Helen Gardner
Also Known As: Miss Gardner, Helen Louise Gardner
Biography: Not only was Helen Gardner the first American film actress to form her own production company, she was also the among the first filmmakers to embrace making features, and was the first vamp on screen.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Binghamton, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 02, 1884
Age: 140 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 20, 1968
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Cleopatra
Overview: The fabled queen of Egypt's affair with Roman general Marc Antony is ultimately disastrous for both of them.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-13
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The Illumination
Overview: Set in Biblical times, this tells the story of how Jesus affected the lives of two people: Joseph, a young Jewish man, and Maximums, a centurion in the Roman army.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-05
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The Sleep Walker
Overview: A young woman does strange things, which are explained when it is discovered she is a sleep walker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-23
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Barriers Burned Away
Overview: John and Edwin Martin, two brothers, occupy, each with his own family, a double house; they are all very much united. Each one of the brothers has a child. John has a little boy, named Frank, and Edwin, a little daughter named Tillie. The two children are playmates and the wives are the closest of friends. Everything is harmonious, when like a flash of lightning from a clear sky, a quarrel, through some trifling difference of opinion, arises between the two wives, which leads to the severance of the happy relations of the two families, excepting the two children, who fortunately cannot grasp the meaning of it all and consequently remain in blissful ignorance of its purpose and are happy only when in each other's company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-24
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The Inherited Taint
Overview: Herbert Warning inherits a fortune. He becomes engaged to a society girl who leaves him for another man. Warning takes to drinking. When he meets Kathleen Holt, a nurse, he falls in love and asks her to marry him. She promises to do so if he can give up drinking for one year.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-31
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How She Won Him
Overview: Some possess youth; others good looks, and still others have money, but Muriel Hanson has all three and she is engaged to be married to a fine young man named Arthur Lewis, whose father, supposed to be a wealthy man, dies penniless.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-09
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The Moonshine Maid and the Man
Overview: Dave wants to marry Nancy, and is determined to win a reward of $1000 for the arrest of some moonshiners. During a fight, Dave is mortally wounded. As he is dying, he learns that Nancy's father is the owner of the still, and Nancy is the "man" he suspected of being a moonshiner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-07
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A Tale of Two Cities
Overview: A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-02-20
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The Butterfly
Overview: A father tries to keep his son from marrying a poor actress. She eventually becomes a famous and wealthy leading lady, and is reunited with the son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-27
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For Her Brother's Sake
Overview: The black sheep of the family is protected by his sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-06
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Treasure Trove
Overview: Patience and Anne, two spinsters of the old school of aristocratic birth, have managed to keep up appearances under very trying conditions and with limited means, until they are reduced to such circumstances they are obliged to sell their household furnishing, of antique pattern, to raise the necessary "wherewithal" to live and pay the mortgage off the old home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-25
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The Wooing of Winifred
Overview: In order to inherit their uncle's property, two cousins must marry each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-11
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The Breath of Araby
Overview: A woman attempts to attract a man by using a thousand-year-old love potion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-08
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The Lure of Vanity
Overview: Miss Edna White is very much grieved when she has not a suitable gown to wear at a party. Mrs. Donald, a wealthy customer, calls and asks Edna to try the dress on she has bought for her inspection. It answers her purposes, and Edna is instructed to deliver the dress that night, on her way home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-18
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Underneath the Paint
Overview: Walking through the Ghetto, Arthur Kellogg rescues Tryphena Winters, an actress, and her little sister, Salome, from starvation. He falls in love with, and proposes marriage to Tryphena, but she tells him she must first make her success on the stage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-14
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A Princess of Bagdad
Overview: A caliph imprisons the cobbler's son his daughter has fallen in love with, but the cobbler's discovery of a treasure cave may be the key to freeing his son.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-01
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She Came, She Saw, She Conquered
Overview: Rose Leigh is a young schoolteacher. She sees a paragraph in the paper, saying that in a certain small village they have had in six months, three teachers (men), and all have left because the boys are so unruly and impossible. She resolves to try the experiment of giving them a woman teacher, and applies for the situation. The trustees of the school, who are at their wits' end, gladly accept the offer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-26
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Snatched from a Burning Death
Overview: LeGrande, an old trapper, refuses to vacate his favorite hunting grounds when ordered to do so by Sampson and other settlers, and his life is only saved through the intervention of his daughter, Joan. The rascals soon learn to fear the girl's keen wit and daring, and Sampson, already pledged to marry Sanchezza, a Mexican girl, falls in love with Joan.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-09
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A Quaker Mother
Overview: Mrs. Pearson is a little different from most mothers, at least in her general appearance, for she has that sweetness and calmness of disposition, which is characteristic of the Quakeress. Lois, her only child, does not inherit her mother's sedate and quiet temperament, apparently she is no different from other girls, quite natural, and does not object to the attentions paid her by John Harmon, who is very much in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-27
