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Tag Archives: 1920s
Miss Lulu Bett (1921) William C. de Mille, Lois Wilson, Milton Sills, Theodore Roberts
William deMille produced and directed Miss Lulu Bett, a film of extraordinary conviction and insight. Read More »
The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929) Bayard Veiller, Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, H.B. Warner
Mary Dugan, a Broadway showgirl, is charged with murder in the knifing death of her wealthy lover, and goes on trial for her life. Read More »
The Garden of Eden (1928) Lewis Milestone, Corinne Griffith, Louise Dresser, Lowell Sherman
Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Read More »
The Last Warning (1928) Paul Leni, Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Roy D’Arcy
A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously Read More »
The Unknown (1927) Tod Browning, Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford
Alonzo is an armless knife thrower and gun shooter for a circus—or so he appears. Read More »
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) Herbert Brenon, Lon Chaney, Bernard Siegel, Loretta Young
As professional clowns Tito and Simon are traveling, they happen upon an abandoned child Read More »
Three Women (1924) Ernst Lubitsch, Pauline Frederick, May McAvoy, Marie Prevost
A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Read More »
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) Sidney Franklin, Norma Shearer, Basil Rathbone, George Barraud
There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. Read More »
Cirano di Bergerac (1923) Augusto Genina, Pierre Magnier, Linda Moglia, Angelo Ferrari
Cyrano de Begerac is joyous, witty, a poet, a leader and filled with plenty of charisma and bravado in 17th Century France. Read More »