75% (1) Stella Dallas 110 min, Passed, [Drama] [Henry King] [16 Nov 1925]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 75%, External Reviews
Actors: Alice Joyce, Belle Bennett, Jean Hersholt, Ronald Colman
Writer: Frances Marion (adaptation), Olive Higgins Prouty (novel)
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Plot: Stella Dallas is a small town girl who marries the upper class Stephen Dallas, with whom she has nothing in common. After the birth of a daughter, Laurel, the Dallases go their separate ...
Rotten Tomatoes: In this moving silent melodrama, lovely small-town girl Stella Dallas hastily marries a young blueblood with whom she has nothing in common to escape the painful aftermath of her father's suicide. With so little to base it on, the marriage crumbles soon after she bears a daughter.
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71% (1) Beau Geste 101 min, [Action, Adventure, Drama] [Herbert Brenon] [25 Aug 1926]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Alice Joyce, Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes, Ronald Colman
Writer: Herbert Brenon (adaptation), John Russell (adaptation), Paul Schofield, Percival Christopher Wren (novel)
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Plot: Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.
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69% (1) Dancing Mothers 66 min, [Drama] [Herbert Brenon] [01 Mar 1926]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, External Reviews
Actors: Alice Joyce, Clara Bow, Conway Tearle, Norman Trevor
Writer: Edmund Goulding (play), Forrest Halsey, Edgar Selwyn (play)
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Plot: Young girl becomes a "flapper", defying her parents and the community.
Rotten Tomatoes: A pair of young carousers opt to marry, struggling to make it work until the young lady's mother decides to break things up -- seducing her daughter's husband and abandoning her own mate to run off with him. This Clara Bow jazz-age drama is slightly spicier than her usual vehicles.
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68% (1) So's Your Old Man 67 min, [Comedy] [Gregory La Cava] [25 Oct 1926]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Alice Joyce, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Kittens Reichert, W.C. Fields
Writer: J. Clarkson Miller, Howard Emmett Rogers (adaptation), Julian Street (story "Mr. Bisbee's Princess")
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Plot: Poor glazier Sam Bisbee has invented break-proof glass. He intends to show it off to a convention of automobile men. Due to a mixup his car is switched with another and his demonstration toss of a brick simply breaks the car's windshield. On the way home he thinks a woman is trying to commit suicide and so prevents her. The woman is really Princess Lescaboura, who arrives in Bisbee's home town looking for him.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this film, small-town glazier Sam Bisbee's get-rich-quick schemes are driving his imperious wife to distraction. Bisbee's latest invention is an unbreakable glass windshield, which he endeavors to demonstrate at a convention of automobile manufacturers. Alas, the cars are accidentally switched, ruining Sam's demonstration.
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62% (1) The Passionate Adventure N/A, [Drama] [Graham Cutts] [08 Dec 1924]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, External Reviews
Actors: Alice Joyce, Clive Brook, Lillian Hall-Davis, Marjorie Daw
Writer: Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Morton, Frank Stayton (novel)
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Plot: A rich man leaves his wife, poses as a coster, and saves a factory girl from a crook.
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54% (1) Song o' My Heart 85 min, PASSED, [Drama, Music, Romance] [Frank Borzage] [07 Sep 1930]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 54%, External Reviews
Actors: Alice Joyce, John McCormack, Maureen O'Sullivan, Tommy Clifford
Writer: Tom Barry (story), Sonya Levien (scenario and dialogue)
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Plot: Broken hearts in Ireland. Sean is a great tenor, in semi-retirement, living in a village close to Mary, the woman he's always loved. Mary's aunt convinced her to marry a man for his money; he's has recently deserted her, leaving her penniless. She and her two children, Eileen and Tad, move in with the selfish and austere aunt and are miserable. Eileen is falling in love with Fergus, a young man who's off to Dublin to seek his fortune. Sean is drawn out of retirement and goes on tour in America. At his first concert, he's nervous and out of sorts until the last song, when peace descends on him like a gift. What has happened, and can family life be set right?
Rotten Tomatoes: Forty-five-year-old Irish tenor John McCormack made his screen debut in Song o' My Heart. Fans of McCormack would have been satisfied if their idol had simply sung his way through the film's 85 minutes, but Fox Studios insisted on a plotline. The star plays Sean O'Callaghan, a world-renowned singer who gives up his career when his sweetheart Mary O'Brien (Alice Joyce) is forced to marry another. Years later, Mary is deserted by her husband and eventually dies of grief. Still carrying a torch for his lost love, Sean assumes the task of looking after Mary's two children. The kids are played by 11-year-old Tommy Clifford and 19-year-old Maureen O'Sullivan, the latter also making her first film appearance. Lensed partly on location in Ireland, the film provides plenty of opportunity for good old-fashioned blarney, as well as moments of honest sentiment, as when McCormick sings his signature tune "Little Boy Blue" (one of eleven musical highlights). It's hardly a coincidence that Song o' My Heart was released just before St. Patrick's Day, 1930.
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