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The Still, Small Voice
Overview: The influence of Musa, a wildly beautiful dumb girl, upon every citizen of Gallows Gulch, a rough western mining town, is almost uncanny. They fear, yet hate her, and claim she has "the evil eye."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-23
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Miss Jekyll and Madame Hyde
Overview: Madeline Jekyll meets Baron Stana, a distinguished looking man, and finds her father has promised her in marriage to Daggerts, a politician, who, in reward, has agreed to see that Jekyll is elected governor. Madeline is already in love with Robert Mayhew, and rebels at the prearranged marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-19
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The Death of King Edward III
Overview: King Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. He was a son of Edward the Second and he was born at Windsor Castle, November 13th, 1312. He was celebrated for his wars with the Scottish king and his battles with France. He started the "One Hundred Years' War." In his invasions of France, he was accompanied by his eldest son, "The Black Prince,"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-05
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Sandra
Overview: BY DAY a beautiful wife-accepting a husband's humble love, his humble home, his humble pleasures. BY NIGHT a glittering butterfly yearning for the wine of life and tossing all to the winds when the glamour of romance calls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-01
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For Love and Glory
Overview: Young Lieut. Osmond, of the British Army, is engaged to be married to Rose Seaton. His father objects. Later they are married, and Lieut. Osmond is denounced as his son.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-14
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Regeneration
Overview: Hunter Ross deserts his wife and child and she is driven to the extremes of poverty, being obliged in sell pencils to keep the spark of life in herself and little one. Fearing the worst, she writes a note, saying, "I am the wife of Hunter Ross, and this is our child," pinning the note on the child's dress in the hope that someone will find and care for the little girl, in case anything should happen to herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-28
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Madge of the Mountains
Overview: Harry Brownley, son of a rich New Yorker, reads a newspaper account of U.S. Revenue officers' plan to raid an illicit distillery in the Tennessee mountains. The young fellow asks his father's permission to join the forces under Sheriff Jackson, of Pikesville, Tennessee. The father reluctantly consents and the son starts out to satisfy his adventurous nature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-31
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By Woman's Wit
Overview: A woman objects to her bachelor friend getting married, so she makes him appear so ridiculous that the other woman refuses to marry him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-16
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Ups and Downs
Overview: Unless Marion Norman's intended husband can support her in the same style in which her father has, Mr. Norman will not agree to her marriage with Billy Wallace, and threatens to disinherit her if she disobeys him.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-07
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Arbutus
Overview: Carleton Holt locates at one of the mountain inns. On one of his daily trips he hears a mountain maid singing in the woods. Jumping from his horse, he makes his way to where she is sitting to find her holding a bunch of arbutus in her hands. He is fascinated. It is mutual.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-08
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The Girl and the Sheriff
Overview: A mountaineer, who has been shot by a pursuing sheriff, is concealed by a mountain girl in her cabin. When the sheriff arrives, she gives him whiskey, while secretly removing the bullets from his gun.
Genres: Drama Romance Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-14
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An Aeroplane Elopement
Overview: Maude Brooks is in love with an aviator, George Pinckney. Maude tells her father that she intends to marry George, as he is a splendid fellow, but her father will not listen to her. So she decides to elope. Maude meets George at the machine and together they fly up into the air. Mr. Brooks, who has been apprised of his daughter's intentions, starts in pursuit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-11
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The Freshet
Overview: Tom Ennis, a stalwart, sturdy fellow, is apprenticed to John Matthews, the village blacksmith, whose daughter is a likable girl. Tom falls in love with her, but her father opposes him and Meg marries one who is her father's choice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-28
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A Reformed Santa Claus
Overview: The employees of Harrison's mine have been out on strike for a long time. The men wait for him until he is leaving his office in the evening. They try to state their case but he entirely ignores them. They attack him. In terror, he flees before them, escaping by entering the home of a poor widow with two children.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-22
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Her Boy
Overview: Far up in the mountains Mrs. Bailor's two sons, Tom and Harry, are engaged at their distilling, constantly in fear of being pursued by the revenue officers, and arrested as moonshiners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-09
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A Problem in Reduction
Overview: Mrs. Smartly thinks she is too fleshy and decides to take a course of treatment. She consults her maid, who recommends a beauty doctor, and the doctor in return recommends a course of exercises and appliances. She follows it regularly, but she still grows fatter and fatter until, disgusted, she gives up these fads and fancies and goes back to a normal state
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-03
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Where the Money Went
Overview: Fred Hart, a young businessman, unknown to his wife, draws their savings from the bank with the purpose of buying a home as a birthday surprise for his wife. He finds a real estate agent who has just the kind of a home he is looking for. He has to visit the agent's home during the course of his business transactions, he becomes well acquainted with the agent's family. The real estate man, a camera fiend, suggests to Fred his taking a picture of him and his family. Fred is agreeable and the agent gives him a copy of the picture. Fred puts it in his pocket and returns home to his wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-29
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The Love of John Ruskin
Overview: John Ruskin became acquainted with his wife through a loan which he made to her father, and his noted generosity no doubt appealed to her and it seems that she married him more out of gratitude than actual love. Be that as it may, the fact remains that when Millais met her, he and she fell desperately in love with each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-20
