person

Gertrude Astor

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1887-11-09

Place of Birth

Lakewood, Ohio, USA

Gertrude Astor

Biography

Gertrude Astor (Born Gertrude Eyster November 9, 1887 – November 9, 1977) was an American motion picture character actress, who began her career playing trombone on a riverboat. Born in Lakewood, Ohio, Astor at the age of 12 ran off and joined a woman's band as a trombone player and toured the states. In New York she left the band to obtain film work and got a job as an extra before her career took off. Astor was a prolific performer, between 1915 and 1962 she appeared in over 250 movies. Her first known credit is in a Biograph short in 1915. She then became a contract player at Universal. A tall, angular and beautiful woman, Astor frequently towered over the leading men of the era; thus, she was most frequently utilized in comedy roles as aristocrats, golddiggers and "heroine's best pal". Her best-known silent appearances were as the visiting stage star in Stage Struck (1925) with Gloria Swanson, as the vamp who plants stolen money on Harry Langdon in The Strong Man (1926), and as Laura LaPlante's wisecracking travelling companion in The Cat and the Canary (1927). Astor worked prolifically at Hal Roach studios with such headliners as Laurel and Hardy, Our Gang, and especially Charley Chase. She was also kept busy at Columbia Pictures' short subjects unit. She continued to play bits in feature films throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. She was briefly glimpsed as the first murder victim in the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Scarlet Claw and was among the ranks of dress extras in 1956's Around the World in Eighty Days. Her last appearance was in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. In her later years, Astor was a welcome guest at several Sons of the Desert gatherings, and became an honorary member of the Way Out West tent. She died in Woodland Hills, California from a stroke. She is interred in the Abbey of Psalms in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, CA.

Also Known For

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Deep in My Heart

Dec 09, 1954

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Easy Living

Jul 16, 1937

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71

The Virgin Queen

Jul 22, 1955

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10

Frozen Justice

Oct 13, 1929

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NA

Her Mad Bargain

Dec 12, 1921

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30

The Fatal Warning

Feb 15, 1929

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NA

The Scarlet Crystal

Feb 05, 1917

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85

Hollywood

Aug 19, 1923

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NA

The Price of a Good Time

Nov 04, 1917

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NA

Under Two Flags

Jul 21, 1915

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NA

The Lash of Power

Nov 05, 1917

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NA

What Am I Bid?

Apr 14, 1919

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70

The Wolf Man

Dec 12, 1941

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NA

The Girl Who Won Out

Oct 08, 1917

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NA

The Old Soak

Oct 11, 1926

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NA

The Ninety and Nine

Dec 17, 1922

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NA

Bombs and Banknotes

Jan 02, 1917

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NA

The Butter and Egg Man

Sep 22, 1928

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NA

The Family Group

Feb 18, 1928

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NA

Chasing Husbands

Dec 22, 1928

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NA

Skin Deep

Sep 01, 1922

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NA

The Wanters

Nov 26, 1923

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60

The Chases of Pimple Street

Dec 22, 1934

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44

The Devil's Hand

Sep 13, 1961

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71

Come Clean

Sep 02, 1931

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63

The Strong Man

Nov 19, 1926

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62

My Man Godfrey

Oct 11, 1957

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NA

Wine, Women and Song

Mar 27, 1933

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NA

The Plumber and the Lady

Mar 31, 1933

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NA

Loot

Oct 06, 1919

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69

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Nov 04, 1927

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NA

Rupert of Hentzau

Jul 15, 1923

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60

Fort Osage

Feb 10, 1952

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50

The Old West

Sep 29, 1952

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60

Through The Back Door

May 05, 1921

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10

Don Juan's 3 Nights

Sep 04, 1926

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46

Here Comes Trouble

Mar 15, 1948

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NA

You Never Know

Dec 10, 1922

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52

The Wicked Darling

Dec 25, 1919

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63

Reap the Wild Wind

Mar 26, 1942

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NA

The Drunkard

Apr 03, 1935

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55

Bucking Broadway

Dec 24, 1917

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62

Stage Struck

Nov 16, 1925

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NA

Broadway or Bust

Jun 09, 1924

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NA

The Ridin' Kid from Powder River

Nov 30, 1924

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60

Wife Tamers

Mar 25, 1926

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50

Be Yourself!

