Alice Wilson
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: O'Fallon, Missouri, USA
Birthday: June 14, 1887
Deathday: May 12, 1944
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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La belle Russe
Overview: In this film, her next-to-last picture for Fox, it was Theda Bara's turn to tackle a double role. Bara's characters are twin sisters La Belle Russe, the wicked one, and Fleurette, the nice one. They're Parisian dancers, and Fleurette marries Philip Sackton (Warburton Gamble). However, Sackton is a member of Britain's snooty aristocracy, and his family disinherits him.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-21
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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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Should She Obey?
Overview: Inspired by his wife Lorna, shiftless William Gordon discovers a welding process worth millions and becomes president of a large corporation. Henry Blake, a friend of Gordon's from his indolent days, is forced to marry when his girl friend Mamie gives birth to a daughter, who is sent to live in a convent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-06
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Silk Stocking Sal
Overview: Silk Stocking Sal is discovered burgling a palatial townhouse by its owner, Bob Cooper. Intrigued with her poise and daring, he offers to find her an honest job. She accepts his proposition and is hired by Cooper's importing firm to show antiques to prospective buyers. When Abner Bingham, Bob's partner, is found murdered after an argument with Bob, he is accused of the crime on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to die. To save Bob from the chair, Sal, who suspects Bull Reagen, a mobster, of the murder, goes to his apartment. She plants a microphone in the closet, gets Bull drunk, and, by accusing him of not having the killer instinct, taunts him into boasting of having killed Bingham. The conversation is overheard by the district attorney, who narrowly saves Bob from electrocution and then arrests Bull and his gang. Bob and Silk Stocking Sal are soon married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-30
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The Eyes of Julia Deep
Overview: The Eyes of Julia Deep is a 1918 silent comedy-drama film starring Mary Miles Minter, directed by Lloyd Ingraham. The film is based on the short story by the same name, written by Kate L. McLaurin. It is one of the few films starring Minter which are known to have survived.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-01
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The Children in the House
Overview: A woman is stuck with an unfaithful husband until he is killed robbing a bank.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-29
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A Love Sublime
Overview: A Greek man falls for an injured French woman. When he is informed of her death, he continues to sing under her hospital window every night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-11
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The Brazen Beauty
Overview: Jacala, a strong-willed, temperamental ranch girl, inherits her father's millions and moves from Montana to New York, determined to earn a place in society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-09
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What's Your Husband Doing?
Overview: Insecure Beatrice Ridley lets her jealousy of her husband get the better of her when he begins receiving letters each morning from the Honeysuckle Inn, a roadhouse frequented by sportsmen. Consulting young attorneys, Widgast and Pidgeon, she finds their wives also suspicious about the goings on at the Honeysuckle Inn. Madcap complications ensue when all the characters meet there before everything is straightened out for all three couples.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-25
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The Willow Tree
Overview: After Ned Hamilton is rejected by his girlfriend, he travels to Japan where he hears an old legend about the Willow Tree Princess, who kills herself so that her lover will go off to battle. When he makes a purchase from Tomotada, an image maker, he meets his pretty daughter O-Riu, and they recreate the events of the legend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-31
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The Dream Cheater
Overview: An adaptation of Balzac's novel set in the roaring twenties, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy. La Peau de chagrin belongs to the Études philosophiques group of Balzac's sequence of novels, La Comédie humaine.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-04
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