Edith Roberts

Edith Roberts

Born: September 17, 1899
Died: August 20, 1935
in New York City, New York, USA
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Edith Josephine Roberts (September 17, 1899 – August 20, 1935) was an American silent film actress. Among her more than 150 screen credits are roles in Seven Keys to Baldpate (1925), Big Brother (1923), The Wagon Master (1929), and The Mystery Club (1926). Her final film role was in Two O'Clock in the Morning (1929).

Roberts was married to Harold Carter. She died, aged 35, in 1935, shortly after giving birth to a son, her only child.

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The Wagon Master
Title: The Wagon Master
Character: Sue Smith
Released: September 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Bill Hollister (Jack Hanlon) organizes a wagon train to break the unfair monopoly held by Jake Lynch (Tom Santschi) on food prices in the mining camps. The Rambler (Ken Maynard) joins the train when it leaves for Gold Hill, and takes command when Hollister is killed from ambush. Jacques Frazelle (Al Ferguson) schemes to get rid of The Rambler and win Sue Smith (Edith Roberts). He plots with Lynch to disrupt the train, but The Rambler beats him in a whip-fight...
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The Phantom of the North
Title: The Phantom of the North
Character: Doris Rayburn
Released: May 27, 1929
Type: Movie
In the great white north, a trapper searchers for the thief who has been stealing his furs while a local trader seeks to take advantage of the situation.
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The Man from Headquarters
Title: The Man from Headquarters
Character: Countess Jalna
Released: August 27, 1928
Type: Movie
A brilliant detective is trying to break up a notorious crime ring, using part of an intercepted message. While investigating, he meets a beautiful and mysterious countess.
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There You Are!
Title: There You Are!
Character: Joan Randolph
Released: November 28, 1926
Type: Movie
George is a clerk who captures a bandit and in return gets the boss' daughter.
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Shameful Behavior?
Title: Shameful Behavior?
Character: Daphne Carrol
Released: October 1, 1926
Type: Movie
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
Title: Seven Keys to Baldpate
Released: October 19, 1925
Type: Movie
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
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Wasted Lives
Title: Wasted Lives
Character: Mary 'Tommy' Townsend
Released: April 7, 1925
Type: Movie
After the death of her brother, "Tommy" Carlton makes the acquaintance of a neighbor, Harold Graypon, who invites her to a party. Tommy, who is a bit of a hoyden, attends the party in overalls and shocks the guests. Tommy is later ejected from her home and takes refuge in a shack in the mountains, where she makes rustic furniture for a living. Despite the interference of Grace, Tommy and Harold finds happiness with each other.
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The Age of Innocence
Title: The Age of Innocence
Released: November 10, 1924
Type: Movie
Newland Archer is engaged to May Mingott of a prominent New York family. Shortly after the engagement is announced, Newland finds himself attracted to May's older married cousin Countess Ellen Olenska.
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Roaring Rails
Title: Roaring Rails
Character: Nora Burke
Released: September 20, 1924
Type: Movie
A railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends. Later the boy needs an eye operation that the engineer can't afford, so he takes the rap for a murder he didn't commit in order to get his son the operation.
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Twenty Dollars a Week
Title: Twenty Dollars a Week
Released: April 12, 1924
Type: Movie
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Thy Name Is Woman
Title: Thy Name Is Woman
Character: Dolores
Released: February 4, 1924
Type: Movie
A Spanish soldier seduces and falls in love with the young wife of a smuggler.
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Roulette
Title: Roulette
Character: Lois Carrington
Released: January 19, 1924
Type: Movie
Before he can avenge a crooked card game, Dan Carrington suffers heart failure and dies in his chair. John Tralee, the cheater, feels a pang of guilt when he discovers that he has taken all of Carrington's money and adopts the dead man's little girl, Lois. The girl grows up and the gambling hall becomes her second home.
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Big Brother
Title: Big Brother
Character: Kitty Costello
Released: December 23, 1923
Type: Movie
When gangster Jimmy Donovan is made guardian of Midge, the 7-year-old brother of his friend Big Ben Murray, he decides to reform and rear Midge properly. The court takes custody of Midge, but Donovan proves himself by recovering a payroll stolen by some of his ex-colleagues, thereby winning Midge and Kitty, his girl.
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Backbone
Title: Backbone
Character: Yvonne de Mersay / Yvonne de Chausson
Released: April 30, 1923
Type: Movie
When Yvonne de Chausson comes home from a trip to France, she is told that her grandfather, lumber magnate Andre de Mersay, has been stricken with an undisclosed illness. He is sequestered in a room and his secretary refuses to allow Yvonne to see him. Her attempts to get to him are constantly thwarted and the plot thickens with the appearance of John Thorne, who purchases part of the family's land holdings without Yvonne's consent.
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The Sunshine Trail
Title: The Sunshine Trail
Character: June Carpenter
Released: April 23, 1923
Type: Movie
When good-natured James Henry MacTavish comes into an inheritance, he travels East to claim it with the determination that he will "scatter sunshine" along the way. But MacTavish almost immediately lands himself in hot water.
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The Dangerous Age
Title: The Dangerous Age
Character: Ruth Emerson
Released: February 4, 1923
Type: Movie
Married for 22 years, Mary Emerson treats her husband, John, more like a son than a husband. He is stung by her rebuffs and, therefore, succumbs to the youthful charms of Gloria Sanderson, whom he meets on a business trip. But just after he mails a letter to Mary telling her that he will not return, John finds Gloria in the arms of her fiancé.
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Thorns and Orange Blossoms
Title: Thorns and Orange Blossoms
Released: December 10, 1922
Type: Movie
