Bessie Eyton
Biography: Bessie starred in at least 200 melodrama, action westerns and crime films. In the 1910 she was visiting the Selig Film studios with a party of friends, when a director saw and liked her red hair because he said it would photograph a beautiful black, so he offered her a minor role, she had no formal training on stage, as did many early film actors, she was talented and soon rose to be one of Selig's most popular stars.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 05, 1890
Deathday: January 22, 1965
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Who Shall Take My Life?
1917-12-01
Who Shall Take My Life?
Overview: A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed. Afterwards, it is discovered that his supposed victim is not dead at all, but working as a prostitute in a Western city. Scenario was written for the screen by Maibelle Heikes Justice, who was an outspoken opponent of capital punishment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-01
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The Law North of 65
1917-10-06
The Law North of 65
Overview: Pierre, away in the Northland, loves Jeanne. His love is returned and they are engaged to be married. Pierre leaves for a trapping expedition, and in the meantime the girl is enamored with the tales told by Niklo, an itinerant trapper, and becomes infatuated with him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-06
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Twisted Trails
1916-12-11
Twisted Trails
Overview: Ranch foreman Tom Snow is being hounded by sheriff Luke Fisher and his deputy, Brad Foster. The pair are really cattle rustlers, and they're trying to pin the blame on Snow. Snow escapes from them and leads them on a death-defying escape over a chasm.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-11
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Kit Carson's Wooing
1911-09-11
Kit Carson's Wooing
Overview: Kit Carson, scout, hunter, trapper and soldier-of-fortune, has won the enmity of Azakah, the cruel chief of a prowling band of renegade Indians.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-11
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Chip of the Flying U
1914-08-29
Chip of the Flying U
Overview: When he's fired from his bank job aimless Claude Bennett decides to head West. Once he gets a job as a cowboy on the Flying "U" ranch he restyles himself as Chip and discovers who he really is through a series of adventures.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-29
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The White Mouse
1914-08-24
The White Mouse
Overview: Billy Silver, a young trapper, lives with his wife and little baby up in the region of the snows. Billy is energetic and finds trapping profitable. One morning while he is out examining his traps, the cabin catches fire. In the distance he hears the cries of his wife for help, and hastening to the scene as rapidly as he can
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-24
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When the West Was Young
1914-09-07
When the West Was Young
Overview: Ned Halton and his young bride, Nellie, depart from the east in a prairie schooner to seek a home in the western wilds.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-07
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Greater Wealth
1913-01-01
Greater Wealth
Overview: John Sharon, a steel magnate is immensely successful from the worldly point of view, while Ed Young, his humble employee, views himself as a failure because his income shrinks as his family responsibilities increase. Sharon's only son is a drunken disappointment, his wife becomes alienated from him, and his daughter falls critically ill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-01
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Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914-08-03
Etienne of the Glad Heart
Overview: Etienne Cloquet, a young woodsman, is in love with Marie, the pretty daughter of Paul Le Groux, a salmon fisher. Etienne has such a sunny disposition that he has become generally known as "Etienne of the Glad Heart."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-03
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The Wilderness Mail
1914-07-13
The Wilderness Mail
Overview: Jan, the hunter, is in love with Marie, a French-Canadian girl. The same charmer has captivated Otto, the driver of the Wilderness Mail, a vengeful and selfish individual. Mane has a half-sister, Joan, a decided contrast to her, a sweet lovable girl not ordinarily bold or aggressive, but when aroused firm to a finish.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-13
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In Defiance of the Law
1914-06-28
In Defiance of the Law
Overview: Billy McVeigh, a member of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, runs amuck another person of this service undeserving of its uniform, named Nome. The latter becomes his sworn enemy and is alert for a chance to "get even."
