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Dir: Sidney Franklin

After the half-breed daughter of a Comanche chief falls for a young engineer who deserts her, she turns to a white Indian agent who marries her.

Dir: Sidney Franklin

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Not Guilty perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Paul Ellison, who falls in love with Elsa, exchanges identities with his twin, Arthur, because he feels himself responsible for his brother's downfall, and assumes guilt for a murder. Five years later Elsa meets Arthur, whom she believes to be Paul, and they become engaged. In Rangoon, Paul is recognized by Elsa and Craig, a gambler. Though Paul confesses to the crime, Craig, in his dying moments, admits he is the real murderer. Elsa and the two brothers are then reconciled.

Dir: Sidney Franklin

With her marriage on the verge of breaking up, a young wife attempts to win back the love of her husband and child.

Dir: Sidney Franklin

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

A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.

Dir: Sidney Franklin

Originally a Broadway play by Willard Mack, Lenore Ulric played the lead on Broadway and she reprises her role in this film. At the Wutchi Wum trading post, in the peaceful Loon River Valley, deep in the Canadian Northwest comes a story of love, vengeance and sacrifice. Following the death of her father; Rose lives at the trading post where she soon falls in love, but when her new love is in trouble, in her quest to keep him safe; Rose discovers that she is capable of much more than she thought.

Dir: Sidney Franklin

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

Distraught young Ann Carter is saved from committing suicide by Hayden Masters, but he turns out to be a vicious criminal who wants to make her his partner-in-crime. Fearful of what might happen to her if she doesn't marry him as he asked, she accepts, but on their wedding night he is arrested for burglary and thrown into prison. Broke and alone, Ann gets a job as a secretary to a wealthy executive, whose son Donald falls for her. When she hears that Masters has been killed in a failed prison escape attempt, she accepts Donald's proposal--then Masters shows up, very much alive.

Dir: Sidney Franklin

Beverly Calhoun of New Jersey accompanies her cousin Oscar to claim the throne of the tiny kingdom of Graustark. When Oscar has a skiing accident, Beverly takes his place as Prince Oscar.

Dir: Sidney Franklin

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

A chorus girl hopes to rise to stardom and thus accepts the advances of a wealthy man. But she becomes fearful of her reputation and safety. In an attempt to escape the rake's attentions, she hides out with a disparate group of men who room in a house called "The Barn." There she learns that there is more to life than that found on the stage.

Dir: Sidney Franklin

Josephine, a seemingly happily married mother, comforts her friend who has just found out that her husband is cheating on her with her own story: raised in an infamous dive and taught to steal money from her customers, one night she meets a well-known novelist and his wife who are "slumming" and who give her a sum of money in order for her to leave her surroundings, but her guardian takes it from her. She is eventually sent to a reformatory but escapes and finds the novelist, now divorced. She determines to once and for all escape the life she's in and offers herself to the novelist in exchange for a promise of marriage. Complications ensue. When the place is raided, Jo is sent to a reformatory, but she later escapes. So that she will not have to return to the reformatory, Harrison marries her "in name only," with the idea that after a few months they will divorce. When Nina, now unhappily married, starts pursuing Harrison, his friend Huntley McMerton helps Jo make Harrison jealous, whereupon he declares his love. Jo suggests that her friend should act similarly.

Dir: Sidney Franklin

A housewife poses as her sister, a notorious dancer, in order to fool her husband and teach him a lesson.