Mary Maurice
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 15, 1844
Deathday: April 30, 1918
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The Mainspring
1916-11-27
The Mainspring
Overview: Finding himself penniless, Lawrence Ashmore, whose late father was ruined on the stock exchange, obtains a position as a reporter. Ashmore is assigned to investigate the reported fatal illness of Jesse Craven, one of Wall Street's financial monarchs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-27
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War
1911-12-08
War
Overview: In the gray dawn of an October day, as the inhabitants of a village street in Tripoli are engaged in the enjoyment of their several pursuits of life, an Arab rushes upon the peaceful scene, announcing that Italy has declared war against Turkey and that the Italian warships are now in the harbor, shelling the city.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-08
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The Seventh Son
1912-04-03
The Seventh Son
Overview: At the outbreak of the Civil War in the United States, the six sons of widow Beecham enlist. The seventh son is very anxious to join the army and fight for his country, but his brothers insist upon his remaining home with his mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-03
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Song Bird of the North
1913-07-02
Song Bird of the North
Overview: Haywood, a suitor for the hand of Elida Rumsey, is severely reprimanded by her for not enlisting when President Lincoln calls for volunteers. Being deeply interested in the cause, Elida goes and helps Mrs. Pomeroy minister to sick and wounded soldiers. She becomes a favorite with the men, for she frequently sings to them. This attracts the attention of Lincoln
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-02
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The Sleep Walker
1911-06-23
The Sleep Walker
Overview: A young woman does strange things, which are explained when it is discovered she is a sleep walker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-23
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Treasure Trove
1911-07-25
Treasure Trove
Overview: Patience and Anne, two spinsters of the old school of aristocratic birth, have managed to keep up appearances under very trying conditions and with limited means, until they are reduced to such circumstances they are obliged to sell their household furnishing, of antique pattern, to raise the necessary "wherewithal" to live and pay the mortgage off the old home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-25
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A Quaker Mother
1911-06-27
A Quaker Mother
Overview: Mrs. Pearson is a little different from most mothers, at least in her general appearance, for she has that sweetness and calmness of disposition, which is characteristic of the Quakeress. Lois, her only child, does not inherit her mother's sedate and quiet temperament, apparently she is no different from other girls, quite natural, and does not object to the attentions paid her by John Harmon, who is very much in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-27
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Her Boy
1912-02-09
Her Boy
Overview: Far up in the mountains Mrs. Bailor's two sons, Tom and Harry, are engaged at their distilling, constantly in fear of being pursued by the revenue officers, and arrested as moonshiners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-09
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Conscience
1912-07-15
Conscience
Overview: More a cautionary moral tale than anything else, Conscience makes use of a setting that was to become a horror movie favourite: the chamber of horrors. Persuaded to elope by her lover Eric, Eleanor Donelly defies her police officer brother to go to New York, where the young couple are married. Soon deserted by Eric and desperate for food for her baby, Eleanor tries to steal a bottle of milk. Fleeing in terror from a policeman, she takes refuge in a chamber of horrors. Coincidentally, fallen among disreputable companions, Eric has meanwhile accepted a wager daring him to spend a night in the same chamber of horrors. In the morning, seeing Eleanor in the shadows as she wakes and rises, Eric dies of fright while Eleanor goes mad.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-15
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The Redemption of Dave Darcey
1916-06-12
The Redemption of Dave Darcey
Overview: Crook Dave Darcy gets reformed by working in a steel mill owned by someone who witnessed his crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-12
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In the Shadow
1913-10-28
In the Shadow
Overview: Thousands of persons would die in the present if it were not for the memories of the past. Old Mrs. Merkle has one cherished reminder of bygone days, her wedding gown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-28
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Vultures and Doves
1912-08-14
Vultures and Doves
