Mary Fuller
Also Known As: Mary Claire Fuller, Claire Fuller
Biography: Mary Fuller was an American stage and silent film actress and screenwriter.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 05, 1888
Age: 136 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 09, 1973
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Frankenstein
Overview: Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-03-18
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A Stage Romance
Overview: Mary is as stage actress preparing for opening night. Her part calls for her to shoot a Union soldier being played by her beau. Unknown to Mary another spurned suitor replaces the blanks in the prop gun with real bullets hoping to kill her beau.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-02-17
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Jean the Match-Maker
Overview: Bent on having a summer’s vacation, two working girls hire a tent and pitch their camp on the shore of a beautiful lake. As fate would have it, two farmer lads, living with their widowed mother and their pet border collie Jean, unexpectedly come onto the tent of the girls.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-19
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Stars of Yesterday
Overview: Stars of Yesterday documentary film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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The Heart of the Hills
Overview: Lisbeth Ann is a child of the wilds. In a gingham gown and bare feet she roams the mountain sides as care-free as the birds which carol in the pine trees above her. Creeping along the mountain trail one morning she overhears two men discussing a land deal in which her father has been concerned. To her dismay she learns that her father has disposed of a valuable piece of land underneath which are rich coal veins. Realizing that her father has been duped, the girl is about to shoot the man who has bought the property, when his kindly face restrains her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-19
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Who Will Marry Mary?
Overview: Six part adventure serial starring Mary Fuller as the sought after heroine. Episodes: 1) A Proposal From The Duke; 2) A Proposal From The Spanish Don; 3) A Proposal From The Sculptor; 4) A Proposal From Nobody; 5) A Proposal Deferred; 6) A Proposal From Mary
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-26
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Under Southern Skies
Overview: Lelia Crofton, a Louisiana belle of the 1860s, loves Burleigh Mavor. By chance, she sees one of her father's black stablemen making love to a neighbor's maid, whom she supposed was white. The incident shocks Lelia and leaves a great impression upon her. When she rejects suitor Steve Daubeney, he threatens to expose a damaging secret about her mother, whom she has never met. Remembering the incident with the neighbor's maid, Lelia worries that her mother might be black, and when Daubeney learns of her fears, he leads her to believe that they are well-founded.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-20
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Leah the Forsaken
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-10
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The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan
Overview: An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011 in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-31
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Aida
Overview: Aida, daughter of the King of Ethiopia, having fallen a prisoner into the hands of the Egyptians, is given as a slave by their king to his daughter Amneris who, captivated by the grace and beauty of the unknown maid, takes her into favor. Radames, a young captain of the king's guards, loved by Amneris, suspecting a rival in her slave, swears to be avenged. Meanwhile war is again declared between Egypt and Ethiopia and Radames, appointed leader of the army by the High Priest of Isis, is invested with the sacred arms and departs to fight the Ethiopians who, headed by their king, have invaded Egypt. Radames defeats them and returns victorious, followed by the prisoners, among whom is the king himself, disguised as an officer.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-02
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His Mother's Thanksgiving
Overview: This holiday-themed melodrama released by Edison Studios in 1910 concerns Robert, a young man who leaves his mother’s home in New England to forge a career in the big city. When he achieves “fame and fortune” six years later, his proud mother can’t wait to welcome him home for Thanksgiving. Robert, however, intends to stay in the city to enjoy a holiday feast with his society friends and beautiful fiancée. When Mom decides to pay a surprise visit on Thanksgiving Day, she is saddened to find that her son is so ashamed of her that he relegates her to an upstairs room, out of sight and out of mind.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-11-22
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Children Who Labor
Overview: The father of a working class family is having trouble finding a job, because the local textile mill is hiring only inexpensive child labor. Reluctantly, he allows his oldest daughter to work in the mill. Meanwhile, in New York, the wealthy businessman Hanscomb is being urged to speak out against child labor, but he declines to do so. Then, while Mrs. Hanscomb and her daughter are traveling, the young girl accidentally wanders away, gets lost, and is taken in by the working class family. To help them, she takes a job in the mill. While this is taking place, Hanscomb has initiated a search for the daughter even as he goes about building up his financial empire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-22
