Maurice Costello

Maurice Costello

Born: February 20, 1877
Died: October 29, 1950
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
From Wikipedia

Maurice George Costello (February 22, 1877 – October 29, 1950) was an American prominent vaudeville actor of the late 1890s and early 1900s, who later played a principal role in early American films, as both a leading man, supporting player and a director.

Costello was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Irish immigrants Ellen and Thomas Costello. He appeared in his first motion picture in 1905, in which he had the honour of appearing in the first serious film to feature the character of Sherlock Holmes in the movie Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, in which Costello played the title role. He continued to work for Vitagraph, being a member of the first motion picture stock company ever formed, playing opposite Florence Turner. Among some of his best known pictures are A Tale of Two Cities, The Man Who Couldn't Beat God and For the Honor of the Family. After an absence of some years he returned to the screen. He was married to actress Mae Costello (née Altschuk). His descendants include two daughters, actresses Dolores Costello and Helene Costello, a grandson John Drew Barrymore, and a great granddaughter Drew Barrymore. He was one of the world's first leading men in early American cinema, but like a lot of other silent screen stars, he found the transition to "talkies" extremely difficult, and his leading man status was over. However, Costello was a trouper, and continued to appear in movies, often in small roles and bit parts, right up until his death in 1950.

Movies for Maurice Costello...

Practically Yours
Title: Practically Yours
Character: Senate Stenographer (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1944
Type: Movie
In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembering his days back home walking his dog Piggy. Instead of his dog Piggy he is thought to be in love with Peggy, a girl he worked with. The usual farce ensues after he returns home alive and tries to play along with the mistake to save embarrassment for all.
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The Climax
Title: The Climax
Character: Audience Member (Uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1944
Type: Movie
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later, another young singer reminds Hohner of the late diva and his old mania kicks in. Hohner wants to prevent her from singing for anyone but him, even if it means silencing her forever.
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A Fig Leaf for Eve
Title: A Fig Leaf for Eve
Character: Nightclub Patron
Released: July 4, 1944
Type: Movie
A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair tonic fortune.
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Du Barry was a Lady
Title: Du Barry was a Lady
Character: Passerby
Released: August 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
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The Glass Key
Title: The Glass Key
Character: Card Player (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1942
Type: Movie
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Title: Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character: Rodeo Spectator with Martin Manning (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Title: Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Character: Ringsider at Fight (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
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Lady from Louisiana
Title: Lady from Louisiana
Character: Edwards
Released: April 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.
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Citizen Kane
Title: Citizen Kane
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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A Man Betrayed
Title: A Man Betrayed
Character: Club Inferno Patron (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
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Tin Pan Alley
Title: Tin Pan Alley
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
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Third Finger, Left Hand
Title: Third Finger, Left Hand
Character: Man at Railroad Station
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!
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Foreign Correspondent
Title: Foreign Correspondent
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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The Sea Hawk
Title: The Sea Hawk
Character: Man Carrying Spear
Released: August 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
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All This, and Heaven Too
Title: All This, and Heaven Too
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.
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Edison, the Man
Title: Edison, the Man
Character: Broker
Released: May 10, 1940
Type: Movie
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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Johnny Apollo
Title: Johnny Apollo
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
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The Ghost Comes Home
Title: The Ghost Comes Home
Character: Townsman at Banquet (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
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Alice in Movieland
Title: Alice in Movieland
Character: Well-Wisher at Train Station (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1940
Type: Movie
In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally, she gets a call to be an extra, and she's so hopeful that the regulars decide to make a fool of her. Is this the end of Alice's dream? Not if the porter has anything to say about it.
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The Roaring Twenties
Title: The Roaring Twenties
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1939
Type: Movie
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Diggs (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Title: Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Character: Hart
Released: August 22, 1939
Type: Movie
The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. In this one the family inherits co-ownership in a copper mine.
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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Title: Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Character: Man in Audience (uncredited)
Released: July 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with his pretty teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.
