Julia Swayne Gordon

Julia Swayne Gordon

Born: October 29, 1878
Died: May 28, 1933
in Columbus, Ohio, USA

Movies for Julia Swayne Gordon...

Hello, Everybody!
Title: Hello, Everybody!
Character: Mrs. Smith
Released: February 17, 1933
Type: Movie
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town, depends on Kate to hold everything together. The power company wants to build a dam which will require flooding many of the farms; Kate is holding out; if Kate sells, everyone else will sell; if Kate refuses, the rest of the town will refuse as well. Randolph Scott meets Kate's beautiful sister, Sally Blane, at a dance. Randolph Scott, as it turns out, is an agent for the power company. Kate thinks he's just using Sally; Sally believes that he truly likes her. Randolph comes to the farm and appears to woo Kate. Kate remains unconvinced about selling out, but falls for Randolph.
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Broken Lullaby
Title: Broken Lullaby
Released: January 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man's family.
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The Common Law
Title: The Common Law
Character: Mrs. Strangeways (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1931
Type: Movie
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?
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Misbehaving Ladies
Title: Misbehaving Ladies
Character: Princess Delatorre
Released: April 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Ellen, a young American girl who married a European prince and moved to his country, is preparing to return to the US, after having paid off all the debts left by her now-deceased husband. However, when she returns early, no one recognizes her and even her aunt Kate mistakes her for the princess' dressmaker. Her ex-boyfriend Joe, who recognizes her immediately, suggests that Ellen continue with the charade and have some fun, but a series of misunderstandings causes trouble for her.
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Captain Applejack
Title: Captain Applejack
Character: Mrs. Kate Pengard
Released: January 31, 1931
Type: Movie
An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.
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The Primrose Path
Title: The Primrose Path
Character: Mrs. Randall
Released: January 25, 1931
Type: Movie
A naive high school girl falls for the school's star football player. Her ignorance in the matters of sex leads to pregnancy and heartbreak.
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Today
Title: Today
Character: Mrs. Farrington
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A wealthy young society couple loses their fortune. When the husband is forced to take a job like everyone else, the wife cannot deal with the sudden downward plunge of her once-privileged life and drifts into prostitution.
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For the Love o' Lil
Title: For the Love o' Lil
Character: Mrs. Walker
Released: August 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Directed by James Tinling. With Jack Mulhall, Sally Starr, Elliott Nugent, Margaret Livingston.
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The Dude Wrangler
Title: The Dude Wrangler
Character: Dude Guest
Released: July 1, 1930
Type: Movie
In order to prove his manliness to the girl he loves, a young urban dandy takes a job at a dude ranch. Predictable misadventure ensues in this poorly-made early talkie.
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Dumb-bells in Ermine
Title: Dumb-bells in Ermine
Character: Mrs. Corey
Released: May 10, 1930
Type: Movie
In a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though her straitlaced mother wants her to marry Siegfried, a spellbinding "missionary reformer." Though Grandma Corey promotes the romance with the prizefighter, Mike, the fighter's hardboiled, wisecracking manager, tries to keep them apart; following a quarrel, Faith reconciles herself to marrying Siegfried, but when he invites a group of "weak sisters" to a revival meeting, he is disgraced when one accuses him of her downfall. Finally, with Mike's advice, Jerry wins back Faith and they are united with the family's blessings.
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Is Everybody Happy?
Title: Is Everybody Happy?
Character: Mrs. Molnár
Released: October 19, 1929
Type: Movie
It is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist. The music for the film was written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, except for "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy and "Tiger Rag". The film's title comes from Lewis's catchphrase "Is everybody happy?" The film's soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, but the film itself is considered a lost film, according to the Vitaphone Project website. A five minute clip from the film can be found on YouTube.
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Gold Diggers of Broadway
Title: Gold Diggers of Broadway
Character: Cissy Gray
Released: August 30, 1929
Type: Movie
Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.
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The Girl in the Glass Cage
Title: The Girl in the Glass Cage
Character: Mrs. Pomfret
Released: June 23, 1929
Type: Movie
A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her uncle is stealing the box-office receipts.
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Scandal
Title: Scandal
Character: Mrs. Grant
Released: April 27, 1929
Type: Movie
1929 picture starring Laura La Plante, Huntley Gordon, and John Boles.
