Arthur Hoops
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Birthday: January 01, 1870
Deathday: September 16, 1916
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Song of Hate
Overview: Roman Regent of Police Baron Scarpia, loves Floria Tosca, a beautiful opera singer, but she is engaged to artist Maurice Saranof. Inspired by jealousy, Scarpia orders his soldiers to torture Saranof for information leading to the location of a friend suspected of being an Austrian spy. Forced to listen to Saranof's cries of pain, Tosca relents and reveals the whereabouts of the friend. Spurned by Saranof for her weakness, she must then negotiate with Scarpia for his life and offers herself to the baron in exchange for a phony execution. While embracing, Tosca stabs and kills Scarpia, who supposedly has arranged for blank bullets to be put in the soldiers' guns. In spite of the baron's promise, Saranof is executed, and Tosca, destroyed, climbs the prison wall. Shot while climbing, she falls to her death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-01
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Such a Little Queen
Overview: A lost film. Queen Anna Victoria of Herzegovina is exiled from her tiny country and forced to live in poverty in America. Meanwhile, King Stephen of Bosnia, whom she loves but cannot marry due to political reasons, also is exiled to America. When both are forced by circumstances to get jobs, they go to work for wealthy New York meat packer Adolph Lauman who soon decides that his daughter should marry Stephen for social status. Eventually, Lauman's daughter convinces her father that she is in love with an American and Stephen and Anna are returned to their respective thrones, now free to marry each other. -From TCM.com Database, powered by the AFI.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-20
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The Lost Paradise
Overview: Unknown to Reuben Warren, the foreman of an ironworks, his invention, the volta-dynamo, was stolen years earlier by his employer, Knowlton, and is the foundation for the iron magnate's financial empire. Reuben is in love with Knowlton's daughter Margaret, who is engaged to Ralph Standish, the son of Reuben's deceased mentor. A strike against inhumane working conditions at the mill coincides with the discovery of Knowlton's theft by Reuben, who confronts the employer with proof of his treachery. Margaret later breaks her engagement to Ralph and proclaims her love for Reuben. As Margaret's husband, Reuben now owns half of the mill and gladly meets the strikers' demands. -From TCM.com Database, powered by the AFI.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-01
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The Soul Market
Overview: Having made public her disdain for wealthy men, musical comedy actress Elaine Elton is nonetheless ardently pursued by a handsome young millionaire who, for her sake, poses as his own chauffeur. A romance blossoms, but Elaine cannot accept the handsome millionaire's marriage proposal; she has already promised to marry a powerful producer who has threatened to blacklist her from Broadway if she refuses to become his bride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-12
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Esmeralda
Overview: A lost film. Esmeralda, a simple farm girl is in love with country boy David, but her mother yearns for a high society city life. Ore is discovered on their farm and the money rolls in. The family is packed up and moved to the big city where Esmeralda is forced into an engagement with a wealthy Count. Suddenly the ore is depleted and a fresh supply is discovered on David's farm. Much to the delight of Esmeralda, her impending marriage to the Count is off and her mother happily consents to a marriage between Esmeralda and David.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-06
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Mistress Nell
Overview: Nell Gwyn and King Charles II fall in love after meeting at a fox hunt. Nell soon learns the jealous Duchess of Portsmouth is a spy and conspiring with the Duke of Buckingham to place Charles at the mercy of the King of France. Nell boldly disguises herself as a fashionable young blade and wins the confidence of the Duchess. Now entrusted with the delivery of important documents, she makes sure they go to the King of England rather than the King of France.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-01
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The Eternal Question
Overview: Pierre Felix, a couturier, makes a $25,000 bet with Ralph Courtland that he can take a girl from the streets, dress her appropriately, and within three months have her accepted into society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-03
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The Scarlet Woman
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-29
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Extravagance
Overview: Raised in the lap of luxury, Norma Russell is ill-prepared for her father's financial reverses. In exchange for a $25,000 loan, Norma's dad promises her hand in marriage to bank president Howard Dundore.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-06
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Bridges Burned
Overview: When Mary O'Brien falls in love with Ernest Randall, the younger son of an English baronet, she gives herself completely to him and becomes pregnant. Her father (Robert Broderick), an Irish gentleman, finds this out and demands that she marry Randall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-05
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The Mummy and the Humming-Bird
Overview: The Mummy and the Humming-Bird recounts the tragedy of a neglected wife who seeks amusement in the company of an unscrupulous Italian novelist whose only object in making love to her is the hope of eventually accomplishing her downfall. The reawakening of the unsuspecting husband, the revenge of which a former victim of the wily schemer wreaks, and the saving of the innocent woman are fraught with thrills and dramatic suspense in abundance. It is the sort of production which can not but impress those who view it. This film is lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1915-11-11
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When We Were Twenty-One
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-05
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The Better Man
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-10
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The Straight Road
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-12
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Aristocracy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-26
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Gretna Green
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-15
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A Woman's Resurrection
Overview: Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-01
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Should a Mother Tell
Overview: Faced with the tragic responsibility of choosing between the happiness of her 16-year-old daughter Pamela or saving the life of an innocent man, Marie Baudin's first impulse is to sacrifice all for her own. But she has second thoughts that bring complications to all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-01
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The Danger Signal
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-01
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The Law of Blood
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-05
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The Lure of Heart's Desire
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-17
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The Final Curtain
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-02
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Playing with Fire
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-17
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The Spell of the Yukon
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-15
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The Secret of Eve
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 1917-02-26
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