Wedgwood Nowell
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1878-01-24
Locus Natus: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
Et ut: Harry Wedgwood Nowell
Theodora Goes Wild
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really...
release : 1936.11.12popularis : 4.863
The West~Bound Limited
The plot, old-hat though it is, does provide an opportunity for that wonderfully seedy villain, David Dirby, to do his dirty work and more...
release : 1923.04.14popularis : 0.913
Hell Bent for Love
As a result of arresting a nightclub singer, Millie Garland, for speeding, Tim Daley, of the California Highway Patrol, incurs the enmity of the...
release : 1934.05.19popularis : 2.415
Kitty Kelly, M.D.
Kitty Kelly (Bessie Barriscale) has just graduated from medical school and she decides to set up business in a Western mining camp. Because she is...
release : 1919.10.12popularis : 0.626
Heroes of the Street
When a smart-alec street kid's father, a policeman, is killed in the line of duty, the boy turns over a new leaf and goes to work to support his...
release : 1922.12.24popularis : 1.425
The Lord Loves the Irish
Miles Machree (J. Warren Kerrigan) meets Irish-American Sheila Lynch (Fritzi Brunette) when she travels through Ireland with her father (James O....
release : 1919.12.14popularis : 0.68
813
Robert Castleback is in possession of secret papers which could bring a certain prince to power under conditions which would make Castleback a ruling...
release : 1920.11.14popularis : 0.952
Ashes
A young man in financial difficulties persuades his wife to help him blackmail a supposedly wealthy man.
release : 1922.02.24popularis : 1.625
I Dream Too Much
Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love,...
release : 1935.11.29popularis : 2.733
Teddy the Rough Rider
This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897...
release : 1940.02.21popularis : 6.017
A Night at the Opera
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera...
release : 1935.11.15popularis : 10.276
Lost Horizon
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like...
release : 1937.03.03popularis : 8.508
The Hoodlum Saint
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....
release : 1946.04.04popularis : 2.096
Adventure in Manhattan
The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time...
release : 1936.10.08popularis : 2.376
Stolen Holiday
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
release : 1937.02.06popularis : 3.108
Don't Marry for Money
Don't Marry for Money is a 1923 silent drama
release : 1923.08.19popularis : 2.007
To Mary - with Love
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at...
release : 1936.08.01popularis : 2.451
A Doll's House
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed.
release : 1922.02.12popularis : 1.383
A Man's Fight
An impertinent son of a wealthy New Yorker, Roger Carr takes the blame for the murder of Norman Evans, whom Roger believes his sister Ethel shot when...
release : 1919.08.10popularis : 0.347
The March of Crime
The March of Crime (1936) was a series of exploitation stories produced by Dwain Esper of famous gangsters of the 1930s.
release : 1936.01.22popularis : 1.095
Racket Busters
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
release : 1938.07.16popularis : 3.312
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve...
release : 1937.06.08popularis : 7.158
Homicide Bureau
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide...
release : 1939.01.05popularis : 7.366
Naughty But Nice
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal...
release : 1939.06.23popularis : 1.739
Personal Maid's Secret
A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins'...
release : 1935.10.26popularis : 6.227
Adam's Rib
Michael Ramsay only has time for gathering his fortune in wheat. His wife seeks comfort elsewhere and, to avoid a scandal, her daughter Matilda...
release : 1923.09.24popularis : 1.284
Start Cheering
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
release : 1938.03.03popularis : 4.844
Black Orchids
Frivolous young Marie de Severac is frightened into following a more virtuous path, when her father relates a story in which an equally frivolous...
release : 1917.01.01popularis : 3.36
Women in the Wind
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
release : 1939.04.15popularis : 5.861
Dark Victory
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love...
release : 1939.04.20popularis : 7.084
Each Dawn I Die
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the...
release : 1939.08.19popularis : 5.459
Reno
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
release : 1939.12.01popularis : 1.838
The Roaring Twenties
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie...
release : 1939.10.28popularis : 10.83
Holiday
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent...
release : 1938.05.26popularis : 10.435
The Man Beneath
The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland and falls in love with Kate Erskine, whose sister...
release : 1919.07.05popularis : 2.347
You Can't Take It with You
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish...
