Blanche Sweet
Also Known As: Sarah Blanche Sweet
Biography: From Wikipedia Sarah Blanche Sweet (June 18, 1896 – September 6, 1986) was an American silent film actress who began her career in the earliest days of the Hollywood motion picture film industry. Sweet is renowned for her energetic, independent roles, at variance with the 'ideal' Griffith type of vulnerable, often fragile, femininity. After many starring roles, her first real landmark film was the 1911 Griffith thriller The Lonedale Operator. In 1913 she starred in Griffith's first feature-length movie, Judith of Bethulia. In 1914 Sweet was initially cast by Griffith in the part of Elsie Stoneman in his epic The Birth of a Nation but the role was eventually given to rival actress Lillian Gish, who was Sweet's senior by three years. That same year Sweet parted ways with Griffith and joined Paramount (then Famous Players-Lasky) for the much higher pay that studio was able to afford. Throughout the 1910s, Sweet continued her career appearing in a number of highly prominent roles in films and remained a publicly popular leading lady. She often starred in vehicles by Cecil B. DeMille and Marshall Neilan, and she was recognised by leading film critics of the time to be one of the foremost actresses of the entire silent era. It was during her time working with Neilan that the two began a publicized affair, which brought on his divorce from former actress Gertrude Bambrick. Sweet and Neilan married in 1922. The union ended in 1929 with Sweet charging that Neilan was a persistent adulterer. During the early 1920s Sweet's career continued to prosper, and she starred in the first film version of Anna Christie in 1923. The film is also notable as being the first Eugene O'Neill play to be made into a motion picture. In successive years, she starred in Tess of the D'Urbervilles and The Sporting Venus, both directed by Neilan. Sweet soon began a new career phase as one of the newly formed MGM studio's biggest stars. Sweet made just three talking pictures, including her critically lauded performance in 1930's Show Girl in Hollywood, before retiring from the screen that same year and marrying stage actor Raymond Hackett in 1935. The marriage lasted until Hackett's death in 1958. Sweet spent the remainder of her performing career in radio and in secondary Broadway stage roles. Eventually, her career in both of these fields petered out, and she began working in a Los Angeles department store. In the late 1960s, her acting legacy was resurrected when film scholars invited her to Europe to receive recognition for her work. On September 24, 1984, a tribute to Blanche Sweet was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Miss Sweet introduced her 1925 film, The Sporting Venus. Sweet died in New York City of a stroke, on September 6, 1986, just weeks after her 90th birthday.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: June 16, 1896
Deathday: September 06, 1986
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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A Cure for Suffragettes
Overview: Caroline Spankhurst and her suffragette brigade conclude to stop at nothing, so in their dauntless enthusiasm they forget their babies peacefully reposing on the sidewalk. The babies fall into the hands of the traffic squad, ordered to keep clear streets. A small-sized riot is taking place, but every mother's a suffragette so why cry "Help?"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-17
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The Hushed Hour
Overview: Judge Robert Appleton (Winter Hall) has led an exemplary life. His four children, however, fell short once they grew up and had to fend for themselves. When Appleton dies, his widow (Lydia Knott) explains that his last request was that each child spend one hour of contemplation with his body. The first is the youngest daughter, Daisy (Rosemary Theby), an artist of note who was betrayed and left with a son to raise out of wedlock. Next is Luke (Milton Sills), a wild young man who ran away at 19, and even though he is now married and a father, he still can't quite settle down. The eldest son, Bob (Wilfred Lucas), is next -- he wed a wealthy woman, but the marriage has no love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-18
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The New Commandment
Overview: Billy Morrow (Ben Lyon), who comes from a wealthy family, is sailing to Europe with his father (Holbrook Blinn) on their yacht. Along for the ride is Mrs. Parr (Claire Eames) and her stepdaughter. Near the French coast, Billy discovers that Mrs. Parr wants to arrange a marriage between him and the girl, so he escapes and takes a lifeboat ashore.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-01
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The Avenging Conscience
Overview: Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle. Becoming convinced that murder is merely a natural part of life, he kills his uncle and hides the body. However, the man's conscience awakens; paranoia sets in and nightmarish visions begin to haunt him.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-02
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Her Unwilling Husband
Overview: In this farce, Mavis Jerome, is an actress who has just broken up with her fiancé, Homer Owen. She goes to her brother-in-law's island retreat, but her stay is interrupted by one of his pals, John Jordan. Her rest is further disturbed when Owen shows up on her doorstep during a storm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-21
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
