Betty Blythe

Betty Blythe

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Betty Blythe (born Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter, September 1, 1893 – April 7, 1972) was an American actress best known for her dramatic roles in exotic silent films such as The Queen of Sheba (1921). She appeared in 63 silent films and 56 talking pictures (known as talkies) over the course of her career. She is famous for being one of the first actresses to appear on film in the nude, or nearly so, during the Roaring Twenties. She is reported to have said, "A director is the only man besides your husband who can tell you how much of your clothes to take off." Blythe began her stage work in such theatrical pieces as So Long Letty and The Peacock Princess. She worked in vaudeville as the "California Nightingale" singing songs such as "Love Tales from Hoffman". After touring Europe and the States, she entered films in 1918 at the Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn, then she was brought to Hollywood's Fox studio as a replacement for actress Theda Bara. As famous for her revealing costumes as for her dramatic skills, she became a star in such exotic films as The Queen of Sheba (1921) (in which she wore nothing above the waist except a string of beads), Chu-Chin-Chow (made in 1923; released by MGM in the US 1925) and She (1925). She was also seen to good advantage in less revealing films like Nomads of the North (1920) with Lon Chaney and In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924), produced by Samuel Goldwyn. Other roles were as an opera star, unbilled in Garbo's The Mysterious Lady. She continued to work as a character actress. One of her last roles was a small uncredited role in a crowd scene in 1964's My Fair Lady. Betty Blythe's name lives on through the Betty Blythe Vintage TeaRoom in West Kensington.

  • Title: Betty Blythe
  • Popularity: 2.079
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1893-08-31
  • Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Also Known As: Elizabeth Blythe Slaughter
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Betty Blythe Movies

  • 1941
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    Tuxedo Junction

    Tuxedo Junction

    1 1941 HD

    The Weaver Brothers and Elviry have migrated from their usual hard-scrabble digs in the Ozarks and have taken up truck-farming.

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  • 1939
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    The Women

    The Women

    7 1939 HD

    A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

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  • 1940
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    Earl of Puddlestone

    Earl of Puddlestone

    1 1940 HD

    When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he decides to get back at them by making them believe that...

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  • 1935
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    I've Been Around

    I've Been Around

    2.5 1935 HD

    Romantic problems of a society girl and an engineer.

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  • 1946
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    The Postman Always Rings Twice

    The Postman Always Rings Twice

    7.021 1946 HD

    A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

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  • 1916
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    Slander

    Slander

    3 1916 HD

    The wife of attorney John Blair (T. Jerome Lawler), heroine Helene (Kalich) finds herself in an untenable position when two of Blair's clients, Harry...

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  • 1947
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    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

    6.73 1947 HD

    Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream...

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  • 1934
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    The Scarlet Letter

    The Scarlet Letter

    4.9 1934 HD

    In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.

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  • 1947
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    Something in the Wind

    Something in the Wind

    6.3 1947 HD

    A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.

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  • 1944
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    Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat

    Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat

    6.4 1944 HD

    To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.

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  • 1938
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    Gangster's Boy

    Gangster's Boy

    1 1938 HD

    A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.

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  • 1951
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    Hollywood Story

    Hollywood Story

    6.587 1951 HD

    A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot...

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  • 1925
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    Percy

    Percy

    1 1925 HD

    Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.

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  • 1935
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    The Spanish Cape Mystery

    The Spanish Cape Mystery

    5.4 1935 HD

    Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.

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  • 1931
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    Stars of Yesterday

    Stars of Yesterday

    1 1931 HD

    Stars of Yesterday documentary film.

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  • 1943
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    Crime Doctor

    Crime Doctor

    6.154 1943 HD

    Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading...

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  • 1924
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    Southern Love

    Southern Love

    1 1924 HD

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  • 1943
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    Girls in Chains

    Girls in Chains

    4.7 1943 HD

    A fired teacher finds work at a girls reform school and helps a detective on a case.

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  • 1936
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    The Gorgeous Hussy

    The Gorgeous Hussy

    5.231 1936 HD

    It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who...

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  • 1932
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    Lena Rivers

    Lena Rivers

    5.5 1932 HD

    Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their...

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  • 1925
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    She

    She

    5.7 1925 HD

    Mr. Blackwell discovers a relic that informs him about Blythe (as Ayesha, or "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed"), who loved his father and others in the...

