Florence Lawrence
Also Known As: Florence Annie Bridgwood
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Florence Lawrence (born Florence Annie Bridgwood; January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as "The First Movie Star", and was the first film actor to be named publicly. At the height of her fame in the 1910s, she was known as "The Biograph Girl" for work as one of the leading ladies in silent films from the Biograph Company. Lawrence appeared in almost 300 films for various motion picture companies throughout her career.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1886
Age: 139 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 28, 1938
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Homicide Squad
Overview: The police use a gangster's son to get to him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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Sweeping Against the Winds
Overview: A small textile factory down south is run by a cruel foreman that bullies and fires on whim the workers, especially the office girl who starts a day nursery for their children. He's also a part owner in the business. His methods usually scare away the man hired as the plant manager, until a replacement (secretly one of the other owners) arrives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-20
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Night Must Fall
Overview: Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in. Mrs. Bramson's niece Olivia takes a liking to Danny, and comes to believe that he may have been involved in the disappearance of a local woman.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-30
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The Necklace
Overview: Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace is stolen, and Mr. Kendrick goes into debt to replace it. The thief discovers it's costume jewelry, but the Kendricks never learns the truth; Husband and wife struggle for years to pay off the huge debt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-07-01
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The Curtain Pole
Overview: An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing entourage chasing him, until he escapes them through a bit of movie magic, only to discover that the pole has already been replaced.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-15
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The Hard Hombre
Overview: When Peaceful Patton goes to work at the Martini ranch he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw the Hard Hombre. This enables him to force the ranchers to divide up the water rights. But he is in trouble when his mother arrives and exposes the hoax.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-20
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The Mended Lute
Overview: In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-08-05
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Those Awful Hats
Overview: A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-25
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Lady Helen's Escapade
Overview: A bored Lady Helen goes slumming as a domestic in a boarding house. There she falls in love with a sensitive young musician. The other women in the house are jealous, and accuse her of trying to steal the musician's violin. Lady Helen retreats to her own home, and arranges a position for the musician which allows them to be together.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-19
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Money Mad
Overview: The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at the bank, exchanging stolen notes for gold coin, a couple of thugs witness the transaction and see their opportunity-- It seems avarice grips the hearts of all those who'd possess the bag.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-04
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The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals
Overview: The amateur dramatic society chooses the Joneses' residence as the location of its next meeting, and both Joneses catch 'the acting bug' in this split-reel subject.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-18
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Betrayed by a Handprint
Overview: Mrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to her of a handsome diamond necklace by her fiancé. During the evening bridge participated in by a number of the guests, among whom is Myrtle Vane. Miss Vane is playing in wretched luck, and is advised several times by Mrs. Wharton to desist, but she still plays on in the vain hopes of the tide of fortune turning, until at last, in the extreme of desperation, she stakes her all and loses. Shame and disgrace stare her in the face. What can she do to recoup her depleted fortune? As one of the guests there is Professor Francois Paracelsus, the eminent palmister, who of course, was called upon to read the palms of those present. Sheets of paper were prepared and each imprinted their hand on a sheet to be read by the erudite soothsayer at his leisure, and so were left on the drawing room table.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-01
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The Song of the Shirt
Overview: Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-17
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A Drunkard's Reformation
Overview: A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play, he's faced with his own drinking evils and how his life would be without them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-01
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Resurrection
Overview: Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-20
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Confidence
Overview: Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail her. When the blackmail plot is exposed, Nellie's husband expresses his complete faith in her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-15
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After Many Years
Overview: A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-03
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Her First Biscuits
Overview: A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits makes you violently ill, and soon all his visitors (he runs a theatrical booking agency), plus the workmen at home, are ill; when she shows up at the office, they all go after her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-17
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Yellow Dust
Overview: After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-12
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The Taming of the Shrew
Overview: Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-10
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An Awful Moment
Overview: After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken forcefully out of the courtroom. Later the gypsy follows the judge to his home and plots a vicious revenge on his wife (Florence Lawrence).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-18
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The Lure of the Gown
Overview: "Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a masterpiece of the dressmaker's art she easily fascinates the male contingent, among whom is Enrico, the sweetheart of Veronica, a street singer. Enrico is so enraptured at the sight of Isabelle in her resplendent attire that he becomes her abject slave, casting aside the poor, peasant-clad little Italian street singer, who has loved him devotedly. Crushed almost beyond endurance the poor girl stands sobbing at the entrance of the park where the inconsistent lever left her. Her tears attract the attention of a wealthy young couple who happen to pass. In answer to their queries she tells them how contemptibly her sweetheart acted, and all because of the fascinating influence of a gown.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-15
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Sinners in the Sun
Overview: A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-13
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The Red Girl
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-15
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Behind the Scenes: Where All Is Not Gold That Glitters
Overview: A mother works as a dancer to support her ill daughter. One night while performing, the mother has a vision of her child dying. She rushes home, but it is too late.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-11
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The Girl and the Outlaw
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a Native American in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-08
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The Heart of O Yama