Overview: "Thirty per cent dividend! Is your money supporting you? If not, call and see us. Rising Sun Copper Company." This is the bait that the vultures throw out to catch the "doves," widows and orphans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-14
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Her Grandchild
1912-08-19
Her Grandchild
Overview: Mrs. Grant, a widow, has one son, Donald. He is not really a bad fellow, but is full of devilment and always getting himself into mischief. One day, he visits the village inn and follows this up by pinning a caricature of Elder McWirther on that gentleman's gate. It is decided by the deacons to expel him from the church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-19
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A Pair of Frauds
1914-03-04
A Pair of Frauds
Overview: Young and pretty, Margery Dean, companion to Mrs. Sawyer, a wealthy lady, chances to meet Jack Drislane, a young clerk. It is raining hard; she has not an umbrella; he secures one and escorts her home. He is duly impressed when she enters a large brownstone mansion, particularly as the girl does not enlighten him as to her real social position; Later, they see each other again in passing autos and then Jack, who has been unable to forget Margery, asks permission to call, neglecting to mention, however, that he is a working man and not a wealthy idler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-04
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The Portrait
1914-03-10
The Portrait
Overview: Keen competition is aroused among a group of young artists in New York City by the announcement of a valuable prize for the greatest portrait of the year, six months being given as the time limit of the competition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-10
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The Life Boat
1911-11-25
The Life Boat
Overview: Old Captain Bill and his wife have an only son, whom they idolize. He loses all his money at gambling and drinking, and determines to do better in the city. After a short absence he writes his people that he has secured a good position, is saving money, and will be home before long. A year or two later he arrives in town and on his way to his home passes the old saloon he used to patronize. He cannot resist the temptation, and goes in. He falls in with a lot of bad fellows and is robbed. Ashamed to go home, he ships on board a sailing vessel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-25
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The Younger Brother
1911-12-26
The Younger Brother
Overview: When the two Werner brothers are called to the front it is not strange that the mother is very solicitous about the younger brother and enjoins the older boy to care for and defend him at all hazards. The English army is transported lo the Soudan and is now encamped in the midst of the activities of the campaign.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-26
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Captain Jenks' Diplomacy
1912-04-13
Captain Jenks' Diplomacy
Overview: Sir Brian, an irascible old gentleman, who suffers from gout, receives a note saying his son Gerald is very ill at college, and asking him to come to Dublin. He is too ill to go so he gets his friend, Captain Jenks, to go instead of him. Jenks finds Gerald being nursed by a pretty girl and soon discovers that Gerald is in love with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-13
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Saving an Audience
1912-08-23
Saving an Audience
Overview: Four young college students find themselves with no money and a lot of debts. Each has received a peremptory refusal from home to send any more money to them and they are in despair. Suddenly Claude has an idea. They will hire Susan B. Gabonthy to lecture for them, clear about one hundred dollars apiece, and have enough to tide them over into the next term.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-23
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An Eventful Elopement
1912-06-01
An Eventful Elopement
Overview: Emphatically opposed to Jack Moss, old Mr. McGillicuddy puts the ban on his marriage to his daughter Dolly. The old gentleman is adamant to the appeals of the young lovers and interposes his interference on every occasion, when they get together. McGillicuddy is seized with an attack of the gout, which handicaps him, and it is then Jack arranges with Dolly to elope.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-01
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The Apple
1914-07-23
The Apple
Overview: Promising to send for his sweetheart Roza, when he gets settled, Hugo Hunfalvy leaves Hungary for America. In New York he meets Louis Kaplan, an old friend, who owns a fruit store. Louis' sister, Marie, is pretty and flirtatious, and is much impressed by Hugo. He soon falls under the influence of her wiles and buys part interest in Louis' store.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-23
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Phantom Fortunes
1916-09-11
Phantom Fortunes