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  • 1935
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    The Perfect Clue

    The Perfect Clue

    5.7 1935 HD

    Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs...

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  • 1936
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    Murder at Glen Athol

    Murder at Glen Athol

    6.5 1936 HD

    A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters,...

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  • 1933
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    Before Midnight

    Before Midnight

    3.8 1933 HD

    A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.

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  • 1942
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    Freckles Comes Home

    Freckles Comes Home

    5 1942 HD

    Freckles Winslow comes home from college and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane, falls in...

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  • 1923
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    The Truth About Wives

    The Truth About Wives

    1 1923 HD

    Helen Frazer marries Harold Lawton to please her domineering grandmother. However, Harold continues his dalliance with chorus girl Letty Lorraine,...

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  • 1944
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    A Fig Leaf for Eve

    A Fig Leaf for Eve

    4.4 1944 HD

    A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair tonic fortune.

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  • 1934
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    A Girl of the Limberlost

    A Girl of the Limberlost

    1 1934 HD

    Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she...

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  • 1924
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    Chu-Chin-Chow

    Chu-Chin-Chow

    1 1924 HD

    In Baghdad a girl escapes from a robber sheikh and thwarts a plot to rob a merchant.

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  • 1918
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    Over the Top

    Over the Top

    1 1918 HD

    The film is based on a book of the same name by Arthur Guy Empey, detailing his service as an American volunteer with the British Army on the Western...

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  • 1941
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    Federal Fugitives

    Federal Fugitives

    5.4 1941 HD

    A government agent goes undercover in order to apprehend a saboteur who caused a plane crash.

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  • 1945
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    Adventure

    Adventure

    6.2 1945 HD

    A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

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  • 1943
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    Sarong Girl

    Sarong Girl

    1 1943 HD

    A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed.

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  • 1938
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    Romance of the Limberlost

    Romance of the Limberlost

    1 1938 HD

    An orphaned girl is being raised in the Limberlost by her aunt, who hates her because the girl's mother married the man that the aunt loved. The...

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  • 1938
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    Delinquent Parents

    Delinquent Parents

    8 1938 HD

    A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.

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  • 1940
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    Misbehaving Husbands

    Misbehaving Husbands

    5.2 1940 HD

    Marital comedy in which a department store mannequin is mistaken for "the other woman".

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  • 1935
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    Western Courage

    Western Courage

    6 1935 HD

    Wealthy Henry Hanley takes his family to a dude ranch. But his daughter Gloria's boyfriend Eric is waiting and he is after Hanley's money. Ken...

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  • 1943
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    Mr. Muggs Steps Out

    Mr. Muggs Steps Out

    1 1943 HD

    Ordered by a judge to get a job, Muggs McGinnis is hired by wealthy Mrs. Murray, who has a penchant for picking up trouble-prone servants. At an...

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  • 1919
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    The Undercurrent

    The Undercurrent

    1 1919 HD

    Jack Duncan returns from the war in France to his wife and baby and learns that his job as a draftsman at the Loring Steel Mills has been taken....

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  • 1921
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    The Queen of Sheba

    The Queen of Sheba

    1 1921 HD

    The story of the ill-fated romance between Solomon, king of Israel, and the Queen of Sheba.

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  • 1924
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    In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter

    In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter

    1 1924 HD

    A sequel of sorts, the Jewish ethnic comedy characters of Potash and Perlmutter return from their 1923 debut film, also produced by Goldwyn, but with...

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  • 1948
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    Letter from an Unknown Woman

    Letter from an Unknown Woman

    7.766 1948 HD

    A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is...

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  • 1934
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    Two Heads on a Pillow

    Two Heads on a Pillow

    1 1934 HD

    A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.

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  • 1948
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    Shed No Tears

    Shed No Tears

    5 1948 HD

    A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.

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  • 1934
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    Money Means Nothing

    Money Means Nothing

    4 1934 HD

    At Joe's Roadside, a popular but rundown New York roadhouse where the wealthy and not-so-wealthy hang out, a wealthy Manhattan girl and a struggling...

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  • 1928
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    Domestic Troubles

    Domestic Troubles

    1 1928 HD

    A Silent film comedy directed by Ray Enright.

