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Onze Filmsterren (1919)
Character: N/A
First episode of a series of reports on movie stars. Those seen include Douglas Fairbanks, Montague Love, Mary Miles Minter and James Kirkwood and various film studios.
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Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1 (1930)
Character: N/A
Film in the style of a magazine. Various topics, e.g. reading from the book "Ich lasse Dich nicht"; explanation of how a telephone conversation between Berlin and New York works; making a martini; sports teacher Siegfried Dietrich on gymnastic exercises; a sketch; a pop song; revue girls. Maria Ney hosts the program.
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Reaching for the Moon (1917)
Character: Alexis Caesar Napoleon Brown
A button factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famous and in "the company of kings". One day he discovers that he is indeed the only heir to the throne of a small European kingdom. However, there are forces at work who don't want him to survive to take the throne.
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Cupid Angling (1918)
Character: N/A
Cupid Angling is a 1918 silent film starring Ruth Roland and Albert Morrison, with walk-on appearances by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. It was the only feature film photographed using the Douglass Natural Color process.
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Character Studies (1927)
Character: Self (uncredited)
Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applying makeup and changing the combing of his hair or putting on a wig. When he tilts his head down during each supposed makeover, up pops the actual celebrity (Keaton, Lloyd, Arbuckle, Valentino, Fairbanks, Coogan) he appears to have been making himself up as.
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He Comes Up Smiling (1918)
Character: Jerry Martin
Jerry Martin quits his dull job as a bank clerk and falls in with a band of hobos. He takes on the guise of Bachelor, the "king of the market," and finds himself pursued by dangerous men who are after the real Bachelor. *Only fragments are known to exist. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
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Say! Young Fellow (1918)
Character: The Young Fellow
A lost film. "The Young Fellow"(Fairbanks), has recently been hired as a cub newspaper reporter for the New York Herald. His editor tasks him with unearthing "the facts concerning a scheme to defraud a group of minor stockholders in the town of Melford. Unless certain papers in the possession of an old bachelor(Neill) are delivered to a board meeting, the villainous financier(Campeau) will win complete control of a local company, and the stockholders will lose their investments. The Young Fellow enlists the help of his spinster landlady(Chapman) and the old bachelor's beautiful secretary(Daw) to thwart the evil millionaire.
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The Great Chase (1962)
Character: N/A
A rollicking compendium of the greatest hits of silent-cinema chase sequences
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Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary (1945)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in the series are featured, along with a montage of film greats who have passed away in the intervening years.
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The Many Faces of Zorro (2000)
Character: Self (archive footage)
An enjoyable trip that includes all Zorro's movies, from Douglas Fairbanks to Antonio Banderas with interesting comments of fencing and whip handling trainers. Includes interviews with Banderas, Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Z. Jones.
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The House That Shadows Built (1931)
Character: (archive footage)
A promotional documentary short celebrating the 20th anniversary of Paramount Pictures, complete with a studio history, interviews with stars, and clips from upcoming films–some of which never came to fruition.
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The Golden Twenties (1950)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.
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Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler (2005)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Douglas Fairbanks, the screen's great swashbuckler, charmed millions with his energetic athleticism, his boyishly handsome good looks, and his sparkling charisma. Whether it was fighting off tyrannical land-owners in "The Mark of Zorro," slashing the king's guards in "The Three Musketeers," sliding down sails in "The Black Pirate," springing in leaps and bounds in "Robin Hood," or riding a winged horse across the night sky in "The Thief of Bagdad," Douglas Fairbanks was in his element as an action hero of grandiose costume dramas. But behind all of his achievements on the screen, there was another side to Douglas Fairbanks and this unique biography will reveal some of that man behind the mask. So swing into action and swashbuckle your way through this documentary. This is one adventure worth telling.
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The Worlds of Mei Lanfang (2000)
Character: N/A
The true story of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star; a husband and father whose world-wide fame came from the portrayal of women. His fascinating life was the basis for the feature film Farewell My Concubine.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942)
Character: Self (archive footage)
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
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Mary Pickford une légende et une malédiction hollywoodiennes (2023)
Character: Self
Mary Pickford's name remains inseparable from the legend of American cinema. She invented the star system at the beginning of the 20th century, and was the biggest star ever known, not just in Hollywood, but worldwide, at a time when actors didn't even have their names on movie posters. She was more than a pioneer, she was a jack-of-all-trades: world-famous star, producer and formidable businesswoman, screenwriter and director in the shadows, studio boss, Mary Pickford alone embodied the entire legend of cinema and the advent of women in that particular era.