Feb 07, 1930

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62

All Over Town

Aug 09, 1937

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61

Lorna Doone

Oct 01, 1922

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77

The Best Years of Our Lives

Dec 25, 1946

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50

The Kentucky Derby

Dec 04, 1922

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NA

High Hats and Low Brows

Jul 10, 1932

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10

Live and Learn

Jun 15, 1930

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50

Carnival Lady

Nov 11, 1933

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NA

Rich Relations

Feb 01, 1937

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NA

Running Hollywood

Jan 27, 1932

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NA

Wedding Belles

Jun 24, 1934

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41

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

Apr 09, 1966

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73

Kiki

Apr 04, 1926

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35

Dizzy Daddies

Mar 14, 1926

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59

All in a Night's Work

Mar 15, 1961

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55

They Never Come Back

May 10, 1932

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NA

Dames Ahoy

Feb 09, 1930

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58

Untamed

Nov 23, 1929

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64

The Best of Everything

Oct 09, 1959

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NA

I Have Lived

Jun 15, 1933

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20

I Don't Remember

Dec 25, 1935

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NA

The Small Bachelor

Nov 06, 1927

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80

Frisco Lil

Mar 13, 1942

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59

Kentucky Pride

Sep 06, 1925

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55

Secrets

Mar 24, 1924

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NA

Synthetic Sin

Jan 06, 1929

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NA

The Boy Friend

Aug 14, 1926

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67

Dragonwyck

Apr 19, 1946

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NA

In Walked Charley

Apr 22, 1932

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68

The Cat and the Canary

Aug 20, 1927

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58

While Paris Sleeps

May 08, 1932

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63

Calcutta

Dec 20, 1946

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NA

The Branding Iron

Oct 31, 1920

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62

Beyond the Rocks

May 07, 1922

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60

Behind the Front

Feb 22, 1926

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52

Wells Fargo

Dec 31, 1937

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NA

The Llano Kid

Dec 08, 1939

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70

Sergeant Rutledge

May 25, 1960

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71

A Star Is Born

Oct 01, 1954

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NA

Poker Widows

Sep 13, 1931

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50

Here Comes the Band

Aug 30, 1935

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81

All About Eve

Nov 09, 1950

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NA

Northern Frontier

Feb 01, 1935

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71

The Women

Sep 01, 1939

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72

Sitting Pretty

Mar 10, 1948

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NA

Empty Saddles

Dec 20, 1936

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62

Dust Be My Destiny

Sep 16, 1939

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NA

Oh, What a Man!