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  • 1934
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    Night Alarm

    Night Alarm

    3.7 1934 HD

    A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening "beat" gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city. He...

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  • 1938
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    Life in Sometown, U.S.A.

    Life in Sometown, U.S.A.

    7 1938 HD

    A satirical visualization of strange and forgotten, but (at that time) nevertheless still existing laws in the U.S.A.

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  • 1938
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    Hold That Kiss

    Hold That Kiss

    6.5 1938 HD

    Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.

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  • 1932
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    Back Street

    Back Street

    6.1 1932 HD

    A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

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  • 1945
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    Docks of New York

    Docks of New York

    6 1945 HD

    The East Side Kids are pursued by killers seeking a stolen necklace.

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  • 1935
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    Cheers of the Crowd

    Cheers of the Crowd

    5.5 1935 HD

    To draw attention to a popular show, a publicity expert hires a former carnival character, not knowing that the man is on the run from the law.

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  • 1934
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    Ever Since Eve

    Ever Since Eve

    1 1934 HD

    Neil Rogers, a young man who owns a substantial share of a Western gold mine, comes East and falls in love with the rather wild Elizabeth Vandegrift.

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  • 1956
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    Runaway Daughters

    Runaway Daughters

    3.9 1956 HD

    Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted with an easy, carefree life they soon pass from...

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  • 1928
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    Stolen Love

    Stolen Love

    1 1928 HD

    The story of a girl whose past casts a shadow over her future happiness with the man who loves her. How much of her past must a girl tell the man she...

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  • 1941
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    Puddin' Head

    Puddin' Head

    5 1941 HD

    On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the...

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  • 1941
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    Sis Hopkins

    Sis Hopkins

    6 1941 HD

    An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.

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  • 1937
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    Espionage

    Espionage

    6.5 1937 HD

    Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.

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  • 1936
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    Rainbow on the River

    Rainbow on the River

    9 1936 HD

    A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.

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  • 1928
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    Glorious Betsy

    Glorious Betsy

    5.8 1928 HD

    Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include...

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  • 1936
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    Yours for the Asking

    Yours for the Asking

    1 1936 HD

    Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income....

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  • 1943
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    Spotlight Scandals

    Spotlight Scandals

    5 1943 HD

    A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventually leads them to Broadway, but things start to go...

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  • 1948
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    Madonna of the Desert

    Madonna of the Desert

    6 1948 HD

    A jeweled Madonna, property of rancher Joe Salinas, attracts two crooks to his ranch, Monica Dell, a smooth operator, and ruthless Nick Julian. Joe...

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  • 1941
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    The Miracle Kid

    The Miracle Kid

    5 1941 HD

    A young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring.

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  • 1941
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    Top Sergeant Mulligan

    Top Sergeant Mulligan

    5 1941 HD

    Frank Faylen and Charlie Hall (a longtime Laurel & Hardy foil) star as Dolan and Doolittle, a pair of goofy druggists who join the army to escape...

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  • 1942
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    House of Errors

    House of Errors

    1 1942 HD

    Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II...

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  • 1932
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    Tom Brown of Culver

    Tom Brown of Culver

    5.2 1932 HD

    Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.

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  • 1942
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    Piano Mooner

    Piano Mooner

    1 1942 HD

    Harry is a workaholic piano tuner whose bride-to-be's brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry his sister. His latest job assignment...

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  • 1927
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    A Million Bid

    A Million Bid

    1 1927 HD

    To satisfy her controlling mother and secure both of their futures, a daughter hesitantly enters a loveless marriage to a wealthy businessman. Years...

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  • 1937
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    Topper

    Topper

    6.729 1937 HD

    Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of...

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  • 1941
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    Our Wife

    Our Wife

    5.7 1941 HD

    A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.

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  • 1927
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    The Girl from Gay Paree

    The Girl from Gay Paree

    1 1927 HD

    Mary Davis, alone and destitute in New York City, pilfers a meal from a restaurant and eludes the police by ducking into the Cafe Royale, where she...

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  • 1942
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    Dawn on the Great Divide

    Dawn on the Great Divide

    5 1942 HD

    Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as...

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  • 1946
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    The Undercover Woman

    The Undercover Woman

    2 1946 HD

    Two women private detectives arrive at a dude ranch in time to investigate the murder of their client's philandering husband.