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Mary och Doug besöker Stockholm (1924)
Character: N/A
The world-famous stars and married couple Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks are warmly welcomed to Stockholm on the Midsummer weekend of 1924.
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Charmed Lives: A Family Romance (2028)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Sir Alexander Korda, one of the world's most flamboyant movie tycoons, rose from obscurity in rural Hungary to become a legendary filmmaker. With him were his brothers, Zoltan and Vincent, all living charmed lives in circles that included Vivien Leigh, Sir Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich, H.G. Wells and Merle Oberon, who was soon to be Alex's wife. But along with Alex's flair for success lies an equally powerful impulse for destruction.
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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and writers and other people who made life in this business, interspersing images of famous movies.
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Anthony Quinn: An Original (1990)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident. Thus began the story of a man who had a thousand jobs before acting in a Cecil B. DeMille film…
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
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Reggie Mixes In (1916)
Character: Reggie Van Deuzen
Eager for excitement, man about town Reggie Van Deuzen takes to visiting the rougher sections of the city in search of thrills. He meets and falls for a cabaret singer, but she turns out to be the inamorata of the local gang boss, who sends his men after Reggie.
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The Knickerbocker Buckaroo (1919)
Character: Teddy Drake
A lost film. Teddy Drake is a pleasure-seeking aristocrat who ends up expelled from his exclusive Fifth Avenue club for playing practical jokes and other rambunctious antics. He decides to reform his selfish ways and boards a train heading heading for the Southwest.
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Arizona (1918)
Character: Lt. Denton
A lost film. An Army lieutenant at a remote post in Arizona tells a young woman that he does not love her, so she contrives to marry his commanding officer, who is also his best friend.
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Flirting with Fate (1916)
Character: Augy Holliday
In the midst of an emotional depression, a man hires a murderer to kill him. But the despair soon passes, and the man must now escape the killer he's hired to end his life.
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Charlie Chaplin, le génie de la liberté (2020)
Character: Self (archive footage)
The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) used his talent to serve an ideal of justice and freedom. But his best scenario was his own destiny, a story written into the political and artistic history of the 20th century.
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Martyrs of the Alamo (1915)
Character: Joe / Texas soldier
A dramatization of the 1836 Texas Revolution, focusing on the buildup, the siege of Béxar, the defense of the Alamo by 185 Texans against General Santa Anna's army, and climaxing with the Battle of San Jacinto.
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Down to Earth (1917)
Character: Billy Gaynor
A healthy outdoors-type follows the girl he loves to a resort for wealthy hypochondriacs. In order to prove to her and the other patients that their "illnesses" are all in their minds, he hatches a scheme to take them on a boat ride, then get them stranded in the wilderness, where he can show them that they can live without their pills, doctors and "cures".
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His Picture in the Papers (1916)
Character: Pete Prindle
Pete Prindle wins the affections of Christine Cadwalader, but her father demands that Pete shall get a half interest in his father's food product company before they can wed.
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Dieu a choisi Paris (1969)
Character: Self (archive footage)
An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspects of all kind around Paris, starting at the end of the 19th century and ending in the mid-1960's. Jean-Paul Belmondo leads us through the movie starting as a young photographer around 1900, a reporter in both world-wars and doing fictional interviews with lots of celebrities.
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Reaching for the Moon (1930)
Character: Larry Day
Wall Street wizard Larry Day, new to the ways of love and coached by his valet, follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a 'love potion', work their magic.
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In Again, Out Again (1917)
Character: Teddy Rutherford
A young man drowns his sorrows in strong drink when jilted by his girl. His drunkenness gets him thrown in jail, where he falls in love with the jailer's daughter. When released, the young man tries everything to get back into the jail - though when he is mistaken for an anarchist bomber, he finds himself facing not just jail, but execution.
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Hollywood (1923)
Character: Douglas Fairbanks
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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30 Years of Fun (1963)
Character: (archive footage)
Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-white comedy clips featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy.
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Cinecittà Babilonia: sesso, droga e camicie nere (2017)
Character: Self - Actor (archive footage)
The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magnetic, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.
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Don Q Son of Zorro (1925)
Character: Don Cesar de Vega / Zorro
Don Cesar De Vega crosses swords with a vicious member of the Queen's Guard, and steals the affection of a young heiress. When the officer frames the young upstart for murder, Don Cesar fakes his own death and retreats to the crumbling ruins of the family castle, where he plots his vengeance.
