Mary Thurman
Also Known As: Mary Christiansen
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mary Thurman (née Christiansen, April 27, 1895 – December 22, 1925) was an American actress of the silent film era. Thurman's film career began with roles in the comedies of Mack Sennett, as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties, and featured appearances in Bombs! (1916) and The Fool (1925). Her greatest success came when she was started working with director Allan Dwan. They collaborated on several critically acclaimed films including The Sin of Martha Queed (1921) and A Broken Doll (1921). In Dwan's still extant 1923 film Zaza, Thurman is the actress Gloria Swanson fights with. She appeared in nearly sixty Hollywood films from 1915 up until her death in 1925, frequently in those made by Pathé Studios. In 1924, while working on the movie Down Upon The Suwanee River in Florida, Thurman came down with a serious case of pneumonia. She suffered from the illness and was hospitalized for nearly a year. She died, the result of pneumonia, in New York City in 1925.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Richfield, Utah, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 27, 1895
Age: 130 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 22, 1925
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A Bride for a Knight
Overview: While having dental work done, Jimmy inhales too much gas and begins believing that he is a detective. He sets out to capture a gang of thieves who robbed Jean's uncle's bank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-15
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The Prince and Betty
Overview: Young American John Maude is forced to find a job when he falls in love with society girl Betty Keith. He accepts a sudden offer to go to Mervo, a tiny island country, where he is hired by Benjamin Scobell to pose as the lost prince of Mervo as an attraction to bolster the Mervo casino as a rival of Monte Carlo. Scobell also wants John to marry his stepdaughter, who turns out to be Betty. When Betty accuses John of being simply a shill for a gambling house, John closes the casino and tries to stage a revolution to make Mervo a republic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-21
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The Necessary Evil
Overview: Ben Lyon and Viola Dana co-star in this heavy society drama
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-17
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Maggie's First False Step
Overview: Maggie's First False Step
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-25
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That Night
Overview: There is harmony in The Café until it is accidentally discovered that lovely Mary has had a fortune left her, whereupon Beery, the proprietor, Trask and Murray, two entertainers, all race to her home with the idea of marrying her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-16
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A Dog Catcher's Love
Overview: The dog catcher of the title is arrow-narrow Slim , and his "love" is pert Peggy. Alas, his rival is handsome bow-wow fancier E.R. Ketchum, whose luck with women borders on the fantastic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-24
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Trouping with Ellen
Overview: Ellen Llewellyn is a chorus girl who is loved by orchestra leader Andy Owens, a genuinely nice guy. When Ellen meets the aristocratic Tony Winterslip, she's impressed by his family tree and vast wealth. When Winterslip's car breaks down during a rainstorm, Ellen gets drenched and contracts pneumonia. It takes much persuasion, but finally Ellen agrees to recuperate at the Winterslip country home.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-05
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In the Heart of a Fool
Overview: Laura Nesbit, daughter of old Dr. Nesbit and belle of the younger social set in the town of Harvey, plans to marry Grant Adams, the editor of the local paper, until she flirts with rising but unethical lawyer Tom VanDorn to arouse her beau's jealousy. A saddened Grant is drawn into an affair with town siren Margaret Muller, with whom he has an illegitimate son. On the rebound, Laura marries VanDorn and Margaret weds attorney Henry Fenn. History repeats itself when Laura's husband becomes infatuated with Margaret, which breaks up both marriages. Meanwhile, Grant has given up his newspaper to become a foreman in the mines. After he is injured in an explosion, Grant is taken to the Nesbit home, where Laura's care restores his health. When Grant's little son is shot and killed during a strike, he becomes so overwrought with grief that he confesses the boy's parentage to Laura, who forgives his past and they begin a new life together.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-01
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The Late Lamented
Overview: Slapstick shenanigans at an overcrowded boarding house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-23
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The Bond Boy
Overview: For the sake of his impoverished mother, Joe Newbolt bonds himself to harsh Isom Chase. Ollie Chase tires of the difficult life her husband has forced on her and plans to elope with Cyrus Morgan, but Joe's sense of honor forces him to intervene. While Joe is trying to persuade Ollie not to proceed with her plans, Chase discovers him with his wife, misunderstands, reaches for his gun, and is accidentally killed. Joe protects Mrs. Chase, though he is accused of murder, tried, convicted, and sentenced to be hanged.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-23
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Leap Year
Overview: A young man, heir to his misogynistic and millionaire uncle, and in love with a nurse, gets in trouble when he gives advice on marriage to his girlfriends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-11
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Double Trouble
Overview: Double Trouble is a 1915 American silent romantic comedy film written and directed by Christy Cabanne and stars Douglas Fairbanks in his third motion picture. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Herbert Quick. A print of the film is held by the Cohen Media Group.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-06
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A Little Girl in a Big City
Overview: Small-town girl Mary Barry wins a beauty contest and goes to New York to meet D. V. Cortelyou, the magazine's publisher. Greatly taken by young girl, Cortelyou arranges for her to live with Dolly Griffith, a woman of questionable reputation who often aids him in his wicked schemes of blackmail and seduction. During a party seemingly in Mary's honor, Cortelyou obtains some apparently compromising evidence with which to blackmail Mrs. Young, the wife of a wealthy broker; Cortelyou then makes rough advances toward Mary, and one of his assistants, Jack McGuire, gives him a good beating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-20
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A Bedroom Blunder