Dec 04, 1927

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20

Ship of Wanted Men

Sep 08, 1933

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65

Sister Kenny

Oct 10, 1946

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58

My Dear Secretary

Nov 05, 1948

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35

Again Pioneers

Nov 01, 1950

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NA

An Angel Comes To Brooklyn

Nov 27, 1945

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62

Postal Inspector

Aug 16, 1936

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62

Woman in Hiding

Jan 06, 1950

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76

Monsieur Verdoux

Sep 26, 1947

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NA

The Torrent

Aug 01, 1924

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67

Hold Back the Dawn

Sep 26, 1941

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48

Guilty Parents

Apr 01, 1934

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45

Cappy Ricks Returns

Sep 25, 1935

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NA

Western Limited

Aug 05, 1932

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42

Tell 'Em Nothing

Oct 16, 1926

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78

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Apr 13, 1962

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NA

Ginsberg the Great

Nov 26, 1927

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NA

Five and Ten Cent Annie

May 26, 1928

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NA

Twin Beds

Jul 14, 1929

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69

The Scarlet Claw

May 18, 1944

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NA

The Charmer

Apr 20, 1925

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70

Angel Face

Jan 02, 1953

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50

Misbehaving Husbands

Dec 20, 1940

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83

Sunset Boulevard

Aug 10, 1950

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64

The Doctor Takes a Wife

Apr 25, 1940

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64

Scared Stiff

Apr 27, 1953

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50

It's in the Air

Oct 10, 1935

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61

The Big Broadcast of 1938

Feb 11, 1938

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64

The Tingler

Jul 29, 1959

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45

Cheyenne's Pal

Aug 13, 1917

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63

Two Rode Together

May 24, 1961

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70

Scandal Sheet

Jan 16, 1952

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66

Around the World in Eighty Days

Oct 17, 1956

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NA

The Reckless Sex

Feb 05, 1925

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63

Daddy Long Legs

May 05, 1955

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60

Girls of the Big House

Nov 02, 1945

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NA

Border Brigands

May 31, 1935

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67

3 Godfathers

Dec 31, 1948

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50

Lost Canyon

Dec 18, 1942

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65

Tassels in the Air

Apr 01, 1938

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57

Idaho

Mar 10, 1943

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60

Honeymoon Limited

Jul 01, 1935

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NA

The Avenging Rider

May 20, 1943

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53

The Kansan

Sep 10, 1943

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65

Paula

May 15, 1952

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66

San Francisco

Jun 26, 1936

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56

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Jun 11, 1964

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NA

Two Weeks Off

May 11, 1929

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65

The Taxi Dancer

Feb 05, 1927

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NA

Polly Redhead

Feb 09, 1917

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63

When Worlds Collide

Sep 14, 1951

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55

Flaming Gold

Sep 28, 1932

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73

A Place in the Sun

Jun 12, 1951

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77

The Sound of Music

Mar 29, 1965

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NA

The Fall of Eve

Jun 17, 1929

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NA

The Ne'er-Do-Well

Apr 29, 1923

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60

Music Man

Sep 05, 1948

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40

The Cheerful Fraud

Dec 27, 1926

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20

$1,000 a Touchdown

Oct 04, 1939

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67

A Woman of Affairs

Dec 15, 1928

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70

Fun on a Weekend

May 15, 1947

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74

Leave Her to Heaven

Dec 25, 1945

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NA

Bondage

Oct 17, 1917

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NA

The Devil's Pay Day

Jan 29, 1917

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NA

The Brazen Beauty

Sep 09, 1918

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NA

The Rescue

Jul 23, 1917

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NA

The Little Orphan

Jun 18, 1917

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59

Bunco Squad

Sep 01, 1950

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60

Joe Palooka in Winner Take All

Sep 19, 1948

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NA

Hurricane's Gal

Jul 01, 1922

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60

Robes of Sin

Dec 01, 1924

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NA

Swingin' on a Rainbow

Sep 01, 1945

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NA

The Concert

Feb 20, 1921

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51

No More Ladies

Jun 14, 1935

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64

Moontide

May 29, 1942

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NA

Seeing's Believing

May 01, 1922

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66

The File on Thelma Jordon

Nov 04, 1949

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50

Rose-Marie

Feb 11, 1928

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NA

Hell Bound

May 01, 1931

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62

Wichita

Jul 03, 1955

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65

Thunder on the Hill

Oct 17, 1951

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62

Great Guy

Dec 01, 1936

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NA

The Wall Flower

May 01, 1922

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54

The Climax

Oct 20, 1944

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NA

The Silent Watcher

Oct 05, 1924

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NA

The Impossible Mrs. Bellew

Oct 22, 1922

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NA

Crook's Tour

Sep 23, 1933

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60

Weird Woman

Mar 01, 1944

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NA

Satan in Sables

Oct 14, 1925

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56

The Female Animal

Jan 22, 1958

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71

Caged

May 19, 1950

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69

The Horse Soldiers

Jun 11, 1959

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56

Crack-Up

Sep 06, 1946

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NA

The Country Beyond

Oct 17, 1926

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NA

I'll Take Vanilla

May 05, 1934

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NA

Manhattan Monkey Business

Nov 09, 1935

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NA

Laughing Ladies

Jan 01, 1925

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68

Washee Ironee

Nov 13, 1934

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NA

Borrowed Finery

Oct 01, 1925

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68

The Doolins of Oklahoma

May 27, 1949

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49

Dick Tracy

Dec 01, 1945

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58

The Merry Widow

Sep 05, 1952

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NA

The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris

Jan 15, 1928

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NA

Lightning Lariats

Jan 30, 1927

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NA

Alice Adams

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50

Bad Boy

Oct 25, 1935

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NA

All's Swell on the Ocean

Aug 18, 1924

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NA

Wives Never Know

Sep 18, 1936

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NA

Ship of Souls

Dec 20, 1925

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NA

Occasionally Yours

Sep 19, 1920

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56

The Delicious Little Devil

May 12, 1919

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62

Apache Drums

Apr 01, 1951

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NA

The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit

Mar 13, 1918

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43

My Mother the Car

Sep 14, 1965

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79

I Love Lucy

Oct 15, 1951