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- DirectorPhilip CarleStarsHuntley GordonMary AstorCharles SlatteryA man, unable to curb his violent temper, sequesters himself in the forest. A tame bear comes to his shack and he adopts it, and finally realizes the futility of his terrific outbursts and learns to hold himself in check.
- DirectorJohn S. RobertsonStarsGareth HughesMay McAvoyMabel TaliaferroThe people of Thrums ostracize 12-year-old Grizel and her mother, known as The Painted Lady, until newcomer Tommy Sandys, a highly-imaginative boy, comes to the girl's rescue and they become inseparable friends. Six years later Tommy returns from London, where he has achieved success as an author, and finds that Grizel still loves him. In a sentimental gesture he proposes, but she, realizing that he does not love her, rejects him. In London, Tommy is lionized by Lady Pippinworth, and he follows her to Switzerland. Having lost her mother and believing that Tommy needs her, Grizel comes to him but is overcome by grief to see his love for Lady Pippinworth. Remorseful, Tommy returns home, and after his careful nursing Grizel regains her sanity.
- DirectorHerbert BlachéStarsReginald DennyMary AstorThe painter Burne-Jones and his famed painting "The Beggar Maid" are depicted in this speculative drama about the creation of the painting. Burne-Jones plays matchmaker for a young British nobleman who has fallen in love with a servant girl on his estate. The artist shows that love can thrive between members of different classes by depicting on canvas a picture from Tennyson's poem about the love of King Cophetua for a beggar maid. As he relates the story of the poem in words and through his painting, the young earl sees the application to his own situation.
- DirectorPhilip CarleStarsBradley BarkerMary AstorH. Price WebberLand sharks are taking advantage of the natives on a tract of land that seems to have no owner. The governor of Maine investigates for the state and finds the pretty girl who is the legitimate heir to this property.
- DirectorHerbert BlachéStarsMary AstorPierre GendronWalter Petri
- DirectorVictor HeermanStarsEugene O'BrienVivia OgdenWilliam J. FergusonUpon being released from prison, Lawrence Hilliard takes the name of John Smith and looks for work, and falls in love with Irene Mason, a social secretary, but is reluctant to tell her about his past.
- DirectorLegaren à HillerStarsWilliam J. GrossMary AstorRalph FaulknerAdapted from the work of artist George Frederick Watts, a highly artistic subject that tells a short dramatic story in which "Hope" is pictured through the lighthouse keeper's daughter who never despairs, nor gives up hope, even when the people of the village turn against her and they tell her her husband has been lost at sea.
- DirectorF. Harmon WeightStarsGeorge ArlissAnn ForrestIvan F. SimpsonAt the height of his success musician John Arden loses his hearing as the result of an explosion. His young wife's devotion is sorely tested by his melancholy and cynicism, but her sense of duty prevents Marjorie from leaving him for Philip Stevens. At the point of suicide, John discovers that other people have greater problems, and he turns to philanthropy. His hearing is restored after a fall, and John realizes his wife's loyalty.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsGlenn HunterMary AstorTownsend MartinJim, a boy who has always played second fiddle to his elder brother, Herbert, gets a chance to be a hero when, to protect his mother and sweetheart, Polly, he holds a murderer at bay with an unloaded shotgun. (Herbert took the shells when he went for help.) Eventually Jim faints, and Cragg, the killer, overpowers him. Simultaneously, Herbert returns with help; he takes all the credit and makes Jim look like a coward. Later, Jim proves his courage when he saves Polly and overpowers Cragg, now an escaped convict. Herbert bows to Jim and returns to college.
- DirectorRalph InceStarsBrandon TynanNaomi ChildersMary AstorFamous Shakespearian actor Barry Carleton is unable to cope with his success, falls into drunkenness, and causes his wife to leave him and then to bring up their daughter, Rose, in the belief that her father is dead. Years later, when applying to play again the role of Lear, he is assigned to be dresser for Gilbert Gordon and learns that the production's backer seeks Rose's favor by casting her as Cordelia. On opening night Gilbert, who knows the truth, gets drunk; and Barry goes on in his place. The performance is a great success, Barry is reunited with his wife, and Rose is engaged to Gilbert.
