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May McAvoy

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May McAvoy (September 8, 1899 – April 26, 1984) was an American actress who worked mainly during the silent-film era. [1]

94 relations: A Date with Judy (film), A Homespun Vamp, A Private Scandal, A Reno Divorce, A Trip to Paramountown, A Virginia Courtship, Assignment in Brittany, Barbary Coast Gent, Ben-Hur (1959 film), Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925 film), Caught in the Fog, Clarence (1922 film), Conrad Nagel, Culver City, California, Designing Woman, Everything for Sale (1921 film), Executive Suite, Francis X. Bushman, Fred Niblo, Grumpy (1923 film), Gun Glory, Her Reputation (1923 film), Hollywood (1923 film), Hollywood Walk of Fame, Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, If I Were Single, Irish Hearts (1927 film), Jailhouse Rock (film), Kick In (1922 film), Lady Windermere's Fan (1925 film), Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Love Crazy (1941 film), Luxury Liner (1948 film), Main Street on the March!, Married Flirts, Matinee Ladies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Morals (film), Motion Picture & Television Fund, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1919 film), My Old Dutch (1926 film), Myocardial infarction, Mystery Street, New York City, No Defense, Only 38, Ramon Novarro, Ransom!, Record-Journal, ..., Ringside Maisie, Roy Del Ruth, Sentimental Tommy, Silent film, Sound film, Stolen Kisses (1929 film), Tarnish (film), The Bad and the Beautiful, The Bedroom Window (1924 film), The Daily Gazette, The Devil's Garden, The Enchanted Cottage (1924 film), The Fire Brigade, The Gainesville Sun, The Get-Away (1941 film), The Jazz Singer, The Lion and the Mouse (1928 film), The Little Snob, The Mad Whirl, The Mercury News, The New Pupil, The Passionate Quest, The Road to Glory (1926 film), The Romance of Rosy Ridge, The Savage (1926 film), The Sporting Duchess, The Tender Trap (film), The Terror (1928 film), The Top of New York, The Truth About Husbands, The Wings of Eagles, The Woman Under Oath, The Yellow Cab Man, Third Finger, Left Hand, Three Women (1924 film), Through a Glass Window, Till the Clouds Roll By, To Hell with the Kaiser!, Two Girls and a Sailor, Two Girls on Broadway, United Artists, Warner Bros., Watch the Birdie (1950 film), West of the Water Tower. Expand index (44 more) »

A Date with Judy (film)

A Date with Judy is a 1948 MGM musical film starring Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, and Elizabeth Taylor.

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A Homespun Vamp

A Homespun Vamp is a 1922 American drama silent film directed by Frank O'Connor and written by Harvey F. Thew and Hector Turnbull.

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A Private Scandal

A Private Scandal is a 1921 American drama film directed by Chester M. Franklin and written by Eve Unsell.

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A Reno Divorce

A Reno Divorce was a 1927 American silent romantic drama film produced and distributed by Warner Bros., Ralph Graves wrote, directed and stars in this film which was the last of the five films he ever directed.

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A Trip to Paramountown

A Trip to Paramountown is a 1922 American short silent documentary film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released through Paramount Pictures, to celebrate 10 years of Paramount's founding.

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A Virginia Courtship

A Virginia Courtship is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Frank O'Connor and written by Edfrid A. Bingham based upon the play of the same name by Eugene Wiley Presbrey.

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Assignment in Brittany

Assignment in Brittany is a 1943 war film directed by Jack Conway and starring French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont and Swedish actress Signe Hasso, both in their American film debuts.

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Barbary Coast Gent

Barbary Coast Gent is a 1944 film set in 1880s San Francisco's Barbary Coast and Nevada starring Wallace Beery.

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Ben-Hur (1959 film)

Ben-Hur is a 1959 American epic religious drama film, directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Charlton Heston as the title character.

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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925 film)

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a 1925 American epic silent adventure-drama film directed by Fred Niblo and written by June Mathis based on the 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by General Lew Wallace.

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Caught in the Fog

Caught in the Fog is a 1928 American thriller film directed by Howard Bretherton and written by Charles R. Condon and Joseph Jackson.

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Clarence (1922 film)

Clarence is a 1922 American silent comedy drama, based on a play by Booth Tarkington, produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures.

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Conrad Nagel

Conrad Nagel (&ndash) was an American screen actor and matinee idol of the silent film era and beyond.

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Culver City, California

Culver City is a city in Los Angeles County, California.

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Designing Woman

Designing Woman is a 1957 American romantic comedy film about two young, whirlwind-romanced newlywed professionals and their misadventures in adjusting to each other's lifestyles.

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Everything for Sale (1921 film)

Everything for Sale is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Frank O'Connor and written by Hector Turnbull.

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Executive Suite

Executive Suite is a 1954 American MGM drama film directed by Robert Wise and written by Ernest Lehman, based on the novel of the same name by Cameron Hawley.

