Milton Sills

Milton Sills

From Wikipedia Milton George Gustavus Sills (January 12, 1882 – September 15, 1930) was an American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century. Sills was born in Chicago, Illinois into a wealthy family. He was the son of William Henry Sills, a successful mineral dealer, and Josephine Antoinette Troost Sills, an heiress from a prosperous banking family. Upon completing high school, Sills was offered a one-year scholarship to the University of Chicago, where he studied psychology and philosophy. After graduating, he was offered a position at the university as a researcher and within several years worked his way up to become a professor at the school. In 1905, stage actor Donald Robertson visited the school to lecture on author and playwright Henrik Ibsen and suggested to Sills that he try his hand at acting. On a whim, Sills agreed and left his prestigious teaching career to embark on a stint in acting. Sills joined Robertson's stock theater company and began touring the country. In 1914, Sills decided to conquer the new medium of motion pictures. He made his film debut the same year in the big-budget drama The Pit for the World Film Company and was signed to a contract with film producer William A. Brady. The film was enormously successful, and Sills made three more films for the company, including another huge box-office draw The Deep Purple opposite silent screen star Clara Kimball Young. By the late 1910s, Sills had reached leading man status and parted ways with World Film, taking the then unusual path of freelancing as an actor. By the early 1920s, Sills was enjoying a highly successful acting career and working for such prominent film studios as MGM, Paramount Pictures, and Pathé Exchange. He was often paired with the most popular leading ladies of the era, including: Geraldine Farrar, Gloria Swanson and Viola Dana. His greatest public and commercial successes came with the now lost Flaming Youth (1923) opposite Colleen Moore, and the enormous box-office hit The Sea Hawk (1924). Sills made two sound pictures, showing that he had an excellent voice. Many may have forgotten that Sills had extensive stage training before embarking on his career before the cameras. Sills died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1930 while playing tennis with his wife at his Santa Barbara, California home at the age of 48. He was interred at the Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum in Chicago, Illinois.

  • Title: Milton Sills
  • Popularity: 1.374
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1882-01-11
  • Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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  • 1925
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    As Man Desires

    As Man Desires

    3 1925 HD

    The story of a man who was robbed of his greatest love and the South Seas wildflower who found it for him, in the land of pawn trees where men of all...

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  • 1919
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    The Hushed Hour

    The Hushed Hour

    1 1919 HD

    Judge Robert Appleton (Winter Hall) has led an exemplary life. His four children, however, fell short once they grew up and had to fend for...

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  • 1918
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    The Claw

    The Claw

    1 1918 HD

    Clara Kimball Young stars as Mary Saurin, a British gentlewoman who journeys to South Africa to visit her district-commissioner brother Dick (Henry...

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  • 1919
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    The Woman Thou Gavest Me

    The Woman Thou Gavest Me

    1 1919 HD

    Mary Mac Neill (Katherine MacDonald), whose father (Theodore Roberts) marries her off to Lord Raa (Jack Holt) in order to satisfy an old grudge. But...

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  • 1923
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    The Last Hour

    The Last Hour

    1 1923 HD

    Steve Cline returns to the U.S. after earning his fortune in South America. He reads in the paper that his brother Tom was arrested for safecracking....

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  • 1922
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    Seeing Stars

    Seeing Stars

    4.9 1922 HD

    First National gala celebrity banquet with stars.

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  • 1919
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    Eyes of Youth

    Eyes of Youth

    5.8 1919 HD

    A young woman, confronted by four options for proceeding in her life, is granted the ability to see what results would come from her choice of of the...

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  • 1924
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    The Sea Hawk

    The Sea Hawk

    6.5 1924 HD

    The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship.

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  • 1961
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    The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

    The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

    1 1961 HD

    A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.

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  • 1928
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    The Barker

    The Barker

    7 1928 HD

    A successful carnival barker deals with the arrival of his eager son, who he'd hoped would stay far from the carnival world, his son's entanglement...

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  • 1922
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    The Forgotten Law

    The Forgotten Law

    1 1922 HD

    Margaret Jarnette discovers that her husband Victor has been cheating on her and confronts him. Outraged, Victor has his lawyer rewrite his will so...

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  • 1924
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    Flowing Gold

    Flowing Gold

    1 1924 HD

    The film deals with the Texas Oil Industry. A silent film, it was famously remade in 1940 with sound.

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  • 1915
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    Under Southern Skies

    Under Southern Skies

    1 1915 HD

    Lelia Crofton, a Louisiana belle of the 1860s, loves Burleigh Mavor. By chance, she sees one of her father's black stablemen making love to a...

