Eugenie Besserer
Eugenie Besserer was an American actress who appeared in supporting roles, typically portraying a mother or grandmother, in films of the Silent and early talkies eras.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.01 |
| Birthday | 1868-12-24 |
| Place of Birth | Watertown, New York, USA |
| Also Known As |
1927
The Jazz Singer
6.1/225
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first...
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The Jazz Singer
1918
The Road Through the Dark
0/0
Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morgan, who her parents disapprove of. She is sent awa...
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The Road Through the Dark
1917
Who Shall Take My Life?
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A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed. Afterwards, it is discovered that his supposed victim i...
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Who Shall Take My Life?
1916
Twisted Trails
5/1
Ranch foreman Tom Snow is being hounded by sheriff Luke Fisher and his deputy, Brad Foster. The pair are really cattle rustlers, and they're trying to...
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Twisted Trails
1917
Beware of Strangers
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Beware of Strangers is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell
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Beware of Strangers
1915
The Way of a Woman's Heart
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While on a tour a theatrical company meets with small success and is forced to close early in the season. Claude Harris and Rose Marsh, two members of...
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The Way of a Woman's Heart
1914
A Just Punishment
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Uncle Preston, a financial "wizard," discovers that his nephew, Bob Preston, is a rogue, a gambler and a swindler, who is promoting a mythical mining...
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A Just Punishment
1913
Greater Wealth
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John Sharon, a steel magnate is immensely successful from the worldly point of view, while Ed Young, his humble employee, views himself as a failure b...
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Greater Wealth
1916
Thou Shalt Not Covet
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A scientist who is married to an amoral woman lives next door to a happily married couple. At first envying their happiness, the scientist eventually...
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Thou Shalt Not Covet
1925
Friendly Enemies
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As youths, Carl Pfeiffer and Henry Block came to America from Germany. Pfeiffer became a wholesale shoe dealer, while Block became a banker. In spite...
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Friendly Enemies
1925
The Coast of Folly
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Unable to abide her self-righteous husband, Nadine Gathway leaves home and drops out of sight for 20 years. When Mr. Gathway dies, he leaves his huge...
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The Coast of Folly
1912
Monte Cristo
6/1
An unauthorised adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Produced by Selig with the intent of beating Adolph Zukor's adaptation to the screen, Zuk...
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Monte Cristo
1926
Flesh and the Devil
7.2/58
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station...
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Flesh and the Devil
1929
Madame X
6/8
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her...
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Madame X
1918
Mother, I Need You
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A young woman who became pregnant from an assault faces legal trouble and scandal after having an abortion.
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Mother, I Need You
1910
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
1926
The Skyrocket
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In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are separated when Sharon is placed in an orphanage....
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The Skyrocket
1917
The Curse of Eve
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When young Eva Stanley comes home from college, she finds that her mother is deeply involved in the movement to rescue "wayward" girls. Eva's boyfrien...
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The Curse of Eve
1916
The Garden of Allah
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When her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden attempts to forget her pain in Beni Mora, an oasis in...
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The Garden of Allah
1920
45 Minutes from Broadway
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Kid Burns vicariously enjoys life with his wealthy playboy pal. But complications ensue when Kid falls in love with a girl who just happens to be his...
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45 Minutes from Broadway
1920
The Fighting Shepherdess
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A young woman fights to keep her Wyoming sheep ranch from being overrun and destroyed by cattle ranchers.
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The Fighting Shepherdess
1928
A Lady of Chance
6.5/3
A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.
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A Lady of Chance
1926
The Fire Brigade
3.5/2
Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that he...
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The Fire Brigade
1919
Scarlet Days
5.8/10
Rosie Nell, a woman of disreputable dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged with the murder of one of her fellow entertainers. Bec...
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Scarlet Days
1928
The Yellow Lily
5/1
Archduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triumphs. After a lifetime of loving 'em and leaving 'em...
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The Yellow Lily
1927
Captain Salvation
6.8/5
A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standing in the community.
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Captain Salvation
1933
To the Last Man
5.9/19
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 Neva...
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To the Last Man
1930
In Gay Madrid
5/2
Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to ins...
