Actors/Actresses: Scandals of classic Hollywood by Anne Helen Petersen
Movies by actors and actresses from the book "Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema By Anne Helen Petersen"
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- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsMary PickfordHarold LockwoodOlive CareyA wealthy resident attempts to dispossess squatters who live near his home, which leads to a false accusation of murder.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterJ. Searle DawleyStarsMary PickfordErnest TruexWilliam NorrisCharles MacLance, a mischievous little boy sent to live with his cruel aunt, Mrs. MacMiche, takes his happiness from the make-believe world of fairies which he has created with Juliet, a little blind girl. When Charles' aristocratic grandfather dies, however, he is sent away to an expensive school, in preparation for his adult life as a lord. As he grows up, he forgets Juliet and his make-believe friends, and becomes engaged to a fashionable society girl, but the soul of his former self leaves him to rejoin the good fairies. Meanwhile, Mrs. MacMiche has come to believe in fairies, and in her new goodness, she asks Charles to come and live with her again. At first reluctant, Charles soon resurrects fond memories of the past. Juliet, whose sight has been restored, helps him to complete his change, and he asks her to marry him. In the end, the couple live happily with Mrs. MacMiche in their fantasy world.
- DirectorJames KirkwoodStarsMary PickfordJames KirkwoodIda WatermanA young girl, Anemone (Mary Pickford), who lives with her Aunt (Ida Waterman) is abducted by a crude family of Virginia mountain moonshiners. A fight between two of the young male relatives decides who will marry the girl. Lancer (James Kirkwood) is the winner and marries Anemone against her will. She is reunited some time later with her Aunt, but when she learns Lancer is in dire trouble she returns and stays by his side, realizing she had always been in love with him.
- DirectorHugh FordEdwin S. PorterStarsMary PickfordCarlyle BlackwellHarold LockwoodRobert Trainor, an American, aids in the romance of the Queen of Herzegovina and the King of Bosnia.
- DirectorJames KirkwoodStarsMary PickfordOwen MooreIsabel VernonThough mistreated by her cruel stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella is able to attend the royal ball through the help of a fairy godmother.
- DirectorJames KirkwoodStarsMary PickfordOwen MooreArthur HoopsNell Gwynne ( Mary Pickford ) and King Charles II ( Owen Moore ) fall in love after meeting at a fox hunt. Nell soon learns the jealous Duchess of Portsmouth ( Ruby Hoffman ) is a spy and conspiring with the Duke of Buckingham to place Charles at the mercy of the King of France. Nell boldly disguises herself as a fashionable young blade and wins the confidence of the Duchess. Now entrusted with the delivery of important documents, she makes sure they go to the King of England rather than the King of France. Now, Nell has the last laugh on the traitorous Duchess.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsMary PickfordJack PickfordGertrude NormanA girl with old-fashioned values becomes a modern sophisticate.
- DirectorSidney OlcottStarsMary PickfordEugene O'BrienAntonio MaioriA little girl is kidnapped by the Mafia in revenge for her father's help in capturing one of the mobsters. She is presumed dead, but in reality is spirited away to Italy, where she is raised as the daughter of a kindly couple. When she is betrothed to the cruel padrone, she disguises herself as a boy and stows away to America, where she finds herself once again in the clutches of the mobster who originally kidnapped her. But this time luck and her own pluck are with her, and the tables are soon turned.
- DirectorJohn B. O'BrienStarsMary PickfordLoretta BlakeDorothy WestOwen and Ernest Wharton, sons of sweatshop owner James Wharton, become interested in two of their father's employees. Owen, a settlement worker, falls in love with Mary, while Ernest, a full time womanizer, makes her sister Amy his mistress. Another sister, Jane, grows increasingly consumptive, but when Mary asks James for some money for Jane's treatment, he refuses. Hearing of the trouble, Ernest offers money to Mary, but only if she too agrees to be his mistress. Enraged, Mary forces him at gunpoint, to marry Amy. Then Owen, knocked unconscious in an accident, calls out for Mary. James begs her to see Owen, but before agreeing to go, Mary makes him promise to improve sweatshop conditions. Finally, Owen recovers and he and Mary plan their marriage. Meanwhile, marriage has turned Ernest into a devoted husband, and James keeps his word about shop conditions.
- DirectorJohn EmersonStarsMary PickfordDavid PowellFrank LoseeA little English girl, abandoned in India and raised by an Indian swordmaker, learns of her true origin and returns to England to seek out her birthright.
