Rose Dione
Actor · 1878 – 1936 · Dardilly, Rhône, France
From Wikipedia Rose Dione (October 22, 1878 – January 29, 1936) was a French-born actress who appeared in 68 films between 1910 and 1932. She is best known for her role as Madame Tetralini in the film Freaks (1932).
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Movie7.8DramaHorrorA circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Freaks
1932 · 1.3K votes
Movie6.1DramaRomanceA young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer.
Susan Lenox
1931 · 21 votes
Movie6.3DramaFantasyBased on Oscar Wilde's play, the films tells the story of how Salomé agrees to dance for King Herod in return for the head of John the Baptist.
Salomé
1923 · 37 votes
Movie10.0DramaRomanceClub pianist Ted Mason writes a love song for Beth Barton. A rival named Goldie steals the song for her husband, Steve, to publish. Beth faces unfair blame from her friends and teacher because of the popular song. Ted proves he wrote it by creating an even better song, exposing the theft, and winning Beth back.
Ragtime
1927 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaThe hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
Trilby
1923 · 1 votes
Movie6.4DramaRomanceA woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
Back Street
1932 · 14 votes
Movie7.0DramaIn Shanghai, an American girl who helps run an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she has to determine where her loyalties lie.
Drifting
1923 · 5 votes
Movie8.0DramaJo Morey, who lives in the St. Lawrence River Valley, inherits her father's barren farm and devotes her entire energies to cultivating it and caring for her invalid sister. Henry Langley meets Jo and proposes marriage to her. She asks him to wait until she is free, but Langley refuses and marries Mary Malden. Eight years later Jo has paid off the mortgage to Captain Longville, and one night she finds a baby in her house; it is Langley's, and a note requests that its parentage be kept secret.
Silent Years
1921 · 1 votes
Movie6.3HistoryRomanceA nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
When a Man Loves
1927 · 11 votes
Movie6.9DramaThrillerA magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.
West of Zanzibar
1928 · 44 votes
Movie5.0ComedyIn a prologue, as a woman pages through a book, male figures, including a musketeer, a cowboy, a swordsman and a military officer, appear and bow. In the main story, the visit of Prince Ferdinandi sends New York society ladies scurrying to purchase gowns for the upcoming ball. The woman seen earlier looking longingly at the book, model Marjorie Bowen, fights off the advances of Cadwallader Smith, who accompanies a patron. When handsome Sir Derwain Leeds, the prince's aide-de-camp, arrives to see his fiancée Yvette Fernau outfitted, Marjorie exchanges a shy smile with him.
Silk Hosiery
1920 · 2 votes
Movie7.0DramaYoung Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries to redeem him when he comes out....
Salvation Nell
1931 · 1 votes
Movie4.2DramaRomanceA murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933 · 6 votes
Movie7.0DramaAn American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1921 · 18 votes
Movie5.6RomanceComedyDowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from plain to uninhibited swan and even contemplates having an affair.
Sin Takes a Holiday
1930 · 24 votes
Movie10.0DramaRomanceThe Lover of Camille was a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by Harry Beaumont, and starring Monte Blue. The film was based on the French novel Deburau by Sacha Guitry, which was also adapted into a Broadway play by Harley Granville-Barker.
The Lover of Camille
1924 · 1 votes
Movie7.2HistoryRomanceA law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.
Scaramouche
1923 · 16 votes
Movie3.0DramaWilliam Grogan, lives in New York City and meets the outside world only through the little basement window of his plumbing shop. One day he sees and falls in love with a pretty pair of feet, belonging to Ruth Warren, a schoolteacher who is lusted after by Norton Colburton, a dissolute playboy. Ruth is about to marry Colburton, but at the last minute runs away and decides to take a Cook's tour. On the boat, she meets Grogan, who has inherited a fortune, and recognizing the feet, he falls in love with their owner.
The Luck of the Irish
1920 · 3 votes
Movie4.9MysteryA beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest victim, and the detective investigating the case finds out that she was involved in a lot more than just blackmail.
The King Murder
1932 · 7 votes
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Movie6.3DramaHorrorA music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
Svengali
1931 · 68 votes
Movie8.0ComedyNina, engaged to a French captain, and Nancy, engaged to a doctor who runs an insane asylum on an island, are friends. When the doctor catches Nancy kissing the captain, known for kisses with a "heavenly kick," he breaks the engagement. In an effort to win back the doctor for Nancy, Nina pretends to be a bit "off" and becomes an inmate of the sanitarium.
The Land of Jazz
1920 · 1 votes
Movie6.6ComedyDramaAmanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that the garment belongs to her fiancé, a lord. Just wait, Amanda boasts, one day his lordship will return for his wash — and for her.
Suds
1920 · 9 votes
Movie6.9DramaActionFrançois Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
The Beloved Rogue
1927 · 17 votes