Arthur Ashley
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: October 06, 1886
Deathday: December 28, 1970
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Rasputin, the Black Monk
Overview: The story of the rise and fall of Rasputin, the so-called "mad monk" who dominated the court of the Russian czar in the period prior to the Russian revolution.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-05
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The Gilded Cage
Overview: In The Gilded Cage, Alice Brady plays Princess Honore, who falls in love with a handsome prince who doesn't know her true identity (nor does she know his).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-09
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The Bondage of Fear
Overview: Vesta Wheatley is the daughter of a Virginia physician; John Randolph is a New Yorker who buys a tract of land from her father. Vesta and John fall in love, get married, and move to New York. They are followed, however, by a persistent old flame of Vesta's, Dick Mortimer. He tracks her down to a mountain cabin, where she is alone. A burglar breaks in on the two, and Dick is killed trying to protect Vesta. The burglar blackmails Vesta until she finally becomes desperate and shoots him in her own home.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-23
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Heartbroken Shep
Overview: Brought into contact with each other, Runa and Shep, a dog, become great chums. Their companionship is looked upon with evident interest and amusement by Runa's parents, who do not seem to be very greatly concerned for their daughter's childish affairs, leaving that entirely to her nurse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-09
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Marrying Sue
Overview: Sue's father has chosen Percy; Sue's mother has chosen Patterson, while Sue has chosen Jack. Mother and father decide that they can never be reconciled while each champions a candidate for their daughter's hand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-06
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Children of the Feud
Overview: Jabez Morton goes to a nearby field to drive some cows to an upper pasture. He pulls down part of Carson Belfield's pasture fence so as to drive the cows through. Belfield, who is sitting on a stump smoking his pipe watching his two children, Walton and Hulda, rises angrily and, rifle in hand, goes toward Jabez.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-14
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The Men She Married
Overview: Tricked into marriage with a villain, the woman, believing him dead, marries another, only to have the first husband reappear and cause her much worry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-27
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The Social Leper
Overview: A clairvoyant warns divorcée Adrienne Van Couver to beware of Robert Warren, whom she has spurned. The warning comes true after Adrienne's ex-husband, John Dean, meets Warren, an old friend, and tells him the story of his marriage to Adrienne. He tells how her frivolity and malice caused both the death of their only child, and after their divorce John’s romance with Lorraine Barkley who left him for lawyer Henry Armstrong. Enraged by Adrienne's treachery, Warren goes to her apartment and kills her. Dean arrives after Warren has fled and is arrested for the murder. Believing that Dean is innocent, Lorraine persuades Armstrong to defend him. After a last-minute confession by John is cleared.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-19
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The Revolt
Overview: Silent film drama...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-01
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An Officer and a Gentleman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-14
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The Vavasour Ball
Overview: The dramatist’s wife pawns her necklace when her husband tells her he cannot afford to buy her a new gown for the Vavasour Ball. The pawnbroker's daughter borrows the necklace from his safe so that she may wear it to another ball. Trouble ensues for all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-20
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Miss Petticoats
Overview: Miss Petticoats stops a runaway horse, saves a wealthy woman from death, is rewarded with position as a private secretary. Society shuns her. She goes abroad; then see how she becomes the acknowledged daughter of a French Count and falls heir to a title.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-31
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A Woman Alone
Overview: Alice Brady plays a farm girl who marries the son of her next-door neighbor. Her dreams of a gay social whirl are shattered when her husband takes a job as a railway station agent in a lonely prairie outpost. Desperate for companionship, she begins an affair with the railroad president's son, unaware at first that her lover is likewise married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray
Overview: Loose adaptation of Mary Shelley‘s “Frankenstein”.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1914-10-26
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The American Way
Overview: English hellraiser Richard Farrington is sent by his wealthy titled parents for a visit to his aunt and uncle in Long Island, New York. On the ocean voyage, Richard meets Betty Winthrop, the ward of the wealthy Van Allen family. Introducing himself he mistakenly gives her the card of John Smithers, a conman who cheated him at cards in London. He follows Betty to the Van Allen estate, where he hears her declare that she would rather marry an American criminal than a weakling English aristocrat. Determined to win her over, he pretends to be Smithers, but things don't turn out exactly the way he planned.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-07
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The Praise Agent
Overview: Press agent Jack Bartling persuades a local Suffragette leader, Mrs. Eubanks, whose husband is a Senator and soap manufacturer, to hire him for publicity. He falls for her daughter Nell and through various schemes and a bit of subterfuge Jack convinces both parents he’s the right guy for their daughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-11
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Forest Rivals
Overview: Julie Lamont is the only white woman in the French-Canadian woods where she lives with her Uncle Henri, a trader who smuggles whiskey to the Indians. Though she has no interest in them she is pursued by brothers Pierre and Jean Dubois, suppliers of Henri's whiskey. Julie flees to the Haunted Rock cave after a fight between the brothers and is discovered there by American engineer Tom King and they fall in love. The brothers pursue and menace the couple but infighting leads to ruin for both and the young couple embark on life together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-15
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The Beautiful Mrs. Reynolds
Overview: During the American Revolution, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr are both courting beautiful Margaret Moncrieffe. Fast-forward several years and they again find themselves on opposite sides, this time about compensation for the properties of Tories--colonists who sided with the British--during the war. Hamilton falls for Maria Reynolds, who it turns out is secretly the wife of prominent pawnbroker Jacob Clingman, a friend of Burr's. The pair conspire to destroy Hamilton, who is now Secretary of the Treasury and married to the daughter of a prominent army general, by making public several love letters Hamilton had written to Mrs. Reynolds.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-21
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The Summer Girl
Overview: Heiress Mary Anderson feigns poverty during her romance with struggling artist Bruce Haldeman, however her status-conscious mother puts an end to the affair. Mary secretly goes to Bruce's studio, misconstrues the situation with one of his models and tells Bruce she hates him. Upset Bruce wants to destroy his portrait of Mary, but the model stops him, enters the painting in an art contest, and explains the mix-up to Mary's father. Mr. Anderson then meets with Bruce and Mary's persistent suitor Smythe Addison pretending he has lost his fortune. Smythe quickly drops out of contention for Mary's hand, but Bruce remains eager. Resolving their differences Bruce finds out during the planning of the wedding that he has won the art contest, finding overnight fame as a painter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-14
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Moral Courage
Overview: Wealthy Joshua Anson expects his son Chadwick to marry a woman of their class, but much to his chagrin Chadwick falls in love with factory girl Mary McClintock. Anson schemes to break up the romance by framing Mary in a compromising situation, but she outsmarts him and marries Chadwick. Not to be defeated, Anson offers his daughter-in-law $100,000 to divorce his son, but Mary outfoxes him once again by accepting the money, getting a divorce, and then remarrying Chadwick. Mary's last trick wins her father-in-law's respect, and he finally offers the couple his blessings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-14
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The Divorce Game
Overview: Young marrieds Paul, the Viscount De Sallure, and his bride Florence are in financial straits. Florence’s inheritance is available to her only if she separates from her husband so the pair concoct a scheme to give that appearance. Problems emerage when Paul seems to be taken the ploy to heart with Mlle. Fifi but all turns out well in the end.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-25
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Broken Ties
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-18
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Shall We Forgive Her?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-15
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