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  • 1943
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    Bar 20

    Bar 20

    3.8 1943 HD

    Stagecoach robbers take the money Hoppy was going to use to buy cattle so Hoppy, California and Lin go after them.

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  • 1941
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    Honky Tonk

    Honky Tonk

    6.4 1941 HD

    Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things...

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  • 1948
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    Luxury Liner

    Luxury Liner

    5.2 1948 HD

    Capt. Jeremy Bradford has a particularly exciting luxury liner cruise in store when he's charged with transporting a troupe of opera singers to Rio...

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  • 1921
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    Disraeli

    Disraeli

    1 1921 HD

    The story of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the purchase by England of the Suez Canal.

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  • 1921
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    Charge It

    Charge It

    1 1921 HD

    A woman's excessive spending brings difficulty to her family.

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  • 1964
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    My Fair Lady

    My Fair Lady

    7.497 1964 HD

    A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

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  • 1920
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    Nomads of the North

    Nomads of the North

    5.5 1920 HD

    A Canadian Mountie allows an innocent fugitive to escape with the women he loves.

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  • 1937
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    What Do You Think? (Number Two)

    What Do You Think? (Number Two)

    1 1937 HD

    This short presents the possibility that a dead person's spirit can intervene in the lives of the living.

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  • 1927
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    Snowbound

    Snowbound

    1 1927 HD

    Assuming he is marrying a wealthy girl, Peter Foley passes a fraudulent check. To save him from jail, Julia Barry poses as his wife. Peter is...

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  • 1946
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    Undercurrent

    Undercurrent

    5.8 1946 HD

    After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an...

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  • 1943
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    Presenting Lily Mars

    Presenting Lily Mars

    6.1 1943 HD

    Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

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  • 1946
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    Joe Palooka, Champ

    Joe Palooka, Champ

    1 1946 HD

    After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place....

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  • 1919
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    Beating the Odds

    Beating the Odds

    1 1919 HD

    Political graft collector, David Power forced by the district attorney to leave New York takes cabaret singer Hebe Norse with him. Showing talent in...

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  • 1947
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    Jiggs and Maggie in Society

    Jiggs and Maggie in Society

    1 1947 HD

    Maggi continues her forever-ever efforts to crash Manhattan's top society, while Jiggs still mingles with his old construction cronies at the bar of...

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  • 1942
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    Inflation

    Inflation

    5 1942 HD

    The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

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  • 1933
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    Only Yesterday

    Only Yesterday

    6.8 1933 HD

    On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in...

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  • 1934
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    Badge of Honor

    Badge of Honor

    5.2 1934 HD

    Hoping to impress a pretty girl he's after, a playboy poses as a newspaperman and goes after a big story.

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  • 1928
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    Sisters of Eve

    Sisters of Eve

    1 1928 HD

    Young London realtor Leonard Tavernake becomes involved with two sisters, one good and one evil, which leads to much melodrama but things work out in...

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  • 1945
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    Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

    Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

    5.66 1945 HD

    When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.

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  • 1920
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    The Silver Horde

    The Silver Horde

    1 1920 HD

    A young man who has proven a failure in business goes to Alaska and enters the salmon-fishing industry, in direct competition with the father of the...

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  • 1922
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    How Women Love

    How Women Love

    1 1922 HD

    silent drama featuring Betty Blythe, Robert Frazer, and Gladys Hulette

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  • 1925
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    Folly of Vanity

    Folly of Vanity

    1 1925 HD

    This drama had two directors: Maurice Elvey handled most of the film, but the fantasy sequence was directed by Henry Otto. Newlyweds Alice and Robert...

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  • 1922
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    Fair Lady

    Fair Lady

    1 1922 HD

    Countess Margherita is a Sicilian girl who is about to be married, but Caesar Maruffi, the head of a criminal syndicate, wants her for himself. He...

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  • 1945
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    They Were Expendable

    They Were Expendable

    6.5 1945 HD

    After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the...

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  • 1920
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    Burnt Wings

    Burnt Wings

    1 1920 HD

    Struggling artist Ned Templeton and his wife Joan are leading a poverty-stricken life in Paris. Threatened by starvation and eviction, Joan is forced...

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  • 1933
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    Pilgrimage

    Pilgrimage

    6.767 1933 HD

    A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.

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