Edna Mayo
Also Known As: Edna Lane
Biography: Leading lady of the silent screen, on stage from 1906 and prominent in films with Essanay between 1914 and 1918. She was tagged as "the best-dressed film actress" with numerous publicity stills in McClure's, McCall's, Ladies World, and Pictorial Review.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: March 22, 1895
Deathday: May 05, 1970
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Blindness of Virtue
Overview: The Hon. Archibald Graham is expelled from college and his indignant father sends him to a little English village to study under the Rev. Harry Pemberton. Misunderstood by his father, he has grown up somewhat reckless and dissipated. All this is changed under the tutelage of the minister and he enters into the spirit of his studies with zeal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-19
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Frauds
Overview: Zelda Dunbar, a detective, on the trail of two notorious blackmailers, offers herself as their accomplice and is accepted by Eldridge and Mortimer. Zelda wins the heart of Kendrick, a rich bachelor. Zelda slips Kendrick a note saying her father is going to force her to marry a man she does not love. Kendrick takes the girl into another state.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-01
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The Misleading Lady
Overview: Helen Steele, who has theatrical aspirations, has been told by Sidney Parker that, owing to her lack of stage experience he cannot entertain her proposition of giving her the leading part in his new production, "The Siren." Believing that she can get Parker to consent if she is persuasive enough, Helen has her fiancé, Henry Tracey, invite the theatrical manager to the party to be given by John W. Cannell so that she may work upon him. At the affair Helen manages to obtain Parker's consent to give her a trial it she is successful in having Jack Craigen, a friend of Cannell, who has been living in Patagonia for a long time and who is a woman hater, propose to her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-03
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The Return of Eve
Overview: Believing that over-civilization was destroying the race, Eli Tapper, an eccentric millionaire, took two unrelated orphan children, a boy and a girl, and placed them in a wilderness, there in the care of an old tutor, David Winters, to grow up as a new Adam and Eve, and become path-breakers of a better race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-16
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The Chaperon
Overview: Jim Ogden, secretly engaged to Madge Hemmingway, wealthy heiress, becomes sensitive over his lack of money and breaks the engagement. In a moment of pique she marries Count Van Tuyle. After six months she returns from Europe, minus her husband. Trying to forget her error, she goes to the country.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-20
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The Greater Courage
Overview: Gilbert and Lawrence Carthage are in love with Peggy Lorraine. George Duncan, a wealthy and unscrupulous bachelor, insults Peggy in Gilbert's presence. Being timid and retiring, he does nothing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-12
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The Key to Yesterday
Overview: George Carter, a revolutionist in South America, is the exact double of Frederick Marston, a famous artist in Paris. Carter is betrayed by a comrade and is sentenced to be shot. He takes a desperate chance and escapes on board a vessel bound for London. In Paris Marston is stabbed by a model because he does not return her love. The wound incapacitates him from painting, and leaves an ugly scar, and he goes to America on a vacation. Highwaymen attack him, inflicting injuries which cause a total loss of memory. The robbers leave nothing in his pockets but the key to his Paris studio, and Marston adopts the name of Robert Anglo-Saxon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-12
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Graustark
Overview: While traveling by train from Denver to Washington, DC, wealthy young Grenfall Lorry meets a beautiful young girl. When they are accidentally left behind in a mining town, they race through the mountains and finally catch it. They travel to Washington and have a great time, but they soon part. They meet again later in the small European country of Graustark, where Grenfall and his friend Harry rescue her from kidnappers, and they then discover that she is actually the country's Princess Yetiva. She is engaged to Prinze Lorenz of Asphan in order to pay off Graustark's enormous debt from the war, but Lorenz is murdered and Grenfall is framed for the crime. Complications ensue.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-16
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The Strange Case of Mary Page
Overview: A 15-episode dramatic action movie serial only two of which survive.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-24
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Aristocracy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-26
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