Overview: Pretty Miss Chrysanthemum has but little to say as to the disposal of her heart, at least, such is the custom in Japan. Her parents attend to that for her. However, pretty little O Yama Sum had a will of her own, and casting tradition to the winds, insisted upon making her own choice. The Grand Daimio has long loved the pretty O Yama and presents himself before her mother in quest of her hand. His offer is scorned by O Yama, for she loves another, a low-born but worthy warrior.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-18
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Where the Breakers Roar
Overview: A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby asylum, heads for the surf, brandishing a knife. Innocent seaside fun becomes a struggle against a maniac on the water.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-22
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At the Altar
Overview: At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic turn of mind and her soul soared above plebeianism and her aspirations were romantic. Most persistent among her suitors was Grigo, a coarse Sicilian, whose advances were odiously repulsive. The arrival at the boarding house from the old country of Giuseppe Cassella, the violinist, filled the void in her yearning heart. Romantic, poetic and a talented musician, Giuseppe was indeed a desirable husband for Minnie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-25
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A Smoked Husband
Overview: After his wife receives an extravagant dress, a man find himself the victim of an attempted burglary; He hides in his fireplace, which is then fired. The police arrive and pursue the man, now covered in soot. He jumps onto the roof below his, landing two dandies into a trough of paint.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-25
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Father Gets in the Game
Overview: D.W. Griffith film about an elderly father who grows tired of seeing his son bring home beautiful women so he gets a makeover and heads out on the prowl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-10
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Romance of a Jewess
Overview: This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic plot involves the conflict between generations in an immigrant Jewish family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-23
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The Call of the Wild
Overview: George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the college football team. At a reception given in his honor by Lieut. Penrose, an Indian agent, the civilized brave meets Gladys, the lieutenant's daughter, and falls desperately in love with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-27
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The Feud and the Turkey
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a member of the Wilkenson clan in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-08
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Concealing a Burglar
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a policeman and waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-30
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The Valet's Wife
Overview: Bachelor Reggie writes his uncle that he has a wife and child, but then must produce them when the uncle visits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-01
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The Country Doctor
Overview: While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-07-08
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The Reckoning
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a lover in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-11
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The Test of Friendship
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a guest and a man in the fight in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-15
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The Clubman and the Tramp
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a dinner guest and a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-27
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The Way of Man
Overview: A woman is scarred in an accident and refuses to stand in the way of her lover's marriage to another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-28
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Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy
Overview: Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-01
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Flo's Discipline
Overview: Flo is the headmistress at Dow's School for Boys (enrollment: 12). The boys get too rowdy at the dinner table, so she dismisses the popular, but permissive, assistant principal. But the boys sneak out and he teaches them outdoors, until Flo turns the garden hose on them and chases the boys into the ice-house, which she locks. After an hour, she sends a bucket of hot coffee in with the assistant principal, but she removes the ladder he uses, stranding him. After another hour, he agrees to surrender, and she releases the boys. He leaves, but love has bloomed in the interim.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-20
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The Honor of Thieves
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a man at the dance and a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-11
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The Christmas Burglars
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-22
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The Criminal Hypnotist
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-18
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Mr. Jones at the Ball
Overview: Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his long-suffering wife. In this film, Jones rips his suit pants and chaos ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-25
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The Helping Hand
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a wedding guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-29
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One Touch of Nature
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-21
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The Sacrifice
Overview: Oh, the woe of simultaneous birthdays, as were Mr. and Mrs. Hardlucks', and both being of a generous nature, were seized with an insatiable desire to make on this anniversary of their nativity suitable gifts, each to the other, Hardluck has a watch, but no fob. Mrs. Hardluck has a wealth of hair, but no decorative comb for her hair. What is worse, finances are low, or rather exhausted. An idea strikes Hardluck. He will pawn his watch and buy a comb; thus surprising her. Mrs. Hardluck's mind is also illumined by a bright thought. She will sacrifice her hair, and with the money buy him a fob. This they do, of course, unknown to each other. Well, here's the situation: He had no fob for his watch, and she no comb for her hair; but now he has no watch for his fob, and she has no hair for her comb. Mack Sennett appears as an extra in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-14
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Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Overview: Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance League. But Oh! the ordeal, for such it was, was telling on him, and his pent-up spirits were threatening ebullition, when at last the chance comes. The league arranges to attend a three-days' convention out of town, and when Mrs. Jones departs, Jones sends a note to Smith, telling him to bring the gang, and they would have a "Prayer Meeting," enjoining him not to forget the "fixings." Well, the gang are not long in putting in an appearance, for they feel that every minute's delay is a chunk lost from a golden opportunity for fun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1909-01-21
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The Salvation Army Lass
Overview: A girl from the New York slums falls in with crooks. After her love is arrested following a barfight turned deadly, her life seems directionless-- that is, until she's saved from the streets by a band of Salvationists. She enrolls, and soon afterward encounters her former love in the same bar. Her faith is real, and strong, and her former love doesn't like this.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-11
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The Boy, the Bust and the Bath
Overview: A young female boarding house tenant becomes an unwanted object of male attention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1907-08-03
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The Cardinal's Conspiracy
Overview: A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to stage an attack on the princess which he easily repels. It works; the princess falls for him, especially when the cardinal arranges his arrest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-07-12
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Her Child's Honor
