Robert Gaillard

Robert Gaillard

Born: November 14, 1868
Died: September 24, 1941
in Adrian, Michigan, USA

Movies for Robert Gaillard...

Baleydier
Title: Baleydier
Released: January 15, 1932
Type: Movie
The attempt of a young hairdresser to act in a serious film with his chosen co star , recognized during the shooting as inept, is mistakenly taken by the audience to be deliberately comic.
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Christopher Columbus
Title: Christopher Columbus
Character: King Ferdinand
Released: October 7, 1923
Type: Movie
Everyone knows what happened after he "discovered" America, but in this film we learn about Columbus' multi-year struggle to secure funding for the journey. Prior explorers journey's to the North American continent also get a nod in this story.
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The Broadway Bubble
Title: The Broadway Bubble
Character: Higginson
Released: October 1, 1920
Type: Movie
The story of a young society woman, who, aspiring for a musical comedy career against her husband's wishes, places her twin sister in her home to enact her part as a wife, while she played her role behind the footlights.
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The Birth of a Soul
Title: The Birth of a Soul
Character: Parson
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Mountain families feud.
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Beating the Odds
Title: Beating the Odds
Character: Lynn Hardy
Released: May 12, 1919
Type: Movie
Beating the Odds
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The Adventure Shop
Title: The Adventure Shop
Character: Franklin Herbert
Released: January 6, 1919
Type: Movie
A society girl looking for thrills, poses as a tough "underworld" character. She is rescued by her wealthy husband as Josephus Potts, Jr, who proves he's not the tea-and-crumpets type she'd assumed him to be.
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The Clutch of Circumstance
Title: The Clutch of Circumstance
Character: John Lawson
Released: August 26, 1918
Type: Movie
Businessman John Lawson is seriously injured in an accident, his wife Ruth travels from their New England village to New York to find a job that will support them both. Ruth works in a sweatshop at first, but then makes it big on Broadway.
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The Message of the Mouse
Title: The Message of the Mouse
Character: Daniel Concord
Released: July 2, 1917
Type: Movie
A wealthy financier is tricked by a pair of spies into giving millions to foreign powers. His daughter is suspicious and hires a Detective, who is able to foil the foreign agent's plans. Meanwhile, the daughter has fallen in love with a fellow from the enemy camp, but all ends well as his true identity is revealed as a member of the U.S. secret service.
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The Stolen Treaty
Title: The Stolen Treaty
Character: Secretary of State
Released: June 16, 1917
Type: Movie
At a reception given for the vacationing Prince Zarl of Zorania, secretly the emissary of Zorania set on negotiating a treaty with the United States, Geoffrey Wynne, apparently a society dandy, but in reality a secret service agent, meets the prince. During the reception, Wynne is summoned to Washington where he learns that the treaty has been stolen and is being held for $15,000,000 ransom. Discovering that one of the thieves is an Italian named Farnelli, Wynne enlists the aid of his fiancée, Irene Mitchell, in apprehending the thief. Irene meets the Italian who offers to accompany her to New York. En route, Wynne overtakes them, chloroforms Farnelli and rips off his disguise to reveal Prince Zarl. Zarl then admits that he has stolen the treaty in order to cover his gambling debts.
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Phantom Fortunes
Title: Phantom Fortunes
Character: Red's Pal
Released: September 11, 1916
Type: Movie
Bob Deering on his way to business meets his sweetheart, Molly Sherman. He arrives at Milliken and Co., stockbrokers, his place of employment, just in time to save Herman, Zalmon Pinsker's 14-year-old son, from a very rough engagement with the other messengers in the office. For this act Herman takes him to his father's shop and obtains a suit at wholesale, and it is here that Bob meets Ike Mandell, who is in love with Dora, the daughter of Pinsker.
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The Alibi
Title: The Alibi
Released: August 7, 1916
Type: Movie
To help his dying father, assistant bank cashier Arthur Mansfield enters a fake sum in the bank's account book, but before carrying out the pilferage, he confesses to cashier Slayton, his superior. Slayton, who needs money to pay for his unsuccessful speculations, goes at night to take the money that Mansfield planned to embezzle, so that Mansfield will take the blame.
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The Redemption of Dave Darcey
Title: The Redemption of Dave Darcey
Character: Thurston
Released: June 12, 1916
Type: Movie
Crook Dave Darcy gets reformed by working in a steel mill owned by someone who witnessed his crime.
