Tag: Priority 4

Director: Lewis Milestone
Stars: Corinne Griffith, Louise Dresser, Lowell Sherman
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to marry, she comes to believe he is only after the wealth accompanying her new noble status. But truth, like true love, will not be kept secret long.

Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi, Cyril McLaglen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle Bill and brash Bert – meet and are attracted to the same woman on the same day at the same Underground station. But the lady chooses Bill, and Bert isn’t the type to take rejection lightly.

Director: Victor Sjöström
Stars: Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Lowell Sherman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Lucien, a French soldier, deserts his regiment, steals, and serves a term in prison for Marianne, the girl he loves. Marianne becomes a great actress, but after Lucien serves his time, she breaks her contract as an actress and they go away to live on his ranch.

Director: Bryan Foy
Stars: Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Mary Carr
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA

Two men are conned into bootlegging business.

Director: John Ford
Stars: James Hall, Margaret Mann, Charles Morton
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA

A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow’s sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany’s eventual opponent.

Director: George Fitzmaurice, Frank Lloyd
Stars: Colleen Moore, Gary Cooper, Eugenie Besserer
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

All of those handsome young men in their flying machines are billeted in a field next to the Widow Berthelot’s farmhouse in France. Her daughter Jeannine is curious about the young men fighting for England in World War I and their airplanes. Then one of the aviators is killed. His replacement is Captain Philip Blythe who can’t help but notice Jeannine. When he lands the first time, she is standing in the middle of his “runway.” She makes a more favorable impression when he sees her later by the lilacs. When all of the young men depart on a mission, Blythe promises to return.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Lina Basquette, Marie Prevost, Tom Keene
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Two teenagers, one an atheist and the other a Christian, fall in love at a brutal reform school.

Director: Marcel L’Herbier
Stars: Brigitte Helm, Marie Glory, Yvette Guilbert
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

The business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman, when he tries to raise capital for his company. To push up the price of his stock, Saccard plans a publicity stunt involving the aviator Jacques Hamelin flying across the Atlantic to Guyana and drilling for oil there, much to the dismay of Hamelin’s wife Line. While Hamelin is away, Saccard tries to seduce Line. Line finally realizes that she and her husband were pawns in Saccard’s scheme, and she accuses him of stock fraud.

Director: Anthony Asquith, A.V. Bramble
Stars: Annette Benson, Brian Aherne, Donald Calthrop
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks. Mae hatches a plot to kill her husband by putting a real bullet in the prop gun which will be fired at him during the making of their new film, ‘Prairie Love’.

Director: Fred Niblo
Stars: Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An attractive Russian spy seduces an Austrian officer in order to get some important plans, but when she actually falls in love with him, both of them are placed in a dangerous situation.

Director: Pál Fejös
Stars: Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, Fay Holderness
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?

Director: William Nigh
Stars: Ramon Novarro, Joan Crawford, Ernest Torrence
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Conflict ensues when a young man’s childhood sweetheart becomes betrothed to his older brother.

Director: Paul Leni
Stars: Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Roy D’Arcy
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA

A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Marion Davies, Orville Caldwell, Marie Dressler
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her elder sister’s boyfriend tries to make him notice her.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK

After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry, but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke, Robert J. Flaherty
Stars: Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.

Director: Tod Browning
Stars: Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician’s wife.

Director: Herbert Brenon
Stars: Lon Chaney, Bernard Siegel, Loretta Young
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A professional clown and a self-indulgent count learn to help each other with their problems, but then become romantic rivals.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When two childhood sweethearts are kept from marrying, misery ensues.

Director: Ted Wilde
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA

Harold “Speedy” Swift, a fan of Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, saves from extinction the city’s last horse-drawn trolley, operated by his girlfriend’s grandfather.

Director: Paul Leni
Stars: Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Julius Molnar
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA

When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: UK

A recently divorced woman hides her scandalous past from her new husband and his family.

