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Watch Him Step (1922)
Character: Dorothy Travers
Dick Underwood's desire to marry Dorothy Travers receives strong opposition from her father, and the couple decides to elope. Their escape is thwarted by an accident, however, and John Travers takes his daughter home, where she is courted by crooked stock promoter Jack Allen. Dick and Dorothy's second attempt to elope is foiled by Allen, and Dick lands in jail. He escapes, and a fight with Allen leaves Dick as sole contender for Dorothy. Allen is caught for misusing the mails, and Dick receives John Travers' blessing. The hero's athletic stunts are featured.
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Riders Up (1924)
Character: Norah Ryan - The Fiddlin' Doll
Johnny, a racetrack tout in Tijuana, is unsuccessful in his gambling but leads his New England family to believe he is engaged in a legitimate business. He finally wins on a long shot and intends to return home, though he dislikes leaving his sweetheart, Norah Ryan.
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Daughters of the Rich (1923)
Character: Mademoiselle Giselle
Maud Barhyte visits Paris with her fiancé, Gerald Welden, and her father. Sally Malakoff, Welden's childhood sweetheart whose marriage to the Duke Malakoff was arranged by her ambitious and title-hungry mother, entertains the three as her guests. By a series of misunderstandings Sally disrupts relations between Welden and his fiancée, causing Maud to return to America. Sally divorces the duke, and Welden, thinking Maud no longer loves him, marries Sally.
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Fight and Win (1924)
Character: N/A
Fight and Win is a 1924 American silent drama serial film directed by Erle C. Kenton.
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The Girl Who Came Back (1923)
Character: Belle Bryant
Country girl Sheila goes to work in a city department store. After a quick courtship she marries Ray Underhill, unaware that he is a car thief.
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Charley's Aunt (1925)
Character: Ela Delahay
Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.
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Stop Flirting (1925)
Character: Marjorie Leeds
On their honeymoon Vivian twice finds Perry in the arms of other women. Though Perry claims he was simply catching one who slipped, Vivian decides to teach him a lesson in fidelity. She begins aggressively flirting with every man she encounters, including a Scotsman, to make Perry jealous. To get back at her, Perry stages his own death in a plane crash, but when Vivian discovers the plane crash was a hoax, she is initially even more enraged. However, after a series of further misadventures, the couple eventually reconciles.
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Easy to Make Money (1919)
Character: Katherine Fowler
Jimmy Slocum, whose wealthy father continually pays his speeding fines and loses bets to him, wins a $1,000 bet with his father that Katherine Fowler, whom his father wants him to marry, does not love him. Jimmy then wins a $25,000 bet that he can keep from being arrested more than once in the coming year by getting a 12-month jail sentence for fighting in a bar, then sassing the judge.
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Roarin' Dan (1920)
Character: Susy
The girl is a school teacher in a cattle town, the hero a rather wild cowboy of good intentions but addicted to gambling. The girl saves him from a false accusation of robbery and this awakens his better instincts.
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The Hero (1923)
Character: Hilda Pierce
Oswald Lane is welcomed by his hometown as a war hero and enjoys recounting his adventures to anyone who will listen. He accepts an invitation to stay in the home of his rather colorless brother, Andrew, and is soon not only making love to Martha, the Belgian maid, but is also finding Andrew's wife, Hester, receptive to his flirting. After stealing money entrusted to Andrew by his church, Oswald is on his way out of town when he passes a school fire, rescues several children, and is himself seriously burned. Andrew offers his own skin for grafting, and Oswald directs Hester to return the money.
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The High Flyer (1926)
Character: Winnie
War veteran Jim is an airplane designer. His best buddy Dick steals his latest design. Dick wants to impress beautiful Winnie and sell Jim's plans to her father, a rich manufacturer, but Jim turns up at the right moment to claim his invention, and he wins Winnie.
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Oh, Baby! (1926)
Character: N/A
Billy, a diminutive manager of prizefighters, is priming Jim Stone for the heavyweight championship when Charley Burns (Arthur Graham?) discloses that for the past 8 years he has invented a mythical wife and daughter for the benefit of his Aunt Phoebe, who now requests a visit from them. He finally persuades Billy to pose as his daughter, Evangeline, while Miss Brennan, a magazine writer, consents to take the role of his wife.
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A Master Stroke (1920)
Character: N/A
Yale graduate, Yale Durant, facing financial ruin and contemplating suicide, discovers his fiancée's father is also facing ruin; he tries to save them but ends up in a perilous situation, getting caught up in a family feud and a rival's plot.
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Through Thick and Thin (1927)
Character: Ruth Morris
An undercover agent tracks a gang of drug smugglers to their headquarters in Mexico, a nightclub, where he manages to get a job as a bouncer. There he meets and falls for a pretty young woman, whose father happens to be the man the agent suspects of heading the gang.
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The Sign of the Claw (1926)
Character: Mildred Bryson
A German Shepherd police dog and his policeman master track a gang of bank robbers, one of which is the dog's former abusive owner.
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John Petticoats (1919)
Character: Rosalie Andre
John Haynes is known as "Hardwood" in the Northwoods town where he is the boss lumberjack. But his uncle bequeaths him a store in Louisiana, which he discovers to his dismay is the modiste shop. When Judge Meredith needs a graduation dress for his granddaughter Caroline, but can't afford it, John comes to the rescue by offering to board at the judge's residence.
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Lightning Romance (1924)
Character: Lila Grandon
Jack Wade is the son of a wealthy father who runs a successful ship-building company. He uses his athletic prowess to defeat the villainous competitors who are out to financially ruin his father.
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The Buckaroo Kid (1926)
Character: Lyra Radigan
Mulford sends Ed Harley to manage Radigan's rundown ranch. He makes a success of it but when called to return, he asks Radigan for a loan. Radigan says he can have the loan but not his daughter, but Ed wants both.
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The Texas Trail (1925)
Character: Betty Foster
Rangy Pete Grainger is a cowboy who saves a rancher and his daughter from being kicked off their property by the ubiquitous evil landlord.
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Maytime (1923)
Character: Ottilie Van Zandt
Ottilie Van Zandt is forced to wed her cousin, despite her love for Richard Wayne, the gardener's son. Richard leaves, vowing to return a wealthy man and eligible suitor for her. He returns to find she has already married and, in turn, marries another girl on impulse. Two generations later, the grandchildren of Ottilie and Richard, who both have inherited their names as well, meet and develop a close friendship that culminates in the romance that their grandparents began but could not consummate years before.
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An Old Fashioned Boy (1920)
Character: Betty Graves
David Warrington is an old-fashioned boy, not very familiar with modern girls. When the girl of his dreams lets her kiss him, he thinks that seals their betrothal. But when he finds out that she has other ideas, David tries a trickier method of winning her for his bride.
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Babe Comes Home (1927)
Character: Georgia
A baseball-styled sports filmed centered on Babe Ruth and Anna Q. It is considered a lost film.
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The Breath of the Gods (1920)
Character: Gwendolyn
While attending college in Washington, D.C., Yuki Onda, the daughter of a Japanese samurai, meets and falls in love with Pierre Le Beau, a diplomatic attaché. At the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Pierre is sent to Japan as attaché to the Australian ambassador. When Yuki's father discovers his daughter's romance with a foreigner, he becomes enraged and betroths her to Prince Hagane for political reasons.
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The Hope Diamond Mystery (1921)
Character: Lady Francis Hale
The true story of Lord Francis Hope who inherits the Hope Diamond and marries showgirl May Yohe. Lord Francis Hope gambles away the family fortune and May Yohe leaves him. Another suspected curse of owning the Hope Diamond.
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