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The Eternal Woman
Title: The Eternal Woman
Character: Mrs. Forbes
Released: March 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Olive Borden returns home to Buenos Aires and discovers her father has been murdered and her sister has been attacked by an American.
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The Younger Generation
Title: The Younger Generation
Character: Mrs. Striker
Released: March 4, 1929
Type: Movie
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
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Three Week Ends
Title: Three Week Ends
Character: Mrs. Witherspoon
Released: December 8, 1928
Type: Movie
A sexy young nightclub singer sets her sights on a young man she believes to be a millionaire playboy, although he is in reality only an insurance agent.
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The Viking
Title: The Viking
Character: Thorhild
Released: November 2, 1928
Type: Movie
In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first Viking settlers to reach North America by sea, Norse half-brothers vie for a throne and for the same woman.
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Road House
Title: Road House
Character: Mrs. Henry Grayson
Released: July 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Larry Grayson, jazz age son of permissive parents, drifts from wild parties with his classmates to more heady, roadhouse entertainment. There he becomes involved with an underworld gang and falls in love with Spanish Marla, one of their vamps. Larry leaves home after an argument with his father, throws in with the gang (who are using him for their own purposes), and is blamed for a murder. Tried and convicted, Larry is given a light sentence when the judge places most of the blame on his overindulgent parents.
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The Smart Set
Title: The Smart Set
Character: Mrs. Van Buren
Released: March 24, 1928
Type: Movie
A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match with England.
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13 Washington Square
Title: 13 Washington Square
Character: Mrs. Allistair
Released: January 28, 1928
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a wealthy matron is terribly upset when she learns that her socialite son is planning to marry a blue collar girl.
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Wings
Title: Wings
Character: Mrs. Armstrong
Released: August 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
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Children of Divorce
Title: Children of Divorce
Character: Princess De Saxe
Released: April 25, 1927
Type: Movie
A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.
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Heaven on Earth
Title: Heaven on Earth
Character: Aunt Emilie
Released: March 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Young Edmond Durand (Conrad Nagel) has been reared under the autocratic influence of his aunt (Marcia Manon), who directs a large silk mill in southern France. He revolts against a stifling career planned for him and leaves home with Marcelle, a Gypsy girl (Renée Adorée). They roam the countryside with a Gypsy caravan in romantic bliss; they are inadvertently separated but at the outbreak of war are reunited. When peace is restored, the lovers find happiness together.
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It
Title: It
Character: Mrs. Van Norman
Released: February 5, 1927
Type: Movie
A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism, otherwise known as "it."
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Diplomacy
Title: Diplomacy
Character: Marquise de Zares
Released: September 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Heroine Dora de Zares comports herself in a most mysterious fashion in this spy mystery.
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Bride of the Storm
Title: Bride of the Storm
Character: Faith's Mother
Released: February 20, 1926
Type: Movie
An American ship is wrecked off the coast of the Dutch East Indies, and little Faith Fitzhugh and her mother have washed ashore on a rocky island that supports only a lighthouse. Faith's mother lives only long enough to inform the three Dutch lighthouse keepers that her daughter is the heiress to a large fortune. Years pass and Faith grows to womanhood. Jacob Kroon and his son, Piet, then conspire to marry Faith to Piet's idiot son, Hans, in order to bring her fortune into the family. Dick Wayne, a sailor on an American cruiser that is repairing a damaged cable in the waters of the lighthouse, learns of Faith's captivity and comes to her rescue. Piet kills Jacob in a fit of jealousy, and Dick then kills Piet in a fight. Hans sets the lighthouse on fire and incinerates himself. Dick and Faith make it back to the cruiser.
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Lights of Old Broadway
Title: Lights of Old Broadway
Character: Mrs. de Rhonde
Released: October 31, 1925
Type: Movie
Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums.
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Not So Long Ago
Title: Not So Long Ago
Character: Mrs. Ballard
Released: September 7, 1925
Type: Movie
Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win the love she reads about in the romance novels she devours -- finds one prospect in an earnest denizen of the Bowery, and another in an elegant young aristocrat. Focusing on the bygone era's fashions, the novelty of the bicycle-built-for-two, and an inventor's quest for the horseless carriage, the film gently stirs the audiences' nostalgia for simpler times.
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Scaramouche
Title: Scaramouche
Character: The Countess de Plougastel
Released: September 15, 1923
Type: Movie
A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.