Director: Hobart Henley
Stars: Marion Davies, Matt Moore, Harry Crocker
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Tillie the Toiler is a 1927 silent film comedy produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and released through Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios. It is based on Russ Westover’s popular comic strip Tillie the Toiler. The film was directed by Hobart Henley and stars Marion Davies.

Director: Boris Barnet
Stars: Anna Sten, Vladimir Mikhaylov, Vladimir Fogel
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

Natasha and her grandfather live in a cottage near Moscow, making hats for Madame Irène. Madame and her husband have told the housing committee that Natasha rents a room from them; this fiddle gives Madame’s lazy husband a room for lounging. The local railroad clerk, Fogelev, loves Natasha but she takes a shine to Ilya, a clumsy student who sleeps in the train station. To help Ilya, Natasha marries him and takes him to Madame’s to live in the room the house committee thinks is hers. Meanwhile, Madame’s husband pays Natasha with a lottery ticket he thinks is a loser, and when it comes up big, just as Ilya and Natasha are falling in love, everything gets complicated.

Director: Edward Sedgwick
Stars: William Haines, Joan Crawford, George K. Arthur
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

To impress a wealthy young woman, a clerk pretends he is a pro-golfer.

Director: Maurice Elvey
Stars: Estelle Brody, John Stuart, Norman McKinnel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A celebration of working class leisure activities at Hindle, Lancashire, during “Wakes Week”, an annual week still observed in parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire when all factories and schools take a holiday.

Director: Monta Bell
Stars: John Gilbert, Jeanne Eagels, Gladys Brockwell
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy he and his mother a house. He lands a position in a newspaper office and falls in love with the beautiful society editor, who is secretly having an affair with the married managing editor. She returns the young man’s affections in order to make her lover jealous, but finds herself falling for him.

Director: Rowland V. Lee, Mauritz Stiller
Stars: Pola Negri, Clive Brook, Claude Gillingwater
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

During WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Marion Davies, Johnny Mack Brown, Jane Winton
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Marion goes to college to pursue a handsome young man and discovers that he is coach of a women’s basketball team.

Director: Sidney Franklin
Stars: Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel, Helen Jerome Eddy
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she disguises herself as her own niece in order to test his loyalty.

Director: Jack Conway
Stars: John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Joan Crawford
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. While running booze into the U.S. during Prohibition, Jerry seizes Jane’s seaside home. When she tries to turn him in, he kidnaps her and her fiance John. Jane, now in love with Jerry, must watch as Jerry and Red shoot it out on board Jerry’s boat.

Director: Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle
Stars: Marion Davies, Owen Moore, Louise Fazenda
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A tavern worker and the daughter of a burgomaster enter into elaborate masquerades in order to win the hearts of the men they love.

Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Édith Jéhanne, Uno Henning, Fritz Rasp
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren’t done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas’s naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.

Director: John S. Robertson
Stars: Lillian Gish, Norman Kerry, Creighton Hale
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.

Director: Sam Taylor
Stars: Mary Pickford, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Sunshine Hart
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A 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.

Director: Alan Crosland
Stars: John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA

François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.

Director: Albert Parker
Stars: Gloria Swanson, John Boles, Pauline Garon
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young woman at life’s crossroads is granted mystic visions of how her decisions will affect her future life.

Director: Edmund Goulding, John Gilbert
Stars: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, George Fawcett
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A married woman compromises her social standing and family life when she falls for a young officer.

Director: Abram Room
Stars: Vladimir Fogel, Nikolay Batalov, Lyudmila Semyonova
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union

A married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. When an old friend of the husband’s arrives in the city, he is unable to find lodgings. Kolia, the husband, invites his friend to move in with them.

Director: Frank Urson
Stars: Phyllis Haver, Victor Varconi, Virginia Bradford
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart, kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch, John M. Stahl
Stars: Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A cloistered, overprotected Austrian prince falls in love with a down-to-earth barmaid in this “Viennese fairy tale.”

