Edmund Burns

Edmund Burns

Born: September 27, 1892
Died: April 2, 1980
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for Edmund Burns...

Hollywood Boulevard
Title: Hollywood Boulevard
Character: Pago Pago Patron (uncredited)
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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It Happened One Night
Title: It Happened One Night
Character: Best Man at Wedding (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
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The Quitter
Title: The Quitter
Released: February 5, 1934
Type: Movie
When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.
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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Title: Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Character: Friend of Miss Fane
Released: January 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
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Female
Title: Female
Character: Allison's Secretary (Uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
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Golden Harvest
Title: Golden Harvest
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
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Rusty Rides Alone
Title: Rusty Rides Alone
Character: Steve Reynolds
Released: May 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Bart Quillan and his sons are after Martin's ranch. Burke arrives to help Martin but being outnumbered he hopes to get help from Powers. But no one is sure which side Powers and his gang are on.
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Dangerously Yours
Title: Dangerously Yours
Character: Tony
Released: February 24, 1933
Type: Movie
A playboy asks his friend to borrow his yacht to entertain his girlfriend.
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The Death Kiss
Title: The Death Kiss
Character: Myles Brent
Released: December 5, 1932
Type: Movie
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Jack Carter (Uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
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False Impressions
Title: False Impressions
Character: Edward the Butler aka Windy Windermere
Released: November 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Lloyd, Marjorie and Dorothy work in a department store, he in the toy section and the gals sell music sheets. He's got eyes for Marjorie, but she feels she can do better, and takes up an offer to go with a rich playboy to his estate for a weekend party. Suspicious Lloyd follows, disguised as a butler, wearing his old "Ham" mustache.
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Western Limited
Title: Western Limited
Character: Sinclair
Released: August 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A fancy masquerade party is the scene of a jewel robbery, and later several suspects in the robbery are discovered to be aboard the same train.
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The Shadow of the Eagle
Title: The Shadow of the Eagle
Character: Clark
Released: February 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.
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The Devil Plays
Title: The Devil Plays
Character: Dick Quincy
Released: December 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed.
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Men Call It Love
Title: Men Call It Love
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.
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Sea Devils
Title: Sea Devils
Character: Richard Charters
Released: January 15, 1931
Type: Movie
An escaped convict stows away on a ship of mutinous treasure hunters to find the crooks who framed him for murder.
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One Night at Susie's
Title: One Night at Susie's
Character: Chippy's Henchman (Uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.
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After the Fog
Title: After the Fog
Character: John Temple
Released: December 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Millionaire Joshua Barker insists that his daughter, Faith, must marry Phil Langhorne, a man that neither likes, and Faith is in love with and eager to marry her childhood sweetheart, John Temple.
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The Love Racket
Title: The Love Racket
Released: December 8, 1929
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl exposes her shameful past to save the life of a girl she has never met.
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Tanned Legs
Title: Tanned Legs
Character: Clinton Darrow
Released: November 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fairly quickly, but Janet's the one with real problems. It seems she sent some compromising love letters to a worthless cad, and now the bounder wants to use the letters for blackmail. Peggy's friend Roger and his flapper sweetheart Tootie hatch an elaborate plan to retrieve the incriminating letters and salvage Janet's reputation.
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She Goes to War
Title: She Goes to War
Character: Reggie
Released: June 7, 1929
Type: Movie
A young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really like.
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Phyllis of the Follies
Title: Phyllis of the Follies
Character: Clyde Thompson
Released: June 1, 1928
Type: Movie
As a favor to her old chorus pal Mrs. Dexter, Broadway dancer Phyllis Sherwood agrees to play a joke on a client of Mrs. Dexter's lawyer husband. The client, a roving rogue named Clyde Thompson, has a habit of romancing married women and has already made up his mind to make Mrs. Dexter -- whom he's never met -- his next conquest. Phyllis poses as Mrs. D. to throw Clyde off the track, leading to an unending supply of humorous complications.
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The Chinese Parrot
Title: The Chinese Parrot
Character: Robert Eden
Released: October 23, 1927
Type: Movie
The plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all its owners. The second screen appearance of detective Charlie Chan
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The Shamrock and the Rose
Title: The Shamrock and the Rose
Character: Tom Kelly
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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The Princess from Hoboken
Title: The Princess from Hoboken
Character: Terence O'Brien
Released: March 1, 1927
Type: Movie
To enliven their business, the O'Tooles, restaurant owners in Hoboken, New Jersey, transform their restaurant into the Russian Inn when they hear that a famous Russian princess is stranded in Chicago. Sheila, the daughter, is persuaded to impersonate the princess, who unfortunately arrives at the restaurant on opening night.
