Author Archive: Retro

When M. Beaucaire, a handsome barber, catches the Duke of Winterset cheating at gambling, Beaucaire exacts Winterset’s cooperation in sneaking Beaucaire into a great ball, disguised as the Duke de Chartres, and to introduce him to the beautiful Lady Mary. The disguised barber successfully pulls off the masquerade and is soon the toast of society. But Winterset is embittered at having been blackmailed so, and he sets out to destroy Beaucaire if he can do so without revealing his own duplicity.

Rise and fall of a peasant boy who becomes Spain’s most famous Matador, but is seduced by a scheming woman. Valentino’s most famous role.

A wanted Russian lieutenant becomes a masked vigilante seeking vengeance upon the man who stole his family’s land, only to fall for his charming daughter.

Happy-go-lucky orphan girl is adopted by a cold-hearted, bitter aunt and tries to bring gladness to everyone she meets.

Title character is neglected by her fun-loving parents, and left to be raised by a harsh servant. When the servant wants an evening off, she gives the little girl an overdose of sleeping pills, making her dangerously ill.

A young girl, stifling on her father’s backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.

Pickford’s remake of her 1914 film of the same title.

Young woman agrees to help the French against Germany when she finds out her aunt has died and her lover is fighting for the Germans. Written by Jeanie MacPherson and Cecil B. DeMille. Dir. Cecil B. DeMille.

A young woman mistreated by her stepfamily attends a royal ball with the help of her fairy godmother.