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A Modern Cinderella
Overview: This Cinderella is up to date. She and her sister Jane receive an invitation to a reception. Jane, selfish and arrogant, is carried away with her own vanity and anticipation of making a "hit" and being the belle of the evening. Cinderella, her sister, looks at her simple and ordinary drew, which is the best of her limited wardrobe, and says she will have to wear it or stay at home. Jane says she will look like a "frump," and be out of place, anyway. Poor Cinderella decides to remain at home. Mrs. Marvin, an elderly visitor, happens into the room and Cinderella, always kind and thoughtful, makes the old lady comfortable. She is attracted to the display of Jane's finery and asks the reason. Cinderella tells her all about the reception.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-06-07
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The Ambassador's Daughter
Overview: The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-21
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Thirty Days at Hard Labor
Overview: Jack must prove himself before Beatrice's father will allow him to continue seeing his daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-09
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The House of Cards
Overview: The rancher whom Tom works for has entrusted Tom with a bag of gold to take to the bank. But on arriving at the bank, Tom finds that it is closed for the day. It is not long before Tom is lured into a game of cards, and loses the rancher's money. Soon there is a warrant out for Tom's arrest on a charge of embezzlement, and his situation becomes increasingly desperate.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-10
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Hansel and Gretel
Overview: One of the first, of not the first, film adaptation of Grimm's fairytale.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-10-14
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A Modern Cinderella
Overview: This 20th-century retelling of the classic fairy tale keeps all the familiar elements — a selfish step-sister, a put-upon beauty, a Prince Charming, and, of course, a lost slipper — but shifts the action to a contemporary boarding house. Cinderella, played by Mary Fuller, befriends an elderly resident, who buys a party outfit for her favorite when Cinderella’s elder sister preens for a dance. The new clothes transform the unassuming maiden into the toast of the ball. Finding Cinderella’s missing shoe, a dashing young man follows the clue to his grandmother, Cinderella’s friend at the boarding house, who works her magic to reunite the couple.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-07
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A Proposal from the Duke
Overview: Episode of a romantic serial starring Mary Fuller. Mary is looking for a man, and this time she wants an aristocratic gentleman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-22
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What Happened to Mary
Overview: The forerunner of all serials, What Happened to Mary was a series of twelve monthly one reel episodes, each a complete entity in itself, revolving its immediate dramatic and melodramatic problems within the framework of a single episode and designed more for story and suspense situations than action.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-25
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A Question of Seconds
Overview: Hardwell, a young engineer, running a new railroad through a tough western section, falls in love with Bonita, daughter of Jim Collins, a wealthy ranchman. Haligo Laderez, a wealthy Mexican, also has his eye on Bonita. When he sees that Bonita is favoring Hardwell, he invites the gang of Mexicans working for Hardwell to strike for more money. They are refused, so Haligo sets about capturing Hardwell, who has escaped and is on his way to the sheriff. As he is making his way through a narrow railway cut, Hardwell is hemmed in at both sides by Haligo's men, so he takes refuge behind a barricade of rocks. Unable to get at Hardwell, Haligo places a can of gun powder in front of the rocks and lights the fuse. Just before the flame reaches the can, Bonita and the sheriff arrive, putting the Mexicans to flight. The next day Bonita's father agrees to let her become the wife of Hardwell.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-13
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A Sea Mystery
Overview: A drama in which the young Mona is chased by her wicked husband, but is then helped by the fishermen Bob and Paul.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-21
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Overview: The incidents of this story are some of those preceding and leading up to the Civil War in 1861 and the Declaration of Emancipation. The central figure in the drama is Uncle Tom, a slave initially in the possession of the Shelbys of Kentucky. A 1927 re-release of this film cut the original runtime in half, and in its extant, fragmentary state, it runs 14 minutes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-07-26
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A Huntress of Men