- DirectorJohn S. RobertsonStarsRichard BarthelmessDorothy GishJetta GoudalCharles Abbott is a wealthy adventurer in 1850s Cuba. He is in love with Narcissa but goes after La Clavel to obtain information on the Spanish. He becomes implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother of Narcissa.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsGlenn HunterMary AstorOsgood PerkinsGoody Rickby conspires with Satan to avenge herself when Gillead Wingate refuses to acknowledge their illegitimate child. Years pass, and Wingate becomes a powerful figure in his Salem, Massachusetts, community. Satan appears, ready to effect Goody's revenge. He makes a scarecrow come to life and plans to marry him to Rachel, Wingate's ward, thereby causing her and Wingate to be hanged for having been associated with witchcraft. Their plan is partially foiled when the scarecrow falls in love, acquires a soul, and sacrifices himself to save Rachel.
- DirectorWilliam C. de MilleStarsAgnes AyresJack HoltCharles de RochefortA matchmaker sets out to have a rich woman marry the not-so-rich boy she loves, and tries to persuade a poverty-stricken nobleman to marry the commoner he loves.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsThomas MeighanLila LeeJohn St. PolisTom Rockwood's brother and two sisters attempt to induce him to marry so that they may inherit money left to them by their father. Rockwood, a civil engineer, rescues Louise Halliday, a family friend and ward of Bleech, the Rockwood family lawyer, from a blasting site, and he is so attracted to the girl that he determines to marry her. Bleech attempts to break up the couple because he has nefarious plans for the money, but he fails, and Tom and Louise marry on the last day allotted to them by the will, thereby saving the family fortune.
- DirectorJames CruzeStarsErnest TorrenceMary AstorNoah BeeryTom Rumford was born in the South but raised by pacifist Quaker relatives in the North and taught not to fight. When he returns to the South as a young man, he is tormented by the local bullies for his refusal to brawl, culminating in shaming his family when he refuses to duel with Maj. Patterson over Tom's cousin Elvira. Tom is branded a coward by everyone except Elvira's sister Lucy, who secretly loves him. Tim finally hatches a plan that he believes will result in his getting back in the good graces of his family.
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsJohn BarrymoreMary AstorWillard LouisGeorge Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry. He befriends the Prince of Wales and leaves the army, becoming subsequently the best-known rake and decider of fashion in Europe. As his affairs flourish, so does his disdain for his benefactor, the Prince. Eventually Brummel falls into disfavor, and it is only Lady Margery who has any chance of helping him.
- DirectorTom FormanStarsPat O'MalleyMary AstorRaymond HattonBill Pendleton, a happy-go-lucky college student adept at both flying and football, accepts a wager from his fraternity pals that he will propose to any girl in the college they choose. Mary O'Mallory is chosen and, unaware of the wager, accepts Bill's fraternity pin, Bill having proposed to her in earnest. But Mary hears about the wager and, thoroughly disgusted with Bill, leaves college and goes to China to join her missionary father. A remorseful Bill follows her there and redeems himself by rescuing Mary and her father from a band of revolutionaries.
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsBebe DanielsRichard DixMary AstorDouglas Albright, a hero just returned from the war, is conscience-stricken over allowing his buddy to die. Taking charge of his future father-in-law's business, he goes to China to gain self-control. There he meets his friend's widow and offers to give up Helen, his fiancée, for her; however, the widow's suicide frees him from this obligation, and he finds happiness with Helen.