Overview: Unable to bear the abuse of her drunken soldier husband, the wife left her home and went to the city, where she became a nurse in a hospital. Her husband, recovering from a spree, treated his wife's disappearance as a joke and soon went with his company to the Philippines. Meantime a doctor at the hospital had fallen in love with the young wife and when news came from the Philippines that her husband had been killed she married him. They were very happy and a child was born to them. To a friend in her old home she sent a photograph of herself and family. Then her soldier husband returned for he had not been killed. During a reception at her new home he appeared on the scene. A dancer was to be there, but being unable to keep the engagement, the wife had prepared to perform the dance herself. The appearance of her soldier husband greatly excited her for it made her second marriage illegal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-26
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Man on the Flying Trapeze
Overview: Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-03
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The Old-Fashioned Way
Overview: The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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The Automobile Thieves
Overview: A young couple conducts a series of robberies, followed by a chase, in which they are shot and killed.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1906-09-22
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The Viking's Daughter: The Story of the Ancient Norsemen
Overview: A Saxon prisoner rescues his Viking's captor's daughter, resulting in his freedom and their marriage.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-08-01
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Two Memories
Overview: Henry and Marion have a lover's quarrel and part in anger. They do not reconcile, and ten years pass without contact. Marion becomes a society girl and spends her time at parties with her friends. Henry has become very ill and wishes to see Marion one more time. He writes asking her to visit. When she recieves the note, she laughs and tosses it on the floor, but, later, on a whim, decides to take all her drunken friends with her to visit him. When they arrive, Marion finds Henry dead, clutching her portrait in his hand. She sends her friends away and falls to her knees in remorse. Mary Pickford's debut!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-23
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Sweet and Twenty
Overview: Alice misunderstands when she sees her sweetheart Frank accidentally kissing her sister, and gets upset. Frank claims he'll kill himself by throwing himself into the river, but gets cold feet when it comes time to actually do the deed. Fortunately for him, his girlfriend has come running worried after him, and all is forgiven between them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-07-22
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Secrets
Overview: In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortune. Mary and John endure the difficult journey and settle into a small cabin, then face the hostilities of a cattle rustling gang, as well as the tragic loss of their only son. With Mary's help, John defeats the gang, which propels him to political power that, over the years, gradually erodes the once-happy marriage.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-16
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Trying to Get Arrested
Overview: A tramp tries to get himself arrested so he can sleep in the nice, warm jail, but the police keep ignoring him or arresting the wrong person.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-04
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Not Like Other Girls
Overview: Flo is not like the other girls at the Ferncliffe Seminary, in that she does not like the attention of the young men at the nearby college, and their efforts to win her affection prove disastrous to their ruffled spirits. Flo has a guardian, John Strong, who has made some unfortunate speculations and to recover his losses uses his ward's fortune, and in the end loses all. He writes to his son and tells him the truth and the only way to keep himself out of jail is a marriage between his son, Owen, and Flo, his ward. Owen arrives home and after persuasion on his father's part, agrees to help him. Flo is invited down for a visit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-26
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The Peachbasket Hat
Overview: Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm reading. After the gypsies leave, no one can find the baby, and everyone assumes it's been kidnapped-- until the baby is found under a hatbox.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-24
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The Slave
Overview: A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she offers to sell herself as a slave to allow them to buy food.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-07-29
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The Zulu's Heart
Overview: A Boer woman and her daughter are captured by Zulu warriors.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-06
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Antony and Cleopatra, a Love Story of the Noblest Roman and the Most Beautiful Egyptian
Overview: A short film based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was the first film to dramatize the ill-fated romance between Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of Egypt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-03
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Elusive Isabel
Overview: Based on the spy novel of the same name by Jacques Futrelle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-15
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Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
Overview: The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and 1919.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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So Big!
Overview: A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-30
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Mrs. Jones Entertains
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-09
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The Bandit’s Waterloo (The Outwitting of an Andalusian Brigand by a Pretty Senora)
Overview: A gang of lawless freebooters who terrorized the country and made travel in the mountains a hazardous pastime hold up a stylish landau in which are seated an old gentleman, a duenna, and a pretty young Senora. The inevitable happens; all are relieved of their valuables, and while the gentleman and duenna are sent on their way, the girl is held a prisoner.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-08-04
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Daniel Boone; or, Pioneer Days in America
Overview: Daniel Boone is captured by Indians when he tries to rescue his abducted daughter.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1907-04-06
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The Pirate's Gold
Overview: Young Wilkinson is leaving his dear old mother for a journey to seek his fortune in a foreign clime. Now, the little cottage is situated near the coast. The waters of the sea have been infested with a band of gold-thirsty pirates, who pillaged every ship that came their way. Having successfully perpetuated one of their nefarious exploits, they are struck by a storm and forced to put out from their floundering vessel in a small yawl, in which they place a chest of valuables, for the shore.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-06
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1776, or The Hessian Renegades
Overview: During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers. He takes refuge with a civilian family, but is soon detected. The family and their neighbors must then make plans to see that the important message gets through after all.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-09-06
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The Devil
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-02
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The Ingrate
Overview: A hunter lost in the Northern woods is rescued by a trapper and his wife. He makes advances to the wife, is rejected, and tries to kill the trapper.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-20
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Ingomar, the Barbarian
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a barbarian in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-13
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The Vaquero's Vow
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar and in the wedding party in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-16
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The Planter's Wife
Overview: John Holland, a planter in a small way, is devotedly attached to his wife and infant child. The wife wearies of the monotonous grind of farm life and is easy prey of a contemptible villain, in the person of Tom Roland, the ubiquitous "other man".
