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1. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959–1963)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Comedy, Family
A young man schemes and attempts to get the "better things in life" mostly popularity, success, and most importantly, girls.
Stars: Dwayne Hickman, Bob Denver, Frank Faylen, Florida Friebus
Votes: 2,067
2. This Is Your Life (1955–2003)
30 min | Documentary, Biography
The UK version of the popular US show. Eamonn Andrews (later Michael Aspel) surprises celebrities by presenting them with the Big Red Book before taking them into the studio to tell viewers... See full summary »
Stars: Eamonn Andrews, Michael Aspel, Elizabeth Dawn, June Whitfield
Votes: 325
3. The Five Pennies (1959)
Approved | 117 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Danny Kaye cuts loose with his trademark musical clowning. Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong plays his horn and croons in that famed gargling-granite voice. Big Band icons Bob Crosby, Ray Anthony and Shelly Manne join the fun.
Director: Melville Shavelson | Stars: Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino
Votes: 2,125
4. The Thin Man (1957–1959)
30 min | Mystery
Amateur detectives Nick and Nora Charles investigate various crimes.
Stars: Peter Lawford, Phyllis Kirk, Asta, Jack Albertson
Votes: 282
5. The Merv Griffin Show (1962–1986)
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Family, Music
Merv Griffin invites a series of actors, actresses, writers, and directors to discuss the progressive work they have done and current culture, arts, and entertainment surrounding the numerous projects.
Stars: Merv Griffin, Mort Lindsey, Mort Lindsey Orchestra, Arthur Treacher
Votes: 610
6. Camera Three (1955–1980)
30 min | Drama
A weekly examination of the arts and literature, on Sunday mornings when there was more likely to be an audience interested in such matters and there was less competition for ratings.
Stars: James Macandrew, Faubion Bowers, Margaret Croyden, Alfredo Antonini
Votes: 63
7. Souls for Sale (1923)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Director: Rupert Hughes | Stars: Eleanor Boardman, Mae Busch, Barbara La Marr, Richard Dix
Votes: 1,111
8. Hollywood (1980)
676 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The history of the American film industry in Hollywood during the Silent era.
Stars: James Mason, Colleen Moore, Byron Haskin, Viola Dana
Votes: 856
9. The Silver Horde (1930)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Romance
A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Louis Wolheim, Jean Arthur, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 631
10. The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' (1914)
Not Rated | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Prevented from dating his sweetheart by his uncle, a young man turns his thoughts to murder.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Spottiswoode Aitken, Blanche Sweet, George Siegmann
Votes: 1,433
11. A Corner in Wheat (1909)
G | 14 min | Short, Crime, Drama
An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Frank Powell, Grace Henderson, James Kirkwood, Linda Arvidson
Votes: 2,754
12. The Twentieth Century (1957–1968)
30 min | Documentary, History
A long-running documentary series concerning the news and cultural events which shaped the 20th century. It also offered interpretations of the meaning of certain events, and placed wars ... See full summary »
Stars: Walter Cronkite, Daniel Schorr, Winston Burdett, Peter Kalischer
Votes: 87
13. Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
'Rainbow Girls' has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth-talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a natural and ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Alice White, Jack Mulhall, Blanche Sweet, Ford Sterling
Votes: 407
14. The Woman Racket (1930)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
During a raid on a speakeasy, a cop finds himself attracted to a pretty female employee. Instead of arresting her and taking her to jail, he not only helps her escape but takes her out to ... See full summary »
Directors: Albert H. Kelley, Robert Ober, Paul Bern | Stars: Tom Moore, Blanche Sweet, Sally Starr, Robert Agnew
Votes: 114
15. Judith of Bethulia (1914)
Not Rated | 61 min | Drama
A religious woman seeks to save her people from destruction by seducing and murdering the enemy leader, but her plans get complicated once she falls for him.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron
Votes: 1,452
16. The Sporting Venus (1925)
66 min | Drama, Romance
A rich heiress falls in love with a medical student despite being engaged to a foreign prince.
