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poster The Innocence of Ruth
The Innocence of Ruth
(3.1/5)
59mn - Drama
The young Ruth Travers, left an orphan after the death of her father financially ruined by Mortimer Reynolds, is welcomed at home by Jimmy Carter, a young millionaire who becomes her guardian. Ruth's wins…
poster A Child of the Ghetto
A Child of the Ghetto
16mn - Drama
After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She flees …
poster The Poor Little Rich Girl
The Poor Little Rich Girl
(3.4/5)
65mn - Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about he…
poster The Death of Richie
The Death of Richie
(3.4/5)
96mn - Drama, Short
A sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure from all directions and turns to drugs, which causes problems for him in school and at home.
poster Something to Think About
Something to Think About
78mn - Drama
Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a …
poster Hungry Hearts
Hungry Hearts
11mn - Comedy
Plump and Runt are starving artists who are both in love with their pretty model. Runt chooses money over love and marries a widow he thinks is rich. It turns out the model is the real heiress, and Plump …
poster Dangerous Afternoon
Dangerous Afternoon
(3.1/5)
59mn - Drama
The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.
poster Sugar Daddies
Sugar Daddies
15mn - Comedy
After a night of carousing, a rich oil tycoon awakes to find that he was married the night before. He calls in his lawyer to straighten things out.
poster Headin' Home
Headin' Home
71mn - Comedy, Drama
The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.
poster Raggedy Rose
Raggedy Rose
(3.4/5)
56mn - Comedy
Rose, who works for a penny-pinching junk dealer, dreams of romance with wealthy bachelor Ted Tudor.
poster The Exquisite Thief
The Exquisite Thief
(2.6/5)
10mn - Drama, Crime
Blue Jean Billie (Dean), a prosperous young woman crook who lives apart from the denizens of the underworld, has pulled off many robberies of the high society world with the help of her pal Shaver Michael…
poster East Side - West Side
East Side - West Side
(3.1/5)
60mn - Drama
Poor, decent young woman Lory (Percy) avoids moral pratfalls after she is employed by a rich family. She falls in love with the son (Harlan) but the couple is separated by his cruel, class-conscious mothe…
poster The Price She Paid
The Price She Paid
61mn - Drama, Romance
Mildred Gower (Alma Rubens), in order to sane her extravagant mother, Mrs. Elton Gower (Eugenie Besserer), from bankruptcy, shame and scandal, the young society girl is forced to accept the proposal Lemue…
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 …
poster The Gilded Cage
The Gilded Cage
11mn - Drama
The Gilded Cage is a simple tale about two sisters: the pampered favorite and the put-upon, younger stepdaughter, played by Stonehouse. When the elder spurns her lover to marry wealth, she learns the erro…
poster St. Louis Blues
St. Louis Blues
16mn - Music, Drama
In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sings the blues, with chorus and dancers.
poster Rips and Rushes
Rips and Rushes
14mn - Comedy
While Larry Semon does not star in Rips and Rushes, its confident gags and frenetic pace suggest his touch. In the knockabout one-reeler set in a dance studio, three suitors compete for the girl. James Au…
poster All Dolled Up
All Dolled Up
(3.0/5)
50mn - Comedy, Drama
The department store clerk Mary prevents a robbery at the store where she works, involving a necklace belonging to a rich unmarried woman named Eva Bandy. Later, she manages via a misunderstanding to prev…
poster The Wicked Darling
The Wicked Darling
(3.2/5)
59mn - Drama, Crime, Romance
A slum girl is forced to steal for a living. After she swipes a rich society's matron's necklace, she hides out at the home of a man who turns out to be the socialite's former fiance.
poster Saturday Night
Saturday Night
(3.4/5)
103mn - Romance, Comedy
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class differences lead to divorces and remarriages.
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