Helen Dunbar

Helen Dunbar

Born: October 9, 1863
Died: August 28, 1933
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for Helen Dunbar...

Fine Manners
Title: Fine Manners
Character: Aunt Agatha
Released: August 29, 1926
Type: Movie
The film depicts what happens when a rich boy accidentally meets a crude girl on New Year's Eve.
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The Beautiful Cheat
Title: The Beautiful Cheat
Character: Mrs. Leland Bruckman
Released: February 21, 1926
Type: Movie
A motion picture producer has press agent Jimmy Austin take Mary Callahan, a pretty shopgirl, to Europe. After an extensive publicity campaign, Mary returns to the United States as Maritza Callahansky, a Russian actress owning the crown jewels. To add support to her newly established identity, Maritza gives a party in a Long Island mansion in the rightful owner's absence. The owners return to find their home taken over by strangers and are about to call the police when it is discovered that they are the parents of one of the extras in the company.
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The Man Upstairs
Title: The Man Upstairs
Character: Aunt Hattie
Released: January 22, 1926
Type: Movie
The Man Upstairs is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film is based on a novel, The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers.
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His Jazz Bride
Title: His Jazz Bride
Released: January 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Dick Gregory, is hard pressed to pay the bills of his wife, Gloria, and equally hard pressed to keep up with the frantic pace of her life. Edward Martindel, an attorney who represents a corporation against which Dick is litigating, attempts to bribe Dick with a substantial sum of money; Dick refuses, and Gloria develops a complaint against him on this account. After a particularly bitter argument, Gloria leaves Dick and joins some friends for a moonlight cruise. Alec Seymour, a friend of the Gregorys', tells Dick that the boat on which Gloria is sailing has not met safety standards, and Dick goes after her, saving her life when the boat sinks. Gloria repents of her wild and wicked ways, and she and Dick settle into calm domesticity.
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Rose of the World
Title: Rose of the World
Character: Mrs. John Talbot
Released: November 9, 1925
Type: Movie
In India, Rosamond English learns that her husband Capt. Harry English has been killed in battle. After a time, she marries Sir Arthur Gerardine but is unable to forget her first husband, and gradually her love for him is rekindled, especially when she contrasts him to the pompous and elderly Sir Arthur.
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Compromise
Title: Compromise
Character: Aunt Catherine
Released: October 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Compromise is a silent film drama produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Alan Crosland. The film is now thought to be a lost film.
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The Woman Hater
Title: The Woman Hater
Released: July 12, 1925
Type: Movie
A famous international actress wants to marry the love of her life, a millionaire but is blocked by a renowned woman-hater who actually ants her for himself.
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The Man Without a Conscience
Title: The Man Without a Conscience
Character: Mrs. Graves
Released: June 7, 1925
Type: Movie
Ruthlessly determined to succeed at any cost, Amos Mason ( Willard Louis ) comes to New York with his fiancee, Ann Sherman ( June Marlowe ). By unscrupulous dealings and with the use of Ann's savings, Amos meets with considerable success and casts aside Ann, who is forced to take a job as maid in the Graves mansion. Amos begins to court Shirley Graves ( Irene Rich ) and causes Ann's dismissal. Mrs. Graves ( Helen Dunbar ) persuades Shirley to marry Amos, despite her love for the penniless Douglas White ( John Patrick ). Ann marries James Warren ( Robert Agnew ), an architect, whom Amos hires to build a mansion, and Ann tells Shirley of Amos' previous perfidy. Shirley has an affair with Douglas White but becomes disgusted with illicit sex when she believes him to be unfaithful to her. Amos' schemes fall flat, and he is arrested for swindling. In prison he repents, Shirley's attitude toward him softens, and they are reconciled when he is freed.
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New Lives for Old
Title: New Lives for Old
Character: Mrs. Warren
Released: February 22, 1925
Type: Movie
Olympe is a cabaret dancer who offers her services to France when her country goes to war. She becomes a spy and provides valuable intelligence information during World War I by winning the confidence of a German officer. Hugh Warren is the American soldier who falls for Olympe. She allows him to believe she is a simple peasant and reveals nothing of her career as a spy. The two fall in love and are married, but the villainous German agent De Montinrich reveals to her husband's family that she is a tawdry club dancer. Unable to reveal her role in espionage, Olympe is ostracized by her friends and family. When the French government honors Olympe for her wartime bravery, her family no longer considers her a blemish on their sterling reputation.
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This Woman
Title: This Woman
Character: Mrs. Sturdevant
Released: November 2, 1924
Type: Movie
This Woman is a 1924 American drama film directed by Phil Rosen, written by Louis D. Lighton and Hope Loring, and starring Irene Rich, Ricardo Cortez, Louise Fazenda, Frank Elliott, Creighton Hale, and Marc McDermott. Based on the 1924 novel This Woman by Howard Rockey, it was released by Warner Bros. on November 2, 1924.
