Dorothy Kelly
Also Known As: Dorothy Dupre Kelly
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: February 12, 1894
Deathday: May 31, 1966
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Skull
Overview: Just as the bead clerk and his assistants are closing up the jewelry store for the day, a package containing a very costly necklace arrives by special messenger. The large safe deposit vault has been closed for the night and the time clock set. The head clerk is fearful to leave the necklace in the store and so decides to take it home. His actions have been closely watched by one of the junior clerks, with sinister and stealthy glances.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-02
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The Wheels of Justice
Overview: Ralph Brooks, although engaged to Julia Dean, meets and becomes infatuated with Rita Reynolds. She gains his sympathy by telling untrue stories of her husband's brutality. They plan to run away together but while Rita is taking a large sum of money from her husband's safe, he returns early from a business trip and a fight ensues which results in her husband's death.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-22
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Sonny Jim at the North Pole
Overview: Sonny's daddy reads in the morning paper an article concerning the Pole, and explains it to Sonny, who unfortunately has been reprimanded for some trivial mishaps at breakfast and told that if such things happen again Shep will be sent away. In desperation he and Shep start out for the North Pole.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-20
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The Secret Kingdom
Overview: The Secret Kingdom is a 1917 silent action movie serial comprised of 15 chapters: 1. Land of the Intrigue 2. Royalty at Red Wing 3. Sealed Packet 4. Honorable Mr. Oxenham 5. Carriage Call #101 6. Human Flotsam 7. Ghost Ship 8. Rum Cay 9. Swamp Adder 10. A Goat Without Horns 11. The White Witch 12. The Shark's Nest 13. The Tragic Masque 14. The Portrait of a King 15. The Tocsin.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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The Troublesome Step-Daughters
Overview: A widower with four grown daughters remarries and brings his new wife home to meet them. The girls set out to make life as difficult as possible for their new mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-06
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The Vanity Case
Overview: In a jewelry store, Grace Norris, a wealthy girl, unnoticed by the salesman, absent-mindedly takes a vanity case. She is seen by Fred Wright, who thinks she stole it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-18
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The Antique Engagement Ring
Overview: George Darrel presents Helen Gray, his fiancée, with a very valuable engagement ring of antique design, which is an heirloom. They have a serious quarrel over Dave Brower, one of her friends, and Darrel leaves for the west.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-09
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Dorothy Danesbridge, Militant
Overview: Dorothy Danesbridge is spoiled by her father and aunt, and through the influence of Phyllis, an old school friend and an ardent suffragette, becomes interested in Women's Suffrage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-18
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Miss Raffles
Overview: On account of an urgent business call, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie hurriedly close their summer home at Hudsoncliff and leave with their daughter, Jane, for the city. Bob, their son, decides to visit his parents at Hudsoncliff with his friend, Ralph Lyons. Bob and Ralph find the house locked up and, after some reconnoitering, enter through a window. Ralph hurts his ankle and is unable to attend a dance that evening, so Bob goes instead. Jane, on her arrival in the city, finds she has left her necklace in the safe at their summer home, and leaves a note for her mother, saying she is going back for it.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-01
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On the Pupil of His Eye
Overview: The household of Senator Walker consists of himself, his ward, Mary, and his nephew, Herbert. The other members of his household are John, an old servant, Lucy the maid, and a half dozen more servants. John is smitten with Lacy. She doesn't take him seriously, owing to the difference in their ages. Mr. Walker, rather old and feeble, draws up his will and leaves the bulk of his property to Mary and Herbert. He bequeaths $5,000 to his faithful servant John. Herbert is very fond of his uncle. The old gentleman is very much attached to Mary and very desirous that she and Herbert should be wed at the proper time.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-05
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Following the Star
Overview: Helen Winthrop has ambition for the stage and when, during his summer sojourn at her home town, she is introduced to De la Marre, a popular star and dramatic favorite, she is elated and asks him to give her a part in one of his plays. He consents and from that moment she becomes restless, and longs to shake the dust of her village home from her feet. Her old sweetheart, John Tobin, is no longer in her class and receives a very cold goodbye when she leaves to shine in the limelight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-20