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It's a Wonderful World
Title: It's a Wonderful World
Character: Guest (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
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Happily Buried
Title: Happily Buried
Character: Board Member
Released: April 14, 1939
Type: Movie
For some unexplained reason, sales of waffle irons have plummeted. Evelyn Foster, president of the Magic Circle Waffle Iron Company, and Richard Wright, president of the Four Square Waffle Iron Company, decide to merge their companies and get married as well. When Richard insists that the new company make square waffle irons rather than round ones, Evelyn calls off the marriage and the company merger. Richard meets a Hindu yogi, who helps him win Evelyn back.
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Comet Over Broadway
Title: Comet Over Broadway
Character: Actor at Dress Rehearsal (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
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A Man to Remember
Title: A Man to Remember
Character: Town Councilor (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
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Hollywood Boulevard
Title: Hollywood Boulevard
Character: Director in Commissary
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
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Search for Beauty
Title: Search for Beauty
Character: Health Acres Guest (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.
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Eagle of the Night
Title: Eagle of the Night
Released: October 20, 1928
Type: Movie
1928 was the last year when silent films dominated the market, and this aviation-based action serial from Pathe was one of the studio's last. Some pieces are no longer extant (half of chapters 3&6, all of 7, 8, and 9, and the beginning of the 10th and final chapter), but the beginning and end are there as well as enough to follow the action adequately. The surviving Grapevine print is beautifully restored and tinted in spots, although you can tell the print is deteriorated in some of the surviving sections. Basically, an inventor (Josef Swickard, in a role not unlike the one he later played in THE LOST CITY) has created a silencer/muffler for planes to silence any engine sounds, and the bad guys are out to steal the invention and put it to evil use.
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The Wagon Show
Title: The Wagon Show
Character: Colonel Beldan
Released: February 19, 1928
Type: Movie
Colonel Beldan runs a Wild West show. When Beldan's star attraction switches to his unscrupulous competitor Vicarino, the young Bob Mason takes the opportunity to take over the job with his horse 'Tarzan'.
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Camille
Title: Camille
Character: Armand's father
Released: September 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
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The Shamrock and the Rose
Title: The Shamrock and the Rose
Character: Father O'Brien
Released: April 14, 1927
Type: Movie
The neighborly "feud" between a Jewish and an Irish families escalates when two of their youngsters fall in love.
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Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
Title: Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
Character: Baxter Ryan
Released: January 15, 1927
Type: Movie
An orphan is adopted by a kindly old racehorse owner. He decides to pay back his benefactor by training to ride the horse so he can win an important race.
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The Last Alarm
Title: The Last Alarm
Character: The Captain of the Fire Brigade - Tom's Father
Released: June 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Firemen Tom and Joe each loves the other's sister, although neither is able to support a wife. Tom's troubles are compounded by a rival for his sweetheart's hand. In a drawn out fight he bests the rival, who steals the revenue from the firemen's ball (of which Tom is treasurer) and hides the money in the storage warehouse in which Tom's sister works as a stenographer. While Tom, Joe, and their sweethearts search for the money, the villain also returns for his loot, and, in his haste, he sets the building afire--trapping the foursome behind a steel door. Their calls for help reach the street, an alarm is turned in, firemen come to the rescue, and the money is found in a blazing desk.
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The Mad Marriage
Title: The Mad Marriage
Character: Walter Butler
Released: January 30, 1925
Type: Movie
Mary Jane is a girl born out of wedlock whose mother, Alice, attempts to offer her respectability by marrying a wealthy old colonel. As a young adult, Mary Jane meets and falls in love with reclusive writer Walter Butler. They are about to marry when he is revealed to be her natural father.
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The Story Without a Name
Title: The Story Without a Name
Character: The Cripple
Released: October 27, 1924
Type: Movie
Alan Holt is a radio expert who has invented a death ray machine for the U.S. government. International spy Drakma wants to get his hands on the invention and he sends his henchmen to attack Holt in his laboratory.
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Roulette
Title: Roulette
Character: Ben Corcoran
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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Fog Bound
Title: Fog Bound
Character: Deputy Brown
Released: May 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Silent film directed by Irvin Willat
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The Glimpses of the Moon
Title: The Glimpses of the Moon
Character: Fred Gillow
Released: March 25, 1923
Type: Movie
The film is based upon the 1922 Edith Wharton novel The Glimpses of the Moon.