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Changing Husbands
Title: Changing Husbands
Character: Mrs. Evans Sr
Released: June 22, 1924
Type: Movie
A bored rich housewife wants to go on the stage, but her husband won't let her. When she meets a despairing actress who looks exactly like her, she suggests they swap places for a little while, giving the actress a break while the rich husband is out of town. But the rich husband comes back early, causing havoc for the actress, plus the rich housewife is finding herself attracted to the actress's boyfriend.
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The Fighting Coward
Title: The Fighting Coward
Character: Mrs. Rumford
Released: March 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Southerner Tom Rumford was sent up north to be raised by relatives who happen to be Quakers. As a result, he returns home a passive, peace-loving young man, completely out of place in an area where men kill over issues of honor.
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Three Weeks
Title: Three Weeks
Character: Lady Henrietta Verdayne
Released: February 10, 1924
Type: Movie
A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks.
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The Call of the Canyon
Title: The Call of the Canyon
Character: Aunt Mary
Released: December 16, 1923
Type: Movie
Returning from World War I, Glenn Kilbourne travels to Arizona to regain his health. He meets a local girl, Flo Hutler, who helps him recover. His fiancee, Carley Burch, follows him to Arizona but soon decides she'd rather go back to New York. When Flo is badly hurt in an accident, Glenn decides to repay her for her help in bringing him back to health by proposing marriage.
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The Cheat
Title: The Cheat
Character: Duenna
Released: August 27, 1923
Type: Movie
After losing money she embezzled, a socialite borrows cash from a foreign "prince" who expects sexual favors in return.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Helen Dunbar
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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Thirty Days
Title: Thirty Days
Character: Mrs. Floyd
Released: December 10, 1922
Type: Movie
John Cadwalader Floyd gets himself into a lot of trouble when hot-headed Italian Giacomo Polenta finds him in the arms of his wife, Rosa.
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The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
Title: The Impossible Mrs. Bellew
Character: Aunt Agatha
Released: October 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Lance Bellew ignores his wife, Betty, for his mistress, Naomi Templeton, but becomes so enraged when he finds Betty in the company of Jerry Woodruff that he shoots this family friend.
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Beyond the Rocks
Title: Beyond the Rocks
Character: Lady Ada Fitzgerald
Released: May 7, 1922
Type: Movie
A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her unhappy honeymoon.
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The World's Champion
Title: The World's Champion
Character: Mrs. Burroughs
Released: March 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Young William Burroughs comes from wealth but not nobility, so despite his income he is not welcomed when he pursues Lady Elizabeth Galton, and indeed he is not only beaten by her cousin but thrown out by his own father for the disgrace he has caused. He travels to the United States where he becomes a champion prizefighter. Upon his return to England, he finds circumstances quite changed for Lady Galton and he sets out to change her circumstances further.
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A Homespun Vamp
Title: A Homespun Vamp
Character: Mrs. Ware
Released: February 12, 1922
Type: Movie
The story of Meg Mackenzie, the orphaned niece of two stingy Scotsmen, Donald and Duncan Craig. She's kept busy taking care of their home in the country, while they plan to marry her off to Joe Dobbs (Lincoln Stedman), the son of the village blacksmith. A wrench is thrown in the Craigs' plan when author Stephen Ware comes to the little hamlet in search of a quiet place to work. Meg immediately develops a crush on him and Ware's stay proves to be anything but quiet when there's a robbery and he is assumed to be the guilty party. A mob attacks him, and Meg steps in and saves his life. Her uncles happen to be away, and she takes him in while he recovers from his injuries. When they return, Donald and Duncan are infuriated to find Ware in their home, and they insist that he marry Meg to save her reputation.
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Law and the Woman
Title: Law and the Woman
Character: Aunt Lucy
Released: January 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Although Margaret and Julian Rolfe are deeply in love, Rolfe has a bit of a past. At one time he had befriended Clara Foster, a woman of the streets. When he discovers that his ward Phil Long is about to wed Clara, he tries to stop him. But he finds that Long and Clara have already married, so he heads back home. When Phil is found murdered, Rolfe is arrested and tried for the crime.
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The Great Moment
Title: The Great Moment
Character: Lady Crombie
Released: September 3, 1921
Type: Movie
Sir Edward Pelham, married to a Russian Gypsy, fears that his daughter will follow in her mother's footsteps and arranges a marriage with her cousin, whom she does not love. During a trip to Nevada with her father, she meets engineer Bayard Delavel, who saves her life when she is bitten by a snake; when her father finds her with Bayard in his cabin, he forces them to marry. Believing that Nadine does not love him, Delavel leaves her and prepares to sue for divorce.
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Her Winning Way
Title: Her Winning Way
Character: Mrs. Hargrave
Released: September 2, 1921
Type: Movie
Ann Annington (Minter) writes book reviews for a newspaper and when a reporter fails his assignment to get an interview with the noted author Harold Hargrave (Glass), she undertakes to meet the young man. She rents the room next door to his work shop and by impersonating a maid soon wins his good graces.
