Albert Gran

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Soft Cushions
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Soft Cushions

Aug 27, 1927
Douglas MacLean stars as The Young Thief, who falls in love with The Girl, played by Sue Carol. Alas, the Girl has been sold into the harem of The Wazir (Albert Prisco), forcing the Thief to sneak into the palace to rescue her.
Adventure
Hula
5.6

Hula

Aug 28, 1927
The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer.
Romance
Civilian Clothes
1

Civilian Clothes

Sep 05, 1920
During the First World War, Captain Sam McGinnis marries Florence Lanham, a Salvation Army worker in France. When she mistakenly hears that Sam has been killed, she returns home to her wealthy family without mentioning her brief marriage. But Sam turns up, alive but poorly dressed, and Florence is happy to see him but appalled at his clothing.
Employees' Entrance
6.3

Employees' Entrance

Feb 11, 1933
Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."
Drama
L'Heure suprême
7.3

L'Heure suprême

Sep 10, 1927
Chico travaille dans les égouts mais rêve de balayer les rues pour voir la couleur du ciel. Se lamentant sur son sort, il nie l'existence de Dieu au prétexte de sa condition actuelle. Il a prié et donné dix francs dans une église sans obtenir la moindre réalisation de ses vœux. Mais le père Chevillon entendant sa plainte lui offre deux médailles religieuses et lui offre le poste de balayeur dont il rêve.
Drama
Tanned Legs
4.3

Tanned Legs

Nov 10, 1929
Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fairly quickly, but Janet's the one with real problems. It seems she sent some compromising love letters to a worthless cad, and now the bounder wants to use the letters for blackmail. Peggy's friend Roger and his flapper sweetheart Tootie hatch an elaborate plan to retrieve the incriminating letters and salvage Janet's reputation.
Comedy
My Past
3.8

My Past

May 03, 1931
A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.
Romance
Fast Life
8.3

Fast Life

Dec 16, 1932
Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all they succeed in doing is sinking the Admiral's barge. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the world. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.
Comedy
American Buds
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American Buds

Feb 24, 1918
Letters from the late mother of orphaned sisters Jane and Katherine seem to indicate that their father is Capt. Bob Dutton. Under orders from his superior, Colonel Harding, to acknowledge the children or quit the service, Dutton accepts responsibility for them. Shocked by his presumably checkered past, Cecile Harding, Dutton's fiancée and the colonel's daughter, breaks their engagement. One evening Jane surprises Capt. Robert Duncan, Dutton's rival for Cecile, stealing Bob's papers.
Comedy
Our Modern Maidens
5.9

Our Modern Maidens

Sep 08, 1929
Young, vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancé Gil a diplomatic appointment. Meanwhile, Gil's affections meander to beautiful ingenue Kentucky, Billie's best friend.
Drama
Les Quatre Fils
7.2

Les Quatre Fils

Feb 13, 1928
Dans une petite ville de Bavière une mère vie heureuse avec ses quatre fils lorsque l'un d'eux émigre en Amérique. Puis, lorsque que la guerre éclate, deux autres partent au front et se font tuer avant que le dernier soit incorporé de force.
War
The Blue Danube
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The Blue Danube

Mar 11, 1928
Marguerite, the beauty of an Austrian village, loves the poverty-stricken Baron Erich von Statzen, although her mother is opposed to the affair, having been made suspicious by the hunchback Ludwig, who is smitten by Marguerite's charms and insanely jealous of Statzen. Statzen's uncle would have him marry Helena Boursch, the local brewer's daughter, to save his dwindling estate. Ordered to the front when war is declared, Statzen is forced to leave without saying goodby to Marguerite.
Romance
Command Performance
4.1

Command Performance

Jan 19, 1931
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty.
Drama
The Whip
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The Whip

Sep 16, 1928
Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in this amnesiac condition, he becomes involved with the training of a horse, the Whip, for racing at Ascot.
Drama
The Kibitzer
4.7

The Kibitzer

Jan 11, 1930
In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly given a huge fortune in stocks that he can spend any way he pleases. At the same time, his daughter has fallen in love with an impoverished, but good hearted boy. When the kibitzer suggests he bet all his money on a dog of a racehorse, the lad does it. Against all odds, the horse wins, and suddenly the young man is quite wealthy.
Comedy
Her Night of Romance
6.4

Her Night of Romance

Nov 24, 1924
An impoverished British lord (Paul Menford) impersonates a doctor in order to woo an ailing American heiress (Dorothy Adams). The lord is in it for love, but his business associate (Joe Diamond) smells money.
Romance
Geraldine
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Geraldine

Jan 20, 1929
Ambitious social climber Mr. Wygate hires charming rogue Eddie Able to polish his shy daughter Geraldine into a dazzling debutante. Geraldine, smitten with the aloof lawyer Bell Cameron, initially embraces Eddie's lessons. However, Eddie falls for her genuine spirit and clashes with Mr. Wygate's aspirations.
Beauty Parlor
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Beauty Parlor

Jun 15, 1932
Film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets herself become a pawn of operators of a call-girl ring.
Drama
Mother Knows Best
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Mother Knows Best

Oct 28, 1928
A stage-actress mother and her daughter in a battle-of-wills in a "don't do this, daughter" and "don't do that, daughter" story of youthful folly and over-zealous parental devotion.
Drama
More Pay - Less Work
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More Pay - Less Work

Jul 04, 1926
Albert Gran and E.J. Ratcliffe are warring San Francisco shipping magnates; Mary Brian is Gran’s daughter and Charles (Buddy) Rogers is Ratcliffe’s athletic son. The result is a swift, exhilarating comedy, full of laughs and a nonchalant charm.
Comedy
The Brat
5.6

The Brat

Aug 23, 1931
A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.
Comedy
Sweethearts and Wives
1

Sweethearts and Wives

Jun 15, 1930
An aristocrat tries to prevent her sister's divorce by attempting to recover a diamond necklace, which is being used as incriminating evidence against her.
Mystery
Children of Divorce
5.9

Children of Divorce

Apr 25, 1927
Une jeune garçonne trompe son amoureux d'enfance pour qu'il l'épouse. Il aime vraiment une autre femme, mais ne l'a pas épousée de peur que le mariage ne se termine par un divorce, comme celui de ses parents. Des complications s'ensuivent.
Romance
Glad Rag Doll
1

Glad Rag Doll

May 04, 1929
She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song with the same title and the trailer survives.
Romance
Little Accident
1

Little Accident

Aug 03, 1930
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
Comedy
Kiss Me Again
6

Kiss Me Again

Jan 07, 1931
An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star.
Romance
Dry Martini
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Dry Martini

Oct 06, 1928
Upon hearing that his daughter Elizabeth, is coming from America to visit him in Paris, wealthy Willoughby Quimby, decides to give up dry martinis and women. However, Elizabeth seeks a wild time and ends up leaving France with her father's drinking buddy, Freddie, and Willoughby goes back to his dry martinis.
Comedy
Graustark
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Graustark

Aug 30, 1925
An American falls for the princess of the Kingdom of Graustark, and decides to her marriage to a dastardly prince.
Drama
Beverly of Graustark
5.3

Beverly of Graustark

Apr 18, 1926
Beverly Calhoun impersonates the Prince of Graustark to claim his birthright while he recovers from a skiing injury. In the meantime, she falls for her bodyguard Dantan.
Comedy
We Americans
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We Americans

May 06, 1928
We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well, director Edward H. Sloman concentrates on the trials and tribulations of three first-generation American families: The Jewish Levines, the German Schmidts and the Italian Albertinis.
Drama