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsMary PickfordMatt MooreWarren CookAmong the simple fisher-folk of a little island off the west coast of Scotland lives MacTavish, head of a clan. Here he rules as a chieftain, and his word is law. One day a hurricane sweeps across the Hebrides and the fishermen turn their boats to the inlet for shelter. On the shore the women and children watch the fight of their men with the waves. Among those who wait is Margaret MacTavish, who sees her father's boat dashed to pieces in the roaring surf. A party of men headed by Jamie Campbell tries to rescue the old chieftain but the waves close over him before they can reach the battling craft. With MacTavish lost, according to the law of the island the succession of authority passes to his daughter Marget, just 18. She, with a spirit of kindness and in a tender, sweet and girlish way, rules the fishermen and their families. Her disposition wins them. Jamie Campbell, a young fisherman, has won Marget's heart. Jamie has always been regarded as the son of Mrs. Campbell, one of the clan. The old lady, realizing that Jamie is reaching his 21st birthday, feels that she cannot keep her secret longer. So she writes to the Countess of Dunstable that the baby of her first marriage, which she left with the old woman of the island, did not die but grew to be a fine young man, and is now known as Jamie Campbell. The Countess, accompanied by her husband, starts out to seek her son. It is on the eve of Jamie's betrothal to Marget that, the Countess finds the young man and tells him of his real identity. She swears him to secrecy even from his own sweetheart. The Countess goes to watch the quaint betrothal ceremony of her son and Marget. Meeting him they are seen by those who do not know the relation to embrace and this fact is told to Marget. The disappearance of the Countess has aroused the suspicions of the Earl, and he, having learned of her secret meeting with, Jamie and not knowing the relation, confronts her. The wife breaks down and confesses that the young man is her son. There having been no children by the second marriage the Earl is delighted with the news and at once starts to plan for Jamie's future. The Earl, however, means that Jamie shall cut loose from all of his former associates. He persuades Marget to believe that she is an obstacle to Jamie's future and she reluctantly decides to make the sacrifice and give up her sweetheart. As chief of the clan, Marget commands him to leave. Jamie with heart torn asunder departs for his mother's yacht. Marget decides to sail out to somewhere in the west where her father and his father were wont to sail with the fishing boats. Before she cuts the ropes that hold the frail old hulk in which she lives to the island shore she sets ashore her pets and writes a note, places it on the strap collar of her favored little goat, and sends it abroad. Grouchy, gloomy Pitcairn, the village atheist who feared no one and hated himself, has always refused to obey the rulings of Marget. Pitcairn is in a troubled sleep the night Marget cuts loose in her unseaworthy craft, and in a wakeful moment he hears the bleating of the goat at his door. He is about to drive the animal away when he finds the note Marget has written. Looking seaward he sees the old craft tossing in the sea and he realizes what has happened. The village is aroused and the church bell set to ringing. Down to the surf line rush the people. Pitcairn sends a messenger to the yacht to get Jamie. Lowering a boat he rushes to the hulk and just as the waters are closing in on the cabin he rescues his sweetheart and the atheist falls to his knees and utters a prayer for the first time in his life. Jamie takes Marget back to the yacht, a reconciliation between the girl and the Earl follows and the dreams of the courtship begin all over again but they are real dreams because they have come true.
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsMary PickfordMadlaine TraverseCharles WellesleyThe wealthy but selfish parents of a lonely young girl begin to rethink what is important to them after a servant's irresponsibility results in a crisis.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsMary PickfordElliott DexterTully MarshallA young girl travels west to live with her uncle during the California Gold Rush only to find that he has been killed by Indians and his identity assumed by an outlaw.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleJoseph LeveringStarsMary PickfordJack HoltRaymond HattonA young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.
- DirectorMarshall NeilanStarsMary PickfordEugene O'BrienHelen Jerome EddyWith her family in financial difficulties, Rebecca is sent to live with her two strict, unfeeling aunts, who do not appreciate the young girl's charm and energy. Rebecca must make new friends and adjust to surroundings that are sometimes difficult. But she still finds time to think of numerous ways to help others in her new hometown.
- DirectorMarshall NeilanStarsMary PickfordNorman KerryKatherine GriffithLittle Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.
