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Dir: King Baggot

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: King Baggot

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

A British Army officer finds his wife in another mans room, so he kills him. Although she is innocent of any wrongdoing, the wife claims to be guilty in order to save her husband from a death sentence.

Dir: King Baggot

The government will grant a fringe of terrain for the settlers who want to live and work there. The starting sign will be a gunshot which will initiate the run for the best fields and claims.

Dir: King Baggot

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

Dave Martin, receiving teller in a Wall Street bank, marries Adele, secretary to the office manager, Frederick Vibart, who visits their home and shows continued interest in her. When a loss of $50,000 is discovered at the bank, Dave comes under suspicion and is arrested and convicted. Just before his release from prison, he sees Adele and Vibart together in a newsreel and becomes bitterly jealous. When released, he rushes to confront them as they are leaving for South America. Adele, however, has evidence that Vibart actually stole the money, and as Vibart is arrested she confesses to Dave that she lured Vibart so as to prove her suspicions.

Dir: King Baggot

Dirty work is afoot in old Kentucky when a rival decides that his horse will have a better chance of winning if the son of the owner isn't around, so he has him shanghaied onto a tramp freighter and gets the jockey in his debt through a crooked gambling game. Airplanes, ship-wrecks, sea storms, kidnapping, frame-up and much skullduggery prior to the race.

Dir: King Baggot

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

A cute young flapper enjoys the company of high-society gentlemen until she finds love with a rugged man of the mountains. After he rescues her from snakes, she decides that city boys simply don't suffice anymore.

Dir: King Baggot

Sonya (Carmel Myers) arrives as immigrant to the United States and works in her father's ghetto grocery store, where she gains the affections of a young settlement worker, David Dahlman (Allan Forrest). But she loves Mischa, a young doctor who soon arrives from Odessa, and to aid him financially, she distinguishes herself in the local Yiddish theater. Mischa turns her down for a wealthy heiress, however, and owing to the jealousy of Yazurka, a prominent Polish actress, Sonya is refused an important role. During a performance, attended by David, there is a boiler explosion that causes panic in the theater, and Sonya comes from backstage and calms the crowd. Later, rescued by David, she accepts his love.

Dir: King Baggot

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

When Jean Crosby, a Broadway chorus girl, visits her sister in Murphysburg and finds that not only has her brother-in-law, Lysander Sprowl, squandered all the money she has sent, but the leading male citizens, all members of the Purity League, who once were friendly to her in New York, will not now give her a second glance. With the help of newspaperman Toby Caswell, however, she anonymously publishes her life story in the town newspaper, thus frightening the men into offering Jean "hush money." Jean refuses their bribery, but before she and Toby leave town they get the gentlemen's promises to end their push for blue laws.

Dir: King Baggot

Marcel Murphy, a telephone operator with society aspirations, overhears Mrs. Margaret Benson's conversation describing a party she is planning for her son, Ralph, and wangles an invitation by imitating the hostess's voice. At the party, a maid accuses Marcel of stealing another guest's jewelry, but Mr. Benson creates an alibi for Marcel, claiming she is the daughter of an old friend. He then secretly rents a hotel suite for her. Complications reach a climax when Ralph, Mrs. Benson, and Marcel's parents arrive at the hotel at the same time and find the young woman alone with Mr. Benson. Matters are explained, and Ralph asks Marcel to be his wife.

Dir: King Baggot

A man's life seems to be falling apart. He's bored with his job, gets passed over for a promotion and, when the pressures get to be too much, he tries to commit suicide, but he even fails at that and manages only to cripple himself instead of killing himself. Forced to stay at home, he finds the role of "househusband" enjoyable--until his wife takes a low-paying job with his old company, and rapidly rises up the corporate ladder.