
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    Want Ad Wedding

    Want Ad Wedding

    1 1955 HD

    A naval officer on leave in a strange city places a newspaper advertisement requesting guests at his wedding to a young servicewoman, and the staff of a department store jumps into action to help with the arrangements.

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  • 1922
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    Up and at 'Em

    Up and at 'Em

    1 1922 HD

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  • 1922
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    Up and at 'Em

    Up and at 'Em

    1 1922 HD

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  • 1922
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    The Understudy

    The Understudy

    1 1922 HD

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  • 1922
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    Boy Crazy

    Boy Crazy

    1 1922 HD

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  • 1921
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    Eden and Return

    Eden and Return

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1920
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    The Kentucky Colonel

    The Kentucky Colonel

    1 1920 HD

    Young Southerners Buck Hineman and Remington Osbury both are in love with the same woman, who promises to marry the one who returns when the Civil War breaks out. On the battlefield, Remington is wounded and left for dead, and Buck returns to marry her. Shortly afterward, Remington returns and contents himself with becoming one of the Hineman family.

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  • 1928
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    Waterfront

    Waterfront

    1 1928 HD

    Waterfront is a 1928 silent film released with sound effects and music, produced and released by First National Pictures. The film was directed by William A. Seiter and starred Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall, then a popular duo under the First National banner.

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  • 1924
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    Listen Lester

    Listen Lester

    1 1924 HD

    Widower Colonel Dodge enjoys being single, but when Arbutus Quilty, his former sweetheart, threatens to sue him for breach of promise, he decides its time for him and his daughter Mary to take themselves a little vacation trip to Florida.

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  • 1924
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    Listen Lester

    Listen Lester

    1 1924 HD

    Widower Colonel Dodge enjoys being single, but when Arbutus Quilty, his former sweetheart, threatens to sue him for breach of promise, he decides its time for him and his daughter Mary to take themselves a little vacation trip to Florida.

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  • 1928
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    Thanks for the Buggy Ride

    Thanks for the Buggy Ride

    1 1928 HD

    Jenny, a dance instructor, accidentally meets Joe Hall, a song promoter who escorts her home. She gives him a song idea by saying "Thanks for the Buggy Ride".

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  • 1970
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    6.7 1970 HD

    Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.

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  • 1970
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    5.4 1970 HD

    The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.

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  • 1970
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    5.5 1970 HD

    The Gale Storm Show is an American sitcom starring Gale Storm. The series premiered on September 29, 1956, and ran until 1960 for 143 half-hour black-and-white episodes, initially on CBS and in its last year on ABC. The Gale Storm Show was co-produced by Independent Television Corporation and Hal Roach Studios. The series was aired under the title Oh, Susanna in syndication.

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  • 1970
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    3.5 1970 HD

    Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.

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  • 1970
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    6.5 1970 HD

    Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.

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