Cora Williams
Also Known As: Cora Hubon Jackson, The Girl with the Dimples, Flapper Grandma
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 06, 1870
Age: 154 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 01, 1927
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Making a Convert
Overview: A short public service film warning people in New Jersey to stay out of the way of oncoming streetcars. The message is framed in a cute romantic comedy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-15
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The Great Mail Robbery
Overview: Veteran serial director George B. Seitz keeps things perpetually on the move in The Great Mail Robbery. Theodore von Eltz stars as Marine lieutenant Donald Macready, assigned by his commanding officer to squelch a train-robbery gang. Going undercover, Macready infiltrates the gang and monitors their every move.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-19
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The Man Who Disappeared
Overview: Film serial directed by Charles Brabin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-07
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Womanhandled
Overview: Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to his uncle's ranch in Wind River, Texas. But the gold-diggers and their relatives follow him.
Genres: Western Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-27
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The Witness for the Defense
Overview: Stella Derrick and Dick Hazelwood love each other, but their families want them to make better financial matches.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-14
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His Parisian Wife
Overview: A beautiful young French girl falls in love with a handsome New Englander, but when they marry and return to his family home, she finds that she does not fit in at all.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-19
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Eyes of the Soul
Overview: Gloria Swann becomes a dancer at the Palm Garden cabaret, trying to secure a better future and accepts Judge Malvin's offer of marriage despite the disparity of their ages and social stations. One day while Gloria and the judge are driving in the park, their car nearly runs over Larry Gibson, a soldier blinded in World War I. A remark by Gloria's friend, Teddy Safford, has aroused her maternal feelings, and the sight of the lonely soldier makes her even more sympathetic. Gloria takes Larry home and visits him daily. Larry plays banjo and writes songs about soldier life to cheer suffering servicemen.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-20
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The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan
Overview: An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011 in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-31
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Sensation Seekers
Overview: The prohibition is in full swing and Egypt Hagen, a new woman, is the constant subject of controversy in her religious small town. After a scandalous night of partying leaves her publicly shamed, she finds unlikely companionship in the town's new reverend. As their bond intensifies under the watchful eye of concerned townsfolk, her sullied reputation threatens his standing as a respected clergyman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-21
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The Old Guard
Overview: A veteran of the Napoleanic Wars recounts his memories and grants his blessings upon the marriage of his granddaughter and a young soldier.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-17
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Jack's Joke
Overview: A comic sketch that features two players who think each one is deaf, causing them to shout. Part of the Edison Kinetophone Collection. The Kinetophone was a fairly complex mechanical means of creating talking pictures. Unlike previous systems, in which actors would be required to lip sync to preexisting recordings on camera, the Kinetophone was one of the earliest film technologies to record sound at the same time as the image.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-07
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The Adorable Deceiver
Overview: Princess Sylvia is forced to flee her home country with her father King Nicholas to New York City, where they make their way as well-meaning con artists.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-24
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