Blanche Cornwall
Also Known As: Blanche A. Cornwell
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 24, 1868
Age: 157 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 20, 1918
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The Pit and the Pendulum
Overview: Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-09
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The Girl in the Arm-Chair
Overview: Peggy Wilson has recently become an orphan and a ward of the Waston family. She’s also inherited the late Robert Wilson’s vast fortune, which puts her very much in Mr. Waston’s favor. He would like his son, Frank, to marry Peggy, but Peggy “is not his style” and “her money is no inducement”. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-13
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Burstup Homes' Murder Case
Overview: A spoof of Sherlock Holmes. Directed by Alice Guy-Blache for Solax Film Company.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-26
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In the Year 2000
Overview: A remake for the US market of Alice Guy's Les Résultats du féminisme. The film is considered to be lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-17
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Making an American Citizen
Overview: A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-30
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Falling Leaves
Overview: It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a teenage girl named Winifred. Winifred's mother and little sister Trixie are devastated. When Trixie hears the family doctor say of Winifred that "when the last leaf falls, she will have passed away," she interprets the doctor's words literally. Thinking over what she has heard, she determines to do everything possible to save her sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-15
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Starting Something
Overview: A suffragette gets her husband drunk, leading to an escalating parade of mishaps as more people get drunk on their "lime juice."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-05
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Two Little Rangers
Overview: "Wild Bill" Gray is a renegade and a wife-beater. He is about to start on some expedition of crime and his wife implores him to stay at home. She receives a beating for her trouble. Jim, a cowboy, rides past the shack, hears Mrs. Gray's screams and interferes, and takes Mrs. Gray over to his friend, the postmaster, so that she may have a good home. "Wild Bill" plans vengeance. Paxton, the postmaster, starts for the station with money and gold, and is accompanied a short way by Jim. Gray sneaks after them. After going with Paxton a short distance, Jim takes a turn in the road and Paxton rides on alone. Gray closes up on the postmaster, gets the drop on him, but Paxton is quick and there's a hand-to-hand struggle. Bill, however, worsts Paxton, and finally sends him over a precipice. But in falling, Paxton falls into a tree and thus is saved from sure death.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-07
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Canned Harmony
Overview: The Professor will not allow his daughter to marry a non-musician, but Billy, her would-be suitor, cannot play a single note. When he is about to give up, Billy’s roommate suggests bluffing his way into the Professor’s favor with the aid of a suitably musical disguise and a well-hidden phonograph player.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-09
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The Detective's Dog
Overview: When Kitty's family adopts a homeless dog they couldn't guess how much it would be of help in her fathers detective work.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-16
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His Double
Overview: A father who is determined his daughter should marry a count leading the boyfriend to dress up as the count to thwart his plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-28
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God Disposes
Overview: A young man of high social position sacrifices his home and family for a girl of the stage. Cast off by his family, the young man finds that he is not qualified to earn his living. In the meanwhile his wife grows ill, a child is born, and several years after, the man finds himself in narrow straits. He prepares to go out and burglarize a place. His child enters when he leaves his revolver on the table. The child plays with it as with a toy and then innocently removes the bullets. The father comes back and takes the revolver and goes out. Accidentally, the son breaks into his own father's office. The father happens to be working late that night. The son breaks in, tries to shoot his own father. By the intervention of God, the son is saved from a patricide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-23
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Fra Diavolo
Overview: Based on the opéra comique of the same name, the film follows the exploits of Italian brigand Fra Diavolo.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-01
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The Coming of Sunbeam
Overview: Proud old Major Neal disowns his only child, a beautiful girl, because he considers her marriage a misalliance. Years pass. The old major becomes a recluse feared by all. One morning, a hamper is found beneath the Major's covered driveway.The hamper contains a baby girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-22
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Mixed Pets
Overview: Mixed Pets is an early Alice Guy Blaché comedy about misunderstandings that arise when a new husband refuses to buy his new wife a dog and the couples’ domestic help conceal the fact they are married with a baby. Puppies and babies become mixed up in cabinets as everyone tries to hide their adored ‘pets.’ The film is enormously funny and shows a poignant understanding of people’s joys and foibles as well as a perceptive grasp of relationships, a Guy Blaché trademark.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1911-02-17
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A Terrible Lesson
Overview: The story involves a man who goes to a gambling den regardless of the protestations of his wife. He is extremely lucky and his luck attracts attention. Strangers become friendly with him and he being a "good feller," "sets up" the crowd. After the night's playing, he is advised by the owner of the den that it would be hazardous for him to attempt going home alone with so much cash on his person. Chance decides to remain over night. He is shown to a room. During the night, he not only finds that he has been trapped, but an attempt is made on his life. (Moving Picture World)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-16
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Parson Sue
Overview: A parson arrives in the midst of a bunch of wild cowboys. Expecting a male parson, the boys set out in full force to receive him, but on the road when they suddenly run into the one-horse shay of a female parson, they keel over in surprise. Right after her arrival the boys begin to lay plans to get in right, while the parson loses no time in starting a campaign for the defeat of Satan. She begins by posting a sign near the town horse trough to the effect that "Cleanliness is next to Godliness." Of course the boys see the sign and immediately there is a sudden disposition among them to make use of soap, water and brush. One cowboy in particular is very much in love with the parson. He shows his affection only too plainly, and so the boys decide to play a trick on him. Their practical joke unintentionally is not only the means of frustrating a plot against the parson, but it brings the parson and her lover together.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-17
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A Comedy of Errors
Overview: A man mistakes a woman's blown kisses as being directed at him. When he comes over to call on her, she attempts to shoo him away, but must hide him when her husband comes home unexpectedly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-20
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A Man's a Man
Overview: A Jewish man is treated poorly by a member of the upper-class. When tragedy strikes, the Jewish man has an opportunity for revenge, but he turns the other cheek.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-19
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The Strike
Overview: At a large factory, the workers decide to strike. Although the leader of the workers believes his boss is treating them unfairly, the strike movement spirals out of control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-16
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The Thief
Overview: Three wartime friends, two wealthy, and one poor, reunite at an upscale dinner party. Things take a turn when the poor man is accused of stealing something.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-14
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Playing Trumps
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-30
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Phantom Paradise
Overview: The melodrama where there's a mad inventor with a pretty daughter and where the rich hero buys the worthless invention, telling the girl and her father that it has proved good.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-28
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Dublin Dan
