Florence Short
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: May 19, 1889
Age: 136 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: July 10, 1946
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The Lights of New York
Overview: Silent drama with two different New York stories. One tells of a good man led astray until a dream causes him to change his ways. The other is about a man whose despair over his love marrying another is lifted through increasingly unlikely events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-12
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The Love Flower
Overview: A man murders his wife's lover and escapes with his daughter to the South Pacific. A detective pursues him, joined by a young man who eventually falls in love with the daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-21
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The Public Defender
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-03
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Way Down East
Overview: A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-03
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The Idol Dancer
Overview: A religious zealot and his nephew are thrown together on a South Seas Island with an alcoholic beach comber and a native dancer. A battle to see who will "civilize" whom ensues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-21
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The Enchanted Cottage
Overview: The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes home to a fiancée who promptly leaves him. Licking his wounds in solitude, he meets a young woman named Laura (May McAvoy). They fall in love and agree to marry, but unexpected and magical events occur inside The Enchanted Cottage where they have agreed to spend their wedding night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-23
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Phil-for-Short
Overview: A feisty, independent young woman, Damophilia Illington ("Phil" for short, hence the title), the daughter of a progressive university professor, is devastated by the sudden death of her father. The town's banker, an arrogant stuffed shirt, wants to marry Phil and has himself declared her guardian. Not wanting to marry him, she quickly leaves town and lands a job at a nearby university as an assistant to a professor of Greek literature (an area in which her father trained her) who is bitter and resentful after the breakup of his engagement to a woman who, it turned out, had been lying to him. "Phil", however, is determined to win him over.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-02
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The Eagle's Eye
Overview: A criminologist and a government agent team up to expose a ring of German spies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-27
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Woman's Place
Overview: The Women's Political League decides to find a female candidate for mayor and their choice is Kay Gerson who, they figure, will win votes from the men because of her looks. But the town's political boss, Jim Bradley, counters with his own good-looking candidate, Freddy Bleeker, who he thinks will get the women's vote.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-17
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The Great Adventure
Overview: Ragna "Rags" Jansen has found local success and acclaim in her small town as an actress, but dreams of stardom on Broadway.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-10
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Silver Wings
Overview: Carr plays Anna Webb, whose husband John (Lynn Hammond) invents a new kind of sewing machine. The patent makes the family wealthy, and after Webb dies, Anna takes over the business. She puts her sons John (Percy Helton) and Harry Joseph Striker) in charge of the factory, while daughter Ruth (Jane Thomas) elopes. When Harry steals some money, the blame falls on John, who leaves town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-22
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The Law That Failed
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-29
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The Great Bradley Mystery
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-12
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The Mystic Hour
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-17
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The Golden God
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-18
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When You and I Were Young
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-16
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Does It Pay?
Overview: John Weston leaves his wife and kids to marry adventuress Doris Clark and loses his mind when he realizes his mistake. A lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-07
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Pay Day
Overview: The Drews are considering new scripts when they decide to produce Pay-Day, the melodramatic story of the wealthy and sinister Kirke Brentwood and his lower-class wife, Doris Fenton.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-27
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The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns
Overview: After a prologue where we are shown the backgrounds of Wilhelm II and Woodrow Wilson, we see the story of Conrad Le Brett from Alsace-Lorraine. Forced to fight for Germany Conrad, sees soldiers taking girls into a church to rape them and kills one who murders a baby. Shot in the encounter he is taken to a Brussels hospital run by nurse Edith Cavell where he falls in love with American nurse, Amy Gordon. After Edith Cavell assassination and the murder of Conrad’s sister Vilma by the evil Lieutenant Ober Conrad honors her dying request that he go to America and defend Alsace-Lorraine's reputation. Once there he convinces President Wilson that Alsatians should be allowed to enlist. Fighting with the "doughboys," Conrad kills Ober, and after the armistice, returns to Amy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Lessons in Love
Overview: Lawyer Hanover Priestley plots with his friend Henry Winkley to marry off young heiress Leila Calthorpe to Winkley's nephew, John Warren. When John refuses, preferring to select his own wife, they lure him east by a false report of Winkley's death. Indignant at his rebuff, Leila disguises herself as Perkins, a maid, and romances him, leading him to believe that Aunt Agatha is the heiress. Complications develop, and after saving her from a fire John discovers her identity and agrees to marry her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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A Man's World
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-24
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Kildare of Storm
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-16
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Destiny: or, the Soul of a Woman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-06
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