Marie Shotwell
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: March 21, 1880
Age: 145 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: September 18, 1934
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Civilian Clothes
Overview: During the First World War, Captain Sam McGinnis marries Florence Lanham, a Salvation Army worker in France. When she mistakenly hears that Sam has been killed, she returns home to her wealthy family without mentioning her brief marriage. But Sam turns up, alive but poorly dressed, and Florence is happy to see him but appalled at his clothing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-05
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Miss Innocence
Overview: After her lover, Kale Loomis, has had her husband sent to prison on a false charge, Fay Gonard leaves her little daughter, Dolores May, on the steps of a convent. Reared in an atmosphere of strictness and seclusion, Dolores is possessed with a desire to see the world, and after meeting Lawrence Grant, a politician's son, her curiosity is aroused even more and she escapes from the convent. Found on the road by Kale's friends, Dolores lives in his home for a time, but later, Lawrence takes her under his wing with the intention of marrying her. Although she loves Lawrence, Dolores misses Kale's parties and returns to him, whereupon Kale threatens to publicize her activities unless Lawrence's father agrees to his demands. Lawrence takes a repentant Dolores away from one of Kale's riotous parties, but after Kale is found dead, Lawrence is arrested for murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-21
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Shore Leave
Overview: "Bilge" Smith (Richard Barthelmess), a tough sailor, meets Connie Martin (Dorothy Mackaill), a seamstress in a small harbor who has never had a boyfriend. Connie is instantly smitten. She invites Smith to dinner, where he dances with her and gives her a kiss. Connie has a hard time letting him go, and makes him promise that he will come back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-05
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The Witching Hour
Overview: Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, Thorne kills an enemy of Brookfield's while under a trance. No one believes Brookfield's protestations that Thorne is innocent of any murderous intent
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-10
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The Warfare of the Flesh
Overview: Melodrama in which the rich arrogant George gives money to poor Frank and Jane, so he may spend a night with Jane. Jane goes along with it because she need the money to save her sick husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-22
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Enlighten Thy Daughter
Overview: Lillian Stevens was raised without care, attention, or education on the ways of the world. When she becomes pregnant by the reckless Harold Winthrop, her mother takes her to an abortionist. Harold then falls for Ruth Stevens, raised by an attentive and loving mother, who is not so easily taken advantage of.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-28
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The Evil Eye
Overview: This serial, starring boxer Leslie King, is presumed lost.
Genres: Action Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-30
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The Thirteenth Chair
Overview: Mrs. Philip Mason commits suicide after she has an affair with Stephen Lee, a disreputable stockbroker, and sells her husband's securities so that Lee can buy stocks. When Lee goes bankrupt, he blackmails Helen Trent by threatening to reveal silly love letters she wrote to him before she married. Her brother, Willy Grosby, and his fiancée, Helen O'Neil, who lives with the Grosbys, go to retrieve the letters. While Willy waits outside, Lee is knifed to death as he attacks Helen. Lee's friend, Edward Wales, attempts to pin the murder on Helen by having Madame LaFarge, a clairvoyant, conduct a séance. In the darkened room, Wales, through whom Lee's spirit supposedly speaks, is about to name Helen as the murderer, but Wales, who sits in the thirteenth chair, is himself murdered. After Helen confesses to Inspector Donohue that Madame LaFarge is her mother, LaFarge, while conducting another séance, tricks Philip Mason into confessing to the murders.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-23
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The Manicure Girl
Overview: A manicurist in the beauty shop of a large metropolitan hotel, is engaged to Antonio Luca an electrician. However she a meets James Morgan a wealthy guest who wants to go out with her, but she declines so he sends her ten dollars for theater tickets.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-06
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Running Wild
Overview: Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a fifteen-thousand dollar payoff, so his courage can last beyond the hypnosis.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-10
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One Woman to Another
Overview: One Woman to Another (1927)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-17
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Sally of the Sawdust
Overview: Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Professor McGargle before she dies. Years later Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of Judge Foster's friend, falls in love. When Sally is arrested McGargle proves her real parentage.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-01
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Lovers in Quarantine
