The Affairs of Anatol 1921  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter, Bebe Daniels, Monte Blue, Theodore Roberts, Theodore Kosloff, Winter Hall, Raymond Hatton, William Boyd, Wanda Hawley, Agnes Ayres, Charles Ogle, Lucien Littlefield, Guy Oliver
Loose lifestyles following World War I are the subject of this film about a bored husband Anatol Spencer (Wallace Reid) who has affairs with Emilie Dixon (Wanda Hawley), Annie Elliot (Agnes Ayres), and the virtuous Satan Synne (Bebe Daniels). When Anatol decides to return to his wife Vivian (Gloria Swanson), he finds that she has a lover of her own: his friend Max Runyon (Elliott Dexter).
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Don't Change Your Husband 1919  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: 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.
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Male and Female 1919 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Mildred Reardon, Bebe Daniels, Robert Cain, Julia Faye, Rhy Darby
Members of a shipwreck survive because they forget class distinctions and work as a unit; however, when they finally return to England all the old biases return. Watch for the scene in which a lion's paw rests on a woman's shoulder–one of the most memorable of Cecil B. DeMille's scenes.
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Miss Lulu Bett 1921 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William C. DeMille
Cast: Lois Wilson, Milton Sills, Theodore Roberts, Helen Ferguson, Mabel Van Buren, Mae Giraci, Clarence Burton, Ethel Wales, Taylor Graves, Charles Ogle
Beauty contest winner Lois Wilson takes on the role of plain Lulu Bett in this film directed by Cecil B. DeMille's brother. Lulu lives in the home of her sister (Helen Ferguson) and her sister's husband (Theodore Roberts). Lulu becomes tired of being treated poorly in the household and begins a transformation into a self-assured woman who finds her own life. Based on a novel by Zona Gale.
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Old Wives for New 1918 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Elliott Dexter, Sylvia Ashton, Florence Vidor, Helen Jerome Eddy, Wanda Hawley, Theodore Roberts, Marcia Manon, Julia Faye, J. Parks Jones, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Tully Marshall, Edna Mae Cooper
Charles (Elliott Dexter) grows tired of his overweight, lazy wife Sophy (Sylvia Ashton) and looks for a new woman. He falls for Juliet (Florence Vidor), but when Juliet becomes involved in a murder case, Charles dumps her and eventually marries Viola (Marcia Manon), who leaves him for his personal secretary. Eventually, Charles returns to Sophy who takes him in.
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The Squaw Man 1918  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Elliott Dexter, Ann Little, Katherine MacDonald, Jack Holt, Thurston Hall, Tully Marshall, Herbert Standing, Noah Beery, Pat Moore, Helen Dunbar, Theodore Roberts, Edwin Stevens, Winter Hall, Julia Faye, Jim Mason
This is the second filming (of three) of this Cecil B. DeMille story about Jim Wynnegate (Elliott Dexter) who takes the rap for his cousin on an embezzlement charge and leaves England for Wyoming. There he saves the life of an Indian girl (Ann Little) from the clutches of villain Cash Hawkins (Jack Holt). After Wynnegate marries her, his cousin's wife, Diana (Katherine MacDonald), arrives with the news that the cousin is dead. Knowing that Jim took the rap because he loved Diana, his wife commits suicide to allow Jim and Diana to reunite, which is what they do. They head back to England where he assumes the position of Earl of Kerhill. A better film than the earlier one, showing the beginnings of DeMille's desire to make extravaganzas.
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Suds 1920 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Francis Dillon
Cast: Mary Pickford, Albert Austin, Harold Goodwin, Rose Dione, Nadyne Montgomery, Darwin Karr, Hal Wilson, Theodore Roberts, Joan Marsh, Taylor N. Duncan
"America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford plays under-appreciated employee Amanda Afflick in a washing establishment who develops a crush on a customer.
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 The Ten Commandments 1923 N/R, 146 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Theodore Roberts, Charles de Rochefort, Estelle Taylor, James Neill, Richard Dix, Leatrice Joy, Julia Faye, Rod La Rocque, Nita Naldi, Noble Johnson, Pat Moore, Lawson Butt, Clarence Burton, Edythe Chapman, Robert Edeson
This very successful silent film is an early version of the Biblical story of Moses (Theodore Roberts) leading the children of Israel out of Egypt and freeing them from the bondage of pharaoh Rameses (Charles de Roche). Several scenes, including the parting of the Red Sea, are shot in two-color Technicolor.
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| 1. The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
2. Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
3. Joan the Woman (1916)
4. Male and Female (1919)
5. Miss Lulu Bett (1921)
6. Old Wives for New (1918)
7. The Squaw Man (1918)
8. Suds (1920)
9. The Ten Commandments (1923)
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