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The production vindicated the new feature-length movie format by restoring several characters, plot complications, and atmosphere that had been...

Audrey Munson (a real-life 'perfect' model for numerous Beaux-Arts sculptors) first appeared artistically nude as a sculptor's model, recreating...

The banker's motto was "Everyone for himself, and me first." The girl believed in aiding the poor, and that wealth carried with it an obligation to...

Adele has grown up in a tenement, but she longs for greater things. She gets her chance at the stage when her mother runs into an old friend,...

Born in a prospector's camp, orphaned by a flood and taken care of by relatives to whom she was unwelcome, Mercy grew up dodging blows and curses...

In "The World and the Woman", Jeanne Eagels plays Mary, a prostitute (which is implied by her walking the streets and being hassled by policemen) who...

The Woman Pays is a 1914 silent film

The Thanhouser Co. has reissued a number of its surviving films on video. FIRES OF YOUTH existed at around 52 minutes in its original release. A...

A young Russian woman escapes persecution in her country and makes her way to the United States. Shortly after her arrival she meets an American...

A series of flashbacks where a penniless, friendless tramp and his dog relates the story of his downfall due to drink.

A silent film drama directed by Carroll Fleming.

A foundling is raised in a convent and becomes a nun there, until she falls in love with a wounded soldier under her care. When she leaves the...

Convicted in a revolutionary conspiracy, a man rashly states that he wishes never again to hear the name of the United States of America. The judge...

The film's heroine is a dancer of world-wide reputation who, in the days of her struggle, has offended the story's villain.

Little Helen, Mayor Southwick's child, straying away from an automobile party, gets lost in the woods. She comes to the house where the her father's...

With her week's wash only half done, Diana drops her work to peruse the Paris fashion magazines. Poring over the beautiful fashions delineated in the...

Comedy about a down-and-out vaudeville team who attempt Shakespeare and destroy their career.

One little girl lived in the country. She was a model child, everybody admitted it, but it cannot be denied that she was more or less of a cry-baby...

A one-reel crime drama with crooks, ruses, kidnapping, escape, and a twist, all wrapped in a coherent narrative.

Nello was a little boy who lived with his aged grandfather near Antwerp. They were very poor, but because they loved each other so much were happier...