Kate Toncray

Kate Toncray

Born: January 1, 1867
Died: December 6, 1927
in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Movies for Kate Toncray...

Bobbed Hair
Title: Bobbed Hair
Character: Mrs. Parker
Released: October 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.
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The Narrow Street
Title: The Narrow Street
Character: Aunt Albina
Released: January 4, 1925
Type: Movie
Simon Haldane works in the office of the Faulkner Iron Works, but he has been raised by his two maiden aunts in an extremely sheltered manner and is basically afraid of everyone and everything. One morning he finds a strange girl shivering in his bedroom, and although he's terrified of her, he manages to call a doctor for her. This starts a rumor that Simon is married. Complications ensue.
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Lovers' Lane
Title: Lovers' Lane
Character: Aunt Mattie
Released: August 10, 1924
Type: Movie
Silent film comedy drama...
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The Country Kid
Title: The Country Kid
Character: Mrs. Grimes
Released: October 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Ben Applegate's father dies, leaving him and his brothers Joe and Andy orphans and having to run the family farm. Their Uncle Grimes is their legal guardian, but he's only concerned with getting his hands on the farm. He has Ben declared incompetent and packs off Joe and Andy to an orphanage. When things look darkest for the three boys, help comes from an unexpected source.
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Prisoners of Love
Title: Prisoners of Love
Character: His Mother
Released: January 16, 1921
Type: Movie
Blanche Henry, a vivacious young woman, finds what she believes is true love with a handsome young man, but then learns that he has designs on her younger sister.
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The Charm School
Title: The Charm School
Character: Miss Curtis
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Austin Bevans, a lively car-salesman, suddenly finds himself heir to the Bevans School for Girls. Since Austin feels that acquiring grace and charm are more important to a young girl than acquiring knowledge, academic courses are dropped, and a charm school emerges. He submits to the charms of Elsie, a student at the school, whose grandfather takes him into his employ after a newly discovered will dispossesses him of the school. Elsie resents Austin for accepting a job with those who formerly thought him undesirable, but later she relents and takes him back.
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Turning the Tables
Title: Turning the Tables
Character: Dr. Spinks
Released: November 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Doris Pennington is committed to an insane asylum by her aunt, who hopes to take over Doris's fortune. Upon arrival at the asylum, however, Doris convinces the staff that the nurse who accompanies her is actually the patient and she the nurse.
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Nobody Home
Title: Nobody Home
Character: The strong-minded aunt
Released: August 24, 1919
Type: Movie
A young woman is so superstitious that she cannot make a move or a decision without the approval of the cards or the stars. Pursued romantically by two men, one virtuous, the other villainous, the cards point her toward the villain. Which will she follow, her cards or her heart?
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Peppy Polly
Title: Peppy Polly
Character: Mrs. Kingsley Benedict
Released: April 6, 1919
Type: Movie
Polly has herself arrested and committed to a reformatory in order to investigate conditions at the institution, after the committee charged with the investigation whitewashes the facts.
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Boots
Title: Boots
Character: Lydia Hampstead
Released: February 16, 1919
Type: Movie
Boots is a young servant girl who polishes shoes in an English inn. She is an incurable romantic, addicted to melodramatic stories of love and adventure. When she discovers a Bolshevik plot to blow up a government official, she takes it on herself to foil the plot.
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The Hope Chest
Title: The Hope Chest
Character: Mrs. Ballantyne
Released: December 29, 1918
Type: Movie
Daughter of impoverished vaudeville actor Lew Moore, Sheila works as a waitress in a chocolate manufacturer's candy shop, where she delights the customers with her tomboyish antics. Tom Ballantyne, the proprietor's son realizes that Sheila is excessively fond of dancing, asks her out without the benefit of a proper introduction, and she indignantly refuses. Soon afterwards, however, the two fall in love and secretly marry.
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Battling Jane
Title: Battling Jane
Character: Charwoman
Released: September 28, 1918
Type: Movie
Jane is a rootless young lady who finds an abandoned child and adopts it as her own. The decision, however, leads to great conflict with the child's vicious outlaw father.
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Up The Road With Sallie
Title: Up The Road With Sallie
Character: Martha Cabot
Released: April 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Sallie Waters inherits $5,000 along with other legatees unknown to her. Whichever of the heirs uses his initial bequest to the best advantage is to receive the main residue of the estate.
