Gertrude McCoy
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Biography: From Wikipedia Gertrude McCoy (June 30, 1890 – July 17, 1967) was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 131 films between 1911 and 1926. She was born in Sugar Valley, Georgia and died in Atlanta, Georgia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sugar Valley, Georgia, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 30, 1890
Age: 134 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: July 17, 1967
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Heartstrings
Overview: A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-01
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The Title Cure
Overview: Mr. Clayworth, a wealthy American and self-made man, has a daughter Bessie, who is determined to marry a foreign title much against her father's wishes. She has an American suitor, William Brooks, who is deeply in love with her but he is given little encouragement. Mr. Clayworth plans to discourage his daughter with nobility and accordingly goes to an employment agency where he engages three foreign menials to impersonate noblemen, supplying them with evening clothes and arranging to have them call at his house that evening. Bessie is overjoyed when she learns from father that three noblemen are to honor them with their presence. Father incidentally suggests that if the noblemen do not come up to her expectations to patch up her little quarrel with Billy and say no more about marrying a title. The fun begins when the three bogus noblemen present themselves at Clayworth's house as Duke Macaroni, Lord Brien Berue and Baron Hasenpfeffer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-15
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His Mother's Hope
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-07
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Caste
Overview: Eccles, a profligate old drunkard, is the father of two beautiful girls, Esther and Polly. George D'Alroy, a young officer in the British Army who is infatuated with Esther, brings his friend, Captain Hawtree, to call. The captain is greatly taken with the lively Polly, who makes him carry the teakettle about and generally dance attendance on her to the emphatic disgust of Sam Garridge, an ardent suitor for Polly's hand. Meanwhile Esther shows George a letter from an impresario offering her an engagement on the stage. The offer seems a veritable godsend to the girl, but she changes her mind when George asks her to be his wife instead. A few months after they are married, George receives the unpleasant news that he must sail for India with his regiment. Owing to her ultra-aristocratic ideas, George has not dared to tell his mother, the Marchioness D'Alroy, that he has married a girl of common origin, and he is in a quandary as to what provision he should make for Esther.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-12
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A Royal Divorce
Overview: Emperor Napoleon divorces his wife to marry an Austrian Queen and have an heir.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Through Turbulent Waters
Overview: The west is the stamping ground for Paul Temple and his thespian associates. He is talking with his sweetheart, Jane Dinsmore, as Alice Robinson, Jane's intimate friend, enters with a letter from an erstwhile associate, advising her to go to New York and accept a place in the chorus. A word from Temple, and Alice has made up her mind. She leaves for New York. Temple and Jane have been married some time and are living unhappily, apart from the old folks. The former's reputation as a heavy actor is wide, but drink has degraded him. Subsequently, Jane dies, due to Temple's abuse of her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-25
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The Brass Bowl
Overview: Resemblance of a society man to a notorious crook forms the basis of this dramatic, thrilling romance. the crook is after the other's jewels and a young girl is searching for an important paper. All three are involved in a Tango which reaches a sensational climax in the death of the other crook.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-27
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The Silent Witness
Overview: Janet Rigsby loves Richard Morgan, a Denver college student, but loses him when he is caught in a fire. Shortly after Richard's presumed demise, Janet leaves her home and bears a son out of wedlock. Over the years, she struggles to make ends meet while raising Bud, her son, on her own. Although her savings are small, Janet manages to send Bud to college. Chastised for his poverty and illegitimate birth, Bud, who is in love with the college gardener's daughter, suffers the ridicule of his peers and eventually comes to blows with and threatens one particular boy for insulting his mother. In the ensuing confrontation, the boy is killed and Bud is arrested for the crime. During the course of the trial, Bud discovers that the district attorney is Richard Morgan, his father. The testimony of one expert witness reveals how the murder in truth was committed, and a liberated Bud happily reunites with his mother and new-found father.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-01
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The Danger Mark
Overview: Scott Seagrave and his sister Geraldine are left the family estate when their wealthy alcoholic father dies. Unfortunately, they've also inherited his problems with alcohol, so they stay at the estate in seclusion. When Geraldine reaches "coming-out" age, Scott throws her a coming-out party. However, one of the men after her hand in marriage, Jack Dysart, tricks her into taking a drink, and she winds up embarrassing and humiliating herself in front of an old family friend, Duane Mallett, whose daughter Sylvia is in love with Jack, even though he's treated her shabbily.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-07
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Verborgene Gluten
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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The Temptation of Carlton Earle
Overview: A doctor poisons his dying friend and is framed by his valet for poisoning his wife's first husband.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-01
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Nelson
Overview: Recounts some highlights in the career of Admiral Nelson, including his battles with the French fleet under Napoleon, and his dalliances with Lady Hamilton.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-12
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The Usurer's Grip