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You Can't Fool Your Wife
Title: You Can't Fool Your Wife
Character: Lillian Redell
Released: April 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Edith sets out to prove that a wife can never be fooled by her husband - but will she succeed?
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The Tie That Binds
Title: The Tie That Binds
Character: Leila Brant
Released: March 15, 1923
Type: Movie
A beautiful secretary has her pick of the men in the office, but instead of marrying the boss, she takes one of his junior staff. Later, when she is suspected of committing a murder, her husband confesses to it--although he didn't do it--in order to protect her. Complications ensue.
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Dark Secrets
Title: Dark Secrets
Character: Mrs. Rutherford
Released: January 21, 1923
Type: Movie
Ruth Rutherford, crippled as a result of being thrown from a horse, breaks her engagement to Lord Wallington. Dejected, he returns to his regiment in Egypt and sinks into dissipation. Ruth hears of his plight and also goes to Egypt, where she meets Dr. Mohammed Ali. Ali cures her lameness in return for Ruth's agreeing to become his wife, but Biskra, Ruth's servant, kills Ali before he can collect. Even from death Ali's power over Ruth returns her to her wheelchair until she jumps up to save Wallington from an attack feigned by Biskra.
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Women Men Marry
Title: Women Men Marry
Character: Aunt Gertrude
Released: December 27, 1922
Type: Movie
When he loses both his wife and child, Montgomery Rogers adopts his servants' little girl and raises her as his own. Completely unaware of her origins, Emerie grows up to be a first class snob. Her socially ambitious aunt takes her to Europe to become engaged to Brooks Fitzroy, an impoverished lord (Cyril Chadwick). On the voyage back she encounters a young man, Dick Clarke who is working for his passage.
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How Women Love
Title: How Women Love
Character: Mrs. Nevins
Released: October 15, 1922
Type: Movie
silent drama featuring Betty Blythe, Robert Frazer, and Gladys Hulette
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What's Wrong with the Women?
Title: What's Wrong with the Women?
Released: September 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Men try to understand the women in their lives.
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My Old Kentucky Home
Title: My Old Kentucky Home
Character: Mrs. Goodloe
Released: April 9, 1922
Type: Movie
After serving time in Sing Sing, for which he was unjustly sentenced, and encouraged by two "sharpers," Richard Goodloe returns to the home of his wealthy southern mother in dread fear that she and Virginia Sanders should learn of his prison record--a fear which is constantly nurtured by his rival, Con Arnold.
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Burn 'Em Up Barnes
Title: Burn 'Em Up Barnes
Character: Mrs. Whitney Barnes
Released: August 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Car racer Burn 'em Up Barnes, son of a wealthy manufacturer, leaves home to make his own way in the world. After being robbed by hoodlums, Barnes joins a group of hobos who take him in and show him the carefree life.
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Behind Masks
Title: Behind Masks
Character: Madame Ena Delore
Released: July 23, 1921
Type: Movie
Jeanne, an orphaned young heiress, is about to be married off to an elderly man by her scheming aunt, who stands to make money on the marriage, a fact of which Jeanne is unaware. Jeanne is also unaware that her aunt heads a ring that runs crooked card games, and one night Jeanne attends a fixed bridge game at which her aunt hopes to cheat a wealthy young man out of his money...
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The Passionate Pilgrim
Title: The Passionate Pilgrim
Character: Madame Watt
Released: January 2, 1921
Type: Movie
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Heliotrope
Title: Heliotrope
Character: Josephine Hasdock
Released: November 28, 1920
Type: Movie
A prison inmate obtains his release from prison in order to rescue his daughter from the clutches of her unscrupulous mother's plot to implicate the girl in a blackmail scheme.
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Lifting Shadows
Title: Lifting Shadows
Character: Countess Vera Lobanoff
Released: April 4, 1920
Type: Movie
Vania is a political refugee who travels from Russia to the United States. But even in America, she is pursued by assassins known as "the Ring of Death" because she carries certain papers given to her back home by her father. She marries a man who turns out to be a drug addict, and in a heated argument, she shoots him. A young lawyer defends her, then falls in love with her.
