The Golden Chance 1915  N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Cleo Ridgeley, Wallace Reid, Horace B. Carpenter, Ernest Joy, Edythe Chapman, Raymond Hatton
Mary (Cleo Ridgely) takes a job as a seamstress to help make ends meet due to her husband Steve (Horace B. Carpenter) spending all their money on booze. When Mary's employer asks her to stand in for a prospective bride at a high society party, wealthy Roger Manning (Wallace Reid) falls for Mary. Steve comes up with a blackmailing scheme, but tragedy follows when he is killed. Now, Mary is free to wed Roger.
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Manslaughter 1922 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Thomas Meighan, Leatrice Joy, Lois Wilson, John Miltern, George Fawcett, Julia Faye, Edythe Chapman, Jack Mower, Dorothy Cumming, Raymond Hatton
Society deb Lydia (Leatrice Joy) is involved in a reckless driving incident in which a policeman is killed. She is prosecuted –the D.A. is her fiance (Thomas Meighan)–sent to prison, learns her lesson, and reforms.
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Oliver Twist 1916  N/R, 50 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Young
Cast: Marie Doro, Hobart Bosworth, Raymond Hatton, James Neill, Tully Marshall, W.S. Van Dyke, Edythe Chapman, Elsie Jane Wilson, Harry L. Rattenberry, Carl Stockdale, George Hackathorne, Robert McKenzie, Jack Sacker
This is the earliest film of Charles Dickens' novel about the orphan Oliver (Marie Doro) who, with the evil Fagin (Tully Marshall) as his tutor, becomes a pickpocket–until he is rescued and restored to decency through his father's inheritance.
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| 1. The Golden Chance (1915)
2. Manslaughter (1922)
3. Oliver Twist (1916)
4. The Whispering Chorus (1918)
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