Pauline Bush
Also Known As: The Madonna of the Movies, Pauline Elvira Bush
Biography: From Wikipedia Pauline Elvira Bush (May 22, 1886 – November 1, 1969) was an American silent film actress. Nicknamed "The Madonna of the Movies", she married actor Allan Dwan in 1915. They divorced in 1919. From 1910 to 1924, she appeared in some 250 movies. Died of pneumonia at the age of 83.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Birthday: May 22, 1886
Deathday: November 01, 1969
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Mormon
Overview: Western about a Mormon falling in love.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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Discord and Harmony
Overview: Joy reigns in a colony of struggling artists because Old Felix, a composer, has at last sold one of his symphonies. The night of its initial hearing at the grand opera house the members of the colony turn out en masse. Too poor for orchestra seats, they gather in the gallery around the old composer. The old composer is happy almost to tears, and when the last note has died away there is a cry for the composer. Felix attempts to utter a few words of thanks, but is smothered with flowers. At his studio his friends have prepared for his welcome, and it is upon his arrival there that be feels the happiness which comes of success. However, at the other end of the hall another different drama is being enacted. A girl sits beside her stricken mother, and as the merriment in the studio reaches its height, the soul of the mother departs from the body.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-16
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The End of the Feud
Overview: For fifty years the Dawsons and the Putnams have been engaged in a deadly family feud. Old Hen Dawson is now the patriarch of the Dawsons, and Jed Putnam is the leader of the Putnams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-12
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The Measure of a Man
Overview: Helen MacDermott, daughter of the Factor at Bear Lake, has been carefully and religiously brought up by her widowed father. Bob Brandt, a dashing young gambler and adventurer, stops at Bear Lake in his wanderings, and having occasion to visit the post to buy supplies, he becomes acquainted with Helen. She quickly surrenders to his charms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-28
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The Sheepman's Daughter
Overview: Richard Mead was a sheepherder who lived with his daughter in a hut in the mountains. He was hated by the cattlemen and was ordered to quit the range. Returning to his home he tells his daughter what has happened, and prepares to protect himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-01
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The Mother of the Ranch
Overview: James Collins leaves his dear old mother and goes West, where he becomes connected with the Bar Diamond Outfit. He finds the life of a cowboy arduous and the pay meager. The possibilities of owning a herd of his own by blotting brands or branding calves, occurs to him, as it has to many others, who desire quick results from very little effort. Six months later, he is a full-fledged cattle thief, branding cattle, under his own registered brand, while ostensibly an honest cowboy in the employ of the Bar Diamond Ranch. He writes his mother of his success and she, never dreaming of the hazardous occupation her son is following, plans to join him in the West.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-14
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The Guerilla Menace
Overview: In the hills of Dixie live Jed and Sue, a country lad and lass, who are very much in love with each other. The keeper of the wayside tavern is an unscrupulous fellow who has coveted Sue for some time. He makes advances to Sue, but Jed, who suspects the man, warns him to keep away and not molest her.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-24
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Their Masterpiece
Overview: Absorbed in his painting, Robert Gainsworthy neglects his beautiful wife - not intentionally - but rather in the pre-occupied way of a man who did not want the single train of thought broken. He worked for days in his studio without ever speaking to her and the strain told on their relations for the wife brooded bitterly. Jack Sanders, a globe-trotting cousin of Robert, visited at the Gainsworthy home. He took many strolls with the heart-sick wife and found himself madly infatuated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-13
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The Powder Flash of Death
Overview: Three pals, Reid, Neilan and Kirkland breast the breakers of their roving life with but one condition of creed, nothing was to come between them to sever or impair the sincerity of their ties of friendship. Regardless of what extremity of life they encountered, they religiously respect their one law of sharing alike; that is, until the fall of Sumter, when the call to arms invaded homes and divided brother against brother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-08
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The Picket Guard
Overview: While a Union picket reminisces about his sweetheart and recalls leaving home to go to war, a Confederate ambushes soldier ambushes and kills him.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-15
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Mental Suicide
Overview: Neilan, an architect, young and ambitious, having graduated with honors, procures a position as assistant in the city architect's office. Although hearts are willing, his love affair with Toddles seems hopeless owing to Toddles' sense of duty as a sister to Pauline, an invalid. Neilan calls upon Toddles and presses her for a definite answer to his proposal. Toddles refuses, telling him she cannot marry while her sister lives. Pauline suffers a relapse, due to her mental agitation, and the doctor advises Toddles that the only hope of prolonging Pauline's life is the South American climate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-27
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The Ways of Fate
Overview: Two men playing cards, the argument, flash of a revolver, and one lay dead.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-19
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Women and War