- DirectorMarshall NeilanStarsMary PickfordWilliam ScottKate PriceAmarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who comes from a rich family, and she begins to be drawn into the world of the upper class.
- DirectorWilliam Desmond TaylorStarsMary PickfordAnne SchaeferFred HuntleyA young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.
- DirectorWilliam Desmond TaylorStarsMary PickfordDouglas MacLeanSpottiswoode AitkenAn old man wills a map to his grandson, with instructions showing a buried treasure, but it is accidentally sold to a book store. The owner and her granddaughter Mary discover it. Mary and her boyfriend an aspiring author, meet the with the desperate grandson and agree to share the treasure. The treasure turns out to be a box containing a note proclaiming " Good Health. " The grandson discovers the hunt was a test, and a fortune left by his grandfather is held in trust. Mary's boyfriend sells one of his novels and they happily become engaged.
- DirectorMarshall NeilanStarsMary PickfordMilla DavenportPercy HaswellAn orphan discovers that she has an anonymous benefactor who is willing to pay her college tuition, unaware he's the same man who has been romantically pursuing her.
- DirectorSidney FranklinStarsMary PickfordRalph LewisKenneth HarlanA spoiled young rich girl is forced by misfortune to fight for survival in the slums and alleys, where she becomes involved with all manner of unpleasantness.
- DirectorJoseph De GrasseSidney FranklinStarsMary PickfordHarold GoodwinAllan SearsFamily tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.
- DirectorPaul PowellStarsMary PickfordWharton JamesKatherine GriffithAn orphan's optimistic outlook brings a change to the ill-tempered town in which she resides to her aunt.
- DirectorFrances MarionStarsMary PickfordEvelyn DumoFred ThomsonAngela maintains a coastal lighthouse in Italy, where she awaits the return of her brothers from the war. She learns they are casualties and takes solace in the arms of an American sailor washed ashore
- DirectorEugene V. BrewsterStarsCorliss PalmerAllene RayLillian GishA two-reel comedy featuring Corliss Palmer, First Prize Winner of the 1920 Fame and Fortune Contest, and over 1000 other girls. Also showing the other winners, gold medalists, and Honor Roll girls of that memorable contest. Look them over and see if you think the judges acted wisely in selecting Corliss Palmer and Allene Ray as the best.
- DirectorJohn S. RobertsonStarsMary PickfordLloyd HughesGloria HopeWealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill; a group of squatters have taken up residence at the bottom. Many of the men in the squatters' village have their eyes on young Tess, and one of them, Ben Letts, frames Tess' father for murder. While maintaining her father's innocence, Tess must keep her love for Graves' son a secret while caring for Elias' daughter's illegitimate child.
- DirectorMarshall NeilanMary PickfordStarsMary PickfordAnders RandolfMarc McDermottIn the year 1550, Sir George Vernon agrees to have his young daughter Dorothy betrothed to John Manners, the son of the Earl of Rutland. Sir George signs a contract, promising that the marriage will take place on Dorothy's 18th birthday, or else he will have to pay a large penalty to Rutland. But when the two children have grown older, rumors of John's wild behavior in France provoke Sir George to call off the engagement, and to pledge his daughter instead to her cousin Malcolm. Rutland now claims the forfeit from Sir George, and meanwhile, John has befriended Mary Stuart, the sworn enemy of Elizabeth, who is now Queen of England.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsMary PickfordWilliam HainesWalter JamesThe tenements are home to an international community, including the friends and family of a tough young ragamuffin named Annie Rooney, but their neighborhood is threatened by a dangerous street gang.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineTom McNamaraStarsMary PickfordRoy StewartMary Louise MillerMolly, the eldest child at a baby farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.
- DirectorSam TaylorStarsMary PickfordCharles 'Buddy' RogersSunshine HartA department store's stock girl falls in love with a co-worker, the son of the store's manager; the feeling is mutual though he is engaged to a debutante and focusing on becoming successful without the influence of his father.
- DirectorSam TaylorStarsMary PickfordJohnny Mack BrownMatt MooreA flirtatious Southern belle is compromised with one of her suitors.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsMary PickfordLeslie HowardC. Aubrey SmithA New England society girl braves the West to help her husband build his fortune.
