Anne Schaefer
Also Known As: Ann Schaeffer
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 10, 1870
Age: 154 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 03, 1957
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Main Street
Overview: The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-25
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The Man Unconquerable
Overview: A conservative young man inherits his uncle's pearl fishery concession in the South Pacific. Upon his arrival there, he becomes involved with a woman and a mystery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-02
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The Chorus Girl's Romance
Overview: When, on a prank, shimmy dancer Marcia Meadows visits bookworm Horace Tarbox in his Yale dormitory, Horace falls madly in love and follows her to New York where he and Marcia marry. Denounced by his wealthy father, Horace attempts to support Marcia through his writing, but all his manuscripts are rejected, and he is fired from every job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-06
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The Ordeal
Overview: Sybil marries George Bruce, an alcoholic 20 years her senior, In order to provide for her crippled sister, Helen, and her brother, Geoffrey. Bruce becomes jealous of Sybil's attentions to young physician Robert Acton, and when Bruce suffers a heart attack and calls for digitalis, Sybil allows the vial to break and he dies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-21
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Social Briars
Overview: Iris Lee is reared in the small town of Dalton by her deceased mother's friend, Martha Kane, and when she reaches adulthood, Martha's son Jim falls in love with her. When Iris fails to return his affections, Mrs. Kane treats her so coldly that Iris decides to leave the stuffy little village for the metropolis. On her journey, she accepts a ride with Jack Andrews, but after he attempts to kiss her, she leaps from the car and walks the rest of the way. While singing in the choir of a large metropolitan church, she is discovered by Jack's wealthy father Peter, who recommends her as a soloist. Light opera star Helen Manning, who has helped Iris to cultivate her voice, quarrels with her theatrical manager, and Iris is offered her position.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-13
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A Little Princess
Overview: Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-05
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The Devil Dancer
Overview: An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl he has become fascinated with. THE DEVIL DANCER was highly praised at time of release for its exquisite cinematography, especially in the use of light and shadow. The film received an Academy Award nomination in this category. Sadly, it is among the lost. No prints or negatives are known to survive.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-03
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A Friendly Marriage
Overview: A penniless British Lord sets up an arranged marriage with an American heiress. He soon falls in love with her and is determined to support himself financially so they can have a real marriage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-04
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What Did He Whisper?
Overview: Under an assumed name, Phineas courts a widow and makes love to his own wife. He lands in court with a Breach of Promise suit looming big. He confesses, whispers in his wife's ear, and all is forgiven.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-09
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Through the Wall
Overview: Through the Wall is a silent 1916 film
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-02
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The Mystery of Lake Lethe
Overview: The Mystery of Lake Lethe is a 1917 silent film
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-15
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Three Hours
Overview: Left penniless by her vengeful ex-husband, Madeline is forced to become a pickpocket to pay for a new wardrobe. One of her victims is a Mr. Finlay, who threatens to turn her over to the police -- until he hears Madeline's woeful tale of her cruel, possessive husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-05
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The Solitary Sin
Overview: Bob, John, and Edward--three young boys growing up in the same neighborhood--have vastly-different experiences with sex. Bob's father patiently explains "the birds and the bees" to him, and even takes him to a hospital to see the effects of venereal disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-01
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Wheel of Chance
Overview: A Russian family, the Turkeltaubs, emigrates to the US before the Communist revolution that overthrew the Czar. One of their twin sons, Schulke, disappears and is believed dead before they leave. After they settle into their new country, the family does well: the surviving twin, Nicholai, becomes a crusading District Attorney. One of the cases he is assigned to prosecute is that of small-time gangster Jacob Talinef, who has killed a former girlfriend of Nicholai's. Further investigation of the case, though, reveals a shocking secret.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-17
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With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre
Overview: The story of a controversial white settlement in 1860s Spirit Lake, Iowa. Unbowed by the encroachment, Chief Sitting Bull vows to reclaim the land of his fathers. A long-thought-lost film finally surfaces after being unseen for over eight decades. Created and copyrighted by Sunset Productions in 1925 but not released until June 15, 1927, this silent epic features the superior Native American actor Chief Yowlachie (performing here under the name Chief Yowlache) as Sitting Bull.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-14
