Harry T. Morey

Harry T. Morey

Born: August 20, 1873
Died: January 24, 1936
in Charlotte, Michigan, USA
Harry T. Morey was an American stage and screen actor. His film career spanned the years 1907 to 1934.

Movies for Harry T. Morey...

Corn on the Cop
Title: Corn on the Cop
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A 1934 Warner Brothers Vitaphone short, "Corn on the Cop." In this one, two hobos launch a get-rich scheme by trying to sell axle grease marketed as salve for relief from corns and bunions. The idea, unfortunately, goes awry. Starring Harry Gribbon with Shemp Howard, Boyd Davis, and Mary Doran.
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Very Close Veins
Title: Very Close Veins
Character: Doctor Toppanbottom
Released: April 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Ben Blue has "the largest vein in the country," but not the kind that the gold prospectors in Alaska think he's got!
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The Shadow Laughs
Title: The Shadow Laughs
Character: Capt. Morgan
Released: March 26, 1933
Type: Movie
The police investigate a bank robbery, and when they don't seem to be making much headway, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate it on his own.
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The Trans-Atlantic Mystery
Title: The Trans-Atlantic Mystery
Character: Ship's Captain
Released: August 31, 1932
Type: Movie
A couple of murderous crooks try to smuggle the famous Stanhope diamonds into New York but they're double-crossed and killed before reaching New York.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Title: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Professor Moriarty
Released: October 26, 1929
Type: Movie
The Return of Sherlock Holmes was the first sound film to feature Sherlock Holmes.
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Under the Tonto Rim
Title: Under the Tonto Rim
Character: Sam Spralls
Released: February 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Gold miner Edd Denmeade loves Lucy Watson, the sister of the official mining claim recorder. Denmeade suspects Watson of killing his father, who after a poker game was shot by a gambler "who shuffles with one hand." The real murderer, Sam Spralls, has convinced Watson that he killed Denmeade and threatens to expose him unless Watson assigns him all the gold claims. Spralls assembles a band of killers to jump the claims when Watson complies. Eventually, Denmeade learns the identity of the killer when he sees Spralls shuffle a deck of cards. He forms a vigilante party and rids the community of Spralls and his gang.
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Twin Flappers
Title: Twin Flappers
Released: September 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Twin Flappers is a 1927 silent film.
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Aloma of the South Seas
Title: Aloma of the South Seas
Character: Red Malloy
Released: May 15, 1926
Type: Movie
A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education. He returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.
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Camille of the Barbary Coast
Title: Camille of the Barbary Coast
Released: November 1, 1925
Type: Movie
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Headlines
Title: Headlines
Character: Donald Austin
Released: July 16, 1925
Type: Movie
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The Adventurous Sex
Title: The Adventurous Sex
Character: The Father
Released: June 12, 1925
Type: Movie
A young man spends so much time at work on his airplane that he neglects his girl. She goes out on her own to live the high life, but her reputation is soiled by an adventurer. The young woman resolves to kill herself, and throws herself into the water rushing towards Niagara Falls, but is saved at the last minute by her former sweetheart.
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The Heart of a Siren
Title: The Heart of a Siren
Character: John Strong
Released: March 15, 1925
Type: Movie
This silent drama's story is based on the Broadway play Hail and Farewell by William Hurlbut.
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The Roughneck
Title: The Roughneck
Character: Mad McCara
Released: November 30, 1924
Type: Movie
Beautiful Felicity Arden, is forced by a storm to take refuge in Mad Marrat's dwelling on the South Sea Isle.
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Captain January
Title: Captain January
Character: George Maxwell
Released: July 6, 1924
Type: Movie
During a tempestuous storm, a lighthouse keeper finds an infant girl who washes ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and wants her to live with them.
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The Green Goddess
Title: The Green Goddess
Character: Major Crespin
Released: August 13, 1923
Type: Movie
The Green Goddess is a 1923 American silent adventure film based on the play The Green Goddess by William Archer. Set during the British Raj, it stars George Arliss as the Rajah of Rukh, into whose land arrive three British subjects, played by Alice Joyce, David Powell, and Harry T. Morey.
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Where the Pavement Ends
Title: Where the Pavement Ends
Character: Captain Hull Gregson
Released: January 2, 1923
Type: Movie
South Seas romantic drama. This is a lost Silent film, that no negative of or print materials from are known to exist.
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The Rapids
Title: The Rapids
Character: Robert Fisher Clarke
Released: October 30, 1922
Type: Movie
Robert Fisher Clarke is a promoter who comes to a small Canadian town. He harnesses the power of the rapids and builds a pulp mill. One of his employees, Jim Belding, has a fiancée, Elsie Worden, with whom Clarke falls in love.
