Dorothy Davenport

Dorothy Davenport

Dorothy Davenport (March 13, 1895 – October 12, 1977) was an American actress, screenwriter, film director, and producer who appeared in silent film for Biograph Studios under the direction of D.W. Griffith. While filming on location in Oregon for The Valley of the Giants (1919), Wallace Reid was injured in a train wreck. As a remedy for the pain from this injury, studio doctors administered large doses of morphine to Reid to which he became addicted. Reid's health slowly grew worse over the next few years, and he died of the addiction in 1923. After Reid's death, Davenport and Thomas Ince co-produced the film Human Wreckage (1923) with James Kirkwood, Sr., Bessie Love and Lucille Ricksen, a film that dealt with the dangers of narcotics addiction. Davenport took Human Wreckage on a roadshow engagement, followed up with another "social conscience" picture about excessive mother-love called Broken Laws in 1924, again billed as "Mrs. Wallace Reid" to capitalize on her husband's notorious death. She then produced The Red Kimona (1925) about white slavery. On screen she opens the film in silent narration or prologue. The details of the latter film were so realistic that Davenport was successfully sued. She would later direct Linda (1929), Sucker Money (1933), Road to Ruin (1934), and The Woman Condemned (1934) and worked as a producer, writer, and dialogue director. Among her last credits are co-author of the screenplay for Footsteps in the Fog (1955), and as dialogue director for The First Traveling Saleslady (1956) with Ginger Rogers. She and husband Wallace Reid had two children. She was married to him until his death on January 18, 1923. She never remarried. Dorothy Davenport died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in 1977 in Woodland Hills, California. She is interred with her husband in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dorothy Davenport, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Dorothy Davenport
  • Popularity: 3.139
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1895-03-13
  • Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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  • Also Known As: Fannie Dorothy Davenport, Dorothy Reid, Dot Reid, Mrs. Wallace Reid
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  • 1920
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    The Fighting Chance

    The Fighting Chance

    1 1920 HD

    Sylvia Landis promises to marry the wealthy but unprincipled Quarrier because of his social standing. Avarice is the only emotion that Sylvia feels...

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  • 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...

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  • 1912
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    His Only Son

    His Only Son

    1 1912 HD

    Bob Madden returns home slightly intoxicated and his father angrily commands him to leave the place and shift for himself. The next morning he goes,...

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  • 1914
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    The Heart of the Hills

    The Heart of the Hills

    1 1914 HD

    Two brothers live together in the Kentucky mountains. Wally, the younger, is a wood-cutter, while Phil is a cripple. The brothers receive word from a...

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  • 1914
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    The Wheel of Life

    The Wheel of Life

    1 1914 HD

    The husband and his wife live alone in the mountains, where he is working out a claim. A stranger from a distant mine is injured in the vicinity. The...

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  • 1914
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    Fires of Conscience

    Fires of Conscience

    1 1914 HD

    Two men meet in the desert. One is in search of gold and the other seeks solace and heartsease for an unrequited love. Although they are unknown to...

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  • 1914
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    The Greater Devotion

    The Greater Devotion

    1 1914 HD

    The girl has three suitors: a young Mexican, who symbolizes love, a cripple, who symbolizes devotion, and a wealthy haciendiero, who symbolizes...

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  • 1914
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    A Flash in the Dark

    A Flash in the Dark

    1 1914 HD

    Randall is a rich mine owner whose business affairs cause him to neglect his somewhat frivolous wife. There is a mutual friend whom Randall...

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  • 1914
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    Breed o' the Mountains

    Breed o' the Mountains

    1 1914 HD

    Joe Mayfield and Sue Jarvis are the children of two families in the Blue Ridge Mountains, which have been at variance for years. Brady, Dorothy's...

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  • 1914
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    The Voice of the Viola

    The Voice of the Viola

    1 1914 HD

    This is a story of the love of two brothers for the same girl.

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  • 1914
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    The Mountaineer

    The Mountaineer

    1 1914 HD

    A young mountaineer loves Dorothy, daughter of a backwoodsman. An artist comes into the district to paint and falls in love with Lucille, Dorothy's...

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  • 1914
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    The Test

    The Test

    5 1914 HD

    The poor man, professing love for his family, drinks what he presumes to be poison in order to make a thousand dollars for them, but the drink proves...

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  • 1914
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    The Way of a Woman

    The Way of a Woman

    1 1914 HD

    Dorothy is a city girl who has chosen to teach school in the backwoods. Pierre is a product of the backwoods, a man who will allow no one to cross...