Overview: A henpecked husband and his wife vacation at a seaside resort. While he's enjoying the view of the local bathing beauties, he has to be careful not to let his wife see him enjoying himself.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-07
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Zaza
Overview: Zaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But during one performance, while Zaza is singing on a swing, her rival cuts the rope and she falls. Zaza is badly injured and she makes Dufresne's acquaintance. A romance quickly springs up and he installs her in a villa. Their happiness is marred, however, when his wife appears.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-21
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Sand
Overview: Railroad station agent Dan Kurrie is fired from his job by his rival in love, Joseph Garber. Believed false by the girl he loves, Margaret , Kurrie must prove himself by unmasking a gang of bandits preying on the trains.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-19
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The Green Temptation
Overview: Genelle and Gaspard operate an itinerant Parisian theatre in which the greatest profits are realized by picking the pockets of the audience and robbing their homes while they are watching the show. When the First World War breaks out, Genelle volunteers as a Red Cross nurse and renounces her criminal ways. She travels to America, but re-encounters Gaspard, who is determined to use her new contacts in the upper class to continue their larcenous partnership.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-01
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The Sin of Martha Queed
Overview: Due to a misunderstanding, and the vicious streak of her relative David Boyd, Martha Queed is believed to be involved in an illicit affair with Arnold Barry. Her small-minded father, Marvin, insists they marry but the following morning when David is found murdered Arnold is suspected. As sentencing approaches a series of events materialize to prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-03
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A Scoundrel's Toll
Overview: Slapstick comedy about a poor and unlucky life of a inventor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-17
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The Scoffer
Overview: Dr. Stannard Wayne -- like all "good" men of the times -- is a God-fearing soul. He marries the former mistress of his friend, Dr. Arthur Richards, without knowing her past. Richards, an abortionist, resumes his affair with the woman and runs off with her. But before he leaves, he frames Wayne for one of the illegal operations he has done, and the innocent man is sent to prison for five years. When he gets out, Wayne has become angry and cynical.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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Greater Than Marriage
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-16
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A Broken Doll
Overview: Ranch hand Tommy Dawes has a special bond with little Rosemary, the crippled daughter of his boss Bill Nyall. When Tommy accidentally breaks Rosemary's favorite doll one day, he borrows a $20 gold piece from the foreman's mattress to go to town and buy a new doll. However, on the way there he is ambushed and robbed by an escaped convict
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-12
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The Primal Law
Overview: silent cowboy western starring Dustin Farnum as a rancher whose partner is killed by rustlers. He takes in his partner's young son, and begins to sell his ranch, but the boy finds oil on the land.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-11
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Bombs!
Overview: A World War 1 slapstick comedy from Keystone.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-07
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Wife in Name Only
Overview: Wealthy orphan Philippa L'Estrange loves handsome Norman Arleigh and is confident of marrying him until he discloses that he has only brotherly affection for her. Determined to have revenge, Philippa introduces Arleigh to Madeline Dornham and reveals on their wedding day that Madeline, his bride, is the daughter of the man who killed his mother. In the end it is learned that Madeline is Mrs. Dornham's daughter from a previous marriage, not the daughter of a criminal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-25
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For Another Woman
Overview: Young New York playboy Stephen Winthrop inherits the entire estate of his wealthy Canadian uncle but pays scant attention to it, preferring the "party" life in New York. He is unaware that the family attorney, Frank Garson, has forbidden hunting on the Winthrop lands in Canada, cutting off the livelihoods of the local villagers. Mary Cartier, goddaughter of the village priest, travels to New York to try to get Stephen to change the policy. He returns with her to Canada, sees what's going on, and lifts the ban, then decides to stay in Canada. Mary returns to New York to try to help Garson's abandoned and ill wife and child, but the wife dies, and Mary brings back the small child to Canada. The villagers, mistaking the child for Mary's, are outraged at this "scarlet woman" flaunting her illegitimate child and attempt to drive her out. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-01
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Those Who Judge
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-15
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The Lady from Longacre
Overview: To escape a loathsome marriage to the king of a neighboring principality, Princess Isabel flees her kingdom for England, where she is rescued by Lord Anthony Conway. His friends are distressed by his gay escapades, and they rebel when he encourages them to entertain the princess, assuming her to be an actress whom she strongly resembles. Returning to her country with the Englishman, she realizes that she must marry the neighboring king to save her country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-02
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Love of Women
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-30
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Does It Pay?
Overview: John Weston leaves his wife and kids to marry adventuress Doris Clark and loses his mind when he realizes his mistake. A lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-07
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The Poor Boob
Overview: When he loses both his father’s canning factory and his girl “Tiny” to Stephen Douglas modest Simpson Hightower goes to work in a New York provisions office along with stenographer Hope and office boy Jimmy. To impress the Danish consul who is proposing a large contract Hope and Jimmy persuade Simpson to return to his hometown posing as a successful businessman accompanied by his secretary "Pep" and valet Jimmy. It works! Simpson manages to get the Danish contract, buy his factory back and realize Tiny’s worthlessness while recognizing his love for "Pep."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-09
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