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Hands Up!
Title: Hands Up!
Character: Mrs. Farley
Released: April 28, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Tod Browning & Wilfred Lucas.
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Stage Struck
Title: Stage Struck
Character: Mrs. Martin
Released: February 25, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Edward Morrissey.
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The Little Yank
Title: The Little Yank
Character: Mrs. Carver
Released: January 14, 1917
Type: Movie
Sallie is a beautiful Kentucky girl who belongs to a family of Union sympathizers. Her brother is a lieutenant in the Union army, and on a visit home brings Major Rushton, his superior officer, who falls in love with Sallie, "the little Yank."
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Going Straight
Title: Going Straight
Character: Mrs. Van Dyke
Released: June 3, 1916
Type: Movie
A man and his wife both have criminal pasts, but have quit crime and are now respectable citizens. One day a member of their old gang shows up and threatens to expose them if they don't help him pull a heist.
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Little Meena's Romance
Title: Little Meena's Romance
Character: Meena's Aunt
Released: April 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Meena Bauer is the heroine of this romance of a Pennsylvania Dutch girl, who is loved by the son of a Mennonite family. Meena treats Jacob as a joke in spite of the arrangement their parents have made that they should wed. The Mennonite simplicity has no charms for Meena, who proceeds to fall in love with Count Fredrick von Ritz
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The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
Title: The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
Character: Aunt Mary
Released: March 15, 1916
Type: Movie
The first time that Jack was threatened with expulsion from college his Aunt Mary was much surprised and decidedly vexed -- mainly at the college. His family were less surprised, viewing the young man through a clearer atmosphere than his Aunt Mary ever had, and knowing that he had barely escaped similar experiences earlier in his career by invariably leaving school the day before the board of inquiry convened.
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Double Trouble
Title: Double Trouble
Character: Working Man's Suicidal Wife
Released: December 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Double Trouble is a 1915 American silent romantic comedy film written and directed by Christy Cabanne and stars Douglas Fairbanks in his third motion picture. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Herbert Quick. A print of the film is held by the Cohen Media Group.
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Old Heidelberg
Title: Old Heidelberg
Character: Frau Fritz Ruder - Katie's Mother
Released: November 14, 1915
Type: Movie
Karl Heinrich is the heir to the throne of the small European principality of Rutania, but he's a lonely child, not allowed to play with other children and knowing little about life outside the castle. When he reaches maturity, he is sent to attend the University of Heidelberg, and finds fellowshi with classmates and a blossoming love with Katie Ruder, his only friend during childhood and the niece of an innkeeper. However, political turmoil in Rutania forces him to return. War is declared. Heinrich returns to Heidelberg one last time to bid a somber farewell to his beloved Katie.
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The Lamb
Title: The Lamb
Character: Gerald's Mother
Released: November 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Gerald, the somewhat frail son of a wealthy New York family, is bested at the beach by Bill, a strapping young cowboy from Arizona. His fiancée Mary, ashamed of Gerald's "yellow streak", leaves him and goes by train to visit some friends in Arizona, with Bill in tow. Gerald follows them, and before long he and Mary winds up captured by Yaqui Indians and Gerald must prove to Mary that he is not the "weakling" she thinks he is by coming up with a plan for them to escape their captors.
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The Americano
Title: The Americano
Character: Innkeeper's Wife
Released: July 17, 1915
Type: Movie
Robert Hammond is the manager of the Mexican branch of the Manhattan Oil Company, in Tionana, Mexico, where he lives with his daughter, Elaine. He discharges from the oil works a worthless Mexican named Tonio. Shortly before a new superintendent, in the person of Boyd Norton, is sent from New York to take charge of the oil wells, under the direction of Hammond. Norton meets Hammond's daughter, Elaine. They are mutually attracted and ultimately engaged to be married. Norton is suddenly recalled to New York, and during his absence a group of bandit soldiers, under the leadership of the discharged Tonio make a raid upon Tionana, in the course of which Hammond is slain and Elaine is kidnapped by the bandits.
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For Her People
Title: For Her People
Character: Mathilde - the Queen's Maid
Released: December 10, 1914
Type: Movie
The art students invite the girl across the way to their party. She comes and they make much of her, not knowing that she is queen of Barsonia, living incognito.
