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poster How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns

How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns

11mn - Action, Comedy, Romance

A French aristocrat, who has recently arrived in America, has placed a personal advertisement in the newspaper...

poster Why Mrs. Jones Got a Divorce

Why Mrs. Jones Got a Divorce

This scene opens by showing a pretty cook mixing bread in the kitchen. Jones comes in unexpectedly from a trip and carries a dress suitcase. He inquires for his wife and is told by the cook that she is ab…

poster Mr. Jones at the Ball

Mr. Jones at the Ball

Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his long-suffering wife. In this film, Jones rips his suit…

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 Song of Old Wyoming

Song of Old Wyoming

63mn - Western, Music

In post-Civil War Wyoming, the formidable Ma Conway fights for statehood while facing threats from corrupt politicians and bankers. As publisher of the Laramie Bulletin and owner of a cattle ranch, she re…

poster Woman to Woman

Woman to Woman

82mn - Drama, Romance

David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married …

poster The Yawner

The Yawner

A top-hatted man gets dressed in the morning, and starts to yawn, causing his housekeeper to yawn as well. He sets off down the street where he proceeds to make others yawn as well, including a shop keepe…

poster A Romance of Happy Valley

A Romance of Happy Valley

76mn - Romance, Drama

John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several years he retur…

poster A Tale of Two Bunnies

A Tale of Two Bunnies

0mn - Short, Drama

Two small-town girls arrive in Chicago to find fame and fortune. Ruby wants to be a fashion designer; Holly simply wants a city salary to help out her family. Both girls' heads are turned by the chance to…

poster East Is East

East Is East

80mn - Drama, Romance

Victoria Vickers, a little East End Cockney girl, is left a vast fortune by an uncle in America. She is finally discovered hop-picking in Kent by her solicitor, who has given up the search and gone off on…

poster Broadway Love

Broadway Love

A small-town girl who goes to New York hoping to become a Broadway star falls in with a fast crowd.

poster Home, Sweet Home

Home, Sweet Home

55mn - Drama, Fantasy

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and…

poster Rent Control

Rent Control

95mn - Romance, Comedy, Short

Aspiring actors in New York try to keep the death of one's aunt a secret so they can stay in her cheap apartment.

poster That's My Wife

That's My Wife

Oliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal, with the condition that he be happily married. But when Mrs. Hardy walks out just before Uncle Bernal is due for a visit, Stanley is pr…

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 Eve's Love Letters

Eve's Love Letters

Agnes Ayres was apparently a star of feature film who is top billed in this one-off Hal Roach short. She does well as the woman at the centre of the story, but it's pretty plain that it's actually the com…

AWOL

A young woman in the Army must make tough decisions when her love for an older woman causes her to question just where she is going. Adapted from Deb Shoval's 2011 short film of the same name.

poster I Was a Mail Order Bride

I Was a Mail Order Bride

92mn - Comedy, Short, Romance

On a bet with one of his practical-joking partners, a Los Angeles lawyer responds to an ad from a pretty Chicago magazine writer offering herself as a bridal candidate as an investigative reporting assign…

poster Washerwomen on the River

Washerwomen on the River

1mn - Documentary

Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.

Suds

75mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance

Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that…

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