King Baggot

Gilbert Irving and Bertie Erroll have been inseparable companions since boyhood. At a house party Mrs. Allen announces the engagement of her...

A butler goes on vacation, where he is wrongly taken to be a wealthy man.

A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.

Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.

Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library of Congress and British Film Institute.

Lilly Meany has grown up amongst charlatans, including her father. She decides to become a faith healer, and her first victim, a rich hypochondriac...

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

A modern artist named Raphael dreams that he is the ancient Greek sculptor Phidias, who has been commissioned by the wealthy Georgias to carve a...

A short film about a fundraising campaign for the War Chest, a World War I initiative. The film aims to encourage viewers to donate to the War Chest...

The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in...

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...

Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races....

Socially prominent but penniless Stephen De Koven marries Muriel Chester, a woman whose loveliness he admires but whose money he really desires....

Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

From MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Mobsters convince a meat packing company employee to help them hijack a truckload of beef.

In the valley the world's best "eternal triangle" is being worked between a husband, a much younger wife and "one who covets." On the heights, the...

Through a forged will, a crook assumes control of a valuable estate. He poses as the brother of a dead man, and endeavors to dispose of the deceased...

Puritanical Abel Blake is planning to marry the domestically oriented Joan when she is called away to a neighboring fishing village to care for her...

A café dancer bluffs a Mexican landowner to save her lover.

An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her now-departed husband and the things they did together....

A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.

Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a...

A love story filled with amusing complications, but the contest is won by Dick because he believes that all is fair in love and manages to circumvent...

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of...

Would-be photographer Harry gets his big chance when a newspaper wants pictures of a prominent gangster and his girl. Harry and another photographer...

A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.

A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.

A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for...

An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.

A department store has an indoor ski slide for the annual contest for store employees. Salesgirl June has two admirers - a sausage salesman in the...

A young pacifist, after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer,...

That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz...

Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.

After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college...

A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy...

"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's...

A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a...

The man is a mystery in the little town. He lives alone in his cabin and will not meet the advanced of his neighbors. One night he talks and tells...

On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic...

In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence...

Hester Prynne has left Holland in advance of her husband, Roger, to join the colonists in Salem, Maxx. Roger follows her to the new world but upon...

A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.

A once great stage and screen actor has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son is determined to see his father "make good" again.

Wilfred of Ivanhoe (played by King Baggot), son of Sir Cedric (played by Wallace Bosco), returns to England from the Crusades in the Holy Land. As...

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.

A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.

Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the...

George, a somewhat "unathletic" young man, falls for Clarice, a healthy, athletically inclined young woman. Unfortunately for George, however, a...

Amos Bentley was up against it in more senses than one. Times were so hard with him that he had to part with the furniture of his little apartment in...

Cub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election.

Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.

A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.

The Harrington's first born has died and the father and mother are inconsolable in their grief. Mrs. Harrington later seeks diversion in society, but...

Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.

An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.

A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things...

The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her...

A lost film. Henry Jenkins, just released from prison visits his old confederate in crime, Basil King, who is living in affluence. King is not...

Lieutenant Robbins, a young naval officer, sees Haydee the favored inmate of the sultan's harem and is smitten by her charms. She is also interested...

A lost film. The king is good-natured and doesn't suspect that the queen is plainly beginning to think too much of one of the courtiers. The queen's...

A lost film. Dan Nolan is on strike and in the depths of despair. He resolves to steal to help his plight. He enters the home of Homer Warren and the...

A lost film. Dr. Crawford and his wife with their little daughter, Elsie, are at home amusing themselves with the Scotch collie puppy, Imp, when...

Americans arrive at their hotel in Cuba in a car, to make a movie. Romantic complications ensue while the cast and crew attempt to finish the movie.

A lost film. Dan Barret, a forger, is sought by Balfour, a detective. Barret finding the States a rather dangerous abiding place, goes to Cuba to...

Don Alvarez travels to a Cuban fruit ranch where he falls for the owner's daughter, Edna. Jealous of foreman Cecil Abbott, Don steals a mail pouch...

Two men attempt to commit suicide for vastly different reasons. They try various methods but find it increasingly difficult to finish the job.

A lost film. Gertrude Edgar is loved by Tom Moreland and Owen Jackson, and Gertrude, being a woman, is inclined to a mild flirtation with Jackson,...

A lost film. Hugh Norton and Amy Gordon are sweethearts. Hugh receives an offer to enter the office of a business firm in the city. Hugh goes to the...

A lost film. Claude Marlow, Eugene Wilson and Fred Strong pose as a trio of mashers whom women cannot resist. However, They soon find have have met...

A lost film. Gerald Kinney is a man with plenty of money and wild excesses. one day he leaves his club and motors out into the country. In a pretty...

A lost film. Louis Perry is discharged from the penitentiary, having served his sentence. He immediately resumes relations with his evil companions....

The story begins with a man and a woman, both married, who flag the same taxi and then decide to share it, as they have the same restaurant...

When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative...

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being...

In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood westerns impresses a visiting sheikh with his boxing skills...

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.

A criminologist and a government agent team up to expose a ring of German spies.

The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.

Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however,...

Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother,...

A Parisian artist becomes addicted to the liquor absinthe and sinks to robbery and murder.

