Monte Blue

Monte Blue

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Monte Blue (January 11, 1887 – February 18, 1963) was a movie actor who began his career as a romantic leading man in the silent film era, and later progressed to character roles. Blue was born as Gerard Montgomery Bluefeather in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father was half French, half Cherokee Indian. One of five children, his father died and his mother could not raise five children alone. Along with another brother, they both admitted to the Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home. This did not stop him working his way through to Purdue University. When growing up, Blue built up his physique to become a football player (he grew to six feet three inches tall). He not only played football, but he was also a fireman, railroad worker, coal miner, cowpuncher, ranch hand, circus rider, lumberjack, and finally, a day laborer at the studios of D. W. Griffith. He had no theatrical experience when he came to the screen. In his first movie, The Birth of a Nation (1915), he was a stuntman and an extra in the movie. In his next movie, he starred in another small part in the movie, Intolerance (1916). Gradually moving to supporting roles for both D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, Blue earned his breakthrough role as Danton in Orphans of the Storm, starring sisters, Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish. Then he rose to stardom as a rugged romantic lead along with top leading actresses such as Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, and Norma Shearer. His most prolific female screen partner was Marie Prevost with whom he made several films in the mid 20s at Warner Brothers. Blue's finest silent screen performance was as the alcoholic doctor who finds paradise in MGM's White Shadows in the South Seas (1928). Blue became one of the few silent stars to survive the talkie revolution. However, he lost his investments in the stock market crash of 1929. He rebuilt his career as a character actor, working until his retirement in 1954. One of his more memorable roles was the sheriff in Key Largo. He divorced his first wife in 1923 and married Tova Jansen in 1924. He had two children, Barbara Ann and Richard Monte. During the later part of his life, Monte Blue was an active Mason and the advance man for the Hamid-Morton Shrine Circus; while on business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he had a heart attack because of complications from influenza, dying at age 76. Monte Blue has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6286 Hollywood Blvd. Description above from the Wikipedia article Monte Blue, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1887-01-10
Place of Birth: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Also Known As: G.M. Blue, Gerard Montgomery "Monte" Blue, Gerard Montgomery Blue

