Martha Sleeper

Martha Sleeper

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Martha Sleeper (June 24, 1910 – March 25, 1983) was a film actress of the 1920s–1930s and, later, a Broadway stage actress. She studied dancing for five years with Russian ballet master, Louis H. Chalif, at his New York dancing studio. Her first public exhibitions were at Carnegie Hall at his class exhibitions. Sleeper's film career began in 1923 and continued until 1945. Her first screen appearance, at the age of 13, was in The Mailman (1923), an independent production. After appearing in several kiddie comedies at the Christie studio she was signed by the Hal Roach studio for the Our Gang" series but she quickly outgrew that role. From 1925-27 she appeared in comedies playing opposite the studio's most popular male stars. She left the Roach studio in late 1927 and moved to the FBO studio where she starred in six silent features during 1928–29. With the coming of sound she was signed by MGM and placed in their training program. From 1930 to 1936 she played supporting roles in many melodramas her role typically that of a well-bred somewhat snobbish society woman who ends up losing her man to the film's leading lady. Frustrated by the types of roles she was being offered, Martha began playing onstage in and about Los Angeles, at one point drawing raves as Eliza Doolittle in a performance of Pygmalion in 1932. After appearing in some low budget melodramas for the poverty row Monogram studio Martha and her husband, actor Hardie Albright, left Hollywood for New York in 1936 where Martha began a long run in both on- and off-Broadway plays. In 1945, as a favor to director Leo McCarey, Martha played the role of Patsy's mother in The Bells of St. Mary's. It was her last screen role.

  • Title : Martha Sleeper
  • Popularity : 5.047
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1910-06-24
  • Place of Birth : Lake Bluff, Illinois, USA
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Martha Sleeper Movies

  • 1945
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    The Bells of St. Mary's

    The Bells of St. Mary's

    6.788 1945 HD

    Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt...

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  • 1933
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    Penthouse

    Penthouse

    6.7 1933 HD

    Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping...

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  • 1935
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    The Scoundrel

    The Scoundrel

    6.2 1935 HD

    A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a...

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  • 1925
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    Sherlock Sleuth

    Sherlock Sleuth

    1 1925 HD

    House detective of the Hotel Omigosh, Cyril Fromage and his hotel switchboard operator sweetheart attempt to thwart a dastardly thief, "The Weasel,"...

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  • 1924
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    Sweet Daddy

    Sweet Daddy

    1 1924 HD

    Jimmy Jump's boss asks him to meet his small niece and her dog and entertain them between trains. Jimmy buys a balloon or two and looks over the...

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  • 1927
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    The Honorable Mr. Buggs

    The Honorable Mr. Buggs

    6 1927 HD

    Mr. Buggs is an insect collector. A beautiful and mysterious Asian woman (the lovely Anna May Wong) brings him a rare specimen, but she is actually a...

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  • 1934
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    Spitfire

    Spitfire

    5.4 1934 HD

    Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a...

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  • 1926
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    Along Came Auntie

    Along Came Auntie

    6.2 1926 HD

    A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.

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  • 1926
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    A Punch in the Nose

    A Punch in the Nose

    1 1926 HD

    A troupe of actors stranded in a small town take job as recreation directors in a sanitarium and hilarity ensues.

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  • 1924
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    The Royal Razz

    The Royal Razz

    1 1924 HD

    A doting father who plays Santa Claus for Christmas annoys a trolley full of people when he lugs a giant Christmas tree home.

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  • 1927
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    Jewish Prudence

    Jewish Prudence

    6.4 1927 HD

    Papa Gimplewart, father to three children is unimpressed by the young lawyer who wants to marry his daughter.

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  • 1925
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    Better Movies

    Better Movies

    5.8 1925 HD

    The gang decided to go into the movie-making business, using all kinds of sets and props. There were problems as those not involved are trying to...

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  • 1927
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    Fluttering Hearts

    Fluttering Hearts

    5 1927 HD

    Defying her father's wishes, a young woman runs off to a sale at store. She's pursued by a policeman, but wins him over with the help of a friendly...

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  • 1933
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    Midnight Mary

    Midnight Mary

    6.9 1933 HD

    While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of...