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In Gay Madrid
1932
6 Hours to Live
5/5
A murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that...
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6 Hours to Live
1929
Mister Antonio
5/1
Antonio Camaradino, florist and street musician, befriends a man robbed of his overcoat and money in a disreputable bar. Tony recognizes the man as Jo...
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Mister Antonio
1919
Turning the Tables
0/0
Doris Pennington is committed to an insane asylum by her aunt, who hopes to take over Doris's fortune. Upon arrival at the asylum, however, Doris conv...
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Turning the Tables
1923
Anna Christie
5.5/2
A troubled young woman comes to live with her estranged father on the New York waterfront. A tough sailor falls in love with her, sparking conflict be...
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Anna Christie
1920
What Happened To Rosa
6.8/5
A fortune teller tells a store clerk with a romantic disposition that she was a Spanish noblewoman in an earlier life. The girl begins to live the par...
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What Happened To Rosa
1929
Speedway
5.5/6
Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son si...
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Speedway
1922
Kindred of the Dust
6/1
Discovering that her husband is a bigamist, Nan returns with her child to her Puget Sound logging town. She is treated as an outcast by all save Donal...
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Kindred of the Dust
1922
The Strangers' Banquet
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In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John Treve...
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The Strangers' Banquet
1918
The Eyes of Julia Deep
5.5/2
The Eyes of Julia Deep is a 1918 silent comedy-drama film starring Mary Miles Minter, directed by Lloyd Ingraham. The film is based on the short story...
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The Eyes of Julia Deep
1929
Illusion
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A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated with socialite Hilda Schmittlap. Meanwhile his vaudev...
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Illusion
1926
Kiki
7/2
Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job singing and dancing at a nearby theater. While she...
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Kiki
1925
The Circle
5.4/12
Elizabeth Cheney has a wealthy husband, social prominence and everything she could want in life . . . except Ted Lutton, the man she loves. She must d...
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The Circle
1928
Lilac Time
6.2/4
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome new...
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Lilac Time
1920
The Gift Supreme
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Bradford Vinton falls in love with a girl singer from the slums, but his father makes plans to break the relationship; when the plans fail, he disinhe...
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The Gift Supreme
1929
Thunderbolt
5.8/27
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and wh...
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Thunderbolt
1923
Her Reputation
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Discovering that he has only a brief time to live Louisiana plantation owner Andres Miro makes arrangements to marry his young ward, Jacqueline Lanier...
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Her Reputation
1928
Drums of Love
5/1
A princess is betrothed to a deformed monarch, but falls hard for his handsome brother.
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Drums of Love
1925
Confessions of a Queen
7/5
The King of Illyris marries a neighboring princess, who finds out he has a mistress, Sephora. Revolted, she turns to Prince Alexei for friendship. Tur...
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Confessions of a Queen
1919
The Greatest Question
5.9/13
Young Nellie Jarvis, daughter of a wandering couple, witnesses the murder of a woman by a man and his wife. Years later, "Little Miss Yes'm", as Nelli...
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The Greatest Question
1921
The Sin of Martha Queed
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Due to a misunderstanding, and the vicious streak of her relative David Boyd, Martha Queed is believed to be involved in an illicit affair with Arnold...
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The Sin of Martha Queed
1932
Scarface
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In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to pr...
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Scarface
1914
When the Night Call Came
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When the night call came, it found a young woman struggling with great emotions, the better impulses of her sex battling against the perverted sordid...
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When the Night Call Came
1911
The Blacksmith's Love
4/1
The Civil War has begun, and Mace Brewer goes to the front, leaving his young wife alone. His friend, Joe Saunders, also has to leave his aged mother...
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The Blacksmith's Love
1925
A Fool and His Money
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John Smart (William Haines), a hack writer, inherits a fortune from a distant relative and buys a castle in Laupheim. He pursues what appears to be a...
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A Fool and His Money
The Lonely Road
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Betty Austin gives up her dream of going to the city and marries Warren Wade, but she sadly finds him selfish and insistent on her acting like a "clin...
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The Lonely Road
1923
Enemies of Children
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A street waif of questionable parentage through circumstances is taken into a wealthy home where she is adopted and cared for until her marriage, whic...