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Whispering Wires
Title: Whispering Wires
Released: October 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A woman hears of a murder plot through a whispered voice on the telephone.
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Forlorn River
Title: Forlorn River
Character: Ben Ide
Released: September 27, 1926
Type: Movie
A wanted-fugitive, called "Nevada," is wounded by a pursuing posse of lawmen, and is left to die on the desert by his companion, Bill Hall. He is rescued by a young rancher, Ben Ide, who is in love with Ina Blaine, daughter of a neighboring rancher. While "Nevada" is recovering, he and Ina fall in love but, through his loyalty to Ben, he sends her away. Going home, Ina falls into the clutches of Bill Hall, now heading a gang of rustlers, but the real leader is Les Setter who is posing as an honest rancher, and he has designs on Ina himself.
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Sunny Side Up
Title: Sunny Side Up
Character: Stanley Dobrington
Released: August 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Sunny sings in the streets to obtain funds for a country outing. A theatre owner hears her and takes her up. During a fishing trip Sunny is about to accept the theatre owner's proposal of marriage when his estranged wife turns up...
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The Lodge in the Wilderness
Title: The Lodge in the Wilderness
Released: July 11, 1926
Type: Movie
Jim Wallace, a young engineer, is engaged by Hammond, manager of an estate in the Northwest, to build flumes for a logging camp, but Donovan, the superintendent, dislikes him and places numerous obstacles in his way. Virginia Coulson, owner of the estate, and her maid Dot arrive, and when Hammond proposes to Virginia, she refuses his declaration in favor of Jim. Later, when Donovan is found murdered, suspicion points to Jim, who is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Hammond gets evidence on the murderer, Goofus, a half wit, and plans to use it to force Virginia to marry him; Goofus wounds Hammond and, seeing he has not killed him, starts a forest fire. Jim, who has escaped from prison with the aid of his friend, Buddy, rescues Virginia from the burning lodge; Goofus confesses to the murder, and Jim is freed.
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Paris at Midnight
Title: Paris at Midnight
Character: Eugène de Rastagnic
Released: April 17, 1926
Type: Movie
In a Paris boarding house, a mysterious stranger seems to somehow solve the problems and conflicts of the residents, all the while hiding a secret of his own.
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Out of the Storm
Title: Out of the Storm
Character: James Morton
Released: April 10, 1926
Type: Movie
Out of the Storm is a 1926 silent drama.
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Made for Love
Title: Made for Love
Character: Nicholas Ainsworth
Released: January 26, 1926
Type: Movie
A young woman visits her boyfriend, an archaeologist, at the site in Egypt where he is digging up ancient artifacts. Her frustration mounts when it appears that he is more interested in old bones and mummies than he is in the fact that she's traveled thousands of miles to see him. However, there are three men at the site who don't share her boyfriend's attitude towards her, and they make their intentions known.
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Der Farmer aus Texas
Title: Der Farmer aus Texas
Character: Erik
Released: October 21, 1925
Type: Movie
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Hell's Highroad
Title: Hell's Highroad
Character: Ronald McKane
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Judy Nichols (Leatrice Joy), a poor girl from Chicago, has decided she cannot marry without money. Her sweetheart, Ronald McKane, a struggling civil engineer (Edmund Burns), is encouraging her to join him in New York, but she only goes when she is bequeathed an inheritance. Unfortunately, the amount adds up to less than ten dollars a week. When she meets banker Sanford Gillespie (Robert Edeson), she convinces him to help McKane out financially. Once McKane has become a success, Judy marries him, but then he becomes interested in another woman. Judy seeks revenge and asks Gillespie to ruin her estranged husband, offering him anything he wants in return.
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The Manicure Girl
Title: The Manicure Girl
Character: Antonio Luca
Released: July 6, 1925
Type: Movie
A manicurist in the beauty shop of a large metropolitan hotel, is engaged to Antonio Luca an electrician. However she a meets James Morgan a wealthy guest who wants to go out with her, but she declines so he sends her ten dollars for theater tickets.
