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1. My Three Sons (1960–1972)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Widower Steve Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and is later aided by the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.
Stars: Fred MacMurray, Stanley Livingston, Don Grady, Barry Livingston
Votes: 4,499
2. 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: 855
3. A Christmas Carol (1910)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Based on the story by Charles Dickens: Ebenezer Scrooge is well known for his harsh, miserly ways, until he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, and then by three other spirits.
Directors: J. Searle Dawley, Charles Kent, Ashley Miller | Stars: Marc McDermott, Charles Ogle, William Bechtel, Viola Dana
Votes: 829
4. 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: 608
5. Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (1987)
160 min | Documentary, Biography
A series about the life, career and works of the movie comedy genius.
Stars: Lindsay Anderson, Charles Lamont, William R. Cox, Loyal T. Lucas
Votes: 559
6. Show of Shows (1929)
Passed | 128 min | Comedy
In 1929, the studio gave the cinema its voice and offered audiences a chance to hear their favorite actors and actresses from the silent-screen era. For the first time, they can be heard in... See full summary »
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Frank Fay, William Courtenay, H.B. Warner, Hobart Bosworth
Votes: 471
7. That Certain Thing (1928)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Molly Kelly wants to marry a millionaire. When she runs into Andy Charles, heir to a restaurant fortune, she jumps at the chance and marries him. Andy's father is furious and disinherits ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Viola Dana, Ralph Graves, Burr McIntosh, Aggie Herring
Votes: 293
8. This Is Your Life (1970–1973)
30 min | Biography, Reality-TV
Stars: Ralph Edwards, Nanette Fabray, Bette Davis, Peter Graves
Votes: 197
9. Children Who Labor (1912)
Not Rated | 13 min | Drama, Short
A factory hires only children, forcing an immigrant family to put their daughter to work. When the girl brings home a foundling, the family gets sends her to work. Little do they know that the girl's father bought the factory.
Director: Ashley Miller | Stars: Robert Conness, Miriam Nesbitt, Shirley Mason, John Sturgeon
Votes: 156
10. Lux Video Theatre (1950–1959)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Live dramatic shows featuring Hollywood stars, adaptations of motion pictures, and a host accompanying. The host would introduce each act, and would conduct an interview with the stars at the end of the play.
Stars: Ken Carpenter, Jay Jackson, Otto Kruger, Gordon MacRae
Votes: 154
11. Open All Night (1924)
64 min | Comedy
A couple's marriage is going stale. She wants a take-charge kind of guy, someone who'll show her who the boss is. He's not that type, and in fact believes that women don't really respect ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Bern | Stars: Viola Dana, Jetta Goudal, Adolphe Menjou, Raymond Griffith
Votes: 132
12. Children of Eve (1915)
73 min | Drama
Young Henry Clay Madison, a clerk, falls in love with Flossy Wilson, a prostitute from New York's East Side. Although she reforms under his influence, Flossy believes that she is unworthy ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Collins | Stars: Viola Dana, Robert Conness, Tom Blake, Nellie Grant
Votes: 131
13.
Hollywood (1980)
Episode:
Pioneers
(1980)
52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Contrary to popular belief, the silent film in general had reached a high state of sophistication by the late 1920s.
Directors: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill | Stars: James Mason, Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Karl Brown, Gaylord Carter
Votes: 100
14. The Cossack Whip (1916)
61 min | Drama
Feodor Turov, chief of the Russian Czar's secret police, orders his Cossacks to attack a village he believes to be infested with rebels. The Cossacks attack the village and massacre almost ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Collins | Stars: Viola Dana, Grace Williams, Robert Walker, Frank Farrington
Votes: 95
15. The Adventure of the Hasty Elopement (1914)
Not Rated | 15 min | Mystery, Short, Comedy
An amateur detective's automobile is stolen by a young woman who is determined to elope, leading to a complicated chase involving several vehicles.
Director: Charles M. Seay | Stars: Barry O'Moore, Julian Reed, Viola Dana, Yale Benner
Votes: 94
16. Hollywood (1923)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves Grandma, an aunt, her brother, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Hope Drown, Luke Cosgrave, George K. Arthur, Ruby Lafayette
Votes: 91 | Gross: $0.31M
17.
Hollywood (1980)
Episode:
Single Beds and Double Standards
(1980)
Documentary, Biography, History
Mounting scandals including drug addiction and murder force the studios to appoint Will Hays as a morals czar to oversee production.
Directors: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill | Stars: James Mason, Cedric Belfrage, Karl Brown, Viola Dana
Votes: 83
18.
Hollywood (1980)
Episode:
In the Beginning
(1980)
52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Some of the less affluent studios escape bad weather and legal entanglements in New Jersey and make Hollywood the world film capitol.
Directors: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill | Stars: James Mason, Viola Dana, Agnes de Mille, Allan Dwan
Votes: 81
19. Nursery Favorites (1913)
9 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
Characters from various nursery rhymes sing together.
Director: Allen Ramsey | Stars: George Ballard, Viola Dana, Edna Flugrath, Robert Lett
Votes: 76
20.
