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The Confession (1920)
Character: Rose Creighton
A priest hears a murderer's confession but can't reveal the truth, even though his brother is being tried for the crime.
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An Enemy of Men (1925)
Character: Miss Ordway
Because of her sister's betrayal and subsequent death, Norma Bennett takes a vow to make all men pay. She becomes a night club favorite and is courted by John Hurd, who is the man who ruined her sister. Dr. Phil Ordway is in love with her, but she refuses his offer of marriage. When she discovers the identity of John as her sister's betrayer, she takes a gun and goes to the cabaret to shoot him, but he dies by another's hand. She then agrees and weds Dr. Ordway.
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What Wives Want (1923)
Character: Alice Loring
Claire Howard, neglected by her husband, Austin, succumbs to the attentions of Austin's business partner, John Reeves, to the dismay of Alice Loring, her sister. When Claire ignores Alice's advice to end the affair, Alice goes to Reeves hoping to reason with him.
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Harriet and the Piper (1920)
Character: Nina Carter
Harriet Field, living the Bohemian life in Greenwich Village, is tricked into a mock marriage with the unscrupulous Royal Blondin. She leaves him, taking a job as companion to the wealthy Nina Carter. Blondin reappears during a masquerade ball thrown by the Carters, makes advances to Nina but Harriet intervenes, bringing threats from Blondin to expose her past. When Nina’s faithless mother is killed in a car crash as she elopes with another man Richard Carter persuades Harriet to marry him for the sake of the children. She reveals all to her husband and Richard offers Blondin a hefty sum of money to stay out of Nina's life.
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The Ne'er to Return Road (1921)
Character: The Convict's Wife
A mother is waiting for her boy, not knowing that he is dead. An escaped convict falls exhausted at her door, and she gives him food and drink while the story is told, in flashback, of how he committed his crime. An unfaithful wife, a bar room, a dude and self-defense; these were the elements that made him a convict. The mother learns that it was her boy that he killed. Although the mother helps him to escape, the prison officials capture him.
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Alice Adams (1923)
Character: Henrietta Lamb
Alice (Florence Vidor) is not satisfied with her family's financial situation and tries to convince others that she comes from a wealthy family. In the end she discovers that she is only fooling herself and decides to go to work to help her father's failing business.
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Passion's Pathway (1924)
Character: N/A
After defending a mine in Mexico against outlaws Hugh Kenyon is discharged by his employer, who has been convinced by another that Hugh is dishonest. Unable to find work Hugh in desperation goes to the home of his former boss forcing his way at gunpoint. Confronted the mine owner realizes Hugh’s innate honesty discharging the man who falsely accused Hugh who gets his job back.
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A Million to Burn (1923)
Character: Sybil Mills
The owner of a resort hotel promotes Tom Gwynne, a college boy working as a waiter, to manager. As a result of his mismanagement, the hotel loses several thousand dollars. Tom inherits a million and buys the hotel to continue his experimental management, which is to give the employees time and opportunity for self-expression--to do what they like best to do.
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Youth and Adventure (1925)
Character: Mary Ryan
Reggie Dillingham, a spendthrift socialite, is challenged by his lawyer to support himself for six months; Reggie finds a job as a newspaper editor to keep quiet about a compromising photo of a powerful politician, but soon discovers his boss is involved in bootlegging and uses the newspaper to expose him, despite threats, with the help of his loyal staff, leading to the boss's arrest and Reggie's financial windfall.
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The Ladder Jinx (1922)
Character: Helen Wilbur
Peter Stalton, retiring as a bank cashier, is anxious that his nephew Richard Twing should succeed him. The directors, however, appoint Arthur Barnes, engaged to Helen Wilbur, the president's daughter. Being highly superstitious, Helen makes Arthur promise to cross back under a ladder under which he has walked earlier in the day. In doing so, he is accused of robbing a house and is pursued by the police. Passing the bank in which he works, he sees two robbers making a getaway just as the president and Helen arrive. Arthur pursues the bandits in their car, accompanied by Helen. They are arrested and accused of robbing Stalton's house and the bank, but Arthur is cleared by Sam, the Negro janitor, who exposes Richard Twing as the culprit. Arthur is freed and is happily reunited with his fiancée.
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Her Man (1924)
Character: N/A
Out on the range with William Fairbanks.
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The Northern Trail (1921)
Character: Jan's Wife
A thousand dollar prize is offered to the winner of a dog race, and Jan Ducet would have used the money to doctor up his little child's bad leg if he had won. But he lost; and the winner, Otto Franke, runs away with Jan's wife. A priest takes care of the little girl while Jan gives chase and finds the regretful woman in the snow. A fight follows and Jan hurls Otto from a high cliff and returns home with his wife.
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Parted Curtains (1920)
Character: Helen
A young man just released from prison can't find work because no employer will hire an ex-convict. Broke and hungry, he steals money off of a painter. The painter, however, takes pity on him and decides to help him get his life back together.
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The Inspirations of Harry Larrabee (1917)
Character: Carolyn Vaughn
Harry Larrabee, a young playwright, lives in the same studio apartment house with Carolyn Vaughn, a painter of miniatures, with whom he falls in love. "The Wolf," a famous criminal, supposed to be dead, returns and communicates with his wife, a friend of Carolyn's. He forces his wife and her brother to aid him in a plot to rob Carolyn of her valuable jewels. Harry, by one of his famous "inspirations," discovers that a crime is being committed, rescues Carolyn and bears her away in a taxicab. He is himself suspected of the crime, but, undisturbed by the web of circumstance by which he is entangled, his wonderful inspirations give him the key to the conspiracy which led up to the crime. In an unusual and powerful finale the guilty parties fight among themselves and justice triumphs in an exciting climax.