Overview: Here with the Edison Company -- most notably Charles Ogle as the usurer -- we see a 'typical' case of the victims of usury. Although offered as a 'realistic' view of the effects of usury, it veers frequently into melodrama.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-04
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His Daughter Pays
Overview: To pay off his extensive debts, Armand La Tour agrees to sell government secrets to a gang of spies, but when he fails to produce any information, Ben Hassan, the ring leader, kidnaps Louise, La Tour's eldest daughter, and forces her to perform Turkish dances in his cabaret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-23
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The Blue Bird
Overview: Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-31
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Hope - A Red Cross Seal Story
Overview: An elderly bank clerk declines to donate money to a tuberculosis fund, but soon his daughter comes down with the disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-16
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A Serenade by Proxy
Overview: A farmer’s daughter helps a farmhand win the heart of a cook by convincing him to serenade her, with unexpected results.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-29
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Always Tell Your Wife
Overview: A comedic short filmed directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock about an affair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-10
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His Daughter
Overview: William Thompson slips away to New York, leaving his wife and daughter to shift for themselves. He obtains a station and finally becomes head waiter in one of the gay restaurants of the Great White Way. As years slip by his daughter becomes star-struck. Harry Valentine, the manager, notices her pretty face and tries to take her from town with him, although he has no position in the company to offer her. This she declines, but when he later writes her that he will marry her if she will come to New York and will also place her on the stage, she decides to leave her mother and accept the offer. Of course, Valentine has no intention of marrying her and when he meets her in New York he takes her for a little supper at the restaurant before the supposititious wedding ceremony and thus Thompson is brought face to face with his daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-13
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Revenge Is Sweet
Overview: A short comedy in which the newest employee is teased by the office girls, but he retaliates by putting black polish in a powder-box. Ultimately the girls use the resulting black powder on the young employee himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-16
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A Soldier's Duty
Overview: Lieutenant John Miller, U.S.A., receives a note from his southern sweetheart chiding him for not getting through the enemy's lines to visit her. His pride determines him, and going to his general he asks leave of absence. The general tells Miller that leave of absence will be given him on condition that he purposely gets captured in his fiancée's home with a decoy dispatch on him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-18
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Nets of Destiny
Overview: A son tries to overturn the disgrace of his father, who committed suicide.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-01
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The Diamond Man
Overview: Orphan, Audrey Bedford takes the blame for her half- sister's gem theft and later exposes her employer as her crooked husband.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-30
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Miriam Rozella
Overview: A silent drama film directed by Sidney Morgan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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Christie Johnstone
Overview: A bored Lord saves a fishergirl's lover from drowning
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-01
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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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Marcco, der Bezwinger des Todes
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-08-21
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The President’s Special
Overview: John Farley and his wife were in very comfortable circumstances. They owned their own little farm and, as a result, were able to live very nicely on John's income as a railroad switchman, and to put money in the bank as well. The one great drawback to the farm, was the fact that it was so far from the tower in which John worked.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-07
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The Stenographer
Overview: Gertrude Sawyer supports herself and an invalid sister on her wages as stenographer of a large corporation, but her income does not allow her to fulfill her longing to have her sister seek the remedy of the seaside, or to furnish what conduces to quick recovery. Gertrude's employer, Charles Hardin, has a business rival, Joe Elbert, whom he is anxious to crush. Eager to obtain inside information, Hardin so contrives matters that Gertrude quits his employ and secures a similar position with Elbert
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-12
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What Could She Do?
Overview: The death of her father brought Sylvia Fairfax face to face with conditions which she was unequipped to handle, and, after an unsuccessful attempt to fill the position of governess in the Windermere home, caused her to go to New York. (Note: Only 2 of 3 reels exist)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-20
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How They Outwitted Father
Overview: Should she marry for love or for money?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-05
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A Letter to Uncle Sam
Overview: Uncle Sam is mistaken for Marion's uncle Sam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-05
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Tell Your Children
Overview: A Lady stops her daughter from eloping with a farmer, takes away her baby, and makes her marry a Lord.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-01
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Men
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-15
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