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Liberty Belles
Title: Liberty Belles
Character: Mrs. Sprouts
Released: May 13, 1914
Type: Movie
Liberty Belles, silent comedy film from 1914 starring Dorothy Gish, Jack Pickford, and Gertrude Bambrick.
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So Runs the Way
Title: So Runs the Way
Character: At Party (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1913
Type: Movie
The young wife only reflected her aspiring mother's teaching. Her one ambition seemed to be for display and to keep her reputation as a woman of fashion. The husband's first weakness in fearing to tell her that the source of her power had gone, resulted in a second, a near-theft, nevertheless incriminating. Through it came the lesson.
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The Suffragette Minstrels
Title: The Suffragette Minstrels
Character: Old Woman
Released: August 18, 1913
Type: Movie
Two wives of Jenksville at least did not intend their husbands should be corrupted by the arrival of these enticing ladies in town. That show should be investigated. It resulted in their becoming one of the sensations of the performance, while the husbands became an awful example.
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Under the Shadow of the Law
Title: Under the Shadow of the Law
Character: The Mother
Released: August 7, 1913
Type: Movie
In this picture it is shown how a convict's life still remains under the ban of the law, even after the expiration of his term. With the detective continually on his track, he is able to save both a young woman's honor and her weak brother from the hands of a designing employer.
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The Widow's Kids
Title: The Widow's Kids
Character: Mary Ann, the Widow
Released: August 4, 1913
Type: Movie
In spite of their oversupply of energy, their Pa-to-be just doted on the kids. The fascinating traveling salesman, who won away their fickle Ma, did not, but through the widow's deception, the kids won the parent of their hearts.
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Those Little Flowers
Title: Those Little Flowers
Character: Mrs. Ronald G. Saunders
Released: July 31, 1913
Type: Movie
Quite harmless in themselves, but when Mrs. Ronald G. Saunders saw her faithless lord purchasing the innocent blossoms, she was for a divorce right away. Henceforth she would devote her life to charity. The fond one on whom the flowers were bestowed cast them forth. In her pursuit of uplifting the lowly, Mrs. Saunders found them, and the monster husband was at once transformed into a dear, kind, good one.
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Red Hicks Defies the World
Title: Red Hicks Defies the World
Character: Hick's Mother
Released: June 9, 1913
Type: Movie
Hard as nails and as strong winded as a gale in March, Red Hicks may have been a bit "chesty," but he was in perfect trim. The town depended on the champion, O'Shea, the fighting Irishman, to make soft putty of the world famous pugilist, but on the day of the fight there was no O'Shea. The supposition was he did not have the price: and other domestic difficulties interfered. O'Shea's trainer, however, solved the problem and Bed Hicks found his Waterloo.
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Highbrow Love
Title: Highbrow Love
Character: Miss Highbrow
Released: May 26, 1913
Type: Movie
Fred was no highbrow, but in spite of all her primness and learning, he fell for Mary's undoubted charm. One day he was handed this communication: "Dear Freddie: I am going to Box Springs to be quiet and alone with by beloved Samuel Johnson, Lovingly, Mary Highbrow." Jealous rage stirred Fred's bosom for his new found rival. He followed, blood in his eye. Mary, the highbrow, however, explained matters to both Fred and Blacksmith Johnson, but Fred at the time was a little worse off for his experience.
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The Lady and the Mouse
Title: The Lady and the Mouse
Character: The Aunt
Released: April 26, 1913
Type: Movie
The question is, would the young tramp really have fallen in love with the groceryman's daughter if he had not caught her in the heart struggle? Be that as it may, she could not find it in her to drown the unwelcome visitor to the pantry, so she let it go and the silent little drama witnessed by the tramp greatly impressed him. Not so the strict aunt, she declared the whole thing to be in exact accordance with everything else in the family. Their hearts ran away with their heads. That was why they lost money on credit, could not pay off the mortgage and send the sick sister to a better climate. As for the tramp, they had no business to take him in. He could not pay for his keep. But the tramp surprised them all.