release : 1938.09.01popularis : 9.464
Diane of the Green Van
An heiress takes a road trip in a green van. Unbeknownst to her, she has four pursuers.
release : 1919.02.09popularis : 2.257
Calling Philo Vance
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's...
release : 1940.02.03popularis : 7.145
Torchy Runs for Mayor
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
release : 1939.05.13popularis : 7.235
The Woman in the Window
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
release : 1944.10.25popularis : 15.687
Boom Town
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil...
release : 1940.08.30popularis : 4.832
Virginia City
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A...
release : 1940.03.23popularis : 10.331
The Disciple
Jim Houston, the "Shootin' Iron" Parson, comes to Barren Gulch to reform the morals of the frontier community.
release : 1915.10.16popularis : 1.18
Gentleman Jim
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of...
release : 1942.11.14popularis : 6.404
Brides Are Like That
Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not...
release : 1936.04.18popularis : 5.051
No Time for Comedy
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
release : 1940.09.14popularis : 3.173
The Man with Nine Lives
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe...
release : 1940.04.18popularis : 1.91
My Love Came Back
Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through...
release : 1940.07.13popularis : 2.963
Sporting Blood
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the...
release : 1940.07.11popularis : 1.234
Johnny Apollo
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's...
release : 1940.04.19popularis : 1.716
Adele
Adele Bleneau is a young nurse who assists her father, a renowned surgeon/. While in Washington, DC, she meets and falls in love with a British army...
release : 1919.01.26popularis : 0.598
The Eternal Flame
A 1922 film directed by Frank Lloyd.
release : 1922.09.17popularis : 1.696
Remember the Day
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to...
release : 1941.12.25popularis : 1.555
The Chalice of Sorrow
Isabel Clifford sits to be painted. Her artist is Marion Leslie, a man distracted by matters of the flesh. Not Isabel’s flesh but...
release : 1916.10.09popularis : 1.455
The Go-Getter
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
release : 1937.05.22popularis : 4.588
Cleopatra
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
release : 1934.10.05popularis : 10.709
What Every Woman Knows
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must...
release : 1934.10.18popularis : 2.529
The Reward of the Faithless
A woman who is presumed dead takes revenge on her unfaithful husband.
release : 1917.02.12popularis : 3.248
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
A doctor's wife is arrested for educating impoverished women about birth control.
release : 1917.05.13popularis : 1.642
The Velvet Hand
On a beach in southern Italy, Gianna Russelli practices her dancing with her devoted brother Russino, looking forward to the day when she will begin...
release : 1918.09.30popularis : 1.716
The Pulse of Life
Lisetta, the daughter of a fisherman, lives with her father and brother on the island of Capri. When Serrani, an Italian who has grown wealthy in New...
release : 1917.04.09popularis : 0.88
The Chaser
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the...
release : 1938.07.29popularis : 2.135
Hard to Get
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making...
release : 1938.11.05popularis : 3.412
The Song of Life
A woman abandons her husband and baby to look for a better life in the big city. Years later, as an elderly woman, she finds her son living in the...
release : 1922.02.02popularis : 1.352
The Dream Cheater
An adaptation of Balzac's novel set in the roaring twenties, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his...
release : 1920.04.04popularis : 1.177
The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
Police headquarters has been plagued by a series of robberies, culminating in the theft of a priceless necklace smuggled from Europe. The detectives...
release : 1917.09.17popularis : 0.317
Gold Is Where You Find It
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the...
release : 1938.02.12popularis : 2.632
Here Comes Happiness
Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor...
release : 1941.03.15popularis : 3.179
The Deserter
Parker, an Army lieutenant at a Western outpost, falls in love with Barbara Taylor, daughter of his commanding officer. But when Barbara rejects him,...
release : 1916.07.09popularis : 1.35
They Were Expendable
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the...
release : 1945.12.07popularis : 13.628
The Ghost Comes Home
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
release : 1940.03.08popularis : 2.897
The Flower of Doom
The Flower of Doom is a 1917 silent drama film written and directed by Rex Ingram and starring Wedgwood Nowell, Yvette Mitchell, and Nicholas Dunaew....
release : 1917.04.15popularis : 0.667