"I'm not a bad businessman", filmmaker D.W. Griffith once protested, "Honestly I'm not!" Yet industryites were certain that Griffith had taken leave of his financial senses when he paid $175,000 for the screen rights to the old Lottie Blair Parker stage play Way Down East. Considered out of date even in 1920, the play told the story of Anna ...
Director Frank Capra's first feature for Columbia Pictures, the silent That Certain Thing stars Viola Dana and Ralph Graves. Dana plays a poor girl who falls in love with wealthy Graves, the son of a millionaire restaurateur. When Graves declares that he has no intention of going into the family business, his father cuts him off without a dime. ...
In this melodrama, a wealthy girl decides to disguise herself and work as a laborer in her father's factory so she can be near her dad and prove to him that she is capable of helping out in the family business. While there, she falls in love with a shipping clerk, and after revealing her true identity, invites him to a party in her father's ...
This states rights drama features Pauline Garon and Harrison Ford. Sally Whipple, a thoroughly unconventional young woman (Garon), is wooed by Rudolph Van Alten, a society man who secretly owns a sleazy road house (David Powell). Sally's affections turn to Jimmy Munroe (Ford), a newspaperman who is writing an article about the "average woman of ...
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