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The Love Brand (1923)
Character: Frances Collier
Frances Collier sets a love trap for landowner Don José O'Neil to help her father acquire his potentially oil-rich land, then falls genuinely in love with her victim.
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The Western Wallop (1924)
Character: Anita Stilwell
Parolee Bart Tullison becomes foreman of Anita Stillwell's ranch near the Nevada border. While Anita considers Bart a coward because he will not pursue cattle rustlers across the border, Jefferson Bradshaw learns of Bart's past and resolves to use it to end the growing affection between Anita and Bart.
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Trigger Fingers (1924)
Character: Ruth Deering
Sergeant Bob Steele (Bob Custer), of the Texas Rangers, is assigned to put an end to the lawlessness of a gang of outlaws led by a mysterious man known as 'The Black Hawk.' Hoping to infiltrate the gang, he poses as an outlaw named "Lightning" Brady.
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Fighter's Paradise (1924)
Character: Mary Martin
A young man who jerks sodas in a small-town ice cream parlor is at heart a coward. He is mistaken for Cyclone Carter, a famous pug, and forced into a fight. A fortuitous blow on the head changes him into a fighting demon, and he wins the admiration of the townspeople and the love of his girl.
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The Slanderers (1924)
Character: Ethel Davis
Widow and her two sons are targets for gossips of small town. The slanders continue until the older boy, returning from war a hero, forces the gossips to be quiet and respectful of his mother and his brother.
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A Fighting Heart (1924)
Character: Rae Davis
Jack Melford, the prize hurdler at a small college, wins a big race and learns immediately afterward that his father is near death. He returns home to find his father dead and himself penniless, his father having left everything to Dr. Dehli, the foreign specialist who treated him. Jack later discovers that the same Dr. Dehli is caring for Julia Cunningham, the aunt of his orphaned sweetheart, Rae Davis. Jack eventually exposes the doctor as a charlatan, revealing Dehli's plans to hypnotize Rae's aunt and force her to disinherit the girl. Jack also rounds up the crooks who worked with Dehli, winning for himself the love of Rae and the gratitude of her aunt.
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Rose o' the Sea (1922)
Character: Vivienne Raymond
Tells of a waif from the sea, who on the death of her guardian and protector, is forced to make her own way in New York. Her lack of guile and sophistication wins her a place and esteem. Entering a romance which involves both father and son, the girl is the pivot around which revolve petty jealousies, aristocratic conventions and gambling affrays. She eventually casts aside the worthless son and marries the father.
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Her Man (1924)
Character: Fern Burbank
Silent Western about a gal fighting the elements and villains for her man!
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The Cricket on the Hearth (1923)
Character: May Fielding
Tells of Caleb Plummer, his son Edward and blind daughter Bertha, and rivalry over neighbor May Fielding. May's friend Dot weds John Peerybingle; they find a lucky cricket in their cottage. A mortgage and house on fire figure in the story.
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Sheer Luck (1931)
Character: Mrs. Hiram Carver
Two milkmen foil a prohibition raid set-up; one finds romance with a society deb in the bargain.
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The Girl in His House (1918)
Character: N/A
When his sweetheart jilts him, wealthy James Armitage leaves his family estate in the hands of attorney Samuel Bordman and heads for Burma. Six years later, Armitage discovers that his former girlfriend has just become a widow, thus he sails back to America in hopes of rekindling the romance.
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Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918)
Character: Colette King
Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who comes from a rich family, and she begins to be drawn into the world of the upper class.
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Who Pays? (1915)
Character: N/A
Who Pays? was a series of twelve three-reel dramas, released between March and July 1915. Henry King and Ruth Roland starred in each episode, playing different roles each time, with a variety of supporting players who varied from one episode to another. Each episode told a complete and individual story, but they were all inter-related by a uniform theme. Although there were no cliff-hanger endings, each episode did, in fact, end with a challenge to the audience: Who was responsible for the misfortune of the principal characters? The titles of the twelve episodes were: #1: The Price of Fame; #2: The Pursuit of Pleasure; #3: When Justice Sleeps; #4: The Love Liar; #5: Unto Herself Alone; #6: Houses of Glass; #7: Blue Blood and Yellow; #8: Today and Tomorrow; #9: For the Commonwealth; #10: Pomp of Earth; #11: The Fruit of Folly; #12: Toil and Tyranny.
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The Empire Builders (1924)
Character: Katryn
Australian Rex [Snowy] Baker stars in this USA film. Rex as Captain William Ballard of the Territorials is sent to make a treaty with the natives. But he meets resistance from the Boers, still unreconciled to British rule.Love interest is Katryn van der Poel [Margaret Landis] Theodore Lorch plays Hendrik van der Poel Pinckney Harrison as Karui the king. J.P. Lockney as the friendly "treader". And as the "baddy" Fritz van Roon played by Jere Austin. After fighting and horse riding and rescues "Rex" wins the natives over to the British way of life, and "gets" the girl!
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Ashes (1922)
Character: Madeline DeCourcey
A young man in financial difficulties persuades his wife to help him blackmail a supposedly wealthy man.
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The Latest from Paris (1928)
Character: Louise Martin
The Latest from Paris takes place in New York's garment district, where business rivals Blogg and Littauer have been carrying on a feud for years. In the tradition of Romeo and Juliet, heroine Ann Dolan works for Blogg, while her sweetheart Joe Adams is employed by Littauer.
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The Miracle Baby (1923)
Character: Judy Stanton
Neil Allison is tricked into assaying some false samples from a young crook's mine. When Neil sees that he has been duped, a quarrel ensues, and Jim Starke, the youth, is stabbed by an unknown assassin. Neil runs away thinking he has committed murder and becomes the unwitting partner of the victim's father.
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Mr. Fix-It (1918)
Character: Olive Van Tassell
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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