Overview: Bob Deering on his way to business meets his sweetheart, Molly Sherman. He arrives at Milliken and Co., stockbrokers, his place of employment, just in time to save Herman, Zalmon Pinsker's 14-year-old son, from a very rough engagement with the other messengers in the office. For this act Herman takes him to his father's shop and obtains a suit at wholesale, and it is here that Bob meets Ike Mandell, who is in love with Dora, the daughter of Pinsker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-11
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The Sacrifice
1911-06-09
The Sacrifice
Overview: During Nick Austin's imprisonment, his wife passes away. Before she dies, she writes a note to her husband, asking him to put her little girl in the care of an orphan asylum. Mrs. Downes, while bringing some of her dead daughter's clothes to the asylum, takes a fancy to Nina Austin and adopts her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-09
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The Modern Prodigal
1913-03-28
The Modern Prodigal
Overview: With all the good influences and favorable surroundings of a model home, Mr. and Mrs. Gray cannot understand why their son, Jack, does not prefer it to all other places. Jack seeks pleasure elsewhere and his father finds fault with him for his non-appearance at supper-time or his delay in getting home a certain hour at night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-28
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Tricks of the Trade
1913-05-27
Tricks of the Trade
Overview: Jack Breen and his wife, Lizzie, are professional crooks, who live in a fine house and set themselves up as belonging to the best. Breen gets his living by various means, including begging. He dresses in ragged clothes and picks up crusts in the street, which he pretends to eat, thereby exciting the sympathy of passers-by.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-27
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Twice Rescued
1915-02-20
Twice Rescued
Overview: Saved from a terrible shipwreck by Stephan Royston, son of a farmer. Nana, orphaned by the catastrophe, is adopted by the family and the two sons, Stephan and Godfrey, fall in love with her. Stephan's artistic tendency for painting, etc., is classed as foolishness by his stern father, while Godfrey, realizing that the girl favors his brother, determines to get rid of him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-20
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A Madcap Adventure
1915-02-19
A Madcap Adventure
Overview: Willfull, headstrong and inclined to be sporty, but withal, a very lovable girl, Thomasin Webb (called Tommy for short) keeps her Aunt Sarah, with whom she lives, on the jump. Guy Dunbar becomes deeply interested in Tommy, first from a psychological point of view, then fascinated by her personality. George Hilton, a society rounder, is after Tommy's money
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-19
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Mother's Roses
1915-02-13
Mother's Roses
Overview: John Morrison, Wall Street financier, is in the habit of bringing home to his wife daily a bunch of beautiful roses. Delevan, a recognized Money King, meets Helen, the financier's daughter, upon whom he seems to immediately exert a hypnotic influence. She becomes infatuated with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-13
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Over the Top
1918-03-31
Over the Top
Overview: The film is based on a book of the same name by Arthur Guy Empey, detailing his service as an American volunteer with the British Army on the Western Front.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1918-03-31
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The Greater Love
1914-12-14
The Greater Love
Overview: Shortly after the engagement of John Brown and Hope Avery is announced, he receives an offer of a fine position in South America. She demurs at his going, but he overcomes her objections and after a tender farewell, leaves her with the promise to return within a year and make her his wife. Philip Lane is injured in an auto accident near the Avery home, and Hope discovers him. She has him taken to her home and during his convalescence, he falls deeply in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-14
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Transgression
1917-08-20
Transgression
Overview: Hal Page, the weakling brother of Stephen Page, the town mayor, falls in love with Carline Shrefton, who throws over Burt Staley to entangle Hal in her self-serving schemes. Furious over her abrupt departure, Staley shows up at Carline's, and a jealous fight with Hal ensues in which Staley is shot and killed with Carline's gun. After Hal confesses to the deed, Stephen quietly sends him off to Spain. One year later, Stephen announces his engagement to Marion Hayward, the daughter of the district attorney, who is pressing charges against James Reed, a corrupt politician and Carline's new husband. To save Reed, Carline threatens Stephen with exposure, but he refuses to bend to her demands. Just days before Carline is to reveal her story about Staley, Hal appears and confesses to Hayward that Carline is the true killer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-20
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Who Goes There?
1917-11-24
Who Goes There?