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A Child for Sale
Title: A Child for Sale
Character: Paula Harrison
Released: April 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Charles Stoddard is a poor artist living with his wife and two children in Greenwich Village. Destitute after his wife dies, he is forced to sell one of his children to a childless rich woman. He soon comes his senses however, and tries to back out of the deal.
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Miss Dulcie from Dixie
Title: Miss Dulcie from Dixie
Character: Aunt John
Released: March 24, 1919
Type: Movie
To receive the $5,000 promised in her Uncle Stephen's will, Dulcie Culpepper must live with her Uncle John in New York for six months so that her father, a Confederate colonel, will be reconciled with his brother whose marriage to a Northern woman long ago caused a breach.
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Over the Top
Title: Over the Top
Character: Mrs. Wagner
Released: March 31, 1918
Type: Movie
The film is based on a book of the same name by Arthur Guy Empey, detailing his service as an American volunteer with the British Army on the Western Front.
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The Message of the Mouse
Title: The Message of the Mouse
Character: Marcia Elmore
Released: July 2, 1917
Type: Movie
A wealthy financier is tricked by a pair of spies into giving millions to foreign powers. His daughter is suspicious and hires a Detective, who is able to foil the foreign agent's plans. Meanwhile, the daughter has fallen in love with a fellow from the enemy camp, but all ends well as his true identity is revealed as a member of the U.S. secret service.
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The Soul Master
Title: The Soul Master
Released: May 28, 1917
Type: Movie
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Arsene Lupin
Title: Arsene Lupin
Character: Victoire
Released: March 12, 1917
Type: Movie
Story of the gentleman thief.
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The Daring of Diana
Title: The Daring of Diana
Character: Fanchette
Released: July 24, 1916
Type: Movie
To assuage his grief over the death of his wife during childbirth, newspaper publisher John Briscoe resettles in Paris. Twenty-five years pass, during which time Briscoe's estranged son Jason has taken charge of his dad's newspaper. When Jason refuses to support crooked politician Stange in an upcoming election, he receives a cablegram from Briscoe Sr., who overrides his son's decision.
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The Suspect
Title: The Suspect
Character: Lady Armitage
Released: May 22, 1916
Type: Movie
The Suspect is a 1916 lost silent film directed by S. Rankin Drew. Set in France and Russia, the plot revolves around the cruelties of Russian Grand Duke Karatoff, known to friends and enemies alike as "the butcher." Sophie, leader of a band of revolutionaries, attempts to assassinate Karatoff but accidentally wounds his son Paul instead.
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The Battle Cry of Peace
Title: The Battle Cry of Peace
Character: Magdalen
Released: August 5, 1915
Type: Movie
Enemy agents under the leadership of "Emanon" conspire with pacifists to keep the American defense appropriations down at a time when forces of the enemy are preparing to invade. The invasion comes, and New York, Washington, and other American cities are devastated.
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The Juggernaut
Title: The Juggernaut
Character: Mrs. Ruskin
Released: April 19, 1915
Type: Movie
Back in college, John Ballard saved Philip Hardin's life. Twenty years later, John is the district attorney and Philip is president of a railroad notorious for its accident record. When John brings a suit against the railroad, Philip threatens to reveal a ruinous secret about John unless he drops the case. Meanwhile, a railroad inspector discovers that the trestle over which an express train carrying Philip's daughter is about to pass is in eminent danger of collapse.
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Lifting the Ban of Coventry
Title: Lifting the Ban of Coventry
Character: Lola Montes
Released: March 27, 1915
Type: Movie
Even though his widowed mother and sweetheart, Mary Putnam, disapprove, Worth Stuyvesant insists on going to West Point and becoming a soldier. Ultimately, Mary breaks off their engagement and Stuyvesant goes on a bender. His conduct is reported to the commander, who sends him to the sub post of Del Rio for 60 days of tour duty. There, Stuyvesant meets Lola Montez, an adventuress. With the help of a couple of her pals, Lola gets him drunk and marries him. But Stuyvesant lives up to his duties as a husband and surprisingly, Lola renounces her old ways and becomes a model wife.
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The Painted World
Title: The Painted World
Character: Elois Murree
Released: September 26, 1914
Type: Movie
Raised to believe that her mother Elois, is dead, 18-year-old Yvette Muree is aghast to learn that mom is a burlesque queen.