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-20
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Salome (The Dance of Seven Veils)
Overview: King Herod is enchanted by Salome's dance and grants her wish for the head of John the Baptist.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-08-29
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Romeo and Juliet (A Romantic Story of the Ancient Feud Between the Italian Houses of Montague and Capulet)
Overview: Two feuding houses are united with the marriage and eventual death of their children.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-06-06
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The Stolen Jewels
Overview: It would have taken more than the wonderful powers of deduction of a Sherlock Holmes to have dispelled the mystery that shrouded the disappearance of a case of jewels at the home of Robert Jenkins, a wealthy stockbroker, and although they were eventually brought to light, it was through a most remarkable accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-29
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A Woman's Way
Overview: The pretty daughter of a French-Canadian backwoodsman incites the love of a trapper who is so smitten with the beauty of this wood nymph that he purchases her into marriage from her father. The transaction meets with repugnance from the girl. She was entirely contented with conditions, a child of nature, carefree. However, she finds her pleading of no avail, and so pretends to accept the situation. The trapper and Canadian go into the cabin to seal the bargain with a drink, and while inside the girl closes and fastens the door on them and makes her way through the woods to escape.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-24
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The Awakening of Bess
Overview: The Awakening of Bess is a silent short film of 1909 directed by Harry Solter . The protagonists of the film are Florence Lawrence (wife of the director) and King Baggot , a well-known theatrical actor, here in his cinematographic debut.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-27
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The Deception
Overview: A wife offers to support her artist husband by teaching piano. She can't find work at the conservatory, and ends up working in a laundry, without telling him the truth. When he discovers her lie, he is determined to leave her, until she is injured and he understands the sacrifice she made for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-22
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The Brahma Diamond
Overview: An unscrupulous tourist plots to steal the famous diamond, "The Light of the World," tricking a young woman into helping him. She is caught and imprisoned, while he prepares to sell the diamond and make his getaway.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-04
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A Baby's Shoe
Overview: The story tells of the young widowed mother of two children who is forced by extreme poverty to part with one of her children, a baby girl, by placing it in a basket on the door steps of a wealthy banker. Before leaving the baby the poor mother takes one of its little shoes to keep as a memento.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-13
Popularity:
Lucky Jim
Overview: Gertrude chooses Jim over Jack, which makes Jack very jealous. Later Jim dies, and Jack marries Gertrude. He finds himself once again very jealous of the late Lucky Jim.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-25
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The Girls and Daddy
Overview: Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy's money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-01
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Drive for a Life
Overview: Harry's jealous former mistress puts poison in some candy intended for his new fiancée. Harry discovers what she has done, and races to save his fiancée before she eats the candy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-22
Popularity:
Eloping with Auntie
Overview: A girl is being shipped off to Europe with her aunt to break up her romance. Her suitor dresses himself as the aunt and manages to fool everyone long enough for them to elope.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-24
Popularity:
His Ward's Love
Overview: Reverend Howson loves his young ward, but urges her to marry someone else. She accepts the proposal, but then sees the Reverend kissing an object she has dropped, and realizes he loves her.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-15
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His Wife's Mother
Overview: Jones's mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-01
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Eradicating Aunty
Overview: A young couple must endure a tedious visit from their aunt until their friend offers to find a way to make her leave.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-31
Popularity:
Jealousy and the Man
Overview: House painter Jim Brooks thinks his wife is cheating on him with his best friend John West. The intrigue is in fact a birthday surprise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-07-09
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Jones and the Lady Book Agent
Overview: After overhearing Jones mocking her, the lady book agent slips a suggestive note into Jones's pocket. A jealous Mrs. Jones finds the note, and a huge quarrel erupts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-10
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Jones and His New Neighbors
Overview: Jones' new house looks like all the others on the street. One night Jones enters the wrong house and finds himself in a precarious situation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-29
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The Despatch Bearer; or, Through the Enemy's Lines
Overview: A woman replaces her injured beau on a spy mission.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1907-11-23
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The Jilt
Overview: John is seduced and abandoned by a cruel flirt. Later he learns that his friend Frank is engaged to the same woman. He relates his story to Frank and convinces him to jilt her at the altar.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-17
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Mr. Jones’ Burglar
Overview: Mr. Jones stays out late playing poker with his buddies. While he's gone, a burglar starts to break into his home. Mr. Jones arrives home just in time to catch him. Instead of calling for the police, he restages the capture in an overdramatic fashion and makes sure his wife sees it. She is so grateful she forgets to be mad at him for staying out so late.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-08-09
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The Shaughraun, an Irish Romance
Overview: An early short featuring Florence Lawrence.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1907-12-01
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The Note in the Shoe
Overview: A shoe-factory worker puts a note in a shoe box offering to marry the lucky buyer. As a result, she is dismissed from her job, but her employer finds her so attractive that he suggests a new job for her, as his wife.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-06
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The Count of Montebello
Overview: Gerald and Percy inherit a fortune and spend all of it in pursuit of a young heiress.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-10-24
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The Eternal Triangle
Overview: A young wife instigates a duel between a dashing count, with whom she has been having an affair, and her elderly husband. In the duel, the husband is mortally wounded and his now repentant wife chooses to join him in death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-23
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The Call of the Circus
Overview: A circus girl must decide to stay under the big top or marry the minister who loves her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-07-07
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The Medicine Bottle
Overview: While she attends a party, Mrs. Ross leaves her young daughter to care for her bed-ridden mother. At the party, Mrs. Ross realizes she left the wrong medicine, and desperately tries to contact her daughter before it's too late.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-29
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Mrs. Jones' Lover or, I Want My Hat
Overview: Mr. Jones jumps to the wrong conclusions when he sees a bouquet of flowers and a man's hat in the parlor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-08-19
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Debt
Overview: An extravagant wife leaves her husband, but returns when he strikes it rich.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-19
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His Second Wife
Overview: A dramatic love triangle between two women and a man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-04-07
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The Prussian Spy
Overview: Lady Florence hides her lover, a Prussian spy, from the French troops who are hunting for him. One of her other suitors, a French officer, discovers the hiding place and threatens to kill the spy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-01
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The Broken Oath
Overview: A girl saves her sweetheart from the dealings of a deceitful gang that he has fallen in with.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-03-14
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A Game for Two
Overview: A wife tries to drive away her husband's best friend by flirting with him, but trouble arises when the friend flirts back.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-06-30
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The Governor’s Pardon
Overview: An honest man trades places with a convict so the convict can see his dying wife, but he is killed on his way back to prison. The governor must step in to assure the right man is released from prison.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-02-28
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The Irony of Fate
Overview: A rejected suitor rebuffs the woman he loves after the death of her husband.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-08-01
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Jane and the Stranger
Overview: Jane thinks she has witnessed a murder and the suspect is arrested; she later learns the truth and saves him from hanging.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-02-21
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The Politician's Love Story
Overview: A haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the cartoonist is a pretty woman, he falls instantly in love and wastes no time in trying to woo her.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-21
Popularity:
The Unfoldment
Overview: Katherine Nevin and her brother Jack are given positions on the newspaper of James Osborne following their father's death. Osborne's city editor, Charles MacLaughlin, who is hated and feared by his business associates, is strongly attracted to Katherine, who accepts his mother's invitation to dinner. In spite of his ruthless manner Katherine tries to change the atheistic views of "Mac" and his embittered crippled brother, Angus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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The Matchmaker
Overview: A young governess catches the eye of an aristocrat and romance blossoms.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-25
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A Show Girl’s Strategem
Overview: A sympathetic showgirl assumes the guilt for her cousin who is cheating on her husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-02-13
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The Story of Rosie’s Rose
Overview: Two brothers vie for Rosie's hand; she gives a rose to each of them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-07
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Nan’s Diplomacy
Overview: Nan feigns insanity when her former sweetheart unexpectedly appears.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-02-27
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The Road to the Heart
Overview: Miguel casts out his daughter when she marries a poor man, causing his wife to leave him, too. After he is unable to find a reliable cook, he reconciles with his daughter so he can get a good meal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-05
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That Awful Brother
Overview: A wayward brother is mistaken for a burglar in his own house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-08
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One on Reno
Overview: When a bored wife seeks a Reno divorce, she regains the attentions of her inattentive husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-03
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The State Line
Overview: A kindhearted criminal saves the life of the sheriff's daughter and is allowed to make it across the state line in order to avoid jail.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-29
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The Face on the Screen
Overview: Florence, trying to escape fortune hunters, is residing at the seashore, when her maid dies. Florence has pretended to be the maid of this woman and she continues the deception. Her death is cabled to her attorney in New York, who advises her cousin and his wife, who have an adopted son, Harry. Later Harry meets the girl in her disguise as maid, and both are impressed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-30
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The Slavey’s Affinity
Overview: A maid loves her employer, sacrificing her own happiness in order to insure his.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-11
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The Snare of Society
Overview: A society woman gambles at cards.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-10
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Those Boys!
