Leah Baird

Leah Baird

Born: June 19, 1883
Died: October 3, 1971
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Leah Baird (June 20, 1883 – October 3, 1971) was an American actress of the silent screen, and a screenwriter. She began her film career in 1910 in Jean and the Waif opposite Jean, the Vitagraph Dog. She played several leads in William F. Brady's troupe, opposite Douglas Fairbanks. In the late 1910s she played in 15 episodes of the serial Wolves of Kultur. Baird wrote and produced film during the 1920s.

Baird later became a screenwriter and contributed to a number of Clara Bow features. She was married to producer Arthur F. Beck.

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The Hard Man
Title: The Hard Man
Character: Townswoman (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A Texas Ranger turns deputy sheriff; a woman wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Gasoline Alley
Title: Gasoline Alley
Character: Pedestrian (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1951
Type: Movie
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
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The Man Who Cheated Himself
Title: The Man Who Cheated Himself
Released: December 26, 1950
Type: Movie
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
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Humoresque
Title: Humoresque
Character: Professor (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
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Shadow of a Woman
Title: Shadow of a Woman
Character: Mrs. Calvin, Genevieve's Mother
Released: September 14, 1946
Type: Movie
Brooke's marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that her husband is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance.
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Mildred Pierce
Title: Mildred Pierce
Character: Police Matron (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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Make Your Own Bed
Title: Make Your Own Bed
Character: John's Wife
Released: June 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
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Action in the North Atlantic
Title: Action in the North Atlantic
Character: Mother (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
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Air Force
Title: Air Force
Character: Nurse #2 (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1943
Type: Movie
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
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Busses Roar
Title: Busses Roar
Released: September 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.
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The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Title: The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Character: Superintendent
Released: July 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Story of a rich man who backs a show for an old man and his granddaughter from the East Side who has brought joy to the money bag's crippled son.
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Winning Your Wings
Title: Winning Your Wings
Character: High Schooler's Mother (uncredited)
Released: May 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Winning Your Wings is a 1942 short American World War II recruitment film produced by Warner Bros. Studios for the US Army Air Forces, starring Jimmy Stewart. It was aimed at young men who were thinking about joining the Air Force.
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Lady Gangster
Title: Lady Gangster
Character: Matron
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, she is thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners don't have the same ideas.
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The Male Animal
Title: The Male Animal
Character: Trustee's Wife (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1942
Type: Movie
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
Title: The Man Who Came to Dinner
Character: Fan at Train Station (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1941
Type: Movie
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
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Dangerously They Live
Title: Dangerously They Live
Character: Fake Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1941
Type: Movie
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
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One Foot in Heaven
Title: One Foot in Heaven
Character: Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Manpower
Title: Manpower
Character: Mrs. Taylor (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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Bad Men of Missouri
Title: Bad Men of Missouri
Character: Ms. Brooks
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
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Bullets for O'Hara
Title: Bullets for O'Hara
Character: Police Matron
Released: July 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.
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Is Divorce a Failure?
Title: Is Divorce a Failure?
Character: Carol Lockwood
Released: March 16, 1923
Type: Movie
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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When Husbands Deceive
Title: When Husbands Deceive
Character: Viola Baxter
Released: August 20, 1922
Type: Movie
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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The Bond of Blood
Title: The Bond of Blood
Character: Evelyn
Released: August 5, 1920
Type: Movie
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The Capitol
Title: The Capitol
Character: Margaret Kennard / Agnes Blake
Released: December 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Margaret Kennard takes her baby daughter Agnes and leaves her husband Eustace for James Carroll. Upon discovering that James is a thief, she leaves him, joins the Salvation Army, and places Agnes in a convent. Twenty years pass. Agnes marries young Congressman Blake. James is now a lobbyist trying to prevent Blake from passing an anti-profiteering bill. Attempting to help her husband, Agnes sets out to prove that James is a scoundrel.
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The Volcano
Title: The Volcano
Character: Ruth Carroll
Released: August 24, 1919
Type: Movie
Ruth Carroll, a schoolteacher in New York's Lower East Side, meets Bolshevist Alexis Minski at her grandfather's bookstore. After Ruth complains to her superintendent about undernourished schoolchildren, Minski's ravings cause her suspension, and she joins the Reds. Meanwhile, Captain Nathan Levison, returning from the Argonne, is assigned by the Secret Service to investigate New York's radicals. While visiting the Carrolls to announce the imminent arrival of Ruth's brother Davy, who saved Levison's life but lost his foot, Levison falls in love with Ruth. Chagrined, Minski convinces Ruth that Levison plans to arrest her and her grandfather, whereupon Ruth furiously requests that Levison be killed. After Governor Alfred E. Smith signs a bill making it illegal to display the Red flag, the Bolshevists plot to assassinate him, the Mayor of Seattle, and Attorney General Alexander Palmer, but Davy, with other soldiers, break up the meeting.
