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Married Love (1923)
Character: Maisie
aka Maisie's Marriage, based on Marie Stopes book, a fireman falls in love with a daughter from a large family. When she refuses to marry and have children, she is estranged from her family, and after being imprisioned after a failed suicide attempt becomes a maid. Controversial at the time for its views on marriage and birth control.
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The White Sheik (1928)
Character: Rosemary Tregarthen
In the Sahara a British Riff chief weds a captured girl to save her from the tribe.
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The Unwanted (1924)
Character: Maraine Dearsley
A colonel's bastard son pretends his cowardly brother died a hero.
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Die drei Kuckucksuhren (1926)
Character: Gladys Clifton
Lord Ernest Clifton lives with his beautiful wife, Gladys, at Easton Lodge. He has lost immense wealth in the lap of his uncle's death. One day Lord Clifton receives a mysterious package with an even more mysterious letter from his uncle. Three cuckoo clocks that strike only once a month should show him the way to find the second part of the pot of gold buried somewhere. Ernest's thirst for adventure only awakens and waits for the first cuckoo clock to mark the room number of a hotel in Cairo, where the second cuckoo clock hangs.
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Roses of Picardy (1927)
Character: Madame Vanderlynden
In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
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Her Reputation (1931)
Character: Carruthers
A woman plans to boost her public profile by getting a divorce. She enlists the help of a male friend to act as co-respondent leading to a series of mix-ups and her eventual decision not to get divorced.
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The Game of Life (1922)
Character: Rose Wallingford
Silent historical film depicts the significant events of Queen Victoria's reign through the experiences of three young girls.
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The Eleventh Commandment (1924)
Character: Marian Barchester
An actress thwarts a blackmailer by taking the blame for her sister's compromise. Based on the play The Pillory by Brandon Fleming.
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Shepperton Babylon (2005)
Character: Herself (Archive)
A sardonic look at the dark secrets of the British Film Industry of the 1920s and 30s, where scandal and sordid behaviour was almost as rife as in Hollywood.
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Just for a Song (1930)
Character: Norma Wentworth
A jealous agent uses a girl singer to break up a double act.
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Many Waters (1931)
Character: Mabel Barcaldine
An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
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The Honeypot (1920)
Character: Alexandra Hersey
A Lord who intervenes to save the mistress of a notorious playboy from a suicide attempt. After rescuing her, he eventually marries her, leading to a dramatic shift in her social standing and life.
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The Faithful Heart (1922)
Character: Blackie Anderway
A naval captain returns and jilts a socialite to take care of his bastard daughter.
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A Royal Divorce (1923)
Character: Stephanie
Emperor Napoleon divorces his wife to marry an Austrian Queen and have an heir.
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La Proie du vent (1927)
Character: Countess Elisabeth
A pilot crashes and a beautiful countess of a castle nearby nurses him to health.
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Blighty (1927)
Character: Mrs. Villiers
A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
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Boadicea (1927)
Character: Emmelyn
The life of the Celtic Queen Boudica (Boadicea) and her rebellion against the Roman Empire.
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Tommy Atkins (1928)
Character: Ruth
A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.
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The Ring (1927)
Character: Mabel
Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.
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Little Women (1918)
Character: Beth March
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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Quo Vadis? (1924)
Character: Licia
"The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that taxed a barbaric world for a night of feasting and revel-- Re-created for your entertainment in the most colossal drama produced", reads an ad in the Daily Argus of New York. Unione Cinematografica Italiana's lavish production of the oft-told tale stars Emil Jannings as Nero.
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The Farmer's Wife (1928)
Character: Araminta 'Minta' Dench
Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.
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