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-28
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The Smuggler's Sister
1914-03-03
The Smuggler's Sister
Overview: A smuggler is protected by his sister, who is loved by a revenue officer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-03
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Cheap Kisses
1924-12-21
Cheap Kisses
Overview: Refusing to join his family in their new social life when Henry Dillingham suddenly becomes wealthy, Donald Dillingham causes even greater disapproval by marrying chorus girl Ardell Kendall. Learning that famous sculptor Gustaf Borgstrom wishes to use Ardell as model, the Dillinghams suddenly welcome Donald and Ardell to their estate. Donald surrenders to both the jazzy pleasures and the attentions of Maybelle Wescott, but Ardell remains aloof and in order to pay off Maybelle threatens Mr. Dillingham with exposure of his infatuation with a chorus girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-21
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Lassoing a Lion
1915-01-02
Lassoing a Lion
Overview: Simon Valjon is inordinately jealous of his pretty, young wife, Mary, who, however, never gives him cause to doubt her fidelity and affection. The young couple have their home on a South African ranch in a neighborhood infested by wild beasts, particularly lions. Kimball, an artist, seeks their hospitality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-02
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The Primitive Way
1915-01-23
The Primitive Way
Overview: Mildred Manning is the spoiled daughter of wealthy parents. She has a host of admirers, but does not permit them to become serious. Jimmie Blake, who frequents the household more than anybody else, is a rattle-brained young chap who fancies that he is in love with Mildred and insists that he wants her to marry him. Mildred jokes him and refuses to take him seriously.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-23
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The Red Blood of Courage
1915-02-22
The Red Blood of Courage
Overview: Professor Duane, an ethnologist, and his assistant, Roscoe Harding, plan a journey into the wilds of Hindustan. Harding is in love with Lydia, the daughter of Professor Duane, and they are engaged to be married. Lieutenant Tavish, a British army officer, is attracted to Lydia and plans to take her away from Harding by fair means or foul.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-22
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His Fighting Blood
1915-01-18
His Fighting Blood
Overview: In the mountains and hills of Kentucky, a feud has raged for many years between the McTriggers and the Sampsons. In vain did the authorities intervene, threaten arrests and endeavor to patch up the mimic war; all these efforts were of no avail.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-18
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The Fork in the Road
1915-03-15
The Fork in the Road
Overview: In the prophecy of a palm reading hag that he will find his fate through his bravery, Rudolph, the inn-keeper's assistant, obtains encouragement for his fond fancy that he was born to a noble career. Elsa. the pretty daughter of the inn-keeper, refuses to elope with Rudolph, and he seeks his fortune in the great world.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-15
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The Great Experiment
1915-04-19
The Great Experiment
Overview: John Morning, rich, without family, dreams of things that might have been. He discovers a poverty-stricken woman who is fatally injured, takes her to her home in the slum district, where she dies, and John Morning assumes charge of the woman's daughter of fourteen, Ritta. He determines to try his "great experiment," and Ritta is unaware of whom her benefactor is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-19
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The Two Natures Within Him
1915-05-20
The Two Natures Within Him
Overview: The Rev. William Morris is the director of a small church near a state penitentiary. He is convinced that a criminal is only a good man gone wrong. Dr. Bishop, a friend of the minister, has made a life-long study of this very subject. The doctor has a daughter whom the minister loves and to whom he is engaged.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-20
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Kid Pink and the Maharajah
1914-03-12
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
Overview: A serio-comic tale shows wherein the East and the West strangely mingle despite Kipling's declaration that: "Never the twain shall meet."