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Man and Wife
Title: Man and Wife
Character: Caleb Perkins
Released: March 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Dora Perkins is a country girl who runs away to New York City. She gets work as a nurse and marries Dr. Howard Fleming, a famed brain surgeon. Supposedly she dies in a fire, and some time later Fleming takes a vacation in the country, where by some odd coincidence he winds up meeting Dolly, Dora's sister. Without realizing her relationship to Dora, he marries her. Soon Dolly is expecting, and not long after, Dora pops up -- she survived the fire, but has been left hopelessly insane.
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The Crimson Stain Mystery
Title: The Crimson Stain Mystery
Character: Harold Stanley
Released: August 21, 1916
Type: Movie
In attempting to develop a chemical which would make a person super-intelligent, Dr. Montrose fails and the subjects of his experiments metamorphose into hideous monsters who band together and prey on humans. With the police stymied, a young detective attempts to track down the leader of the group of killers, known only to have a small crimson stain in one eye.
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The Crown Prince's Double
Title: The Crown Prince's Double
Character: Prince Oscar / Barry Lawrence
Released: February 7, 1916
Type: Movie
A prince, aiming to avoid an unwanted marriage, hires an American as a double to evade his pursuing father.
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The Heart of Jim Brice
Title: The Heart of Jim Brice
Character: Jim Brice
Released: April 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Jovial and big-hearted, Jim Brice, of the Howard Detective Agency, is sent to trap bribetakers in a nearby city.
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The Evil Men Do
Title: The Evil Men Do
Character: David Horton
Released: January 19, 1915
Type: Movie
As childhood sweethearts, David Horton and Beatrice Elton are inseparable. Fifteen years later Beatrice goes abroad and while there is heartbroken to learn that David has married Margaret Forsythe, a social climber, Margaret starts to entertain on a lavish scale.
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Too Much Burglar
Title: Too Much Burglar
Character: Tom Perry
Released: November 19, 1914
Type: Movie
An exceptionally capable girl, Trixie Joyce, proves a great help, to her mother, a widow with a large family of girls. They receive a proposition from Henrietta Joyce, Mrs. Joyce's wealthy sister-in-law, to take Trixie as a companion, feed and clothe her and in place of wages, send her mother an allowance sufficient to support the rest of the family. Both realize it is the solution of a hard problem, and Trixie accepts the offer. Henrietta is close-fisted and selfish in money matters, but she also has a strain of morbidly-romantic sentiment in her nature, so the largest part of Trixie's work is reading aloud to her mistress quantities of swashbuckling, mid-Victorian novels.
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The Peacemaker
Title: The Peacemaker
Character: Himself - Cameo Appearance
Released: October 14, 1914
Type: Movie
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The Mysterious Lodger
Title: The Mysterious Lodger
Character: Ralph Brent - the Mysterious Lodger
Released: August 27, 1914
Type: Movie
Returning home from a matinee, Ralph Brent, a poor actor, finds his step-child dead. The child's mother returns intoxicated, having purchased drink instead of medicine for the child, with the money he had given her. He accuses her of causing the little one's death, and snatching the bottle of liquor from which she is about to drink, throws it away. Infuriated, she springs at her husband with a bread knife, stumbles and accidentally kills herself. Fearing that he will be suspected of murder. Brent hastily makes up in the disguise of an old man and leaves the house.
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The Moonstone of Fez
Title: The Moonstone of Fez
Character: Schuyler Van Norden
Released: July 7, 1914
Type: Movie
While touring Algiers, Mrs. Osborne and her daughter, Winnifred, make the acquaintance of Schuyler Van Norden, a young American banker. At a little booth, Mrs. Osborne purchases "The Moonstone of Fez." On their way to their hotel, Winnifred and her mother are accosted by a beggar, who seizes Mrs. Osborne's hand and insists upon telling her fortune. The following night they retire in adjoining rooms. In the morning, Winnifred is frightened to find her mother has mysteriously disappeared.
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Etta of the Footlights
Title: Etta of the Footlights
Character: Lord Wentworth
Released: May 23, 1914
Type: Movie
Etta Lang, a chorus girl, is the principal support of an invalid mother and her sister and brother, not only working at the theater, but looking after their small boarding house. Among their lodgers is Brutus Bellamy, an old actor. He becomes interested in the girl, and offers to teach her acting. She learns rapidly. She arrives at the theater late and is abused by the stage manager, Joseph Burton. Cecil Wentworth, one of the backers of the theater, takes her part and becomes interested in her.