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Wolves of Kultur
Title: Wolves of Kultur
Character: Alice Grayson
Released: October 13, 1918
Type: Movie
Alice Grayson's uncle develops a wireless torpedo that can be controlled by radio. After he announces his invention to several of his colleagues, two of them murder the scientist, steal the blueprints and prototype, and make plans to sell both to the highest bidder. When Alice discovers the identity of the thieves, the intrepid heroine, with the help of Bob Moore, her two-fisted boyfriend, desperately tries to recover the plans and torpedo before enemy countries can unleash the torpedoes against American ships. (IMDb)
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Moral Suicide
Title: Moral Suicide
Character: Fay Hope
Released: March 12, 1918
Type: Movie
Wealthy Richard Covington, although aging and lonely, distresses his children, Waverly and Beatrice, by marrying a heartless seductress named Fay Hope. Because Fay's extravagant spending threatens to ruin Richard, Beatrice confronts her, which prompts Richard, who is hopelessly in love with the beautiful vampire, to order his daughter from the house.
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Life or Honor?
Title: Life or Honor?
Character: Helen West
Released: March 1, 1918
Type: Movie
When retired merchant J. T. Manly is murdered, his son James, with whom he had quarreled, is arrested and finally convicted through the testimony of Manly's valet Aguinaldo. Shortly before James's execution, Sidney Holmes reveals to retired criminologist Martin Cross that on the night of the murder, he saw Aguinaldo commit the crime
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Sins of Ambition
Title: Sins of Ambition
Character: Laurette Maxwell
Released: September 19, 1917
Type: Movie
Andrew Maxwell is so intent on creating a universal language that he completely neglects his wife, Laurette, and daughter, Ruth. Laurette decides she wants to return to the stage and is encouraged by Charles Prescott, a former suitor. When Maxwell discovers Laurette and Prescott together, he berates her, and she angrily moves out, taking Ruth along with her.
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One Law for Both
Title: One Law for Both
Released: May 13, 1917
Type: Movie
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The Devil's Pay Day
Title: The Devil's Pay Day
Character: Jean Haskins
Released: January 29, 1917
Type: Movie
When Gregory Van Houten went to the country to recuperate, he intended to remain only a few weeks and then return to plunge into the swirl of city gaieties. But when Van Houten returned he brought with him a country-girl wife and set upon himself the seal of new duties and obligations.
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The People vs. John Doe
Title: The People vs. John Doe
Character: Woman Lawyer
Released: December 10, 1916
Type: Movie
A farmer is unjustly convicted of a homicide he did not commit.
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Lights of New York
Title: Lights of New York
Character: Yolande Cowles
Released: May 29, 1916
Type: Movie
Lights of New York is a 1916 drama
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The Ruling Power
Title: The Ruling Power
Released: October 23, 1915
Type: Movie
Mr. Williams, a stern father and man of wealth, disinherits his son Hugh, for marrying Rose, a seamstress. Twenty years later, although Sose is practically supporting her sick husband, their little store is taken from them and they are obliged to move, with Martha, their daughter, to the tenement district.
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The Great Universal Mystery
Title: The Great Universal Mystery
Character: Herself
Released: July 10, 1914
Type: Movie
A promotional one-reel film promoting the stars of Universal Pictures.
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Neptune's Daughter
Title: Neptune's Daughter
Character: Princess Olga
Released: April 25, 1914
Type: Movie
The daughter of King Neptune takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister, who was caught in a fishing net. However, she falls in love with the king, the man she holds responsible.
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Absinthe
Title: Absinthe
Character: Madame Dumas
Released: January 22, 1914
Type: Movie
Melodrama about an artist who finds out in time about the personal and social damage that his alcohol addiction causes.
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Ivanhoe
Title: Ivanhoe
Character: Rebecca of York
Released: September 22, 1913
Type: Movie
Wilfred of Ivanhoe (played by King Baggot), son of Sir Cedric (played by Wallace Bosco), returns to England from the Crusades in the Holy Land. As Ivanhoe, disguised, discovers that his beloved Lady Rowena (played by Evelyn Hope) has remained faithful, two weary travelers, Isaac of York (played by Herbert Brenon) and his pretty daughter Rebecca (played by Leah Baird), are admitted to Sir Cedric's castle, but after the knights learn that Isaac has money they abduct the visitors to the Norman stronghold of Torquilstone Castle.