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Ronald Colman, Lew Cody, Josephine Crowell
Votes: 129
17. The Warrens of Virginia (1915)
50 min | Drama, War
As the Civil War begins Ned Burton leaves his Southern love Agatha Warren and joins the Union army. He is later protected and saved from death by Agatha in spite of her loyalty to the South.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Blanche Sweet, James Neill, Page Peters, Mabel Van Buren
Votes: 25 | Gross: $0.09M
18. Girl Talk (1963–1970)
30 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Virginia Graham, Joan Crawford, Dody Goodman, Gloria Swanson
Votes: 164
19. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1924)
80 min | Drama, Romance
A young girl is seduced and raped by an older middle class man in Victorian England. After moving on with her path, she gets married. All is well until her husband discovers her past. ... See full summary »
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Conrad Nagel, Stuart Holmes, George Fawcett
Votes: 22
20. Home, Sweet Home (1914)
Passed | 55 min | Drama
John Howard Payne at his most miserable point in life, writes a song which becomes popular and inspires other people at some point in their lives.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Josephine Crowell, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish
Votes: 286
21. The Painted Lady (1912)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems interested in her. However, unknown to her... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Madge Kirby, Charles Hill Mailes, Kate Bruce
Votes: 646
22. The Captive (1915)
50 min | Drama, Romance, War
With her brother killed Sonya is given Turkish captive Mahmud to do the hard work on the farm. After they become fond of each other he strikes a Turkish officer. When peace arrives, his ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Blanche Sweet, House Peters, Gerald Ward, Page Peters
Votes: 162 | Gross: $0.06M
23. Anna Christie (1923)
96 min | Drama
A troubled young woman comes to live with her estranged father on the New York waterfront. A tough sailor falls in love with her, sparking conflict between her father and her suitor. What ... See full summary »
Directors: John Griffith Wray, Thomas H. Ince | Stars: Blanche Sweet, William Russell, George F. Marion, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 121
24. The Lonedale Operator (1911)
Unrated | 17 min | Short, Drama, Romance
When her father becomes ill, a young woman takes over the telegraph at a lonely western railroad station. She soon gets word that the next train will deliver the payroll for a mining ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, George Nichols, Francis J. Grandon, Wilfred Lucas
Votes: 1,345
25. The Case of Becky (1915)
Drama
When a young girl is placed under hypnotism, it's discovered that she has a split personality.
Director: Frank Reicher | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Theodore Roberts, James Neill, Carlyle Blackwell
26. His Supreme Moment (1925)
80 min | Drama
John Douglas, a mining engineer who has returned from South America in order to obtain financing for a gold mining venture, attends the theater with Sara Deeping and falls madly in love ... See full summary »
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Ronald Colman, Kathleen Myers, Belle Bennett
27. The Massacre (1912)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Action, War
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Wilfred Lucas, Blanche Sweet, Charles West, Alfred Paget
Votes: 357
28. One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912)
15 min | Short, Drama
Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other is poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles West, Dorothy Bernard, Edwin August, Blanche Sweet
Votes: 333
29. Fighting Blood (1911)
18 min | Short, Action, Western
An old soldier on the frontier, the father of a dozen children, a staunch patriot himself, brings these children up with rigid military training. He conducts his household as a garrison ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: George Nichols, Kate Bruce, Robert Harron, Florence La Badie
Votes: 170
30. Her Awakening (I) (1914)
Short, Drama
The will of old Dr. Andrews left the bulk of his property to his niece, Mary, who was an orphan living in a distant mining town. The small balance of his wealth went to a married nephew, ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Wallace Reid, Ralph Lewis, Irene Hunt
31. Enoch Arden: Part I (1911)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Drama
Enoch Arden, a humble fisherman, marries Annie Lee. He signs on as a sailor to make more money to support their growing family. A storm wrecks his ship, but Enoch swims to a deserted island. Annie waits vainly for his return.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Wilfred Lucas, Linda Arvidson, Francis J. Grandon, George Nichols
Votes: 408
32. In the Palace of the King (1923)
90 min | Drama, Romance
King Philip of Spain is jealous of his more popular brother, Don John, and sends him into battle against the Moors, hoping he will not return. Don John is in love with Dolores, daughter of ... See full summary »
Director: Emmett J. Flynn | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Edmund Lowe, Hobart Bosworth, Pauline Starke
33. The Battle (1911)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Action, Drama
Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles West, Blanche Sweet, Charles Hill Mailes, Spottiswoode Aitken
Votes: 376
34. Oil and Water (1913)
25 min | Short, Drama
After a dancer marries, she discovers that she has little in common with her husband.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Lionel Barrymore, Walter Miller
Votes: 18
35. The Last Drop of Water (1911)
Not Rated | 18 min | Short, Western
A wagon train heading west across the great desert runs out of water, and is attacked by Indians. One man -- their last hope -- is sent out to find water.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Charles West, Joseph Graybill, Francis J. Grandon
Votes: 291
36. The Making of a Man (1911)
17 min | Short, Drama
A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks away to join him in the next town, but her father forces her to return home...