Overview: Two boys find a pistol their father has hidden. While they're playing with it, they line up a target, not realizing their sisters are on the other side of the door. The parents realize the gun is missing and avert the disaster.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-18
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The Life Saver
Overview: A local girl's romance with the lifeguard at a seaside lifesaving station is threatened by the arrival of tourists.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-20
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The Roue’s Heart
Overview: Mons. Flamant, a typical roué of the French nobility, is surrounded by all the pleasures and pastimes his fabulous wealth can procure. In a quest of diversion he visits the art rooms, just as a young girl enters with a magnificent piece of sculpture and places it on sale. The roué is so impressed with the work and the girl that he purchases it at once and follows her to the atelier, where he learns that she is the maid of the sculptress, whom he sees and at once falls passionately in love with her, but when he learns that she is totally blind, his feelings change to one of deepest pity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-08
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The Surgeon’s Heroism
Overview: A surgeon risks his life in order to finish surgery on a patient when a fire breaks out in the hospital.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-08
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The Love Craze
Overview: A Florence Lawrence short film directed by Winthrop Kelley
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-18
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The Professor’s Ward
Overview: An orphaned young woman rejects her appointed suitor and falls in love with her guardian.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-08
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Through Jealous Eyes
Overview: A jealous mother is envious of the affection shown toward her future daughter-in-law by her husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-17
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A Village Romance
Overview: John Cummins, a wealthy society man, while out in his auto, discovers he is out of gasoline. He stops at a country store and meets Flo Page, the daughter of the proprietor. It is a case of mutual attraction, causing many a heartache to Si, the clerk, who adores Flo. Cummins manages to have sundry excuses for visiting the little general store, and finally realizes he is head over heels in love with the girl.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-03
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Tis an Ill Wind That Blows No Good
Overview: Out-of-work, Tim steals a sandwich, then knocks out the policeman who chases him. He changes into the policeman's uniform, and is approached by a wife who needs help with her drunken husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-29
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The Maniac
Overview: An escaped mental patient assumes the identity of a society girl's dead father and threatens her marriage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-16
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Schneider’s Anti-Noise Crusade
Overview: Schneider is trying to write a speech but he can't concentrate with all the noise around him. During the night, Schneider catches burglars in his house, but when he sees they are stealing all the noisy distractions, he helps them get away.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-08
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The Wife’s Awakening
Overview: The Harrington's first born has died and the father and mother are inconsolable in their grief. Mrs. Harrington later seeks diversion in society, but the husband is engrossed in his work as a scientist, having a laboratory in his house. He conducts several experiments and is on the verge of success in his invention when an explosion of the chemicals occurs and it subsequently develops that he is blinded for life, his eyesight being permanently destroyed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-03
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Opportunity and the Man
Overview: One man squanders a fortune and loses his house and sweetheart to another who strikes it rich.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-11
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Vanity and Its Cure
Overview: A silly and extravagant wife must learn to curb her wild ways before her husband is willing to take her back.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-06
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A Troublesome Satchel
Overview: Sight unseen, a man buys a bag that turns out to contain burglar tools. He can't get rid of the bag, even when he's robbed. The thieves assume he's a colleague and return the bag and tools.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-19
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The Blind Man’s Tact
Overview: Five days more! Only five more days says the physician, and the man who has for so long a time been totally blind will be able to take off the bandage, and have the great, light world before him!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-02-14
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The Winning Coat
Overview: A young courtier gambles in a tavern and wins a coat from the leader of a gang. In the pocket he finds details of a plan to kidnap the Queen. He returns to the castle and hides until the kidnappers show up, then he exposes the kidnapping plot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-12
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Bear Ye One Another’s Burdens
Overview: When an infirm husband learns of the dire circumstances his wife must endure, he makes every effort to bring himself back to health.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-07-28
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A Wreath in Time
Overview: A few of us have had the chance to read our own obituary notice, but it fell to the lot of John Goodhusband the rare privilege of viewing his own elegiac cinerary floral offerings, and at the time John was anything but a "dead one."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-08
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The Wooden Leg
Overview: A father wants to marry his daughter to a rich man, but she's in love with someone else. She borrows a tramp's wooden leg, pretending that it's hers, and the disgusted suitor rejects her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-08
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Justice in the Far North
Overview: An abused wife takes a shot at her husband, and, as a result, he reforms.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-02-07
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The New Shawl
Overview: A husband becomes jealous when he finds his wife's shawl in a suspicious location.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-04-28
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The Miser’s Daughter
Overview: A young woman pulls a fast switch on the fiance handpicked by her father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-04-04
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The Maelstrom
Overview: A young woman marries a man she hardly knows or understands; in a moment of crisis, the two suddenly realize what they mean to each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-04-21
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The Mistake
Overview: A husband learns from his mistake after he wrongly accuses his wife of infidelity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-07-21
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Mother Love
Overview: A mother loses her sanity when she loses her child. Her husband brings home a newly adopted child, and she regains her health.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-03-07
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A Reno Romance
Overview: A couple goes to Reno to be divorced, but change their minds at the last moment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-30
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The Right of Love
Overview: Two girls fall for the same boy.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-01-10
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Old Heads and Young Hearts
Overview: Two old gentlemen who have been pals from boyhood decide that their children ought to marry. This intention is a commendable one, to be sure, and what is more, their son and daughter like each other pretty well, still more, the wish of the parents would have been automatically done if the old men only had sense enough to remember the adage about the cooks and the broth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-07-11
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Two Men
Overview: An orphaned girl raised by a miner in the wilderness falls in love with a tenderfoot, even though the miner loves her as well.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-02
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The Nichols on a Vacation