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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: Mrs. Arnold - Dora's Mother
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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Bunny and the Bunny Hug
Title: Bunny and the Bunny Hug
Released: May 16, 1913
Type: Movie
Norman Winthrop, a surveyor, accidentally meets John Bunny, an Irish watchman of a building. He introduces him to Tom and Will Hawley, two of his friends, at a little poker game in which Bunny pockets all the winnings. Talking over the matter the next day, the three men agree that it would be a great joke to introduce Bunny into society.
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Vampire of the Desert
Title: Vampire of the Desert
Character: Mrs. William Corday
Released: May 16, 1913
Type: Movie
Ishmael, the son of Hagar, an old hag, living on the edge of the desert, falls completely under the charms of Lispeth, a vampire. One day there passes the miserable hut in which these three strange people live, a wealthy banker, named William Corday, his wife and son. Derrick. Lispeth wields her magic power over the husband and soon has him in her power. When he attempts to kiss her, she repulses him. So clever is she that the wife has no idea of her husband's unfaithfulness.
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Cutey and the Chorus Girls
Title: Cutey and the Chorus Girls
Character: Kitty - Another Dancer
Released: April 9, 1913
Type: Movie
Cutey tries to make an impression on a couple of chorus girls. He attends the burlesque show with his friends...
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A Birthday Gift
Title: A Birthday Gift
Character: Alice's Aunt
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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A Cure for Pokeritis
Title: A Cure for Pokeritis
Released: December 31, 1912
Type: Movie
This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on the weekly poker game.
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Following the Star
Title: Following the Star
Character: George's Fiancée
Released: December 20, 1912
Type: Movie
Helen Winthrop has ambition for the stage and when, during his summer sojourn at her home town, she is introduced to De la Marre, a popular star and dramatic favorite, she is elated and asks him to give her a part in one of his plays. He consents and from that moment she becomes restless, and longs to shake the dust of her village home from her feet. Her old sweetheart, John Tobin, is no longer in her class and receives a very cold goodbye when she leaves to shine in the limelight.
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The Red Barrier
Title: The Red Barrier
Character: Isabel, Professor Bain's Daughter
Released: October 4, 1912
Type: Movie
A short romantic drama about a woman who is worshiped by both a lieutenant and a Russian diplomat; the latter wins, but later turns out to be a brute. A duel in the snow ensures that the lieutenant gets the woman, but both of them suffer from visions in which the deceased appears as soon as they try to get together.
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The Adventure of the Italian Model
Title: The Adventure of the Italian Model
Character: The Model
Released: September 21, 1912
Type: Movie
Master detective, Lambert Chase, unravels a case of poisoning
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The Miracle
Title: The Miracle
Character: Mousali - a Poor Woman
Released: July 29, 1912
Type: Movie
A story of that famous adventurer, Haroun al Rashid, the Caliph of Bagdad.
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The Black Sheep
Title: The Black Sheep
Character: Mrs. Moreland - Clara's Mother
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 Foster Child
Title: The Foster Child
Character: An Heiress
Released: July 12, 1912
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Caspar, home-loving, industrious people, long for a little one to bless their lives and their home. Their hopes are not in vain. One night, when they are sitting in the quiet, they hear the voice of a baby. Mr. Caspar, opening the door, finds a deserted child lying on the door-step. Tenderly lifting it in his arms, he brings it to his wife, who cares and nurtures it with a mother's love. Their adopted child is just one year old when a son is born to Mrs. Caspar, and an added joy comes to bless their union.
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The Gamblers
Title: The Gamblers
Released: June 22, 1912
Type: Movie
Mrs. Travers, a society leader, is madly in love with Arthur Ingraham, a rising diplomat. Arthur is not in love with her and avoids her advances. He is in love with Beatrice Langton, a young debutante, to whom he becomes engaged. Mrs. Travers is furious.
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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
Character: Ruth
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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The Spider's Web
Title: The Spider's Web
Character: Brenda Wray - Lester's Stenographer
Released: May 14, 1912
Type: Movie
American horror crime movie from 1912.
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The Old Silver Watch
Title: The Old Silver Watch
Character: Mildred 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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Stenographer Wanted
Title: Stenographer Wanted
Character: The Brunette Stenographer
Released: February 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Two businessmen need to hire a stenographer, but their wives get suspicious when they notice a parade of beautiful young women entering and leaving their husbands' office.
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Chumps
Title: Chumps
Character: Terpsine - the Cause
Released: January 16, 1912
Type: Movie
Bunny and Marsh attend a show and both fall in love with a charming danseuse.
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The Wooing of Winifred
Title: The Wooing of Winifred
Released: April 11, 1911
Type: Movie
In order to inherit their uncle's property, two cousins must marry each other.