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Famous Players Film Company

Famous Players Film Company

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Hollywood, California, United States

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In Praise of Older Women poster
Movie

Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.

In Praise of Older Women

Sep 1978

Esmeralda poster
Movie

A lost film. Esmeralda, a simple farm girl is in love with country boy David, but her mother yearns for a high society city life. Ore is discovered on their farm and the money rolls in. The family is packed up and moved to the big city where Esmeralda is forced into an engagement with a wealthy Count. Suddenly the ore is depleted and a fresh supply is discovered on David's farm. Much to the delight of Esmeralda, her impending marriage to the Count is off and her mother happily consents to a marriage between Esmeralda and David.

Esmeralda

Sep 1915

The Dictator poster
Movie

On the lam from the New York Police because of a false murder charge, playboy Brooke Travers escapes to a Central American banana republic.

The Dictator

Jun 1915

A Girl of Yesterday poster
Movie

A lost film. A girl with old-fashioned values becomes a modern sophisticate.

A Girl of Yesterday

Oct 1915

Seventeen poster
Movie

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 girl, she runs off with an older man. William now heartbroken, contemplates suicide, until a friend from childhood, May Parcher, pays a visit and William decides to fall in love with her.

Seventeen

Nov 1916

Cinderella poster
Movie

Good-hearted Cinderella is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, but she is able to go to the Royal Ball with the help of the Fairy Godmother. Based on Charles Perrault's fairy tale, and featuring unforgettable chemistry between Pickford and then-husband Owen Moore as Prince Charming.

Cinderella

Dec 1914

Great Expectations poster
Movie

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Great Expectations

Jan 1917

Nearly a King poster
Movie

A crown prince doesn't want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place.

Nearly a King

Jan 1916

A Good Little Devil poster
Movie

A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.

A Good Little Devil

Mar 1914

The Land of Promise poster
Movie

Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.

The Land of Promise

Dec 1917

The Love That Lives poster
Movie

When her husband Pete is shot over a craps game, Molly McGill goes to work as a scrubwoman to support her two children.

The Love That Lives

Jul 1917

Rags poster
Movie

Mary Pickford plays "Rags," a pretty but wild girl who defends her alcoholic father a disgraced bank cashier, no matter how he mistreats her. Enter a handsome engineer whose family had once fired Rag's father for theft. Rags falls in love but realizes that marriage is a hopeless proposition considering her lowly place in society. But when she learns that her father plans to rob the newcomer, Rags betrays him to the sheriff, and he is shot in the ensuing battle.

Rags

Aug 1915

Bella Donna poster
Movie

Bella Donna ( Pauline Frederick ) a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine ( Thomas Holding ) into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi. To get rid of Nigel, she begins slowly poisoning him. However, Nigel's friend Dr. Isaacson arrives in time to save him. Now Baroudi wants nothing to do with Bella, and neither does her husband. Totally alone now, the distraught Bella wanders off into the desert.

Bella Donna

Nov 1915

Sapho poster
Movie

Sapho, whose real name is Fanny Legrand, is the daughter of poor people, her father being a coachman, and her early home is little more than a hovel in the slums of Paris. She is a flower seller on the streets of Paris, earning a few sous daily, which she uses to support her family. She meets famous sculptor, Caoudal, who recognizes her wonderful beauty and persuades her to pose for him. The luxury of his studio awakens in her an unsuspected love for the beautiful things of life. It's not long before she becomes the most talked of and sought after model of Paris. She is content to live in this way, reveling in beauty and the admiration of her friends and Caoudal himself. Until a poet named Dejoie, moved by her beauty, writes verses to her which make both himself and her still more famous, winning her away from Caoudal. A lost film.

Sapho

Mar 1917

At First Sight poster
Movie

Famous romance writer Hartly Poole retreats to the country for inspiration. There he meets ardent admirer Justina Chaffin, who is about to marry a fortune-hunting scoundrel. After Justina and Hartly fall in love, she discovers her fiancé's deception and flees to Hartly's cottage. Seeing her car parked in front, the sheriff accuses Hartly of abduction, but all is resolved when Justina and Hartly exchange vows.

At First Sight

Jul 1917

In the Bishop's Carriage poster
Movie

A lost film. A successful stage actress with a hidden past as a criminal is kept on the path of righteousness by a benefactor.

In the Bishop's Carriage

Sep 1913

Hearts Adrift poster
Movie

A lost film. A man and a woman are shipwrecked on a desert island. It doesn't take long before they fall in love and, figuring that they would never see civilization again, declare themselves married and eventually have a child. One day, however...

Hearts Adrift

Feb 1914

An American Citizen poster
Movie

A young American broker at large in London.

An American Citizen

Jan 1914

Tess of the D'Urbervilles poster
Movie

A peasant girl sent to make a claim on her family's ancestral home in England's Wessex is seduced and left with child by its current owner.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Sep 1913

Bab's Diary poster
Movie

Bab comes home for the Christmas holidays. Given to fabrications, Bab has been keeping a diary in which she describes and imaginary boyfriend named Harold Valentine. Imagine what happens when a real Harold Valentine shows up as her parents' house guest.

Bab's Diary

Oct 1917

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