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The Man Hunt
Title: The Man Hunt
Character: Colonel Dunn
Released: April 29, 1916
Type: Movie
The Twelfth Regiment is to leave for the front in the morning at seven, and Captain Steadwell, who has been missing for three days, has not yet appeared. Unless he is found and returned to the head of his company by seven the next morning, disgrace will fall on him and his fiancée, Ellen Ferguson. Ellen is also loved by the new assistant secretary of war, Richard Ralston, who does not know of her engagement, Worried by Steadwell's continued absence, Ellen appeals to Dick to find him. Dick sets out to locate him, and the trail leads to Gladys, an actress whose photo was on Steadwell's table.
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Writing on the Wall
Title: Writing on the Wall
Character: Schuyler Lawrence
Released: February 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Irving Lawrence owns some of the most decrepit tenements in town and is an all-around bad guy. He won't cooperate with the efforts of his wife, Barbara, to help the poor and sees other women behind her back. Muriel, one of his cast-offs, meets and marries Barbara's brother, Payne. Lawrence makes trouble for Muriel and fabricates a scandal involving his kindly brother Schuyler and Barbara.
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The Heart of Jim Brice
Title: The Heart of 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: An Agent
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
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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Etta of the Footlights
Title: Etta of the Footlights
Character: A Theatrical Producer
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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A Homespun Tragedy
Title: A Homespun Tragedy
Released: October 7, 1913
Type: Movie
Although deeply in love with his wife, Dorothy, Mr. Thomson's jealousy is aroused by her attentions to his son. Dorothy herself is unconscious of this since she is only trying to help her stepson. Things gradually go from bad to worse until one morning at breakfast Jack, the stepson, shows too plainly the effects of the "night before."
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A Princess of Bagdad
Title: A Princess of Bagdad
Character: Sardi - Son of a 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 Lady and the Glove
Title: The Lady and the Glove
Released: August 15, 1913
Type: Movie
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The Only Veteran in Town
Title: The Only Veteran in Town
Character: Mr. Arnold - Dora's Father
Released: May 28, 1913
Type: Movie
More interested in automobiling than in anything else, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold are inclined to be neglectful of their little daughter, Dora, and are almost entirely unmindful of her grandfather, James Arnold, a one-armed G. A. R. veteran living with them. Dora makes up as well as she can to her grandfather for his loneliness and the two spend the greater part of their time together. On Decoration Day, Dora's parents want her to go with them to see the parade, but as they do not wish to take her granddad with them, she refuses to go and stays at home with him. After a while she coaxes the old gentleman with her into a field of daisies, where .she wreathes a crown of flowers and places it on his head. Seated thus in state, he is found by a delegation of citizens, who, having learned that he is a war veteran, bring a message that the town desires to honor him.
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Tricks of the Trade
Title: Tricks of the Trade
Character: 1st Detective
Released: May 27, 1913
Type: Movie
Jack Breen and his wife, Lizzie, are professional crooks, who live in a fine house and set themselves up as belonging to the best. Breen gets his living by various means, including begging. He dresses in ragged clothes and picks up crusts in the street, which he pretends to eat, thereby exciting the sympathy of passers-by.
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Bunny's Honeymoon
Title: Bunny's Honeymoon
Released: April 6, 1913
Type: Movie
Bunny's niece has a beau who is so addicted to drink that her father will not permit her to marry him. He has given the lad a chance, but when he comes upon him drink again, he orders his daughter to break it all off. She goes to Uncle Bunny, who thinks up a scheme to cure the drunkard. In pursuance of this, he brings the lad, so drunk that he can't see straight, to his home and by dressing up in woman gear, and by borrowed kids, makes him think he has married a fat widow with many children. The poor lad is so greatly worried that when he wakes up next morning, he really swears off. So. in the end, the lovers are happy.
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A Birthday Gift
Title: A Birthday Gift
Character: Alice's Uncle
Released: March 18, 1913
Type: Movie
Left alone by the death of her mother and the imprisonment of her father for theft, little Alice goes to live with her uncle and aunt. The latter does not take kindly to the child. The little one longing for a mother's love determines to give her aunt a birthday present.
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The Volunteer Strike Breakers
Title: The Volunteer Strike Breakers
Character: Harris Baldwin
Released: January 22, 1913
Type: Movie
A strike among the hotel waiters is on. The papers are full of it. Chester Colton, and Harris Baldwin, young college chaps, read that waiters are needed in all the big hotels and restaurants. They apply for positions at Belfonte's restaurant. Harris secures a job as head-waiter and Chester is appointed as one of the regular staff. Harris's fiancée has an engagement with her chum to take dinner with her at the restaurant. They boys pay so much attention to the girls that they neglect the other patrons, who make a kick and complain to the proprietor.