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  • 1914
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    The Spider and Her Web

    The Spider and Her Web

    1 1914 HD

    The story concerns the reformation of a fast woman who runs a gambling establishment. Her one fear is of death and her regeneration is brought about.

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  • 1914
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    Cupid Incognito

    Cupid Incognito

    1 1914 HD

    Frank Graham, rich mine owner, is fatally injured by an explosion. On his death bed he confides to his friend, Jim Blake, all his plans concerning...

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  • 1914
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    A Gypsy Romance

    A Gypsy Romance

    1 1914 HD

    A story of the inside life of nomads who live in the shadow of civilization, worshiping their own goods and clinging to their ancient rites.

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  • 1914
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    The Test of Manhood

    The Test of Manhood

    1 1914 HD

    Harry Wentworth is the profligate son of a ranch owner. His father is tired of Harry's irresponsible drinking and gambling and banishes him from...

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  • 1914
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    The Skeleton

    The Skeleton

    1 1914 HD

    Two friends, Tad and Jack, are conversing with each other at the Club, when Dr. Matthews, the wealthiest man in town, enters. In contemplating the...

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  • 1914
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    The Fruit of Evil

    The Fruit of Evil

    1 1914 HD

    The wife takes with her their small daughter, leaving the son to the care of the father. The forlorn woman wanders into a fishing village, and is...

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  • 1914
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    Women and Roses

    Women and Roses

    1 1914 HD

    Wallace's mother is the faded rose, his wife the pink rose and his mistress the red rose.

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  • 1914
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    The Quack

    The Quack

    1 1914 HD

    Dr. Frank Rosslyn, known to the world as a prominent physician, is in reality the head of a quack medical concern which dispenses patent medicines...

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  • 1914
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    The Siren

    The Siren

    1 1914 HD

    On her deathbed, Renee's mother confides to her daughter the troubled history of her life. She was wealthy and she was loved alone for her riches....

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  • 1914
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    Passing of the Beast

    Passing of the Beast

    1 1914 HD

    Jacques watched through an opening in the foliage and saw Gilbert of the mounted police and his own wife exchange pleasant greetings. From that...

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  • 1914
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    The Man Within

    The Man Within

    1 1914 HD

    A man is a fugitive from the law. A reward of $2,000 is offered for his capture. A large posse is on his trail. Weary, hungry and haunted, the...

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  • 1913
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    The Spark of Manhood

    The Spark of Manhood

    1 1913 HD

    The Spark of Manhood

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  • 1913
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    The Cracksman's Reformation

    The Cracksman's Reformation

    1 1913 HD

    Dorothy informs the cracksman that when he has finally renounced his life of thieving he may return to her and claim her. The cracksman resolves to...

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  • 1913
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    The Fires of Fate

    The Fires of Fate

    1 1913 HD

    The young doctor, spending most of his time in charity work, is particularly interested in the case of a poor mother who must send her child away for...

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  • 1913
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    Retribution

    Retribution

    1 1913 HD

    Dorothy and her father have staked all their hopes on their mine. While they are awaiting the arrival of Mr. Reid, who is to report on the value of...

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  • 1913
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    A Cracksman Santa Claus

    A Cracksman Santa Claus

    1 1913 HD

    The cracksman is discouraged and cynical. It is Christmas Eve. He takes his revolver and starts out in quest of gain. Dot gets home, tired out and...

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  • 1913
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    A Hopi Legend

    A Hopi Legend

    1 1913 HD

    An old arrowmaker's daughter, while at the stream, meets a brave from another tribe. They become enamored of each other in the sudden positive way of...

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  • 1913
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    The Lightning Bolt

    The Lightning Bolt

    1 1913 HD

    Held and Brady are fellow officers of the mounted police, and both love the same girl, while Brady's affection is overshadowed by a deep hatred for...

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  • 1914
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    The Countess Betty's Mine

    The Countess Betty's Mine

    1 1914 HD

    Counters Betty Ardmore inherits from an uncle a large mining property in the United States. At the advice of her counselor she comes to America to...

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  • 1914
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    The Intruder

    The Intruder

    1 1914 HD

    Much to the delight of the simple old father, his daughter becomes engaged to a big-hearted mountaineer. He builds their hut in the wilderness, and...

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  • 1914
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    Love's Western Flight

    Love's Western Flight

    1 1914 HD

    For five years Dorothy had put up with her husband although all his refinement, delicacy and love had long since been drowned in drink. Dorothy had...