In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.

An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in...

Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.

A young woman who disguises herself as a man to go gold prospecting after her father and brother forbid her from joining them.

A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life...

A young man is tortured by a duke to force his beloved to marry the duke. The woman sacrifices herself, but eventually manages to discourage the...

Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at...

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the...

A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in...

A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.

Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on...

Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.

The Awakening of Bess is a silent short film of 1909 directed by Harry Solter . The protagonists of the film are Florence Lawrence (wife of the...

A circus girl must decide to stay under the big top or marry the minister who loves her.

Gerald and Percy inherit a fortune and spend all of it in pursuit of a young heiress.

An extravagant wife leaves her husband, but returns when he strikes it rich.

A young wife instigates a duel between a dashing count, with whom she has been having an affair, and her elderly husband. In the duel, the husband is...

A wife tries to drive away her husband's best friend by flirting with him, but trouble arises when the friend flirts back.

A dramatic love triangle between two women and a man.

A rejected suitor rebuffs the woman he loves after the death of her husband.

Jane thinks she has witnessed a murder and the suspect is arrested; she later learns the truth and saves him from hanging.

When an infirm husband learns of the dire circumstances his wife must endure, he makes every effort to bring himself back to health.

Five days more! Only five more days says the physician, and the man who has for so long a time been totally blind will be able to take off the...

A young woman marries a man she hardly knows or understands; in a moment of crisis, the two suddenly realize what they mean to each other.

A young woman pulls a fast switch on the fiance handpicked by her father.

A husband becomes jealous when he finds his wife's shawl in a suspicious location.

Two old gentlemen who have been pals from boyhood decide that their children ought to marry. This intention is a commendable one, to be sure, and...

A woman is forced to reevaluate the quiet man in her life when she finds he actually could be her knight in shining armor.

Roses and trousers have little in common and pressed roses presage something wrong in the scheme of things. When roses are pressed instead of a pair...

A couple goes to Reno to be divorced, but change their minds at the last moment.

Two girls fall for the same boy.

A fickle tomboy eventually falls for the suitor who had previously been annoying her.

After an accident, a young girl desperately needs a blood transfusion to save her life. A young blacksmith agrees to be the donor and wins her heart...

An orphaned girl raised by a miner in the wilderness falls in love with a tenderfoot, even though the miner loves her as well.

A girl's affections waver between the winner of a boxing match, and a greedy count.

A young doctor is jealous of one of his patient's romantic interest in his nurse.

Nell Connors is in love with Jack, a sailor, but is unaware that he was shipwrecked and is facing trials. Meanwhile, her father is saved from...

A jealous husband misinteprets the performance his actress wife is putting on with his best friend.

A promotional one-reel film promoting the stars of Universal Pictures.

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

Story about four generations in a family of musicians.

When New York playwright Richard Warrington returns to his home town, Republican bosses nominate him for mayor. The Democrats, alarmed at Richard's...

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

Although Dorenzo murders Betty Herron, a jury convicts her brother James, and sentences him to life imprisonment. Then, after James saves the...

Robert Gordon wants Donald, his son, to marry Sir Ralph Fisher's sister, but Donald loves Alice, a working-class girl, and weds her in secret.

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to...

A husband and wife are arguing about how to spend their money, when 'Democracy' appears and convinces them to invest in Liberty Bonds.

At her mother’s behest Kate Leigh marries wealthy Basil Kildare, owner of a Southern plantation called Storm. When Basil’s servant and mistress...

Early movie star Florence Lawrence appears in this dramatic farce, in which the police pay a famous burglar to save the life of a child thought to be...

Christine Evans, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the widowed American ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Evans, believes that she is no longer a young...

After her boss sexually harasses her and has an affair with her sister, stenographer Janet Butler quits to support a mill workers' strike, falls in...

After notorious jewel thief Flambeau meets Evelyn Fischer during a raid on a casino, he falls deeply in love with her. Later Flambeau sends notes to...

The Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres. However, the Palmers are actually a gang of thieves...

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he...

In a Virginia resort town in August 1918, Christopher Brent is viewed as a slacker because he refuses to enlist. Secretly, Christopher is observing...

Wealthy Edith Folsom greatest ambition is to have a score of admirers at her feet, leaves her local boyfriend, Ned Lorimer, for the city. On the...

Vowing vengeance on Edward Marriott, whom he believes to have dishonored his mother, The Shadow is a highwayman who robs only Marriott. The Shadow...

An abused wife who takes a desperate stand against her husband. Following her violent reaction, the husband reforms his behavior

A mother loses her sanity when she loses her child. Her husband brings home a newly adopted child, and she regains her health.

Misunderstandings abound when a minister's son and an actress become engaged.

The indolent, thriftless black sheep of the family, the good-for-nothing son of a rich banker bothers his busy brother, who is disgusted with the...

An honest man trades places with a convict so the convict can see his dying wife, but he is killed on his way back to prison. The governor must step...

A clever girl inventively uses a stage prop to attract help when burglars enter her house.

A pretty model with two rival art students (her father's pupils) in love with her, a situation not at all surprising considering how alluring she...

A girl saves her sweetheart from the dealings of a deceitful gang that he has fallen in with.