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Ivor Novello, Ben Webster, Norman McKinnel
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK

Public schoolboy Roddy Berwick is expelled from school when he takes the blame for a friend’s charge and his life falls apart in a series of misadventures.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK

Two boxers compete for the love of a woman.

Director: Ted Wilde, Harold Lloyd
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA

A sheriff’s milquetoast son has a chance to prove himself when a medicine show run by con artists comes into town.

Director: William A. Wellman, Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast
Stars: Clara Bow, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Richard Arlen
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.

Director: Herbert Wilcox
Stars: Dorothy Gish, Randle Ayrton, Juliette Compton
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK

An actress becomes the king’s mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman’s home.

Director: Sam Taylor
Stars: Beatrice Lillie, Jack Pickford, Doris Lloyd
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A maid who works for a traveling theatrical troupe wants desperately to be an actress, and manages to get some small roles in the company’s productions, but is determined to do anything she can to show that she deserves a shot at the big time.

Director: Clarence Brown
Stars: Norma Talmadge, Ronald Colman, Gertrude Astor
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

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 is there, she invites herself into the life of the revue’s manager, with whom she has fallen in love.

Director: Frank Tuttle
Stars: Evelyn Brent, Lawrence Gray, Louise Brooks
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The tale of two sisters with the older one pledged to look after the younger one that transpires between a department store, NYC’s Central Park and a boarding house. THe older one is the sweet, old-fashioned type and the younger is a jazz-age flapper who takes whatever falls her way. Mame, the older, goes on vacation and returns home to find that her kid sister, Janie, has vamped her way into the arms of Mame’s intended.

Director: Sidney Franklin
Stars: Marion Davies, Antonio Moreno, Creighton Hale
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Beverly of Graustark (1926) is a silent film directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Marion Davies, Antonio Moreno and Creighton Hale. The film’s screenplay was written by Agnes Christine Johnston based on the novel by George Barr McCutcheon, and set on the fictional land of Graustark. The movie features a final sequence in Technicolor. This was the first film by Sidney Franklin for MGM.

Director: Frank Tuttle
Stars: Eddie Cantor, Clara Bow, Billie Dove
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A 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.

Director: Richard Rosson, Lewis Milestone
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Eugene O’Brien, Helen Dunbar
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

In a run down New York Tenament, a chorine named Orchid lives with her overprotective brother Buddy, who sees to it that no uptown Casanovas get a chance at seducing his sister. At a New Year’s Eve party the two are separated in the festivities, and millionaire playboy Brian Alden meets her, and they start seeing each other. Against her brother’s wishes, Orchid, at Alden’s behest, takes charm school-type instructions on how to be a society lady, and she seems to be turning into a snob. Alden regrets it, and after promising to allow her to be herself, gets Buddy’s okay to marry her.

Director: Victor Fleming
Stars: Ernest Torrence, Clara Bow, Percy Marmont
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A 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.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Gary Cooper
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA

While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher’s daughter.

Director: Sam Taylor
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Noah Young
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.

Director: Alfred E. Green
Stars: Colleen Moore, Lloyd Hughes, Vera Lewis
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discoves that the contest was a scam and the job non-existant. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.

Director: William Beaudine, Tom McNamara
Stars: Mary Pickford, Roy Stewart, Mary Louise Miller
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Molly, 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.

Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Ricardo Cortez, Carol Dempster
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Geoffrey, a young and impoverished writer, is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his poverty, in his anger he curses God for abandoning him. Soon Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he has inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince’s hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn’t know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan, who is using Geoffrey as an experiment to show God that he can corrupt anybody.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Roy D’Arcy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Rafael Sabatini’s story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardelys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to…and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.

Director: George W. Hill
Stars: Lon Chaney, William Haines, Eleanor Boardman
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A gruff Marine sergeant and a handsome new recruit compete for the affection of a nurse.

Director: Fred Niblo, Mauritz Stiller
Stars: Greta Garbo, Antonio Moreno, Marc McDermott
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

An architect tries suppressing his passion for a seductive woman.