Hollywood (1980)
Episode:
Swanson and Valentino
(1980)
52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Two great careers are profiled: ambitious and beautiful Gloria Swanson and the tragic Latin lover, Rudolph Valentino.
Directors: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill | Stars: James Mason, Viola Dana, Agnes de Mille, Allan Dwan
Votes: 74
21. Blue Jeans (1917)
84 min | Drama
Perry Bascom comes to the town of Rising Sun, Indiana, to take charge of the sawmills which have for years been managed by his father's best friend, Col. Henry Clay Risener. His father's ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Collins | Stars: Viola Dana, Robert Walker, Sally Crute, Clifford Bruce
Votes: 73
22.
Hollywood (1980)
Episode:
Hazard of the Game
(1980)
Documentary, Biography, History
A tribute to the death-defying and sometimes deadly art of the silent movie stuntman is featured in this episode.
Directors: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill | Stars: James Mason, Yakima Canutt, Viola Dana, Agnes de Mille
Votes: 73
23. Winds of Chance (1925)
122 min | Adventure, Drama
A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Anna Q. Nilsson, Ben Lyon, Viola Dana, Hobart Bosworth
Votes: 66
24.
Hollywood (1980)
Episode:
Trick of the Light
(1980)
58 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The development of cinematography from its primitive beginnings through emergence as a serious art form in the late 1920s. Film clips and interviews with veterans of the period like Karl Brown and George Folsey are highlighted.
Directors: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill | Stars: James Mason, Karl Brown, Viola Dana, Allan Dwan
Votes: 65
25.
Hollywood (1980)
Episode:
The Man with the Megaphone
(1980)
Documentary, Biography, History
Early Hollywood directors were self-taught and generally became directors by accident.
Directors: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill | Stars: James Mason, Eleanor Boardman, Viola Dana, Allan Dwan
Votes: 59
26.
Hollywood (1980)
Episode:
End of an Era
(1980)
Documentary, Biography, History
The rise of practical synchronized sound film technology spells the end of the silent era of Hollywood with its casualties and the struggle to redefine cinema with sound in mind.
Directors: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill | Stars: James Mason, Irving Asher, Mary Astor, Cedric Belfrage
Votes: 57
27.
My Three Sons (1960–1972)
Episode:
The Toupee
(1963)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
One of Bub's friends has a sister visiting and wants to introduce Bub. Bub tries a hair restoring solution in hopes to hide his bald head.
Director: Gene Reynolds | Stars: Fred MacMurray, William Frawley, Tim Considine, Don Grady
Votes: 52
28. The Ice Flood (1926)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Jack De Quincy, an American graduate of Oxford, is still considered a wastrel playboy by his father, owner of a giant lumber company in the American northwest. To prove he is a man his ... See full summary »
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Kenneth Harlan, Viola Dana, Frank Hagney, Fred Kohler
Votes: 49
29. The Innocence of Ruth (1916)
59 min | Drama
Jimmy Carter, a millionaire, leading an idle, indulgent life, gets an urgent message from his friend, Reginald Travers. Travers, who is dying, has been ruined in the stock market by ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Collins | Stars: Edward Earle, Viola Dana, Augustus Phillips, Lena Davril
Votes: 49
30. Two Sisters (1929)
Passed | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Twin sisters, one good and honest and sweet, and the other given to totin' pistols and pulling robberies, keep confusing a detective about which one he his chasing for what, since he has different reasons for chasing both.
Director: Scott Pembroke | Stars: Viola Dana, Rex Lease, Claire Du Brey, Thomas G. Lingham
Votes: 30
31.
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (1987)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1987)
Documentary, Biography
Directors: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill | Stars: Lindsay Anderson, Buster Keaton, Charles Lamont, William R. Cox
Votes: 30
32. The Girl Without a Soul (1917)
50 min | Drama
The story of two young sisters: one a demure musician in love with a scoundrel who's no good for her; the other a wild free spirit who is the object of a shy young carpenter's affections.