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The Crime of Cain
Overview: The two sons of Judge Stone, William and Wylie, are both in love with Nancy Sevier. Wylie is of a jealous temperament and believes he sees in Nancy's acceptance of his brother's attentions a proof of her preference for him. William monopolizes Nancy until Wylie is almost beside himself with rage and jealousy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-15
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The Passing of Diana
Overview: Geoffrey Brooke, an African explorer, becomes a friend of Rodney Miller, a struggling young artist. Through his influence Miller becomes celebrated. Brooke is called to the Congo, leaving behind his bride of a few months. Miller is about to despair of finding a suitable model for his supreme artistic effort, a painting of Circe, the temptress, when Cleo, a bewitchingly beautiful woman enters and offers to pose for it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-23
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Two Stepchildren
Overview: Born with an artistic temperament, Joe Leigh feels keenly the bitterness and drudgery of life on a small farm and longs to get away from it. Jabez, his uncle, who owns the farm, is a hard, matter-of-fact man, utterly out of sympathy with his nephew's ambitions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-02
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The Toll
Overview: While traveling in Italy, John Steele, a young American millionaire, is kidnapped by Antonio Perino, and fellow members of the Camorra. They demand an immense ransom, but he defies them. Marta, Antonio's wife, feels sorry for Steele. She is left to guard the prisoner alone and Steele induces her to help him escape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-04
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The False and the True
Overview: Betty, the only daughter of Jenkins, a wealthy farmer, is secretly loved by Tom Saunders, a farm hand. Tom's scapegrace brother, Dick, returns from the city and is befriended by Tom. Dick later wins Betty's love. While Jenkins is blasting out a tree stump with dynamite, Betty and Dick are passing close by unnoticed, and the explosion destroys Betty's sight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-06
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The Soul of Luigi
Overview: In the poor Italian quarter of New York lives Luigi, an Italian peasant and inventor, who is so absorbed in his work that he greatly neglects his wife, Nedda. She is younger than he and fond of pleasure. Not understanding his neglect, she strongly resents it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-13
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The Apple
Overview: Promising to send for his sweetheart Roza, when he gets settled, Hugo Hunfalvy leaves Hungary for America. In New York he meets Louis Kaplan, an old friend, who owns a fruit store. Louis' sister, Marie, is pretty and flirtatious, and is much impressed by Hugo. He soon falls under the influence of her wiles and buys part interest in Louis' store.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-23
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The Greater Motive
Overview: Bob Hammond, a promising young boxer, is taken east by his manager to meet some of the better men in his class. Bob promises his sweetheart, Maggie Dowling, he will return and marry her. In the past he becomes champion in his class, and is known as "The Battler."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-30
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The Wheat and the Tares
Overview: In a game of cards, Stillwell, a young Southerner, incurs the hatred of Collins, an unscrupulous scoundrel. Seeing a chance for a double revenge, Collins goes to LaVinge, father of Edith, with whom Stillwell is in love, and demands payment of an old gambling debt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-15
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Tricks of the Trade
Overview: Jack Breen and his wife, Lizzie, are professional crooks, who live in a fine house and set themselves up as belonging to the best. Breen gets his living by various means, including begging. He dresses in ragged clothes and picks up crusts in the street, which he pretends to eat, thereby exciting the sympathy of passers-by.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-27
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The Unwritten Play
Overview: A new theatrical star is born when Ivy Liversedge, daughter of Silas, an unsuccessful playwright, scores a big success in Paul Hesseltine's new play, "The Fatal Silence." Paul falls in love with Ivy. but her father exhibits an intense dislike for him at their very first meeting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-07
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Regan's Daughter
Overview: Known as a saloon-keeper, a politician and a bad man, Regan becomes the sworn enemy of Phil Riordan, a young headquarters detective. The only bright spot in Regan's life is his love for his daughter, Mary, who is being brought up in the Tennessee hills in ignorance of her father's character.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-29
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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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From Out of the Big Snows