Director: George Fitzmaurice
Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, George Fawcett
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

The son of the sheik and a dancing girl fall in love, but when he is made to believe she has betrayed him he seeks revenge.

Director: John Ford
Stars: George O’Brien, Olive Borden, Lou Tellegen
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: USA

Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Norma Talmadge, Wallace MacDonald, Brandon Hurst
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been disinherited by his father, loses what little money he has left gambling in casinos and then dies, leaving her penniless and with an infant son. When her former father-in-law tries to get custody of the child, she leaves him with a couple she trusts, but when she later goes to reclaim her son, she can’t find the people she left him with.

Director: Monta Bell
Stars: Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel, Frank Currier
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Lights of Old Broadway (1925) is a drama film directed by Monta Bell, produced by William Randolph Hearst’s Cosmopolitan Productions, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel, and is an adaptation of the play The Merry Wives of Gotham by Laurence Eyre (USA). The film has color sequences using tinting, Technicolor, and the Handschiegl color process.

Director: George W. Hill
Stars: Marion Davies, Holbrook Blinn, Harrison Ford
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with the lad, and nicknames him “Zander”. When Mrs. Caldwell dies, the authorities decree that the boy must be placed in the same orphanage where Mamie was mistreated. Horrified, Mamie determines to see to it that the boy will be spared the same treatment that she had to suffer.

Director: Malcolm St. Clair
Stars: Pola Negri, Charles Emmett Mack, Holmes Herbert
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A sensual European countess arrives at a small American town where she quickly provokes moral outrage from the community. Upon arriving, even before she steps out of her taxi a district attorney informs her that loose women aren’t welcome here. Donning a cigarette holder she explains with a seductive smile that she comes from Italy and asks for directions to her cousins château. The femme fatales exploits include drinking, smoking in public, enticing men, wearing extravagant garments and boasting a tattoo of a skull on her forearm.

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Catherine Hessling, Charlotte Clasis, Pierre Champagne
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

After her father’s death and her uncle having drunk all the inheritance, Virginia is left alone. She is accepted by a family of bohemians but a quarrel between the bohemians and the peasants coerce her to flee the peasants’ riot. She is then helped by Raynal who falls in love with her but is too shy to tell her. Sheltered by his father, Virginia is robbed by her uncle of the money Raynal gave her to pay the bill in the village. He and his son then start to consider her a thief.

Director: Joseph Henabery
Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Casson Ferguson
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A penniless, skirt-chasing Italian nobleman finds love and scandal when he travels to New York City.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Madge Bellamy, Buck Jones, Zasu Pitts
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.

Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Stars: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Marguerite Harrison
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

The struggles of a hardscrabble Iranian nomadic tribe as they journey through bleak country to reach the grasslands that will save their livestock.

Director: Allan Dwan
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Lawrence Gray, Gertrude Astor
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A young woman dreams of becoming a great actress. When her boyfriend starts to flirt with an actual actress, she becomes jealous and decides to fight with her rival.

Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Norma Talmadge, Eugene O’Brien, Patterson Dial
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

After 40 years of struggle on the Wyoming frontier, a woman reflects on her hardscrabble life with her unfaithful husband.

Director: E. Mason Hopper
Stars: Marion Davies, Holbrook Blinn, Harrison Ford
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA

It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Washington. Fields is a comic, drunken British sergeant.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Eleanor Boardman, James Morrison, Johnnie Walker
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Unlike earlier generations of Marys who used every trickery to secure husbands, Mary the Third questions the validity of marriage in her search for adventure. Unable to decide between quiet, polite Lynn and aggressive Hal, she follows her suitors, along with sweethearts Max and Tish, on an outing, but an attempted seduction sends her home, where she becomes disillusioned by the quarreling of her parents. When they are reconciled, however, she regains her ideals and accepts Lynn.

