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Metro Pictures Corporation

Metro Pictures Corporation
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Foundation date 1 january 1916
Creator Louis B. Mayer

Metro Pictures Corporation was a former American motion picture production company founded in early 1915 and was a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The company produced its films in either New York or Los Angeles and some times at leased facilities in Fort Lee, NJ.
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Filmography of Metro Pictures Corporation (158 films)

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Thy Name Is Woman
Thy Name Is Woman (1924)

Directed by Fred Niblo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Ramón Novarro, Barbara La Marr, William V. Mong, Wallace MacDonald, Robert Edeson, Edith Roberts

Juan Ricardo est un soldat de l'armée espagnole. On lui offre une promotion de sergent si il séduit Guerrita la jeune épouse de Pedro un ancien passeur qui si livre aux trafic de biens clandestins...
Mademoiselle Midnight
Mademoiselle Midnight (1924)
, 1h7
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Mae Murray, Monte Blue, John St. Polis, Paul Weigel, Otis Harlan, Clarissa Selwynne

Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by Napoleon III at Empress Eugenie's insistence to Mexico. Renee is kept locked at the hacienda at night by her father to prevent her following in her grandmother's wayward footsteps. She falls in love with a visiting American (Monte Blue) but is also pursued by the craven outlaw Manuel Corrales. Miss Murray gets to do some of her trademark dancing, but this one isn't a comedy, despite comic relief provided by Johnny Arthur.
The Toll of the Sea
The Toll of the Sea (1923)
, 54minutes
Directed by Chester M. Franklin, Chester Franklin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on operas
Actors Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Priscilla Moran

When young Chinese woman Lotus Flower sees an unconscious man floating in the water at the seashore, she quickly gets help for him. The man is Allen Carver, an American. Soon the two have fallen in love, and they get married "Chinese fashion". Carver promises to take her with him when he returns home. Lotus Flower's friends warn her that he will leave without her, and one states she has been forgotten by four American husbands, but she does not believe them. However, Carver's friends discourage him from fulfilling his promise, and he returns to the United States alone.
The White Sister
The White Sister (1923)
, 2h23
Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Lillian Gish, Ronald Colman, Gail Kane, Charles Lane, J. Barney Sherry, Charles Lane

Angela Chiaromonte (Lillian Gish) and Captain Giovanni Severini (Ronald Colman) are deeply in love, but Angela's wealthy father, Prince Chiaromonte (Charles Lane), does not know this and arranges her marriage, without her knowledge, to the son of Count del Ferice (Roman Ibanez). However, the prince is killed as the result of an accident while riding to hounds.
Three Ages
Three Ages (1923)
, 1h3
Directed by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Mafia films, La préhistoire, Gangster films
Actors Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery, Joe Roberts, Lillian Lawrence, Lionel Belmore

Three plots in three different historical periods—prehistoric times, ancient Rome, and modern times (the Roaring Twenties)—are intercut to prove the point that men's love for woman have not significantly changed throughout history. In all three plots, characters played by Buster Keaton and Wallace Beery compete for the attention of the same woman, played by Margaret Leahy. Each plot follows similar "arcs" in the story line in which Keaton's character works for his beloved's attention and eventually wins her over.
The Woman of Bronze
The Woman of Bronze (1923)
, 1h
Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Clara Kimball Young, John Bowers, Kathryn McGuire, Edwin Stevens, Lloyd Whitlock, Edward Kimball

Le sculpteur Leonard Hunt reçoit une commande pour un mémorial de guerre. Il prend Sylvia Morton comme modèle de sa statue de "La Victoire", et tombe amoureux d'elle. Mais il n'est pas satisfait de son travail, sa statue manquant d'âme selon lui. Lorsque sa femme Vivian s'en prend à lui, Leonard casse la statue de colère et part. Quelques mois plus tard, il revient pour trouver sa statue restaurée, et il se rend compte qu'il y a chez Vivian ce supplément d'âme qui manquait à son travail. Toutefois, elle ne le reçoit pas à bras ouverts et lui annonce son départ pour l'Italie. Il se remet alors au travail avec fièvre et rejoint sa femme.
Cordelia the Magnificent
Cordelia the Magnificent (1923)

Directed by George Archainbaud
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Clara Kimball Young, Huntley Gordon, Carol Holloway, Lloyd Whitlock, Jacqueline Gadsden, Mary Jane Irving

Cordelia, a smart and pretty society girl, becomes suddenly impoverished but decides to get a job rather than marry for money. A complicated blackmail plot ensues.
The Frozen North
The Frozen North (1922)
, 17minutes
Directed by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline, Freeman Wood

The film opens near the "last stop on the subway", a terminal in Alaska, which appears to be emerging from deep snow in the middle of nowhere. A tough-looking cowboy (Buster Keaton) emerges. He arrives at a small settlement, finding people gambling in a saloon. He tries to rob them by scaring them with the cutout of a poster of a man holding a gun, which he places at the window, as if it is he is an accomplice. He tells the gamblers to raise their hands in the air. Frightened, they hand over their cash, but soon they find out the truth when a drunk man falls over the cutout. Keaton is thrown out through the window.
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Prisoner of Zenda (1922)

Directed by Rex Ingram, Rex Ingram
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Adventure, Romance
Themes Monde imaginaire, Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Lewis Stone, Alice Terry, Robert Edeson, Stuart Holmes, Ramón Novarro, Barbara La Marr

Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll (Lewis Stone) decides to pass the time by attending the coronation of his distant relation, King Rudolf V of Ruritania (also played by Stone) . He encounters an acquaintance on the train there, Antoinette de Mauban (Barbara La Marr), the mistress of the king's treacherous brother, Grand Duke 'Black' Michael (Stuart Holmes).
Peacock Alley
Peacock Alley (1922)
, 1h20
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mae Murray, Monte Blue, Edmund Lowe, Anders Randolf

Elmer Harmon (Monte Blue) travels from the United States to Paris on business, meets Cleo of Paris (Mae Murray), and marries her. On their return to the United States, Elmer's friends do not approve of Cleo, and therefore the couple moves to the city.