- DirectorFred NibloStarsDouglas FairbanksNigel De BrulierGeorge SiegmannCardinal Richelieu, engaged in intrigue at the court of Louis XIII, attempts to rule by threatening the queen, who is secretly in love with the Duke of Buckingham. From Gascony comes D'Artagnan to join the King's Musketeers in his quest for adventure. He wins the right to membership by proving his prowess with the sword and forms an eternal alliance with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, the Three Musketeers. After many adventures, he embarks on a dangerous mission to England to recover a diamond brooch, a gift of the king, which the queen has given to Buckingham as a token of affection. He recovers it and returns in time to save the queen from the wrath of Louis, defeat the cardinal's intrigue, and win Constance, the queen's seamstress.
- DirectorIrvin WillatStarsWarner BaxterBillie DoveMary BrianRuss Kane obtains work as a pilot in the airmail service with the purpose of robbing the mails. However, during his training period at the Reno field, he becomes imbued with the spirit of the service and dedicates himself to getting the mail through. Russ is forced to make an emergency landing near a ghost town, where he meets Alice Rendon and her invalid father, who is badly in need of medicine. Russ repairs his plane and promises to return on the following day with the elder Rendon's medicine. Making good on his promise, Russ returns, carrying with him a valuable mail shipment and his friend, Sandy. The plane is attacked by two planes belonging to a gang that smuggles dope and aliens across the Mexican border. Sandy makes a parachute jump with the mail sack, and Russ maneuvers his craft so that the pursuing planes are forced to crash. Russ then lands his plane, only to discover that the Rendons have been captured by three escaped convicts. Russ manages to bring the men to justice, winning the gratitude and love of Alice. Sandy realizes the crowning ambition of his young life and delivers the mail.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsRonald ColmanBelle BennettAlice JoyceSmall-town girl Stella marries socialite Stephen Dallas, a man with whom she has nothing in common. The whole thing is a failure; after the birth of their daughter Laurel, the Dallases separate and Stephen returns to New York. As Laurel grows into a young woman, Stella realizes that she cannot provide for her properly and sends her to live with Stephen and his new family. Laurel later marries a pleasant upper-class young man as Stella stands in the rain watching the ceremony through a window.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsMarie PrevostKenneth ThomsonDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Madge Dreyer is a sales girl in a large department store whose street-wise past long ago taught her how to handle any situation. A small adventure with her boss leads to her getting fired. She takes a job as a taxi-dancer in a dime-a-dance joint, and meets and falls in love with a rich playboy, Jeff Sanford, and he with her. Jeff is now faced with convincing his society-parents that he has made a wise choice.
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsPauline StarkeOwen MooreLionel BarrymoreA young woman can't marry a millionaire because she was born illegitimately.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsMilton SillsDorothy MackaillBetty CompsonA carnival barker wants his son to become a lawyer, but his son gets side-tracked into joining the carnival too.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Jobyna RalstonMildred HarrisNaive newspaper cub Clem lands a scoop when he's sent out to cover a murder. In his enthusiasm he writes that the main suspect is Jane. When she confronts Clem she convinces him to help her prove her innocence.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsGreta GarboJohn GilbertLewis StoneWhen two childhood sweethearts are kept from marrying, misery ensues.
- DirectorJack ConwayStarsJoan CrawfordRod La RocqueDouglas Fairbanks Jr.A flapper charms a diplomat to procure her fiancé a career opportunity, while the fiancé starts a relationship with her best friend.
- DirectorJohn Griffith WrayStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Carmel MyersHolmes HerbertSir John Hayward, a noted surgeon, decides that his son Wyn, a medical student, needs a vacation as a temporary diversion from his studies. At Como, Wyn meets and falls in love with Rayetta Muir, an unprincipled actress who trifles with him. In London, Rayetta avoids seeing Wyn, ready to forget him. Wyn is crazed when he learns that Rayetta is intimate with both Lord Durhugh, an old roué, and Le Grand, a French boxer; and in a rage he chokes Rayetta and leaves her for dead. He then confesses to his father that he has killed her. Preparing to take the blame, Sir John, accompanied by Wyn, goes to Rayetta's apartment to find that she did not die after all.
- DirectorTed WildeStarsLoretta YoungDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Louise FazendaIn this light romantic comedy, 17-year old Loretta Young is cast as wealthy socialite Ann Harper, who has inherited a fortune provided that the family is involved in no scandals appearing in print, and her two aunts and uncle consent to the marriage. Put off by all this, she is determined to cause a scandal so that none of the family will receive any of the inheritance. An arrow-straight Fairbanks is volunteered to be the one to "compromise" her, but the two end up falling for each other. Upon being discovered in Loretta's boudoir, Fairbanks makes a hasty exit out of the nearest window. The romance seems destined to fail, but Fairbanks (and his two friends) have other ideas, which are accidentally "aided" by the two prudish aunts.