Overview: Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-04
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Pirate Gold
Overview: Elusive as is the pursuit of pirate gold it is found in this picture and brought to the ship by the very mutineers themselves. Here fate intervenes with justice and the miscreant mate after a series of exciting adventures is outwitted through his own weakness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-13
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A Chance Deception
Overview: The jealous husband saw a flirtation; the Raffles, a necklace. The husband's suspicions were further confirmed when the Raffles came out of his hiding. The Raffles permitted the deception, until his manhood came to the surface. He realized how his own happiness might have been so jeopardized, and the little wife concerned was restored to her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-24
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Love in an Apartment Hotel
Overview: In the apartment hotel lived the aspiring maid, whose solicitude maintained order in the bachelor's apartment. He was her ideal, and the all-adoring bell-boy was firmly but gently given to understand that maids who read "Heliotrope Glendening's Advice to Young Ladies" look higher than ice-water toters. A compromising complication, however, with an unexpected visit from a beautiful lady, quite convinces the aspiring one that wealthy young bachelors may be the grandest men ever, but their aspirations, when it comes to the crucial test, are not for chambermaids. Science influences his actions so much that he gets into trouble with the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-27
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The Hero of Little Italy
Overview: It was on the night of the Italian ball when Maria, to tease her sweetheart, Tony, indulged in a mild flirtation with Joe, his enemy. At first Tony's jealousy was aroused, but reasoning that it was no time nor place for anything but enjoyment, he smothered the feeling. However, Maria carried the flirtation too far and a tragedy was imminent. This tragedy, though, was averted through a small boy's daring, the girl fully realizing what might have been the result of her thoughtlessness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-03
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If We Only Knew
Overview: A careless nurse girl allowing the child to wander away, made the mother realize the poignancy of the little verse: "If we knew the baby's fingers / Pressed against the window pane / Would be cold and stiff tomorrow, / Never trouble us again, / Would the bright eyes of our darling / catch the frown upon our brow, / Would the prints of rosy fingers, / Vex us then as they do now?" But a higher destiny watched the child and saw it safely home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-01
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The Tear That Burned
Overview: The Tear That Burned is a silent movie drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-08
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Near To Earth
Overview: This is the story of Gato, an Italian immigrant, who lives with his wife, Marie, and his younger brother, Giuseppe, on a small truck farm in the west. Gato becomes so intent on his work that he neglects to show his wife the little attentions she demands. A foppish wandering Italian, Sandro, sees in this an opportunity to work his ends, but is prevented by the timely interference of Giuseppe.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-20
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The Coming of Angelo
Overview: Young Theresa was thought to be much favored in the love of Guido, the leader of the Italian colony. Then Angelo came. Theresa, though aroused by her first real love, strove to keep her vows to Guido, but life's big law overcame her. Guido prepared a death feast for himself, then summoned Angelo. Why should he die for another's happiness? But Angelo lived.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-01
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Fighting Blood
Overview: After the Civil War, an ex-soldier and his family settle in the Dakota Territory. The son quarrels with the father and leaves home. Riding in the hills, he spots a band of Indians attacking a neighboring homestead, and he races back to warn his family as the Indians chase him.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-28
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The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Overview: Mabel Mack's mother is deserted by her father and the mother dies. All that Mabel retains of her family history is a group photograph of her father, mother and herself, in a locket which she always wears.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-23
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Her Awakening
Overview: The will of old Dr. Andrews left the bulk of his property to his niece, Mary, who was an orphan living in a distant mining town. The small balance of his wealth went to a married nephew, John, who had been practicing medicine with him and was now made the executor of his estate, but who felt that he should have been made the sole heir.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-20
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For Her Father's Sins