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Iron and Steel
Title: Iron and Steel
Character: John Smardon
Released: February 21, 1914
Type: Movie
Herr Ludwig Kronitz is a king in his own works and rules with a controlling hand. He is known as the "Man of Iron." He has made a fortune out of the manufacture of guns, and is hard and unscrupulous.
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Some Steamer Scooping
Title: Some Steamer Scooping
Character: Baron Lafitte
Released: February 12, 1914
Type: Movie
The Baron Lafitte is in love with and proposes to Adelaide Burton, daughter of Andrew Burton, a wealthy manufacturer. Clara Lane, a newspaper reporter, has been assigned to watch the movements of the Baron. She is further instructed to make a scoop of their movements. Tom Drake is in love with Clara, and is her persistent follower throughout.
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Fellow Voyagers
Title: Fellow Voyagers
Character: Tom Blake
Released: November 26, 1913
Type: Movie
Miss Marbury comes on deck and looks haughtily at Mrs. Cray, an attractive young widow, half suspecting that she has her steamer chair. When she finds that she is mistaken, she ties a large red ribbon upon her own chair, which is situated between Mrs. Gray on her left and Mr. Martin, on her right. Miss Marbury is quite annoyed when little Dolores and Helen, Mrs. Gray's two playful children, come to settle a dispute over the ownership of a tennis ball. Tom Blake stops to greet Mrs. Gray and plays with the children, making them forget their animosity.
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The Hindoo Charm
Title: The Hindoo Charm
Character: Sir Edward Tilbury
Released: September 17, 1913
Type: Movie
Advised by his friends to seek a second wife so that his children, Helen and Dolores, may know a mother's care, Sir Edward Tilbury marries Phyllis, the daughter of Lady Olivia Gower, a leading social light in Calcutta.
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The Lonely Princess
Title: The Lonely Princess
Character: Endicott, an American Millionaire
Released: September 3, 1913
Type: Movie
A young American millionaire in Venice falls in love with the beautiful princess Ione.
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A Princess of Bagdad
Title: A Princess of Bagdad
Character: Seyn - the Cobbler
Released: September 1, 1913
Type: Movie
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.
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The Sale of a Heart
Title: The Sale of a Heart
Character: Charles Lindgard
Released: July 18, 1913
Type: Movie
To avoid ruin, an impoverished count arranges a marriage between his daughter and a wealthy man she does not love. After an accident, she is taken in by a gifted artist who saves her from an unseemly fate.
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Delayed Proposals
Title: Delayed Proposals
Character: Jack Hardy
Released: June 19, 1913
Type: Movie
It is sometimes decidedly difficult to get a little privacy on shipboard. Several times Jack Hardy almost reaches the proposal point with Marion Van Sickles, but each time the fates are against him. Marion and her mother are on their way home from a vacation in Europe and board the boat at Liverpool at the same time as Jack, who is very much struck by Marion's appearance. After a little flirtation on the boat, he believes that his feelings are returned and is about to propose. Just then mama comes along with Count Brainlesse, whom she wishes to marry Marion. The proposal is postponed. Again and again Jack tries to come to the point, being constantly interrupted by someone, either the count or mama, or the grouchy owner of the deck chair he has taken. First the grouch, then mama, and then the count, get sea-sick and at last Jack has Marion alone. Alas, the time has not yet come.
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Getting Up a Practice
Title: Getting Up a Practice
Character: Dr. Lyons
Released: March 27, 1913
Type: Movie
Becoming impatient waiting for patients, young Doctor Bob Lyons is about discouraged. To add to his misery, his sweetheart's father, Mr. Irving, distinctly objects to Emily, his daughter, marrying Bob until he has a practice.
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What a Change of Clothes Did
Title: What a Change of Clothes Did
Character: John Mason
Released: January 20, 1913
Type: Movie
Tired of being sought only for his money, a rich man goes on a fishing trip.