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  • 1928
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    Pass the Gravy

    Pass the Gravy

    6.417 1928 HD

    Schultz raises prize chickens and roosters that are always getting into neighbor Max Davidson's garden and eating the seeds, leading to constant...

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  • 1934
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    Tomorrow's Youth

    Tomorrow's Youth

    1 1934 HD

    A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy.

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  • 1926
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    Long Fliv the King

    Long Fliv the King

    5.6 1926 HD

    This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne....

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  • 1926
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    Crazy Like a Fox

    Crazy Like a Fox

    6.2 1926 HD

    Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They...

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  • 1926
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    Say It with Babies

    Say It with Babies

    5 1926 HD

    Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own...

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  • 1933
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    Broken Dreams

    Broken Dreams

    6 1933 HD

    Medical intern Robert Morley is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He...

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  • 1935
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    Great God Gold

    Great God Gold

    9 1935 HD

    Greed, ambition and hunger-for-power drive John Hart, a New-York-City stock-market broker, into crooked dealings and deception, but he doesn't...

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  • 1924
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    Too Many Mammas

    Too Many Mammas

    4.4 1924 HD

    Charley is called upon to go out with his boss on a date with the boss' mistress, to act as a beard.

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  • 1928
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    Should Tall Men Marry?

    Should Tall Men Marry?

    5.9 1928 HD

    This western comedy is about rancher Finlayson's beautiful daughter, Martha Sleeper, who refuses to marry the bad guy and how Jimmy and dimwitted...

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  • 1932
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    Huddle

    Huddle

    6.6 1932 HD

    Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale...

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  • 1931
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    Confessions of a Co-Ed

    Confessions of a Co-Ed

    5.8 1931 HD

    A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love....

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  • 1925
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    Innocent Husbands

    Innocent Husbands

    6.2 1925 HD

    Despite his faithfulness, Melvin is always under suspicion by wife Mame. Complications erupt when a woman from a party across the hall passes out in...

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  • 1930
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    War Nurse

    War Nurse

    5.1 1930 HD

    Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I.

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  • 1925
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    Sure-Mike!

    Sure-Mike!

    1 1925 HD

    Vermuda, a saleswoman in a department store, is very late for work. She relies on a ruse to fool the floorwalker, and when that doesn't work, she...

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  • 1934
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    West of the Pecos

    West of the Pecos

    1 1934 HD

    Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.

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  • 1925
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    There Goes the Bride

    There Goes the Bride

    1 1925 HD

    What bridegroom could be romantic with a swollen jaw and a yelling tooth? His young bride thinks that's no excuse!

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  • 1926
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    Thundering Fleas

    Thundering Fleas

    5.6 1926 HD

    The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.

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  • 1931
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    Ten Cents a Dance

    Ten Cents a Dance

    6.8 1931 HD

    A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.

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  • 1961
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    Days of Thrills and Laughter

    Days of Thrills and Laughter

    5.5 1961 HD

    An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

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  • 1933
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    Bombshell

    Bombshell

    6.5 1933 HD

    A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

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  • 1928
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    Taxi 13

    Taxi 13

    1 1928 HD

    A crime caper featuring the 'first family of Hollywood' - the Watsons.

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  • 1926
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    What's the World Coming To?

    What's the World Coming To?

    4.5 1926 HD

    Short comedy which posits that in a hundred years men's styles will revert to Regency garb, and that there will be a complete gender role reversal,...

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  • 1936
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    Four Days Wonder

    Four Days Wonder

    1 1936 HD

    Jeanne Dante stars as precocious 13-year-old Judy Widdell, a devoted fan of dime-novel detective stories. When a real murder occurs in the vicinity,...

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  • 1924
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    A Ten-Minute Egg

    A Ten-Minute Egg

    5 1924 HD

    The main premise for the comedy is the Jimmy discovers he can convince people he is a tough figure to be reckoned with merely by giving them a...

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  • 1924
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    Seeing Nellie Home

    Seeing Nellie Home

    5 1924 HD

    The situation is typically embarrassing and unlikely-but-possible for Charley, but it is at the same time such a simple idea -- Charley shows off by...

