Marguerite Courtot
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Summit, New Jersey, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: August 20, 1897
Age: 127 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 28, 1986
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Feathertop
Overview: Elsie Green cannot decide which of her two suitors to marry. When she reads Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Feathertop", she dreams that she is its heroine Polly Goodkin, and this leads to her final decision.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-17
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Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers
Overview: Jacqueline Roland, the daughter of a backwoodsman, meets Henri Dubois during a visit to the city, but is unresponsive to his attentions. Henri later takes charge of the lumber camp where Jacqueline lives, and is closely followed by Li Chang, who is blackmailing him to keep secret a murder he committed years earlier. The new boss is determined to win Jacqueline for himself and convinces her lover, Raoul Radon, that she no longer cares for him. When Li Chang kidnaps Jacqueline, Henri comes to claim her and an oil lamp is upset during the ensuing struggle. As the fire spreads into the forest, Jacqueline escapes with Li Ching in pursuit. She and Raoul are reunited, while Henri perishes in the blaze.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-19
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The Swamp Fox
Overview: Long before he was the subject of a Walt Disney TV miniseries, Revolutionary-era guerilla leader Francis Marion, aka the Swamp Fox, was the "star" of this three-reel Kalem costume drama. The first part of the film ends as Marion and his followers capture English general Gates right from under the noses of the "Redcoats." The closing scenes find Marion and company emerging victorious from a battle between the British and the Colonials at the DeMotte farm.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-30
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Shenandoah
Overview: Bronson Howard's Great Civil War Story in Three Reels, Featuring General Philip Sheridan's Ride from Winchester, 20 Miles Away.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-04
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The Fatal Legacy
Overview: On his wedding eve Henry Halleck opens a sealed envelope which has been handed down to each generation, and learns that the family is cursed with a lust for drink. He signs the pledge which bears the signatures of his fathers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-10
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Through the Flames
Overview: Donald Hall discovers that his wife is engaged in a flirtation with Major Humphreys. The husband forbids Marion to see the man again. Despite this injunction, the woman accompanies Humphries to a road house with a party of friends, while Donald is at a directors' meeting. A fire breaks out and destroys the road house. Marion and Humphreys barely escape. Fearing to return home, the woman heeds Humphreys' pleas and elopes with him. Her handbag is found in the ruins of the building. Donald is led to believe his wife dead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-24
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The Show Girl's Glove
Overview: Hampton, a broker, employs a detective to investigate Stella, a show girl, with whom his younger brother Dick is in love. As a result of the detective's discoveries, Dick breaks his engagement with Stella. The woman calls at Dick's office late that afternoon. Hampton leaves the two alone. Unable to alter Dick's decision, Stella seizes a knife and threatens suicide. Dick tries to wrest the weapon from her and is accidentally killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-22
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A Celebrated Case
Overview: Foster sister of the Duchess d'Aubeterre, Madeline, marries Jean Renaud, a French soldier, and has a daughter named Adrienne. Five years later, on a battlefield, Renaud is entrusted by the Count de Moray with jewels and papers proving that Adrienne is his heir. After Moray's death, Renaud gives everything to Madeline and then returns to the battle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-01
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Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler
Overview: Mary Adams, about to visit relatives in a distant part of the country, is entrusted to the care of Manuel Bond. The girl's beauty inflames Bond, a gambler and a scoundrel. That night, when the stagecoach halts, Mary is horrified to discover that Bond has registered for both as man and wife. The gambler turns a deaf ear to the girl's frantic pleas. After locking her in the room, the scoundrel proceeds to the barroom. Mary escapes by means of the window. The girl comes upon a party of settlers. Mary joins the party. Later, the girl meets Kit, a young backwoodsman. It is a case of love at first sight and the two are married the same day.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-01
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The War Correspondent
Overview: Jack Fisher secures a position as reporter on a metropolitan daily and incurs the enmity of Martin, the star reporter, because of friendly relations which he establishes with Myrtle, a young lady in the office. Martin secretly changes the copy which Jack has prepared for an important story and places the young man in such a position that he is discharged. Some time later Jack learns of an opening in Central America. He bids goodbye to Myrtle, who has never lost faith in him, and leaves for his new field. Shortly after his departure war is declared in a Central American republic and Martin is sent to the scene as war correspondent.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-08
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Breaking Into the Big League
Overview: Montjoy Jones, a disgraced baseball player after losing a game due to a dropped flyball, begins to dream of a scenario where he makes the catch, and becomes a hero.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-20
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Man's Greed for Gold
Overview: The old miser, living in a tenement, keeps his savings in an earthen idol. The janitor of the building suspects that the old man has concealed wealth, but is unable to locate if. Finally the miser dies and the janitor disposes of the idol to a dealer in antiques. Carter, a bank clerk, is given to speculation, and in response to his wife's earnest appeal, be promises to give up the precarious practices, which are jeopardizing his position and happiness. However, the young man is weak and breaks his promise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-14
