Irene Rich

Irene Rich

From Wikipedia Irene Rich (October 13, 1891 - April 22, 1988) was an American actress who worked in both silent films and talkies, as well as radio. Rich worked for Will Rogers, who used her in eight pictures, including Water Water Everywhere (1920), The Strange Boarder (1920), Jes' Call Me Jim (1920), Boys Will Be Boys (1921), and The Ropin' Fool (1921). She often portrayed society women, such as in the 1925 adaptation of Lady Windermere's Fan and also in Queen of the Yukon (1940). In two of her last films she played a frontier wife and mother: She was the mother of Gail Russell's character in John Wayne's Angel and the Badman (1947); in John Ford's cavalry story Fort Apache (1948) she portrayed Mrs. O'Rourke, the wife of Sergeant O'Rourke (Ward Bond). In the 1930s, Rich did much work in radio. From 1933 to 1944, she hosted a nationwide anthology program of serialized mini-dramas, Dear John (aka The Irene Rich Show). Her leading man was actor Gale Gordon (who later played Lucille Ball's apoplectic boss "Mr. Mooney" on TV). Rich appeared in stage productions, including Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935) which starred George M. Cohan, the creator of the play, and later As the Girls Go in 1948. Rich has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for her contribution to the motion picture industry at 6225 Hollywood Boulevard and one for her contributions to the radio industry at 6150 Hollywood Boulevard.

  • Popularity : 2.296
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1891-10-11
  • Place of Birth : Buffalo, New York, USA
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Irene Rich Movies

  • 1940
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    The Mortal Storm

    The Mortal Storm

    7.2 1940 HD

    The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided...

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  • 1947
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    Angel and the Badman

    Angel and the Badman

    6.3 1947 HD

    Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family...

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  • 1921
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    Desperate Trails

    Desperate Trails

    4 1921 HD

    Bart Carson is in love with Lou and even goes to jail to save Walter A. Walker, a man she says is her brother but who is really a husband who has...

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  • 1929
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    Daughters of Desire

    Daughters of Desire

    1 1929 HD

    When widowed attorney Richard Tucker refuses to defend bootlegger Julius Molnar in court, the latter swears revenge. Tucker pays no heed to Molnar,...

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  • 1919
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    The Lone Star Ranger

    The Lone Star Ranger

    1 1919 HD

    In this western, William Farnum plays yet another Zane Grey character. Duane Steele (Farnum) is a Texas Ranger who is determined to get the outlaws...

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  • 1931
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    The Champ

    The Champ

    7.037 1931 HD

    A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.

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  • 1948
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    Fort Apache

    Fort Apache

    6.988 1948 HD

    Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his....

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  • 1921
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    The Poverty of Riches

    The Poverty of Riches

    1 1921 HD

    John and Katherine Colby decide to put off parenthood until he has become wealthy. Their friends, Tom and Grace Donaldson, decide to start a family...

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  • 1928
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    The Perfect Crime

    The Perfect Crime

    1 1928 HD

    A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.

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  • 1927
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    Don't Tell the Wife

    Don't Tell the Wife

    1 1927 HD

    The Carters, a nouveau riche couple from Peoria, Illinois, decide to take a trip to Europe in the company of John Carter's best friend Henry. While...

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  • 1918
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    The Girl in His House

    The Girl in His House

    1 1918 HD

    When his sweetheart jilts him, wealthy James Armitage leaves his family estate in the hands of attorney Samuel Bordman and heads for Burma. Six years...

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  • 1928
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    Ned McCobb's Daughter

    Ned McCobb's Daughter

    1 1928 HD

    Carol runs a restaurant out of her house, while her husband George collects the ferry's tolls. Unbeknownst to Carol, George is allowing his...

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  • 1923
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    Snowdrift

    Snowdrift

    1 1923 HD

    A Northwest melodrama about a mining engineer who loses his money gambling in the Yukon.

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  • 1931
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    Five and Ten

    Five and Ten

    6.3 1931 HD

    John owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though...

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  • 1947
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    New Orleans

    New Orleans

    6.6 1947 HD

    A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody...

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  • 1940
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    The Lady in Question

    The Lady in Question

    6.6 1940 HD

    When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.

