Olga Petrova
Also Known As: Muriel Harding, Ellen Constance Muriel Harding
Biography: Olga Petrova (née Muriel Harding) was a British-American actress, screenwriter and playwright. Not to be confused with the Russian silent film actress of the same name.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: May 10, 1884
Age: 141 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 30, 1977
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Heart of a Painted Woman
Overview: Young Martha Redmond, a poor girl from a small town, leaves to find a singing career in New York City. She doesn't find success as a singer, but finds a job as a model for a prominent artist, and soon becomes his mistress. When her lover throws her over to marry the daughter of a wealthy man, she becomes a "fallen women", a plaything for wealthy playboys. She meets Barrett, a millionaire's son, and begins to wonder if she might have a future with him, but it seems like he'll turn out to be just like "all the others".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-19
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My Madonna
Overview: Inspired by a Robert W. Service poem, the story concerns a Parisian demimonde named Lucille who becomes the model of an aspiring artist named Robert. Falling in love with Robert, Lucille endeavors to spare him disappointment by secretly buying his "unsaleable" paintings. Luck of luck, one of his portraits of Lucille, "My Madonna," wins first prize in an art contest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-25
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What Will People Say?
Overview: Persis Cabot, the daughter of a multi-millionaire meets young officer Harvey Forbes and falls in love but cannot marry him because of her father’s financial reverses. She enters a marriage of convenience, but her husband is a philander who makes her miserable. Despite his faithlessness he is possessive of Persis and driven by jealousy he attempts to kill her, but Harvey rescues her, and they are united at last.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-03
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The Panther Woman
Overview: Orphan Patience Sparhawk grows up poor until she becomes the ward of the wealthy Miss Tremont. Eventually out of gratitude Patience marries Miss Tremont's nephew, Beverly Peale, out of gratitude only to discover he is a drug user, making their marriage unhappy. When Beverly is found dead from a drug overdose Patience is accused of murder, put on trial and sentenced to die in the electric chair but is saved at the eleventh hour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-25
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The Black Butterfly
Overview: Sonia Smirnov, a Paris opera singer known as "The Black Butterfly", starts an affair with young Alan Hall. Hall, however, is still pining over his previous lover, a young peasant girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-04
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Law of the Land
Overview: In order to save her mother from disgrace, Margaret marries Richard Harding even though she really loves Geoffrey Morton.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-12
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Exile
Overview: Vincento Perez, the governor of the Portuguese colony of Exile, is an unscrupulous and brutal man who is hated by the natives. Furthering his schemes, Perez tries to force silk dealers out of business, and reveals his plans to government engineer Richmond Harvey in a letter appealing for the American's help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-01
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Daughter of Destiny
Overview: In the days before the U.S. enters World War I Marion Ashley, an American woman living in Paris, discovers that her husband, Franz Jorn, is a spy. So she leaves him and goes to the neighboring (and fictional) neutral nation of Belmark to stay with her father, an American Ambassador. After she hears her husband has been killed, she resumes an old romance with the Crown Prince and they go through a secret morganatic marriage ceremony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-23
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The Tigress
Overview: Heroine Stella is not a "tigress" at all, but instead a loving wife and mother. All this changes when the despotic and rapacious Governor of Euturia, whose sexual overtures have been spurned by Stella, orders that her husband be executed and her child kidnapped.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-07
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The Vampire
Overview: The Vampire is a surviving 1915 silent film drama directed by Alice Guy and starring Olga Petrova. It is one of Petrova's and Guy's few surviving silent films.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1915-08-09
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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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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
Overview: Bank official Hanlin Davis is ruined in the stock market. Desperate, he fails to rob the bank but kills someone in the attempt. His wife Thora goes to D.A. Hastings to plead for a light sentence which the corrupt Hastings agrees to only if Thora gives herself to him. Upon his release the worthless Davis learning of her sacrifice divorces and turns her into the street. An outcast she becomes "the scarlet woman.” When wealthy crusader Robert Blake institutes an investigation exposing D.A. Hastings he is disbarred and decides to revenge himself upon Thora, considering her the cause of his downfall. Blackmailing unscrupulous society woman, Paula Gordon, he forces her to introduce Thora to Blake as a naïve woman while deceiving Thora that he knows about her past. After they marry Hastings denounces Thora, she flees, returning to her old life, but Blake, seeing her worth seeks her and they reunite.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-29
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The Waiting Soul
Overview: This morality play of the starts off with Grace Vaughn running off with married man Dudley Kent (Wyndham Standing). While sailing to England, they meet Mr. and Mrs. Hargrove. Mrs. Hargrove tries to talk Grace out of ruining her life, but the girl won't listen. After a few months, Kent leaves Grace and she gets mixed up with a woman who runs a house of ill repute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-02
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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 Light Within
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-01
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Playing with Fire
Overview: Jean Servian's eyesight is failing and is desperate for money, marries wealthy widower Geoffrey Vane after telling him that he must be satisfied with her gratitude rather than her love. Then, following an affair with artist Philip Derblay, who finally leaves her, Jean settles down to a quiet, boring life with Geoffrey, who knows nothing about her failed romance. Years later, however, after Lucille, Geoffrey's daughter by his first wife, becomes engaged to Philip, Jean feels compelled to tell the story of her own affair with him. The disclosure has little effect as Lucille makes no change in her wedding plans, but then, when she breaks in on a violent argument between Philip and Lucille, Jean accidentally shoots and kills her former lover. A trial results in her acquittal, however, after which Jean realizes that she really does love Geoffrey, who easily forgives his wife for her past indiscretion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-17
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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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