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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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Saturday's Children
Overview: Youthful sweethearts, Bobbi and Jim, plan to get married but Bobbi wants them to settle down in their sleepy hometown. Jim has bigger plans and walks out on Bobbie who then resorts to her feminine tricks to win him back.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-10
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Six Feet Four
Overview: A cowboy matches the description of the man who robbed the local hotel--both are 6'4". When a young woman is robbed, suspicion falls on the cowboy again. However, he discovers that the actual culprits are a local gang headed by the sheriff. He sets out to capture the robbers and clear his name.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-13
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Overview: Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-09
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Willie's Sister
Overview: Willie Green, off for college, tearfully kisses Ma and Pa and Sister good-bye. Arrived on the campus, he approaches a grave and reverend senior to ask where the proctor is located. The senior knocks off his hat. Willie replaces it and laughs feebly at the joke. The senior sternly tells him to take it off and be respectful to his betters. Willie obeys, and awe-stricken, repeats his question. The senior points, Willie dodges, gathers up his suitcases and exits cautiously, watching the senior. The proctor places him in a room with a senior, who makes life a burden to him, using him as a valet.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-13
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The Triumph of Right
Overview: A drama in which a man buys a horse in order to get medicine for his wife, but is then arrested because he is riding a stolen horse.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-26
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Johanna Enlists
Overview: A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-14
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A Bit of Blue Ribbon
Overview: A short Western in which a cowboy is rescued from a lynching in the nick of time.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-04
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The Craven
Overview: A short western about a cowardly sheriff who leaves it up to his wife to catch a murderer, and then takes the credit himself.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-18
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How States Are Made
Overview: Twenty or twenty-five years ago, when the unoccupied government lands were released for settlement, everyone who registered their names was given a fair and free chance to secure one of the sections of land, which was apportioned off in sections. The settlers were drawn up in a long line at a certain distance from the lands opened up, some of them on horseback and others in vehicles of all descriptions. At the firing of a cannon, everybody made a rush for the land. Harvey Mattson and his wife Annie, with their child, emigrate form Missouri in a prairie schooner. On their way they hear of the opening up of the Cherokee Strip. They hasten there and Harvey pitches camp, preparatory to entering his name. Their child is taken sick. Harvey goes for the doctor, and during his absence. Bill Slick, a good-looking ruffian, tries to force his attentions upon Annie. She repulses him. Harvey and the doctor arrive, and he "settles" Bill without ceremony. The ruffian, enraged, leaves.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-08
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The Redemption of Red Rube
Overview: A short Western about a bandit who saves the daughter of the sheriff.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-16
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The Better Man
Overview: With a fondness for gambling, Jim Saunders is given to neglecting his wife and child. One night during his absence at the saloon, Miguel Gomez, a Mexican outlaw, for whom $1,000 reward is offered, enters Jim's home and demands food of Mrs. Saunders.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-27
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Prisoners
Overview: Prisoners was released as a part-talking, part-silent feature. An Austrian showgirl working in a cabaret moonlights as a thief. When she is caught in the act, a young lawyer offers to defend her. Unfortunately, he loses the case, causing her to spend several months in jail. Fortunately, the two have fallen in love, and he promises to wait for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-18
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The Heritage of the Desert
Overview: The year is 1876 and Holderness "tyrant of the desert" is trying to force August Naab to sell his property. Naab's feisty daughter, Mescal has been pushed into a loveless marriage, and as she is trying to escape, she is captured by Holderness' men.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-23
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The Cost of High Living
Overview: The Cost of High Living is a 1916 Vitagraph comedy starring William Duncan and Corinne Griffith.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-22
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The Grandmother
Overview: A spoiled rich boy meets and falls in love with an older woman, a dancer who is more amused than flattered by his attentions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-10-10
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The Price of a Good Time
Overview: A poor shopgirl is offered a "good time" for a week by the son of her employer. She accepts, but the offer is misunderstood by her brother, who informs the girl's parents of her "fling."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-04
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Nobody's Kid