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-01
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Kelly from the Emerald Isle
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-03
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The Coat That Came Back
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-30
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As Ye Sow
Overview: Jeanette, the pretty daughter of a hard-working family of the tenement district, envies other girls with good clothing. She meets the flashy Carrie who invites her out lending her some of her gaudy evening wear. Though tempted by the easy life offered Jeanette sees the peril of that life when a kindly fallen woman warns her of the dangers ahead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-25
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True Hearts
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-04
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The Face at the Window
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-06
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Grandmother's Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-10
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The Violin Maker of Nuremberg
Overview: Two apprentice violin makers are in love with the same girl, who happens to be the daughter of their mentor. A violin competition is scheduled, with the winner being the one who will marry the girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-22
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A Solax Celebration
Overview: The good people of the Solax community realize that they have cause to make merry before the New Year because the Almighty has guided their breadwinning footsteps toward the Solax Studio's happy atmosphere, bank together like the big happy family they are, to give expression to their happiness in the form of a gift to the immediate cause of their good fortune and sunshine.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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Mignon
Overview: Noble born Mignon is stolen by a band of gypsies as a child. Her mother dies from grief and her father, unhinged by the double blow, gives up his ancestral home for the roaming life of a minstrel wandering from place to place in search of his child. Ill-treated by the gypsies in time she is rescued by traveling student Guglielno, with whom she falls in love. But he is enamored by the seductive actress Filina. Events come to a climax at a castle where all the participants meet, and drastic actions lead to near fatal consequences until all is resolved happily.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-02
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Mrs. Cranston's Jewels
Overview: The husband of Mrs, Cranston is in tight quarters. He is caught both "short" in funds and in stock. In order that he may be able to cover up his margins, he decides to rob his wife's jewels. He plans to do so, but his wife anticipates him and steals the jewels herself, she having reason to believe that he would attempt the crime in a moment of weakness. The husband, when he finds that his wife's jewels are missing, raises a "hue and cry," and the police take up the case. After considerable investigation, the crime is traced to Mrs. Cranston.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-09
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Lend Me Your Wife
Overview: The inimitable Billy Quirk needs a wife in order to inherit his vociferous western uncle's fortune. Billy borrows his friend's wife. After a volcanic and side-splitting series of incidents, the breezy western uncle blows into town tagging with him a pretty stenographer. Well, you leave it to Billy. He gets rid of his borrowed wife in a hurry. And the uncle, what's the use! The story is as funny as a wooden leg would be on the Statue of Liberty.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-11
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Hubby Does the Washing
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-21
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Blighted Lives
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-01
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Sealed Lips
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-06
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Child of the Tenements
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-22
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The Reformation of Mary
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-01
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The Wooing of Alice
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-08
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Souls in the Shadow
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-11
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The Glory of Light
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-22
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Indian Summer
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-21
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The Call of the Rose
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-28
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Father and the Boys
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-03
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Between Two Fires
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-05
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Treasures on the Wing
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-11
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The Love of the Flag
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-25
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The Fugitive
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-27
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The Idol Worshipper
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-25
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At the Phone
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-01
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The Prodigal Wife
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-13
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The Raffle
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-04
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Hearts Unknown
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-18
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The Woman Behind the Man
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-27
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Canine Rivals
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-03
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A Million Dollars
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-08
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Mother and Daughter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-15
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The Roads That Lead Home
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-24
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The Scheming Woman
Overview: Young millionaire Turner Brooks is engaged to marry the poor but sweet Dora Carton however the maliciously rapacious Emma DeWolf wants to snag him for his money. Both before and after their marriage Emma tries every means to poison his mind against Dora but ultimately fails.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-31
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Burstup Homes
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-19
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Till the Day Breaks
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-21
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The Lady Doctor
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-09
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The Mystery of the Lost Cat
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-16
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The Past Forgiven
Overview: Until her rescue by a Salvation lass Margaret Reeves is trapped in white slavery. Upon her escape she is sent to a ranch where she falls in love and marries a cowboy, keeping her past secret. The man who once owned her appears and her husband learns the truth. He sends her from the house, but a young Indian mother engineers their reconciliation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-09
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The Henpecked Burglar
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-28
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The Hopes of Belinda
Overview: On a trip to a small village Mr. Jones overhears two separate men showing a picture of his wife and talking about going to see her when they go to the city. He jealously follows them to the depot and then to his house. Once there he ties them up and waits for his wife’s return. Just when everything looks to take a murderous turn in walks their maid, Belinda. Belinda admits it was she who sent pictures of her mistress fearing she herself was too plain to catch a man’s attention. Mr. & Mrs. Jones see the ludicrous side and all is forgiven.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-04
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Cooking for Trouble
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-16
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The Intruder
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-18
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