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The Adventure of the Ambassador's Disappearance
Title: The Adventure of the Ambassador's Disappearance
Character: Lambert Chase
Released: January 10, 1913
Type: Movie
A gang of crooks are employed to get possession of valuable papers of international importance, held by the French Ambassador, Vicomte de Jarlais. They are also instructed to get the Ambassador out of the way and make it appear that he has committed suicide. His mysterious disappearance arouses the United States Secret Service officers
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It All Came Out in the Wash
Title: It All Came Out in the Wash
Character: Barry Wall
Released: December 29, 1912
Type: Movie
A romance between Mr. Wall and the girl from the laundry, who encounter each other for the first time on a train station platform.
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When Persistency and Obstinacy Meet
Title: When Persistency and Obstinacy Meet
Character: Henry Ford
Released: October 8, 1912
Type: Movie
Short comedy about a arguing couple in which the man is doing everything to make up with his girlfriend. Henri has a fight with his girlfriend, Dora. He tries to make excuses by phone and by mail, but his girlfriend wants to know nothing about him. Henry tries dressed as parcel delivery and as a woman, but even then it does not work. Eventually the opinion of his girlfriend changes, and the quarrel is over.
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As You Like It
Title: As You Like It
Character: Orlando
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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Bobby's Father
Title: Bobby's Father
Character: Dick Ramsay - Bobby's Father
Released: September 23, 1912
Type: Movie
Dick Ramsay is a "cracksman" and burglar. His wife, Jane, is a good woman and tries to persuade her husband to give up his dishonest ways. They have one child two years old, Bobby. One night before going out on a "job," Dick makes a present to the child of a lucky sixpence with his name engraved on it, hung on a silver chain. Jane does not want the child to have it at first, but Dick declares he has had it made for the child. He then bids them good-bye. A few days later, Jane receives a letter from him saying that he has been caught in the act and sent to prison for a year.
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The Adventure of the Italian Model
Title: The Adventure of the Italian Model
Character: Lambert Chase - the Detective
Released: September 21, 1912
Type: Movie
Master detective, Lambert Chase, unravels a case of poisoning
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A Vitagraph Romance
Title: A Vitagraph Romance
Character: Maurice Costello
Released: September 17, 1912
Type: Movie
After meeting a handsome writer, Senator Carter's daughter leaves home and enters the employ of the Vitagraph Company as an actress. After waiting wistfully for her return, Senator Carter passes a theatre one day and sees his daughter featured in one the "Movies". He goes to the studio and after being shown through the plant he finds his daughter and reconciliation takes place. Besides being an interesting drama, the picture shows in detail the entire plant of the Vitagraph Company.
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The Loyalty of Sylvia
Title: The Loyalty of Sylvia
Character: Dr. Dudley Lawrence
Released: September 12, 1912
Type: Movie
The daughter of an old friend is staying with Dr. Laurence. Sylvia is a naughty girl; she puts sneezing powder into a bunch of flowers to make everyone in the house sneeze. After the doctor introduces her to the son of a friend, the two fall in love and get engaged. Dr. Laurence is also hopelessly in love with Sylvia, but keeps it a secret. After a ball he gets smallpox. Sylvia takes care of him and falls in love with him. She breaks off the engagement.
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Her Grandchild
Title: Her Grandchild
Character: Donald Grant - the Son
Released: August 19, 1912
Type: Movie
Mrs. Grant, a widow, has one son, Donald. He is not really a bad fellow, but is full of devilment and always getting himself into mischief. One day, he visits the village inn and follows this up by pinning a caricature of Elder McWirther on that gentleman's gate. It is decided by the deacons to expel him from the church.
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The Two Battles
Title: The Two Battles
Character: Gordon Frazier
Released: August 17, 1912
Type: Movie
Just previous to his departure for South Africa and the Boer War, Gordon Frazier, a young officer in the English Army, bids an affectionate farewell to his fiancée, Gladys Mayford. In Africa, engaged in battle, Gordon is rescued from death by a young soldier, with whom he formed a slight acquaintance.
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Wanted... a Grandmother
Title: Wanted... a Grandmother
Character: Mr. Hale
Released: August 9, 1912
Type: Movie
Kitty Mallory, the young actress, finds herself in straightened circumstances. Looking for the immediate dollar, she sees an "ad" in the newspaper, for an elderly lady as companion to a little invalid boy. She answers it and receives a favorable reply. She makes herself up to fit the requirements and is selected for the position from a number of applicants.