Overview: Because of the circumstances of her parents' marriage her grandfather rejects their child, Mary. Following her their deaths she is placed in an orphanage where Mary finds hardship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-17
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Father and Son
Overview: A Chinese man cares for the orphan of a dying woman who stumbles into his laundry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-15
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Anne of the Golden Heart
Overview: Upon the death of his wife, George Blake, an attorney, leaves the east. He first places his pretty young daughter, Lucy, in a convent. After traveling for a few years from place to place, in an endeavor to find some location which he might be happy in, he settles in Lariat Hollow, a mining town. He soon falls in love with a woman of the dance hall named Anne. This incites the jealousy of Larkin, the political boss of the town. To break George Blake, Larkin nominates him for mayor, purposing to have him defeated. Anne suspects the plot and tries to influence Blake to refuse the nomination. But Blake has given his word to enter the contest and goes in to win. Blake's daughter writes to her father that she wishes to remain in the convent and become a nun. The father gives his consent. Now with every eastern tie severed, he asks Anne to marry him. She accepts, but says they will wait until after the election.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-22
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A Fighting Colleen
Overview: Young and spunky Alannah, an Irish immigrant living in a tenement, sells newspapers to support her family. She is soon helping a district attorney secure proof that the unjust town mayor is collecting bribes. For her reward, Alannah and her boyfriend Jimmy are appointed managers of a municipal restaurant.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-22
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The Night Flyer
Overview: Jimmy Bradley, a fireman on the old locomotive No. 99, loves Kate Murphy, daughter of the proprietress of the local lunch counter. His rival, Bat Mullins, is engineer of the new mail train scheduled to make a competition run. When Mullins overturns the new train, Bradley completes the run and earns the contract for his company by delivering the mail in record time on No. 99. A promotion to engineer helps him win Kate.
Genres: Thriller Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-05
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Her Moment
Overview: In their small village, Romanian peasant girl Katinka Veche falls in love with the studious Jan Drakachu. Jan wins a scholarship to an American university eventually becoming a successful engineer. Unbeknownst to him, Katinka, whom he had to leave behind in the village, is sold into slavery by her cruel, dissolute father. Her owner, Victor Dravich, beats her into submission forcing her to become his mistress in his Syrian gambling den. When the house is raided, Dravich takes her on his travels around the world until they finally settle in a small Arizona mining camp. Broken, she sees Jan but is too ashamed to speak to him sending instead for her old tutor Boris. Upon arrival Boris kills Dravich but is shot by the sheriff. Katinka, now free, follows Jan to New York. After further travail the pair are finally reunited.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-01
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Lilies of the Field
Overview: Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-05
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The Weaker Vessel
Overview: Abby Hopkins, the eldest of a small-town newspaper-owner's five daughters, is urged by her family to marry the wealthy, twice-widowed J.B. Hanks. Abby leaves Hank on the night of the wedding and goes to New York, where she supports herself as a waitress and shares an apartment with a co-worker. At the restaurant, Abby meets J. Booth Hunter, a heavy-drinking "ham" actor, and tries to convince him to give up liquor. Hanks shows up one day and during a battle with his estranged wife, Hunter comes to Abby's rescue. Abby finally gets a divorce from Hanks, Hunter conquers his drinking habit, and Abby marries him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-30
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Mrs. Temple's Telegram
Overview: Jack Temple (Washburn) adores his wife, Clara Temple (Hawley) but she is extremely jealous, and accuses him of flirting with a pretty woman in a department store tearoom. After Clara leaves, the woman follows Jack around the store even eventually onto the roof of the building and they are locked in by the night watchman and must remain on the roof all night. Jack realizes his wife will never believe this story, so he invents a yarn about visiting his friend John Brown (White) in a distant town. Clara suspects that story and contacts Brown, while Jack convinces a friend to impersonate Brown and come to his house, but the real Brown shows up too and things become complicated with the arrival of Mrs. Brown (Schaefer), the pretty young woman who caused all the trouble, but, after she introduces herself as one of Clara's cousins, all ends happily.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-09
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Smiling Irish Eyes
Overview: A pretty, young violinist who travels from Ireland to America to seek fame and fortune on Broadway finds a bit more than she expected. A lost film.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-22
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West of the Water Tower
Overview: Young marrieds Guy & Bee are ostracized by their supposed friends in town when Bee discovers she is expecting but the legitimacy of their union is called into question. Eventually the squire who performed their ceremony becomes aware of the scandal and produces the necessary certificate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-06
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