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The Million Dollar Handicap
Title: The Million Dollar Handicap
Character: George Mortimer
Released: February 7, 1925
Type: Movie
The Million Dollar Handicap
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Those Who Dare
Title: Those Who Dare
Character: Harry Rollins
Released: November 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Captain Manning, a seasoned salt, is ordered to remove his battered ship, the Swallow, from the town's harbor because of a superstition connected with it. The captain, who lives alone, visits the Mariner's Home and relates the story of how he came into possession of the schooner. Manning was the first mate on the yacht of a wealthy man when it encountered the Swallow at sea. He went on board, accompanied by the drug-addicted son of his employer, and discovered a mutinous crew and a disabled captain fighting for control of the ship. Manning took charge and brought the ship safely to port, after successfully putting down the mutineers by humiliating their leader, who had kept them in fear by practicing voodoo in the ship's hold. Manning later married the captain's daughter. Now he controls the ship.
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The Guilty One
Title: The Guilty One
Character: Donald Short
Released: June 8, 1924
Type: Movie
The Guilty One is a 1924 mystery film.
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Broadway After Dark
Title: Broadway After Dark
Character: Jack Devlin
Released: May 19, 1924
Type: Movie
Ralph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to Helen Tremaine, but her flirtatious behavior causes him to reject the superficial life of his set.
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The Humming Bird
Title: The Humming Bird
Character: Randall Carey
Released: January 13, 1924
Type: Movie
A pickpocket falls in love with a newspaperman. When he is sent off to war and she disguises herself as a boy, joins a gang and sets out to save him.
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Thundering Dawn
Title: Thundering Dawn
Character: Michael Carmichael
Released: November 5, 1923
Type: Movie
Jack Standish feels responsible for the failure of the partnership with his father and goes to the South Seas where he falls prey to alcohol, is seduced by Lullaby Lou, a vamp, and tricked by a brutal plantation owner, Gordon Van Brock.
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The Country Kid
Title: The Country Kid
Character: Arthur Grant (as Edward Burns)
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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Scars of Jealousy
Title: Scars of Jealousy
Character: Jeff Newland
Released: March 5, 1923
Type: Movie
Scars of Jealousy is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Lloyd Hughes and Frank Keenan. It was produced by Thomas H. Ince and distributed through Associated First National, later First National.
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Jazzmania
Title: Jazzmania
Character: Sonny Daimler (as Edward Burns)
Released: February 12, 1923
Type: Movie
The queen of a mythical European nation flees to America when a general threatens to overthrow her government.
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The Dangerous Age
Title: The Dangerous Age
Character: Tom
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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East Is West
Title: East Is West
Character: Billy Benson
Released: October 15, 1922
Type: Movie
She'd wink till hearts went on the blink. And staid professors couldn't think. And everywhere they'd stop to stare. And say "Some Chink!" when Ming Toy winked.
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The Green Temptation
Title: The Green Temptation
Character: Hugh Duyker
Released: April 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Genelle and Gaspard operate an itinerant Parisian theatre in which the greatest profits are realized by picking the pockets of the audience and robbing their homes while they are watching the show. When the First World War breaks out, Genelle volunteers as a Red Cross nurse and renounces her criminal ways. She travels to America, but re-encounters Gaspard, who is determined to use her new contacts in the upper class to continue their larcenous partnership.
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Fifty Candles
Title: Fifty Candles
Character: Ralph Coolidge
Released: December 11, 1921
Type: Movie
Sentenced to be deported from Hawaii, Hung Chin Chung pledges twenty years of service to Henry Drew to escape the certain death that awaits him in China. Rage at his humiliation and inability to marry as a free man smolders in him throughout his servitude, near the end of which he sails to San Francisco with the Drew family. Also on board is Ralph Coolidge, who tries to retrieve from Drew his share of their gold mine, and who loves Drew's secretary, Mary-Will Tellfair. Shortly after their arrival, Henry Drew is murdered; suspicion falls on Ralph, the owner of the murder weapon, a curious Chinese dagger; but subsequent events lead Hung Chin Chung to confess to the crime.
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The Girl from God's Country
Title: The Girl from God's Country
Character: Owen Glendon (as Edward Burns)
Released: September 18, 1921
Type: Movie
A picture of the great outdoors, peppered with the thrills that dreams are made of.
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To Please One Woman
Title: To Please One Woman
Character: Dr. John Ransome
Released: December 19, 1920
Type: Movie
A woman, having lost interest in her soon to be bankrupt husband, decides to seduce a doctor.