- DirectorCharles GiblynStarsHope HamptonHarrison FordArthur Edmund CareweKenneth Bellwood, an unscrupulous broker, discovers that hated business rival Robert Casson has secured a valuable option in Brazil and quickly determines to keep Robert in New York until it expires, arranging with Grace Barrows (a cabaret dancer who needs money to help her sick mother) to use her wiles to keep Robert at home. Robert quickly falls under her spell, and Grace increasingly regrets her duplicity. Grace's innocent young sister, Alice, comes to New York and falls under Bellwood's influence. Learning that Alice is going to visit Bellwood's apartment, Grace goes there herself, accompanied by Evelyn Dolores, Bellwood's former mistress. Grace leaves, Evelyn kills Bellwood, and Alice is accused of the crime. Evelyn commits suicide, leaving a note confessing to the crime. Robert forgives Grace, and Alice is sent home.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsAnna Q. NilssonLewis StoneMary AstorThought to be "the worst woman in Hollywood" because of her vampire roles and lurid publicity, Inez Laranetta actually is more concerned with shielding her younger sister, Fay Bartholdi, from the life she knows--especially the devastating impulses of men. Stewart Cuyler, a wealthy and socially prominent New Yorker, is the only man Inez respects, but she refuses even his attentions. When Stewart searches for the man he believes to be his rival, he falls in love with Fay. Inez learns of their courtship, assumes Stewart's intentions to be dishonorable, and hastens to the scene intending to separate the couple. Stewart explains that he wishes to marry Fay but that Inez must give up her sister. For the sake of Fay's happiness, Inez sadly withdraws and finds some consolation in the love of her manager, Pat Summerfield.
- DirectorHarry A. PollardStarsReginald DennyMary AstorOtis HarlanRufus Billop was never believed to survive as a newborn. He's lived through infancy and childhood surrounded by doctors and medicines, worried over his frail health, becoming an accomplished hypochondriac on his own merits. When three partners consider his case a good investment in exchange for future fortune, a wise doctor prescribes him a Lovely View to behold from his ailing bed, and everything begins to change.
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsMary AstorClive BrookIan KeithTwo years after the Great War, during which they did relief work together in Belgium, Leonore Bewlay meets her old friend Richard Valyran in Switzerland. Previously their friendship was platonic, but Richard now finds Leonore sexually attractive. On their way to an inn high in the Alps, they are caught in a snow-slide and Leonore's leg is injured. Val carries her to the inn, helps remove her clothes, and, overcome with desire, kisses her madly. This display of lust destroys their friendship. Leonore soon marries Henry Wallis, whom she truly loves, and returns with him to his home in London where she is unpopular with his conservative family, who consider her too outspoken and independent. When Leonore is named as the corespondent in a divorce suit filed by Richard's estranged wife, Henry loses faith in her. When she goes to Richard for consolation, he perceives that she still loves Henry and deliberately walks in front of an oncoming car. As he lies dying in a hospital, Richard has the final satisfaction of seeing Henry and Leonore reconciled, to be saved from the consequences of scandal by his imminent death.
- DirectorRalph InceStarsJacqueline LoganMary AstorBelle BennettWhen Matt and Amy Dale separate, their son, Matthew, is put in an English school and kept in ignorance of his parents' identities. As he grows to manhood, reflections on his paternity increasingly obsess Matthew, and he finally goes to Paris in search of information about his family. There he meets Bricotte, a girl of Montmartre of questionable morals. News of Matthew's late hours and his heavy drinking reaches his father, who comes to Paris and introduces himself to Matthew as a friend. The elder Dale arranges to have Bricotte in his own apartment when Matthew arrives, causing Matthew to suspect her of cheating on him. Matthew's mother is also in Paris, changed by the passing years. Matthew meets her, and she uses her feminine arts to vamp him. They are discovered by the elder Dale, who reveals to Matthew both his own and his mother's true identities. Matthew attempts to commit suicide but is saved by his father. He returns to England and marries Margo, his fiancée. Matt and Amy Dale are reunited for their twilight years.
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsDouglas FairbanksMary AstorJack McDonaldDon Cesar, son of Zorro, is framed for murder while visiting Spain, and becomes the whip-wielding outlaw Don Q.
- DirectorWebster CampbellStarsBen LyonMary AstorCharles ByerPaula, a chorus girl married to an aristocratic dipsomaniac, tries to protect her infant son from a drunken prank and inadvertently causes the death of her husband. She is accused of murder and sentenced to life in prison on circumstantial evidence; her son, Danny, is put in an orphanage. Years later Danny becomes a movie star and spends every cent he earns in an effort to prove his mother's innocence, refusing, therefore, to take any chances with his own life. He is accused of cowardice by the newspapers and finally agrees to enter an automobile race. Danny loses the race but proves himself to be a man; his mother is released from jail.