- DirectorWilliam James CraftStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Anita PageSally BlaneOn the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsBillie DoveDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Helen WareA woman who owns a boarding house winds up being the "mother hen" to the assorted mobsters and racketeers who live there. Her foster son takes the blame for a murder that was actually committed by his girlfriend. When he's released, her boarding-house pals decide to try to help her out in order to keep his girlfriend's reputation isn't spoiled.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Rose HobartAnthony BushellTwo brothers on leave fall for the same girl in World War I London.
- DirectorLowell ShermanStarsKatharine HepburnDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Adolphe MenjouWhen a naively innocent, aspiring actress arrives on the Broadway scene, she is taken under the wing of several theater veterans who mentor her to ultimate success.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsLeslie HowardDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Paul LukasA British prisoner of war becomes imprisoned alongside his best friend from home, unaware that while he was captured, the friend began an affair with his wife.
- DirectorPaul CzinnerAlexander KordaStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Elisabeth BergnerFlora RobsonStraightforward biography of the Russian Empress, up to her assumption of the throne.
- DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Gertrude LawrenceDiana NapierThe story of a struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate whose love furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.
- DirectorThornton FreelandStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Elissa LandiGordon HarkerA former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court to find out who framed his father and why.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsIrene DunneDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Alice BradyBroadway star Margaret Garrett has spent her whole life working to support her sponging relatives. When she meets carefree Dan Webster, she learns how to have fun for the first time.
- DirectorErnst LubitschOtto PremingerStarsBetty GrableDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Cesar RomeroThat Lady in Ermine tells two parallel stories, both taking place in the small Mittel-European duchy of Bergamo, with one set in the 19th century and the other in the 16th.
- DirectorRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleMabel NormandHarry McCoyNeighbors Mabel and Fatty meet while doing laundry. Their friendship blossoms, their spouses grow jealous, and the Keystone Cops join the chaos.
- DirectorRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleMabel NormandAl St. JohnFatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner's son in exchange for tearing up the mortgage. When Mabel and Fatty find out dad's plan, they elope, pursued by dad, the hopeful suitor, and the local constables.
- DirectorRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleMabel NormandDan AlbertWhen a woman's husband leaves town, she begins to see odd things happening in her house. Afraid that gangsters are after her, she becomes increasingly anxious.
- DirectorRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleCorinne ParquetAgnes NeilsonRoscoe flirts with a girl in the park. Later he takes his wife and mother-in-law to the movies only to see his flirtation showing on the screen.
- DirectorRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleBuster KeatonAl St. JohnThis was the film debut of Joe Keaton, Buster's dad. In one scene he kicks each of the principals into a horse trough. Roscoe owns a blacksmith shop and Joe a garage in the town of Jazzville. They are rivals for schoolteacher Alice but join forces against new arrival Al. Buster performs at a village ball.
- DirectorRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleBuster KeatonMolly MaloneRoscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleMabel Julienne ScottIrving CummingsAn overweight sheriff does his best to assist a man accused of theft.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsAlfred PagetLillian GishWallace ReidSeamen Enoch Arden returns home after a long absence marooned on a desert island. At home he finds his wife married to another, and though he loves her, he cannot bear to disrupt her current happiness.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsCleo RidgelyWallace ReidHorace B. CarpenterMary Denby becomes a seamstress after her husband Steve wastes their money on booze. Her employer provides her as an escort to accompany millionaire Roger Manning. Her husband tries blackmailing Manning and is later killed by the police, leaving Mary free to wed the millionaire.
- DirectorE. Mason HopperStarsWallace ReidCleo RidgelyEdythe ChapmanYoung engineer Tom Morley is building a railroad through Imperial Valley. Tom's father also wants the job and tries to persuade his son to give up the work, but Tom refuses. Tom falls for a society girl named Alice Hale, who marries him to bring prestige to her family. Initially, Alice plots against Tom, but Tom wins her over and they work together to defeat those who are plotting to destroy Tom's work.