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  • 1919
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    The Blue Bonnet

    The Blue Bonnet

    1 1919 HD

    As an infant, Ruth Drake was stolen from her father by her vengeful mother, and then abandoned. She was adopted and raised by a pawnbroker, and as a...

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  • 1921
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    A Voice in the Dark

    A Voice in the Dark

    1 1921 HD

    The solution to a murder hinges on two witnesses: a deaf woman and a blind man.

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  • 1942
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    This Time for Keeps

    This Time for Keeps

    6 1942 HD

    A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult.

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  • 1925
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    Lady Windermere's Fan

    Lady Windermere's Fan

    6.757 1925 HD

    A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.

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  • 1929
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    Shanghai Rose

    Shanghai Rose

    1 1929 HD

    Shanghai Rose is the proprietress of a gin mill which doubles as a bordello. A murder occurs, and she is put on trial for her life. A series of...

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  • 1924
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    Beau Brummel

    Beau Brummel

    6.8 1924 HD

    George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she...

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  • 1920
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    Stop Thief

    Stop Thief

    1 1920 HD

    When Jack Dougan and Snatcher Nell, partners in crime as well as love, decide to purloin the gifts at the wedding of Madge Carr to James Cluney, Nell...

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  • 1931
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    Beau Ideal

    Beau Ideal

    4.4 1931 HD

    An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.

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  • 1947
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    Calendar Girl

    Calendar Girl

    5.9 1947 HD

    Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an artist, go to New York City to make their fortune....

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  • 1922
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    The Ropin' Fool

    The Ropin' Fool

    6 1922 HD

    "Ropes" Reilly shows off his impressive roping skills, then runs afoul of the local townsfolk.

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  • 1932
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    Her Mad Night

    Her Mad Night

    1 1932 HD

    A woman is accused of murdering a man who molested her young daughter.

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  • 1932
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    Manhattan Tower

    Manhattan Tower

    6 1932 HD

    The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.

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  • 1924
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    Captain January

    Captain January

    6.5 1924 HD

    During a tempestuous storm, a lighthouse keeper finds an infant girl who washes ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become...

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  • 1932
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    Down To Earth

    Down To Earth

    7 1932 HD

    Husband and father Will Rogers tells his spoiled wife and children that they have to economize.

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  • 1940
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    Queen of the Yukon

    Queen of the Yukon

    5 1940 HD

    The owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman who attempts to steal claims from local miners.

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  • 1939
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    Everybody's Hobby

    Everybody's Hobby

    5.7 1939 HD

    A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.

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  • 1929
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    They Had to See Paris

    They Had to See Paris

    5.6 1929 HD

    Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get...

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  • 1923
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    Lucretia Lombard

    Lucretia Lombard

    5 1923 HD

    Lucretia Morgan has been married to an old man for the past seven years. The marriage is loveless but the whole time Lucretia has been a devoted...

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  • 1938
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    Hollywood Handicap

    Hollywood Handicap

    4.5 1938 HD

    A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at...

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  • 1928
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    Craig's Wife

    Craig's Wife

    1 1928 HD

    Harriet Craig, whose obsession with material possessions and immaculate neatness results in misery for all concerned. Harriet's husband remains...

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  • 1931
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    Strangers May Kiss

    Strangers May Kiss

    5.1 1931 HD

    After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the...

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  • 1920
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    Water, Water, Everywhere

    Water, Water, Everywhere

    1 1920 HD

    Cowboy Billy Fortune is in love with Hope Beecher, who prefers Billy's friend Ben Morgan, but resists his advances because of his fondness for drink....

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  • 1920
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    Jes' Call Me Jim

    Jes' Call Me Jim

    5.8 1920 HD

    Happy-go-lucky Jim Fenton is in love with Miss Butterworth, the town milliner, who is taking care of little Harry Benedict while his father Paul, an...

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  • 1921
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    Boys Will Be Boys

    Boys Will Be Boys

    1 1921 HD

    Peep O'Day, an orphan in a small Kentucky town, falls heir to a small fortune and begins to make up for all the lost pleasure of childhood, but...

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  • 1921
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    A Tale of Two Worlds

    A Tale of Two Worlds

    5.5 1921 HD

    A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.

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  • 1924
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    Cytherea

    Cytherea

    1 1924 HD

    Lee Randon, weary of business duties and a conventional home life, acquires a long-lost sense of excitement and romance with young flapper Claire...