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-12
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Shotgun Jones
1914-04-27
Shotgun Jones
Overview: Thomas Lattier is a well-to-do westerner in the cattle business. One fine day he sells a herd of cattle, receiving for it cash payment in bills of large denomination. He proceeds to town alone to deposit it in his bank. Two bad men, Bretall and Hayes, have learned of the deal and trail him with a view to securing the money.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-27
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The Girl of Gold
1925-02-16
The Girl of Gold
Overview: Lucius Merrimore is the wealthy owner of a mine called "the Gold Girl," and as a result his daughter, Helen, has an endless number of suitors. Needless to say, she gets tired of being courted only for her money, so she attends a party under an assumed name. There she meets Schuyler Livingstone, and they are immediately attracted to each other. What Helen doesn't know is that her father has paid Livingstone to marry her.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-16
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In the Long Ago
1913-05-15
In the Long Ago
Overview: A picture which illustrates an Indian myth, a poetic love story of the long ago, in which a despised musician is refused the privilege of marrying the belle of the tribe. He proves himself not only strong enough to kill his rival, the tribe's stalwart warrior, in a struggle for the girl, but is able to make a magic flute which can and does restore the girl, now lying dead. In the closing scenes, the picture shows a short glimpse of modern life which suggests that the old myth is being played, in part, again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-15
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Blackbeard
1911-11-23
Blackbeard
Overview: Pirates attack the town of Martinique and capture the governor. But the townspeople rally back in a battle between ships.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-23
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The Mate of the Alden Bessie
1912-01-04
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
Overview: The captain of the "Alden Bessie" was a drunken tyrant who manhandled his men upon the slightest provocation, despite the pleadings of his daughter and the first mate who loved her in his rough way, but for whom she could feel only friendship. One night the crew killed him, and marooned the mate and the captain's daughter by sending them adrift in a small boat. Days passed upon the vast expanse of ocean, and their food was all gone and death near, when land was sighted and their boat was cast up on a coral reef, and they with difficulty made the shore. Fear of death was soon supplanted in the heart of the captain's daughter by fear of a man loving her all too well. The mate, seeing this and realizing the strength of his passion, decided to live on the side of the island, but as the months passed away his loneliness overcame him and he made his way to where she sat reading. He looked over her shoulder, and saw that she read the marriage service.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-04
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The Spoilers
1914-04-10
The Spoilers
Overview: The Spoilers is a 1914 film directed by Colin Campbell. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with William Farnum as Roy Glennister, Kathlyn Williams as Cherry Malotte, and Tom Santschi as Alex McNamara. The film culminates in a spectacular saloon fistfight between Glennister and McNamara. It was adapted to screen by Lanier Bartlett from the Rex Beach novel of the same name.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-10
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Alone in the Jungle
1913-06-14
Alone in the Jungle
Overview: The Brown family, which consists of Hon. John Brown, his wife, two sons, Harold and Billy, and a young sister named Helen, has settled on an isolated plantation in the Jungles. Jack Arden, son of another English planter, who comes over frequently to hunt with the boys has fallen in love with Helen. But Papa Brown discourages the lovers, saying that Helen is too young to be married. Jack agrees to wait. Some time afterward the Browns receive a letter from Jack stating that he is coming for another week-end of shooting- with the Brown boys. On his way to the Brown's home, Jack knocks down Concho, an overseer, for being cruel to one of the slaves. His action is approved of by the Browns. In honor of Jack the family starts on a lion hunt, and, after a long trip, they return by the river route. They espy a lioness drinking at the river's edge. She is killed by Jack and taken aboard. That night Jack again asks Mr. Brown for Helen's hand and is again told to wait.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-14
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In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914-11-30
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Overview: Tom and Sally are the only survivors when their wagon train is attacked by Swift Wing's braves. Starlight aids in their escape and they join a group of hunters. But there is more trouble when the tribe attacks again.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-30
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The Crisis
1916-12-21
The Crisis
Overview: Stephen Brice, a young lawyer in Civil War-era St. Louis, falls in love with Virginia Carvel, the daughter of his benefactor. But she is loyal to the South and Brice is committed to Lincoln's cause. In the course of the war, their convictions separate them, and Virginia becomes engaged to her cousin Clarence Colfax, a Confederate officer. Brice becomes an officer under General Sherman, and eventually finds himself faced with the captured Colfax, facing execution for spying. Brice must decide whether or not to intercede in his rival's behalf.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-21
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Beware of Strangers
1917-02-10
Beware of Strangers
Overview: Beware of Strangers is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-10
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The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917-02-25
The Heart of Texas Ryan
Overview: To get in the good graces of his rancher boss’s daughter, cowboy Single Shot captures a cattle raider but then gets kidnapped by his gang of thieves.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-25
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