Overview: Harris, a young adventurer into the big snows of the Northwest, through an accident, becomes a great friend of Dr. Brandon, who warns him against his fascination for Marie, woman of the dance hall. He tells him of Jean, her half-breed lover, and that he is a bad man. Harris disregards this and Jean, returning from a trapping expedition, finds Marie in his arms. Concealing his hatred, he contrives a fiendish plan, and in pursuance of this, wins the friendship of Harris.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-25
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Four Grains of Rice
Overview: The leader of "The Sons of the Brazen Joss," one of the Tongs, or Chinese social organizations, is murdered by Moy Wong, cunning leader of The Four Grains of Rice," a Tong of higher class and bitter enemies of the "Sons." Sworn to vengeance, the "Sons" await an opportunity to get even.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-12
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In the Days of Famine
Overview: Jan De Bar, a young French-Canadian, is sent out from the Hudson Bay Company's post at God's Lake to perform the perilous task of burning the plague-stricken cabins of those who have died of the dreaded smallpox. In one of them he finds Jeanette, a little girl, who, by some miracle, has escaped the plague.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-22
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Pawns of Mars
Overview: Conducting experiments with a new explosive of tremendous power, Dr. Lefone, a celebrated chemist, receives a visit from Rizo Turbal, secretly acting as spy for the emperor of a foreign country. Lefone's friend, John Temple, is experimenting with a discovery he has made of a new wireless wave, with which he expects to explode bombs at long range.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-24
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Easy Money
Overview: A small boy, Bobby, substitutes some counterfeit which is intended for stage use for a real roll of bills. Two crooks steal the counterfeits on a sleeping car, and when they present one after the dinner which they hold in celebration they are promptly arrested.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-07
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A Wireless Rescue
Overview: A romance of the rail, this two-part "thriller" uses wireless telegraphy as the means of averting a disaster to an express train.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-23
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Twice Rescued
Overview: Saved from a terrible shipwreck by Stephan Royston, son of a farmer. Nana, orphaned by the catastrophe, is adopted by the family and the two sons, Stephan and Godfrey, fall in love with her. Stephan's artistic tendency for painting, etc., is classed as foolishness by his stern father, while Godfrey, realizing that the girl favors his brother, determines to get rid of him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-20
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A Madcap Adventure
Overview: Willfull, headstrong and inclined to be sporty, but withal, a very lovable girl, Thomasin Webb (called Tommy for short) keeps her Aunt Sarah, with whom she lives, on the jump. Guy Dunbar becomes deeply interested in Tommy, first from a psychological point of view, then fascinated by her personality. George Hilton, a society rounder, is after Tommy's money
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-19
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The Man, the Mission and the Maid
Overview: Living in adjoining homes at Oakdale, Hal Oilman and Alice Blanchard are childhood friends and playmates. Some years later. Hal goes to college, and while there makes a bitter enemy of Bert Peyson by exposing him as a card cheat and a thief.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-17
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Mother's Roses
Overview: John Morrison, Wall Street financier, is in the habit of bringing home to his wife daily a bunch of beautiful roses. Delevan, a recognized Money King, meets Helen, the financier's daughter, upon whom he seems to immediately exert a hypnotic influence. She becomes infatuated with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-13
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The Love of Pierre Larosse
Overview: When Pierre Larosse, a trapper, calls on his sweetheart, Jeanne Coudert, to present her with the skin of a silver fox, he finds a stranger. Jacques Javillier, at the Coudert cabin. Jealousy is aroused between the two men by the girl's evident preference for the stranger. Pere Coudert, her father, is called away and announces that one of the men must accompany him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-01
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Within an Ace
Overview: On shipboard, Edwin Forrester, a middle-aged Scotchman, makes the acquaintance of Tom Munroe, a confidence man. Forrester discloses the fact that he is going to visit his ranch in western America, also that he has but one relative, a niece, Ethel, in England." Munroe's greed aroused, he determines to kill Forrester, then gain possession of his property
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-31
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Netty or Letty
Overview: Twins in all but disposition, Netty and Letty quarrel continually. Letty goes to spend a few days at a friend's cottage at a nearby summer resort. Netty also goes later. Freddy meets Netty and they are mutually attracted. They are not allowed to be together much, however, as they are always being interrupted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-25
