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Dir: William Beaudine

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: William Beaudine

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Stop, Look and Listen perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

The wrong man is arrested half a dozen times, but finally gets the girl.

Dir: William Beaudine

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: William Beaudine

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Hearts and Diamonds perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Bobby is a chap who scoffs at the idea of girls proposing. Just to prove that he is wrong his chums conceive the scheme of having Vera pop the question. Of course she is not in earnest at first but when she sees another woman taking advantage of leap year by proposing to Bobby, she quickly decides that he is worth having after all.

Dir: William Beaudine

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: William Beaudine

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Marry Me perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: William Beaudine

A girl shows her brother, Jack, a character picture of her pretty friend, in which she wears glasses, and looks otherwise unattractive. When the young lady comes to visit, Jack sends himself a fake telegram to come to New York. As he is leaving the house the pretty girl is arriving. He suddenly changes his mind, but when he reaches the house she is being entertained by a couple of other young men. In the course of events he kidnaps her, and at the conclusion they are happily married.

Dir: William Beaudine

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of A Rustic Romeo perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Bobby has been in the air service but has never got off the ground. He is induced to take the place of an American "ace" at a home party. Things become complicated when his host introduces him to an airplane that he has just purchased.

Dir: William Beaudine

Bobby is a college cut-up who is sent down to the farm in the hope that he will mend his ways. Here he meets, along with two pals, a couple of chorus girls who take him for a "rube." Later, still posing as a sod buster, Bobby invades the shop where the show dames are working and manages to create a surprising amount of disturbance.

Dir: William Beaudine

Bobby's chief aim is to prevent his rivals from making love to Florence by making them believe, through various tricks, that her hair and other necessities of life were false, thereby almost losing her himself.