Mignon Anderson
Also Known As: Mignon Estelle Anderson, Filet Mignon
Biography: From Wikipedia Mignon Anderson (March 31, 1892 – February 25, 1983) was an American silent film actress. Her career was at its peak in the 1910s. Born in Baltimore, Anderson's parents, Hallie Howard and Frank Anderson, were also actors. In 1911 she joined Thanhouser Studios in New Rochelle, New York. She was very diminutive and a blonde. Anderson starred alongside William Garwood in a number of short films including A New Cure for Divorce in 1912. Playing in Thanhouser films brought about an acquaintance with Morris Foster, also of that company. She was married to Foster from 1915 until his death in 1966. Anderson died in Burbank, California at the age of 90.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: March 31, 1892
Age: 133 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 25, 1983
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A Dog of Flanders
Overview: Nello was a little boy who lived with his aged grandfather near Antwerp. They were very poor, but because they loved each other so much were happier than many persons who enjoyed luxury. The child's only friend, outside of her grandfather, was an animal, who has gone down in history as "A Dog of Flanders."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-19
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Lucile
Overview: Lucile is a 1912 drama film short.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-27
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The Woman Who Did Not Care
Overview: A girl, beautiful but heartless and ambitious, was the daughter of a poor miner and was devotedly loved by a man in her own station of life. She accepted his attentions willingly until a young engineer came along and paid court to her. She then dismissed her first suitor. Her father made a lucky strike, and they moved to the city to enjoy their wealth. This sealed the fate of the second suitor for a rich man became smitten with the girl and she accepted his advances. Perhaps she would have married him in time had it not been that she aroused the enmity of an old witch, deeply skilled in magic.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-01
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Her Secret
Overview: The husband was stern, solemn and never could understand why anyone should laugh. The wife didn't have much sense, perhaps, but she was full of life and laughter. Why they should have married was a mystery; that there should have come a matrimonial shipwreck was hardly a surprise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-06
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Overview: According to the tale found in the ancient annals, the little town of Hamelin, in Hanover, found itself, five hundred years ago overrun with rats. The citizens tried every way to abate the plague, but without result. Finally a mysterious stranger appeared in the town and offered for the sum of 1000 guilders to clear the place of vermin.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-31
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Dora Thorne
Overview: A young lord elopes with an employee's daughter. The visit of a lady to her home causes the young wife to leave her husband. Years later the peer succeeds to his family estates. Approaching his wife for forgiveness, his entreaties are of no avail. He meets his daughter on the cliffs, and she by accident falls and is killed. The sight of the dead body causes the wife to seek the protection and consolation of her husband
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-30
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The Winter's Tale
Overview: Sicilian king Leontes jealously accuses his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and while imprisoned, she delivers a child. Sent away, the child is raised by Bohemian shepherds. The Winter's Tale was the first of six Shakespeare adaptations from Thanhouser, and was the 13th or 14th title from the studio in its first nine weeks of releases.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-27
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The City of Illusion
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-01
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Pamela Congreve
Overview: The story of country girl Pamela Congreve who driven by revenge rises through London society to seek justice against the villain who caused her father's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-25
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The Star of the Side Show
Overview: Her parents were humble peasants, and were fond of her when she was a baby, for they believed she would grow up to be a beautiful woman and make a good match. The trouble was that she didn't grow up. When she was nineteen she was no bigger than a child of six. Naturally they were overjoyed when an offer for their daughter's hand was made by another midget who lived in the same village. To their astonishment and anger, the girl refused to entertain it, declaring the husband she chose would have to be a man of whom she could be proud. Her home life was most unhappy after that, and the entire family rejoiced when a showman from the United States arrived and offered what seemed big money if she would join his "Congress of Freaks," which was quite an institution in America. And the girl went gladly.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-01
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Nicholas Nickleby
Overview: With The Old Curiosity Shop and David Copperfield, both released in 1911, and Nicholas Nickleby in 1912, Thanhouser established itself as producer of the best Dickens adaptations in American film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-18
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An Elusive Diamond
Overview: A one-reel crime drama with crooks, ruses, kidnapping, escape, and a twist, all wrapped in a coherent narrative.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-22
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Madam Blanche, Beauty Doctor
