Alberta Lee
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Birthday: March 21, 1860
Deathday: November 12, 1928
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Magnificent Brute
Overview: French Canadian trapper Victor Raoul returns to the trading post at St. Ignace to find a rival for the affections of Yvonne, his business partner's daughter, in the Marquis Courtière, Parisian representative of the fur company. Raoul quarrels with Fontaine over the visitor's business dealings and his attentions to Yvonne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-12
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The Butterfly Man
Overview: Sedgewick Blynn is determined to marry a rich woman. One night he saves a child from a fire. Bessie Morgan, an heiress charmed by his act of heroism, promises to marry him, but at the last minute her father forbids it. Soon after, Blynn receives a telegram informing him of the death of his mother, and he realizes that he has wasted his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-18
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The Cheater
Overview: Lilly Meany has grown up amongst charlatans, including her father. She decides to become a faith healer, and her first victim, a rich hypochondriac woman, is easy enough to "cure." In fact, the woman's so happy with Lilly, now calling herself Vashti Dethic, that she recommends her to her nephew, Judah, Lord Asgarby, who has a crippled sister, Eve. The little girl gives Lilly so much innocent trust and love that she actually is able to walk for the first time ever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-07
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The Wolf-Man
Overview: Grinde is a junior partner of a pottery firm. An old chemist, Benjamin Lord, discovers a formula for glazing pottery that is designed to revolutionize the industry. The chemist's grandson, David, takes a sample of the new process to Grinde, who says he will give it consideration. He delegates his foreman, Mole, to steal the formula.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-09
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Rouge and Riches
Overview: Rebecca Butler, tired of poverty, takes a job in a Broadway chorus line and determines to marry a millionaire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-09
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The Wishing Ring Man
Overview: Forced to wear quaint short dresses and pigtails so that she will inspire her grandfather's sentimental poetry, nineteen-year-old Joy Havenith longs for companions of her own age.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-10
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The Little Minister
Overview: A Lord's fiancée poses as a gypsy and falls in love with the new minister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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The Little Yank
Overview: Sallie is a beautiful Kentucky girl who belongs to a family of Union sympathizers. Her brother is a lieutenant in the Union army, and on a visit home brings Major Rushton, his superior officer, who falls in love with Sallie, "the little Yank."
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-14
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Bred in the Bone
Overview: Harvy, the heavy, and Bella, the ingenue, of a cheap theatrical company are encumbered with an infant girl. The husband, a worthless, dissipated character, annoyed by the presence of the child and the care the wife is compelled to give it. deserts them both. The show then "busts" and the mother and the infant are left stranded in a small California town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-07
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Little Meena's Romance
Overview: Meena Bauer is the heroine of this romance of a Pennsylvania Dutch girl, who is loved by the son of a Mennonite family. Meena treats Jacob as a joke in spite of the arrangement their parents have made that they should wed. The Mennonite simplicity has no charms for Meena, who proceeds to fall in love with Count Fredrick von Ritz
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-09
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Overview: The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-04
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Martha's Vindication
Overview: A 1916 film directed by Chester M. Franklin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-20
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An Old Fashioned Young Man
Overview: A 1917 film directed by Lloyd Ingraham.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-14
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The Birth of a Nation
Overview: Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-08
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A Sister of Six
Overview: A young woman and her five little brothers and sisters are left orphans by the murder of their father over gold found on his ranch. Together the seven offspring fight against their greedy neighbors to keep what is rightfully theirs.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-29
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The Fourteenth Lover
Overview: Vi Marchmont (Viola Dana) is a spoiled rich girl who has thirteen lovers. Her Aunt Letitia (Kate Lester) wants her to halt her flirtatious ways and has picked Clyde Van Ness (Theodore Von Eltz) as the right one out of the bunch -- not that Vi agrees. Aunt Letitia sends her off to the country, along with Van Ness and the gardener, Richard Hardy (Jack Mulhall). Vi winds up falling for the gardener, much to her aunt's horror, and in spite of the class differences, he becomes her fourteenth lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-09
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Nancy from Nowhere
Overview: Adopted by the Kellys from an orphanage, Nancy is reared in dreadful surroundings and mistreated as the household drudge. She accidentally makes the acquaintance of Jack Halliday, son of a wealthy city family who is fishing near her home. When Mrs. Kelly beats Nancy for accepting the attentions of her husband, the girl escapes into the woods and conceals herself in the rear of Jack's car as he drives into the city.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-22
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Not Guilty
Overview: A drama of a fugitive from justice and a fugitive from love.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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The Road to Divorce
Overview: Newlyweds Mary Bird and Myron Sharpe share an idyllic life in a small New England town until the birth of their children. Myron becomes discontented as Mary's time becomes more devoted to her children than to making herself attractive for her husband. When Mary's old friend Pauline Dallas comes to visit, Myron finds himself attracted to her chic appearance. The two are on the threshold of a love affair when Mary becomes lost in a storm while boating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-05
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Prudence on Broadway
Overview: Prudence's ( Olive Thomas ) parents send her from their Pennsylvania Quaker colony to a fashionable girls seminary, hoping she can learn about the devil's tricks, instead she engages in girlish pranks, but uses her pure appearance to escape blame. Later, Prudence visits her New York aunt, a society matron, and soon attracts an array of male admirers. She falls in love with wealthy Grayson Mills, but John Melbourne, who lives off of his wife's wealth, plots to seduce her. After Melbourne loans Prudence $200 to pay a gambling debt, he forces her to go to a roadhouse by threatening to show her stern father her canceled check. At dinner, Prudence produces a love letter which Melbourne had earlier written to an actress, and says that if she is not back by midnight, her hotel clerk will show Melbourne's wife his nineteen other love letters. After Melbourne hurries her back, he discovers that she only had the one letter. Prudence now becomes engaged to Grayson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-06
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Limousine Life
Overview: After leaving her sweetheart Jed Bronson, and small country town life, Minnie Wills (Olive Thomas) obtains a job as a model in a stylish Chicago shop and soon attracts the attention of Moncure Kelts, a wealthy playboy. Enchanted by her beauty and innocence, Moncure proposes, but once she has accepted, he loses interest in her and soon becomes desperate to get rid of her. With her emotions very much under control, Minnie agrees to break off the engagement in exchange for a limousine, a large wardrobe, and a large check, and then returns to Three Oaks. Overjoyed to see her, Jed proposes, and after their marriage, Minnie convinces him to establish a business in Chicago. The plan proves highly successful, and later, when the couple encounters Moncure on the street, Minnie thanks him for giving them their start in life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-03
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Whom the Gods Would Destroy
Overview: After a young inventor discovers a powerful new explosive, agents from a German chemical firm induce him to study at a German university. While there, he is repelled by certain aspects of the people, and he leaves for Belgium. When the war begins, the inventor saves a Belgian burgomaster's daughter from Prussian invaders. The inventor and the girl endure horrible suffering because of the war, but they find happiness at its end, while the formerly fighting nations direct their effort towards world peace at the Paris conferences. The assassination of Kurt Eisner of Bavaria occurs at the end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-15
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