- DirectorWilliam Desmond TaylorStarsWallace ReidMyrtle StedmanJohn BurtonMining magnate Roland Holt sends his worthless son Clyde to reform under the watchful eye of mining superintendent Bob Fulton. Instead of renouncing his irresponsible ways, however, Clyde attempts to rob the company safe. In order to prevent the robbery, Bob is forced to shoot Clyde, who loses his wedding ring while making his escape. Soon after, Clyde's new bride Beth arrives, and learning that her husband has mysteriously disappeared, devotes her time to nursing Bob back to health. Beth falls in love with her patient until her discovery of Clyde's ring leads her to believe that the man she loves is probably her husband's murderer. The truth is revealed, however, when Clyde returns to be killed by the sheriff's bullet, leaving the lovers free to begin a new life together.
- DirectorWilliam Desmond TaylorStarsKathlyn WilliamsWallace ReidJoe KingStella Benton, a young society girl who has lost her beautiful voice through the death of her father, goes to live with her brother Charles, in the lumber camp. Charles Benton is having a struggle to make both ends meet, and when his cook quits, he makes his sister do the work for the hundred men in the lumber camp. Jack Fyfe, a neighboring lumber man, meets Stella and gradually falls in love with her, but love is not reciprocated. Seeing that she is being overworked, Fyfe offers to marry her, in spite of the fact that she does not love him. A child is born of this loveless marriage, and the couple are reasonably happy, until Walter Monahan, a wealthy lumberman, begins to make love to Stella. She gradually becomes tired of her husband, and when the child dies, decides to leave him. Her voice returns, and she makes a substantial success as a concert singer. Monahan, who has professed love for her, becomes indifferent, but she will not return to Fyfe, in spite of his pleadings. Monahan, jealous of Fyfe's success, sets fire to his holdings and is caught in the act. Friends telephone this fact to Stella, and she immediately returns to the lumber camp, and there, at their home she finds Jack, heartbroken, as his holdings are on fire and there is nothing but a heavy rain which could save them. She comes to him and offers to use her own money to retrieve his lost fortune, and as she goes into his arms, the heavy downpour of rain comes and they are safe.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsWallace ReidAnn LittleAdele FarringtonA young woman, disheveled and greatly distressed, stops criminologist Marcel Levington on the street and begs him to find a doctor for a man who is dying inside a nearby house of ill repute. Marcel and his friend, Dr. Rogers, enter the house and find the man, a prominent lawyer, dead, his heart pierced by a hatpin that the doctor recognizes as the one he recently gave his daughter Toinette. Rogers announces that the man has died of heart failure, returns home and demands an explanation from his daughter, who explains that she was lured into the house and attacked by the man. Realizing that Toinette killed the lawyer to defend her honor, Rogers and Marcel agree to protect her. Marcel retrieves Toinette's pocketbook from the proprietor of the house, Mrs. Clifton, who had planned to blackmail the girl, and then returns to Toinette, with whom he has fallen in love.
- DirectorJames CruzeStarsWallace ReidLila LeeAdele FarringtonWhen Mrs. Rolles (Farrington) insists that she will not have Austin Bevans (Reid) as a son-in-law, he insists that she will. But when his aunt dies and leaves Austin a girl's boarding school in her will, Austin gives up his suit of Susie Rolles (Bains) and decides to run the school.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsWallace ReidElsie FergusonMontagu LoveArchitect Peter Ibbetson is hired by the Duke of Towers to design a building for him. Ibbetson discovers that the Duchess of Towers, Mary, is his now-grown childhood sweetheart. Their love revives, but Peter is sentenced to life in prison for an accidental killing. Mary comes to him in dreams and they are able to live out their romance in a dream world.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsWallace ReidGloria SwansonElliott DexterMarian Westover is loved by wealthy young Cullen Dale and his best friend Harvey Gilroy, whose loyalty to Dale keeps him silent. After they both sustain injuries in a polo game, Cullen shows particular solicitude in caring for his friend. Cullen proposes to and is accepted by Marian, but she becomes jealous of his former girlfriends, and when Jessica Ramsey arrives and tries to capture Cullen, Marian fails to emulate her athletic prowess. Jessica invites the couple to a mountain lodge, but when Marian refuses to go, Cullen sweeps her into an automobile and has a marriage ceremony performed. She returns home, and Cullen goes on to the lodge, keeping his marriage secret. A storm prevents Cullen from returning home, and Marian, in alarm, enlists Gilroy's aid. At the lodge, everything is explained to the satisfaction of all but Jessica.