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Francis X. Bushman

Francis Xavier Bushman (January 10, 1883 – August 23, 1966) was an American film actor and director.

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Fred Niblo

Fred Niblo (January 6, 1874 – November 11, 1948) was an American pioneer film actor, director and producer.

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Grumpy (1923 film)

Grumpy is a 1923 silent film drama distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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Gun Glory

Gun Glory is a 1957 American Metrocolor Western film directed by Roy Rowland starring Stewart Granger and Rhonda Fleming.

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Her Reputation (1923 film)

Her Reputation is a 1923 silent film drama directed by John Griffith Wray and starring May McAvoy.

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Hollywood (1923 film)

Hollywood is a 1923 American silent comedy film directed by James Cruze, co-written by Frank Condon and Thomas J. Geraghty, and released by Paramount Pictures.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame comprises more than 2,600 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

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Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City

Holy Cross Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery at 5835 West Slauson Avenue in Culver City, California, operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

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If I Were Single

If I Were Single is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring May McAvoy, Conrad Nagel, and Myrna Loy.

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Irish Hearts (1927 film)

Irish Hearts is a 1927 American comedy film directed by Byron Haskin and written by C. Graham Baker and Bess Meredyth.

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Jailhouse Rock (film)

Jailhouse Rock is a 1957 American musical drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, and Mickey Shaughnessy.

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Kick In (1922 film)

Kick In is a 1922 American silent crime drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky, distributed by Paramount Pictures, and starring Betty Compson, and Bert Lytell.

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Lady Windermere's Fan (1925 film)

Lady Windermere's Fan is a 1925 American silent film directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Love Crazy (1941 film)

Love Crazy is a 1941 screwball comedy film pairing William Powell and Myrna Loy as a couple whose marriage is on the verge of being broken up by the husband's old girlfriend and the wife's disapproving mother.

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Luxury Liner (1948 film)

Luxury Liner is a 1948 romantic musical comedy film made by MGM in Technicolor.

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Main Street on the March!

Main Street on the March! is a 1941 American short historical film directed by Edward Cahn.

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Married Flirts

Married Flirts is a 1924 American silent drama film starring Pauline Frederick, Mae Busch, and Conrad Nagel, directed by Robert Vignola.

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Matinee Ladies

Matinee Ladies was a 1927 American silent comedy film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Directed by Byron Haskin, the film starred May McAvoy and was Haskin's first directorial effort after having been a cinematographer.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Morals (film)

Morals is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by William Desmond Taylor and starring May McAvoy, William P. Carleton, and Marian Skinner.

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Motion Picture & Television Fund

The Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF) is a charitable organization that offers assistance and care to those in the motion picture and television industries with limited or no resources.

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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1919 film)

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My Old Dutch (1926 film)

My Old Dutch is a 1926 silent film directed by Laurence Trimble and starring May McAvoy and Pat O'Malley.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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Mystery Street

Mystery Street is a 1950 black-and-white film noir directed by John Sturges with cinematography by cinematographer John Alton.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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No Defense

No Defense is a 1929 American romantic drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Monte Blue.

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Only 38

Only 38 is a lost 1923 American drama silent film directed by William C. deMille and written by Clara Beranger, Walter Prichard Eaton and A.E. Thomas.

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Ramon Novarro

Jose Ramón Gil Samaniego (February 6, 1899 – October 30, 1968), best known as Ramón Novarro, was a Mexican film, stage and television actor who began his career in silent films in 1917 and eventually became a leading man and one of the top box office attractions of the 1920s and early 1930s.

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Ransom!

Ransom! is a 1956 crime drama examining the reactions of parents, police, and the public to a kidnapping.

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Record-Journal

The Record-Journal is an American daily newspaper based in Meriden, Connecticut, that dates back to the years immediately following the American Civil War.

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Ringside Maisie

Ringside Maisie is a 1941 film directed by Edwin L. Marin.

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Roy Del Ruth

Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1895, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – April 27, 1961) was an American film director.

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Sentimental Tommy

Sentimental Tommy is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by John S. Robertson which has Mary Astor in one of her earliest roles, although her scenes were deleted before release.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.

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Stolen Kisses (1929 film)

Stolen Kisses is a 1929 American comedy film directed by Ray Enright and starring May McAvoy, Hallam Cooley and Reed Howes.

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Tarnish (film)

Tarnish is a lost 1924 American silent drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring May McAvoy, Ronald Colman, and Marie Prevost.

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The Bad and the Beautiful

The Bad and the Beautiful is a 1952 American MGM melodrama that tells the story of a film producer who alienates all around him.

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The Bedroom Window (1924 film)

The Bedroom Window is a 1924 mystery or who-dunnit silent film directed by William C. deMille and starring May McAvoy.

