Olga Baclanova

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L'Homme qui rit
7.3

L'Homme qui rit

Apr 27, 1928
En Angleterre, à la fin du XVIIe siècle, le roi Jacques se débarrasse de son ennemi, le Lord Clancharlie, et vend son jeune fils, Gwynplaine, aux trafiquants d'enfants qui le défigurent. Le garçon s'enfuit et sauve du froid un bébé aveugle, Dea. Tous les deux sont recueillis par Ursus, un forain. Gwynplaine, baptisé « L'Homme qui rit », devient un célèbre comédien ambulant. Le bouffon Barkilphedro découvre son ascendance noble et la dévoile à la reine Anne, qui a succédé au roi Jacques.
Drama
The Man I Love
4.5

The Man I Love

May 25, 1929
Wellman’s first all-talkie, scripted by Herman Mankiewicz, with arrogant boxer Richard Arlen romancing Mary Brian, then falling for temptress Olga Baclanova (Freaks) on the eve of the big fight.
Comedy
A Dangerous Woman
3

A Dangerous Woman

May 16, 1929
The commissioner of an African outpost lives with a woman who drives the white men to their deaths with her seductive ways. The commissioner learns that his brother will be his next assistant, and the woman begins working her wiles on him....
Drama
Downstairs
6.9

Downstairs

Aug 06, 1932
In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. The servants seem to enjoy their time together, and some even fall in love, as head butler Albert and maid Anna have done. But when lecherous new chauffeur Karl Schneider enters the house, affairs and blackmail follow, and the harmony of the home is slowly destroyed.
Drama
The Great Lover
5.3

The Great Lover

Jul 18, 1931
An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
Drama
Claudia
6.5

Claudia

Nov 04, 1943
Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can't stand living so far away from her mother. She's also afraid her husband doesn't find her desirable enough. To remedy both situations, she sells their farm to an opera singer so they'll have to move back to the city near her mother, and she tries to make her husband jealous by flirting with a neighbor. Eventually, Claudia has to learn to grow when she discovers that she's about to become a mother and that her own mother is gravely ill.
Comedy
Cheer Up and Smile
1

Cheer Up and Smile

Jun 22, 1930
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with him, he becomes an overnight sensation.
Music
Forgotten Faces
1

Forgotten Faces

Aug 05, 1928
A petty thief (Clive Brook) just robs the very rich at speakeasies, and gets away with it because the rich don't want the bad publicity, finally is caught and sent to Sing Sing. After good behavior, he gets an emergency permission for a return home, so that he may save his daughter from the hands of her disreputable mother (Baclanova). However, he must first promise not to kill his wife while he is out of prison.
Drama
The Woman Disputed
6.2

The Woman Disputed

Sep 01, 1928
An adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.
History
Avalanche
1

Avalanche

Nov 10, 1928
An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son John Darrow through mining school in this lavish Zane Grey adaptation produced by Paramount. The callow foster-son pays back the noble gesture by running off with Holt's mistress, Olga Baclanova.
Western
Three Sinners
1

Three Sinners

Apr 13, 1928
A woman allows her husband, who she knows no longer loves her, to believe that she has been killed in a train wreck. Her husband later finds her as a hostess in a gambling den.
Drama
Хлеб
1

Хлеб

Nov 07, 1918
"Bread" - a Bolshevik propaganda tale about the fundaments of living.
Drama
The Street of Sin
1

The Street of Sin

May 26, 1928
"Basher Bill," a retired prizefighter turned criminal, pretends to reform by joining a Salvation Army shelter in London run by a pious wraith named Elizabeth. Attracted to Elizabeth (although he is engaged to a street girl named Annie), Bill confesses to a bank robbery, has a spiritual revelation, and decides to go straight. His cast-off sweetheart reports him to the police; then, contrite, she warns Bill of the impending danger. Bill is captured immediately, but he escapes and sacrifices his life to save Elizabeth and the Salvation Army nursery when the rest of the gang use them as a human barricade against the police.
Drama
Freaks, la monstrueuse parade
7.8
Un cirque exhibe de vrais monstres : l'homme-tronc, la femme à barbe, les sœurs siamoises. Hans, le nain, tombe amoureux de la belle acrobate, Cléopâtre. Cette dernière ayant appris que Hans a fait un riche héritage, elle accepte de l'épouser tout en prévoyant de s'en débarrasser quand elle aura mis la main sur ses biens, mais les créatures du cirque découvrent sa vraie nature et son mépris. Leur vengeance sera terrifiante.
Drama