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The Hero of Little Italy
Title: The Hero of Little Italy
Character: The Mother
Released: April 3, 1913
Type: Movie
It was on the night of the Italian ball when Maria, to tease her sweetheart, Tony, indulged in a mild flirtation with Joe, his enemy. At first Tony's jealousy was aroused, but reasoning that it was no time nor place for anything but enjoyment, he smothered the feeling. However, Maria carried the flirtation too far and a tragedy was imminent. This tragedy, though, was averted through a small boy's daring, the girl fully realizing what might have been the result of her thoughtlessness.
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A Welcome Intruder
Title: A Welcome Intruder
Released: March 24, 1913
Type: Movie
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Love in an Apartment Hotel
Title: Love in an Apartment Hotel
Character: Head Chambermaid
Released: February 27, 1913
Type: Movie
In the apartment hotel lived the aspiring maid, whose solicitude maintained order in the bachelor's apartment. He was her ideal, and the all-adoring bell-boy was firmly but gently given to understand that maids who read "Heliotrope Glendening's Advice to Young Ladies" look higher than ice-water toters. A compromising complication, however, with an unexpected visit from a beautiful lady, quite convinces the aspiring one that wealthy young bachelors may be the grandest men ever, but their aspirations, when it comes to the crucial test, are not for chambermaids. Science influences his actions so much that he gets into trouble with the police.
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What Is the Use of Repining?
Title: What Is the Use of Repining?
Released: January 30, 1913
Type: Movie
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The Massacre
Title: The Massacre
Character: The Maid - in Prologue
Released: December 19, 1912
Type: Movie
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
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What the Doctor Ordered
Title: What the Doctor Ordered
Character: Jenks' Wife
Released: August 4, 1912
Type: Movie
A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Mack Sennett, Kate Toncray & Mabel Normand.
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The Speed Demon
Title: The Speed Demon
Character: The Speed Demon's Wife
Released: July 14, 1912
Type: Movie
An ambitious race driver who is not allowed to compete decides to outwit his competitors.
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One Is Business, the Other Crime
Title: One Is Business, the Other Crime
Character: Second Maid
Released: April 24, 1912
Type: Movie
Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband attempts to burgle a home, only to be captured at gunpoint by the mistress of the house. It is the home of the rich couple. While holding the poor intruder at gunpoint, the rich wife accidentally discovers evidence implicating her own husband in a bribery scheme.
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Iola's Promise
Title: Iola's Promise
Character: Jack's Sweetheart's Mother
Released: March 14, 1912
Type: Movie
Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to Jack, and regards him as something different from other white people. Jack's sweetheart and her father are travellers in a wagon-train headed for this place, and, not having much luck so far, he is somewhat gloomy. Iola learns the reason, and promises to help him find gold. "Will you?" he says, "Yes." "Cross your heart?" This cross-your-heart action mystifies Iola. She thinks it is a sort of tribe insignia and tells her people that "Crossheart" people are all right. Iola surely pays her debt of gratitude, not only in finding gold, but in giving her life to protect Jack's sweetheart from her own people.
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Under Burning Skies
Title: Under Burning Skies
Character: The Mother
Released: February 21, 1912
Type: Movie
Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady who spurns his advances and elopes with a fresh-faced young cowpoke. An angry Joe eventually gets his revenge.
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The Sands of Dee
Title: The Sands of Dee
Character: Bobby's mother
Released: February 21, 1912
Type: Movie
A young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One day she meets a wily artist painting on the beach, he seduces the young girl and gives her a ring, with the promise of marriage. When the young admiring fellow comes to propose, she proudly announces her engagement to the artist. Shocked he leaves and her parents demand meeting her husband to be. She goes to bring him home, and finds he already has a sophisticated fiancée. Distraught she hurries home, and when her father realizes what she has done, he orders her out of the house. As she wanders despondent along the sea, the young fellow who has found out about her betrayal, immediately goes to see her. Finding she has been disowned by her father, he goes looking for her...
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For His Son
Title: For His Son
Character: At Soda Fountain (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1912
Type: Movie
A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke which is laced with cocaine. Dopokoke is advertised as relief "for that tired feeling." The drink is a success, but the son becomes addicted to it, much to his father's regret. Loosely based on the allegations that the Coca-Cola company and other soft drink manufacturers laced their soda with dope.
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The Miser's Heart
Title: The Miser's Heart
Character: Little Kathy's Mother
Released: November 20, 1911
Type: Movie
Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a little girl who lives in his building.
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The Battle
Title: The Battle
Character: At Dance / At Farewell (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1911
Type: Movie
Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he finds his courage and crosses enemy lines to bring help to his trapped comrades.