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Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)
Character: Himself
While visiting Hollywood, starstruck movie fan Aloysius Babson fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure.
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940)
Character: Self (archive footage)
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel and more, with host Bob Hope.
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The Lamb (1915)
Character: Gerald
Gerald, the somewhat frail son of a wealthy New York family, is bested at the beach by Bill, a strapping young cowboy from Arizona. His fiancée Mary, ashamed of Gerald's "yellow streak", leaves him and goes by train to visit some friends in Arizona, with Bill in tow. Gerald follows them, and before long he and Mary winds up captured by Yaqui Indians and Gerald must prove to Mary that he is not the "weakling" she thinks he is by coming up with a plan for them to escape their captors.
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The Half-Breed (1916)
Character: Lo Dorman
Half-Cherokee-half-white Lo faces heavy ostracism from a nearby town, after he sets up his home in the hollow of a massive redwood tree. Romance sparks between Lo and the preacher's daughter, Nellie, which triggers intense jealousy and racism from Sheriff Dunn. The situation complicates further with the arrival of Teresa, a fugitive on the run.
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A Modern Musketeer (1917)
Character: Ned Thacker / D'Artagnan
Ned Thacker grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Musketeers. In hopes of becoming a modern D'Artagnan, he mounts his steed (a Ford Model T) and sets out across the West in search of excitement and adventure.
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The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
Character: The Thief of Bagdad
A nameless thief falls in love with the Caliph of Bagdad's daughter. The Caliph will give her hand to the suitor that returns with the rarest treasure after seven moons. The thief sets off on a magical journey while, unbeknownst to him, another suitor, the Prince of the Mongols, is not playing by the rules.
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Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008)
Character: Self (archive footage)
This documentary traces the life and work of the legendary "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, silent film star, movie pioneer and keen businesswoman. Pickford's life also parallels an even larger story, telling of the birth of the cinema itself.
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Propaganda : la fabrique du consentement (2018)
Character: Self - Actor (archive footage)
How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), a pioneer in the field of propaganda and public relations, knew the answer to such a key question. The amazing story of the master of manipulation and the creation of the engineering of consent; a frightening true story about advertising, lies and charlatans.
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Character: Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Judah Ben-Hur, a wealthy Jewish prince in Jerusalem, is betrayed by his childhood friend, Roman tribune Messala, and wrongfully sent to the galley slaves.
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When the Clouds Roll By (1919)
Character: Daniel Boone Brown
Daniel Boone Brown is a pleasure-seeking playboy carousing around New York City without a care in the world – that is, until he becomes the unwitting subject of a series of experiments at the hands of a sadistic psychiatrist.
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The Three Musketeers (1921)
Character: D'Artagnan
In 17th-century France, young D'Artagnan seeks to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Together, they become embroiled in political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Our Mutual Girl (1914)
Character: Self (episode 47)
Our Mutual Girl was unique. Not quite a serial, not quite a newsreel and not strictly an advertisement, it combined elements of all three. In 52 weekly one-reel episodes, running from January 19, 1914 to January 11, 1915, the Mutual Girl outwitted villains, saw the sights of New York, met with theatrical and political celebrities (who frequently helped her out of trouble) and tried on fashionable outfits in chic stores. The fashions were an early example of product placement, although apparently not paid placement.
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Headin' South (1918)
Character: Headin' South
A lost film. As described in a film magazine Exhibitors Herald on March 16, 1918: "a forest ranger known only as Headin' South (Fairbanks) goes forth in search of Spanish Joe (Campeau), a Mexican responsible for most of the treachery and outlawry along the U.S.-Mexican boarder. Headin' South gains quite a reputation as he goes along and finally believes himself worthy of joining Joe's band. in a whirlwind finish in which Joe is captured, Headin' South meets one of Joe's near victims (MacDonald) and falls in love with her."
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The Black Pirate (1926)
Character: The Duke of Arnoldo / The Black Pirate
A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he single-handedly captures a merchant vessel, but things are complicated when he finds that there is a beautiful young woman of royal blood aboard.
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Поцелуй Мэри Пикфорд (1927)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Goga is a Russian man who has no luck with women. He has a chance meeting with Mary Pickford, and after she kisses him on the cheek, he becomes as irresistible as her.