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Beyond the Rainbow
Title: Beyond the Rainbow
Character: Edward Mallory
Released: February 19, 1922
Type: Movie
Marion Taylor is secretary to Edward Mallory, a wealth Wall Street businessman. She supports her invalid brother Tommy, who has been told by his doctors that he has to go to the mountains for his health. Marion doesn't have the money for that, but Mallory, who has made no secret of his intentions towards her, does. She resigns herself to submitting to his advances in order to get the money in order to keep her brother alive. However, circumstances arise in which she may possibly get the money without having to debase herself with her boss.
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A Man's Home
Title: A Man's Home
Released: December 18, 1921
Type: Movie
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The Birth of a Soul
Title: The Birth of a Soul
Character: Philip Grey / Charles Drayton
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Mountain families feud.
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Beating the Odds
Title: Beating the Odds
Character: David Power
Released: May 12, 1919
Type: Movie
Beating the Odds
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Who Goes There?
Title: Who Goes There?
Character: Kervyn Guild
Released: November 24, 1917
Type: Movie
During World War I, Kervyn Guild, an American citizen who was born in Belgium, is captured with other Belgian refugees by the Germans. Brought before the commanding officer, General Von Reiter, Guild is offered his own freedom as well as that of the other refugees if he goes to London and returns with the officer's daughter, Karen Girard, who actually is his mistress.
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Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation
Title: Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation
Character: Paul Strong
Released: April 9, 1917
Type: Movie
When the nation of Ruthania declares war on the United States, an army of enemy soldiers invades the U.S. and captures New York. But the American forces have prepared adequately for such an event, and hidden booby traps, trick fortifications, and remote-controlled bombs...
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The Law Decides
Title: The Law Decides
Character: Lorenz (as Harry Morey)
Released: May 1, 1916
Type: Movie
Mere years could not kill the overwhelming love which lay dormant in Lorenz's heart, though Florence was now the wife of another.
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Salvation Joan
Title: Salvation Joan
Character: 'Bill' alias of John Hilton
Released: April 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Joan, a refined young Salvation Army volunteer, fall in love with a gangster.
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For a Woman’s Fair Name
Title: For a Woman’s Fair Name
Character: McGregor (as Harry Morey)
Released: February 28, 1916
Type: Movie
Right after a husband and wife (Robert Edeson and Eulalie Jensen) arrive home from their honeymoon, the husband goes to fetch his sister from boarding school. While he is away, the wife's friend and neighbor, McGregor (Harry Morey), invites her to a party, and she accepts. On the way back home, they're involved in an accident, and McGregor takes the wife, who's unconscious, to recover at a nearby roadhouse. Unfortunately, McGregor's coke fiend brother (William R. Dunn) is there partying, and he threatens to put a seamy spin on the innocent situation and tell all.
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The Good in the Worst of Us
Title: The Good in the Worst of Us
Character: The Farmer
Released: August 28, 1915
Type: Movie
Crime drama where Minnie's past overtakes her. She flees Jim to escape his bad influence. Jim shoots a man down in a burglary and demands that Minnie helps him flee.
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My Official Wife
Title: My Official Wife
Character: Arthur Bainbridge Lennox
Released: July 12, 1914
Type: Movie
This LOST film was Clara Kimball Young's first feature, and her last film for Vitagraph, where she had made all of her short films. It was a sensational success and launched her as the most popular star that year. Its Russian setting was drawn upon by Young for many more of her features. Two short clips of the film exists in Warner Brother's 1931 Vitaphone short "The Movie Album," and have been mounted on Internet Archive and Google Video. One scene shows the meeting of Helene's terrorist cell with an extra alleged to be Leon Trostky. The other clip appears to be when she and Lennox are visiting the Weletsky's. (cont. http://web.stanford.edu/~gdegroat/CKY/reviews/mow.htm)
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Shadows of the Past
Title: Shadows of the Past
Character: Brandon
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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A Million Bid
Title: A Million Bid
Character: Geoffrey Marshe
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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A Lesson in Jealousy
Title: A Lesson in Jealousy
Character: John - the Cousin
Released: December 5, 1913
Type: Movie
A short comedy in which the husband concocts a jealousy story to make an impression on his wife.
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The Swan Girl
Title: The Swan Girl
Released: December 4, 1913
Type: Movie
A wealthy young fellow during vacation becomes infatuated with a poor country girl.