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Uncle Bill
Title: Uncle Bill
Character: Julia Mason
Released: July 13, 1914
Type: Movie
On his way to New York to visit his relatives, the Masons, for the first time, Uncle Bill meets "Oiley" Curley, a crook. John Mason, Uncle Bill's nephew, is candidate for Governor and, on the eve of Uncle Bill's arrival, Mason and his political constituents are in secret conference with Murray of the money powers. Meantime, Julia, Mason's wife, goes on a little joy ride with Jack Trent, husband of Vivien, her friend who is on a joy ride with Mason's father, a delightful old rogue. Gladys, Julia's hoydenish sister with whose photo Uncle Bill has previously fallen in love, is left home alone.
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Shadows of the Past
Title: Shadows of the Past
Character: Helene
Released: June 15, 1914
Type: Movie
Mark Stetson, a scheming politician, entangles the Brandons, husband and wife, and their friend, Antoinette, in his smuggling schemes and engineers their arrest, to protect himself. Edited into Shadows of the Past (1919).
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The Vanity Case
Title: The Vanity Case
Character: Mrs. Holmes
Released: April 18, 1914
Type: Movie
In a jewelry store, Grace Norris, a wealthy girl, unnoticed by the salesman, absent-mindedly takes a vanity case. She is seen by Fred Wright, who thinks she stole it.
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He Never Knew
Title: He Never Knew
Character: Mrs. Perrin
Released: April 14, 1914
Type: Movie
Unable to support her baby boy, Grace Devereaux, a widow, leaves him at an orphan asylum.
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A Million Bid
Title: A Million Bid
Character: Mrs. Belgradin
Released: April 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Agnes Belgradin is in love with a young doctor, Loring Brent. When Agnes' father dies, her mother takes her on a trip abroad. She insists that the young couple separate before they set sail, and promises that if they still love each other after a year they can reunite. But Mrs. Belgradin intercepts all the letters Agnes and Brent write one another, and convinces her daughter to marry a wealthy Australian millionaire.
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The Lady and the Glove
Title: The Lady and the Glove
Released: August 15, 1913
Type: Movie
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The Tiger Lily
Title: The Tiger Lily
Character: Cleo, the Tiger Lily
Released: July 2, 1913
Type: Movie
Thinking that her husband is paying more attention to his work and to their little daughter, Nina, than to her, Cleo Morin runs away with Henri Mordan. On the afternoon of their elopement, Morin, who is a ballet master, is seriously injured on the stage, and the doctor tells him that his spine is so affected that he will never be able to walk again.
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Tricks of the Trade
Title: Tricks of the Trade
Character: Lizzie Breen - Jack's Wife & Accomplice
Released: May 27, 1913
Type: Movie
Jack Breen and his wife, Lizzie, are professional crooks, who live in a fine house and set themselves up as belonging to the best. Breen gets his living by various means, including begging. He dresses in ragged clothes and picks up crusts in the street, which he pretends to eat, thereby exciting the sympathy of passers-by.
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Beau Brummel
Title: Beau Brummel
Character: The Duchess
Released: February 19, 1913
Type: Movie
In the early part of the Nineteenth Century, Beau Brummell was the most talked-of person in all the world, the extreme of fashion, the personification of elegance and the most pretentious individual imaginable.
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Freckles
Title: Freckles
Character: Mrs. John
Released: December 26, 1912
Type: Movie
A comedy in which a man secretly has his pustules removed. His secrecy leads his wife to believe that he is cheating.
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Ida's Christmas
Title: Ida's Christmas
Character: Mrs. Jones
Released: December 24, 1912
Type: Movie
A poor young girl finds a purse and returns it to its owner, who decides to reward her honesty.
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Song of the Shell
Title: Song of the Shell
Character: Mrs. M.
Released: December 13, 1912
Type: Movie
Suffering with ennui, bored by society, Annie Bradley, a wealthy girl, is anxious to make her time more profitable by doing something worthwhile.
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Bettina's Substitute, or There's No Fool Like an Old Fool
Title: Bettina's Substitute, or There's No Fool Like an Old Fool
Released: November 1, 1912
Type: Movie
Bettina was justified in being indignant because her employer, a married man, makes love to her. She tells her beau, Raymond, about it and he vows to get square with the old masher and teach him a lesson. He tells Bettina to send word to her boss that she is sick and obliged to remain at home for a few days, but she will send a substitute.