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Enemies of Children
1930
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
5.4/7
Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position as she saunters through the woods, and attracted...
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Du Barry, Woman of Passion
1918
Little Orphant Annie
5.3/3
Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The...
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Little Orphant Annie
1920
For the Soul of Rafael
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Marta Estevan is ready to leave the convent where she has been reared. Dona Luisa Artega, mother of Rafael and the young girl's guardian, arranges a m...
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For the Soul of Rafael
1915
The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan
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Betrayal and duplicity in the deserts of the Pasha before a happy resolution.
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The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan
1927
Slightly Used
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Cynthia Martin’s father insists she marry before her two younger sisters Helen and Grace. So, she invents a husband for herself called Major Smith. Tr...
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Slightly Used
1930
A Royal Romance
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A young writer, John Hale, inherits a fortune and moves into an alleged-haunted castle with his servant "Rusty." He discovers the 'hauntee' to be Coun...
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A Royal Romance
1925
Bright Lights
0/0
Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an invention of his sells, he decides to take the money and...
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Bright Lights
1921
Molly O'
6.2/4
An Irish washerwoman's daughter falls in love with one of America's most eligible bachelors, much to the dismay of the girl's parents -- and the young...
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Molly O'
1918
The Sea Flower
4/1
U.S. Secret Service agent Truxton Darnley attires himself as a sailor and boards a schooner owned by arms smuggler Gus Olsen, who is in the employ of...
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The Sea Flower
1920
The Scoffer
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Dr. Stannard Wayne -- like all "good" men of the times -- is a God-fearing soul. He marries the former mistress of his friend, Dr. Arthur Richards, wi...
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The Scoffer
1920
Fickle Women
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Fickle Women
1943
The Voice That Thrilled the World
5.3/3
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from ear...
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
1915
The Circular Staircase
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The Circular Staircase
1926
Wandering Footsteps
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Wandering Footsteps
1927
When a Man Loves
6.4/7
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
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When a Man Loves
1913
Indian Summer
0/0
A Confederate soldier battles with amnesia, vagrants, and tramps as he makes his way back home and to his sweetheart, Virginia.
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Indian Summer
1922
The Rosary
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After his uncle dies, founder of the fishing village of Sandy Bay, Kenwood Wright is cut off with only some marshland while his nephew, Bruce Wilton,...
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The Rosary
1920
Seeds of Vengeance
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In the mountains of West Virginia, Alderson Cree is mortally wounded in an ambush by Kip Ryerson, after Kip's wife, Martha, seeks refuge at the Crees'...
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Seeds of Vengeance
1922
June Madness
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Clytie Whitmore (Viola Dana) finally consents to marry Cadbury Todd (Gerald Pring), but while walking down the aisle she runs out of the church and in...
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June Madness
1918
A Hoosier Romance
0/0
Pretty Patience Thompson, a "girl with a singing soul," lives with her cold-hearted and avaricious father, Jeff Thompson, on their Indiana farm. Her l...
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A Hoosier Romance
1985
Almonds and Raisins
0/0
This documentary examines the dozens of Yiddish-language talking films made in the United States and Europe between the release of The Jazz Singer in...
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Almonds and Raisins
1911
The Still Alarm
0/0
John Bird and Franklyn Fordham were once business partners, but because of Bird’s shady dealings they part. After years of success for one and failure...
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The Still Alarm
1929
Seven Faces
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A 1929 American pre-Code drama film with fantasy elements that was released by Fox Film Corporation in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system on Decem...
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Seven Faces
1915
The Carpet from Bagdad
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Horace Wadsworth (played by Guy Oliver), one of a gang of criminals also planning a bank robbery in New York, steals the titular prayer rug from its B...
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The Carpet from Bagdad
1923
The Rendezvous
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The Rendezvous
1927
The Night of Love
5/1
Montero, son of a Gypsy leader, is about to take a bride according to primitive ritual, when the Duke de la Garda demands his right as feudal lord--to...
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The Night of Love
1924
The Price She Paid
4/2
Mildred Gower (Alma Rubens), in order to sane her extravagant mother, Mrs. Elton Gower (Eugenie Besserer), from bankruptcy, shame and scandal, the you...
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