Jeanie Macpherson
Also Known As: Abbie Jean Macpherson
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Writing
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 17, 1886
Age: 139 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 26, 1946
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Fisher Folks
Overview: A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-02-16
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To Save Her Soul
Overview: Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the curate who loves her, she accepts the offer and goes to the city. Later the curate goes to hear Agnes perform and, fearing that her soul is being corrupted by show business, he asks her to return to the small town with him. When she refuses, he is prepared to kill her in order to protect the purity of her soul. This brings about her change of heart, and together they return to the little church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-27
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Sunshine Sue
Overview: A country girl follows a city suitor, but is left alone and must fend for herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-11-14
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The Outlaw Reforms
Overview: Bill, squatter, while playing it the side of the hill, accidentally discovers silver.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-01
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Hollywood
Overview: Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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Winning Back His Love
Overview: A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-12-25
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Money Mad
Overview: The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at the bank, exchanging stolen notes for gold coin, a couple of thugs witness the transaction and see their opportunity-- It seems avarice grips the hearts of all those who'd possess the bag.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-04
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The Fatal Hour
Overview: This one-reeler has been regarded as a classic example of a Griffith thriller. It engages with the Chinese White slave traffic from the perspective of a female detective, played by Marion Leonard, whose assignment is to expose and break the traffic ring. A fragment is widely available.
Genres: Crime Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-08-18
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Confidence
Overview: Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail her. When the blackmail plot is exposed, Nellie's husband expresses his complete faith in her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-15
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The Taming of the Shrew
Overview: Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-10
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The Curtain Pole
Overview: An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing entourage chasing him, until he escapes them through a bit of movie magic, only to discover that the pole has already been replaced.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-15
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A Flash of Light
Overview: An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist, and her younger sister take her place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-07-17
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The Lesson
Overview: Short drama about the commandment "honour your father and your mother".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-12-19
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Carmen
Overview: Hot-blooded gypsy Carmen attempts to seduce Don Jose, a lawman sent to thwart a gang of illegal smugglers in Spain. Carmen's plan backfires when Don Jose's passion for the gypsy girl escalates into a jealous rage as she spurns him for her bullfighter beau, Escamillo, with tragic results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-31
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Mr. Jones at the Ball
Overview: Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his long-suffering wife. In this film, Jones rips his suit pants and chaos ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-25
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The Criminal Hypnotist
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-18
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The Christmas Burglars
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-22
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One Touch of Nature
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-21
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Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Overview: Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance League. But Oh! the ordeal, for such it was, was telling on him, and his pent-up spirits were threatening ebullition, when at last the chance comes. The league arranges to attend a three-days' convention out of town, and when Mrs. Jones departs, Jones sends a note to Smith, telling him to bring the gang, and they would have a "Prayer Meeting," enjoining him not to forget the "fixings." Well, the gang are not long in putting in an appearance, for they feel that every minute's delay is a chunk lost from a golden opportunity for fun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1909-01-21
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The Captive
Overview: Set during the Balkan Wars, The Captive tells the story of Sonia, a young woman living in Montenegro and left to care for her younger brother Milos and the family farm when older brother Marko goes off to battle. Unable to handle the day-to-day tasks following her brother’s tragic death, help comes in the form of Mahmud Hassan, a captured Turk nobleman, now a prisoner of war. Tasked with helping Sonia, their initial frosty relationship soon melts into love. As the war rages on Sonia, Mahmud and Milos will face near-insurmountable obstacles in their quest for a better life amidst the hell of war.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-22
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Revenge Is Sweet
Overview: A short comedy in which the newest employee is teased by the office girls, but he retaliates by putting black polish in a powder-box. Ultimately the girls use the resulting black powder on the young employee himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-16
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The High Cost of Living
Overview: Forbidden from marrying the man she loves by her wealthy businessman father because he is too poor Mildred Lord determines to find a solution. Attempting to live within the means her fiancée could afford, she finds the cost of food exorbitantly high and begins a campaign to force the prices down including taking on her father’s own company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-04
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The Rose of the Rancho
Overview: Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off till the cavalry shows up and he can declare his love for Juanita, called “the Rose of the Rancho.”