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The Barefoot Boy
Overview: Eleanor Warren is loved by Harold Rives, a struggling artist. Although fond of the young man, Eleanor longs for the comforts of wealth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-01
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The Trail's End
Overview: Through his mirror vocograph The Wolf learns that Marguerite is carrying the codebook with her to a reception at the home of Col. West. The Wolf and his confederate there make a strenuous effort to secure the valued book but they are frustrated by Fred Randall, Marguerite's sweetheart, and all ends well when the soldiers of the fort pursuing. The Wolf engages in a skirmish in which the international crook is killed and his confederate captured.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-11
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The Cabaret Singer
Overview: The Denton's marital happiness brings home to Randall the loneliness of his own existence. Shortly afterwards, the young man meets Pearl Eltinge, a cabaret singer. Ignorant of the fact that her beauty is a mask for a shallow mind, Randall makes her his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-20
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The Lurking Peril
Overview: Directed by Robert Ellis.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-02
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The Undercurrent
Overview: Jack Duncan returns from the war in France to his wife and baby and learns that his job as a draftsman at the Loring Steel Mills has been taken. Given work in the machine shop, Jack becomes the prey of Red agitators who want him because of his popularity with soldiers. The Reds cause Jack's discharge just when his house payments come due, and when they convince him of the injustice of his situation, he joins their ranks. After learning of plans to burn the factory and Loring's home, and start a riot in the town, Jack is won over by a socialist's arguments advocating mild reforms. At a meeting of workingmen, Jack praises Americanism. He warns Loring and, with soldiers at a nearby camp, quells the riot. After a woman agitator kills her comrades and then shoots herself, Jack arrives home to save his wife from an attack by a Red ringleader. Jack is then made a foreman at the mill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-16
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The Ventures of Marguerite
Overview: As heiress to a large fortune, Marguerite is able to satisfy her love for beautiful clothes and a taste for adventure, while confronted by a multitude of schemers and gangsters bent on reducing her to poverty.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-02
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The Chest of Fortune
Overview: Just when we think that this movie will be about a Southern family in Civil War days, the action jumps to modern-day 1914, still in the southern United States. Handsome Jack (Guy Coombs) is in love with the fair lady played by Marguerite Clayton.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-02
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The Unbeliever
Overview: A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1918-02-15
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The Teeth of the Tiger
Overview: Living quietly under the assumed name Paul Sernine, reformed gentleman crook Arsene Lupin is summoned to protect his invalid, wealthy friend Henry Forbes.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-02
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The Vampire
Overview: The story hinges on the redemption of a country boy, an artist, who has fallen among evil companions, and is an outcast.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-15
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Pirate Gold
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Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-15
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The Secret Room
Overview: A scientist tries to transfer the personality of a man into his mentally retarded son.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-22
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Down to the Sea in Ships
Overview: Being the story of the Morgans, a 19th-century Massachusetts whaling family, their tightly-knit Quaker community, and the dangerous adventures of an unwilling stowaway aboard one of the elder Morgan's harvest vessels.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1922-11-21
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Rogues and Romance
Overview: Sylvia Lee, a young American in Spain, is torn between her attraction to dashing revolutionary Pedro Pezet and her American boyfriend, Reginald.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-26
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Crime and Punishment
Overview: Dramatization of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1866 novel transplanted to America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-25
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The Veiled Princess
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Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-19
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Beyond the Rainbow
Overview: Marion Taylor is secretary to Edward Mallory, a wealth Wall Street businessman. She supports her invalid brother Tommy, who has been told by his doctors that he has to go to the mountains for his health. Marion doesn't have the money for that, but Mallory, who has made no secret of his intentions towards her, does. She resigns herself to submitting to his advances in order to get the money in order to keep her brother alive. However, circumstances arise in which she may possibly get the money without having to debase herself with her boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-19
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The Perfect Lover
Overview: Brian Lazar returns to his shabby dwelling after pawning a valuable ring. A woman, accompanied by a detective, accuses him of being a thief, but, before his arrest, Brian pleads for the opportunity to tell his story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-20
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