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  • 1921
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    The Faith Healer

    The Faith Healer

    1 1921 HD

    A traveling preacher has, through his faith, the power to heal, but loses it when he falls in love. Considered lost.

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  • 1922
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    A Trip to Paramountown

    A Trip to Paramountown

    6 1922 HD

    Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at...

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  • 1921
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    Miss Lulu Bett

    Miss Lulu Bett

    5.714 1921 HD

    Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, whose timid soul has failed to break the bonds of...

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  • 1928
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    The Circus: Premiere

    The Circus: Premiere

    5.4 1928 HD

    Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.

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  • 1930
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    Man Trouble

    Man Trouble

    5 1930 HD

    A hard-boiled nightclub owner saves a beautiful young girl from drowning. He promptly falls in love with her, but she prefers a younger, more-genteel...

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  • 1929
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    His Captive Woman

    His Captive Woman

    6 1929 HD

    Cabaret dancer Anna Janssen kills her sugardaddy and escapes to a South Seas island on the yacht of a wealthy admirer. Stolid, conscientious Tom...

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  • 1918
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    The Hell Cat

    The Hell Cat

    1 1918 HD

    Pancha O'Brien, the beautiful and spirited daughter of an Irish ranch owner, is loved by two men, Sheriff Jack Webb, whom she loves, and outlaw Jim...

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  • 1919
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    The Stronger Vow

    The Stronger Vow

    1 1919 HD

    During the Easter Carnival, Dolores de Cordova flirts with Juan Estudillo, not knowing that he is a member of the family with whom her ancestors have...

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  • 1926
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    Puppets

    Puppets

    1 1926 HD

    Nicola Riccobini, a puppet master in New York's Italian quarter, is an energetic and domineering man in the family, in contrast to his dreamy, poetic...

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  • 1926
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    Paradise

    Paradise

    1 1926 HD

    After a daredevil demonstration of aviator stunts, Anthony Fortescue-Stirling, more familiarly known as Tony, is cast adrift by his father. He meets...

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  • 1927
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    The Sea Tiger

    The Sea Tiger

    1 1927 HD

    Silent Film drama...now a lost film. Julian Ramos is a fisherman in the Canary Islands. As the guardian of his hotheaded younger brother Charles,...

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  • 1927
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    Framed

    Framed

    1 1927 HD

    Wrongfully court martialed from the French Army Captain Hilaire heads to Brazil. Upon arrival he is hired as a foreman in a Diamond mine eventually...

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  • 1928
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    The Hawk's Nest

    The Hawk's Nest

    1 1928 HD

    Lost 1928 film by Benjamin Benjamin Christensen

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  • 1923
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    Souls for Sale

    Souls for Sale

    6.2 1923 HD

    A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

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  • 1927
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    Hard-Boiled Haggerty

    Hard-Boiled Haggerty

    1 1927 HD

    After bringing down yet another German pilot and escaping uninjured from his burning aircraft, Haggerty (Milton Sills) and his buddy, aircraft...

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  • 1923
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    Adam's Rib

    Adam's Rib

    5.8 1923 HD

    Michael Ramsay only has time for gathering his fortune in wheat. His wife seeks comfort elsewhere and, to avoid a scandal, her daughter Matilda...

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  • 1917
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    Patria

    Patria

    6.5 1917 HD

    Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves...

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  • 1927
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    The Valley of the Giants

    The Valley of the Giants

    1 1927 HD

    Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.

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  • 1917
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    Making Monkey Business

    Making Monkey Business

    1 1917 HD

    Betty has a rich inheritance, but she can't find it. She is engaged to Detective Duffer. One day. "The Flea" comes to rob her, bringing his...

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  • 1923
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    Flaming Youth

    Flaming Youth

    3.5 1923 HD

    When Mona Frentiss dies, she has her confidante "Doctor Bobs" watch over her family, especially her youngest daughter Patricia. The family has been...

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  • 1920
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    The Street Called Straight

    The Street Called Straight

    1 1920 HD

    Directed by Wallace Worsley.

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  • 1926
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    Men of Steel

    Men of Steel

    1 1926 HD

    Jan Bokak is a self-educated steelworker who finds himself in the middle of a romantic triangle. Two different girls -- wealthy socialite Claire Pitt...

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  • 1917
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    The Honor System

    The Honor System

    1 1917 HD

    A potentially lost film, this film tells the story of a man is convicted unjustly of a crime and then subjected to inhumane torment in a prison run...