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The Black Sheep
Title: The Black Sheep
Character: Harold Moreland - the Black Sheep's Brother
Released: July 19, 1912
Type: Movie
You would think that the death of his wife through his dissipation and neglect would have brought Jack Moreland to his senses. Instead he is more dissipated, and deserts his child, Clara, who is taken by her uncle, Harold Moreland, and brought up in ignorance of her father's existence.
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The Money Kings
Title: The Money Kings
Character: Roy Brain
Released: July 15, 1912
Type: Movie
The Money Kings is a 1912 silent short film.
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Conscience
Title: Conscience
Character: Harold Winter
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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On the Pupil of His Eye
Title: On the Pupil of His Eye
Character: Lambert Chase, Detective
Released: July 5, 1912
Type: Movie
The household of Senator Walker consists of himself, his ward, Mary, and his nephew, Herbert. The other members of his household are John, an old servant, Lucy the maid, and a half dozen more servants. John is smitten with Lacy. She doesn't take him seriously, owing to the difference in their ages. Mr. Walker, rather old and feeble, draws up his will and leaves the bulk of his property to Mary and Herbert. He bequeaths $5,000 to his faithful servant John. Herbert is very fond of his uncle. The old gentleman is very much attached to Mary and very desirous that she and Herbert should be wed at the proper time.
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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
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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Lulu's Doctor
Title: Lulu's Doctor
Character: Doctor John Lewis
Released: June 9, 1912
Type: Movie
Magde leaves her fiancé Lewis in order to take care of Lulu, the child of her deceased sister, in New York. After some time, chance brings the two lovers together again.
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Half a Hero
Title: Half a Hero
Character: Joe Godfrey
Released: June 7, 1912
Type: Movie
Silent movie
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The Picture Idol
Title: The Picture Idol
Character: Howard Hanson
Released: May 31, 1912
Type: Movie
A short comedy about a girl (played by Clara Kimball Young) who is in love with a movie star (Maurice Costello) and who follows him everywhere. Her parents want to teach her ​​a lesson, and invite the actor to their home.
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The Spider's Web
Title: The Spider's Web
Character: Trevor Lawlor - A Young Attorney
Released: May 14, 1912
Type: Movie
American horror crime movie from 1912.
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Aunty's Romance
Title: Aunty's Romance
Character: Stephen Fiske Jr.
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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Dr. LaFleur's Theory
Title: Dr. LaFleur's Theory
Character: Dr. LaFleur
Released: May 5, 1912
Type: Movie
Dr. Lafleur is convinced that crime is an illness and can be treated like that.
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The Old Silver Watch
Title: The Old Silver Watch
Character: Frank as an Adult
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: 'Enry Awkins
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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The First Violin
Title: The First Violin
Released: February 2, 1912
Type: Movie
Old Von Shultz, the first violin, finds as he grows older a longing for companionship. Hurrying from the theater the old musician finds little Helen sleeping on the steps of the stage door. He picks her up and takes her to his comfortably furnished home. The old man even grows childish, he is so pleased with the little tot's presence and he gives her the love with which his heart abounds. The next day he learns from the morning papers that Helen's mother and father were lost in a fire. He spends many happy hours with her, playing with her toys. He takes her to rehearsals with him, where she is the pet of the musicians. One year later Helen shows an aptness for the stage. This delights the old musician and the child grows nearer and dearer to his heart. A sad blow, however, comes to him when the Children's Society take the little girl away from him and once more he finds himself a lonely old man.
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For the Honor of the Family
Title: For the Honor of the Family
Character: Guy Ryder aka Guy Denton
Released: January 27, 1912
Type: Movie
On account of his extravagance and dissipation, Col. Ryder disowns his son and casts him off. Guy, resolved to redeem himself, joins an Indian regiment as a private, and leaves England.
