Miriam Nesbitt

Miriam Nesbitt

Born: September 14, 1873
Died: August 11, 1954
in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Movies for Miriam Nesbitt...

The Last Sentence
Title: The Last Sentence
Character: Cynthia Ford
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
George Crosby, a New York lawyer, with a passion for painting, wearied of his legal duties, sails for Brittany, where he meets Renée Kerouac, a fisher-maiden, and sketches her as a Corregan, a fairy who destroys the men who refuse her love. Hoel Kalloc, her betrothed, becomes jealous, and George marries her, after saving her from Hoel's brutality.
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The Portrait in the Attic
Title: The Portrait in the Attic
Released: January 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Viola Dana stars as the child of a widower who marries again, much to her dismay. Despite all attempts by the adults, the child refuses to accept her new step-mother
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The Man Who Disappeared
Title: The Man Who Disappeared
Released: April 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Film serial directed by Charles Brabin.
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The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan
Title: The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan
Character: Mrs. Cambridge
Released: January 31, 1914
Type: Movie
An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011 in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project.
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The Doctor's Duty
Title: The Doctor's Duty
Released: November 11, 1913
Type: Movie
A socially-minded drama about a doctor who keeps his fiancée waiting at their engagement party, because a sick child needs help.
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Who Will Marry Mary?
Title: Who Will Marry Mary?
Released: July 26, 1913
Type: Movie
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The Portrait
Title: The Portrait
Character: Jeanette
Released: March 18, 1913
Type: Movie
Not "as in a looking glass" but "as in his own portrait" in a dream does Paul Le Grand, the famous artist, see the lines of dissipation come, one by one, after each successive debauch.
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The Ambassador's Daughter
Title: The Ambassador's Daughter
Character: Helen, the ambassador’s daughter
Released: January 21, 1913
Type: Movie
The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.
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Lady Clare
Title: Lady Clare
Character: Lady Clare
Released: December 17, 1912
Type: Movie
A Lord weds a Lady despite knowledge of her lowly birth.
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A Suffragette in Spite of Himself
Title: A Suffragette in Spite of Himself
Character: The Gentleman's Wife
Released: October 30, 1912
Type: Movie
A gentleman who's opposed to and mocks women's suffrage goes for a walk and unknowingly becomes an advertisement for it.
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The Lord and the Peasant
Title: The Lord and the Peasant
Character: Mary
Released: August 2, 1912
Type: Movie
In a peasant's cot we find a fair, young maiden who is loved by an honest, true-hearted peasant lad, while yonder stands the manor of Glenwood with its noble lord, who chanced to pass by one fair day and there noble eyes met peasant meekness and love found work a-plenty to do. But maiden thought naught of my lord o' the manor, nor so much as gave him cause to hope that all his castles and lands could win her heart from the true peasant lad who had gone forth in the world to win humble living for his bride to be. It was then that Dame Poverty came knocking at the peasant's door and upon her heels crept a fever which held the young sister close within her breast only waiting for death to knock gently at the humble cot. And still no word from the loved one in a foreign land! Had he deserted his fond-hearted lassie? Weeks passed by and still no word nor sign of the one held most dear, and then my lord of Glenwood Keep came suing for her hand.
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What Happened to Mary
Title: What Happened to Mary
Character: A Spy
Released: July 25, 1912
Type: Movie
The forerunner of all serials, What Happened to Mary was a series of twelve monthly one reel episodes, each a complete entity in itself, revolving its immediate dramatic and melodramatic problems within the framework of a single episode and designed more for story and suspense situations than action.
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The Passer-by
Title: The Passer-by
Character: His Mother
Released: June 21, 1912
Type: Movie
A random passer-by is invited to a bachelor party of rich men where he tells a tale of loss to those present.
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Children Who Labor
Title: Children Who Labor
Released: February 22, 1912
Type: Movie
The father of a working class family is having trouble finding a job, because the local textile mill is hiring only inexpensive child labor. Reluctantly, he allows his oldest daughter to work in the mill. Meanwhile, in New York, the wealthy businessman Hanscomb is being urged to speak out against child labor, but he declines to do so. Then, while Mrs. Hanscomb and her daughter are traveling, the young girl accidentally wanders away, gets lost, and is taken in by the working class family. To help them, she takes a job in the mill. While this is taking place, Hanscomb has initiated a search for the daughter even as he goes about building up his financial empire.
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Title: Jack and the Beanstalk
Character: Jack's Mother
Released: January 16, 1912
Type: Movie
We see Jack and his mother very poor and the project of selling the cow discussed. Jack meets the familiar figure of the butcher who bargains with him for the cow and finally Jack consents to part with the animal for the wonderful beans which will grow up overnight until they reach the sky. He takes them to his mother, and, of course, she is heart-broken and throws the beans out of the window. The next morning the vine not only covers the window, but reaches far above the top of the house out of sight in the clouds, and we see Jack start to climb upward. Upon arriving at the giant's castle Jack meets the ogre's wife, who towers majestically above him, and after some parley is invited in, on his plea of hunger. Before he can be served the giant is heard and Jack is hidden in the kettle. The giant comes on and then follows the familiar scenes in which the ogre calls for his bags of gold, his magic harp and the wonderful hen that lays the golden eggs.
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Monsieur
Title: Monsieur
Released: April 3, 1911
Type: Movie
Monsieur is a prosperous man in Paris, and is just sending his young daughter to complete her education at one of the nearby convents. From the affection shown between father and daughter it is evident that her mother no longer survives. News reaches him of the disaster which sweeps away his entire fortune and leaves him penniless. He writes to his daughter and tells her of the great change in their affairs, and that America seems the only hope of retrieving his fortunes. In New York, we find that he has taken a very modest little apartment, to which he, months later, brings the daughter, who takes up her share of the work and does the cooking. She receives an invitation from a girl chum to attend a party, where she meets the girl's brother, with whom she falls in love. When he and his sister come to call at the little apartment they are welcomed by Monsieur, but as the old man has an engagement at the club, departs.
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Aida
Title: Aida
Released: January 2, 1911
Type: Movie
Aida, daughter of the King of Ethiopia, having fallen a prisoner into the hands of the Egyptians, is given as a slave by their king to his daughter Amneris who, captivated by the grace and beauty of the unknown maid, takes her into favor. Radames, a young captain of the king's guards, loved by Amneris, suspecting a rival in her slave, swears to be avenged. Meanwhile war is again declared between Egypt and Ethiopia and Radames, appointed leader of the army by the High Priest of Isis, is invested with the sacred arms and departs to fight the Ethiopians who, headed by their king, have invaded Egypt. Radames defeats them and returns victorious, followed by the prisoners, among whom is the king himself, disguised as an officer.