Esther Ralston

Esther Ralston

Esther Ralston (September 17th, 1902- January 14th, 1994) was an American silent film star. She began her career as a child actress in a family vaudeville act named "The Ralston Family with Baby Esther, America's Youngest Juliet". She then went on to appear in a few small silent film roles, including one alongside her brother in the 1920 film adaptation of Huckleberry Finn. Ralston gained attention as Mrs. Darling in the 1924 film adaptation of Peter Pan. Her most well known sound picture was To the Last Man in 1933.

  • Title: Esther Ralston
  • Popularity: 5.61
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1902-09-17
  • Place of Birth: Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
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Esther Ralston Movies

  • 1923
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    The Prisoner

    The Prisoner

    1 1923 HD

    While traveling in Europe Philip Quentin encounters his former sweetheart, Dorothy Garrison, and finds that she is now engaged to Prince Ugo...

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  • 1926
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    The Blind Goddess

    The Blind Goddess

    1 1926 HD

    Even though Big Bill Devens is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man's roots. His wife walked out on him 20 years before and his...

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  • 1925
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    The Trouble With Wives

    The Trouble With Wives

    1 1925 HD

    William Hyatt (Tom Moore) runs an exclusive shoe store, and his happy marriage to Grace (Florence Vidor) is nearly derailed by his well-meaning, but...

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  • 1924
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    The Heart Buster

    The Heart Buster

    1 1924 HD

    Rose Hillyer, the sweetheart of cowboy Tod Walton, is about to marry Edward Gordon a slick con-man and a bigamist. Tod has proof of Gordon's bad...

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  • 1920
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    The Butterfly Man

    The Butterfly Man

    1 1920 HD

    Sedgewick Blynn is determined to marry a rich woman. One night he saves a child from a fire. Bessie Morgan, an heiress charmed by his act of heroism,...

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  • 1921
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    Crossing Trails

    Crossing Trails

    1 1921 HD

    Helen, wrongly suspected of murder, escapes to the refuge of Jim's Ranch, where love soon blooms.

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  • 1924
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    Jack O'Clubs

    Jack O'Clubs

    1 1924 HD

    A tough policeman who patrols the city's worst beat loses his nerve when he believes he has hurt the girl he loves.

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  • 1934
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    Sadie McKee

    Sadie McKee

    6.8 1934 HD

    A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.

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  • 1925
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    The Best People

    The Best People

    1 1925 HD

    Bertie and Marian Lenox are children of a wealthy family, and their mother intends that they marry "within their class". They, however, have...

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  • 1935
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    Mister Dynamite

    Mister Dynamite

    6 1935 HD

    A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.

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  • 1927
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    Ten Modern Commandments

    Ten Modern Commandments

    1 1927 HD

    A chorus girl falls in love with a budding composer.

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  • 1924
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    The Marriage Circle

    The Marriage Circle

    6.4 1924 HD

    An unhappily married couple moves to Vienna, where the wife’s married best friend lives, and soon, sparks fly between the wife and the best...

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  • 1922
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    Pure and Simple

    Pure and Simple

    1 1922 HD

    Pure and Simple is a 1922 silent film

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  • 1938
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    Letter of Introduction

    Letter of Introduction

    5.9 1938 HD

    An aging actor, trying to make a comeback on Broadway, is surprised when his estranged daughter shows up. It seems that she is an actress and is also...

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  • 1924
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    Peter Pan

    Peter Pan

    7 1924 HD

    Peter Pan enters the nursery of the Darling children and, with the help of fairy dust, leads them off to Never Never Land, where they meet the...

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  • 1931
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    Lonely Wives

    Lonely Wives

    4.2 1931 HD

    A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line. When an...

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  • 1922
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    The Lone Hand

    The Lone Hand

    1 1922 HD

    Wyoming cattleman Laramie Lad takes a vacation by visiting an old friend who runs a summer resort, but before he can relax, he meets Jane Sheridan...

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  • 1923
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    Blinky

    Blinky

    1 1923 HD

    Blinky, the bespectacled son of Col. "Raw Meat" Islip, is scorned by his fellow cavalrymen stationed on the Mexican border because his previous...

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  • 1932
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    Rome Express

    Rome Express

    6.2 1932 HD

    The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.

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  • 1933
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    By Candlelight

    By Candlelight

    5.8 1933 HD

    A beautiful woman mistakes a Prince's butler for the Prince.