Overview: Laura Bell runs away from her country home to the city, where she becomes a clerk in a department store. Her brother, Frank, follows her to New York, but is unable to place her. He becomes interested in a settlement house and obtains a position in social service work. Mary Ashton, daughter of the proprietor of the store where Laura works, is shocked to find that her father pays his clerks starvation wages.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-18
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The Odalisque
Overview: May and Annie work in a fashionable millinery store, where the buyer, struck by May's beauty, advances her to a position among the models. She gets a little money, but finds that she is obliged to wear better clothes, which she has a hard time getting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-15
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Those Without Sin
Overview: Melaine is captured by a northern soldier while she is carrying secret southern messages. She falls into the hands of her father's former superior who attempts to compromise her. She is saved by a successful Confederate attack.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-01
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Judith of Bethulia
Overview: Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrian tyrant Holofernes, a widow named Judith forms a plan to stop the war as her people suffer in starvation, nearly ready to surrender.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-08
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Stolen Goods
Overview: The lives of a poor orphan and a rich kleptomaniac intertwine after the former is framed for a robbery by the latter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-14
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Make Mine Memories
Overview: Richard Fleischer provides a funny twist and amusing narrative commentary by Ward Wilson on two re-edited silent films in this RKO short film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-19
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The Case of Becky
Overview: When a young girl is placed under hypnotism, it's discovered that she has a split personality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-13
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The Lonedale Operator
Overview: A young woman takes over her sick father's role as telegraph operator at a railway station, and has to deal with a team intent on train robbery.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-23
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Death's Marathon
Overview: Two business partners pursue the same woman. She accepts the marriage proposal of the irresponsible partner, much to her later regret. He squanders money on gambling, as his interest in her gradually wanes. One day after losing the company money in a card game, he decides to commit suicide. He telephones his wife from the office, as he puts a revolver near his head. The wife tries to keep him talking while the reliable business partner races to the office in an attempt to save his old friend. Will he make it in time?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-14
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The House of Discord
Overview: In her youth the mother was saved from the fatal mistake by an accident, but it caused her years of separation from child and husband. It had occurred primarily through her self-righteous sister-in-law's domination and interference. A like fate and downfall threatened the daughter, now reaching maturity. The mother's insistence separated the child from her environment. Love and understanding did the rest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-13
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Men and Women
Overview: Robert Stevens robs the bank where he is employed, and through the efforts of Calvin Stedman, the prosecuting attorney, he is sentenced to six years' imprisonment. While in jail his wife dies and his little daughter, Agnes, is placed in a convent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-01
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Enoch Arden: Part I
Overview: Enoch Arden, a humble fisherman, marries Annie Lee. He signs on as a sailor to make more money to support their growing family. A storm wrecks his ship, but Enoch swims to a deserted island. Annie waits vainly for his return.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-12
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The Miser's Heart
Overview: Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a little girl who lives in his building.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-20
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The Painted Lady
Overview: A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems interested in her. However, unknown to her, he is a burglar who is only interested in breaking into her father's house. One night she is awakened by a noise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-24
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The Battle
Overview: Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he finds his courage and crosses enemy lines to bring help to his trapped comrades.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-06
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The Chief's Blanket
Overview: When the Great Chief's body is placed before the funeral pile by his mourning braves, his sacred blanket is covered over it and a sentinel left to watch that this, his last resting place, is not desecrated. The tribe has just departed for their village when a mountain outlaw appears and succeeds in stealing the blanket, having given the sentinel doctored whiskey. When the Indians discover this they exile the unfaithful sentinel until he can recover the blanket.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-10