Overview: A philandering husband arranges an ill-planned rendezvous at the same restaurant his wife and daughter are dining at.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-30
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Once Upon a Time
Overview: A woman is forced to reevaluate the quiet man in her life when she finds he actually could be her knight in shining armor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-08-08
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The Senator’s Double
Overview: When a senator falls victim to morphine addiction, a look-alike double takes his place.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-08-18
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The Taming of Jane
Overview: A fickle tomboy eventually falls for the suitor who had previously been annoying her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-08-21
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The Winning Punch
Overview: A girl's affections waver between the winner of a boxing match, and a greedy count.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-01-03
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The Stage Note
Overview: A clever girl inventively uses a stage prop to attract help when burglars enter her house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-03-24
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The Right Girl
Overview: There is always a right girl for all of us; sometime, somewhere, somehow we find her. But often the discovery leads through strange channels and peculiar by-ways. A young heiress, discouraged by fruitless efforts to secure a suitable husband at the seashore and fashionable summer resorts, decides to go to visit her old nurse, to recuperate. She does not want the town people to know she is an heiress, so she changes places with the nurse's daughter. A youth who is pretty much "down and out" receives a letter from a city friend saying that the heiress is in town. The friend advises him to board at the house at which she is staying with the intention of courting the her.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-01
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Pressed Roses
Overview: Roses and trousers have little in common and pressed roses presage something wrong in the scheme of things. When roses are pressed instead of a pair of trousers, chaos and confusion is the result
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-26
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Transfusion
Overview: After an accident, a young girl desperately needs a blood transfusion to save her life. A young blacksmith agrees to be the donor and wins her heart as well.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-03-28
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The Tide of Fortune
Overview: The indolent, thriftless black sheep of the family, the good-for-nothing son of a rich banker bothers his busy brother, who is disgusted with the antics of his drunken sibling.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-01-17
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The Satin Girl
Overview: The story revolves around a young woman named Lenore Vance (Mabel Forrest), who loses her memory after witnessing the death of her father Silas Gregg (William H Turner). She commits a series of robberies due to being brainwashed by her elderly, reclusive, chemist uncle, Fargo (Marc Mac Dermott). She later becomes the person of interest in the murder, being labelled by the authorities as "The Satin Girl". Dr. Richard Taunton (Norman Kerry) and becomes infatuated with her. After discovering that Lenore has taken pieces of jewelry from him, he uses a piece of evidence left behind to investigate the crimes himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-30
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Gambling Wives
Overview: Bank clerk Vincent Forrest loses his savings in a gambling den run by Madame Zoe and her provider, Van Merton. Forrest's wife Ann begins an affair with Merton when she discovers that Forrest is infatuated with Madame Zoe. Ann loses heavily gambling, but Vincent soon realizes what is happening in time to save his wife and to restore her happiness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-10
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After All
Overview: A spurned suitor threatens to kill Margie's sweetheart if she does not give him up.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-06
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The Advent of Jane
Overview: Dr. Jane Bixby, a new doctor in a rural town, solves the mystery of the moonshiner's still.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-27
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The Actress and the Singer
Overview: A prima donna falls in love with the voice of a singer that she hears on a recording.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-13
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Age Versus Youth
Overview: A brash young man loses the business he inherits but learns a lesson in love from the daughter of his rival.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-02-02
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Art Versus Music
Overview: A pianist's music annoys a painter, making him unable to work. Eventually they fall in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-20
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Always a Way
Overview: A minister is talked into performing a marriage ceremony for his sister and the beau he despised.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-08
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Betty’s Nightmare
Overview: Betty, a farm cook, yearns to be an actress, but her dreams turn into nightmares, and she seeks comfort in the arms of a hired hand.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-11
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All for Love
Overview: Little Flo is the daughter of a blind musician and the pair live by means of the few pennies tossed to them on the street, the father playing the violin and Flo dancing and singing to his accompaniment. Death overtakes the old man in front of the country residence of an eccentric novelist named Roland. Roland and his sister take Flo into their home and, becoming much attached to her, they virtually adopt her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-13
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The Angel of the Studio
Overview: An unattractive girl endeavors to make herself attractive to an artist, but he sees only the artificial beauty of a model.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-25
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The Lady Leone
Overview: An heiress, under the protection of the Queen, falls in love with a poor knight.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-15
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The Players
Overview: Two actors, trying to soak up local color for an upcoming play, fall in love with the same girl.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-19
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Her Cousin Fred
Overview: Fred acts as a matchmaker for his cousin Flo and his friend George.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-23
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In Swift Waters
Overview: A foolish suitor gains favor in a girl's eyes when he pretends to have saved her life. When the truth is known, she rejects him for the real hero.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-12
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The Mill Buyers
Overview: Flo's suitor wins her mother's favor when he returns a lost pocketbook.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-09
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Tangled Relations
Overview: Two old sweethearts, Henry Jones and Mrs. Mary Owen, he a widower and she a widow, meet at a summer resort and, renewing their old love, get married. On their way back to the city they send telegrams home, he to his only daughter, Florence, and she to her only son, Tom. The children receive the telegrams and are filled with disappointment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-04
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The Chance Shot
Overview: A stray bullet accidentally kills a blackmailer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-16
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The Redemption of Riverton
Overview: When a minister tries to clean up Riverton, he finds an unexpected ally in the barkeeper's daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-01
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Sisters
Overview: When a fireman rescues his long-lost sister-in-law he mistakes her for his wife when she dies, and contemplates suicide until he learns the truth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-08
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A Girl and Her Money
Overview: A society girl changes places with her maid for an adventure.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-19
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Influence of Sympathy
Overview: A mother, grieving over the loss of her child, finds contentment in loving a lame orphan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-05
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The Closed Door
