William Beaudine

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William Beaudine (January 15, 1892 – March 18, 1970) was an American film actor and director. He was one of Hollywood's most prolific directors, turning out films in remarkable numbers and in a wide variety of genres.

In 1915 he was hired as an actor and director by the Kalem Company. He was an assistant to director D.W. Griffith on The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance. By the time he was 23 Beaudine had directed his first picture, a short called Almost a King (1915). He would continue to direct shorts exclusively until 1922, when he shifted his efforts into making feature-length films.

Beaudine directed silent films for Goldwyn Pictures (before it became part of MGM), Metro Pictures (also before MGM), First National Pictures, Principal and Warner Brothers. In 1926 he made Sparrows, the story of orphans imprisoned in a swamp farm starring Mary Pickford. Beaudine had at least 30 pictures to his credit before the sound era began. Among his first sound films were short Mack Sennett comedies; he made at least one film for Sennett while contractually bound elsewhere, resulting in his adopting the pseudonym "William Crowley." He would occasionally use the pseudonym in later years, usually as "William X. Crowley."

He ground out several movies annually for Fox Films, Warner Brothers, Paramount, and Universal Pictures. His most famous credit of the early 1930s is The Old-Fashioned Way, a comedy about old-time show folks starring W. C. Fields.

Beaudine was one of a number of experienced directors (including Raoul Walsh and Allan Dwan) who were brought to England from Hollywood in the 1930s to work on what were in all other respects very British productions. Beaudine directed four films there starring Will Hay, including Boys Will Be Boys (1935) and Where There's a Will (1936).

Beaudine was often entrusted with series films, including the Torchy Blane, The East Side Kids, Jiggs and Maggie, The Shadow, Charlie Chan and The Bowery Boys series. His efficiency was so well known that Walt Disney hired him to direct some of his television projects of the 1950s and had him direct a feature western, Ten Who Dared (1960). Beaudine became even busier in TV, directing Naked City, The Green Hornet, and dozens of Lassie episodes.

His last two feature films, both released in 1966, were the horror-westerns Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (with John Carradine) and Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter. By the end of the decade he was the industry's oldest working professional, having started in 1909.

Beaudine died of uremic poisoning in 1970 in California and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood.

The Green Hornet

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Lassie

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Voodoo Man

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Billy the Kid Versus Dracula

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The Ape Man

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Sparrows

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The Green Hornet

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Ghosts on the Loose

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Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla

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The Wonderful World of Disney

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Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

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Fury of the Dragon

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The Living Ghost

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Detective Kitty O'Day

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Little Annie Rooney

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The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

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The Chinese Ring

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Boys Will Be Boys

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The Old-Fashioned Way

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The Golden Eye

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The Feathered Serpent

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Three Wise Girls

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Westward Ho, The Wagons!

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Naked City

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Incident

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The Crime of the Century

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The Face of Marble

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The Mystery of the 13th Guest

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The Shadow Returns

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Mom and Dad

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Design for Dreaming

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Windbag the Sailor

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Road to Paradise

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Ten Who Dared

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One Thrilling Night

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Below the Deadline

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Lucky Ghost

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Ghost Chasers

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Emergency Landing

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Behind the Mask

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The Panther's Claw

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The Shanghai Chest

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Where There's a Will

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Jalopy

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Torchy Gets Her Man

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Lassie's Great Adventure

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Black Market Babies

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Crazy Knights

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Misbehaving Husbands

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Hard Boiled Mahoney

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Duke of the Navy

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The Story of the Animated Drawing

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Don't Gamble with Strangers

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Murder Without Tears

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Bowery Buckaroos

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Angels' Alley

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Adventures of Kitty O'Day

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Make Me a Star

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No Holds Barred

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Federal Fugitives

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Blonde Comet

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Lucky Losers

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Up In Smoke

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The Plausible Impossible

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Yukon Gold

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The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

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Jinx Money

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Spook Busters

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Phantom Killer

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Feudin' Fools

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Dandy Dick

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Bowery Battalion

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The Miracle Kid

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Leave It to the Irish

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Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk

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Hot Rhythm

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Mr. Hex

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Those Who Dance

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Clancy Street Boys

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Smuggler's Cove

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News Hounds

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Broken Arrow

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Racket Squad

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Moochie of Pop Warner Football

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Fashion Model

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Kidnapped

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Philo Vance Returns

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Paris Playboys

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Torchy Blane in Chinatown

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High Society

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Dream Stuff

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The Big Idea

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Blues Busters

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Jail Busters

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Here Come the Marines

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Too Many Winners

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Crazy Over Horses

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Born to the Saddle

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Cuban Fireball

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The Rose Bowl Story

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Bowery Champs

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Again Pioneers

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Disneyland After Dark

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Foreign Agent

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Tough Assignment

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The Canadian

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Hold That Line

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Shadow of Suspicion

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Let's Go Navy!

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Here Comes Kelly

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In the Money

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The Inspector's Double

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The Lady Who Dared

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Mr. Celebrity

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Mr. Washington Goes to Town

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Tuna Clipper

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Lassie and the Flight of the Cougar

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Men in Her Life

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Blonde Dynamite

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Desperate Cargo

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Why Wild Men Go Wild

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Penrod and Sam

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Jet Job

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The Mad Parade

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A Husband in Haste

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Follow the Leader

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One Exciting Week

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Spotlight Scandals

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Gas House Kids Go West

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Trail of the Yukon

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Come Out Fighting

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Jiggs and Maggie Out West

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Said O'Reilly to McNab

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Yukon Vengeance

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See You Tonight

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Gallant Lady

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Punch the Clock

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Moochie of the Little League

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A Shadowed Shadow

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Wandering Husbands

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Easy Payments

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Adventure in Dairyland

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Corky and White Shadow

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The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show

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Frisco Sally Levy

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Catch My Smoke

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3D Jamboree

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Pride of the Blue Grass

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City Story

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Won By a Fowl

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A Home Spun Hero

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One Yard to Go

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The Great Junction Hotel

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Girl on the Spot

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When Damon Fell for Pythias

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Broadway Big Shot

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Feather Your Nest

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Wedding Rings

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Second Chance

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Jiggs and Maggie in Court

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For the Son of the House

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Strictly Modern

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Watch Your Step

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Rodeo

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Heart to Heart

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Daring Youth

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Daughters of Pleasure

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Lovers' Lane

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The Life of Riley

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Give and Take

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Look Homeward

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A Wonderful Life

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A Hollywood Theme Song

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What a Man!

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Up Jumped the Devil

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Professor Creeps

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Get Off My Foot

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Swingin' on a Rainbow

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The Congregation

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Blonde Ransom

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The Lawton Story

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Four Shall Die

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Mr. Muggs Steps Out

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Killer at Large

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Father's Son

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Misbehaving Ladies

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That's My Baby

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Two Weeks Off

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Educated Evans

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So You Won't Talk

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The Girl from Woolworth's

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County Fair

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Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters

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Forgotten Women

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Home, James

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Her Bodyguard

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Transatlantic Trouble

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A Sanitarium Scandal

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Step Forward

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Havana Rose

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The Country Kid

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The Narrow Street

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The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris

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A Broadway Butterfly

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Boy of Mine

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Cornered

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Fugitives

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Heroes of the Street

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Oh, What a Night!

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Her Fatal Millions

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Fresh from the Farm

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The Printer's Devil

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Roar of the Crowd

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Hard to Get

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What'll We Do with Uncle?

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A Tribute to Joel Chandler Harris

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Rapids Ahead/Bear Country

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How Baxter Butted In

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Uneasy Money

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The Suffragette Minstrels

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TV Reader's Digest

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