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The Matrimaniac (1916)
Character: Jimmie Conroy
Young couple Jimmie and Marna attempt to elope, with her irate father in hot pursuit. The train stops briefly and Jimmie dashes off to find a minister, but before he can get himself and the minister onto the train, it leaves, carrying his bride-to-be away. Now Jimmie, minister in tow, pursues Marna while her father and a horde of lawmen pursue them both.
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The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
Character: Don Juan
After having faked his own death and escaped Seville, aging lothario Don Juan returns, only to find that he's been promptly forgotten; perhaps a raven-haired beauty can coax him back into business.
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The Tramp and the Dictator (2002)
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940.
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The Mollycoddle (1920)
Character: Richard Marshall III / Richard Marshall IV / Richard Marshal V
An American who has lived much of his life outside the country returns to Arizona for the first time in years and encounters villainy.
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The Americano (1916)
Character: Blaze Derringer
American mining engineer Blaze Derringer travels to the fictional South American country of Paragonia to reopen local mines. Upon arrival, he finds his company's office ransacked and the country's leader, President Valdez, overthrown and imprisoned following a coup.
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Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961)
Character: Self (archive footage)
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
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Double Trouble (1915)
Character: Florian Amidon / Eugene Brassfield
Mild-mannered banker and church society president Florian Amidon gets knocked on the head by thieves while on vacation. The blow causes a five-year blackout and when Florian wakes, he's taken on the alter-ego Eugene Brassfield, an aggressive self-made politician.
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Wild and Woolly (1917)
Character: Jeff Hillington
A rich Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long gone and it is an orderly and civilized place now. The townsmen, not wanting to lose a rich potential resident, contrive to make over the town to suit the young man's fantasy.
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La naissance de Charlot (2013)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and the development of his enormously popular character, the Little Tramp, also called Charlot.
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Manhattan Madness (1916)
Character: Steve O'Dare
Steve O'Dare, a young New Yorker who has gone off to Wyoming to be a cowboy, returns to New York to sell some cattle. He bores his friends with tales of the exciting Western life, so they plot to trick him with a mock abduction. But although Steve falls for the gag, he ends up turning the tables on his friends.
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The Iron Mask (1929)
Character: D'Artagnan
King Louis XIII is thrilled to have born to him a son – an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him shipped off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D'Artagnan, off to a convent. D'Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her.
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Show People (1928)
Character: Self (uncredited)
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
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Robin Hood (1922)
Character: Robin Hood
The dashing Earl of Huntingdon excels in courtly life and jousting before King Richard departs for the Crusades. While away, Richard's treacherous brother, Prince John, seizes power and inflicts brutal tyranny on the civilians. Huntingdon transforms into the heroic outlaw Robin Hood, gathers his 'merry men', and battles to restore the true king and protect lovely Lady Marian.
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The Nut (1921)
Character: Charlie Jackson
Eccentric, accident-prone inventor Charlie Jackson is deeply in love with Estrell Wynn, a progressive philanthropist who believes that if the wealthy host poor children in their homes for an hour each day, it will reform the children into good citizens.
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Bound in Morocco (1918)
Character: George Travelwell
A lost film. George Travelwell (Fairbanks), an American youth motoring in Morocco, discovers that the governor of El Harib (Frank Campeau) has seized a young American woman for his harem. Disguised as an inmate of the harem, George nearly wrecks the place while he rescues her. One thrilling incident follows upon the heels of another in their attempts to get away, and it ends with him setting one tribe against another, leaving them free to peacefully ride away.
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Mr. Fix-It (1918)
Character: Dick Remington
A young man impersonates his best friend, and in doing so upsets the decorum at a stuffy family gathering and falls in love. The arrival of a gang of hoodlums further disrupts the formalities, but our hero thwarts them and saves the day.
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Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932)
Character: Steve Drexel
While cruising the South Seas with friends aboard a sailing yacht, it is wagered that Steve Drexel cannot survive on a desert isle without the accouterments of civilization.
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Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush (2003)
Character: Self (archive footage)
African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo (YAABA) discusses the influence that Charlie Chaplin has been on his work, along with archival footage of interviews with several of Chaplin's co-stars.
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The Mark of Zorro (1920)
Character: Don Diego Vega / Señor Zorro
Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
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Wilson (1944)
Character: Douglas Fairbanks - at WWI Rally (archive footage) (uncredited)
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2006.