Overview: The daughter of an aristocratic Southern family, proud, but impoverished, enters into a marriage of convenience with a wealthy stockbroker.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-03
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His Wife’s Child
Overview: A young girl survives a dreadful childhood and grows up to right an old wrong.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-14
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The Girl O’ the Woods
Overview: Romance develops between a young woman from the Tennessee hills and a man from the city; she saves his life when her brothers threaten to kill him; they part, eventually to be reunited years later.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-17
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The Winning Punch
Overview: A country suitor's jealousy of his rival for his sweetheart's hand culminates in fisticuffs.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-30
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The Little Rebel
Overview: A Civil War spy story in which a girl and the officer she loves find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-01
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The Two Fathers
Overview: An impoverished father is forced to give up his daughter for adoption. After she is grown, she realizes she has two fathers: her real one and her "adopted" one.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-17
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Richard III
Overview: Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-26
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Lest We Forget
Overview: A rich little girl helps a poor little girl by making their Christmas enjoyable.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-20
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During Cherry Time
Overview: An actress teaches a young girl how to flirt and win back her beau.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-27
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Taking a Chance
Overview: A matchmaking wife brings suspicion upon herself when she tries to reunite a young couple.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-02
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All the World’s a Stage
Overview: A jealous husband misinteprets the performance his actress wife is putting on with his best friend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-10-03
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The Dancer and the King, a Romantic Story of Spain
Overview: A dancer enchants a leacherous king but rebuffs his advances, resulting in his vengeful anger.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-19
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Love's Stratagem
Overview: A short romance starring Florence Lawrence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-11-01
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Her Generous Way
Overview: A wife innocently inspires suspicion by generously giving away some money given to her for a hat.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-11-29
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The Forest Ranger’s Daughter
Overview: The forest ranger's daughter catches a spouse by hoodwinking Papa who brings in a minister.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-11-15
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Duke de Ribbon Counter
Overview: An heiress, a businessman, and a playboy form the eternal triangle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-15
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The Doctor's Perfidy
Overview: A young doctor is jealous of one of his patient's romantic interest in his nurse.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-16
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Macbeth, Shakespeare’s Sublime Tragedy
Overview: Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-04-19
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The Rosary
Overview: A pretty model with two rival art students (her father's pupils) in love with her, a situation not at all surprising considering how alluring she looks in the garb of a nun, posing for their canvas. Jealousy and anger ensues.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-04-11
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Aunt Jane’s Legacy
Overview: Aunt Jane's nieces and nephews bicker over an anticipated legacy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-06
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A Fascinating Bachelor
Overview: A nurse ignores her other patients in order to concentrate on her favorite one, a fascinating bachelor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-01
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Lady Jane’s Flight, a 17th Century Romance
Overview: A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-07-25
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A Game of Deception
Overview: Misunderstandings abound when a minister's son and an actress become engaged.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-01
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A Good Turn
Overview: A woman's sweetheart is prevented from killing himself by two burglars who are afraid they will be accused of murder if he pulls the trigger.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-25
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Unto the Third Generation
Overview: A young Jewish woman wrestles with the dilemma of an interfaith marriage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-28
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Her Ragged Knight
Overview: A confirmed bachelor falls in love with the young woman whom he had pawned off on his aunt when she was first put into his custody.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-03
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The Spender
Overview: An actress cures a wayward young man of his extravagant spending.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-31
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Counterfeiters
Overview: Two lovers disguise themselves as counterfeiters in order to escape from the girl's disapproving parents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-28
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Suffragettes Parade in Washington
Overview: At the opening of the film Pennsylvania Avenue is shown, nearly blocked by a motley mob of sightseers looking at the marching Suffragettes. The big banner demanding a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing equal rights to American women makes a pathway along which the Suffragettes are seen marching steadily and persistently, although still hemmed in by the mob.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-04
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The False Bride
Overview: A woman of loose morals takes the place of a young bride.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-30
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The Honor of the Humble
Overview: A young girl falls in love with a count, despite her father's disapproval.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-14
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The Doctor’s Testimony
Overview: A doctor commits perjury in order to win a woman whose husband could go to prison based on his testimony.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-05
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The Coryphee
Overview: An actress assumes a guilty appearance in order to save her faithless cousin's marriage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-02
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The Disenchantment
Overview: A maid discards her beau in favor of a musician whom she idolizes; when reality sets in, she takes her old beau back.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-22
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The Great Universal Mystery
Overview: A promotional one-reel film promoting the stars of Universal Pictures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-10
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Diplomatic Flo
Overview: A woman adopts the guise of a spy when she uncovers an arms plot concerning a country in Central America.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-27
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The Bribe
Overview: A woman is commanded under hypnosis to break into her father's safe.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-22
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The Honeymooners
Overview: Two couples head for Reno to swap partners, but change their minds at the last minute.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-13
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The Pawns of Destiny
Overview: A maid risks her life for her employer, with whom she is in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-08
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The Little Mail Carrier
Overview: A female mail carrier is injured on her route and recovers at a bachelor's lodge.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-10
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The Man Who Was Never Kissed