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Blind Love
Overview: A country girl is persuaded to elope with the minister's nephew but she discovers that he is worthless. After he is killed in a brawl, her former sweetheart takes her back to her home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-11
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The Transformation of Mike
Overview: Mike breaks into an apartment to steal an old man's money, not realizing it's his girlfriend's father. When he discovers whose apartment it is, he begs her for forgiveness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-01
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The Massacre
Overview: The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
Genres: Action War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-19
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The Villain Foiled
Overview: A Mack Sennett comedy for Biograph released as a split reel along with the comedy The Baron.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-30
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Through Darkening Vales
Overview: Hard-working Dave loves Grace, but she rejects him for a flashier suitor. Grace is blinded in an accident, and her suitor abandons her. Meanwhile, Dave also goes blind from eye strain caused by overwork. Dave learns of Grace's misfortune and gives a doctor the money he was saving for his own operation, so her sight can be restored.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-16
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The Last Drop of Water
Overview: A wagon train heading west across the great desert runs out of water, and is attacked by Indians. One man -- their last hope -- is sent out to find water.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-26
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Under Burning Skies
Overview: Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady who spurns his advances and elopes with a fresh-faced young cowpoke. An angry Joe eventually gets his revenge.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-21
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Anna Christie
Overview: A troubled young woman comes to live with her estranged father on the New York waterfront. A tough sailor falls in love with her, sparking conflict between her father and her suitor. What neither knows is that she has a secret that could cause her to lose both of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-24
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The Lesser Evil
Overview: A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smugglers, who then also turn against their captain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-29
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One Is Business, the Other Crime
Overview: Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband attempts to burgle a home, only to be captured at gunpoint by the mistress of the house. It is the home of the rich couple. While holding the poor intruder at gunpoint, the rich wife accidentally discovers evidence implicating her own husband in a bribery scheme.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-24
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For His Son
Overview: A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke which is laced with cocaine. Dopokoke is advertised as relief "for that tired feeling." The drink is a success, but the son becomes addicted to it, much to his father's regret. Loosely based on the allegations that the Coca-Cola company and other soft drink manufacturers laced their soda with dope.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-21
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A Country Cupid
Overview: Schoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him a note of reconciliation but throws it away. Without her knowledge, one of her students fishes it out of the trash and sends it to her fiancé. Later, Edith is alone grading papers when a man bursts in and threatens her.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-23
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The Eternal Mother
Overview: John and Mary divorce their spouses to marry each other. Mary dies after giving birth and the baby is taken in by John's first wife, Martha. She refuses all contact with John until many years later when he becomes ill and she finally forgives him for deserting her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-10
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Strongheart
Overview: STRONGHEART (1914) is a Native American Indian drama. Based on a famous play of the time, the film features an all-star cast. Originally five reels, the film was reissued at three reels in 1916.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-08
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Show Girl in Hollywood
Overview: Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-20
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Overview: A young girl is seduced and raped by an older middle class man in Victorian England. After moving on with her path, she gets married. All is well until her husband discovers her past. Leading her on a life of wandering, murder, and execution.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-11
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The Woman Racket
Overview: During a raid, a cop lets a pretty speakeasy employee escape and later begins dating her. Although she loves him, his salary and dull life leave her wanting.