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  • 1934
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    The Marines Are Coming

    The Marines Are Coming

    4.5 1934 HD

    Expelled from his lieutenancy in the Marine Corps, Bill Traylor reenlists as a private. His unit is sent to a Latin American country where a rebel...

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  • 1933
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    To the Last Man

    To the Last Man

    5.9 1933 HD

    In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for...

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  • 1935
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    Shadows of the Orient

    Shadows of the Orient

    5 1935 HD

    A classic "B" featurette about "smugglin' in Chinamen for $300 a load"

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  • 1925
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    Womanhandled

    Womanhandled

    7 1925 HD

    Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to...

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  • 1935
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    Ladies Crave Excitement

    Ladies Crave Excitement

    4.5 1935 HD

    Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.

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  • 1935
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    Streamline Express

    Streamline Express

    4.7 1935 HD

    A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he...

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  • 1936
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    We're in the Legion Now

    We're in the Legion Now

    4 1936 HD

    Two petty gangsters trying to elude their enemies join the French Foreign Legion.

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  • 1999
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    Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

    Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

    7.7 1999 HD

    Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.

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  • 1937
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    Jungle Menace

    Jungle Menace

    5 1937 HD

    Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.

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  • 1937
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    The Mysterious Pilot

    The Mysterious Pilot

    1 1937 HD

    Jim Dorn endeavors to protect Jean McNain from a man she knows has committed a murder, Carter Snowden

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  • 1938
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    Slander House

    Slander House

    3.7 1938 HD

    Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous...

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  • 1924
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    $50,000 Reward

    $50,000 Reward

    5 1924 HD

    Tex Sherwood has just come into possession of a valuable piece of land that will be irrigated by a new dam. Banker Holman knowing the deed must be...

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  • 1922
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    Remembrance

    Remembrance

    1 1922 HD

    Although he graduated from that time-worn university, the college of hard knocks, the tireless efforts of John P. Grout have paid off. He owns a...

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  • 1925
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    Beggar on Horseback

    Beggar on Horseback

    6 1925 HD

    Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the...

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  • 1934
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    Strange Wives

    Strange Wives

    1 1934 HD

    When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.

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  • 1936
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    Reunion

    Reunion

    1 1936 HD

    Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for...

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  • 1922
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    Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist

    6.3 1922 HD

    Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring...

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  • 1940
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    San Francisco Docks

    San Francisco Docks

    6 1940 HD

    Longshoreman Johnny Barnes is in love with Kitty Tracy, barmaid at her father's waterfront saloon, and he beats up Cassidy, a crooked politician who...

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  • 1926
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    Old Ironsides

    Old Ironsides

    6 1926 HD

    An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then...

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  • 1925
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    A Kiss for Cinderella

    A Kiss for Cinderella

    5 1925 HD

    An adaption of a novel by Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie.

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  • 1925
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    The Little French Girl

    The Little French Girl

    1 1925 HD

    Madame Vervier, a sophisticated woman, sends her daughter Alix to live with Owen Bradley's parents in London.

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  • 1931
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    The Prodigal

    The Prodigal

    3 1931 HD

    An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.

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  • 1935
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    Together We Live

    Together We Live

    1 1935 HD

    A ham-handed cautionary fable against communism, the film concerns a group of Civil War veterans who are appalled by the burgeoning radical movement...

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  • 1932
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    After the Ball

    After the Ball

    1 1932 HD

    The wife of a diplomat in Geneva pretends to be a maid in order to continue her flirting with a handsome young courier.

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  • 1993
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    The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors

    The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors

    1 1993 HD

    A documentary exploring the origins of the pioneers of women directors during the silent era.

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  • 1920
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    Huckleberry Finn

    Huckleberry Finn

    5.8 1920 HD

    Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...

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  • 1936
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    Hollywood Boulevard

    Hollywood Boulevard

    2.5 1936 HD

    With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

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  • 1936
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    The Girl from Mandalay

    The Girl from Mandalay

    3 1936 HD

    John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Foster's fiancée, Mary Trevor, writes him that...

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  • 1946
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    Jungle Terror

    Jungle Terror

    1 1946 HD

    Re-edited feature film version of the 1937 serial, Jungle Menace.

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  • 1923
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    The Victor

    The Victor

    1 1923 HD

    In order to save his family from financial ruin, an English aristocrat agrees to come to America and marry the daughter of a wealthy businessman....