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  • 1927
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    The Desired Woman

    The Desired Woman

    1 1927 HD

    The beautiful and cultured Lady Diana Whitney marries Captain Maxwell of the British Army. When he is transferred to the Sahara, life at his remote...

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  • 1931
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    The Mad Parade

    The Mad Parade

    6 1931 HD

    The story of eight women and how they served their country during World War I.

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  • 1923
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    Defying Destiny

    Defying Destiny

    5.5 1923 HD

    Set in the small town of Riverdale, Defying Destiny opens with Jack Fenton (Monte Blue) being scarred while saving the life of his sweetheart Beth...

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  • 1926
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    Silken Shackles

    Silken Shackles

    1 1926 HD

    The wife of an American diplomat falls in love with a young Hungarian violinist.

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  • 1940
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    Keeping Company

    Keeping Company

    6.4 1940 HD

    Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.

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  • 1941
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    Three Sons o' Guns

    Three Sons o' Guns

    5 1941 HD

    Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.

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  • 1923
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    Rosita

    Rosita

    6.5 1923 HD

    The King tosses Rosita in jail and when Don Diego, who Rosita loves, tries to defend her, he too is thrown in jail. While Don Diego is sentenced to...

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  • 1925
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    Compromise

    Compromise

    1 1925 HD

    Compromise is a silent film drama produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Alan Crosland. The film is now thought to be a lost film.

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  • 1930
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    Check and Double Check

    Check and Double Check

    5.3 1930 HD

    Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a...

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  • 1922
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    The Trap

    The Trap

    5.2 1922 HD

    A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.

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  • 1938
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    That Certain Age

    That Certain Age

    5 1938 HD

    Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send...

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  • 1930
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    On Your Back

    On Your Back

    1 1930 HD

    On Your Back is a 1930 American drama film directed by Guthrie McClintic and written by Howard J. Green. The film stars Irene Rich, Raymond Hackett,...

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  • 1918
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    A Law Unto Herself

    A Law Unto Herself

    1 1918 HD

    The daughter of a wealthy French vintner, Justine is promised in marriage to German aristocrat Kurt Von Klassner, even though her heart belongs to...

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  • 1920
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    The Street Called Straight

    The Street Called Straight

    1 1920 HD

    Directed by Wallace Worsley.

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  • 1923
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    Michael O'Halloran

    Michael O'Halloran

    1 1923 HD

    Orphan newsboy Michael O'Halloran "adopts" Peaches, a little crippled girl, when her grandmother's death leaves her alone in the world. A chance...

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  • 1931
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    Father's Son

    Father's Son

    1 1931 HD

    Young Bill Emory is a typical mischievous, rambunctious boy, but his father William is a strict disciplinarian, and Bill is constantly being punished...

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  • 1926
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    The Honeymoon Express

    The Honeymoon Express

    1 1926 HD

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  • 1928
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    Women They Talk About

    Women They Talk About

    1 1928 HD

    Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequences, starring Irene Rich, directed by Lloyd Bacon...

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  • 1920
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    Godless Men

    Godless Men

    1 1920 HD

    On board his trading schooner in the South Pacific, tough sea captain Black Pawl confronts his own son, who has grown up in his father's shadow and...

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  • 1928
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    Fashion News

    Fashion News

    5 1928 HD

    Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.

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  • 1919
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    A Man in the Open

    A Man in the Open

    1 1919 HD

    Sailor Jesse, shipwrecked off the Texas coast, naively becomes involved with a cattle rustler. Because the sheriff believes in his innocence, Jesse...

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  • 1923
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    Brass

    Brass

    3 1923 HD

    With her marriage on the verge of breaking up, a young wife attempts to win back the love of her husband and child.

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  • 1931
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    Wicked

    Wicked

    1 1931 HD

    Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.

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  • 1926
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    My Official Wife

    My Official Wife

    1 1926 HD

    A glittering drama of Imperial Russia in the days before the Revolution and the reckless life of the aristocracy in the days of the Czar, featuring...

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  • 1922
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    Brawn of the North

    Brawn of the North

    1 1922 HD

    Brawn, played by Strongheart, rescues a young woman from a snowstorm and a human killer.