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Dell Henderson, Blanche Sweet, Edwin August, Kate Bruce
Votes: 88
37. The Blacklist (1916)
50 min | Drama
Based on the 1915 Colorado miners strike. Warren Harcourt, the coal company manager, comes to the scene. This causes a chain of events that will change the current status quo.
Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Charles Clary, Ernest Joy, William Elmer
Votes: 31
38. The Hushed Hour (1919)
50 min | Drama
The four grown children of prominent Judge Appleton each spend one hour of meditation at his funeral to honor his last request, which allows them to see their lives unfold before them. None... See full summary »
Director: Edmund Mortimer | Stars: Winter Hall, Lydia Knott, Wilfred Lucas, Blanche Sweet
39. To Save Her Soul (1909)
11 min | Short, Drama
Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the curate who loves her, she accepts the offer ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Arthur V. Johnson, Mary Pickford, Caroline Harris, W. Chrystie Miller
Votes: 56
40. Bluebeard's Seven Wives (1925)
94 min | Comedy, Romance
Bank clerk John Hart is about to marry Mary Kelly, but she insists that before that happens he must grow a mustache. The idea of that shakes him up so much that he gets distracted at work, ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Ben Lyon, Lois Wilson, Blanche Sweet, Dorothy Sebastian
41. The Evil Eye (1917)
50 min | Drama
An alarming epidemic has broken out in the vineyards of which Leonard Sheldon is the manager, and in answer to his wire that a doctor be sent to the little Mexican settlement at once, ... See full summary »
Director: George Melford | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Tom Forman, Webster Campbell, J. Parks Jones
42. The Unpardonable Sin (1919)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, War
At the outbreak of the First World War, a mother and one of her two daughters are captured and debased at the hands of the Germans. The other daughter goes from America to find them in war torn Belgium.
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Edwin Stevens, Mary Alden, Matt Moore
43. Those Who Dance (1924)
80 min | Crime, Drama
A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to break up the gang.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Bessie Love, Warner Baxter, Robert Agnew
Gross: $0.21M
44. The New Commandment (1925)
70 min | Drama, War
Mrs. Ormsby Parr, a scheming society woman who has buried three husbands, hopes to arrange a marriage between her stepdaughter and Billy Morrow. She arranges for Billy's father to take them... See full summary »
Director: Howard Higgin | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Ben Lyon, Holbrook Blinn, Clare Eames
45. The Far Cry (1926)
80 min | Drama
Dick Clayton and Claire Marsh fall in love in Paris, and their respective parents come to the Continent to break up the match. Mrs. Clayton is so insulting in her determination to save Dick... See full summary »
Director: Silvano Balboni | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Jack Mulhall, Myrtle Stedman, Hobart Bosworth
46. The Silent Partner (1917)
50 min | Drama
Jane Colby, doubting the honesty of Harvey Wilson, a member of the firm by which she is employed, discovers a discrepancy in his accounts, and his resignation is therefore requested by ... See full summary »
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Thomas Meighan, Henry Hebert, Ernest Joy
47. A Woman of Pleasure (1919)
70 min | Adventure, Drama
After Alice Dane, a poor English schoolteacher, witnesses Sir John Turnbull throw an adversary over a cliff, Turnbull offers her money and marriage, because a wife cannot testify against ... See full summary »
Director: Wallace Worsley | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Wheeler Oakman, Wilfred Lucas, Wesley Barry
48. The Meanest Man in the World (1923)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy
Bert Lytell is a kind lawyer who decides to get tough after losing all his clients but he discovers it's not that easy to be mean.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Bert Lytell, Blanche Sweet, Bryant Washburn, Marion Aye
49. Death's Marathon (1913)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Two business partners pursue the same woman. She accepts the marriage proposal of the irresponsible partner, much to her later regret. He squanders money on gambling, as his interest in her... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Walter Miller, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 614
50. The Lady from Hell (1926)
60 min | Western
A former Scottish military officer is wrongly accused while living in the US of murder and is imprisoned. The person responsible for the crime confesses which allows the former officer to be released from prison.
Director: Stuart Paton | Stars: Roy Stewart, Blanche Sweet, Ralph Lewis, Frank Elliott