Overview: Lovers in Quarantine is an extant 1925 silent film comedy starring Bebe Daniels and directed by Frank Tuttle. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. the film is based on a 1924 Broadway play Quarantine by F. Tennyson Jesse. It is preserved at the Library of Congress.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-11
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The Pillory
Overview: A young girl is kept ignorant of her mother by her aunt. After her aunt dies, the girl is used by crooks and arrested. In prison she meets a kindly woman, who is married to a judge. The woman, unbeknownst to the girl, is her mother, and adopts her. The companion of the deceased aunt, in the midst of a ball, denounces the mother and reveals her secret to the judge and guests. The judge will not forgive his wife, so the mother and daughter leave and work among the slums to benefit humanity. Eventually, the judge relents, and seeks his wife for forgiveness, but he is too late.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-08
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Shackles of Gold
Overview: Gibbs is a laborer at the docks who, through his hard work and good judgment, becomes a millionaire on Wall Street. He becomes acquainted with the Van Dusens, who have lost their fortune. Mrs. Van Dusen pushes her daughter Marie into a loveless marriage with Gibbs so that the family can retain its social standing. Gibbs realizes, however, that his money cannot buy his wife's affection.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-30
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Chains of Evidence
Overview: Edith Sturgis, the daughter of a judge, returns from studies abroad to find her widowed father remarried. The new Mrs. Sturgis does not reveal that she has a son Dick, once unjustly jailed by Judge Sturgis, but now working as a reporter while still maintaining an association with the Brownlow gang. Quarrelling with her stepmother, Edith leaves home, meets Dick and falls in love.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-01
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The Master Mind
Overview: The defense attorney who was unable to obtain the acquittal of an innocent young man concocts a complicated and diabolical scheme to revenge himself upon the prosecutor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-12
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The Woman and the Beast
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-17
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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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Her Lord and Master
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-01
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Blackbirds
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-04
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The Harvest Moon
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-25
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The Echo of Youth
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-16
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Married in Name Only
Overview: Robert Worthing marries his sweetheart, Madeline Francis, but the wedding is ruined by his mother, who announces that because she and her parents are insane, he possesses tainted genes. Fearing that he will pass the disease on to his children, the bridegroom avoids his new wife and locks the door between their rooms. Deeply in love with Madeline, whom he is forced to love only as a sister, Robert considers suicide, but all ends well when the young man learns that he was adopted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-01
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The Heart of a Mermaid
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-05
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The Tale of the 'C'
Overview: When young Mary Carpenter and wealthy Peter Cooper, both carrying luggage initialed with a large “C,” check into a seaside hotel they end up with each other’s bags. Mary, an astronomy fan, has several volumes by Prof. Carl Von Munsternberg mixed in her bag which Peter takes note of before also slipping in a bestseller, "The Road to Love," before returning it to the desk and retrieving his own bags. Peter, trying to avoid a widow who pursues him but still meet Mary, disguises himself as Prof. Von Munsternberg so that Mary will take notice of him. Gaining her acquaintance all is going well until the real professor shows up! Becoming convinced Peter is the thief who stole the widow’s jewels a madcap chase begins that ends with Mary and Peter united at last.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-24
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Under Southern Skies
Overview: Lelia Crofton, a Louisiana belle of the 1860s, loves Burleigh Mavor. By chance, she sees one of her father's black stablemen making love to a neighbor's maid, whom she supposed was white. The incident shocks Lelia and leaves a great impression upon her. When she rejects suitor Steve Daubeney, he threatens to expose a damaging secret about her mother, whom she has never met. Remembering the incident with the neighbor's maid, Lelia worries that her mother might be black, and when Daubeney learns of her fears, he leads her to believe that they are well-founded.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-20
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The Taming of Mary
Overview: Comic short reworking of "The Taming of the Shrew".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-20
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God's Witness
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-20
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