Overview: A platonic experiment as to how a young couple should make love fails when it ceases to be platonic.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-09
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A Singular Cynic
Overview: When placed in a position to choose between two jealous suitors, a young woman turns the tables on them by choosing a third.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-19
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The Stepmother
Overview: A new bride tries to win the affection of her stepchild.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-27
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A Mysterious Mystery
Overview: A moving picture actress is mistaken for an escaped asylum patient; the insane girl then steps into the actress's life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-11
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The Mad Man’s Ward
Overview: An uninhibited young woman is brought up by a reclusive eccentric.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-31
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The Test
Overview: A girl chooses between two boys by testing how each one would help the poor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-02-20
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The Romance of the Photograph
Overview: A wayward girl falls in love with the handsome image of a burglar she sees in a photograph.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-16
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The Law’s Decree
Overview: A shopgirl assumes the guilt of her mother and is sent to prison.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-13
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A Head for Business
Overview: A young woman helps her brother by purchasing a much needed piece of land.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-04
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His Chorus Girl Wife
Overview: A young man's parents refuse to accept his new wife, but a reconciliation is eventually brought about.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-13
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Her Two Sons
Overview: Two brothers, one a minister and the other a cad, both love the same girl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-07
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Her Humble Ministry
Overview: A reformed woman shows a petty thief the righteous path by her good example.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-18
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The Hoyden
Overview: A young soldier is shipped overseas after a hasty marriage; when he returns he doesn't recognize his wife who has changed from the tomboy he married to a sophisticated young woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-24
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A Girlish Impulse
Overview: A hastily written letter is used in a blackmail scheme by a scorned suitor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-11
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Her Artistic Temperament
Overview: A girl from the country writes glowing letters about life in the big city despite the fact that it's really been disastrous.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-20
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Higgenses Versus Judsons
Overview: The sons and daughters on the opposing sides of a Kentucky feud fall in love and dismantle their fathers' guns to prevent further bloodshed.
Genres: Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-22
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His Friend, the Burglar
Overview: A husband uses a ruse to sneak back into the house after a night out.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-09
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His Bogus Uncle
Overview: A scheming suitor ends up losing his girl to a rival even after he receives an inheritance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-30
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A Rural Conqueror
Overview: Florence Lawrence stars in this society comedy in rural surroundings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-26
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A Rebellious Blossom
Overview: A widow threatens her rebellious daughter that she will remarry if the girl does not behave at school.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-21
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Romance of Pond Cove
Overview: When a young man loses his wealth, he also loses his fiancee, but he is more than consoled by her younger sister.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-31
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The Sheriff and the Man
Overview: A sheriff must decide whether or not to allow his old friend, a criminal, to escape.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-27
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The Cord of Life
Overview: Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are met with a positive rebuff, and when he becomes insistent be is forcibly ejected by Galora. As he leaves the tenement he vows to get even, and lies in wait until Galora has gone out on business. Climbing to the fifth floor, on which the Galoras live, he watches his chance, which comes when Mrs. Galora goes for an instant to visit a neighbor on the same floor. Darting into the apartment and raising the window he perceives the awful result of a drop to the ground, five stories below, and so evolves a plan that is dastardly in the extreme. Taking the infant child from the cradle, and placing it in a basket he lets it out with a short rope, the end of which he secures by letting the sash down on it, so that to raise the window would precipitate the baby to destruction.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-28
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What Drink Did
Overview: A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses a beer with lunch, then gives in. After work, two friends take a little while to convince him to go for a refreshing malt beverage, then to have another and another....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-02
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Tragic Love
Overview: Bob Spaulding, a manly fellow, meets Dr. Rankin and his wife on the street while they are engaged in a violent tiff. The doctor is about to strike his wife when Bob interferes, incurring the resentment of the doctor. During the flurry Mrs. Rankin drops her card case. From a card inside he learns the address and goes there to return it. They meet, and it is a case of love at first sight; but she is a wife, and beyond his reach.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-11
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Nursing a Viper
Overview: During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat bursts into the couple's home. They save his life by disguising him as a servant, but he soon forces his attentions on the wife. Hearing their struggle, the husband intervenes and, stripping the aristocrat of his disguise, thrusts him outdoors to be killed by the mob.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-11-03
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I Did It
Overview: A mother punishes her son for eating a plate of cream puffs, unaware that the daughter really did it. As the daughter watches the punishment, she feels guilty, and confesses her misdeed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-15
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The Time-Lock Safe
Overview: Early movie star Florence Lawrence appears in this dramatic farce, in which the police pay a famous burglar to save the life of a child thought to be trapped inside a bank’s time-lock safe. Also stars King Baggot and Owen Moore (Mary Pickford’s first husband).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-07-08
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Saul and David
Overview: Tells the biblical story of Saul's jealousy of the young David, taken from the book of Samuel
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-27
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The Lonely Villa
Overview: A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-10
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Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
Overview: Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a different port. Emily waits faithfully for six years, finally becoming dangerously ill. When Bill suddenly appears in town with his family, Joe, who has loved Emily all along, forces Bill to make Emily's final moments happy by pretending he has returned to marry her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-10-27
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The Judgment of Solomon
Overview: Directed by J. Stuart Blackton.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-02
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Tender Hearts
Overview: A country boy and a city boy are both courting the same girl. The girl sees the country boy's tender treatment of a wounded bird and chooses him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-07-19
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