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  • 1930
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    So This Is London

    So This Is London

    7 1930 HD

    Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man with a profound distaste for everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family. When...

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  • 1919
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    The Spite Bride

    The Spite Bride

    1 1919 HD

    Tessa Doyle, an innocent country girl who has come to New York and joined a vaudeville sister act, becomes embroiled in a scheme to earn money at her...

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  • 1924
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    Being Respectable

    Being Respectable

    1 1924 HD

    Wealthy young Charles Carpenter is pressured by his family to marry Suzanne, even though he is really in love with young "flapper" Valerie. He gives...

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  • 1922
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    One Clear Call

    One Clear Call

    1 1922 HD

    An outcast who runs a road house of ill repute leads his mother to believe him dead. His only friend, a doctor, falls for a married woman.

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  • 1923
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    Dangerous Trails

    Dangerous Trails

    1 1923 HD

    A mounted police inspector battles not only a gang of opium smugglers but also a haughty society belle

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  • 1928
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    Beware of Married Men

    Beware of Married Men

    1 1928 HD

    A press sheet printed in Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World in 1928 put forth the suggestion that “people in the need of a good hearty...

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  • 1927
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    The Climbers

    The Climbers

    1 1927 HD

    The Duchess of Aragon is wooed by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, much to the displeasure of his mistress Countess Veya, who forces the Duchess out of...

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  • 1939
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    The Right Way

    The Right Way

    1 1939 HD

    A young boy whose father is dead joins a secret society that, unknown to him, has subversive motives. His mother realizes the menace represented by...

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  • 1925
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    The Pleasure Buyers

    The Pleasure Buyers

    1 1925 HD

    Joan Wiswell, Ted Workman, and wholesome Helen Ripley are among the half-dozen or more suspects, all for good reasons of their own, murdered a...

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  • 1925
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    The Man Without a Conscience

    The Man Without a Conscience

    1 1925 HD

    Ruthlessly determined to succeed at any cost, Amos Mason ( Willard Louis ) comes to New York with his fiancee, Ann Sherman ( June Marlowe ). By...

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  • 1924
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    This Woman

    This Woman

    1 1924 HD

    This Woman is a 1924 American drama film directed by Phil Rosen, written by Louis D. Lighton and Hope Loring, and starring Irene Rich, Ricardo...

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  • 1923
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    Boy of Mine

    Boy of Mine

    1 1923 HD

    A wealthy banker is a strict disciplinarian with his nine-year-old son Bill. Finally the day comes when neither Bill nor his mother can put up any...

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  • 1922
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    A Fool There Was

    A Fool There Was

    1 1922 HD

    A respectable businessman leaves his wife and daughter for the clutches of a cold, heartbreaking female.

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  • 1924
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    Pal o' Mine

    Pal o' Mine

    1 1924 HD

    Opera singer Julia Montfort (Irene Rich) returns to the stage when her husband, Verdugo Montford (Josef Swickard) loses his job...and then gives him...

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  • 1919
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    The Silver Girl

    The Silver Girl

    1 1919 HD

    Jefferson Hunter (Frank Keenan) is a Western mining man. Anne Kepple (Catherine Adams) has inherited the mine next to his, but a loan shark steals it...

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  • 1925
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    My Wife and I

    My Wife and I

    1 1925 HD

    In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both compete for the affections of a pretty young...

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  • 1948
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    Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc

    6.039 1948 HD

    In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of...

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  • 1927
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    The Silver Slave

    The Silver Slave

    1 1927 HD

    Bernice Randall, who has forsaken the love of her sweetheart, Tom Richards, to marry for wealth, turns down Richards' proposal after the death of her...

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  • 1925
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    Eve's Lover

    Eve's Lover

    1 1925 HD

    Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar to marry Eve so he can...

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  • 1920
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    The Strange Boarder

    The Strange Boarder

    1 1920 HD

    Honest Arizona rancher Sam Gardner, goes with his motherless son Billy to the city, where he is cheated out of ten thousand dollars by a band of...

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  • 1928
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    Powder My Back

    Powder My Back

    1 1928 HD

    Rex Hale, a reform mayor, closes the musical comedy "Powder My Back" because he feels that it is immoral. Indignant, Fritzi Foy, star of the comedy,...

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