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The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
Character: Coke Ennyday / Douglas Fairbanks
Scientific detective Coke Ennyday comes to the rescue of a damsel in distress, known only as 'The Little Fish Blower', when a drug smuggler plots to force her to marry him.
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The Man from Painted Post (1917)
Character: 'Fancy Jim' Sherwood
In order to find out who's behind a cattle rustling operation that's hurting ranchers, a detective for the Cattleman's Protective Association pretends to be a tenderfoot from back east who's just arrived in the area and doesn't know how to ride, rope or shoot.
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The Gaucho (1927)
Character: The Gaucho
A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. A shrine is built on the site, and a whole city grows around it, rich with gold from the grateful worshipers. Ruiz, an evil and sadistic general, captures the city, confiscates the gold, and closes the shrine. But the Gaucho, the charismatic leader of a band of outlaws, comes to the rescue.
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Le Livre d'image (2018)
Character: (archive footage)
In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the aesthetic spark through editing, the keystone. The author performs the work of a sculptor. The hand, for this, is essential. He praises it at the start. “There are the five fingers. The five senses. The five parts of the world (…). The true condition of man is to think with his hands. Jean-Luc Godard composes a dazzling syncopation of sequences, the surge of which evokes the violence of the flows of our contemporary screens, taken to a level of incandescence rarely achieved. Crowned at Cannes, the last Godard is a shock film, with twilight beauty.
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Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks (1931)
Character: Self
With the advent of sound, the world's leading screen idol, Douglas Fairbanks, experienced a downturn in his fortunes. His thin, reedy voice was not suited to the talkies, his marriage to Mary Pickford was on the outs, and his son, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., had replaced him as a major box-office draw. Faced with the Hollywood equivalent of a mid-life crisis, Doug called up three of his best friends - director Victor Fleming, cinematographer Henry Sharp, and production manager Charles Lewis - and took them on a six-month tour of Asia, ostensibly to shoot a travelogue for United Artists (of which Fairbanks was still a major shareholder.) Their first stop is Honolulu, followed in quick succession by Japan, China, Peking, Hong Kong, Indochina, the Philippines, Siam, and India. Fairbanks and company spend time at such noteworthy spots as the Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat, the Summer Palace and the Sun Yat-Sen Mausoleum.
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American Aristocracy (1916)
Character: Cassius Lee
A young man fights to overcome a piratical arms smuggler and to win the heart of a rich man's daughter.
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His Majesty, the American (1919)
Character: William Brooks
A European prince is raised in America without knowing his true identity; he spends his time thrill-seeking, but his country needs him when a revolt threatens the crown.
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Одна из многих (1927)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A young Soviet woman dreams of meeting her idols Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford while they're on holiday in Moscow.
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Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life (1998)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A biographical documentary about the great British actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), from rags to riches, from the slums of London to glory.
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The Good Bad-Man (1916)
Character: Passin' Through
Passin' Through, an unconventional Robin Hood-esque figure, robs trains or locals in whimsical ways—such as stealing a ticket punch or charging fines for watches—and gives the proceeds to single mothers and orphans. Initially driven by the belief that he was born out of wedlock, he uncovers a dark past involving a villain, leading to a pursuit of revenge and redemption.
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I, Douglas Fairbanks (2018)
Character: Self (archive footage)
The dashing and dazzling Douglas Fairbanks was the movie star who "swashbuckled in Zorro, dueled exuberantly in Robin Hood and soared magnificently in The Thief of Bagdad"-- He was the "First King of Hollywood".
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines the rampant sexuality of early Hollywood through movie clips and reminiscences by stars of the era. Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Marlene Dietrich and others relate tales of the artistic freedom that led to the draconian Production Code, which governed content from 1934 to 1968. Diane Lane narrates.
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The Taming of the Shrew (1929)
Character: Petruccio
Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.
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Solidão: Uma Linda História de Amor (1989)
Character: N/A
Pedro, a poor Portuguese immigrant, comes to Brazil to try to change his life, but ends up getting in trouble. He falls in love with the wife of one of his best friends and marries her; soon after, she cheats on him.
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Yesterday and Today (1953)
Character: (archive footage)
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953.
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The Habit of Happiness (1916)
Character: Sunny Wiggins
'Sunny' Wiggins believes in eternal optimism and good spirits, which places him at odds with his staid, wealthy family, who decide to get even when he blithely invites a group of derelicts to his sister's coming-out party.
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The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Character: Actor Arriving at MGM (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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Glorious Technicolor (1998)
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.
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