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John Emerson (born Clifton Paden; May 29, 1874 – March 7, 1956) was an American stage actor, playwright, producer, and director of silent films (many featuring Douglas Fairbanks). Emerson was married to Anita Loos from June 15, 1919, until his death, and prior to that the couple had worked together as a writing team for motion pictures. They would continue to be credited jointly, even as Loos pursued independent projects.
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26 December 1926
Chester Binney, a wounded war veteran, erroneously believes he is carrying a silver plate in his head and must avoid all excitement.
12 March 1916
In the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American officials, coming to the realisation that the country is basically defenceless, offer $1,000,000 to anyone who can come up with a weapon to defeat the invaders.
07 March 1920
Georgiana Chadbourne is a young widow. Her dead husband was such a straight arrow that it bored her, and after a proper enough mourning period, she goes out in search of adventure.
22 September 1918
A patriotic but short American man tries without luck to qualify for the Army, but can't get in until a knock on the head raises a lump high enough for him to pass the height requirement.
26 October 1919
A 1919 film directed by Edward José.
27 August 1923
Dulcy, a devoted but scatterbrained bride, tries to improve her absent husband's finances by inviting two of his business prospects to dinner.
09 April 1913
Tom Carson, a southerner, with his daughter, Grace, is the keeper of the Grey Sentinel Lighthouse. John Adams, the sweetheart of Grace, returns from West Point and joins the southern cause; he, however, spying for the Union Army.
16 December 1916
A young couple attempts to elope, with the bride's irate father in hot pursuit. The train stops briefly and the young man dashes off to find a minister, but before he can get himself and the minister onto the train, it leaves, carrying his bride-to- be away.
01 July 1920
Mary Blake can charm any man, young or old, with her winning ways -- except for the one she really wants.
11 June 1916
Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his time into periods of "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drinks".
17 October 1921
The Women's Political League decides to find a female candidate for mayor and their choice is Kay Gerson who, they figure, will win votes from the men because of her looks.
21 November 1960
Hussein, a shy young man, is desperately in love with Samiha. However, Samiha is more interested in her singing and dancing cousin Lucy.
05 February 1937
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
23 December 1916
Doug is an American mining engineer. Pres. Valdez of Paragonia wants him to reopen the country's mines.
17 November 1938
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby.
28 April 1918
A bit too immature for marriage, Cyprienne allows her pretty head to be turned by an egotistical fop.
10 March 1934
Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss.
10 August 1930
Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death.
15 July 1931
A man gets in trouble with his girlfriend when a beautiful movie star and her fiance come to his small town.
26 June 1936
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
13 February 1922
After his father's death, Roland Stone learns that his will stipulates that he must go to the South American country of Bunkonia and sell life insurance.
04 June 1916
Shakespeare's tragedy of the Scots nobleman whose ambition leads him to betrayal, murder, and damnation.
16 September 1916
An attractive young girl struggles to hold a job as she deals with unwanted romantic advances from her boss.
31 May 1915
Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a memorial to him.
24 June 1917
A rich Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long gone and it is an orderly and civilized place now.
23 July 1937
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
23 January 1921
Eve Orrin is at the mercy of her possessive mother, who has a case of "nerves" every time her daughter tries to show a mind of her own.
04 May 1919
In the town of Fremont, janitor Abraham Lincoln Jones is being groomed as the successor to Mayor Joe Bush.
19 April 1919
A young woman must resist the charms of a handsome stranger and stay single if she wants to inherit a fortune.
04 January 1919
Jimmie, a small-town boy, visits a traveling circus passing through town. he falls in love with Pansy, the daughter of the circus' tightrope walker, after he saves her from a gang of thugs.
30 April 1917
A young man drowns his sorrows in strong drink when jilted by his girl. His drunkenness gets him thrown in jail, where he falls in love with the jailer's daughter.
22 January 1928
Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This film is believed lost.
03 August 1934
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins.
17 June 1929
Tom Ford, Jr., keeps secret his romance with his father's secretary, Eve Grant. Ford, Sr., enlists Eve to entertain out-of-town buyer Mr.
25 January 1925
A 1925 film directed by Sidney Franklin.
04 November 1916
Young Hindu woman Radha, becomes best friends with Captain Raymond Townsend during his service in India, but he soon goes back to England to tend to the estate of an uncle who has just died.
14 November 1915
Karl Heinrich is the heir to the throne of the small European principality of Rutania, but he's a lonely child, not allowed to play with other children and knowing little about life outside the castle.
28 November 1920
Clarence Brooks is a shy, timid man working for Mr. Flavell. He is love with Flavell's daughter, Nancy.
09 November 1912
Lieutenant Parker reports for duty to Major Wilkins, commanding Ft. Sill, where Geronimo is a prisoner.
15 December 1918
During World War I, Herr Dresser, a German-American professor from West Hoboken, New Jersey, invents a "mustache fixer," which stiffens the whiskers, making the wearer look very fierce.
16 August 1917
A healthy outdoors-type follows the girl he loves to a resort for wealthy hypochondriacs. In order to prove to her and the other patients that their "illnesses" are all in their minds, he hatches a scheme to take them on a boat ride, then get them stranded in the wilderness, where he can show them that they can live without their pills, doctors and "cures".
16 November 1917
A button factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famous and in "the company of kings".
13 February 1916
Produced at the Reliance studio in Yonkers, New York, HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPERS solidly established Fairbanks as the American ideal of pop, vim, and vigor.
16 November 1919
A flirtatious young woman takes a job in a busy office, where her presence is terribly disruptive. None of the men in the office can concentrate on their jobs while her charms are on display.
30 January 1922
A romantic comedy, focusing on the love triangle between Bob Jones, Alysia Potter and Polly Meachum. Originally engaged, Bob and Alysia elope to Bowling Green, Connecticut, where they meet Silas Meachum, a campaigner against motion pictures, and his daughter, Polly.
27 May 1915
Theatrical manager Isaac Shuman has a reputation for "taking advantage" of young girls who want to become stars on Broadway.
17 April 1920
After neglecting her studies in favor of romantic experiments, Babs Hardcastle is thrown out of boarding school.
10 December 1931
A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.
11 February 1915
David Holmes, a misogynist and recluse, becomes the guardian of ten-year-old Sylvia after her father's death.
10 December 1914
Winthrop Clavering a mystery writer, is continually ridiculed for the fiction of the crimes he depicts, so he decides to solve a case himself.
16 June 1918
Bartender Billy Holliday loses his job for refusing to supply drinks to minors at the behest of his employer.
10 February 1924
Molly Townsend is on the eve of her marriage to Luis Riccardi, a steamship man who secretly is a bootlegger.