Director: John H. Collins | Stars: Viola Dana, Robert Walker, Fred C. Jones, Henry Hallam
Votes: 29
33. As Man Desires (1925)
Passed | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The story of a man who was robbed of his greatest love and the South Seas wildflower who found it for him, in the land of pawn trees where men of all nations gather; some seeking vengeance and some forgiveness.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Milton Sills, Viola Dana, Ruth Clifford, Rosemary Theby
Votes: 24
34. Revelation (1924)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Paul Granville becomes a famous painter for his portraits of great women as modeled by the beautiful Joline Hofer. When one of Paul's paintings appears to result in a miracle, Joline's life... See full summary »
Director: George D. Baker | Stars: Viola Dana, Monte Blue, Marjorie Daw, Lew Cody
Votes: 18
35. Opportunity (1918)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
When Henry Clay Willard refuses to allow his athletically inclined daughter Mary to attend a prizefight, she goes to the bout dressed in her brother's clothes. Next to her sits wealthy ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Collins | Stars: Viola Dana, Hale Hamilton, Frank Currier, Edward Abeles
Votes: 18
36. Riders of the Night (1918)
50 min | Drama
In going for a doctor for her sick grandfather, Sally Castleton is detained at the toll-gates by John Derr. The old man dies and the villagers organize themselves into a band of night ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Collins | Stars: Viola Dana, George Chesebro, Clifford Bruce, Russell Simpson
Votes: 18
37. The Silent Lover (1926)
70 min | Adventure, Romance
The dissolute Count Pierre Tornai, having dissipated his fortune in Paris, embezzles embassy funds while intoxicated; and after spending his last penny on a dancer, he contemplates suicide but is persuaded to enlist in the Foreign Legion.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Milton Sills, Natalie Kingston, William Humphrey, Arthur Edmund Carewe
Votes: 18
38. The Lord and the Peasant (1912)
8 min | Short, Drama
In a peasant's cot we find a fair, young maiden who is loved by an honest, true-hearted peasant lad, while yonder stands the manor of Glenwood with its noble lord, who chanced to pass by ... See full summary »
Director: J. Searle Dawley | Stars: Augustus Phillips, Miriam Nesbitt, Charles Sutton, Gertrude Norman
Votes: 17
39. The Butler and the Maid (1912)
Comedy, Short
Jennie, a coquettish housemaid, flirts with the grocer's delivery boy and thereby incites the jealousy of her sweetheart, Frank, the butler. Frank goes to his station in the hall and, in ... See full summary »
Stars: Harry Beaumont, Jeanie Macpherson, Viola Dana, William Bechtel
Votes: 14
40. Merton of the Movies (1924)
80 min | Comedy
Merton Gill dreams of being a star of western films in Hollywood. When the filmmakers there see his acting style, they get their own idea of how to use his talent.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Glenn Hunter, Charles Sellon, Sadie Gordon, Gale Henry
Votes: 12
41.
Lux Video Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Night of January Sixteenth
(1956)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
The story revolves around three people; Tycoon Bjorn Faulkner, who is being called upon by his board of directors to explain a missing $20,000,000; Kit Lane, his secretary who also has a ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Carney | Stars: Gertrude Astor, Betty Bronson, Ken Carpenter, Mary Carr
Votes: 12
42. Hollywood on Parade (II) (1934)
8 min | Documentary, Short
Songwriter Mack Gordon introduces flagpole sitter Shipwreck Kelly, who hoists some girls aloft with him and shows them sights around Hollywood. Various stars appear in staged scenes (El ... See full summary »
Stars: Alvin 'Shipwreck' Kelly, Dorothy Round Little, El Brendel, Joe E. Brown
Votes: 11
43. Life in Hollywood No. 5 (1927)
9 min | Short
These silent documentaries were ten-minute film shorts exploring all aspects of Hollywood, and the movie studios. Take a back-seat tour of MGM, Warners, Universal and more.
Stars: Edward Connelly, Viola Dana, Dolores Del Río, Rupert Hughes
Votes: 9
44. Forty Winks (1925)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
The Butterworth family attorney Gaspar Le Sage, and a suitor for the hand of Eleanor Butterworth, persuades a beautiful Eurasian adventuress, Annabelle Wu, to help him steal the official ... See full summary »
Directors: Paul Iribe, Frank Urson | Stars: Raymond Griffith, Theodore Roberts, Cyril Chadwick, William Boyd
45. Naughty Nanette (1927)
50 min | Comedy
Director: James Leo Meehan | Stars: Viola Dana, Patricia Palmer, Eddie Brownell, Helen Foster
46. Along Came Ruth (1924)
53 min | Comedy
When young Ruth Ambrose (Viola Dana) arrives in Action, Maine, she rents a room above the furniture store of Israel Hubbard. After he leaves her in charge of the shop, her vivacious charm ... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Viola Dana, Walter Hiers, Tully Marshall, Raymond McKee
47. A Noise in Newboro (1923)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
After being snubbed by the townspeople of Newboro, Martha Mason leaves town to make a name for herself. She returns seven years later as a famous celebrity and decides to donate a large sum... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Viola Dana, David Butler, Eva Novak, Allan Forrest
48. The Portrait in the Attic (1915)
11 min | Short, Drama
Thelma, Mr. Chadwick's little daughter, is not at all agreeably surprised when her father returns from his honeymoon with his second wife. With undue frigidity, Thelma meets her new mother,... See full summary »
Director: John H. Collins | Stars: Viola Dana, William Bechtel, Miriam Nesbitt, Robert Conness
49. Life's Darn Funny (1921)
60 min | Comedy
When young violinist Zoe Robert has nothing suitable to wear for a concert, her artist friend, Clay Warwick, improvises a sensational gown from several yards of brocade. Zoe believes him to... See full summary »
Director: Dallas M. Fitzgerald | Stars: Viola Dana, Gareth Hughes, Eva Gordon, Kathleen O'Connor
50. The Great Love (1925)
60 min | Comedy
Struggling young doctor in a rural community, Dr. Lawrence Tibbits, cures Norma, a circus elephant, when she is injured in a fire. The circus moves on, but Norma, who has become quite ... See full summary »
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Robert Agnew, Viola Dana, Frank Currier, Zasu Pitts