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Father's Hot Toddy
Title: Father's Hot Toddy
Character: Mrs. Jones - Stepmother
Released: October 17, 1912
Type: Movie
Tired of living alone with his two motherless daughters. Jones decides to take unto himself a wife. She is a charming woman and his daughters readily accept her as their stepmother. A few months later he is seized with a violent attack of grippe. He brings home a bottle of whiskey and asks his wife to prepare a hot toddy for him.
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The Higher Mercy
Title: The Higher Mercy
Character: Mrs. Brinton
Released: September 10, 1912
Type: Movie
No matter how absorbed with affairs of state, Abraham Lincoln was always ready to give audience to his little son Tad. Little Tad, playing at the boat landing of the White House lake, falls into the water and is saved from drowning by a young fellow named Jasper Brinton. When young Brinton carries Tad into the White House, the president is very grateful to him and says if there is anything that he can do for him at any time he will be glad to do it. Young Brinton's mother is an enthusiastic supporter of the Federal cause, and when the war breaks out, she urges her son to join the Union army. He has an inherent dread of danger and naturally hesitates. He finally enlists. On the battlefield his natural fear takes possession of him.
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Coronets and Hearts
Title: Coronets and Hearts
Released: September 3, 1912
Type: Movie
Leaving England, in search of an American wife, young Cyril, son of the Earl of Creston, on reaching America meets Lilly Penn, and immediately lays siege to her heart and her fortune when he learns that she is an heiress.
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Vultures and Doves
Title: Vultures and Doves
Character: Mrs. Hanley
Released: August 14, 1912
Type: Movie
"Thirty per cent dividend! Is your money supporting you? If not, call and see us. Rising Sun Copper Company." This is the bait that the vultures throw out to catch the "doves," widows and orphans.
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Wanted, a Sister
Title: Wanted, a Sister
Character: The Mother
Released: July 22, 1912
Type: Movie
In the college play, Tom and his room-mate, "Bunch," take prominent and successful parts, Tom as the hero and "Bunch" as the heroine, in which he is an excellent female impersonator. The day after the performance, "Bunch" makes an engagement to take a real chorus girl to dinner. Unexpectedly his mother comes to college to visit him and he makes Tom take the girl.
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Rock of Ages
Title: Rock of Ages
Character: Madeleine Bates
Released: July 20, 1912
Type: Movie
Talented as a sculptress, Madeline Bates, a young widow, carves a cross, which she afterwards erects on the seashore in memory of her husband, who was lost at sea. Madeline lives with her father in a small fishing village on the coast of Maine. One day, while resting on the monument, a celebrated artist visits her home
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Conscience
Title: Conscience
Character: Officer Donnelly's Wife
Released: July 15, 1912
Type: Movie
More a cautionary moral tale than anything else, Conscience makes use of a setting that was to become a horror movie favourite: the chamber of horrors. Persuaded to elope by her lover Eric, Eleanor Donelly defies her police officer brother to go to New York, where the young couple are married. Soon deserted by Eric and desperate for food for her baby, Eleanor tries to steal a bottle of milk. Fleeing in terror from a policeman, she takes refuge in a chamber of horrors. Coincidentally, fallen among disreputable companions, Eric has meanwhile accepted a wager daring him to spend a night in the same chamber of horrors. In the morning, seeing Eleanor in the shadows as she wakes and rises, Eric dies of fright while Eleanor goes mad.
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The Troublesome Step-Daughters
Title: The Troublesome Step-Daughters
Character: Cina Burton, The Stepmother
Released: July 6, 1912
Type: Movie
A widower with four grown daughters remarries and brings his new wife home to meet them. The girls set out to make life as difficult as possible for their new mother.
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The Gamblers
Title: The Gamblers
Character: Mrs. Travers
Released: June 22, 1912
Type: Movie
Mrs. Travers, a society leader, is madly in love with Arthur Ingraham, a rising diplomat. Arthur is not in love with her and avoids her advances. He is in love with Beatrice Langton, a young debutante, to whom he becomes engaged. Mrs. Travers is furious.
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The Cylinder's Secret
Title: The Cylinder's Secret
Character: Nell's Mother
Released: June 17, 1912
Type: Movie
Employed as secretary to Howard Abele, Marjorie Abbott attracts the attention of Sydney, her employer's son, who falls desperately in love with her. Mr. Abele is strenuously opposed to their marriage and he quarrels with his son. Marjorie has a half-brother, Dave, who is of an inventive turn of mind.