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The Little Minister
Title: The Little Minister
Character: Wearywold - The Policeman
Released: January 13, 1913
Type: Movie
To start a little in advance of our story, Lord Rintoul, of the English nobility, finds a little Gypsy girl three years old, who had been deserted by her parents. Fifteen years later, Gavin Dishart, the Little Minister, receives an appointment, his first, at Thrums, Scotland. This was made possible through the self-sacrifices of his widowed mother, to educate him for the ministry. The community of Thrums is made up of weavers, who work hard, have little and accomplish much. They are ultra-religious and look upon their pastor with such reverence that he is a little lower than the angels. While naturally intelligent, they are grounded in dogma and intolerance. Just after the Little Minister takes charge of the "Auld Licht Kirk" and the Manse, the weavers resent a reduction, by the manufacturers, in their pay and a strike is declared.
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The Adventure of the Ambassador's Disappearance
Title: The Adventure of the Ambassador's Disappearance
Character: First Thief
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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Romance of a Rickshaw
Title: Romance of a Rickshaw
Character: The Rajah
Released: November 19, 1912
Type: Movie
Mabel, the beautiful daughter of General Lewis, has considerable variety of her love affairs when she finds herself loved by Lieutenant Graham, of her father's staff, and very much sought after by a rich Indian Rajah, whom she meets at a garden party. The Rajah proposes, but is refused. He abducts her. Dennis, Graham's servant, meets the abductors and picks up Mabel's locket, which she drops. He hastens to the Lieutenant and tells him what he saw.
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An Elephant on Their Hands
Title: An Elephant on Their Hands
Released: October 15, 1912
Type: Movie
While in his cups, an older gentleman buys a surprise for his family—one that eats peanuts and weighs 11,000 pounds. (MoMA)
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Every Inch a Man
Title: Every Inch a Man
Character: James Welsh
Released: October 13, 1912
Type: Movie
Bob, son of a farmer, decides to become a detective.
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As You Like It
Title: As You Like It
Character: Oliver
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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She Cried
Title: She Cried
Released: October 2, 1912
Type: Movie
A short comic film about a woman who cannot get the hang of her work in a cardboard factory.
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Captain Barnacle's Legacy
Title: Captain Barnacle's Legacy
Character: Markham - the African
Released: September 4, 1912
Type: Movie
Captain Barnacle receives a letter telling him that Mr. Markham, a South African whose life he saved some years ago, has died, leaving him a legacy in money and some property and jewels in South Africa. The will stipulates that he shall visit the property in person.
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Written in the Sand
Title: Written in the Sand
Character: Peter Hansen
Released: August 30, 1912
Type: Movie
Love is awakened in the heart of Peter Hansen when he sees his name written within the outlines of a heart on the sands of the seashore. Above his own name is written the name of "Norma," a daughter of Gyntsen, the aristocrat of the little village. Norma's father is a widower. He idolizes his daughter. Peter is a quiet, noble fellow, a fisherman, with the instincts of a poet and the rule of a king. He is not given to associating with his fellows, being of a retiring disposition. His natural timidity and shyness forbid him to make known his love for her and he worships her in silence.
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Vultures and Doves
Title: Vultures and Doves
Released: August 14, 1912
Type: Movie
"Thirty per cent dividend! Is your money supporting you? If not, call and see us. Rising Sun Copper Company." This is the bait that the vultures throw out to catch the "doves," widows and orphans.
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The Light of St. Bernard
Title: The Light of St. Bernard
Character: Petro Maquin - the Man Who Abandoned Marie
Released: July 27, 1912
Type: Movie
Marie, a self-dependent girl, compromises herself by associating with Petro Maquin. She asks him to keep his promise to marry her. He ignores her and leaves the village to join a band of wreckers. The gossips circulate scandal about her, bringing reproach upon her name.
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Rock of Ages
Title: Rock of Ages
Released: July 20, 1912
Type: Movie
Talented as a sculptress, Madeline Bates, a young widow, carves a cross, which she afterwards erects on the seashore in memory of her husband, who was lost at sea. Madeline lives with her father in a small fishing village on the coast of Maine. One day, while resting on the monument, a celebrated artist visits her home
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Conscience
Title: Conscience
Character: Officer Donnelly
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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The Cylinder's Secret
Title: The Cylinder's Secret
Character: Chief Detective
Released: June 17, 1912
Type: Movie
Employed as secretary to Howard Abele, Marjorie Abbott attracts the attention of Sydney, her employer's son, who falls desperately in love with her. Mr. Abele is strenuously opposed to their marriage and he quarrels with his son. Marjorie has a half-brother, Dave, who is of an inventive turn of mind.