Overview: Upon hearing about a woman dubbed The Huntress because of her wild attention craving ways, Fleming Harcourt decides he can domesticate her and they marry. He takes her to settle down in a mining town, however she soon becomes bored and returns to the city and her lavish parties with plenty of adoring male admirers. Fleming decides to make her jealous by flirting with other women. When the Huntress hears the rumors of his affairs, she soon realizes her one true love is Fleming, and they are happily reunited.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-08
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Michael Strogoff
Overview: A graphic reproduction of Jules Verne's famous story under the above title. It deals with a secret mission in Russia
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-04-01
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The Strength of the Weak
Overview: Soon after Pauline D'Arcy, an untutored country girl from the Northwest, is left destitute by the death of her father, she falls in love with a middle-aged married man, John Adams, whose alias is Abbott. Although never intending to marry her, Abbott promises to send Pauline to college. During her studies, she falls in love with her lover's son Richard, while at the same time establishing a literary career. She anonymously publishes a novel based on her experiences and it becomes a best seller.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-12
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The Woman Who Lied
Overview: After a stirring performance, Cleo Martell, a renowned stage actress, is visited in her dressing room by Gordon Trent, a too ardent admirer. When Cleo's husband enters, a fight ensues, and Trent kills his rival in the struggle. Jack Stanley arrives on the scene to help but is accused of the murder by Cleo and is sent off to prison. The opportunistic Trent marries Jack's rich fiancée Helen Forde, who believes that her former lover is guilty of unfaithfulness. Jealous of the arrangement, Cleo eventually tells Helen the truth about the killing, causing Betty, Helen's daughter, to cry over her mother's unhappiness. Moved by the girl's tears, Cleo joins forces with Helen against Trent, and the two women go West where Jack, escaped from prison, works as a cowboy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-06
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Alexia's Strategy
Overview: Walter Young and John Osgood are both in love with Alexia Trexell, daughter of the president of the trust company where both young men work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-06
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Thrown to the Lions
Overview: Linnie Carter, a cabaret entertainer, struggles to remain innocent in the midst of the fast life. Harry Sullivan, a gangster, becomes attentive to Linnie and asks her to marry him and, believing that his intentions are sincere, she accepts. When Linnie's friend Irma Wood and her husband Billy, who plays a clown in a cabaret act, discover that Harry has no intention of marrying Linnie and that Linnie is in danger, they rescue her from a phony marriage ceremony and force her to face the truth about Harry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-24
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With The Eyes Of The Blind
Overview: Ruthless stockbroker John McLane has ruined James Horton through reckless money management. McLane is extremely hard in business matters. When Horton’s son, Walter, confronts McLane they have a stormy altercation in which McLane is accidentally killed with a paper knife. McLane’s blind daughter Nora has been upstairs during the incident but runs down to find Horton sitting in a chair feigning sleep. Nora touches him lightly on the face thus impressing his features in her mind and when she turns to her father he flees. In time Nora’s blindness is cured and at a house party she meets Walter Horton. He recognizes her but she does not know him, and they fall in love but when she touches his face, she realizes the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-01
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The Long Trail
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-23
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The Heart of a Mermaid
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-05
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The Tale of the 'C'
Overview: When young Mary Carpenter and wealthy Peter Cooper, both carrying luggage initialed with a large “C,” check into a seaside hotel they end up with each other’s bags. Mary, an astronomy fan, has several volumes by Prof. Carl Von Munsternberg mixed in her bag which Peter takes note of before also slipping in a bestseller, "The Road to Love," before returning it to the desk and retrieving his own bags. Peter, trying to avoid a widow who pursues him but still meet Mary, disguises himself as Prof. Von Munsternberg so that Mary will take notice of him. Gaining her acquaintance all is going well until the real professor shows up! Becoming convinced Peter is the thief who stole the widow’s jewels a madcap chase begins that ends with Mary and Peter united at last.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-24
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The Taming of Mary
Overview: Comic short reworking of "The Taming of the Shrew".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-20
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The Awakening of John Bond
Overview: A slumlord learns just how important it is to maintain clean living quarters when his wife contracts tuberculosis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-04
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