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Saved from a Life of Crime
Overview: Becoming imbued with a lawless spirit, Tom, a street waif of twelve, holds up an old woman with a toy pistol, robs her of a dollar and gets away. Exhibiting the money to some of his companions, the boy proceeds to give them all an ice cream treat. The feast is interrupted by the police, who nab Tom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-01
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The Greater Love
Overview: Shortly after the engagement of John Brown and Hope Avery is announced, he receives an offer of a fine position in South America. She demurs at his going, but he overcomes her objections and after a tender farewell, leaves her with the promise to return within a year and make her his wife. Philip Lane is injured in an auto accident near the Avery home, and Hope discovers him. She has him taken to her home and during his convalescence, he falls deeply in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-14
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The First Endorsement
Overview: An adjutant comes in and lays before Colonel Allen, the charges against John Wild, a young soldier accused of theft. When the adjutant goes out, the Colonel remembers about his own wayward son, how he had left his home one evening, after a quarrel, never to return, shipping as a stoker on a big liner, and how, later, he had received word of his death in a shipwreck.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-19
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Bettina's Substitute, or There's No Fool Like an Old Fool
Overview: Bettina was justified in being indignant because her employer, a married man, makes love to her. She tells her beau, Raymond, about it and he vows to get square with the old masher and teach him a lesson. He tells Bettina to send word to her boss that she is sick and obliged to remain at home for a few days, but she will send a substitute.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-01
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The Lovesick Maidens of Cuddleton
Overview: An old doctor hires a young new doctor to join his practice, particularly to attract women for more business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-20
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Aunty's Romance
Overview: Romantic comedy in which a woman who no longer wants to marry her fiance when it turns out he doesn't have an inheritance. After his father is deceased, Stephen Fiske travels to New York, where he learns that his father has left him nothing. His fiancée Doris now refuses to marry him because he is not rich. Doris has, however, an old aunt, whose last wish is that Doris marry Stephan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-12
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Bunny's Honeymoon
Overview: Bunny's niece has a beau who is so addicted to drink that her father will not permit her to marry him. He has given the lad a chance, but when he comes upon him drink again, he orders his daughter to break it all off. She goes to Uncle Bunny, who thinks up a scheme to cure the drunkard. In pursuance of this, he brings the lad, so drunk that he can't see straight, to his home and by dressing up in woman gear, and by borrowed kids, makes him think he has married a fat widow with many children. The poor lad is so greatly worried that when he wakes up next morning, he really swears off. So. in the end, the lovers are happy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-06
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Suing Susan
Overview: A romantic comedy in which two new neighbours initially cannot get along, but their staff get along just fine.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-09
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Forcing Dad's Consent
Overview: Constance and Billy are sweethearts. Mr. and Mrs. Boggs, her parents, are both prim, straitlaced people. Pa Boggs has little use for young men of the present generation and when Billy awkwardly drops a race-track badge on the floor, Boggs rises up in his wrath and orders the "perfidious gambler" from his house forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-30
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The Awakening
Overview: Abandoned on the church steps at birth Jacques Revilly is a pariah in his small hamlet finally heading to Paris to fulfill his dream of being an artist. After three years he has become quite adept but due to his slovenly ways and appearance he has been nicknamed “The Beast” and is once again exiled among society. One night he discovers a young girl who has collapsed in the roadside snow, with the assistance of his one friend Varney they nurse her back to health and “The Beast” begins to mend his ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-03
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The Law Decides
Overview: Mere years could not kill the overwhelming love which lay dormant in Lorenz's heart, though Florence was now the wife of another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-01
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Salvation Joan
Overview: Joan, a refined young Salvation Army volunteer, fall in love with a gangster.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-09
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Disciplining Daisy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-07
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