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The Tiger
Title: The Tiger
Released: September 11, 1913
Type: Movie
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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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Song Bird of the North
Title: Song Bird of the North
Released: July 2, 1913
Type: Movie
Haywood, a suitor for the hand of Elida Rumsey, is severely reprimanded by her for not enlisting when President Lincoln calls for volunteers. Being deeply interested in the cause, Elida goes and helps Mrs. Pomeroy minister to sick and wounded soldiers. She becomes a favorite with the men, for she frequently sings to them. This attracts the attention of Lincoln
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A Regiment of Two
Title: A Regiment of Two
Character: Harry Bennett
Released: June 11, 1913
Type: Movie
Ira and his son-in-law Harry pretend to enlist in the 13th regiment where they have "drills" every Friday night. When the 13th is called to the front, the two take a fishing trip, only to learn that "their" regiment has been wiped out.
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Wild Beasts at Large
Title: Wild Beasts at Large
Character: Mr. Seeley - Leading Townsman
Released: June 9, 1913
Type: Movie
The train carrying all the cages filled with wild animals of the circus is wrecked, and bears, lions, leopards, elephants, kangaroos and monkeys escape down the track toward the village.
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Tricks of the Trade
Title: Tricks of the Trade
Character: Jack Breen - a Fake Beggar
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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Vampire of the Desert
Title: Vampire of the Desert
Character: Ishmael
Released: May 16, 1913
Type: Movie
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.
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The Deerslayer
Title: The Deerslayer
Character: Deerslayer
Released: May 6, 1913
Type: Movie
Wah-Ta-Wah, or Hist, the lady-love of Chingachgook, a Delaware chief, has been captured by the warlike Hurons. Chingachgook asks the aid of Deerslayer, a white man brought up among the Indians, in rescuing her, and. the two men arrange to meet at Lake Otsego, then called Glimmerglass. Deerslayer sets out for the meeting place, accompanied by Hurry Harry March, a trapper, who acts as his guide.
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Alixe; or, the Test of Friendship
Title: Alixe; or, the Test of Friendship
Character: Morton Shaw
Released: April 2, 1913
Type: Movie
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.
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A Cure for Pokeritis
Title: A Cure for Pokeritis
Released: December 31, 1912
Type: Movie
This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on the weekly poker game.
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Following the Star
Title: Following the Star
Character: George de la Marre
Released: December 20, 1912
Type: Movie
Helen Winthrop has ambition for the stage and when, during his summer sojourn at her home town, she is introduced to De la Marre, a popular star and dramatic favorite, she is elated and asks him to give her a part in one of his plays. He consents and from that moment she becomes restless, and longs to shake the dust of her village home from her feet. Her old sweetheart, John Tobin, is no longer in her class and receives a very cold goodbye when she leaves to shine in the limelight.
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Nothing to Wear
Title: Nothing to Wear
Released: October 7, 1912
Type: Movie
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As You Like It
Title: As You Like It
Character: Duke Frederick
Released: October 6, 1912
Type: Movie
After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
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The Red Barrier
Title: The Red Barrier
Character: Count Sergius - a Russian Diplomat
Released: October 4, 1912
Type: Movie
A short romantic drama about a woman who is worshiped by both a lieutenant and a Russian diplomat; the latter wins, but later turns out to be a brute. A duel in the snow ensures that the lieutenant gets the woman, but both of them suffer from visions in which the deceased appears as soon as they try to get together.
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She Cried
Title: She Cried
Character: The Factory Tough
Released: October 2, 1912
Type: Movie
A short comic film about a woman who cannot get the hang of her work in a cardboard factory.
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A Juvenile Love Affair
Title: A Juvenile Love Affair
Character: Mr. Strong - the Boy's Father
Released: July 30, 1912
Type: Movie
Two little children, who think themselves very much in love with each other, imbued with the ideas of their elders, plan a romantic marriage. Alvin Strong, the boy, confides his intentions to the family's servant, Jaspar. Alvin arranges with Jane, his sweetheart, to elope in the usual way, through a window, with the assistance of a ladder.
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The Miracle
Title: The Miracle
Character: The Minister of Worship
Released: July 29, 1912
Type: Movie
A story of that famous adventurer, Haroun al Rashid, the Caliph of Bagdad.
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The Light of St. Bernard
Title: The Light of St. Bernard
Character: Raoul - the Lighthouse Keeper
Released: July 27, 1912
Type: Movie
Marie, a self-dependent girl, compromises herself by associating with Petro Maquin. She asks him to keep his promise to marry her. He ignores her and leaves the village to join a band of wreckers. The gossips circulate scandal about her, bringing reproach upon her name.