- DirectorJoseph MaxwellStarsVera SissonRudolph ValentinoFrank NewburgAn already engaged young woman is blackmailed into marrying a count in order to save her father from imprisonment.
- DirectorFred J. BalshoferStarsJulian EltingeFrederick Ko VertWilliam CliffordAs the government of Alpania, a seaside European republic, is threatened by revolutionary monarchists, three American adventurers--Jack Perry, Dick Sayre, and Lyn Brook--arrive in the country and immediately become embroiled in the civil strife. Perry offends the monarchists, who capture him and sentence him to death before a firing squad. Brook rescues his compatriot by bombing the complex, thus killing Perry's captors. Disguised as a woman, Perry infiltrates the royalists' circle where as "Fedora" he quickly becomes a court favorite and earns the love of Zana, an Alpanian woman. While Perry carries news of the monarchists' plot to the republicans, Brook, donning feminine attire and calling himself "Thelma," diverts Grand Duke Nebo. Perry is recaptured, but commandeers an enemy airplane to safety. After an automobile chase, Perry eludes the revolutionaries and escapes to America with Zana.
- DirectorAllen HolubarStarsDorothy PhillipsWilliam EllingfordMargaret MannAurora Meredith, the village blacksmith's eldest daughter, is blessed with a natural singing voice. One day, wealthy New Yorker Mrs. Thorndyke visits Aurora's village and, upon hearing the girl sing in the church choir, is so impressed with her ability that she sends her abroad to study. At the end of her third year of studies, Aurora's benefactress dies, and she is forced to accept the aid of Juliantimo, an Italian admirer. After attaining great fame as a singer, Aurora returns to America to escape her Italian admirer's attentions and is awarded the starring role in a new opera. Juliantimo follows her, though, and on opening night he positions himself in a box above the stage, shoots Aurora, and kills himself. She recovers, but loses her voice, and with the loss of her talents, her friends desert her. Lonely, she returns home, where she is welcomed by her family and her childhood sweetheart Phineas Scudder. The traumatic death of Aurora's mother restores her singing voice, but she finally realizes that true love comes but once to every woman, and she chooses to stay in the village as Phineas' wife.
- DirectorRex IngramStarsRudolph ValentinoAlice TerryPomeroy CannonAn extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsAlice LakeCarl GerardRudolph ValentinoPersuaded by her father-in-law to give her negligent and drunken husband one more chance, Lucretia Eastman accompanies him on an expedition to the Arctic Circle, but Eastman turns back out of fear. Another ship, commanded by Frank Underwood, who loves Lucretia, arrives on the same mission, and she joins it. While Eastman denounces his wife and obtains a divorce, she and her lover are imprisoned for months in the icebound ship. After a trek across the frozen waste, they are rescued.
- DirectorRay C. SmallwoodStarsAlla NazimovaRudolph ValentinoRex CherrymanA courtesan and an idealistic young man fall in love, only for her to give up the relationship at his status-conscious father's request.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsDorothy DaltonRudolph ValentinoCharles BrinleyA milquetoast young man of society toughens up once he's shanghaied and falls for the captain's tomboy daughter.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsRudolph ValentinoAgnes AyresRuth MillerA charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert.
- DirectorSidney OlcottStarsRudolph ValentinoBebe DanielsLois WilsonWhen M. Beaucaire, a handsome barber, catches the Duke of Winterset cheating at gambling, Beaucaire exacts Winterset's cooperation in sneaking Beaucaire into a great ball, disguised as the Duke de Chartres, and to introduce him to the beautiful Lady Mary. The disguised barber successfully pulls off the masquerade and is soon the toast of society. But Winterset is embittered at having been blackmailed so, and he sets out to destroy Beaucaire if he can do so without revealing his own duplicity.
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierStarsEthel ShannonHarrison FordWilliam NorrisOttilie Van Zandt, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy colonel, loves the gardener's son, Richard Wayne, but her family forces her to marry her cousin Claude. Richard leaves before the wedding, vowing to return wealthy and marry Ottilie, but since she is already married when he does return, he impulsively marries Alice Tremaine. Years later, to save lonely widow Ottilie from being evicted, Richard purchases her house at auction and gives it to her. Two generations later, Ottilie, the granddaughter of the first Ottilie, lives in the old house and teaches dancing. Richard Wayne, grandson of the first Richard, is a wealthy young man of the jazz set who thinks of Ottilie as a little old-fashioned but has affection for her. Their friendship culminates in a romance and marriage that began years before with their grandparents.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsCorinne GriffithConway TearleTom RickettsA Manhattan playboy falls in love with a mysterious European woman whom he notices as an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the century. At first, he thinks it's just pure coincidence, as the beautiful young woman he's currently romancing is much younger than the woman who vanished years before, but he soon starts to believe that it's not such a coincidence after all.