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The Meeting of the Ways
Title: The Meeting of the Ways
Character: Tom - an Honest Attorney
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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Some Good in All
Title: Some Good in All
Character: Bill - a Providential Thief
Released: December 25, 1911
Type: Movie
John Lane is a prosperous businessman, a widower, who lives in a large house with his seven-year-old daughter Betty. Lane has an enemy, one Ben Hartley, who, by the aid of some forged papers, threatens to expose Lane and put him in prison. The night of the story opens with Lane receiving a letter from Hartley, who demands $10,000, to be paid at midnight, that night. Lane has not that much ready money in the house, and no way to get it. He thinks it all out and decides to commit suicide. He stands before a mirror and is about to pull the trigger, when Bill, the burglar, steps into the room, stopping him.
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Auld Lang Syne
Title: Auld Lang Syne
Character: Tammas
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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His Sister's Children
Title: His Sister's Children
Character: Harry Burton - the Children's Uncle
Released: September 26, 1911
Type: Movie
Harry Burton's sister and her husband are suddenly called away for a few days on business and telegraph him to come to their home and take care of their two little boys, "Toddie and Budge." He at once complies, and is soon with the children, assuming his duties as "governor." Helen Manton, stopping in the same town, thinks a great deal of Harry Burton, and naturally he of her.
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For Love and Glory
Title: For Love and Glory
Character: Lt. Osmond
Released: August 14, 1911
Type: Movie
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.
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She Came, She Saw, She Conquered
Title: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered
Character: Herbert - Rose's Fiance
Released: July 26, 1911
Type: Movie
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.
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The Geranium
Title: The Geranium
Character: Daniel Briton
Released: July 15, 1911
Type: Movie
One glance at the poor and disordered home of the Tunisons shows us there is something still lacking. Mrs. Tunison is obliged to provide for her crippled daughter Ethel, her son, who does what he can to help her and her older daughter, who aids in every way possible. Daniel Briton, a young peddler, notices Ethel as he passes by, and gives her one of his wares, a geranium, for which she is very thankful. On successive days as the young peddler passes she waves her hand to him. One day he brings with him a doctor, who takes her to the hospital where she will get good care and attention. After a few weeks, Ethel is carried home in the arms of her generous friend, entirely restored to health. Everybody is made happy, and more so with Daniel, who marries one of Ethel's sisters.
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The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Title: The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Character: Jesus Christ
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
Character: John Harmon - A Quaker Husband
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: John Martin - First Brother
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 Sleep Walker
Title: The Sleep Walker
Character: Dr. Allan Langham
Released: June 23, 1911
Type: Movie
A young woman does strange things, which are explained when it is discovered she is a sleep walker.
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Proving His Love; or, The Ruse of a Beautiful Woman
Title: Proving His Love; or, The Ruse of a Beautiful Woman
Character: Lloyd Stanwood
Released: June 16, 1911
Type: Movie
An unfortunate twist of fate provides the opportunity for a reporter to demonstrate the depth of his love for a beautiful actress.
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The Changing of Silas Warner
Title: The Changing of Silas Warner
Character: Silas Warner's Son
Released: June 10, 1911
Type: Movie
Silas Warner dictates a letter commanding his son Harry to leave college at once and enter his office as an employee. Furthermore, Mr. Warner has in mind the marriage of his son to his partner's daughter. When Harry receives his father's letter, he returns home, but takes a decided stand in opposition to his father's ideas. Furthermore, Harry is about to be married to Rose Blend. Warner's partner, Martin, turns out to be a defaulter, and almost ruins the firm. Harry reads a newspaper account of his father's ills and trouble, so he and his wife go to see and assist him. As Mr. Warner is convalescent, he extends to his son and wife his parental blessings.
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The Sacrifice
Title: The Sacrifice
Character: Nick Austin
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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For Her Brother's Sake
Title: For Her Brother's Sake
Character: Albert Black - The Brother
Released: June 6, 1911
Type: Movie
The black sheep of the family is protected by his sister.
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Dead Man’s Honor
Title: Dead Man’s Honor
Character: Hugh
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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The Show Girl
Title: The Show Girl
Character: Dr. Renfrew
Released: May 18, 1911
Type: Movie
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.
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His Mother
Title: His Mother
Character: Donald Gray
Released: May 9, 1911
Type: Movie
Donald Gray, living with his mother in Scotland, through the friendship of the family physician, is offered an opportunity to go to America to study medicine. He leaves with his mother's blessings. Five years later, Donald is a physician with a successful practice in New York City. One of his patients has grown very fond of him; at the same time the young physician has grown fond of this gentleman's daughter, and is engaged to be married to her. His mother resolves to pay him an unexpected visit.
