Katherine MacDonald
Also Known As: Katherine Agnew MacDonald, The American Beauty, The President's Favorite
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 13, 1891
Age: 133 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: June 04, 1956
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The Squaw Man
Overview: Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918 remake of the 1913 original, the first feature length Hollywood film. It is considered to be a lost film with only one reel still extant.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-15
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The Woman Thou Gavest Me
Overview: Mary Mac Neill (Katherine MacDonald), whose father (Theodore Roberts) marries her off to Lord Raa (Jack Holt) in order to satisfy an old grudge. But Mary wants nothing to do with the dissolute Lord and tells him so on their wedding night. So he takes his mistress, Alma Lier (Fritzi Brunette), to India and passes her off as Lady Raa, while Mary disappears to a French village, where she spends time with the man she loved all along, explorer Martin Conrad (Milton Sills).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-25
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The Infidel
Overview: Lola Daintry (MacDonald) is an actress who's mad at the world, and especially ministers, one of whom -- her father -- was so cruel that he drove her mother out of the house. When Bully Haynes (Melbourne MacDonald) wants her help in showing up a group of South Seas missionaries, she's more than happy to assist. But Lola doesn't realize she's being used so that Haynes can gain control over the copra trade from his rival, Cyrus Flint (Robert Ellis).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-02
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The Woman Conquers
Overview: Tired of her friends and life as a society leader, Ninon Le Compte goes north to the Hudson Bay area to inspect trapping holdings inherited from her uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-01
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Passion's Playground
Overview: Mary Grant has a gambling father and a mother who has disappeared. Even though she has been raised in a convent she proves true to her ancestry by running away to Monte Carlo and spending her small inheritance at the gambling table.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-01
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The Turning Point
Overview: Upon finding themselves in financial difficulties because of the failure of the Edgerton-Tennant Company, New York socialites Diana and Silvette Tennant decide to work as society hostesses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-01
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My Lady's Latchkey
Overview: Young Annesley Grayle, weary of a gloomy, uneventful existence with her aunt, accepts the proposal of a young American that she pose as his wife. Later, they are actually married. When, at a ball, she hears her husband accused of stealing a valuable diamond and realizes that he is indeed a thief, she hides the jewel to save him.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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Money, Money, Money
Overview: A socially ambitious woman who convinces her father to borrow money from a snobbish man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Heroes and Husbands
Overview: Susanne Danbury and Walter Gaylord, the man she loves, are among the weekend guests of her publisher, Hugh Bemis, and his wife Agatha, who also loves Walter. Lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-21
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The Spirit of '17
Overview: Davy Glidden is the son of the adjutant general in charge of an old soldier's home in a small town near the Top Copper mine. Davy idolizes Capt. Jerico Norton, an aged veteran of the home who entertains the boy with stories of his exploits in the Civil War. When Mrs. Edward and her daughter Flora come to visit Mrs. Glidden, Davy is smitten by Flora but she ignores him. Davy is bursting with patriotism by the stories told to him by the captain and is eager of doing something noble to attract Flora's attention. He finds the opportunity to accomplish both goals when he overhears two German spies, Carl Bender and Frank Schmale, plotting to create havoc in the mine by calling a strike and then dynamiting the mine. Enlisting the aid of his friend Capt. Norton, Davy provides the means for the old soldiers to serve their country once again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-26
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Shark Monroe
Overview: In this 1918 film, newly restored by MoMA, Hart is a ship's captain in the Pacific Northwest who abandons his post to pursue a woman who does not love him (MacDonald) across the Klondike, eventually rescuing her from the grip of a white slaver.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-30
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Battling Jane
Overview: Jane is a rootless young lady who finds an abandoned child and adopts it as her own. The decision, however, leads to great conflict with the child's vicious outlaw father.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-28
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Chastity
Overview: A young woman trying to make it in Hollywood decides that the only way she can attain stardom is to go the "vamp" route, although in her private life she's nothing like her on-screen character. She gets the recognition she wants, but for the wrong reason--she finds herself in the middle of a notorious society scandal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-31
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His Own Home Town
Overview: Jimmy Duncan, the son of the well-respected Reverend Duncan, takes over his local newspaper as manager. He takes on the criminal element in town with great vigor, until he realizes that his own father is in league with those devils.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-27
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Refuge
Overview: Hoping to gain favor with the people of Moravia and destroy evidence of the rightful prince's claim to the throne, Prince Ferdinand makes plans to marry Countess Nadia. She thwarts Ferdinand's efforts, running off with Gustav Kenski, only to marry Gene, a soldier who she meets on the road. Ferdinand has her found and abducted, but Gene rescues her, and it is revealed that he is the rightful prince of Moravia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-12
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The Scarlet Lily
Overview: Silent feature directed by Victor Schertzinger
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-15
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Her Social Value
Overview: A shop girl has ambitions of marrying up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-24
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The Beautiful Liar
Overview: Directed by Wallace Worsley.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-26
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The Lonely Road
Overview: Betty Austin gives up her dream of going to the city and marries Warren Wade, but she sadly finds him selfish and insistent on her acting like a "clinging vine." Disgusted, she joins her career-girl chum, Leila Mead, in the city, where she meets Dr. Devereaux. Shortly after returning home with Warren, their son is injured. Betty takes him to Dr. Devereaux, and Warren follows, accusing Betty of leaving him for the doctor. Their son is cured; Warren learns his mistake and gives Betty greater responsibility in managing family money matters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Headin' South
Overview: A lost film. As described in a film magazine Exhibitors Herald on March 16, 1918: "a forest ranger known only as Headin' South (Fairbanks) goes forth in search of Spanish Joe (Campeau), a Mexican responsible for most of the treachery and outlawry along the U.S.-Mexican boarder. Headin' South gains quite a reputation as he goes along and finally believes himself worthy of joining Joe's band. in a whirlwind finish in which Joe is captured, Headin' South meets one of Joe's near victims (MacDonald) and falls in love with her."
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-25
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Mr. Fix-It
Overview: A young man impersonates his best friend, and in doing so upsets the decorum at a stuffy family gathering and falls in love. The arrival of a gang of hoodlums further disrupts the formalities, but our hero thwarts them and saves the day.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-15
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Curtain
Overview: Nancy Bradshaw (Katherine MacDonald) is a popular stage star who quits her career to marry millionaire clubman Dick Cunningham (Charles Richman). But after a few years of marriage, he starts seeing other women. Figuring that her public was more faithful to her than her husband, Nancy returns to the stage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-06
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Riddle Gawne
Overview: When Gawne finds his brother dying and hears that the killer has run off with his brother's wife, he swears revenge.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-03
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Old Loves and New
Overview: Gervas Carew's wife, Elinor, has deserted him while he was fighting for France, for Lord Clyde Geraldine, a cad of the first order, but Elinor, in turn is cast off when Lord Geraldine turns his attention to an Irish lass, Marny. Marny has no idea of Geraldine's past nor his brutal nature.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-11
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The Thunderbolt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-06
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The Beauty Market
Overview: A young woman agrees to marry a man for his money, only to fall in love with another and marry him instead. However, old secrets come to light and threaten their new relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-12-01
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The Unnamed Woman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-24
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