(1925),
starring William Desmond as a law enforcer entangled in a dangerous romance with a bootlegger, an alleged lady of the night
(UCLA Film & Television Archive).
The Battle of the Sexes
(1928),
D.W. Griffith's late silent drama, photographed by Karl Struss, about a beautiful gold digger who sets her sights on a wealthy family man
(George Eastman Museum).
(1919),
Erich von Stroheim's directorial debut about a neglected wife, on holiday in the Alps, who resists the advances of an Austrian cavalry officer
(Museum of Modern Art).
Blind Wives
(1920),
a moral lesson about the perils of consumerism, driven home to a spendthrift wife through three successive nightmares
(Museum of Modern Art).
The Blue Bird
(1918),
Maurice Tourneur's atmospheric Christmas fantasy, based on the Maeterlinck play, about two poor children in search of the Blue Bird of Happiness
(George Eastman Museum).
Bread on the Waters
(1913),
Edison Company one-reeler directed by George A. Lessey
(Museum of Modern Art).
Bunny's Birthday Surprise
(1913),
starring comedy team John Bunny and Flora Finch, in a spoof about a surprise party that goes awry
(UCLA Film & Television Archive).
The Call of the Wild
(1923),
an early adaptation of Jack London's classic novel from the Hal Roach Studios
(Museum of Modern Art).
Capital Punishment
(1925),
crime melodrama in which a social worker arranges a frame-up to save an innocent man only to have the hoax result in murder
(UCLA Film & Television Archive).
A Christmas Accident
(1912),
Edison Company one-reeler directed by Harold M. Shaw
(Museum of Modern Art).
The Colleen Bawn
(1911),
the surviving reel of an early Sidney Olcott three-reeler, shot on location in Ireland
(George Eastman Museum).
(1923),
revenge drama about ex-con, Boston Blackie, who vows to "get" the judge who refused to pardon Blackie's dying friend
(UCLA Film & Television Archive).
The Devil's Wheel
(1918),
melodrama set in the dangerous world of Parisian gambling
(Museum of Modern Art).
The Fighting Blade
(1923),
swashbuckler starring Richard Barthelmess as a soldier of fortune in 17th-century England
(UCLA Film & Television Archive).
A Fool There Was
(1915),
the steamy tale of a married businessman who loses everything in pursuit of Theda Bara, a heartless seductress called the "Vampire"
(Museum of Modern Art).
(1916),
Cecil B. DeMille's morality tale about an alcoholic husband who plots blackmail when his beautiful wife unwittingly becomes a millionaire's object of affection
(George Eastman Museum).
(1913),
Edison Company one-reeler directed by George A. Lessey
(Museum of Modern Art).
Kindred of the Dust
(1922),
Raoul Walsh melodrama starring Miriam Cooper as an unwed mother returning to her home town
(George Eastman Museum).
Lady Clare
(1912),
Edison Company one-reeler directed by Ashley Miller
(Museum of Modern Art).
The Last Man on Earth
(1924),
fantasy in which Elmer, the only man to survive the "masculitis" epidemic, is sold to the government as the prize for a boxing match between two women senators
(Museum of Modern Art).
(1922),
Maurice Tourneur's romantic screen adaptation of the literary classic about a kidnapped noblewoman who is brought up by outlaws
(UCLA Film & Television Archive).
The Love Girl
(1916),
melodrama about the orphaned Ambrosia who must move in with her aunt and rescue her kidnapped cousin from a swami hypnotist
(UCLA Film & Television Archive).
Manhattan Madness
(1916),
satire directed by Allen Dwan in which Douglas Fairbanks, returning to New York from the West, shows his "sissified" friends how things are done on the range
(George Eastman Museum).
(1924),
Ernst Lubitsch's comedy of manners tracing the flirtatious orbit of dissatisfied partners
(Museum of Modern Art).
The Mollycoddle
(1920),
an adventure involving diamond smugglers, led by Wallace Beery, who are foiled by a bespectacled milksop played by Douglas Fairbanks
(Museum of Modern Art).
Molly O'
(1921),
comic story of an Irish-American laundress, Mabel Normand, who sets her heart on a millionaire doctor
(UCLA Film & Television Archive).
(1925),
societal melodrama starring Clara Bow as Prudence, a rich girl gone Bohemian who becomes the prey of a womanizing painter
(UCLA Film & Television Archive).
My Lady's Lips
(1925),
newspaper melodrama in which an ace reporter goes underground to rescue his editor’s daughter
(UCLA Film & Television Archive).
(1914),
Edison Company one-reeler directed by Ashley Miller
(Museum of Modern Art).
Opportunity
(1918),
comedy about a young woman who disguises herself in men's clothing in order to attend a prizefight without her father's permission
(George Eastman Museum).
Paris Green
(1920),
a post-World War I love story about a GI whose friendship with a Parisian woman blossoms into romance when he meets her again in America
(George Eastman Museum).
(1924),
melodrama starring Clara Bow as a young woman who loses in Monte Carlo and becomes housekeeper to an artist with a formula for beating the odds
(UCLA Film & Television Archive).
The Portrait
(1913),
Edison Company one-reeler directed by George A. Lessey
(Museum of Modern Art).
A Proposal Under Difficulties
(1912),
Edison Company one-reeler directed by C. Jay Williams
(Museum of Modern Art).
The Public and Private Care of Infants
(1912),
Edison Company one-reeler directed by Charles M. Seay
(Museum of Modern Art).
(1913),
Edison Company one-reeler directed by C. Jay Williams
(Museum of Modern Art).
Sherlock Holmes
(1922),
starring John Barrymore as Sir Conan Doyle's famous sleuth, who is caught up in a web of intrigue spun by the evil Moriarty
(George Eastman Museum).
(1929),
avant-garde celebration of Manhattan by Robert Florey
(George Eastman Museum).
The Social Secretary
(1916),
story of sexual harassment and reformation by the husband-and-wife team of director John Emerson and scenarist Anita Loos. This film features an early appearance by Erich von Stroheim, also credited as Assistant Director
(George Eastman Museum).
(1920),
melodrama directed by John Stahl about a convent girl who denounces her mother, a notorious gambling queen, and becomes a successful actress
(George Eastman Museum).
(1922),
melodrama starring Corinne Griffith as a young woman seeking refuge from the man claiming to be the father of her child
(George Eastman Museum).
The Virtuous Model
(1919),
drama—produced, written and directed by Albert Capellani—about a French sculptor who falls in love with his model
(George Eastman Museum).
War on the Plains
(1912),
the first Western filmed at Thomas Ince's 101 Ranch and featuring a cast of Lakota/Sioux
(UCLA Film & Television Archive).
(1917),
the satire, scripted by Anita Loos as the complement to Manhattan Madness, in which an Easterner, played by Douglas Fairbanks, goes West to face train robbers and Indians
(Museum of Modern Art).
The Willow Tree
(1920),
adapted from the stageplay about an unhappy British expatriate who falls in love with a Japanese statue thought to have magical powers
(George Eastman Museum).