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Little Nemo
Title: Little Nemo
Character: Himself
Released: April 8, 1911
Type: Movie
Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style. Also known as "Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics".
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The Inherited Taint
Title: The Inherited Taint
Character: Herbert Warning
Released: March 31, 1911
Type: Movie
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.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Sydney Carton
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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The New Stenographer
Title: The New Stenographer
Character: The boss
Released: February 18, 1911
Type: Movie
A capable but homely new hire becomes ill and recommends her beautiful cousin during leave. The bosses and clerk get a surprise at the end.
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Water Lilies
Title: Water Lilies
Character: Maurice
Released: January 13, 1911
Type: Movie
Albertina is a celebrated dancer whose fame is widespread. However, she has overtaxed her strength, is forbidden to appear in public and is obliged to seek quiet and rest. She retires to her Aunt Mary's home, a beautiful and restful country place, where she secures the much-needed seclusion and comfort. Next door to Aunt Mary there lives a very handsome fellow who has often admired Aunt Mary's niece and to tell the truth she admires him. Growing restless under the enforced retirement, Albertina strolls down to the lake where the water-lilies grow. She pulls a number of them into a garland which she holds bewitchingly above her head. They give her an inspiration and involuntarily she pirouettes, bends and swerves her lithe and willowy form like a nymph of ethereal sweetness. The young man who lives next door is rowing upon the lake; He see Albertina dancing on the velvety field of grass, is charmed by her, and rushes toward her.
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Siren of the Sea
Title: Siren of the Sea
Character: Fisherman
Released: January 1, 1911
Type: Movie
Fantasy short starring Annette Kellerman as a Siren.
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How She Won Him
Title: How She Won Him
Character: Arthur Lewis
Released: September 9, 1910
Type: Movie
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.
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Rose Leaves
Title: Rose Leaves
Released: August 27, 1910
Type: Movie
Mrs. String, sitting under the rose bushes with her baby, Helen, on her knee, is approached lovingly by her husband, who lovingly speaks to his family and then shakes the rose bushes over their heads, causing the white leaves to fall upon their heads in a shower of rarest sun tints.
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Over the Garden Wall
Title: Over the Garden Wall
Released: June 10, 1910
Type: Movie
Making the best of her genteel poverty, our heroine prepares to attend the dance to which she has been invited, and, after surveying the general effect of her plain and somewhat passé attire, goes on her way with a painful self-consciousness to the home of her friend.
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The Love of Chrysanthemum
Title: The Love of Chrysanthemum
Released: May 28, 1910
Type: Movie
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Richelieu; or: The Conspiracy
Title: Richelieu; or: The Conspiracy
Released: January 2, 1910
Type: Movie
Directed by J. Stuart Blackton.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Lysander
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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The Bride of Lammermoor
Title: The Bride of Lammermoor
Character: Edgar Ravenswood
Released: June 17, 1909
Type: Movie
Sir Walter Scott adaptation, existing in fragmentary form in the Library of Congress paper print collections.
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The Dancer and the King, a Romantic Story of Spain
Title: The Dancer and the King, a Romantic Story of Spain
Released: December 19, 1908
Type: Movie
A dancer enchants a leacherous king but rebuffs his advances, resulting in his vengeful anger.
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Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy
Title: Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy
Released: December 1, 1908
Type: Movie
Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
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Antony and Cleopatra, a Love Story of the Noblest Roman and the Most Beautiful Egyptian
Title: Antony and Cleopatra, a Love Story of the Noblest Roman and the Most Beautiful Egyptian
Character: Marc Antony
Released: November 3, 1908
Type: Movie
A short film based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was the first film to dramatize the ill-fated romance between Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of Egypt.
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Leah the Forsaken
Title: Leah the Forsaken
Released: October 10, 1908
Type: Movie
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Richard III
Title: Richard III
Released: September 26, 1908
Type: Movie
Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.
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Salome (The Dance of Seven Veils)
Title: Salome (The Dance of Seven Veils)
Character: King Herod
Released: August 29, 1908
Type: Movie
King Herod is enchanted by Salome's dance and grants her wish for the head of John the Baptist.