Director: John S. Robertson
Stars: Richard Barthelmess, May McAvoy, Ida Waterman
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A crippled World War I veteran retracts to a small cottage in the countryside to escape from his nosy family and to hide from the outside world. There he meets a plain but also a very kind young woman. She reveals to him that the house he is staying in is in fact a very old honeymoon cottage. Spirits of newlyweds from the past, who are still swirling through the cottage, soon cast a love spell upon them.

Director: Fred Niblo
Stars: Ramon Novarro, Enid Bennett, Frank Currier
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Two young lovers escape their past lives to Paris until fate separates them.

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A shy, young man, who is completely incapable of talking to women, decides to write a book that details to other bachelors how to find a girlfriend.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Walter Slezak, Benjamin Christensen, Nora Gregor
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

Triangle story: painter, his young male model, unscrupulous princess.

Director: Marcel L’Herbier
Stars: Jaque Catelain, Léonid Walter de Malte, Philippe Hériat
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Claire Lescot is a famous first lady. All men want to be loved by her and among them is the young scientist Einar Norsen. When she mocks at him, he leaves her house with the declared intention to kill himself.

Director: Allan Dwan
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Tom Moore, Lilyan Tashman
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

Gloria Swanson plays Tessie McGuire, a shopgirl who, when her boyfriend breaks their date one evening, goes to a party with a louche crowd of artists and hangers-on. She wows them with some zesty mimicry, and so gains an introduction to a better-paying job, impersonating a high-toned Russian countess to attract snobby customers into a dressmaker’s establishment.

Director: John Ford
Stars: John Gilbert, Gertrude Olmstead, Alan Hale
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his love for Adele (Olmstead), the dead man’s daughter.

Director: Sidney Olcott
Stars: Marion Davies, Stephen Carr, J.M. Kerrigan
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.

Director: F. Richard Jones
Stars: Mabel Normand, Ralph Graves, George Nichols
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and she starts working in the props department of the studio instead. Her parents then come out to California and invest some money with a very shifty individual.

Director: Allan Dwan
Stars: Gloria Swanson, H.B. Warner, Ferdinand Gottschalk
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA

Zaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But when Zaza is badly injured, he has no choice.

Director: Robert G. Vignola
Stars: Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, Lyn Harding
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA

Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir faire. When Henry and his friends try to embarrass her at a posh resort, Prudence turns the tables on them.

Director: Robert G. Vignola
Stars: Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, June Elvidge
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir faire. When Henry and his friends try to embarrass her at a posh resort, Prudence turns the tables on them.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young woman marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman on her honeymoon.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Wanda Hawley
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Socialite Anatol Spencer seeks a better relation that he has with his wife. He sets up the friend of his youth Emilie in an apartment only to have her two-time him. He comforts the near suicide Annie only to have her rob him of his wallet. “Satan” Synne, the “wickedest woman in New York,” looks promising but she’s only plying her trade to help raise funds for her husband’s surgery. He decides to return to his wife, with all her faults, only to find her carousing with his best friend Max.

Director: Henry King
Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Gladys Hulette, Walter P. Lewis
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

When three thuggish men are responsible for the death of his father and the crippling of his brother, young David must choose between supporting his family or risking his life and exacting vengeance.

Director: Rex Ingram
Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry, Pomeroy Cannon
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA

An extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I.

Director: Victor Sjöström
Stars: Tore Svennberg, Tora Teje, Richard Lund
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

Two weary travelers come upon a monastery. While staying the night, they learn of its mysterious founding.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Thomas Meighan, Gloria Swanson, Bebe Daniels
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

Robert and Beth Gordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with Sally’s superficiality, Beth strives to improve her looks. The original couple falls in love again at a summer resort.

Director: Allan Dwan
Stars: Marion Davies, Norman Kerry, Matt Moore
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

A young woman must resist the charms of a handsome stranger and stay single if she wants to inherit a fortune.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Elliott Dexter, Gloria Swanson, Lew Cody
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA

Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed James looks pretty good.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA

Lady Mary Lasenby is a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person.