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The Virgin of Stamboul
Title: The Virgin of Stamboul
Character: Hector Baron
Released: March 27, 1920
Type: Movie
Achmet Bey, a Turkish chieftain, catches one of his many wives in adultery and murders her lover. Throwing aside the cuckolding wife, he abducts his harem an innocent girl. However, a brave American who loves her comes to her rescue.
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Pegeen
Title: Pegeen
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Pegeen O'Neill must fend for herself when her father Dan becomes mentally unbalanced after his wife Mary's death. Dan spends his days searching for his wife, setting fires in the belief that the flames will illuminate his Mary. The townspeople, enraged at the arson that is slowly destroying their village, track down Dan and trap him in a burning cabin. Pegeen rushes to comfort her dying father, who consoles himself at death with the hallucination that his wife has returned in the figure of his daughter. Pegeen is then rescued from the raging fire by Jimmie, who proposes to the waif as he delivers her from the flames.
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Male and Female
Title: Male and Female
Released: November 23, 1919
Type: Movie
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
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The Love Burglar
Title: The Love Burglar
Character: Arthur Strong
Released: July 13, 1919
Type: Movie
A young man infiltrates the underworld by pretending to be a convicted burglar. While undercover, he meets a young woman who turns out to be no more a part of gangland than he, but with similar reasons for disguising herself.
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Under the Greenwood Tree
Title: Under the Greenwood Tree
Character: Sir Kenneth Graham
Released: December 8, 1918
Type: Movie
Acting on her love of nature and loathing of titled fortune hunters, heiress Mary Hamilton leaves home with her secretary, Peggy Ingledew, to join a band of roving gypsies. One of Mary's suitors, Sir Kenneth Graham, follows the two young women into the woods, dressed in gypsy garb, but when Jack Hutton decides to rid his forested land of gypsies, Sir Kenneth is thrown into jail.
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The Danger Mark
Title: The Danger Mark
Character: Scott Seagrave
Released: July 7, 1918
Type: Movie
Scott Seagrave and his sister Geraldine are left the family estate when their wealthy alcoholic father dies. Unfortunately, they've also inherited his problems with alcohol, so they stay at the estate in seclusion. When Geraldine reaches "coming-out" age, Scott throws her a coming-out party. However, one of the men after her hand in marriage, Jack Dysart, tricks her into taking a drink, and she winds up embarrassing and humiliating herself in front of an old family friend, Duane Mallett, whose daughter Sylvia is in love with Jack, even though he's treated her shabbily.
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The Wasp
Title: The Wasp
Character: Harry's Roommate
Released: March 11, 1918
Type: Movie
Grace Culver's sharp tongue, has garnered her with the nicknamed "The Wasp." A spirited disagreement with her canning magnate father, John Culver, results from Grace's refusal to marry Kane Putnam, her father's business partner, and she orders her new chauffeur, Tim Purcell, to take her and her maid Miller on a drive. On their return, they are captured by Brazsos, a German spy who plans to blow up her father's munitions factory. Grace learns of the hidden tunnel Brazsos has excavated to the factory, and as Miller escapes to alert the police, Grace unties the chauffeur and leads him to the tunnel. When the bomb explodes prematurely, Grace and Tim become trapped, and facing death, they confess their mutual love. The two are rescued, after which Grace discovers that Tim actually is wealthy Yale football star Harry Cortland, a revelation that delights her father.
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Morgan's Raiders
Title: Morgan's Raiders
Character: John Davidson
Released: February 18, 1918
Type: Movie
"Wild Cat" Betsey Dawley, whose father, "Handsome Harry," was disowned by the proud Dawley family of Greenburgh, Kentucky, meets and thoroughly charms her snobbish cousin Virginia's fiancé, John Davidson, at a picnic. At the start of the Civil War, John becomes a Union officer, while Betsey and her father staunchly defend the South. When Confederate Colonel Morgan, the leader of the intrepid band known as "Morgan's Men," commissions a young horseman to deliver an important message to the Dawley mansion, the rider is shot and Betsey takes his place, breaking through the lines and successfully accomplishing the mission.
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The Slave
Title: The Slave
Character: Egbert Atwell
Released: June 3, 1917
Type: Movie
Caroline works at a hair dressing parlor. A wealthy man falls in love with her, takes her home and proposes to her. Caroline has a dream where she marries the man, who turns vicious and keeps her locked up in his mansion. He finally dies, and Caroline starts out having a good time with his money, but she sees the folly of her ways. She wakes up from the dream.
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The Birth of a Nation
Title: The Birth of a Nation
Character: Klansman
Released: February 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.