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  • 1921
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    The Kid

    The Kid

    8.174 1921 HD

    A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

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  • 1935
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    Forced Landing

    Forced Landing

    1 1935 HD

    In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are trying to locate a hidden...

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  • 1940
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    Tin Pan Alley

    Tin Pan Alley

    5 1940 HD

    Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new...

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  • 1928
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    The Sawdust Paradise

    The Sawdust Paradise

    1 1928 HD

    She dances- The Dance of Death. She Sings- The song of Life. Scintillating, Fascinating, Desirable, Swifty She Weaves the Web of Destruction and then...

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  • 1929
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    The Mighty

    The Mighty

    5 1929 HD

    In this melodrama set during WWI, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that...

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  • 1938
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    The Spy Ring

    The Spy Ring

    5 1938 HD

    Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get...

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  • 1927
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    Children of Divorce

    Children of Divorce

    5.9 1927 HD

    A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would...

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  • 1926
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    The American Venus

    The American Venus

    1 1926 HD

    A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most...

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  • 1927
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    The Spotlight

    The Spotlight

    1 1927 HD

    Lizzie Stokes, an obscure and colorless actress, is elevated to stardom through publicity and better coaching from Daniel Hoffman, a theatrical...

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  • 1925
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    The Lucky Devil

    The Lucky Devil

    6.5 1925 HD

    Richard Dix, a displayer in a department store, enters a raffle and wins the so-called 'hoodoo' bad-luck automobile formerly owned by the store...

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  • 1933
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    Black Beauty

    Black Beauty

    1 1933 HD

    Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has staked its fortune. However, the horse is injured...

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  • 1937
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    As Good as Married

    As Good as Married

    7 1937 HD

    When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.

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  • 1924
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    Wolves of the North

    Wolves of the North

    1 1924 HD

    Serialized adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements and each other.

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  • 1929
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    Betrayal

    Betrayal

    1 1929 HD

    André Frey, a bohemian artist, woos and wins a rustic Swiss maid, promising to return to her after a visit to the city. The girl, Vroni, finds...

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  • 1934
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    Romance in the Rain

    Romance in the Rain

    1 1934 HD

    The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.

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  • 1929
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    The Case of Lena Smith

    The Case of Lena Smith

    5.2 1929 HD

    A peasant girl goes to great lengths to protect her child in 19th century Vienna. The film is considered lost, and only four minutes of footage are...

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  • 1965
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    The Love Goddesses

    The Love Goddesses

    6.3 1965 HD

    This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry...

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  • 1927
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    Figures Don't Lie

    Figures Don't Lie

    1 1927 HD

    Figures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene proves the accuracy of the title by donning a...

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  • 1928
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    Half a Bride

    Half a Bride

    6 1928 HD

    Patience Winslow is an impulsive heiress who marries a much-older man whom she really doesn't love. While honeymooning on her yacht without her new...

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  • 1927
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    Fashions for Women

    Fashions for Women

    2.5 1927 HD

    Celeste de Givray is renowned throughout Europe as the most beautiful and best-dressed model in all Paris. Her press agent DuPont concocts an...

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  • 1923
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    The Rivals

    The Rivals

    1 1923 HD

    A comedy short starring Slim Summerville and Bobby Dunn featuring an early appearance by Esther Ralston.

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  • 1929
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    The Wheel of Life

    The Wheel of Life

    1 1929 HD

    British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat is at present on leave in London. Falling in love with Ruth Dangan, the wife of his commanding officer, Yeullat...

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  • 1926
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    The Quarterback

    The Quarterback

    6 1926 HD

    Elmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Colton beats its biggest rival, State University....

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  • 1928
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    Love and Learn

    Love and Learn

    1 1928 HD

    In love with political candidate Anthony Cowles, heroine Nancy Blair gets wind of the opposition's scheme to ruin Cowles' reputation. At the risk of...

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  • 1922
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    The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy

    The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy

    1 1922 HD

    A series of four 2-reelers based on the stories of George Bronson Howard, directed by Duke Worne, and starring Roy Stewart in the title role; each...

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  • 1962
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    Our Five Daughters

    Our Five Daughters

    1 1962 HD

    Our Five Daughters is a daytime soap opera that ran on NBC from January 2, 1962, until September 28, 1962. The show was written by Leonard Stadd and...

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  • 1951
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    Tales of Tomorrow

    Tales of Tomorrow

    6 1951 HD

    Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered...

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