Movies List of Monte Blue

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Possessed

1947 Movie
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Key Largo

1948 Movie
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Ride, Ranger, Ride

1936 Movie
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The Hidden Hand

1942 Movie
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Main Street

1923 Movie
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Riders of the Night

1918 Movie
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My Old Kentucky Home

1922 Movie
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Backfire

1950 Movie
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The Squaw Man

1918 Movie
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The Mask of Dimitrios

1944 Movie
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Three Desperate Men

1951 Movie
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Life with Father

1947 Movie
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Rose of Cimarron

1952 Movie
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Cheyenne

1947 Movie
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Apache

1954 Movie
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Shadow of a Woman

1946 Movie
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This Side of the Law

1950 Movie
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Bad Man of Deadwood

1941 Movie
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Flaxy Martin

1949 Movie
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Tiger Rose

1929 Movie
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A Perfect Crime

1921 Movie
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Song of the Gringo

1936 Movie
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Homicide

1949 Movie
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Across the Pacific

1942 Movie
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Trial by Trigger

1944 Movie
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Young Bill Hickok

1940 Movie
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Born to the West

1937 Movie
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Hangman's Knot

1952 Movie
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The Affairs of Anatol

1921 Movie
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The Romance of Tarzan

1918 Movie
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The Marriage Circle

1924 Movie
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Hands Up

1918 Movie
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Northern Pursuit

1943 Movie
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Colorado Territory

1949 Movie
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Truck Busters

1943 Movie
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Wagon Wheels

1934 Movie
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Nevada

1935 Movie
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Bells of San Fernando

1947 Movie
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The Younger Brothers

1949 Movie
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Warpath

1951 Movie
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Officer Thirteen

1932 Movie
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The Thundering Herd

1933 Movie
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Secret Enemies

1942 Movie
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The Test

1935 Movie
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Secret Agent X-9

1937 Movie
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The Stoker

1932 Movie
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Desert Gold

1936 Movie
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The Intruder

1933 Movie
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Humoresque

1947 Movie
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Prison Shadows

1936 Movie
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Mystery Sea Raider

1940 Movie
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Gold Raiders

1951 Movie
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Amateur Crook

1937 Movie
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On Probation

1935 Movie
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South of St. Louis

1949 Movie
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Her Forgotten Past

1933 Movie
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Lucretia Lombard

1923 Movie
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Sky Racket

1937 Movie
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Student Tour

1934 Movie
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The Last Round-up

1934 Movie
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Tom Sawyer, Detective

1938 Movie
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Souls at Sea

1937 Movie
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My Favorite Blonde

1942 Movie
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The Mysterious Rider

1938 Movie
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The Last Posse

1953 Movie
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Rebellious Daughters

1938 Movie
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Casablanca

1943 Movie
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Illegal Traffic

1938 Movie
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100% American

1918 Movie
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M'Liss

1918 Movie
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Mademoiselle Midnight

1924 Movie
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So This Is Paris

1926 Movie
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Orphans of the Storm

1921 Movie
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Mary of Scotland

1936 Movie
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How to Educate a Wife

1924 Movie
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Daughters of Pleasure

1924 Movie
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Defying Destiny

1923 Movie
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The Limited Mail

1925 Movie
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Kiss Me Again

1925 Movie
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Red Hot Tires

1925 Movie
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Hogan's Alley

1925 Movie
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Jim Bludso

1917 Movie
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Broadway Rose

1922 Movie
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Ghosts

1915 Movie
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The 13th Commandment

1920 Movie
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Cocoanut Grove

1938 Movie
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'G' Men

1935 Movie
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Cinderella Jones

1946 Movie
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Dodge City

1939 Movie
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Frontier Pony Express

1939 Movie
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Juarez

1939 Movie
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Union Pacific

1939 Movie
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Days of Jesse James

1939 Movie
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Gentleman Jim

1942 Movie
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Trail of the Arrow

1952 Movie
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Johnny Belinda

1948 Movie
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Johanna Enlists

1918 Movie
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Port of Hate

1939 Movie
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A Million to One

1936 Movie
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Social Error

1935 Movie
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North to the Klondike

1942 Movie
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Those Who Dance

1930 Movie
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Sunset in Wyoming

1941 Movie
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San Antonio

1945 Movie
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Skin Deep

1929 Movie
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Sharad of Atlantis

1936 Movie
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Law of the Timber

1941 Movie
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One-Round Hogan

1927 Movie
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Brass Knuckles

1927 Movie
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Trails of the Wild

1935 Movie
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Road to Singapore

1940 Movie
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The Big Wheel

1949 Movie
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Geronimo

1939 Movie
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Klondike Fury

1942 Movie
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Show of Shows

1929 Movie
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Never Say Goodbye

1946 Movie
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The Sea Hornet

1951 Movie
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Our Leading Citizen

1939 Movie
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The Iroquois Trail

1950 Movie
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The Vagabond Prince

1916 Movie
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I Married a Witch

1942 Movie
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The Dark Swan

1924 Movie
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The Blonde Bandit

1949 Movie
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The Devil's Needle

1916 Movie
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Hands Up!

1917 Movie
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Betsy's Burglar

1917 Movie
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Stallion Road

1947 Movie
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The Matrimaniac

1916 Movie
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Silver River

1948 Movie
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The Great Man's Lady

1942 Movie
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Martyrs of the Alamo

1915 Movie
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Conquest

1928 Movie
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The Greyhound Limited

1929 Movie
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No Defense

1929 Movie
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Come On, Marines!

1934 Movie
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The Birth of a Nation

1915 Movie
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Isle of Escape

1930 Movie
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New York Town

1941 Movie
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The Remarkable Andrew

1942 Movie
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Pacific Blackout

1941 Movie
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Touchdown, Army

1938 Movie
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From Headquarters

1929 Movie
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The Purple Highway

1923 Movie
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Bitter Apples

1927 Movie
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Brass

1923 Movie
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King of Alcatraz

1938 Movie
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Two Guys from Texas

1948 Movie
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Edge of Darkness

1943 Movie
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Mission to Moscow

1943 Movie
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The Unfaithful

1947 Movie
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Danger Signal

1945 Movie
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Frontier Days

1945 Movie
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Across the Pacific

1926 Movie
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Recompense

1925 Movie
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Revelation

1924 Movie
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Peacock Alley

1922 Movie
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Being Respectable

1924 Movie
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The Lover of Camille

1924 Movie
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A Broken Doll

1921 Movie
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Road to Morocco

1942 Movie
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The Fountainhead

1949 Movie
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The Only Road

1918 Movie
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The Hard Way

1943 Movie
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Too Much Johnson

1919 Movie
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Loving Lies

1924 Movie
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Romance and Arabella

1919 Movie
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Everywoman

1919 Movie
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Wild and Woolly

1917 Movie
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The Man Upstairs

1926 Movie
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Across the Atlantic

1928 Movie
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The Kentuckians

1921 Movie