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Rock of Ages
Title: Rock of Ages
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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The Cylinder's Secret
Title: The Cylinder's Secret
Character: Howard Johns, a Millionaire
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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Fortunes of a Composer
Title: Fortunes of a Composer
Character: Opera Attendee (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1912
Type: Movie
A drama about a poor composer who is betrayed by his family and left alone.
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Aunty's Romance
Title: Aunty's Romance
Character: The Doctor
Released: May 12, 1912
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy in which a woman who no longer wants to marry her fiance when it turns out he doesn't have an inheritance. After his father is deceased, Stephen Fiske travels to New York, where he learns that his father has left him nothing. His fiancée Doris now refuses to marry him because he is not rich. Doris has, however, an old aunt, whose last wish is that Doris marry Stephan.
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Mr. Bolter's Infatuation
Title: Mr. Bolter's Infatuation
Character: A Police Lieutenant
Released: March 22, 1912
Type: Movie
Mr. Bolten is hoping to woo the dancer Céleste and invites her for coffee. Her answer is that she will wait for him in hotel "Des imbeciles' in New York. He obviously cannot find the hotel, and to make matters worse he is robbed by a pickpocket. As a consequence he cannot pay his restaurant bill and is arrested. Luckily for him, a friend pays his bill so he can return home. There he picks up a dictionary and sees what "imbécile" means.
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The Old Silver Watch
Title: The Old Silver Watch
Character: A Bandit
Released: March 19, 1912
Type: Movie
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.
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Mrs. 'Enry 'Awkins
Title: Mrs. 'Enry 'Awkins
Character: Bill Brown - Pugilist
Released: March 13, 1912
Type: Movie
Noah Clayton, an old coster, who has made a bit of money, lives with his daughter Liza. He is very cranky and very gouty. Henry Hawkins, a young coster, and Bill Brown, a teacher of boxing, and an ex-pugilist, are both in love with Liza. Old Clayton favors Bill, because he is well off. Liza likes Henry, and they meet down near the old church and do their love-making. Bill lays siege to Liza, offering her presents, which she refuses. At last he offers to take her to a music hall and she yields and goes with him. There they are seen by Hawkins, who becomes furiously jealous and upbraids Liza. She loses her temper and claims the right to do as she likes. Henry on this swears he will fight Bill, and Liza tells him not to be a fool, that Bill could lick him with one hand, and they part in anger. Hawkins meets Bill and challenges him. The result is a foregone conclusion. Poor Hawkins is knocked out and laid up in bed for repairs, tended by his landlady.
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Irene's Infatuation
Title: Irene's Infatuation
Character: A Critic of the Daily Newspaper
Released: March 6, 1912
Type: Movie
Irene and Helen are worshipers at the shrine of Frangiapani, the tenor of the hour. When he sings at a concert, they meet in Irene's room, take the printed program of the concert, and one of them plays the accompaniment of the song he is actually singing. Irene sees an advertisement for a maid and waitress at Madame Frangiapani's home. The wild thought enters her brain that if she applies and gets the position, she will be nearer her adored. She puts the plan into execution, gets the position, and is waiting for the signor to appear. He does appear in a towering rage, at an adverse criticism in a paper which he is holding in his hand. His wife tries to soothe him and treats him like a little, unreasonable, bad-tempered child.
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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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Indian Romeo and Juliet
Title: Indian Romeo and Juliet
Character: Kowa / Paris
Released: January 30, 1912
Type: Movie
Oniatare, a young brave of the tribe of the Hurons, and Kowa, a chief of the Mohicans, are in love with Ethona, or "The River Flower," an Indian Princess. The Hurons and the Mohicans are sworn enemies. The young brave and "The River Flower" meet from time to time. Kowa notices this and in plaintive song would lure the fair Ethona to him. But it is of no avail.
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The Meeting of the Ways
Title: The Meeting of the Ways
Character: The Gambler
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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Auld Lang Syne
Title: Auld Lang Syne
Character: Geordie - the Anse (as Harry Morey)
Released: November 7, 1911
Type: Movie
Among the green hills of Scotland dwelt two farmer lads, Tammas and Geordie, fast friends tried and loyal as members of the same clan. They are both very much in love with Jenny, a little Scottish lass, and Geordie dreams of what might be if he were successful in his wooing.
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The Strategy of Ann
Title: The Strategy of Ann
Released: July 29, 1911
Type: Movie
A Short comedy starring Mabel Normand. The film is considered lost.
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The Sacrifice
Title: The Sacrifice
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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Ben Hur
Title: Ben Hur
Released: December 7, 1907
Type: Movie
The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.