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The Old Silver Watch
Overview: Mary Collins dies leaving two children; Mildred ('Lucie') and Frank. On her deathbed, she gives Frank a silver watch that belonged to his father. The children are separated from each other and grow up with foster parents. Lucie and Frank meet again when he rescues her from a thief. They fall in love, unaware they are brother and sister. On their wedding day Frank is shot by the vengeful thief. The bullet however is stopped by the silver watch. On seeing the watch, Lucie realizes that they are brother and sister; the marriage is cancelled.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-19
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The Serpents
Overview: Wending their way and locating in a land far from the contentions through which they passed a few weeks before, Eric and Chloe are located in a garden spot of primeval beauty, surrounded by all the imposing grandeur of nature. Chloe is pursued by the covetous desire of Haakon, a false friend, who strives by subtle charms to lure her from Eric, who in turn is tempted by Linda, her cunning and beauty, to desert Chloe and live with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-08
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Becky, Becky
Overview: Becky, Becky is a 1913 film short.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-26
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The Miracle
Overview: A story of that famous adventurer, Haroun al Rashid, the Caliph of Bagdad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-29
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Yellow Bird
Overview: Disregarding the sanctity of "Song Bird's" feelings, John Strong, a young surveyor in the pioneer forests of the west, makes love to the Indian maiden whenever he chances to meet her, until she longs and looks for his coming and going, and finds that he has made himself part of her life.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-12
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The Heart of Esmeralda
Overview: Esmeralda Foster, an attractive girl, is very much impressed with Duncan Miller, a crafty country swain, who makes love to Esmeralda because of her father's wealth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-13
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The Party Dress
Overview: Lydia Borne picks up the only party dress she possesses and finds it full of wrinkles. A dance to which she is invited is to be held that evening. Time is precious, so hurriedly beating an iron, she is pressing the skirt and accidentally scorches it. Her dress is ruined. She goes to the attic, where she picks up an old daguerreotype of her grandmother in a very pretty, old-fashioned gown, which is exactly the same style of the present period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-24
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The Sleep of Cyma Roget
Overview: Cyma Roget, a beautiful young woman, has fallen under the influence of the evil Hindu scientist Chandra Dak, who can cast her at will into a hypnotic state resembling death. Chandra Dak's power over Cyma wanes as his love for her grows, however, and one night she escapes and takes refuge in the atelier of three young and struggling Bohemian artists. During her stay at the atelier, she becomes an artist's model and forms an attachment to one of the artists, Paul Bridere, but soon Chandra Dak falls out of love with Cyma and sends her into a hypnotic coma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-01
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Eureka!
Overview: A woman is shipwrecked on a deserted island suffering a loss of memory during the incident. Rescued by a sailor they fall in love and marry, but when her memory is restored she realizes she already has a husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-05
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Alixe; or, the Test of Friendship
Overview: Alixe is courted by many admirers. Her most persistent companion is Morton Shaw. Arlington Tappan also loves Alixe, and urges her to give up her associations with Shaw. She does so and is very happy until Arlington becomes more absorbed in his business affairs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-02
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The Wife of Cain
Overview: One brother kills another over the love of a beautiful woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-01
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Vampire of the Desert
Overview: Ishmael, the son of Hagar, an old hag, living on the edge of the desert, falls completely under the charms of Lispeth, a vampire. One day there passes the miserable hut in which these three strange people live, a wealthy banker, named William Corday, his wife and son. Derrick. Lispeth wields her magic power over the husband and soon has him in her power. When he attempts to kiss her, she repulses him. So clever is she that the wife has no idea of her husband's unfaithfulness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-16
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Vanity Fair
Overview: A silent short film telling the classic story of Becky Sharp.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-02
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An Innocent Theft
Overview: Out of desperation, poor Joe, who lives with his sick mother, steals money from the church’s collection. His mother finds out, and wants him to bring the money back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-27
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The Show Girl
Overview: Audrey, a charming actress, but classed among the show girls, is invited with some of her stage companions, to have lunch with an old friend, by the name of Dr. Renfrew. The doctor and Audrey, eating together, talk over old times and renew their friendship; she takes his attentions seriously and becomes very much impressed with his pleasant companionship. Night after night the doctor attends the performance in which she appears as the "headliner," and never fails to greet her with generous applause and a bouquet of flowers as marks of admiration. To emphasize his friendship or infatuation he sends her a string of pearls, begging her to accept it as a souvenir of happy days gone by. Through a member of the company in which she is playing, she learns that Dr. Renfrew is married, and at her friend's suggestion redirects his note back to his wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-18
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A Sister to Carmen
Overview: Margo, daughter of Spanish smuggler Hamalo is loved by Quentin, a poor local boy, but she tells him he must have money before they can marry. The local constable Lambro is also drawn to her, but she turns him down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-15
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The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray
Overview: Loose adaptation of Mary Shelley‘s “Frankenstein”.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1914-10-26
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The Common Sin
Overview: A gypsy girl grows up with the sole purpose of seeking revenge against the man responsible for her mother's death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-13
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