Overview: During the Civil War there were two sisters living in Virginia, who had as a near neighbor a young, wealthy and patriotic man, who visited them frequently. The elder sister was plain and attractive, but possessing a patriotic spirit and sterling qualities. The younger sister was pretty and doll-like, superficial, frivolous and fond of luxury. The elder sister was capable of a deep and undying devotion, while the younger was only capable of shallow affection. Both of the sisters love the neighbor in their separate ways. He is sub-consciously attracted by the inner worth of the elder sister, but this attraction is overbalanced by the beauty of the younger.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-21
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In Love and War
Overview: Despite being disqualified for war service, a young man volunteers as a war correspondent and ends up performing heroically at the front anyway.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-17
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The Animal
Overview: The Animal, a man of great strength and brutal impulses, becomes human when he reunites a mother and her lost child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-17
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The Harvest of Flame
Overview: The Harvest of Flame
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-21
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The Gratitude of Wanda
Overview: An indian girl brings military relief to the besieged cabin because of her gratitude to the white man who befriended her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-30
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The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
Overview: Reed and Rosson are owners of the Yellow Aster mine. They have taken out enough gold to make the final payment, which is due. Both brothers love the same girl, Pauline, but she prefers Reed. Reed saves an Indian, Eagle Eye, from the drunken taunts of a half-breed, and the latter swears vengeance.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-24
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The Wall of Money
Overview: One day, Harry, who also works at the mill and with whom Wally is living, is badly hurt. Wally in his working clothes goes to his father and explained how dangerous it is for any man to work in the mill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-21
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The Wall of Flame
Overview: The Wall of Flame is a 1916 silent film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-03
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The Man Who Saved the Day
Overview: Ethel Warren has many suitors for her hand. She cannot decide between two of them, Anson Pryce, a lawyer, and John King, a journalist. John has had an accident and lost the use of an arm. War is declared and both men hasten to volunteer. Anson is accepted at once, but John is rejected on account of his arm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-22
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The Wanderer
Overview: A ranchman is best by a bully whose unwelcome attentions are resented by the ranchman's daughter. Everything seems to be in favor of the bully until the hero makes his appearance, when the tide changes and one defeat after another is the lot of the vicious bully until he is driven away in disgrace.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-31
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The Oubliette
Overview: Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly couple from their poor home. Whereupon he empties his own and Colin's purse, pays the Beadle, and then resume their journey. Overcome with the pangs of hunger, they "lift " the purses of a couple of corpulent monks. For this breach of law both Villon and Colin are arrested and thrown into prison. This film and By the Sun's Rays are two of Chaney's earliest surviving films.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-14
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The Restless Spirit
Overview: The Dreamer is unhappy with his marriage and runs away. He collapses and is found by The Desert Flower, who convince him to return to his family. In various illusions he sees himself in three stories. In first is Napoleon. In the second he is a Knight. And in the third a Sultan. But in all the illusions he die. Meanwhile his wife is about to be send into the desert while refusing to remarry a Stranger. Before this could happen, the Dreamer arrives and send the Stranger into the desert. He becomes again a loved and respected member of the Town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-27
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Unwritten Law of the West
Overview: A Mexican girl stabs a man who has wronged her. The hero is arrested for the crime and though the crime cannot be fastened upon him, is advised by the court to leave town. His sweetheart clears him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-19
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The Hand of Uncle Sam
Overview: The Marines are sent to rescue an American engineer in Nicaragua.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-03-25
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The Forbidden Room
Overview: Fulfilling a promise made to his mother on her deathbed, Dr. James Gibson finds his sister Pauline who has run away after giving birth to an illegitimate child. His sister's mind has snapped and Gibson takes his sister and his baby niece home with him. The years pass and the niece has grown into a beautiful woman, while her mother is kept locked in a room that the young woman is forbidden to enter. Gibson and his wealthy neighbor, John Morris, are both interested in hypnotism, and one night the two men conduct an experiment by hypnotizing Gibson's niece. This film is presumed lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-20
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The Tragedy of Whispering Creek
Overview: American silent short movie.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-01
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Back to Life