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Flesh and Blood
Title: Flesh and Blood
Character: The Angel Lady
Released: August 22, 1922
Type: Movie
A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with the businessman's son.
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Saturday Night
Title: Saturday Night
Character: Shamrock O'Day
Released: January 29, 1922
Type: Movie
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class differences lead to divorces and remarriages.
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Opened Shutters
Title: Opened Shutters
Released: August 12, 1921
Type: Movie
When her father, an indigent artist, dies, Sylvia Lacey goes to live with her Aunt Martha and her uncle, Judge Trent, in New England, where she is unwanted and humiliated. Though she and John Dunham, her uncle's young law partner, fall in love, she believes he intends to marry the daughter of a wealthy neighbor.
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The Unknown Wife
Title: The Unknown Wife
Character: Helen Wilburton
Released: March 14, 1921
Type: Movie
Donald Grant, after serving a prison term, obtains a job in a smalltown factory where he meets Helen Wilburton, who invites him to board with her and her father. He marries her, and on the first night of their honeymoon, a burglary is traced to one of Donald's former cohorts.
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The Fire Cat
Title: The Fire Cat
Released: February 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Dulce, last of the Alvarez family, lives with her mother in the Andes and is worshipped by Pancho, a half-caste. Gringo Burke, an American renegade, robs and kills her mother. Accusing Pancho of cowardice, Dulce vows to seek revenge.
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The Adorable Savage
Title: The Adorable Savage
Character: Marama Thurston
Released: August 6, 1920
Type: Movie
Norma Dawn silent tropical island Fiji rubber plantation romantic melodrama starring Edith Roberts, Jack Perrin, Richard Cummings, Noble Johnson, and Dr. Arthur Jervis. This is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
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Alias Miss Dodd
Title: Alias Miss Dodd
Character: Jeanne
Released: June 20, 1920
Type: Movie
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Her Five-Foot Highness
Title: Her Five-Foot Highness
Released: April 12, 1920
Type: Movie
When Texas ranch owner Ellen inherits the estate of her long-lost uncle, the Duke of Wilshire, her unscrupulous attorney, Wesley Saunders, who has been plotting to seize control of her ranch, decides to capitalize on the opportunity.
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The Triflers
Title: The Triflers
Released: January 12, 1920
Type: Movie
Janet Randall, a department store clerk who longs for a fling at high society, ignores the love of the poor but honest Dan Cassidy. When vacation time comes, Janet goes to a fashionable hotel and there meets her idol, society favorite Monte Moreville. Upon requesting the bill at the end of four days, Janet discovers that the tariff is more than she can afford, and Monte comes to her rescue by offering to bail her out. In exchange, Janet must pose as his wife to fend off a woman who is threatening a breach of promise suit.
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A Baby Doll Bandit
Title: A Baby Doll Bandit
Character: Miss Betsy Beautiful
Released: January 12, 1920
Type: Movie
Weazel Tail Bend was so crooked it couldn't see straight, but one day the town was brightened considerably by the arrival of Miss Betsy Beautiful, whom the School Trustee sent to relieve the sheriff of one of his duties teaching school.
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Bill Henry
Title: Bill Henry
Character: Lela Mason
Released: August 17, 1919
Type: Movie
Bill Henry Jenkins is a country boy on the lookout for a good career. He faces numerous obstacles, including losing his sales job when his bicycle is lost. A bigtime poker game turns out to be the key to Bill Henry's success.
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A Taste of Life
Title: A Taste of Life
Released: March 2, 1919
Type: Movie
When her husband, struggling lawyer Horace Dillingham, is unable to provide adequate money for her insatiable desire for expensive cherries, Kitty Dillingham goes to work as a stenographer for him. One day while Horace is out of the office, Kitty mistakes Jonas Collamore, a defendant in a divorce suit for whom Horace is acting, for an important client. Kitty agrees to lunch, and, swallowing many maraschino cherries along with their cocktails, becomes drunk. Jonas takes her to a nearby inn where they are followed by Mrs. Collamore's detectives, who then summon Mrs. Collamore and her lawyer Horace.
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Sue of the South
Title: Sue of the South
Character: Sue Gordon
Released: February 3, 1919
Type: Movie
Sue Gordon, a mountain girl on the Tennessee side of the Cumberlands, lives with her grandmother. When "Granny" dies, Sue--fulfilling Granny's dying wish--goes to Chicago to live with John Peyton, an industrialist who was at one time Sue's mother's fiancé. She finds that Peyton's employees are on strike, and one of the strike's leaders is Peyton's son, Donald, to whom she is becoming increasingly attracted. Complications ensue.
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Set Free
Title: Set Free
Released: December 9, 1918
Type: Movie
Roma Wycliffe, a high-spirited girl bored with the lavender-and-old-lace atmosphere of her Aunt Henrietta's estate, discovers that her grandmother was a gypsy and decides to become one herself.
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Beans
Title: Beans
Released: September 16, 1918
Type: Movie
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Give Her Gas
Title: Give Her Gas
Released: August 12, 1918
Type: Movie
Lyons and Moran Star Comedy produced by Universal.
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The Love Swindle
Title: The Love Swindle
Released: August 5, 1918
Type: Movie
A wealthy woman attempts to win over a man who hates the rich.
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The Deciding Kiss
Title: The Deciding Kiss
Character: Eleanor Hamlin
Released: July 22, 1918
Type: Movie
The first part is pathetic and shows Eleanor Hamlin (Edith Roberts) severing home ties with her grandparents to be "adopted" by a party of idle rich on the cooperative plan. The parties adopting her are single, and one of them, Beulah Page (Winifred Greenwood), has her own ideas on the subject of raising the young - these ideas absolutely precluding the main requisite, love.