Chester Barnett
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 29, 1884
Deathday: September 22, 1947
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The Eye of a God
1913-04-03
The Eye of a God
Overview: A costly gem is stolen from a Hindoo idol and brought to America. Introducing numerous startling incidents, including an auto wreck and a leap for life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-03
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The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
1914-11-09
The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
Overview: Giles Bateson gets expelled from college for misconduct. His angry father, the Earl, sends him a message: "Never let me see you again until you have earned a half crown and proven yourself worthy of confidence."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-09
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A Wild Goose Chase
1919-03-02
A Wild Goose Chase
Overview: Margaret Sherwood's fiancé has disappeared in the Arctic and she hasn't heard from him in two years. Yet she does not believe he died. Price Latham, in love with Margaret, offers to organize a new expedition to prove otherwise. In return, she promises to marry Latham, come what may.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-02
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Lost in the Night
1913-09-06
Lost in the Night
Overview: Pearl White as a sleepwalking jewel thief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-06
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The Ring
1914-01-11
The Ring
Overview: Though Mr. and Mrs. Gray are supposed to be in comfortable circumstances, the husband has met business reverses and has been declared a bankrupt. It is after the wife has just completed a lavish social that he tells her. Disgruntled, she goes with him to live at a cheap apartment house. Pearl White starred in the Crystal FILMS short THE RING in 1914, just months before starting work at the Pathe studio on her break-out hit serial THE PERILS OF PAULINE.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-11
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The Hall-Room Girls
1913-07-19
The Hall-Room Girls
Overview: Pearl White & Chester Barnett want to go on a date and have nothing to wear, so they borrow some clothes....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-19
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La Vie de Bohème
1916-06-18
La Vie de Bohème
Overview: Mimi, an orphan, is taken in by a drunken innkeeper and becomes a domestic. She meets Rudolphe, scion of a well-to-do family, who rescues her from the unwanted advances of a drunken hotel guest. They fall madly in love, but Rudolphe's uncle, M. Durandin, wants Rudolphe to marry a family friend, Madame de Rouvre, and writes Mimi a letter, telling her that she is ruining Rudolphe's life. Musette and Marcel, friends of Mimi, also try to break up the romance by introducing Mimi to other men, and Rudolphe becomes jealous and leaves her. Brokenhearted, Mimi declines in health and eventually throws herself into the river but is rescued and taken to the hospital. Realizing it is only a matter of time before she dies, she drags herself back to the room where she and Rudolphe were happiest. Rudolphe is there and she dies knowing that he loves her.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-18
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A Night in Town
1913-03-02
A Night in Town
Overview: A maid and butler take advantage of their employers' absence and have a party.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-02
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How Men Propose
1913-07-19
How Men Propose
Overview: Three men in succession propose marriage to Grace Darling; she accepts all! Since they are roommates, the three discover their problem in short order; when they return for an explanation, they're in for a surprise.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-19
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The Law of Compensation
1917-04-01
The Law of Compensation
Overview: A 1917 film directed by Joseph A. Golden & Julius Steger
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-01
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Will Power
1913-06-22
Will Power
Overview: Chester is Pearl's sweetheart. Her father dislikes Chester. He reads in a book of the great superiority of mind over matter, by the proper exercise of the will and determines to try it on Chester. This he does and wills that Chester leave his house. In the middle of a conversation with Pearl, Chester suddenly rushes from the room. This state of affairs continues on and off, until Pearl by accident came across the book and understands her beau's strange actions. The next time Chester calls, Pa again wills that he go, but Pearl wills that he remain and Chester is kept running in and out of the house until Pearl's superior and stronger will wins and he remains. Pa sinks exhausted and consents to allowing Chester's attentions to Pearl
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-22
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Woman
1918-10-27
Woman
Overview: A series of stories reflecting the changing position of women in the world, including the familiar tales of Adam and Eve, Messalina and Claudius, Abelard and Heloise, Cyrene and the Fisherman, as well as that of a young girl and an officer in the American Civil War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-27
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A Girl's Folly
1917-02-26
A Girl's Folly
Overview: A restless young girl yearns to leave her rural environment and "get away from it all". One day she stumbles upon a film crew shooting a western near her home. She makes friends with the film's leading man, who encourages her to try her luck as an actress. So she leaves her small town and goes to the big city to break into the picture business. However, things don't turn out quite the way she planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-26
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Together
1918-10-14
Together
Overview: According to Richard Standhope's will, both his daughter Laura and her long-lost twin brother Larry must be reunited by a certain date, or the estate will revert to her avaricious guardian, Andrew Brean. Following Standhope's death, Laura and her sweetheart, Jim Watson, read in her deceased mother's diary that Andrew had broken up the Standhopes' marriage soon after the twins' birth by unjustly accusing Mrs. Standhope of infidelity. Laura was then sent to boarding school, while little Larry, placed in his father's care, was neglected and later became a thief. As Laura and Jim ponder Larry's whereabouts, the house is robbed by none other than Larry, now called "the Kid," and his cohort, "the Snail."
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-14
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The Great Adventure
1918-03-10
The Great Adventure
Overview: Ragna "Rags" Jansen has found local success and acclaim in her small town as an actress, but dreams of stardom on Broadway.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-10
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What Happened to Jones
1915-03-22
What Happened to Jones
Overview: Jones is a traveling salesman -- or drummer, as they were known in those days -- who peddles Bibles and playing cards at a discount. Along with Professor Goodly, he goes to a prize fight which is raided by the police. The two men wind up at a boarding school for young ladies where Jones is mistaken for the Bishop of Timbuctoo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-22
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Trilby
1915-09-19
Trilby
Overview: The hypnotic Svengali controls the singing voice of a young starlet, but he cannot control her heart. This 1915 Maurice Tourneur film is a version of the famous du Maurier novel. It was later done in a more famous 1931 film named Svengali with John Barrymore. The later film obviously changed the title due to the huge presence of its star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-19
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Pearl As A Clairvoyant
1913-04-06
Pearl As A Clairvoyant
Overview: Released as a split reel along with the comedy Almost a Winner (1913)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-06
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The Inevitable
1917-04-05
The Inevitable
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-05
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The Submarine Eye
1917-05-27
The Submarine Eye
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-27
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Man of the Hour
1914-10-12
Man of the Hour
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-12
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Son
1914-09-20
Son
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-20
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The Little Dutch Girl
1915-08-23
The Little Dutch Girl
Overview: The old gardener, attracted by the ducks' antics, goes to the lake to find a basket with a baby in it. He becomes her guardian but passes away when she is fourteen, leaving her the house and garden. Beloved by the woodsman Jean, one day Lionel, a famous painter, approaches her to be his model, and she accepts. Eventually she finds herself torn between the two men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-23
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The Little Miss Brown
1915-06-07
The Little Miss Brown
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-07
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The Pit
1914-12-28
The Pit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-28
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The Challenge Accepted
1918-12-29
The Challenge Accepted
Overview: In the Blue Ridge Mountains Postmaster's daughter Sally Haston loves Steve Carey, but wants him to enlist and fight the Germans during the Great War. Steve is unhappy at the training camp Steve argues with his roughneck tentmate Billy Murphy. When Steve deserts to visit Sally she takes him back to the camp, where Captain Roderick Brooke sympathetically explains the purpose of the war. Later, moonshiner James Grogan holes up with a gun to escape the draft and holds Sally prisoner. Her father organizes a posse, but Steve, home on leave, rescues her and announces that he is leaving for Europe to fight for democracy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-29
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Over the Hill
1917-12-30
Over the Hill
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-30
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Break the News to Mother
1919-06-08
Break the News to Mother
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-08
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