A Show Girl’s Strategem

Sally in Our Alley

Sally, a girl of the tenements, is being raised by three bachelor foster-fathers, a pawnbroker, an organ-grinder and a peddler, and is very happy prep

1927

Seventeen

Seventeen year old William Sylvanus Baxter has fallen madly in love with young coquette, Lola Pratt. After spending all of his money on the fickle gir

1916

Five and Ten Cent Annie

Street cleaner Elmer Peck (Clyde Cook) inherits a million dollars from his uncle Adam Peck (Tom Ricketts) on the conditions that he retains the uncle'

1928

The Haunted House

Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which incl

1928

The Little Wildcat

A pair of elderly Civil War veterans, Judge Holt and his friend Joel Ketchum, spent most of their time reminiscing about their wartime experiences. In

1928

The Fable of the Club Girls and the Four Times

Once a lot of grown-up girls organized a club for the discussion of current evils. The principal current evil they discussed was man. The object was t

1914

Sailor Izzy Murphy

Izzy Murphy is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he sells.

1927

At Scrogginses' Corner

The general store at Scrogginses' Corner is the favorite lounging and meeting place for the citizens of the locality. On an eventful day a rich couple

1912

She Couldn't Help It

Removed from an orphanage, Nance Olden is taken to live at Mother Hogan's boarding-house for crooks. There she becomes Tom Morgan's partner, helping h

1920

Two Weeks with Pay

Pansy O'Donnell, a salesgirl, is given a two-week vacation at a summer resort, where she advertises clothing made by her company. The hotel clerk mist

1921

Cidade Mulher

A theater manager about to go bankrupt decides to accept help from his daughter and her boyfriend to save the family's finances, which she does with t

1936

Swim Girl, Swim

Serious university co-ed Alice Smith, is wholly engrossed, it would appear, in chasing butterflies and rare insects under the guidance of her friend,

1927

A Broadway Butterfly

Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets up with Cookie, a worldly choru

1925

Eve's Lover

Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar to marry Eve so he can

1925

The Man Upstairs

The Man Upstairs is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brother

1926

The Printer's Devil

Brick Hubbard, a "printer's devil", convinces his friend Sid Fletcher to invest in "The Gazette", a local newspaper. Sid pens an editorial that infuri

1923

Stranger in Hollywood

A young woman becomes rich after striking oil on her property, summarily leaving her home, past, and fiancée for a more flavorful life in Hollywood.

1968

A Hoosier Romance

Pretty Patience Thompson, a "girl with a singing soul," lives with her cold-hearted and avaricious father, Jeff Thompson, on their Indiana farm. Her l

1918

Resurrection of a Corpse

One of the two earliest horror films ever made. This film is presumed lost. In this black comedy scene, the bottom falls out of a coffin, the corpse t

1898

The March Hare

Lizbeth Palmer is known as "The March Hare" among her friends, and the daughter of a Los Angeles millionaire, comes to New York with a chaperon to vis

1921