Genres: Romance Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-15
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The Day After
Overview: Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens, and soon they are both cavorting drunkenly. Next morning Mr. Hilton, feeling very sick, is conscience-stricken over his drunkenness and his behavior with another woman. He fears to face his wife until he discovers that she feels just as guilty herself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-30
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The Girl of the Golden West
Overview: A saloon hostess loves Ramerrez, a notorious highwayman. Sheriff Jack Rance, who loves the girl too, instigates a card game that will determine the fate of all three of them. If she wins, the girl's lover will go free; but if she loses…
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-04
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Enoch Arden
Overview: Moving Picture World described the film: "There is a small need to describe this subject as the poem of Lord Tennyson is so well known, so suffice it to say that this Biograph subject is an unusually faithful portrayal of that beautiful romance of Enoch Arden, Annie Lee and Philip Ray, taken in scenes of rare beauty".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-15
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Enoch Arden
Overview: Moving Picture World described the film: "There is a small need to describe this subject as the poem of Lord Tennyson is so well known, so suffice it to say that this Biograph subject is an unusually faithful portrayal of that beautiful romance of Enoch Arden, Annie Lee and Philip Ray, taken in scenes of rare beauty".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-15
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The Butler and the Maid
Overview: Jennie, a coquettish housemaid, flirts with the grocer's delivery boy and thereby incites the jealousy of her sweetheart, Frank, the butler. Frank goes to his station in the hall and, in his anger, tells the marble statue that is a part of the furnishings of the handsome home, that his sweetheart is as cold as the stone of which it is made. He quiets down, and as he is not very busy, soon becomes drowsy, and dreams that the statue comes to life and goes with him to a ball. While they are walking along the street, a policeman meets them and questions Frank. He gets frightened, they run and as they rush back into the hall, the statue falls and breaks into a thousand pieces. His sweetheart comes down the steps and wakes him up and tells him to answer the bell. Frank's surprise at seeing the statue whole is plainly shown and his delight that is has all been a dream causes him to make up with his sweetheart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-26
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Comrades
Overview: Two creative bums invade a high society gathering by pretending to be rich.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-13
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The Merchant of Venice
Overview: A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-01
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A Sweet Revenge
Overview: After being jilted for another, a woman sends her lover's old letters to the new fiancée and looks forward to the reaction. But when she spots her old lover's glove left behind, she has a change of heart and repents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-11-18
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Mrs. Jones Entertains
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-09
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The Faded Lilies
Overview: A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-17
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The Peachbasket Hat
Overview: Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm reading. After the gypsies leave, no one can find the baby, and everyone assumes it's been kidnapped-- until the baby is found under a hatbox.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-24
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A Corner in Wheat
Overview: On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-13
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A Gold Necklace
Overview: Mazie lends her necklace to Nellie, her guest. Nellie is asleep in a hammock when Sam, her sweetheart, arrives in his auto. He awakens Nellie with a kiss. As she starts up she drops the necklace in the grass and their efforts to find it prove futile. Sam promises to buy her one to replace it, thinking it was her own properly. He has her minutely describe it that he may get an exact duplicate. Meanwhile, the governess has found the necklace and given it to its owner, Mazie, who is unknown to Sam. He sees it on Mazie's neck and after a chase insists on purchasing it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-10-06
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A Salutary Lesson
Overview: During a stay at beach resort Mr. and Mrs. Randall neglect their daughter and follow their own interests. Mrs. Randall entertains the local minister, while Mr. Randall agrees to take his daughter on a walk along the beach. However, he is attracted by a flirtatious young woman, and the little girl wanders off on her own. She clambers onto a seaside rock where she falls asleep, unmindful of the incoming tide. Her parents at last notice her absence and begin searching for her. However, the incoming tide has by this time surrounded her rock, cutting her off from land. A lifeguard hears her cries and swims to the rescue just as the rising tide is about to engulf her. The child is returned to her parents, who receive from their near tragedy a salutary lesson in the importance of being more careful parents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-08-11
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The Oath and the Man
Overview: A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants. His priest made him swear an oath to leave vengeance to God, however.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-21
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The Usurer
Overview: A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-08-15
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The Ghost Breaker
Overview: Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaines, a New York art collector, not knowing that the locket contains the clue to the Aragon family fortune's whereabouts. Based on the 1909 Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard.
Genres: Adventure Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-07
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Nerve
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-11
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Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
Overview: Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a different port. Emily waits faithfully for six years, finally becoming dangerously ill. When Bill suddenly appears in town with his family, Joe, who has loved Emily all along, forces Bill to make Emily's final moments happy by pretending he has returned to marry her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-10-27
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Her First Biscuits
Overview: A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits makes you violently ill, and soon all his visitors (he runs a theatrical booking agency), plus the workmen at home, are ill; when she shows up at the office, they all go after her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-17
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