Biography: Dot Farley |
Actress/playwright Dot Farley launched her film career in 1912 as one of the earliest members of Mack Sennett's Keystone comedy troupe. Though she would leave Keystone after a few years, Farley occasionally returned to the Sennett fold in such roles... more
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Length: 60min
Popular Western star Ken Maynard donned the scarlet uniform of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer in this thrilling silent action melodrama. Assigned to catch a gang of outlaws, officers Bruce Kenton (Maynard) and Paddy Halloran (Edwin Brady)...
Cast: Duncan Renaldo
Length: 61min
Produced by one of Hollywood's few women executives, Fanchon Royer, this inexpensive "Zorro" rip-off features future Cisco Kid Duncan Renaldo as identical twins separated in childhood by an Indian raid. The remaining twin, Kenneth, later graduates...
Cast: Donald Crisp Leatrice Joy Dot Farley David Butler Charles Ray
Tags: Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 7rlmin
Popular leading lady Leatrice Joy was copacetically teamed with "fading star" Charles Ray in Nobody's Widow. After a whirlwind courtship, American gal Roxanna Smith (Joy) marries rakish English aristocrat John Clayton (Charles Ray). It isn't long...
Length: 53min
Yours to Command would seem to owe a lot to the popular George McManus comic strip Bringing Up Father. The story gets under way when a shanty Irish family suddenly strikes it rich and relocates to New York. As the father tries to maintain contact with...
Length: 7rlmin
Unable to utilize the original George Gershwin score, this silent version of the Broadway musical Lady Be Good concentrates on the "book" by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, which in itself was pretty good. Vaudeville magicians Jack (Jack Mulhall) and...
Tags: Melodrama
Length: 65min
William Fairbanks and Eva Novak star in this implausible melodrama about a cub reporter eager to cover a society scandal. Jack Darwin convinces his editor he can secure a photo of the elusive socialite Helen Van Dyke. He snaps the photo of a woman --...
The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926)
Cast: Florence Vidor Adolphe Menjou
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 70min
Though his career went into decline in the talkie era, director Mal St. Clair was responsible for some of the funniest, frothiest film fare of the 1920s. Based on a tried-and-true stage play by Alfred Savoir, The Grand Duchess and the Waiter stars...
Cast: J.P. McGowan
Tags: Drama
Length: 6rlmin
Better known for his good looks than any acting capabilities, former male model Reed Howes starred in this silent action melodrama as the ne'er-do-well son of a railroad tycoon who attempts to regain his father's trust by landing an all-important...
Cast: Wallace Beery Phyllis Haver Warner Baxter Lois Wilson Adolph Zukor Irvin V. Willat
Tags: Sea Adventure Drama
Length: 6rlmin
This Cape Cod melodrama was based on a novel by Joseph C. Lincoln. Calvin Homer (Warner Baxter) expects to be promoted to captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station, but Bartlett (Wallace Beery) is appointed because of his political connections....
Cast: Fred Thomson
Tags: Western
Length: 53min
Dashing cowboy star Fred Thomson donned several disguises in order to catch a gang of cattle rustlers in this, the third filmed (but first released) of the star's initial series for Andrew Callahan's Monogram Pictures Corp. Disguised as a paroled...
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