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  • 1916
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    The Wrong Heart

    The Wrong Heart

    1 1916 HD

    The Wrong Heart is a 1916 silent film

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  • 1914
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    'Cross the Mexican Line

    'Cross the Mexican Line

    1 1914 HD

    Lieut. Wallace leaves his fiancée, Dorothy West, to cross the border with his troops into Mexico. Later he is wounded, captured and taken to...

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  • 1914
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    The Den of Thieves

    The Den of Thieves

    1 1914 HD

    Lillian is an unfortunate woman. After leaving her baby at the door of a hospital she meets David, the author of her misfortune. It is a case of...

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  • 1914
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    A Wife on a Wager

    A Wife on a Wager

    1 1914 HD

    Wally Bristow is a wealthy young chap infatuated with a heartless society girl. He discovers that she is not true to him and leaves her. At the club...

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  • 1917
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    The Squaw Man's Son

    The Squaw Man's Son

    1 1917 HD

    Hal, now fully grown, leaves his wife Edith and his estate in England to return to the land of his Indian mother.

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  • 1918
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    His Extra Bit

    His Extra Bit

    1 1918 HD

    The Reid family is in a squabble over buying bonds, when the family cook tells them that even the family servants buy bonds. A fund-raising short...

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  • 1915
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    Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo

    Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo

    1 1915 HD

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

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  • 1913
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    The Revelation

    The Revelation

    1 1913 HD

    Mr. Burns, a student of Theosophy, has a dream in the hammock. He sees himself, his wife and her admirer, in a previous existence.

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  • 1928
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    Hellship Bronson

    Hellship Bronson

    1 1928 HD

    A ship's captain, believing that his wife has cheated on him, takes their young son and leaves her. he comes back 20 years later. His wife stows away...

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  • 1915
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    In Humble Guise

    In Humble Guise

    1 1915 HD

    After a lover's quarrel, writer Grace Hunt goes vacationing to a seaside resort where she decides to swap identities with a student.

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  • 1925
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    The Red Kimona

    The Red Kimona

    5.7 1925 HD

    A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.

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  • 1917
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    Mothers of Men

    Mothers of Men

    4 1917 HD

    Dorothy Davenport as Clara Madison, a prominent lawyer, wins a judgeship over fellow Attorney Grant Williams, played by Willis L. Robards. Upon...

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  • 1912
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    A Brave Little Woman

    A Brave Little Woman

    4 1912 HD

    Daniel Lyttell is very ill, but Doctor Bozel assures Clara that the crisis is over and that her husband will eventually get well. In the dead of the...

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  • 1927
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    The Satin Woman

    The Satin Woman

    1 1927 HD

    Dorothy Reid -- who before her marriage to ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid was better known as Dorothy Davenport -- was both producer and star of...

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  • 1933
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    Man Hunt

    Man Hunt

    1 1933 HD

    A teen detective tries to help a jewel thief's daughter.

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  • 1912
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    Her Indian Hero

    Her Indian Hero

    4.667 1912 HD

    The Chief's son, Silver Water, returns from college and is met at the station by the tribe. The Indians make merry to celebrate his homecoming. Hal...

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  • 1923
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    Human Wreckage

    Human Wreckage

    1 1923 HD

    An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.

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  • 1916
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    The Unattainable

    The Unattainable

    1 1916 HD

    An actress falls in love with a shepherd, to the dismay of a wealthy suitor. One reel survives at the National Archives Of Canada and the Library of...

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  • 1917
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    Treason

    Treason

    1 1917 HD

    The enemy's success in smuggling a spy through the lines places the Stratiria armies in a dangerous position. The spy is intercepted and killed by...

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  • 1917
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    The Girl and the Crisis

    The Girl and the Crisis

    1 1917 HD

    Lieut. Governor Oliver Barnitz accedes to the governorship when his predecessor, failing to call out the militia during a riot at the Wilmot plant,...

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  • 1915
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    The Unknown

    The Unknown

    2 1915 HD

    Richard Farquhar, the ne'er-do-well nephew of a titled Englishman, after a protracted "good time" finds himself penniless in an Algerian hotel. He...

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  • 1916
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    The Devil's Bondwoman

    The Devil's Bondwoman

    1 1916 HD

    After a prologue that takes place in Hell, young millionaire Mason Van Horton becomes involved with Doria, the vampish wife of influential...

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  • 1916
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    The Way of the World

    The Way of the World

    1 1916 HD

    Gubernatorial candidate Walter Croyden is in love with Beatrice, but he acts obnoxiously when he drinks, so she flees to Europe to re-evaluate the...

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  • 1916
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    Black Friday

    Black Friday

    1 1916 HD

    In 1869, enemies of railroad magnate Richard Strong attempt to ruin him. Richard thwarts them, largely through the help of Charles Dalton, but then...