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  • 1924
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    Outdoor Pajamas

    Outdoor Pajamas

    5 1924 HD

    This funny Hal Roach comedy has Jimmy Jump (Charley Chase) waking up late for his wedding so in the mad rush he ends up leaving his house only...

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  • 1925
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    The Rat's Knuckles

    The Rat's Knuckles

    6.8 1925 HD

    Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.

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  • 1927
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    Flaming Fathers

    Flaming Fathers

    5.2 1927 HD

    Papa Gimplewart chaperones his daughter and her "steady" during a beach adventure.

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  • 1927
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    Love 'em and Feed 'em

    Love 'em and Feed 'em

    6 1927 HD

    A pair of gold prospectors (Max Davidson, Oliver Hardy) try to make their way in the big city. *Only reconstructed fragments exists.

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  • 1934
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    Hollywood Party

    Hollywood Party

    5.8 1934 HD

    Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real...

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  • 1931
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    Girls Demand Excitement

    Girls Demand Excitement

    1 1931 HD

    Peter Brooks is a hard-working, hard-up college student whose dislike of women attending college weakens under the amorous advances of spoiled...

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  • 1926
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    Madame Mystery

    Madame Mystery

    5.6 1926 HD

    A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They...

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  • 1925
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    Bad Boy

    Bad Boy

    6.7 1925 HD

    In this two-reeler, Jimmy Jump wants to please both of his parents, but they disagree about everything. His father wants him to act more manly,...

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  • 1936
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    Rhythm on the Range

    Rhythm on the Range

    4 1936 HD

    Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner...

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  • 1930
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    Madam Satan

    Madam Satan

    5.8 1930 HD

    A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.

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  • 1926
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    Bromo and Juliet

    Bromo and Juliet

    5.6 1926 HD

    A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a...

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  • 1925
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    Big Red Riding Hood

    Big Red Riding Hood

    5 1925 HD

    Jimmy Jump is asked by the Swedish Government to translate for educational purposes "Little Red Riding Hood", but he can't afford to buy the book, so...

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  • 1926
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    Mum's the Word

    Mum's the Word

    5.7 1926 HD

    A widow has married rich, but didn't tell her husband about her son. And he's coming for a surprise visit. To hide his identity he is introduced as...

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  • 1931
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    A Tailor-Made Man

    A Tailor-Made Man

    1 1931 HD

    John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs...

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  • 1932
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    Rasputin and the Empress

    Rasputin and the Empress

    5.3 1932 HD

    The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

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  • 1928
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    Danger Street

    Danger Street

    1 1928 HD

    Rolly Sigsby, a society clubman bitterly weary of life, wanders into the middle of a gunfight between the organized gangs on the lower East side in...

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  • 1930
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    Our Blushing Brides

    Our Blushing Brides

    5.9 1930 HD

    Jerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while Connie and Franky are reckless with their...

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  • 1933
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    The Secret of Madame Blanche

    The Secret of Madame Blanche

    4 1933 HD

    A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.

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  • 1925
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    Should Sailors Marry?

    Should Sailors Marry?

    5.4 1925 HD

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  • 1935
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    Two Sinners

    Two Sinners

    10 1935 HD

    An ex-convict gets released after shooting a fellow who made a play for his wife. When he meets Sleeper, his life takes a change for the better, but...

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  • 1925
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    Plain and Fancy Girls

    Plain and Fancy Girls

    1 1925 HD

    Jimmy Jump has a "plain" girlfriend, and becomes intrigued by a "fancy" girl he spots in a park. Eventually he realizes he is better off with his...

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  • 1925
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    Laughing Ladies

    Laughing Ladies

    1 1925 HD

    Lucien Littlefield is a dentist who believes in giving generous doses of laughing gas to the patients. On this occasion when a girl arrives at his...

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  • 1924
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    All Wet

    All Wet

    5.2 1924 HD

    Charley Chase has car trouble.

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  • 1928
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    The Little Yellow House

    The Little Yellow House

    1 1928 HD

    Plot unknown and film presumed to be lost.

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  • 1964
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    Sex and the College Girl

    Sex and the College Girl

    4 1964 HD

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