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Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film. During the first quarter of the 20th century, Tarkington, along with Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana.
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14 September 1924
Industrialist James Sheridan, Sr., once a laborer, insists on moulding the careers of his three sons; however, he loses James, Jr.
23 July 1938
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
23 August 1925
Alfred E.Green silent family relationship romantic melodrama
05 April 1914
A convivial evening at Hoag's Tavern is interrupted by a young companion, William Fentise, declaring to the assembled company that he is very much in love with Sylvia, known as "Cherry," the beautiful daughter of Mr.
01 February 1925
An silent adaptation of Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons."
19 February 1913
In the early part of the Nineteenth Century, Beau Brummell was the most talked-of person in all the world, the extreme of fashion, the personification of elegance and the most pretentious individual imaginable.
24 December 1914
Cameo Kirby is a 1914 American drama silent film directed by Oscar Apfel and written by Clara Beranger and William C.
01 October 1931
Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale.
12 February 1941
A young boy seeks love and understanding from his cold, demanding father.
01 March 1940
A high-school student in a small town becomes smitten with the sophisticated new girl who's just arrived from Chicago.
10 July 1942
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
01 July 1921
Andrew Gibson inherits problems when his father dies and leaves shares of his piano manufacturing business to his workmen.
09 July 1920
Edgar delivers a cake to his sister's ill friend. The cake arrives safely, but not sound, and Edgar is taken to task for his careless handling of the article.
20 February 1922
Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name of protecting kids from too-strict parents and nasty neighbors.
14 March 1924
Southerner Tom Rumford was sent up north to be raised by relatives who happen to be Quakers. As a result, he returns home a passive, peace-loving young man, completely out of place in an area where men kill over issues of honor.
02 November 1916
Seventeen year old William Sylvanus Baxter has fallen madly in love with young coquette, Lola Pratt. After spending all of his money on the fickle girl, she runs off with an older man.
28 December 1914
Madeline De Valette is betrothed to her father's cousin, Raoul De Valette, arrangements having been made when she was but a child.
24 December 1922
Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to Richard Lindley but is attracted to Val Corliss, who has come to town to promote oil stock.
12 January 2002
The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father.
15 October 1922
Clarence Smith is an ex-soldier who is hired for odd jobs by Mr. Wheeler primarily because he has overheard a family argument.
10 April 1936
A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till Withers sets things right.
11 March 1940
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.
15 October 1929
Antonio Camaradino, florist and street musician, befriends a man robbed of his overcoat and money in a disreputable bar.
30 April 1922
A fairly conventional romance of an American heiress, loved by boy back home, bedazzled by a glamorous prince in beautiful Italian surroundings.
27 March 1920
The story of Edgar Pomeroy, the first in a series, in which the boy Edgar imagines himself the triumphant master of his fate, revenging himself on a scornful young female classmate.
04 February 1924
Pied Piper Malone (1924)
30 December 1923
A wealthy banker is a strict disciplinarian with his nine-year-old son Bill. Finally the day comes when neither Bill nor his mother can put up any more with the father's relentlessness and heavy-handed treatment; she leaves and takes Bill with her.
26 July 1951
The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street.
23 August 1935
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment.
12 February 1937
The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone.
18 April 1920
Edgar and his schoolmates put on a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet such as the townsfolk have never seen.
10 January 1916
James Sheridan becomes wealthy and a power in a middle west city, where his entire life is absorbed in the turmoil of his own creation.
01 September 1920
Edgar is about to lose the lady of his heart because the Bates boys have been given a complete camping outfit for their back yard: tent, stove, and everything.
20 October 1923
Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his love for Adele (Olmstead), the dead man's daughter.
12 January 1930
Cameo Kirby, an honest riverboat gambler who works the Mississippi, rescues a girl from a gang of ruffians in New Orleans, but she disappears after he sings her a love song.
24 December 1923
Gentle Julia is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film based on the popular novel Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington.
22 March 1935
A young pacifist, after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
27 August 1930
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
26 February 1938
Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.
02 November 1919
The Country Cousin
24 February 1932
On a Mediterranean cruise, Earl Tinker, a manufacturer of razor blades, is the target of a femme fatale in the pay of a business rival, and he becomes embroiled in a feud between two Arab tribes.
01 February 1921
Episode 11 of the series of 2-reel comedies “The Adventures and Emotions of Edgar Pomeroy”.
10 July 1921
Joe Louden is an outcast in the small town of Canaan, and is especially disliked by Judge Pike. There is one inhabitant, however, who is fond of Joe -- the pretty but poor Ariel Tabor.
08 May 1920
Edgar is called upon by his mother to execute a disagreeable errand, has to mind his troublesome younger brother, and runs away.
26 March 1916
Cora Madison, the town flirt, delights in making men love her and then dropping them, so when newcomer Valentine Corliss arrives, she views him as just another potential victim.
29 April 1943
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
08 April 1923
Alice (Florence Vidor) is not satisfied with her family's financial situation and tries to convince others that she comes from a wealthy family.
04 September 1946
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.
07 March 1931
Young Bill Emory is a typical mischievous, rambunctious boy, but his father William is a strict disciplinarian, and Bill is constantly being punished for simple childhood transgressions.
28 November 1915
After a spectacular college football career, John Harkless leaves the university to pursue a place in Indiana politics.
28 June 1929
Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel.
01 October 1916
Ne'er-do-well Joe Louden scandalizes his small town and especially the proper Judge Pike. But through the love of young Ariel Taber, Joe shows the town who the real scoundrel is.
20 January 1929
Ambitious social climber Mr. Wygate hires charming rogue Eddie Able to polish his shy daughter Geraldine into a dazzling debutante.
11 August 1924
The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him.
18 June 1923
Penrod and his gang don't want to let neighborhood "goodie-goodie" Georgie Bassett into their club, but Penrod's father pressures him to allow the boy in because his parents are wealthy and prominent members of the town.
18 April 1920
On the way to Sunday school, Edgar meets the lady of his heart--and his hated rival. The Sunday-school lesson on David and Goliath so intrigues Edgar that he sees himself as David, saving the entire school, sweetheart and rival included, from Goliath's sword.
02 December 1905
Monsieur Beaucaire, a French nobleman & relative of the King, engages in a sword fight with the jealous Duke of Winterset over a card game, leading to a kidnapping attempt on the woman Beaucaire loves, Lady Mary Somerset, forcing Beaucaire to fight valiantly, get imprisoned, and then escape in disguise to stop the Duke from marrying Lady Mary, culminating in him revealing himself as the officiant during the wedding ceremony!
28 February 1937
A boy and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
01 April 1921
Edgar buys a badge and a book of instructions and starts to learn the detective business. When he and his chum accompany his uncle's hired hand and his girl to town on a load of hay, and learn that a stop at the minister's means a marriage and not a murder, the two boys are sadly disappointed.