Overview: A gambler brings his sick wife to live in the mountains after learning she has tuberculosis and will need special care. The gambler soon tires of caring for his wife and becomes attached to a young girl at a local saloon. The gambler's wife discovers her husband's infidelity and wanders off into the forest to die. There she finds a hunted outlaw named Jim, weak from loss of blood, and she nurses him back to health. Jim, in turn, takes her to an old couple in the hills, who then nurse her back to health. The wife decides to try to regain her husband's love, but upon returning home, she finds he has been shot dead by a rival (Lon Chaney) in a saloon brawl. She goes back to Jim, and they find happiness together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-24
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A Night of Thrills
Overview: Hazel and Jack are about to be married. At his death, Hazel's uncle, Howard Wild, has bequeathed to them as a wedding present a deed to the old Wild mansion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-13
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The Sin of Olga Brandt
Overview: Olga Brandt, a stenographer in the office of Stephen Leslie, an attorney, receives a pitifully small salary. In addition she is handicapped by having the sole care of an invalid sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-03
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The Distant Relative
Overview: The distant relative is a scheming woman who installs herself as the guardian of the two orphan girls and then tries to gain possession of their ranch. Cowboy friends of the orphan girls expose the schemer and her accomplice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-14
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Cupid Through Padlocks
Overview: Old Bob Langfall guarded two pretty daughters carefully. When Jim and Charley Bradley met them by accident, old Bob showed them the butt of his gun and bade them adieu. But Jim and Charley had a widowed mother, and old Bob was a widower.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-05
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The Poisoned Flume
Overview: After the death of her husband, Mrs. Kendall found the management of the ranch, with its attendant responsibilities, a source of worry. Her daughter, recently returned from an Eastern boarding school, could not assist her and, although the cowboys in her employ were faithful, the ranch needed an executive head. John Morgan, a neighboring ranchman, had long cast envious eyes upon the widow's increasing herd of cattle, and desired to marry the daughter in order to obtain possession of her ranch. He offers to manage her affairs for her, but the widow distrusts him and refuses his offer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-13
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Richelieu
Overview: Based on a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Originally released in six reels, but later cut to four due to poor reviews. A lost film.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-26
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Three Million Dollars
Overview: Mr. Joseph Close, ranch man, with his wife and daughter, visit the town for supplies. The daughter makes a hit with the storekeeper and it is with difficulty that the ranch man induces his daughter to leave. They return home, and the ranch man finds a letter in his mail box from Wm. Schrider, Attorney-at-Law, informing him that his brother is dead, and has left the sum of three million dollars to his daughter, on condition that she produce an official certificate of her marriage one month from the date of her uncle's death.
Genres: Comedy Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-06
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The Enemy Sex
Overview: A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, their manager asks Dodo to fill in. At the party, she meets four new men. She's smart enough to steer clear of two of them -- corrupt society leader Albert Sasson and powerful newspaper publisher Harrigan Blood. Instead she becomes passionately involved with Judge Massingale. The man who really steals her heart, however, is Garry Lindaberry, who seems to be a hopeless drunk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-25
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The Spirit of the Flag
Overview: Dr. Reid, a young American physician in the Philippines, risks his life in the cause of patriotism, and eventually wins the love of the girl of his choice. With the idea of developing in the natives in his community the spirit of manly citizenship, Dr. Reid requests the War Department to furnish him with a number of discarded Winchesters with which to drill the natives. His request is granted, but he runs afoul with the occupant Spanish army.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-07
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A Life for a Kiss
Overview: Jim Richeson was a haunted man, but he smiled carelessly as he handled the sign offering a reward for his capture, dead or alive. He smiled again as he wheeled his horse and galloped off down the road, waving a satirical adieu to the posse. A pretty mountain girl with pail in hand, stood at the pump when Jim rode up. He took the pail from her, drank deeply, and then, as an afterthought, seized her and kissed her heartily. Then he leisurely mounted his horse and galloped off. Furious at the insult, the girl rushed for a gun, only to meet her lover, just as he rounded the bunkhouse. That person at once flew into a passion and gave hot chase to the vanishing bandit, vowing to have his life. Meanwhile, the girl, at the head of a posse, followed less swiftly. A royal battle took place in the mountains. Dick and Jim, sheltered behind the great rocks, tried every expedient known to the West in an effort to kill each other.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-01
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Geronimo’s Last Raid
Overview: Lieutenant Parker reports for duty to Major Wilkins, commanding Ft. Sill, where Geronimo is a prisoner. Parker quickly wins the love of Pauline, the major's daughter, and the undying hatred of Captain Gray. The captain plans to release Geronimo in the dead of the night, throwing the blame on Parker.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-09
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The Cowboy and the Artist
Overview: Two guys and a girl in the wild west.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-04
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