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The Days of Terror; or, In the Reign of Terror
Title: The Days of Terror; or, In the Reign of Terror
Character: Duchess Of Berac
Released: June 13, 1912
Type: Movie
During the French Revolution, the Duke and Duchess of Bérac are captured by a mob. The Duchess agrees to marry one of their leaders in order to save her husband’s life. But her husband finds out about this, and forbids the Duchess to do so. The girlfriend of this leader takes revenge when she learns the truth, and stabs him. The two Béracs then proceed to the guillotine with their heads held high.
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The Victoria Cross
Title: The Victoria Cross
Character: Florence Nightingale
Released: April 27, 1912
Type: Movie
Ellen Carson volunteers to serve with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean war and witnesses the charge of the Light Brigade.
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The Pink Pajama Girl
Title: The Pink Pajama Girl
Character: Mrs. Wentworth - Cecilia's Mother
Released: April 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Mrs. Wentworth and her daughter Cecile are living at one of the fashionable hotels in the city. James Davidson, who is engaged to Cecile, has agreed to join a theater party with them. At the last minute he sends word that business will detain him and he will be unable to go. Cecile is inconsolable and refuses to go to the theater with the rest of the party. She is so upset over the disappointment she gets a severe headache and decides to retire. In her pink pajamas she is about to go to bed when she decides to write "Jamsie," giving him to understand she is not at all pleased with his conduct. She sneaks out into the hall, puts her letter in the drop and hastens back to her rooms, to find the door has sprung locked.
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At Scrogginses' Corner
Title: At Scrogginses' Corner
Character: Alice's Mother
Released: April 9, 1912
Type: Movie
The general store at Scrogginses' Corner is the favorite lounging and meeting place for the citizens of the locality. On an eventful day a rich couple call at the store and ask Si Bunny, the storekeeper, permission to leave a bundle there, to be called for on their return. The storekeeper discovers that the bundle contains an infant.
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Stenographer Wanted
Title: Stenographer Wanted
Character: Mrs. Jones
Released: February 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Two businessmen need to hire a stenographer, but their wives get suspicious when they notice a parade of beautiful young women entering and leaving their husbands' office.
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The Love of John Ruskin
Title: The Love of John Ruskin
Released: February 20, 1912
Type: Movie
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.
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Playmates
Title: Playmates
Character: Mrs. McCumber - the Mother
Released: February 10, 1912
Type: Movie
A short film about the friendship between a little girl and a stray dog.
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Her Boy
Title: Her Boy
Character: Mrs. Ballor - the Mother
Released: February 9, 1912
Type: Movie
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.
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The Meeting of the Ways
Title: The Meeting of the Ways
Character: Tom's Wife
Released: January 12, 1912
Type: Movie
Tom and Dick are brothers and are being educated at the same college. Tom is a studious fellow and graduates with honors, while Dick is expelled from college through misbehavior. Dick is ashamed to go home, but before leaving Tom gives him a locket containing a picture of their mother. Ten years later Tom, who is a successful lawyer, is married and has two little children. Dick, who has now been reduced through personal neglect to a derelict, overhears a plan to rob his brother's house. Making up his mind to prevent it, Dick climbs through the nursery window, catches the burglars, but effects their escape. His two little nieces, who have been watching him, kiss and hug him before he makes his exit. When their parents return from the reception they attended, the children relate to them what had happened. Dick gets into a scrape with a gambler a month or two later, who laughs at the miniature of his mother that Dick puts up in lieu of cash.
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Captain Jenks' Dilemma
Title: Captain Jenks' Dilemma
Character: Mrs. Brown - a Widow
Released: January 8, 1912
Type: Movie
Mrs. Brown, who is a widow, finds it a rather difficult matter to clothe and feed her large family of children, so when she becomes acquainted on the beach with Captain Jenks she is not slow in inviting him to her house. That evening the Captain calls with an engagement ring. He asks the widow to become his wife, but just as he is accepted Mrs. Brown's numerous offspring come running into the room. Upon being told that they are her children the Captain nearly faints and does not know how to break the engagement.
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Cardinal Wolsey
Title: Cardinal Wolsey
Character: Catherine of Aragon
Released: January 2, 1912
Type: Movie
Directed by J. Stuart Blackton and Laurence Trimble.