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At Scrogginses' Corner
Title: At Scrogginses' Corner
Released: April 9, 1912
Type: Movie
The general store at Scrogginses' Corner is the favorite lounging and meeting place for the citizens of the locality. On an eventful day a rich couple call at the store and ask Si Bunny, the storekeeper, permission to leave a bundle there, to be called for on their return. The storekeeper discovers that the bundle contains an infant.
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The Seventh Son
Title: The Seventh Son
Character: Tom Beecham
Released: April 3, 1912
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of the Civil War in the United States, the six sons of widow Beecham enlist. The seventh son is very anxious to join the army and fight for his country, but his brothers insist upon his remaining home with his mother.
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The Firing of the Patchwork Quilt
Title: The Firing of the Patchwork Quilt
Character: Jack McCoy - the Son
Released: February 28, 1912
Type: Movie
A mother is waiting or her son, a railroad engineer, to return home. The night becomes stormy and she discovers that a broken railroad trestle lies atop the track. She must try to get word to him before his train reaches the trestle.
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A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli
Title: A Red Cross Martyr; or, on the Firing Lines of Tripoli
Character: Lt. Troyano
Released: January 2, 1912
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Troyano, a young Italian officer, bids his sweetheart, Marie Petrini, a fond farewell and then rushes to war. In reading a detailed newspaper account of the battle, Marie sees an appeal for Red Cross nurses. Leaving her luxurious home and arriving at Tripoli, she takes up the duties assigned to her. She is beloved by all who require her services
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Cardinal Wolsey
Title: Cardinal Wolsey
Character: Gardiner, later Bishop of Winchester
Released: January 2, 1912
Type: Movie
Directed by J. Stuart Blackton and Laurence Trimble.
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Some Good in All
Title: Some Good in All
Character: John Lane
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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Arbutus
Title: Arbutus
Character: Carleton Holt
Released: November 8, 1911
Type: Movie
Carleton Holt locates at one of the mountain inns. On one of his daily trips he hears a mountain maid singing in the woods. Jumping from his horse, he makes his way to where she is sitting to find her holding a bunch of arbutus in her hands. He is fascinated. It is mutual.
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Kitty and the Cowboys
Title: Kitty and the Cowboys
Character: Pink
Released: October 27, 1911
Type: Movie
Life on the ranch has a heap of fun attached to it and where they can get hold of a good-natured butt like "Fatty" they are always happy and they keep him guessing and make him the subject of their pranks. "Fatty" stands their joshing and kidding without complaint and generally with a smile, but notwithstanding his seeming good nature, he is looking for a chance to get lack at them.
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Lady Godiva
Title: Lady Godiva
Character: Earl Leofric
Released: October 20, 1911
Type: Movie
The story of how Lady Godiva came to ride naked through the streets of Coventry.
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The Fighting Schoolmaster
Title: The Fighting Schoolmaster
Character: George Harris - the Fighting Schoolmaster
Released: October 16, 1911
Type: Movie
Before the Civil War, George Harris, a Yankee schoolteacher, takes charge of a southern country school. He is attracted by Nellie Gardner, his prettiest pupil, but his attentions are resented by her big brother Phil, also a pupil. They quarrel and a fight ensues, in which the teacher gets the better of Phil. Nellie will not forgive Harris for striking her brother.
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A Friendly Marriage
Title: A Friendly Marriage
Released: September 4, 1911
Type: Movie
A penniless British Lord sets up an arranged marriage with an American heiress. He soon falls in love with her and is determined to support himself financially so they can have a real marriage.
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Barriers Burned Away
Title: Barriers Burned Away
Character: Edwin Martin - Second 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 Leading Lady
Title: The Leading Lady
Character: A Playwright
Released: April 18, 1911
Type: Movie
"The Irish Washerwoman" is to be produced by Manager Mathew Talon. The cast is all engaged but the leading lady.
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Vanity Fair
Title: Vanity Fair
Released: January 2, 1911
Type: Movie
A silent short film telling the classic story of Becky Sharp.
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In Northern Forests
Title: In Northern Forests
Released: January 1, 1911
Type: Movie
A story of escape and manhunt in the Canadian forests.