Amelia Summerville
Also Known As: Amelia Shaw, Amelia M. Shaw
Biography: From Wikipedia Amelia Summerville (1862–1934), born Amelia Shaw, was an Irish-born American stage and silent film actress. Summerville was born in County Kildare, Ireland and migrated to Toronto, Canada as a child. She first appeared on stage at the age of 7 in an operetta in Toronto. In 1884, Summerville appeared in her first leading role in the play Adonis. She originated the role of Rosetta, the Mountain Maid. Summerville appeared in fourteen Broadway plays from 1899 to 1925. She also performed in silent films during the 1910s and 1920s.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: County Kildare, Ireland
Birthday: October 13, 1862
Deathday: January 21, 1934
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Gender: Female
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Mrs. Dane's Defense
Overview: An Englishwoman misbehaves in Canada, driving a traveling companion to suicide and bearing a secret child whom she whisks away. When she returns to England to receive an inheritance, her bad deeds catch up to her. The film is presumed lost.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-07
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The Witness for the Defense
Overview: Stella Derrick and Dick Hazelwood love each other, but their families want them to make better financial matches.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-14
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Romola
Overview: In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-06
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The Great Deception
Overview: Cyril Mansfield, a handsome young Englishman, is associated with the German Secret Service as a spy in England but is loyal to British intelligence, of which he is a member. He is loved by Lois, an American whose favor is sought by Rizzio, also a double agent, who suspects Cyril's disloyalty to Germany. With the intention of conveying false information to the Imperial German Government, Cyril, accompanied by his faithful mechanic, Handy, and by Lois, escapes to Germany, though Lois is herself abducted by Rizzio and brought to headquarters in a U-boat. Innocently, she betrays Cyril, and they are both sentenced to death. On a pretense of aiding Cyril, Rizzio urges Lois to accompany him on a diplomatic mission, but Cyril and Handy overcome their captors; and Lois and Cyril escape to England in his aircraft.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-26
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Getting Mary Married
Overview: Early feature from American cinema pioneer Allan Dwan, starring Marion Davies
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-19
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The Probation Wife
Overview: A 1919 film directed by Sidney Franklin.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-24
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April Folly
Overview: April Poole (Davies), a young writer in love with publisher Kerry Sarle (Tearle), visits the office of Mr. Sarle and his partner Ronald Kenna (Frank) and reads her latest story to them. She has made Sarle the hero, Kenna the villain, and herself the heroine. In the story, April changes places with Lady Diana Mannister (Marshall), who is being sent to South Africa to separate her from her lover, a young artist. A famous diamond that Lady Diana is to deliver at the end of her journey is given to April. Thieves trail her during her journey. With efforts by Kenna to steal the diamond prevented by the intervention of Sarle, the story comes to a close.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-20
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Romance
Overview: A young man planning to marry receives a cautionary tale from his bishop based on the sad tale of the bishop's own early romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-16
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How Could You, Caroline?
Overview: Caroline Rogers, a spirited young girl with a taste for highly romantic novels, comes home from boarding school to attend her sister Ethel's wedding. Having read a particularly lurid novel entitled Twin Souls recently, she arrives at the rehearsal wearing a daring gown in the hope of ensnaring a "soul mate." Because of his poetic name, Caroline becomes involved with Reginald Van Alden, a married fortune-seeker. On the morning of the wedding, she abandons her old sweetheart, Bob Worth, to take a ride with Reginald, but when he takes her to a disreputable roadhouse, she escapes and then tries to commit suicide by drinking cologne.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-05
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Just Out of College
Overview: Edward Swinger contrives to win the hand of the lovely Caroline Pickering by selling her father his business - a business that doesn't actually exist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-01
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My Little Sister
Overview: A woman writes about her sister's tragedy, vowing to help others in similar situations: Because Bettina longs to leave her country home, her loving mother sends her and her serious-minded elder sister to London, accepting their aunt's invitation to visit and allow Bettina to be introduced to society. The girls' dressmaker steals the aunt's photograph and sends it to a woman who, disguised as their aunt, leads the girls to a brothel. After the elder sister escapes, aided by her concerned male companion, she races in a cab to her aunt's home, but is frustrated in her attempt to rescue Bettina by her aunt's infirm state, the inefficiency of the police, and her own inability to remember the location of the house. She finds her cab driver, but he is drunk and soon dies in an accident. After falling ill, the sister, convinced by a dream that Bettina has died, resolves to devote her life to saving other women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-15
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