Chester Barnett
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Piedmont, Missouri, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 29, 1884
Age: 141 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 22, 1947
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The Eye of a God
Overview: A costly gem is stolen from a Hindoo idol and brought to America. Introducing numerous startling incidents, including an auto wreck and a leap for life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-03
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The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
Overview: Giles Bateson gets expelled from college for misconduct. His angry father, the Earl, sends him a message: "Never let me see you again until you have earned a half crown and proven yourself worthy of confidence."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-09
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A Wild Goose Chase
Overview: Margaret Sherwood's fiancé has disappeared in the Arctic and she hasn't heard from him in two years. Yet she does not believe he died. Price Latham, in love with Margaret, offers to organize a new expedition to prove otherwise. In return, she promises to marry Latham, come what may.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-02
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Lost in the Night
Overview: Pearl White as a sleepwalking jewel thief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-06
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The Ring
Overview: Though Mr. and Mrs. Gray are supposed to be in comfortable circumstances, the husband has met business reverses and has been declared a bankrupt. It is after the wife has just completed a lavish social that he tells her. Disgruntled, she goes with him to live at a cheap apartment house. Pearl White starred in the Crystal FILMS short THE RING in 1914, just months before starting work at the Pathe studio on her break-out hit serial THE PERILS OF PAULINE.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-11
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The Hall-Room Girls
Overview: Pearl White & Chester Barnett want to go on a date and have nothing to wear, so they borrow some clothes....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-19
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La Vie de Bohème
Overview: Mimi, an orphan, is taken in by a drunken innkeeper and becomes a domestic. She meets Rudolphe, scion of a well-to-do family, who rescues her from the unwanted advances of a drunken hotel guest. They fall madly in love, but Rudolphe's uncle, M. Durandin, wants Rudolphe to marry a family friend, Madame de Rouvre, and writes Mimi a letter, telling her that she is ruining Rudolphe's life. Musette and Marcel, friends of Mimi, also try to break up the romance by introducing Mimi to other men, and Rudolphe becomes jealous and leaves her. Brokenhearted, Mimi declines in health and eventually throws herself into the river but is rescued and taken to the hospital. Realizing it is only a matter of time before she dies, she drags herself back to the room where she and Rudolphe were happiest. Rudolphe is there and she dies knowing that he loves her.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-18
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A Night in Town
Overview: A maid and butler take advantage of their employers' absence and have a party.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-02
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How Men Propose
Overview: Three men in succession propose marriage to Grace Darling; she accepts all! Since they are roommates, the three discover their problem in short order; when they return for an explanation, they're in for a surprise.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-19
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The Law of Compensation
Overview: A 1917 film directed by Joseph A. Golden & Julius Steger
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-01
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Will Power
Overview: Pearl's father disapproves of her sweetheart, Chester, and tries to use a mind-over-matter technique to keep him away. However, Pearl discovers the secret behind Chester's strange behavior and, with her own willpower, turns the tables, ultimately leading to a change of heart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-22
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Woman
Overview: A series of stories reflecting the changing position of women in the world, including the familiar tales of Adam and Eve, Messalina and Claudius, Abelard and Heloise, Cyrene and the Fisherman, as well as that of a young girl and an officer in the American Civil War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-27
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A Girl's Folly
Overview: A restless young girl yearns to leave her rural environment and "get away from it all". One day she stumbles upon a film crew shooting a western near her home. She makes friends with the film's leading man, who encourages her to try her luck as an actress. So she leaves her small town and goes to the big city to break into the picture business. However, things don't turn out quite the way she planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-26
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Together
Overview: According to Richard Standhope's will, both his daughter Laura and her long-lost twin brother Larry must be reunited by a certain date, or the estate will revert to her avaricious guardian, Andrew Brean. Following Standhope's death, Laura and her sweetheart, Jim Watson, read in her deceased mother's diary that Andrew had broken up the Standhopes' marriage soon after the twins' birth by unjustly accusing Mrs. Standhope of infidelity. Laura was then sent to boarding school, while little Larry, placed in his father's care, was neglected and later became a thief. As Laura and Jim ponder Larry's whereabouts, the house is robbed by none other than Larry, now called "the Kid," and his cohort, "the Snail."
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-14
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The Great Adventure
Overview: Ragna "Rags" Jansen has found local success and acclaim in her small town as an actress, but dreams of stardom on Broadway.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-10
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What Happened to Jones
Overview: Jones is a traveling salesman -- or drummer, as they were known in those days -- who peddles Bibles and playing cards at a discount. Along with Professor Goodly, he goes to a prize fight which is raided by the police. The two men wind up at a boarding school for young ladies where Jones is mistaken for the Bishop of Timbuctoo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-22
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Trilby
Overview: The hypnotic Svengali controls the singing voice of a young starlet, but he cannot control her heart. This 1915 Maurice Tourneur film is a version of the famous du Maurier novel. It was later done in a more famous 1931 film named Svengali with John Barrymore. The later film obviously changed the title due to the huge presence of its star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-19
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Pearl As A Clairvoyant
Overview: Released as a split reel along with the comedy Almost a Winner (1913)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-06
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The Inevitable
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-05
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The Submarine Eye
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-27
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Man of the Hour
Overview: Ruined by Charles Wainwright, George Garrison commits suicide but begs his son Henry to avenge him before expiring. Henry goes West makes a fortune, then returns to New York. Assuming the name of Henry Thompson he becomes Wainwright's protégé and through his machinations is elected mayor of New York. For his support Wainwright wants a franchise binding the city to the financier's railway, but Henry refuses. Attempting to frame Henry on an old murder charge fails when the “victim,” Henry's partner Joe Standing shows up. Finally, Henry confronts Wainwright exposing his evil deeds. Wainwright’s daughter, Dallas, proclaims her love for Henry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-12
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Son
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-20
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The Little Dutch Girl
Overview: The old gardener, attracted by the ducks' antics, goes to the lake to find a basket with a baby in it. He becomes her guardian but passes away when she is fourteen, leaving her the house and garden. Beloved by the woodsman Jean, one day Lionel, a famous painter, approaches her to be his model, and she accepts. Eventually she finds herself torn between the two men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-23
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The Little Miss Brown
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-07
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The Pit
Overview: Novice businessman Curtis Jadwin is introduced to the world of grain speculation by veteran broker Charles Cressler. At a performance of Faust, Curtis meets and falls in love with Laura Dearborn, the sweetheart of artist Sheldon Corthell. Curtis pursues Laura and finally convinces her to marry him, but soon after their wedding, he neglects her for his business. In her loneliness, Laura renews her relationship with Sheldon and the lovers plan to elope. When Curtis is ruined on the market, however, Laura rejects her lover and comforts her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-28
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The Challenge Accepted
Overview: In the Blue Ridge Mountains Postmaster's daughter Sally Haston loves Steve Carey, but wants him to enlist and fight the Germans during the Great War. Steve is unhappy at the training camp Steve argues with his roughneck tentmate Billy Murphy. When Steve deserts to visit Sally she takes him back to the camp, where Captain Roderick Brooke sympathetically explains the purpose of the war. Later, moonshiner James Grogan holes up with a gun to escape the draft and holds Sally prisoner. Her father organizes a posse, but Steve, home on leave, rescues her and announces that he is leaving for Europe to fight for democracy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-29
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Over the Hill
Overview: The spread of yellow journalism in a small town almost destroys the lives of several people and threatens the livelihood of the hamlet itself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-30
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Break the News to Mother
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-08
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