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  • 1916
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    Barriers of Society

    Barriers of Society

    1 1916 HD

    When penniless Westie Phillips briefly meets wealthy Martha Gorham, he falls in love, but Martha forgets the encounter. Harry Arnold, courting...

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  • 1916
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    A Yoke of Gold

    A Yoke of Gold

    1 1916 HD

    During the days of the California missions, Jose Garcia becomes friends with Luis Lopez, a local Robin Hood determined to redistribute among the poor...

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  • 1910
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    A Gold Necklace

    A Gold Necklace

    5.5 1910 HD

    Mazie lends her necklace to Nellie, her guest. Nellie is asleep in a hammock when Sam, her sweetheart, arrives in his auto. He awakens Nellie with a...

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  • 1916
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    Doctor Neighbor

    Doctor Neighbor

    1 1916 HD

    Against the wishes of Doctor Neighbor, the guardian who also loves her, Hazel, who is due to inherit a fortune when she turns 21, marries district...

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  • 1910
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    The Golden Supper

    The Golden Supper

    4.5 1910 HD

    Julian loves his cousin and foster sister Camilla, who is wooed and won by Lionel, his friend and rival. He is a witness to their marriage and after...

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  • 1924
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    Broken Laws

    Broken Laws

    1 1924 HD

    Ignoring the advice of her husband, a mother indulges her son's every wish and demand all throughout his childhood. By the time she realizes her...

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  • 1917
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    The Scarlet Crystal

    The Scarlet Crystal

    1 1917 HD

    Priscilla Worth, an innocent country girl, goes to the city to visit her aunt, who has sent for her, thinking that her childlike simplicity will...

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  • 1934
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    The Road to Ruin

    The Road to Ruin

    4 1934 HD

    A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to...

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  • 1949
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    Impact

    Impact

    6.1 1949 HD

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  • 1951
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    Rhubarb

    Rhubarb

    5.5 1951 HD

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  • 1948
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    Who Killed Doc Robbin?

    Who Killed Doc Robbin?

    4 1948 HD

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  • 1955
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    Footsteps in the Fog

    Footsteps in the Fog

    7 1955 HD

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  • 1940
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    The Old Swimmin' Hole

    The Old Swimmin' Hole

    1 1940 HD

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  • 1947
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    Curley

    Curley

    5.5 1947 HD

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  • 1934
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    The Road to Ruin

    The Road to Ruin

    4 1934 HD

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  • 1940
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    On the Spot

    On the Spot

    5.3 1940 HD

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  • 1933
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    Sucker Money

    Sucker Money

    4.7 1933 HD

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  • 1925
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    The Red Kimona

    The Red Kimona

    5.7 1925 HD

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  • 1941
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    Redhead

    Redhead

    5 1941 HD

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  • 1934
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    The Woman Condemned

    The Woman Condemned

    4.3 1934 HD

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  • 1937
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    A Bride for Henry

    A Bride for Henry

    5.5 1937 HD

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  • 1938
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    Prison Break

    Prison Break

    5.1 1938 HD

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  • 1935
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    Honeymoon Limited

    Honeymoon Limited

    6 1935 HD

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  • 1937
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    Paradise Isle

    Paradise Isle

    5 1937 HD

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  • 1934
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    The Road to Ruin

    The Road to Ruin

    4 1934 HD

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  • 1934
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    Redhead

    Redhead

    6 1934 HD

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  • 1940
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    Haunted House

    Haunted House

    4.4 1940 HD

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  • 1932
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    The Racing Strain

    The Racing Strain

    1 1932 HD

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  • 1929
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    Linda

    Linda

    6 1929 HD

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  • 1940
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    Drums of the Desert

    Drums of the Desert

    5.5 1940 HD

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  • 1940
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    Tomboy

    Tomboy

    1 1940 HD

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  • 1935
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    Women Must Dress

    Women Must Dress

    3 1935 HD

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  • 1935
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    Women Must Dress

    Women Must Dress

    3 1935 HD

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  • 1923
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    Human Wreckage

    Human Wreckage

    1 1923 HD

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  • 1923
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    Human Wreckage

    Human Wreckage

    1 1923 HD

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  • 1923
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    Human Wreckage

    Human Wreckage

    1 1923 HD

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  • 1925
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    The Red Kimona

    The Red Kimona

    5.7 1925 HD

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  • 1925
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    The Red Kimona

    The Red Kimona

    5.7 1925 HD

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  • 1935
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    Honeymoon Limited

    Honeymoon Limited

    6 1935 HD

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