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  • 1923
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    The Isle of Lost Ships

    The Isle of Lost Ships

    1 1923 HD

    A likely lost film, that tells the story of people and ships trapped in seaweed infested section of the southern Atlantic Ocean known as the Sargasso...

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  • 1923
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    Legally Dead

    Legally Dead

    1 1923 HD

    A man faces being hanged for a crime he didn't commit

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  • 1928
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    The Crash

    The Crash

    1 1928 HD

    The Crash (1928)

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  • 1924
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    A Lady of Quality

    A Lady of Quality

    1 1924 HD

    Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a rich nobleman, Mertoun, the Duke of Osmonde....

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  • 1930
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    The Sea Wolf

    The Sea Wolf

    1 1930 HD

    George, Ruth and Humphrey go for a boat ride with Wolf Larsen.

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  • 1922
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    Skin Deep

    Skin Deep

    1 1922 HD

    The plot concerns a war hero who returns home determined to give up his old ways as a crook. Bud Doyle (Milton Sills) is still being hounded by the...

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  • 1921
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    At the End of the World

    At the End of the World

    1 1921 HD

    This dramatic adventure finds the flirtatious Cherry O'Day as the daughter of the Shanghai saloon keeper Terrence. She works in the dive and...

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  • 1929
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    Love and the Devil

    Love and the Devil

    5 1929 HD

    A famous Venetian opera singer marries a rich, but very jealous man. After moving to London with him, she misses the opera and all the attention she...

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  • 1922
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    One Clear Call

    One Clear Call

    1 1922 HD

    An outcast who runs a road house of ill repute leads his mother to believe him dead. His only friend, a doctor, falls for a married woman.

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  • 1926
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    The Silent Lover

    The Silent Lover

    1 1926 HD

    Based on the 1922 play Der Legionër by Lajos Biró.

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  • 1923
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    The Spoilers

    The Spoilers

    1 1923 HD

    Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.

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  • 1928
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    Burning Daylight

    Burning Daylight

    5 1928 HD

    Elam "Burning Daylight" Harnish is a prospector who makes a million dollars in the Dawson, Alaska gold rush and loses the million dollars in Dawson....

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  • 1920
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    The Furnace

    The Furnace

    1 1920 HD

    Folly Vallance marries millionaire Anthony Bond for his money, but he insists on a marriage in name only. Entering the social scene she befriends...

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  • 1925
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    The Making of O'Malley

    The Making of O'Malley

    1 1925 HD

    A policeman falls for a teacher, and befriends her students. A gang of bootleggers threatens his newfound joys.

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  • 1925
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    The Knockout

    The Knockout

    1 1925 HD

    A Lambert Hillyer silent romantic love triangle boxing sports lumberjack logging melodrama about a world champion boxer who must retire due to an arm...

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  • 1924
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    Madonna of the Streets

    Madonna of the Streets

    1 1924 HD

    Rev. John Morton, who is determined to follow as closely as possible the teachings of Jesus, inherits a considerable fortune when his uncle dies....

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  • 1919
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    Satan Junior

    Satan Junior

    1 1919 HD

    Famous playwright Paul Worden decamps to a country bungalow to work on a new play, rehearsing with his leading lady, Marjorie Sinclair, who is...

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  • 1918
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    The Yellow Ticket

    The Yellow Ticket

    1 1918 HD

    Anna Mirrel, a young Jewish girl in Czarist Russia, is forced to degrade herself in order to visit her father, whom she believes to be ill. She...

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  • 1921
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    The Great Moment

    The Great Moment

    1 1921 HD

    Sir Edward Pelham, married to a Russian Gypsy, fears that his daughter will follow in her mother's footsteps and arranges a marriage with her cousin,...

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  • 1915
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    The Woman Who Lied

    The Woman Who Lied

    1 1915 HD

    After a stirring performance, Cleo Martell, a renowned stage actress, is visited in her dressing room by Gordon Trent, a too ardent admirer. When...

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  • 1923
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    What a Wife Learned

    What a Wife Learned

    1 1923 HD

    A novelist's success causes a rift between her and her rancher husband.

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  • 1915
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    The Arrival of Perpetua

    The Arrival of Perpetua

    1 1915 HD

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  • 1914
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    The Pit

    The Pit

    1 1914 HD

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  • 1917
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    Married in Name Only

    Married in Name Only

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1915
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    The Taming of Mary

    The Taming of Mary

    1 1915 HD

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  • 1925
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    A Lover's Oath

    A Lover's Oath

    1 1925 HD

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  • 1925
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    A Lover's Oath

    A Lover's Oath

    1 1925 HD

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  • 1926
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    Men of Steel

    Men of Steel

    1 1926 HD

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