Jane mcdowell

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poster Smilin' Through
Smilin' Through
(3.6/5)
96mn - Romance, Drama
The story is essentially the same as the popular Jane Cowl play, with Talmadge in the dual role of Kathleen and Moonyean. Kathleen, a young Irish woman, is in love with Kenneth Wayne but is prevented from…
poster Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
(3.1/5)
13mn - Comedy
Max is a stage struck youth, and because of a deep-seated desire to go on the stage, refuses to consent to a marriage his father has planned for him. The girl, whom Max has never met, is also stage struck…
poster The Worldly Madonna
The Worldly Madonna
(2.6/5)
62mn -
Ms. Young portrays two roles. As Janet, a convent novitiate, she agrees to exchange places with her sister, Lucy, a cabaret dancer, who believes she has killed a man.
poster A Modern Cinderella
A Modern Cinderella
17mn - Drama
This Cinderella is up to date. She and her sister Jane receive an invitation to a reception. Jane, selfish and arrogant, is carried away with her own vanity and anticipation of making a "hit" and being th…
poster Salomy Jane
Salomy Jane
88mn - Romance, Western
When beautiful Salomy Jane resists the romantic advances of a young ruffian, she is rescued by Jack Dart, who has his own additional reasons for tangling with the man. Jack fights the ruffian and kills hi…
poster My Old Kentucky Home
My Old Kentucky Home
(3.1/5)
7mn - Animation
This 1926 Fleischer Song Car-Tune encouraged movie going audiences to follow the bouncing ball, or racist caricature, and join in on a minstrel classic. In this way, the short joined sentimentality, a sen…
poster A Simple Matter of Justice
A Simple Matter of Justice
58mn -
A powerful and moving piece documenting the lesbian, gay and bisexual movement in the early 1990s, A Simple Matter of Justice expresses all the emotions of the joyful protest that was the 1993 March on Wa…
poster Music, Forward!
Music, Forward!
3mn - Fantasy, Comedy
“Music Forward!” is the order given by a lady in Colonial costume, and in march a group of five musicians, working industriously at their instruments. The directress stands them in a row, and taking the h…
poster The World and the Woman
The World and the Woman
(3.1/5)
66mn - Drama
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 reluctantly takes a better position at a country lodge…
poster What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
(2.9/5)
93mn - Drama, Thriller, Short
An elderly, bedridden former movie star is "cared for" by her sister, who hates her and keeps her a virtual prisoner in the family mansion.
poster Annabelle Butterfly Dance
Annabelle Butterfly Dance
(3.0/5)
1mn - Documentary
Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dances. For this performance, her costume has a pair of wings attached to her back, to suggest a butterfly. As she dances, she uses her long, flowing…
poster A Nymph of the Waves
A Nymph of the Waves
1mn - Documentary
A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress - with ruffles, puffy sleeves and petticoats - dances across water with roiling waves behind her. She holds the edges of the ski…
poster Keeping Up with the Joneses: Women's Styles
Keeping Up with the Joneses: Women's Styles
3mn - Comedy, Animation
A domestic comedy about the McGinis family--husband Aloysius, wife Clarice, daughter Julie, and housemaid Belladonna. Pa is appalled at the latest fashionable dresses worn by the women in his household.
poster The Symbol of the Unconquered
The Symbol of the Unconquered
59mn - Drama
Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly …
poster The Vain Parlor Maid
The Vain Parlor Maid
(2.7/5)
4mn - Comedy
A housemaid is cleaning a studio. When she sees a sculpture of a nude woman in life-size, lying on a couch, she starts to compare this idealized body with her own. She takes off her clothes one by one, th…
poster Second Chorus
Second Chorus
(2.9/5)
84mn - Comedy, Romance, Music
Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance,…
poster Mirrors
Mirrors
(3/5)
98mn -
An aspiring Midwestern ballerina (Marguerite Hickey) struggles in New York as the only jobs she can get are as chorus performers. Her personal life is equally dismal.
poster Command Performance
Command Performance
(3.0/5)
84mn - Music, Drama
When stage fright threatens his legendary career, "The Street Singer" abandons fame and fortune to find solace among a traveling gypsy camp, where he discovers that love doesn't require an audience. A cel…
poster Glorifying the American Girl
Glorifying the American Girl
(2.9/5)
95mn - Music, Comedy
A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the latest hits. She is accompanied on piano by her childhood …
poster Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
(3.2/5)
78mn - Drama, Comedy
Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised by her wealthy Aunt Miranda. The little girl is treated …
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