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Metro Pictures Corporation

Metro Pictures Corporation
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Date de fondation 1 janvier 1916
Fondateur Louis B. Mayer

Metro Pictures Corporation est une société de production de cinéma américaine, créée en 1915, qui fusionnera au sein de la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer en 1924.
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Filmographie de Metro Pictures Corporation (158 films)

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The Eternal Mother
The Eternal Mother (1917)
, 50minutes
Réalisé par Frank Reicher
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame
Acteurs Ethel Barrymore, Charles Sutton, Louis Wolheim, Maxine Elliott Hicks

As described in a film magazine, Maris (Barrymore) endeavors to persuade her husband Dwight Alden (Mills) to replace the children working in his mills with man and women, but Alden does not listen to his wife's pleas. One night a little girl is injured and Maris, calling on her, discovers that she is her own daughter from a previous marriage whom she thought was dead. She finds that her former husband, whom she also believed to be dead, is still living. Maris returns to her home, unable to forget her little girl. When the girl runs away from her father and comes to Maris, Maris leaves Alden, explaining her reasons in a letter. Alden learns that Maris' former husband secured a divorce so that he might marry another woman. With this evidence, and after clearing his factories of child workers, Alden goes to Maris and begs her and her child to return home with him.
Aladdin's Other Lamp
Aladdin's Other Lamp (1917)

Origine Etats-Unis
Acteurs Viola Dana, Robert D. Walker, Augustus Phillips, Ricca Allen, Edward Elkas

Patsy Smith is kidnapped by her father when she's a baby, after having a fight with Patsy's mother. When her father dies at sea, Captain Barnaby takes Patsy to a boardinghouse run by Mrs. Duff. Inspired by the Captain's tales of Aladdin, she goes on a hunt for her father's oriental lamp which Mrs. Duff has sold to a junk peddler. After finding the lamp, Patsy buys it and starts to rub it and the Genie Jehaunarara appears. The genie transforms her room, restores the Captain's leg and turns Mrs. Duff into a rag doll. However, the genie can't reunite Patsy with her mother, because it is beyond his magic. After the genie wins first prize at a masquerade ball for his attire, Patsy applauds and unwittingly causes him to disappear. Upset, Patsy throws the oriental lamp out the window and barely misses hitting her friend Harry, who wants to become a lawyer and then president. Patsy finds letters in the lamp that lead her to locating her mother, who arrives with her brother, who is now a judge. Harry now daydreams that he is president and Patsy is his first lady.
Dimples
Dimples (1916)

Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame
Acteurs Mary Miles Minter, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Charlotte Shelby

Dimples is a young girl, whose father dies. She goes to the South to live with her aunt, but doesn't know her father has hidden his legacy in her doll. She falls in love with Robert, who is threatened with financial ruin.
Lovely Mary
Lovely Mary (1916)

Origine Etats-Unis
Acteurs Mary Miles Minter, Russell Simpson

Mary and her cousin Clairborne are the last descendants of the Lane family who announce they are selling their land. Two land scouts come over to buy their property. One of them, Roland Manning, falls in love with Mary. The other, Wade Dempster, tries to get his hand on their home by getting Clairborne drunk. One of the townsfolk finds out of Dempster's way of buying the land and tries to stop it. Dempster defends himself by shooting him and next blames Manning for the murder. It doesn't take long before Manning is found guilty and receives a life prison sentence.
The Soul Market
The Soul Market (1916)
, 50minutes
Réalisé par Francis J. Grandon
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame
Acteurs Olga Petrova, Arthur Hoops, Evelyn Brent, Wilmuth Merkyl

Olga Petrova plays Elaine Elton, a famous actress who is engaged to a powerful producer. She meets a millionaire, who poses as a chauffeur to conquer her because he knows she dislikes rich men. She falls in love with him but cannot accept his proposal of marriage because of her engagement to the producer.
The Crimson Stain Mystery
The Crimson Stain Mystery (1916)

Réalisé par T. Hayes Hunter
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Horreur
Acteurs Maurice Costello, Ethel Grandin, William Cavanaugh

En essayant de développer un produit chimique qui ferait d’une personne un être super-intelligent, le Dr. Burton Montrose échoue et les sujets de ses expériences se métamorphosent en des criminels pervers.