Genres: Crime Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-24
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Diplomacy
Overview: Heroine Dora de Zares comports herself in a most mysterious fashion in this spy mystery.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-20
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The Clue
Overview: Russian brothers Count Boris and Alexis Rabourdin obtain a Japanese coastline defense map and plan to sell it to German agents in London. In America, Alexis schemes to marry wealthy Eve Bertram, who loves him. Boris, meanwhile, falls in love with Christine Lesley, Eve's neighbor whom Eve's brother Guy, an amateur inventor experimenting with explosives, also loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-08
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The Painted Lady
Overview: Jess, a country girl, leaves home when her sister tries to boss her. Later she secures employment in a department store in the city. There she meets Jake, a good-for-nothing, who promises to marry her. Jane, Jess's elder sister, follows her to the city and secures employment in the same store. Jane soon learns that Jake does not intend to marry her sister, and, pretending to be infatuated with him herself, decides to give her sister proof of her supposed sweetheart's true character. Jess hides in Jake's rooms and Jane enters with the ne'er-do-well. Jake attempts to force Jane to his will with a revolver. Jane promises to be his sweetheart, provided he signs a note, presumably to Jess, saying, "I am tired of this life," etc. Jake signs the note, and when Jane fails to keep her promise there is a struggle for possession of the weapon. In the confusion the revolver is accidentally discharged and Jake is killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-19
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The Ragamuffin
Overview: In planning to break into the house of the wealthy Bob Van Dyke, Jenny's stepfather decides that his stepdaughter should do most of the dirty work, and Jenny, not wanting to disappoint him, grudgingly agrees. As soon as she enters the house, Bob catches her, but then goes back to his bedroom after making her give her word not to take anything. Jenny breaks her promise...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-23
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The Woman in White
Overview: Following a promise she made to her father on his deathbed, Laura Fairlie go to Scotland with Sir Percival Glyde to his mysterious mansion to be married. Once there, many strange and disturbing things happen. She meets a girl who has been a victim of Sir Percival's scheming in order to get her fortune.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-24
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Classmates
Overview: Bert Stafford, who is in love with Sylvia Randolph, his mother's ward, despises Duncan Irving, a poor boy who is the object of Sylvia's affections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-14
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Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
Overview: A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-09
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The Warrens of Virginia
Overview: As the Civil War begins Ned Burton leaves his Southern love Agatha Warren and joins the Union army. He is later protected and saved from death by Agatha in spite of her loyalty to the South.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-14
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A Woman Scorned
Overview: Thieves follow a doctor as he takes home a large sum of money. Later, when they break into his house, the doctor's wife and daughter are trapped. One of the thieves has jilted his sweetheart, who tells the doctor of the robbery, and helps him save his family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-30
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The Thousand-Dollar Husband
Overview: A now lost film directed by James Young and starring Blanche Sweet
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-29
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The Far Cry
Overview: Possibly lost film starring Blanche Sweet
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-14
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Souls for Sale
Overview: A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-22
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A Flash of Light
Overview: An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist, and her younger sister take her place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-07-17
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The Primal Call
Overview: A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough sailor.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-21
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Three Friends
Overview: Each night, after the day's work at the factory, the three bachelor friends met and declared anew their attachment over a social glass. They bound themselves to remain thus as long as life might last, never to marry. But one was a traitor, while the other two were called away. A widened breach, a quarrel, fanned the resentment, but true friendship at last claimed its own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-02
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The Deadlier Sex
Overview: The Deadlier Sex features Blanche Sweet playing the daughter of a railroad magnate (Winter Hall) who has to take charge when her father unexpectedly dies. She uses her outdoor survival skills to kidnap a business rival to save the company from a stock market struggle. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-28
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A Sailor’s Heart
Overview: A short film directed by Wilfred Lucas for the Biograph Company.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-25
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That Girl Montana
Overview: Montana Rivers finally escapes her father who had forced her to wear men's clothing and help in robbing and cheating. She is taken in by friendly Indians and stays at their camp. Later, Akkomi, chief of the tribe, asks his friend Dan Overton to take the girl as it is not good for her to remain in the camp. Dan provides for "Tana" and falls in love with her but, because of her past, she keeps him at a distance. Jim Harris comes by and recognizes Tana as the boy robber, but when he attempts to blacken her past, Dan gives him a beating which paralyzes him. Jim then stays on with Dan, who regrets his hastiness. Eventually Tana's father appears and demands that Tana go away with him. She refuses but also does not tell Dan of this trouble.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-31
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The Sporting Venus