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Love in the Hills
Title: Love in the Hills
Character: The Girl's Mother
Released: October 30, 1911
Type: Movie
A pretty mountain girl has to decide between three suitors, an upright young man from the mountains, a shiftless fiddler, and a visitor from the city.
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The Long Road
Title: The Long Road
Character: A Nun / At Party
Released: October 26, 1911
Type: Movie
Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, now poverty-stricken, and secretly helps his family.
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Her Awakening
Title: Her Awakening
Character: Old Woman / Accident Witness
Released: September 28, 1911
Type: Movie
An attempt to hide her working-class origins appears to have disastrous consequences for an attractive office worker.
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The Rose of Kentucky
Title: The Rose of Kentucky
Character: A mother
Released: August 24, 1911
Type: Movie
A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother's death and sends her off to school. After she's grown, he encourages her to consider his younger brother as a husband. When the younger brother proves to be a coward, she chooses the older brother instead.
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Fighting Blood
Title: Fighting Blood
Character: The Son's Girlfriend's Mother
Released: June 28, 1911
Type: Movie
After the Civil War, an ex-soldier and his family settle in the Dakota Territory. The son quarrels with the father and leaves home. Riding in the hills, he spots a band of Indians attacking a neighboring homestead, and he races back to warn his family as the Indians chase him.
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The Primal Call
Title: The Primal Call
Character: The Woman's Maid
Released: June 21, 1911
Type: Movie
A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough sailor.
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The Manicure Lady
Title: The Manicure Lady
Character: Second Manicurist
Released: May 18, 1911
Type: Movie
The manicure lady spurns the barber and dates a rich cad instead.
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Teaching Dad to Like Her
Title: Teaching Dad to Like Her
Character: A servant
Released: March 20, 1911
Type: Movie
Harry wants to marry Dolly, a showgirl, but only on the condition that she can win over his disapproving father. The father is so charmed when he meets Dolly that he wants to win her for himself.
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Fisher Folks
Title: Fisher Folks
Character: On Beach
Released: February 16, 1911
Type: Movie
A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt.
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A Salutary Lesson
Title: A Salutary Lesson
Character: The Maid
Released: August 11, 1910
Type: Movie
During a stay at beach resort Mr. and Mrs. Randall neglect their daughter and follow their own interests. Mrs. Randall entertains the local minister, while Mr. Randall agrees to take his daughter on a walk along the beach. However, he is attracted by a flirtatious young woman, and the little girl wanders off on her own. She clambers onto a seaside rock where she falls asleep, unmindful of the incoming tide. Her parents at last notice her absence and begin searching for her. However, the incoming tide has by this time surrounded her rock, cutting her off from land. A lifeguard hears her cries and swims to the rescue just as the rising tide is about to engulf her. The child is returned to her parents, who receive from their near tragedy a salutary lesson in the importance of being more careful parents.
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A Flash of Light
Title: A Flash of Light
Character: A Servant
Released: July 17, 1910
Type: Movie
An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist, and her younger sister take her place.
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The Little Darling
Title: The Little Darling
Released: September 1, 1909
Type: Movie
This might be termed a comedy of errors, for the overzealousness of a lot of good-hearted simple folks places them in a rather embarrassing position. Lillie Green, who keeps a boarding house, receives a letter from her old school chum, Polly Brown, whom sin hasn't seen in years, to the effect that as Lillie has never seen her little darling daughter, she will send her for a few days' visit, asking that someone meet the child at the 3:40 train. Lillie's boarders are a bunch of kind-hearted bachelors, who at once prepare to give the "Little Darling" the time of her life, buying a load of toys, etc., for her amusement, also procuring a baby carriage with which to meet her at the train. You may imagine their embarrassment when they find that Tootsie, instead of being a baby, proves to be a handsome young lady of seventeen, whose tastes run rather to garden gates, shady lanes and quiet nooks, than toys. (Moving Picture World)
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The White Caps
Title: The White Caps
Released: September 14, 1905
Type: Movie
Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and then proceeds to abuse his wife both verbally and physically. As soon as she can get away from him, the wife leaves home with her child to find a place of refuge. When the vigilantes find out about this, they arm themselves with rifles and immediately go to confront the abusive husband.