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierStarsKenneth HarlanClara BowBarbara TennantMargot Le Blanc loses her small fortune at Monte Carlo in Monaco and makes the acquaintance of Hugh Kildair, an artist, who hires her as a housekeeper. A gang of thieves set a trap for Kildair when they find that he knows a mathematical system guaranteed to win at the gambling table. The gang is foiled by the arrival of the police; and Kildair, realizing he has fallen in love with Margot, marries her.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsBaby PeggyClara BowJeanne CarpenterA 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.
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsThunder the DogClara BowHarold AustinAccompanied by Thunder, the dog who rescued him from the firing line in France, World War veteran Ray Chambers goes to the mountains to recover from his war injuries. There he meets Martha Larned, a lonely mountain girl who lives with her little brother, Dick. Ray discovers that Martha is the sister of his dead buddy, Frank Larned, and he decides to stay and protect her from harassment by Jim Howard and his half-witted brother, Ez. When Dick is hurt in a fall, Ray goes for a doctor; Ez kills Jim and attacks Martha; and Thunder takes care of Ez. Ray and Martha then get married.
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsAlyce MillsWilliam PowellClara BowA newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story falls in love with the gang's female leader, and when the two are caught in a police raid, they find themselves in equal amounts of trouble.
- DirectorHarry O. HoytStarsWallace MacDonaldClara BowArline PrettyBruce Armstrong (MacDonald) is quite wealthy. He is also a drinker, a gambler, and pretty much worthless as a human being. For some reason, successful dancer Marilyn Merrill (Bow) sticks by him. In spite of this, he gambles with her boss, and when he loses, he writes bad checks. In order to avoid jail, Armstrong gets involved in diamond smuggling.
- DirectorDallas M. FitzgeraldStarsClara BowDonald KeithCarmelita GeraghtyClara plays wealthy Prudence Severin, whose reckless, profligate behavior causes nothing but headaches for her father. A detective (Lee Moran) is hired to protect Prudence from herself, but to no avail.
- DirectorNat RossStarsGeorge FawcettAllan ForrestClara BowDorothy Hammis (Bow), the daughter of wealthy financier John Hammis (Fawcett), has chosen as her fiance James Radley (Forrest), but her father disproves of him. He hires Robert McWorth (MacDonald), a former pilot, to discredit Radley by exposing indescretions in either his past or present contuct. McWorth leaves some valuable pearls for Radley to steal, but this plan fails, so he arranges for himself, Radley and Dorothy to become stranded on a desert island. Ultimately, Radley proves himself as the better man. After surviving both the elements and McWorth's scheming, he and Dorothy are married.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsConway TearleAlice JoyceClara BowA young girl becomes a "flapper", defying her parents and the community.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsCharles 'Buddy' RogersIvy HarrisJack LudenPlayboy Teddy Ward wants to marry artist Jeannie King; his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells him he can marry his choice if he can make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with his friends' support he arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.
- DirectorWilliam C. de MilleStarsClara BowWarner BaxterWilliam PowellA movie actress, mistakenly thinking she has killed a fellow actor, goes on the run and finds herself taken in by a Kentucky mountain family.
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsErnest TorrenceClara BowPercy MarmontA sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorce lawyer who comes to town on vacation.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsEddie CantorClara BowBillie DoveA salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife, only to find himself falling for the girlfriend of the customer who got him in trouble in the first place.
- DirectorClarence G. BadgerJosef von SternbergStarsClara BowAntonio MorenoWilliam AustinA salesgirl pursues a handsome playboy.
- DirectorFrank LloydJosef von SternbergStarsClara BowEsther RalstonGary CooperA young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsClara BowReed HowesArthur HousmanA poor but ambitious young girl is determined to crash high society, but isn't prepared for the reception she receives.
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsClara BowJean ArthurJames HallMayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow's first credited role.