Miriam Nesbitt
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 14, 1873
Age: 151 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 11, 1954
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Who Will Marry Mary?
Overview: Six part adventure serial starring Mary Fuller as the sought after heroine. Episodes: 1) A Proposal From The Duke; 2) A Proposal From The Spanish Don; 3) A Proposal From The Sculptor; 4) A Proposal From Nobody; 5) A Proposal Deferred; 6) A Proposal From Mary
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-26
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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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What Happened to Mary
Overview: The forerunner of all serials, What Happened to Mary was a series of twelve monthly one reel episodes, each a complete entity in itself, revolving its immediate dramatic and melodramatic problems within the framework of a single episode and designed more for story and suspense situations than action.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-25
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The Portrait
Overview: Not "as in a looking glass" but "as in his own portrait" in a dream does Paul Le Grand, the famous artist, see the lines of dissipation come, one by one, after each successive debauch.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-18
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The Last Sentence
Overview: George Crosby, a New York lawyer, with a passion for painting, wearied of his legal duties, sails for Brittany, where he meets Renée Kerouac, a fisher-maiden, and sketches her as a Corregan, a fairy who destroys the men who refuse her love. Hoel Kalloc, her betrothed, becomes jealous, and George marries her, after saving her from Hoel's brutality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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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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Aida
Overview: Aida, daughter of the King of Ethiopia, having fallen a prisoner into the hands of the Egyptians, is given as a slave by their king to his daughter Amneris who, captivated by the grace and beauty of the unknown maid, takes her into favor. Radames, a young captain of the king's guards, loved by Amneris, suspecting a rival in her slave, swears to be avenged. Meanwhile war is again declared between Egypt and Ethiopia and Radames, appointed leader of the army by the High Priest of Isis, is invested with the sacred arms and departs to fight the Ethiopians who, headed by their king, have invaded Egypt. Radames defeats them and returns victorious, followed by the prisoners, among whom is the king himself, disguised as an officer.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-02
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The Portrait in the Attic
Overview: Viola Dana stars as the child of a widower who marries again, much to her dismay. Despite all attempts by the adults, the child refuses to accept her new step-mother
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-01
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Children Who Labor
Overview: The father of a working class family is having trouble finding a job, because the local textile mill is hiring only inexpensive child labor. Reluctantly, he allows his oldest daughter to work in the mill. Meanwhile, in New York, the wealthy businessman Hanscomb is being urged to speak out against child labor, but he declines to do so. Then, while Mrs. Hanscomb and her daughter are traveling, the young girl accidentally wanders away, gets lost, and is taken in by the working class family. To help them, she takes a job in the mill. While this is taking place, Hanscomb has initiated a search for the daughter even as he goes about building up his financial empire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-22
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The Ambassador's Daughter
Overview: The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-21
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The Passer-by
Overview: A random passer-by is invited to a bachelor party of rich men where he tells a tale of loss to those present.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-21
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A Suffragette in Spite of Himself
Overview: A gentleman who's opposed to and mocks women's suffrage goes for a walk and unknowingly becomes an advertisement for it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-30
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The Doctor's Duty
Overview: A socially-minded drama about a doctor who keeps his fiancée waiting at their engagement party, because a sick child needs help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-11
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Monsieur
Overview: Monsieur is a prosperous man in Paris, and is just sending his young daughter to complete her education at one of the nearby convents. From the affection shown between father and daughter it is evident that her mother no longer survives. News reaches him of the disaster which sweeps away his entire fortune and leaves him penniless. He writes to his daughter and tells her of the great change in their affairs, and that America seems the only hope of retrieving his fortunes. In New York, we find that he has taken a very modest little apartment, to which he, months later, brings the daughter, who takes up her share of the work and does the cooking. She receives an invitation from a girl chum to attend a party, where she meets the girl's brother, with whom she falls in love. When he and his sister come to call at the little apartment they are welcomed by Monsieur, but as the old man has an engagement at the club, departs.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-03
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The High Cost of Living
Overview: Forbidden from marrying the man she loves by her wealthy businessman father because he is too poor Mildred Lord determines to find a solution. Attempting to live within the means her fiancée could afford, she finds the cost of food exorbitantly high and begins a campaign to force the prices down including taking on her father’s own company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-04
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Overview: We see Jack and his mother very poor and the project of selling the cow discussed. Jack meets the familiar figure of the butcher who bargains with him for the cow and finally Jack consents to part with the animal for the wonderful beans which will grow up overnight until they reach the sky. He takes them to his mother, and, of course, she is heart-broken and throws the beans out of the window. The next morning the vine not only covers the window, but reaches far above the top of the house out of sight in the clouds, and we see Jack start to climb upward. Upon arriving at the giant's castle Jack meets the ogre's wife, who towers majestically above him, and after some parley is invited in, on his plea of hunger. Before he can be served the giant is heard and Jack is hidden in the kettle. The giant comes on and then follows the familiar scenes in which the ogre calls for his bags of gold, his magic harp and the wonderful hen that lays the golden eggs.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-16
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The Lord and the Peasant
Overview: In a peasant's cot we find a fair, young maiden who is loved by an honest, true-hearted peasant lad, while yonder stands the manor of Glenwood with its noble lord, who chanced to pass by one fair day and there noble eyes met peasant meekness and love found work a-plenty to do. But maiden thought naught of my lord o' the manor, nor so much as gave him cause to hope that all his castles and lands could win her heart from the true peasant lad who had gone forth in the world to win humble living for his bride to be. It was then that Dame Poverty came knocking at the peasant's door and upon her heels crept a fever which held the young sister close within her breast only waiting for death to knock gently at the humble cot. And still no word from the loved one in a foreign land! Had he deserted his fond-hearted lassie? Weeks passed by and still no word nor sign of the one held most dear, and then my lord of Glenwood Keep came suing for her hand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-02
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Lady Clare
Overview: A Lord weds a Lady despite knowledge of her lowly birth.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-17
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The Awakening of John Bond
Overview: A slumlord learns just how important it is to maintain clean living quarters when his wife contracts tuberculosis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-04
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