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A Message from Beyond
Title: A Message from Beyond
Character: Mrs. Morrison - Jack's Mother
Released: November 4, 1911
Type: Movie
Brought up in the lap of luxury and indulged in extravagance, Jack Morrison is gradually led into a life of ease and idleness, from which his father tries to arouse and induce him to interest himself in the large steel business, of which he is the head. Jack refuses to go to work: his father disowns him and tells him to leave the house.
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Lady Godiva
Title: Lady Godiva
Character: Lady Godiva
Released: October 20, 1911
Type: Movie
The story of how Lady Godiva came to ride naked through the streets of Coventry.
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A Friendly Marriage
Title: A Friendly Marriage
Released: September 4, 1911
Type: Movie
A penniless British Lord sets up an arranged marriage with an American heiress. He soon falls in love with her and is determined to support himself financially so they can have a real marriage.
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How Betty Won the School
Title: How Betty Won the School
Released: August 22, 1911
Type: Movie
Betty Carlton, a pretty girl, is sent to a girls' seminary. She is welcomed by all, and everything goes along merrily until one day, when they try to initiate Betty into one of their societies by blindfolding her and dropping cold, wet macaroni through her fingers. It feels so much like snakes that she dashes from the room. From now on she is ostracized. She decides to leave. While packing her trunk. She discovers a burglar climbing into a room where the other girls are having a "feed," to which she has not been invited. All the girls scream and run away. Betty, trusting to her lariat, enters the room, captures the burglar, and is thereby made a friend of all.
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Treasure Trove
Title: Treasure Trove
Released: July 25, 1911
Type: Movie
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.
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The Lure of Vanity
Title: The Lure of Vanity
Released: July 18, 1911
Type: Movie
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.
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The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Title: The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Released: June 30, 1911
Type: Movie
This patriotic and historic picture portrays the writing of the famous national hymn by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. In the early part of the Civil War President Lincoln was very much discouraged at the lack of enthusiasm and the tardiness with which the people answered the call for volunteers to join the army.
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A Quaker Mother
Title: A Quaker Mother
Released: June 27, 1911
Type: Movie
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.
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Barriers Burned Away
Title: Barriers Burned Away
Character: Edwin's Wife
Released: June 24, 1911
Type: Movie
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.
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The Sacrifice
Title: The Sacrifice
Character: The Mother of the Convict
Released: June 9, 1911
Type: Movie
During Nick Austin's imprisonment, his wife passes away. Before she dies, she writes a note to her husband, asking him to put her little girl in the care of an orphan asylum. Mrs. Downes, while bringing some of her dead daughter's clothes to the asylum, takes a fancy to Nina Austin and adopts her.
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Dead Man’s Honor
Title: Dead Man’s Honor
Character: Hugh's Mother
Released: May 23, 1911
Type: Movie
Hugh and Henry Watson, two brothers, are in love with Helen Mallory. She rejects Hugh and accepts Henry. Hugh, broken-hearted, goes west, leaving a note to his mother telling her the reason for his going away. Hugh is the apple of his mother's eye, and she grieves herself into a collapse and is dying with sorrow. Her sight fails her. Henry tells his mother that he will go in search of his brother.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Miss Pross
Released: February 20, 1911
Type: Movie
A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.
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In Northern Forests
Title: In Northern Forests
Released: January 1, 1911
Type: Movie
A story of escape and manhunt in the Canadian forests.
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Twelfth Night
Title: Twelfth Night
Character: Olivia
Released: February 4, 1910
Type: Movie
When Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are shipwrecked and separated, Viola dresses in her brother's clothes and becomes a page in the palace of the Duke of Orsino. Thinking Viola is a boy, the Duke sends her with a message to Olivia, whom he loves. A series of complications begins when Olivia falls in love with the page 'boy'
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Helena
Released: December 25, 1909
Type: Movie
An early film adaptation of the Beard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.
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Napoleon and the Empress Josephine
Title: Napoleon and the Empress Josephine
Character: Josephine
Released: January 2, 1909
Type: Movie
Part one of Blackton’s “The Life of Napoleon". Napoleon meets Josephine, falls in love with her, marries and then divorces her.
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Richard III
Title: Richard III
Released: September 26, 1908
Type: Movie
Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.