Overview: Familiar story of spoiled heiress, Blanche Sweet, who dabbles in romance with commoner Ronald Colman. They roam the highlands together hunting since this is Sweet's "sport." They seem to have an idyllic affair going when into the mix comes an impoverished prince (Lew Cody). He determines to steal away the heiress and pay off his creditors. Indeed, this is the plan he shares with them.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-12
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The Captive
Overview: Set during the Balkan Wars, The Captive tells the story of Sonia, a young woman living in Montenegro and left to care for her younger brother Milos and the family farm when older brother Marko goes off to battle. Unable to handle the day-to-day tasks following her brother’s tragic death, help comes in the form of Mahmud Hassan, a captured Turk nobleman, now a prisoner of war. Tasked with helping Sonia, their initial frosty relationship soon melts into love. As the war rages on Sonia, Mahmud and Milos will face near-insurmountable obstacles in their quest for a better life amidst the hell of war.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-22
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A Woman of Pleasure
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-09
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His Daughter
Overview: William promises to marry his sweetheart, Mary, after completing medical school. William's father has saved enough money to set up William's medical practice. However, Mary's alcoholic father discovers the savings and steals it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-02-23
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The Silver Horde
Overview: A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-24
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Always Faithful
Overview: The wife and secretary of a mine operator attempt to conceal their romantic affair.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-29
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Home, Sweet Home
Overview: John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-16
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The Making of a Man
Overview: A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks away to join him in the next town, but her father forces her to return home...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-04
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Broken Ways
Overview: In this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question. After separating from her husband, whom she has discovered to be a brute and a criminal, she is about to give herself to another man, believing her husband dead, when he appears before her fleeing from justice. Shall she deliver him to the law or surrender to his claims? She yields in one instance, but not in the other. Then justice intervenes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-08
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The Day After
Overview: Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens, and soon they are both cavorting drunkenly. Next morning Mr. Hilton, feeling very sick, is conscience-stricken over his drunkenness and his behavior with another woman. He fears to face his wife until he discovers that she feels just as guilty herself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-30
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His Supreme Moment
Overview: John Douglas, a down-on-his-luck engineer, takes his sweetheart, Sara Deeping, to a play starring Carla King, and he falls in love with the actress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-12
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The Rocky Road
Overview: The evils of drink cause a man to separate from his family. In time he becomes sober and prosperous. Then he meets and falls in love with a young woman, and they become engaged. Unbeknownst to him this young woman is his own daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-01-03
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Enoch Arden
Overview: Moving Picture World described the film: "There is a small need to describe this subject as the poem of Lord Tennyson is so well known, so suffice it to say that this Biograph subject is an unusually faithful portrayal of that beautiful romance of Enoch Arden, Annie Lee and Philip Ray, taken in scenes of rare beauty".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-15
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All on Account of the Milk
Overview: The hero, a young contractor, is mistaken by the heroine for a laborer, while he thinks she is the maid although she is the daughter of the manor. The hero continues to represent himself as a laborer in order to see the maid. The daughter, in order to continue her impersonation, borrows the maid's clothes. At the end the two main characters are brought together in their true light with the blessing of their respective mothers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-01-13
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With the Enemy's Help
Overview: A discouraged prospector is about to give up his search when he hears his two little children praying, "Please, God, help papa find gold." Their faith gives him new hope and their prayer is efficacious, for he does find it and so stakes the claim, intending to register it at his earliest opportunity. Meanwhile "Faro Kate" and her gambler husband ride by the claim and jump it, the husband urging Kate to go to the Claim Office and register it. When the prospector returns to his "diggings" he finds the gambler in possession and in a struggle the prospector falls and is hurt. The prospector's wife, arriving at the claim, realizes she must win the race to the Claim Office.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-19
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The Long Road
Overview: Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, now poverty-stricken, and secretly helps his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-26
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A Temporary Truce
Overview: A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the prospector's wife. In the meantime, a group of drunkards shoot and kill an old Indian; The son, a brave, vows revenge and asks the tribal chief for help. When the Indians attack both prospector and Mexican, these two make a temporary truce and join forces against the common enemy.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-10
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Twenty Years After
Overview: This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Fashion News
Overview: Hollywood actresses including Jeanette Loff and Raquel Torres modeling Spring fashions in color.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-06
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Why Women Love