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The Daily Gazette

The Daily Gazette, formerly The Schenectady Gazette, is an independently owned daily newspaper based in Schenectady, New York and mainly covers the counties of Schenectady, Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Fulton, Schoharie, and Montgomery.

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The Devil's Garden

The Devil's Garden is a lost 1920 American silent drama film produced by Whitman Bennett, directed by Kenneth Webb, and released through First National Exhibitor's Circuit, which was later known as First National Pictures.

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The Enchanted Cottage (1924 film)

The Enchanted Cottage (1924) is a silent, drama film based upon a 1923 play by Arthur Wing Pinero, and directed by John S. Robertson.

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The Fire Brigade

The Fire Brigade (also known as Fire!) is 1926 American silent drama film directed by William Nigh.

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The Gainesville Sun

The Gainesville Sun is a newspaper published daily in Gainesville, Florida, United States, covering the North-Central portion of the state.

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The Get-Away (1941 film)

The Get-Away is a 1941 film directed by Edward Buzzell.

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The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film.

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The Lion and the Mouse (1928 film)

The Lion and the Mouse (1928) is a part-silent/part-sound drama film produced by Warner Bros., directed by Lloyd Bacon, and based on the 1905 play by Charles Klein.

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The Little Snob

The Little Snob is a 1928 silent comedy film from Warner Bros..

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The Mad Whirl

The Mad Whirl is a 1925 jazz age black-and-white silent film drama film about the "loosening of youth morals" that took place during the 1920s.

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The Mercury News

The Mercury News (formerly San Jose Mercury News, often locally known as The Merc) is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, United States.

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The New Pupil

The New Pupil is a 1940 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Edward Cahn.

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The Passionate Quest

The Passionate Quest is a 1926 American drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and written by Marian Constance Blackton.

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The Road to Glory (1926 film)

The Road to Glory is a 1926 American silent film directed by Howard Hawks and starring May McAvoy, Leslie Fenton and Ford Sterling.

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The Romance of Rosy Ridge

The Romance of Rosy Ridge is a 1947 drama film about a rural community bitterly divided during the aftermath of the American Civil War directed by Roy Rowland.

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The Savage (1926 film)

The Savage is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and starring Ben Lyon and May McAvoy.

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The Sporting Duchess

The Sporting Duchess is a lost 1920 silent film drama directed by George Terwilliger and starring Alice Joyce.

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The Tender Trap (film)

The Tender Trap (1955) is a CinemaScope Eastman Color comedy starring Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne, and Celeste Holm.

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The Terror (1928 film)

The Terror is a 1928 early American, pre-Code, slasher film written by Harvey Gates and directed by Roy Del Ruth, based on the play of the same name by Edgar Wallace.

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The Top of New York

The Top of New York is a lost 1922 American silent drama film directed by William Desmond Taylor and written by George James Hopkins, Julia Crawford Ivers and Sonya Levien.

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The Truth About Husbands

The Truth About Husbands is a 1920 American silent drama film, directed by Kenneth Webb.

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The Wings of Eagles

The Wings of Eagles is a 1957 American Metrocolor film starring John Wayne, Dan Dailey and Maureen O'Hara, based on the life of Frank "Spig" Wead and the history of U.S. Naval aviation from its inception through World War II.

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The Woman Under Oath

The Woman Under Oath is a 1919 American silent mystery film directed by John M. Stahl and starring stage star Florence Reed.

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The Yellow Cab Man

The Yellow Cab Man is a 1950 comedy film directed by Jack Donohue starring Red Skelton, Gloria DeHaven and Edward Arnold.

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Third Finger, Left Hand

Third Finger, Left Hand is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard.

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Three Women (1924 film)

Three Women, also known as Die Frau, die Freundin und die Dirne, is a 1924 American silent drama film starring May McAvoy, Pauline Frederick, and Marie Prevost, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and based on the novel Lillis Ehe by Yolande Maree (Iolanthe Mares).

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Through a Glass Window

Through a Glass Window is a 1922 American drama silent film directed by Maurice Campbell and written by Olga Printzlau.

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Till the Clouds Roll By

Till The Clouds Roll By is a 1946 American Technicolor musical film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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To Hell with the Kaiser!

To Hell with the Kaiser! is a lost 1918 American silent Great War propaganda comedy film produced by Screen Classics Productions and distributed by Metro Pictures.

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Two Girls and a Sailor

Two Girls and a Sailor is a 1944 musical film about two singing sisters who are helped to set up a canteen to entertain soldiers by a mysterious wealthy admirer.

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Two Girls on Broadway

Two Girls on Broadway is a 1940 musical film directed by S. Sylvan Simon, and starring Lana Turner and Joan Blondell.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Watch the Birdie (1950 film)

Watch the Birdie is a 1950 film comedy starring Red Skelton.

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West of the Water Tower

West of the Water Tower is a lost 1923 American silent comedy drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_McAvoy

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