Overview: During World War I, Kervyn Guild, an American citizen who was born in Belgium, is captured with other Belgian refugees by the Germans. Brought before the commanding officer, General Von Reiter, Guild is offered his own freedom as well as that of the other refugees if he goes to London and returns with the officer's daughter, Karen Girard, who actually is his mistress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-24
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Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation
1917-04-09
Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation
Overview: When the nation of Ruthania declares war on the United States, an army of enemy soldiers invades the U.S. and captures New York. But the American forces have prepared adequately for such an event, and hidden booby traps, trick fortifications, and remote-controlled bombs...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-09
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The Good in the Worst of Us
1915-08-28
The Good in the Worst of Us
Overview: Crime drama where Minnie's past overtakes her. She flees Jim to escape his bad influence. Jim shoots a man down in a burglary and demands that Minnie helps him flee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-28
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The Picture Idol
1912-05-31
The Picture Idol
Overview: A short comedy about a girl (played by Clara Kimball Young) who is in love with a movie star (Maurice Costello) and who follows him everywhere. Her parents want to teach her a lesson, and invite the actor to their home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-31
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The Battle Cry of Peace
1915-08-05
The Battle Cry of Peace
Overview: Enemy agents under the leadership of "Emanon" conspire with pacifists to keep the American defense appropriations down at a time when forces of the enemy are preparing to invade. The invasion comes, and New York, Washington, and other American cities are devastated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-05
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The Cross Roads
1912-08-06
The Cross Roads
Overview: A melodrama about a girl who has to marry the landlord in order to save her parents’ home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-06
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Aunty's Romance
1912-05-12
Aunty's Romance
Overview: Romantic comedy in which a woman who no longer wants to marry her fiance when it turns out he doesn't have an inheritance. After his father is deceased, Stephen Fiske travels to New York, where he learns that his father has left him nothing. His fiancée Doris now refuses to marry him because he is not rich. Doris has, however, an old aunt, whose last wish is that Doris marry Stephan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-12
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In the Garden Fair
1912-11-02
In the Garden Fair
Overview: The house next door to Mr. Cobb is rented by Mrs. Rose, a widow who moves in with her little girl Helen. Mr. Cobb is a widower with a little boy, Phil.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-02
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The Firing of the Patchwork Quilt
1912-02-28
The Firing of the Patchwork Quilt
Overview: A mother is waiting or her son, a railroad engineer, to return home. The night becomes stormy and she discovers that a broken railroad trestle lies atop the track. She must try to get word to him before his train reaches the trestle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-28
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Wanted, a Nurse
1915-01-22
Wanted, a Nurse
Overview: After witnessing a minor accident, a wealthy man falls in love with the nurse who treats the injured person. He cooks up a scheme in which he pretends to be sick in order to see her again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-22
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The Tiger
1913-09-11
The Tiger
Overview: Robert Bardon has searched for years for animal trainer Gamo who seduced and abandoned Brandon's daughter Gladys. Finding him at last he corners him in a room and exacts his revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-11
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The Battle Hymn of the Republic
1911-06-30
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Overview: This patriotic and historic picture portrays the writing of the famous national hymn by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. In the early part of the Civil War President Lincoln was very much discouraged at the lack of enthusiasm and the tardiness with which the people answered the call for volunteers to join the army.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-30
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The Helpful (?) Sisterhood
1914-03-30
The Helpful (?) Sisterhood
Overview: Mary is forced into shoplifting to keep up with her rich sorority sisters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-30
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A Dixie Mother
1910-12-17
A Dixie Mother
Overview: Set during and after the Civil War, a Southern mother deals with the loss of both of her sons as one dies and the other marries a Northern nurse.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-12-17
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Black Friday
1916-09-18
Black Friday
Overview: In 1869, enemies of railroad magnate Richard Strong attempt to ruin him. Richard thwarts them, largely through the help of Charles Dalton, but then Charles tries to seduce Elinor, Richard's wife. Although she rebuffs Charles, Richard accuses her of infidelity, so Elinor leaves him and goes to Paris. Richard follows her, but, caught in the middle of the 1870 riots, he cannot get near her. Charles, also in Paris, finally convinces Richard that nothing had come of his interest in Elinor, but Richard now believes that Elinor no longer loves him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-18
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Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers
1912-10-15
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers
Overview: A glimpse of the life of a few lodgers in a boarding house, focusing on the young couple Mr and Mrs Edison.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-15
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A Keyboard Strategy
1915-08-13
A Keyboard Strategy
Overview: Frank flirts with the pretty blonde stenographer in his hotel. She takes the conceit out of him then falls in love with him. A bellboy gets Frank in very wrong, but in an amusing manner he sets himself right, then, wedding bells.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-13
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His Mother
1911-05-09
His Mother
Overview: Donald Gray, living with his mother in Scotland, through the friendship of the family physician, is offered an opportunity to go to America to study medicine. He leaves with his mother's blessings. Five years later, Donald is a physician with a successful practice in New York City. One of his patients has grown very fond of him; at the same time the young physician has grown fond of this gentleman's daughter, and is engaged to be married to her. His mother resolves to pay him an unexpected visit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-09
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