Overview: A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1925-10-18
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Two Men of the Desert
Overview: The young authoress had come to the edge of the desert for her mother's sake. There she met the two young prospectors and a romance began. But the men were about to go across the desert, where they had heard rumors of gold. They decided to play square and before going determined to let the coin decide who should ask the young authoress the all-important question. The flip of the coin decided the older should try his luck first. He learned the girl did not love him. But the other she promised to marry when he should return from the gold lands, and the care of her sick mother, who would then be restored to health, should no longer interfere with her happiness. The young partners soon reached the other side of the desert, where success came to them far beyond their expectations.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-23
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Bluebeard's Seven Wives
Overview: Bank clerk John Hart is about to marry Mary Kelly, but she insists that before that happens he must grow a mustache. The idea of that shakes him up so much that he gets distracted at work, comes up short in his accounts and gets fired. Unable to find another job, he begins to work as an extra at a nearby film studio to earn money. One day the leading man of a picture John is working on gets into an argument with the director and storms off the set. Angered, the director sees John and, deciding that he'll show his arrogant star that he can make a movie idol out of just about anybody, picks John to replace him. As it turns out, John has a real talent for acting and before he knows it he becomes a star. Unfortunately, "stardom" isn't what John thought it would be.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-13
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Oil and Water
Overview: A stage dancer (Sweet) and a serious-type homebody (Walthall) discover, after marriage, that their individual styles don't mesh. The movie includes elaborate dance sequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-10
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The Unpardonable Sin
Overview: Based on the Rupert Hughes novel, this film concerns the German atrocities committed in Belgium at the beginning of the Great War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-01
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Singed
Overview: Dance-hall girl Dolly Wall invests her life savings in an oil well. A gusher comes in, enriching not only Dolly but her ne'er-do-well socialite sweetheart Royce Wingate. While Wingate hobnobs with the Upper Crust, poor Dolly is left home alone, stigmatized by her "scandalous" past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-23
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The God Within
Overview: The woman of the camp implores her lover to marry her, and he promises to do so, but goes away and does not return. Target of the camp's jeers, she lives alone until her child is born dead. The doctor fears for her reason if she discovers that all her shame and anguish have been in vain. He has another maternity case on the outskirts of the camp, where the Saint, as the trapper's wife is known, dies in giving birth to a child...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-26
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Love in the Hills
Overview: A pretty mountain girl has to decide between three suitors, an upright young man from the mountains, a shiftless fiddler, and a visitor from the city.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-30
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The Secret Sin
Overview: Blanche Sweet has a dual role in this picture -- she plays twin sisters, Edith, a sweet, normal young girl, and Grace, who is a drug fiend. They live in poverty with their parents and their father (Hal Clements) finally finds work. Because he is faithful to his boss (Thomas Meighan), he is offered a partnership.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-21
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The Little Country Mouse
Overview: Country girl May loses at cards and must borrow $250 from Captain Stiles, but the wealthy roué's loan does not come without an expectation of repayment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-16
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The Evil Eye
Overview: Leonard Sheldon is the manager of a Mexican vineyard which is suffering from a diphtheria epidemic. Sheldon calls for a doctor and gets Katherine, much to the chagrin of the Mexicans. They've never seen a woman doctor, and their peasant superstitions lead them to believe that her forehead-mirror is "the evil eye," and that it's making their children die even faster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-04
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The Stolen Bride
Overview: The Stolen Bride is a 1913 short drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-07
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The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
Overview: The Goddess, the prettiest and best-natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets the tenderfoot prospector and leaves him another worshiper of her. His chances, however, are slim for Blue-grass Pete has won her affections, he having at an opportune moment saved her from the fangs of a snake which was about to attack her. Pete's affections turn to the Goddess's sister, while Pete's friends plot to rob.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-25
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To Save Her Soul
Overview: Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the curate who loves her, she accepts the offer and goes to the city. Later the curate goes to hear Agnes perform and, fearing that her soul is being corrupted by show business, he asks her to return to the small town with him. When she refuses, he is prepared to kill her in order to protect the purity of her soul. This brings about her change of heart, and together they return to the little church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-27
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Those Who Dance
Overview: A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to break up the gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-27
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A Corner in Wheat
Overview: On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-13
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Girl in the Web
Overview: A woman decides to take money from her wealthy mother to pay her gambling debts, but discovers that the contents of her mother's safe has already been stolen.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-05
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