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Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, his titular role in a series of films featuring the character Sweedie, and his titular role in The Champ, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Beery appeared in some 250 movies over a 36-year span.
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15 February 1915
When Mrs. Justwed receives a note from her mother telling her that she expects to arrive next day, her husband seems overjoyed, and says he intends to make her stay all winter.
26 April 1925
David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fever, and then he becomes sick himself.
24 October 1940
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created.
24 August 1914
Sweedie, the cook at the Prim household, is a little too rough to suit Mr. Prim, who is about three feet shorter than herself.
09 November 1914
Sweedie has two admirers, and is undecided as to which one she prefers to marry. Her parents are in favor of Fritz, a little fat German.
24 March 1939
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
22 April 1915
Once upon a time a professor ordered the wax figure of King Woof, a celebrated eastern potentate who had died from eating too much pomegranate juice and who had a reputation for making history.
06 May 2003
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content.
24 June 1914
Argentino Boldo has a valuable book in his possession that Texas Tommy, Hesitation Nell and One-Step McGinnis desire to appropriate.
17 August 1925
After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin Homer, the second in command, Calvin Homer expects to be promoted; but the appointment goes instead to Bartlett, a religious fanatic who has been the recipient of a good deal of favorable newspaper publicity.
10 April 1936
A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.
28 December 1924
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den.
08 December 1932
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
29 May 1940
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America.
12 April 1949
Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.
24 March 1944
A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.
29 June 1914
The coming "champ" decides he is so good he can go around a Dub like a Cooper around a Barrel.
12 October 1924
Gladstone Smith, a fearful young reporter, gets on the wrong side of a murderous criminal and flees to Alaska, along with the killer's wife, who is equally frightened of her husband.
04 August 1933
Tugboat, the Narcissus, is owned and captained by Annie Brennan, and among her crew are her alcoholic but good-natured husband, Terry, and her conscientious son, Alec.
17 June 1914
The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine
17 February 1925
Because he wants a promotion, Tom Blackford marries Alice Rand, the daughter of his boss, John Rand. Rand is aware of Blackford's motivations and he sends him to take over as superintendent of one of the company's mines in the hopes that he will fail.
01 January 1984
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
06 November 1921
Sergeant Blake of the Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the border to break up a ring of smugglers who are bringing illegal Chinese immigrants into Canada.
18 October 1922
Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant.
01 January 1973
Overview of director King Vidor's filmography.
23 November 1914
Sweedie, the cook at the Rich household, buys a donkey from the captain of the police, but forgets to pay for it.
16 October 1930
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett.
15 February 1925
Alone and unprotected in an isolated wilderness cabin, Ruth Jordan is discovered by three drunken brutes who begin to barter for her.
15 July 1914
He was too big for this world when a Phrenologist told him he was a modern Napoleon.
30 December 1914
Two excellent fables in one reel. "The Fable of Another Side-Track an dthe Fatal Album," and "The Fable of the Difference Between Doc and a Physician.
07 October 1933
"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' .
07 April 1941
A fishing boat captain searches for romance in hopes of improving his financial picture.
24 September 1913
Jack has fallen in love with an unknown beauty, and when he and his friend Tom meet her on the street, he is overjoyed to find his friend is acquainted with her, but furious at Tom's failure to introduce him.
26 October 1914
Krautmeyer owns a bakery while Schmidt runs a delicatessen store next door. They fight continually and when each receives a letter informing him that he is nominated for alderman, war in general is declared.
09 January 1914
A lawyer defends a woman accused of murdering her husband without knowing that the murdered man was his own brother.
22 June 1914
Buchanan Bartlett, shiftless son of Hiram Bartlett, farmer retired, is sent to college to learn things.
07 September 1924
Vengeful husband pursues, kidnaps his wife aboard a deserted ship when he becomes injured and taken aboard, then sinks in a collision following a fight with the captain for his wife.
09 June 1931
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra.
15 July 1917
An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.
11 March 1914
Thomas Terpin. James Riding and Jack Hazard are sitting in the club when the talk drifts to a daring housebreaker, whom the police are powerless to capture.
21 January 1914
Mr. Simp is subservient to all his wife does or says, and as his wife is a militant suffragette, Mr. Simp is a firm adherent to the cause.
26 August 1913
Mrs. Strong, by reason of a good right arm, is absolute manager of her husband and his finances. While on a shopping expedition she collides with a passerby, spilling the contents of her purse.
07 October 1938
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
06 November 1926
"Stinky" Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, "Knockout" Hansen loses a fight with Percival "Sailor" Scruggs.
01 November 1930
A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.
03 February 2004
Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film boasted names like Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and John and Lionel Barrymore and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
13 September 1940
With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.
01 July 1942
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
17 December 1927
Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby Gilfoil shows up hoping to take her for some money.
16 June 1937
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
09 August 1935
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold.
09 December 1914
Rube Homer Splivins imitates the actions of a famous matinee idol in order to woo his lady love.
10 January 1972
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props.
23 April 1937
A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
15 June 1939
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
06 August 1975
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
29 November 1930
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