Overview: A good example of the clever light comedy Thanhouser produced for its Falstaff label, while other studios cranked out broad slapstick comedies. Harry Benham and Mignon Anderson were versatile and popular Thanhouser stars, here showing considerable skill in light comedy, a genre that invites plenty of satirical social observation such as the burgeoning beauty-salon industry here. Cinema technique shows much more intricate editing and freer use of closeups than just a year or two earlier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-08
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Just a Shabby Doll
Overview: A romantic story utilizing flashback sequences, featuring Harry Benham, Mignon Anderson and Helen Badgley (http://thanhouser.org/).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-10
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The Evidence of the Film
Overview: A messenger boy is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000. Luckily, a film crew is shooting a moving picture on the same street. The boy's accuser has the police convinced, until...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-10
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Even as You and I
Overview: Carillo and his wife Selma are devoted to each other. As a sculptor, Carillo has achieved the qualities of honor and love until the Devil seeks to overturn these accomplishments by sending his imps Lust, Drink and Self Pity to the artist's home. Carillo succumbs to lust and sells his honor to the Devil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-01
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The Circus of Life
Overview: A man is tormented by the thought that his wife's child might not be his.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-04
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A Wife on Trial
Overview: Phyllis Narcissa, an underpaid children's librarian, eagerly accepts a dinner invitation from Horace de Guenther, one of her patrons, and happily entertains his invalid wife. Later, Mrs. de Guenther encourages Phyllis to meet with Mrs. Harrington, a dying rich woman whose son Allan, once a vigorous young man, was paralyzed in an auto accident. When Mrs. Harrington proposes to the librarian that she marry and take care of Allan in exchange for his wealth, Phyllis reluctantly consents. While struggling to cheer up the eternally gloomy Allan, Phyllis welcomes the visits of his friend, a doctor who informs her that her husband's paralysis may be psychosomatic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-30
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The Midnight Stage
Overview: In this Western, Frank Keenan has a dual role -- kind-hearted gambler John Lynch and evil bandit Big Rivers. The only person who realizes there is a resemblance between the two is dance hall girl Nita (Maude George), who was abused by the outlaw and cared for by Lynch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-12
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The Phantom's Secret
Overview: At the death of Count de Beaulieu, his daughter Jeanne learns that her father had been the arch-criminal known as The Phantom. The only other person who knew her father's identity was his lieutenant, Franz Leroux, who now demands that Jeanne marry him in return for his silence.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-14
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David Copperfield
Overview: Thanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's tribulation-filled journey to adulthood, Thanhouser released the three films over the course of three weeks beginning on October 17, 1911, one 1,000 foot reel per week.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-17
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John T. Rocks and the Flivver
Overview: The advantage of having the endorsement of a prominent and wealthy citizen was thoroughly appreciated by the "Flivver" manufacturers, but try as they could, they were unable to accomplish it. John T. Rocks, the richest man in the world, had been approached by clever representatives of the motor car company, but he declared that he never had ridden in an automobile and never would. The Flivver Company had a rule providing for the prompt discharge of any of their employees who married if their salaries were under $1,000 a year, so when the young clerk who was earning only $800 was married, he was told that his services were no longer required.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-17
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Sherlock Holmes Solves the Sign of the Four
Overview: An adaptation of the Arthur Conan Doyle novel starring Sherlock Holmes.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-25
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Robin Hood
Overview: Robin Hood and his followers aid the poor and oppressed from their hideout in Sherwood Forest, pursued by the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-23
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The Mill on the Floss
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-16
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At the Patrician Club
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-24
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Outcasts of Society
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-27
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Innocence at Monte Carlo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-27
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The Girl of the Sea
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-01
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Beating Back
Overview: Oklahoma lawyer Al Jennings, whose father was a famous and respected judge, is enraged at the murder of his brother Ed, shot in the back by two killers. As if that wasn't enough, he finds himself falsely accused of robbery, and while escaping those phony charges he is chased and shot by a posse. Although wounded, he manages to elude the posse but takes his revenge by robbing a country store. It's not long before he has his own outlaw gang, with headquarters at the Spike S Ranch. A local sheriff is determined to capture him, so Al and his brother Frank make plans for one last, big robbery before leaving Oklahoma forever. —frankfob2@yahoo.com
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-11
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