Loyola O'Connor
Also Known As: Ignatia Loyola O'Connor, Miss O'Connor
Biography: Loyola O'Connor (born Ignatia Loyola O'Connor; July 8, 1868 – December 26, 1931) was an American stage and silent film actress. In the early 20th century, she worked multi-year stints in stage productions such as Way Down East, Ben Hur and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. In 1913, she transitioned to silent films, appearing in 48 productions through 1922. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 08, 1868
Age: 156 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 26, 1931
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The Infidel
Overview: Lola Daintry (MacDonald) is an actress who's mad at the world, and especially ministers, one of whom -- her father -- was so cruel that he drove her mother out of the house. When Bully Haynes (Melbourne MacDonald) wants her help in showing up a group of South Seas missionaries, she's more than happy to assist. But Lola doesn't realize she's being used so that Haynes can gain control over the copra trade from his rival, Cyrus Flint (Robert Ellis).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-02
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True Heart Susie
Overview: Susie secretly loves her neighbor, William Jenkins, but neither, it seems, can confess their feelings for each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-01
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The Love Burglar
Overview: A young man infiltrates the underworld by pretending to be a convicted burglar. While undercover, he meets a young woman who turns out to be no more a part of gangland than he, but with similar reasons for disguising herself.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-13
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The Kiss
Overview: Directed by Ulysses Davis, the screenplay was based on a story by Marc Edmund Jones. Long thought to have been a lost film, a copy was found and put on YouTube. The film is the only known surviving film in which director William Desmond Taylor appears as an actor. In 1964 Taylor's co-star Margaret Gibson, shortly before her death, reportedly confessed to having murdered him in 1921.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-14
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The Lily and the Rose
Overview: To the dismay of Allison Edwards, her bookworm, adoring neighbor, Mary Randolph, falls in love with and marries Jack Van Norman, a rich and handsome former football star. After a few months of marital contentment, Jack becomes infatuated with Rose, an exotic dancer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-06
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The Faith Healer
Overview: A traveling preacher has, through his faith, the power to heal, but loses it when he falls in love. Considered lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-13
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Out of the Darkness
Overview: Drama in which Hélène, the owner of a large company goes to work in her own factory, to find out that its staff working in poor working conditions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-08
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The Fall of Babylon
Overview: After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The first of the two was 'The Fall of Babylon', which depicts the conflict between Prince Belshazzar of Babylon and Cyrus the Great of Persia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-21
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The Courage of the Commonplace
Overview: A farmer's daughter, who devotedly endlessly gives selflessly of herself to her parents and younger siblings, dreams of going to college, which she's saved money to be able to pay for.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-01
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A Little Madonna
Overview: Terrorized by Guido, her drunken and brutal father, Marie receives assurance from her dying mother that the Madonna will always protect her. The father reels in just after the mother has expired, too drunk to realize the woman is dead, and finding the whiskey bottle empty, abuses the child. Marie appeals to the image of the Madonna and Guido, in a frenzy of rage, smashes it on the floor. Horrified at the sacrilege, Marie screams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-22
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The Children Pay
Overview: What will become of the Children in a home divided....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-26
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Overview: The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-04
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The Missing Links
Overview: A 1916 film directed by Lloyd Ingraham.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-16
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An Old Fashioned Young Man
Overview: Frank Trent, raised by his father with an old-fashioned reverence for women, goes to the city where he obtains a job as an aide to corrupt politician Senator Briggs. Learning that Briggs, who is supporting the incumbent mayor, plans to smear his opponent, Mrs. Burke, by stirring up charges that her adopted daughter Margaret is actually her illegitimate child, Frank quits his job and determines to prove Mrs. Burke's innocence. A lost film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-14
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Cheerful Givers
Overview: A 1917 film directed by Paul Powell.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-21
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Pillars of Society
Overview: Based on Henrik Ibsen's play from 1877.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-27
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Hoodoo Ann
Overview: A teenage orphan (who believes herself to be "hoodooed") is taken in by a childless couple and quickly falls for the boy next door; Her luck seems to have changed. But the idyll is broken up after a trip to the movies-- It seems the 'hoodoo' has returned after she tries to replicate what she'd seen on the screen.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-26
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A Child of the Paris Streets
Overview: When the son of a leader of a Paris underworld family known as The Apaches is arrested and tried in court, the boy's mother asks the judge for mercy, but he refuses. In retaliation, the family kidnaps the judge's young daughter, and raises her to be one of their own, schooling her in the ways of crime.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-21
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Nina, the Flower Girl
Overview: Nina, a blind girl, lives with her grandmother, who has taught her to make artificial flowers, which she sells at a flower-stand. Nina, and Jimmie, a crippled newsboy who sells papers on the same corner, are sweethearts. Nina's grandmother dies, and she turns to Jimmie. One day Jimmie has a fight with another newsboy, whom he thinks is hanging about Nina's stand too much, and the other boy is soon begging for mercy. Miss Fifi Chandler, an artist, happens to be passing, and becoming interested, she accompanies Nina and Jimmie to their rooms, and is surprised to find that Jimmie is an artist, having made a beautiful plaster cast of Nina. Fifi brings Jimmie and his protégé to the notice of her fellow artist, Fred Townsend, who falls in love with Nina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-21
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Stranded
Overview: H. Ulysses Watts is a traveling Shakespearean actor whose career is on the decline, as his audiences are more interested in cinema and vaudeville. When the troupe is robbed by Stoner, Watts cares for an injured young trapeze artist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-23
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The Country Boy
Overview: Tom, a young man in a small town, wants to marry his sweetheart Jane, but Jane's father won't allow it until Tom proves he can support her. Tom heads to New York City to make his fortune and prove to Jane's father that he has what it takes, but he meets and falls in love with Amy, a chorus girl who already has a wealthy suitor. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-18
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Old Dad
Overview: Mr. Bretton's wife decides she would rather pursue an opera career, so they separate, leaving him to raise their young daughter Daphne (Mildred Harris). She is expelled from boarding school after Richard Wiltoner is found in her room under innocent circumstances. Her father sends her to the Adirondacks, where she meets a rogue and soon elopes with him. When her father discovers that he is a bigamist, he has their marriage annulled. Happily, Mrs. Bretton returns to her husband and Daphne and Richard fall in love and marry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-01
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Harriet and the Piper
Overview: Harriet Field, living the Bohemian life in Greenwich Village, is tricked into a mock marriage with the unscrupulous Royal Blondin. She leaves him, taking a job as companion to the wealthy Nina Carter. Blondin reappears during a masquerade ball thrown by the Carters, makes advances to Nina but Harriet intervenes, bringing threats from Blondin to expose her past. When Nina’s faithless mother is killed in a car crash as she elopes with another man Richard Carter persuades Harriet to marry him for the sake of the children. She reveals all to her husband and Richard offers Blondin a hefty sum of money to stay out of Nina's life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-13
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The Tree of Knowledge
Overview: The wicked Belle gets her hands on Nigel Stanyon, a young man who was about to embark on a career as a minister. She seduces him, empties his bank account and tosses him aside. In the depths of despair, Nigel is discovered by Brian, a wealthy old friend, who secures him a job as an overseer on his family estate. One day Brian embarks on a trip abroad, and Nigel is astounded when he returns home with a new wife—Nigel's old flame, Belle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-18
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