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Director: Mack Sennett    More Info
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain, Charles Bennett, Chester Conklin, Edgar Kennedy, Al St. John, Slim Summerville, A. Edward Sutherland

 In this film, which marks the first feature-length comedy, Charles Chaplin plays the role of a con man who talks the farmer's innocent daughter (Marie Dressler) into eloping with him and then runs off with the money. But, never fear, good triumphs over evil by story's end.

Director: John S. Robertson    More Info
Starring: Madge Kennedy, John Cumberland, Frank Morgan, Kathryn(2) Adams, Sonia Marcelle, Virginia Madigan

 Having used a fictional baby to lure her husband (Frank Morgan) back into their marriage, Zoie (Madge Kennedy) must now find a way to produce a real one.

Director: Maurice Tourneur    More Info
Starring: Mary Pickford, Madelaine Traverse, Charles Wellesley, Herbert Prior, Gladys Fairbanks, Frank McGlynn Sr., Emile La Croix, Marcia Harris, Charles Craig, Frank Andrews

 Mary Pickford stars in this comedy/drama as 11-year-old (much younger than Pickford's true age) Gwen whose parents (Madelaine Traverse and Charles Wellesley) ignore her. Her father is obsessed with making money, and her mother is busy on the social scene. When Gwen's nurse Jane (Gladys Fairbanks) gives Gwen an overdose of sleeping potion, her parents finally realize how important Gwen is to them. When Gwen regains consciousness, a new and better life awaits her.

Director: John Emerson    More Info
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Walter Bytell, Joseph Singleton, Calvert Carter, Forrest Seabury, J.W. Jones, Charles Stevens, Sam De Grasse, Tom Wilson

 Jeff Hillington (Douglas Fairbanks) lives with his wealthy family in New York but is obsessed with the Wild West of the 1880s. His father (Walter Bytell) sends him on a business trip to Bitter Creek, Arizona, which Jeff believes is still "Wild and Woolly." The residents of Bitter Creek want to please Jeff and transform their peaceful village into a lawless community to fulfill Jeff's fantasy.

Director: Marshall Neilan    More Info
Starring: Mary Pickford, William Scott, Norman Kerry, Ida Waterman, Margaret Landis, Kate Price, Tom Wilson, Fred Goodwins, Herbert Standing, Wesley Barry

 Amarilly (Mary Pickford), part of a large working-class family, is content with her life. But when she meets a rich sculptor, she finds out how the other half lives.

Director: Charles Chaplin    More Info
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin, Jack Wilson, Henry Bergman, Loyal Underwood, Albert Austin, Tom Wilson, John Rand, J. Parks Jones

 Released shortly before the end of World War I, this film represents one of Charles Chaplin's war efforts. In it, he plays a lowly recruit sent to the war zone where he humorously performs heroic actions and even captures the Kaiser. As he is enjoying a victory parade, he awakens and realizes it was all only a dream.

Director: William Desmond Taylor    More Info
Starring: Mary Miles Minter, Paul Kelly, Marcia Harris, Frederick Burton, F.T. Chailee, Leila Romer, Lincoln Stedman, Hazel Sexton, Russell Hewitt, Albert Hackett

 This is a story of a young girl's years in an era of innocent days in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Anne (Mary Miles Minter) is an orphan who is adopted by her uncle (Frederick Burton) and his sister (Marcia Harris) in this amusing tale. Anne is involved in many adventures while growing up, but after she graduates, she goes to work as a school teacher. One day, Anne whips gossipy Mrs. Pie's (Leila Romer) misbehaving son Anthony (Russell Hewitt). Later that day, Anthony falls from a hay wagon and breaks his arm. He tells people that Anne broke his arm, but after the Reverend Figtree (Jack B. Hollis) reveals that he saw Anthony fall from the wagon, and Anne is exonerated. All ends well when Anne marries the man she loves, Gilbert Blythe (George Stewart).

Director: Marshall Neilan    More Info
Starring: Mary Pickford, Milla Davenport, Percy Haswell, Fay Lemport, Mahlon Hamilton, Lillian Langdon, Betty Bouton, Audrey Chapman, Marshall Neilan, Carrie Clark Ward

 Judy (Mary Pickford) is a rebellious orphan who is provided a college education by an unknown benefactor. After graduation, she meets and falls in love with Jarvis (Mahlon Hamilton)–and he falls in love with her. Can you guess who the benefactor is?

Director: Cecil B. DeMille    More Info
Starring: Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter, Lew Cody, Sylvia Ashton, Theodore Roberts, Julia Faye, Irving Cummings, James Neill, Ted Shawn

 Leila (Gloria Swanson) is frustrated with husband James' (Elliott Dexter) sloppy habits and workaholic attitude. So, she divorces him and marries playboy Schuyler (Lew Cody) who turns out to be a two-timer. Now, she tries to woo her ex-husband back.