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Sacred and Profane Love
Title: Sacred and Profane Love
Character: Constance Peel
Released: May 22, 1921
Type: Movie
Carlotta Peel, who though sheltered from the facts of life by her Victorian aunt has acquired some knowledge from indiscriminate reading, meets Diaz, a celebrated pianist, at a concert and spends the evening with him. Later, in London, she acquires fame as a novelist and is followed to France by married publisher Frank Ispenlove, who commits suicide when she spurns him. In Paris, Carlotta finds Diaz a physical wreck from drinking absinthe and devotes herself to his regeneration.
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Sham
Title: Sham
Character: Aunt Louisa
Released: May 5, 1921
Type: Movie
Based upon a description in a film publication,[3] Katherine Van Riper (Clayton) is an extravagant young society girl who is very much in debt, and her wealthy aunts and uncle refuse to give her any money. Katherine is desperate enough that she is considering marrying the wealthy Montee Buck (Hiers), although she is in love with the westerner Tom Jaffrey (Fillmore), who says he is poor. Finally, Katherine decides to sell the famous Van Riper pearls, pay off her debts, and marry Tom. However, upon examination the jewelry turns out to be paste, with her father having sold the genuine pearls several years earlier before his death. Montee is assured by the aunts that Katherine will marry him and tells this to Tom. Tom is about to leave town when Uncle James (Ricketts) steps in and pays off Katherine's debts, leaving the niece free to marry Tom.
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The House That Jazz Built
Title: The House That Jazz Built
Character: Mrs. Drake
Released: April 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Cora and Frank Rodham are happily married until Frank lands a lucrative position. He doesn't want to see his pretty wife slaving away at domestic chores so he hires servants to do the work for her. As a result, Cora becomes fat and lazy. Frank is very unhappy with his wife's change in attitude and appearance and starts to take an interest in her friend, Lila Drake, who is secretly just as lazy.
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The Little Clown
Title: The Little Clown
Character: Mrs. Beverley
Released: March 3, 1921
Type: Movie
Mary Miles Minter is the title character. Pat (Minter) is a little orphan who has been raised around the circus. Her foster father is Toto the clown (Neely Edwards). Toto hopes to marry Pat until the day the circus comes to a Southern town and she meets handsome Dick Beverley (Jack Mulhall). Beverley falls in love with Pat and takes a job as trick rider just to be near her. Beverley's aristocratic parents (Winter Hall and Helen Dunbar) find out about his new job and insist that he come home. Two of the five reels survive.
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Her First Elopement
Title: Her First Elopement
Released: December 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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You Never Can Tell
Title: You Never Can Tell
Character: Mrs. William Vaughn
Released: September 22, 1920
Type: Movie
Bebe Daniels is charming in this light comedy, based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Grace Lovell Bryan.
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All Wrong
Title: All Wrong
Character: Mrs. Donald Thompson
Released: June 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Salesman Warren Kent develops the idea of "The Unending Courtship" and manages to convince his new wife Betty of his theory, which entails their living separately and only meeting on Wednesday evenings, as they did while they were engaged. Warren's boss, however, who was never enamored of the idea, fires him when he bungles an account and loses the company a large order. On top of that, through a series of misunderstandings Warren comes to believe that his wife is pregnant and his mother-in-law believes that Warren is having an affair with Betty's friend Ethel. Things go downhill for Warren from there.
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Josselyn's Wife
Title: Josselyn's Wife
Character: Mrs. Rose
Released: May 5, 1919
Type: Movie
Bessie Barriscale and Nigel Barrie play Ellen and Gibbs Josselyn, a young married couple who have spent several years in Europe while Gibbs, an artist, developed his talent. When they return to the States, they stay with Gibbs' father (Tom Guise) and stepmother (Kathleen Kirkham). Gibbs had never cared much for his stepmother, Lillian, but now he warms up to her -- a lot. Lillian is much younger than her husband and begins spending a suspicious amount of time with her stepson.
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Common Clay
Title: Common Clay
Released: March 2, 1919
Type: Movie
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The Winning Girl
Title: The Winning Girl
Character: Mrs. Templeton
Released: February 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Because he had previously picked the name James for his first-born, when a female arrives, Major Milligan, a well-meaning but lazy dreamer, calls his daughter Jamesina, or Jemmy for short. With the birth of her second child, Mrs. Milligan dies, and several years later, when Jemmy is about eighteen, the Major marries a widow with three children. Soon the family is deeply in debt. Jemmy gets work at a textile factory, gets jobs for the other children, and even inspires the Major to work. She falls in love with Stanley Templeton, an aviator on furlough, but because his mother disapproves, Jemmy refuses to marry him. After Stanley returns to the war, Jemmy captures a German spy in the plant who was soaking cloth for airplanes in acid. She receives a reward which allows the Milligans to pay off their mortgage. Mrs. Templeton apologizes, and when Stanley returns, she warmly approves of their engagement.
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Venus in the East
Title: Venus in the East
Character: Mrs. Blint
Released: January 26, 1919
Type: Movie
Buddy McNair is so enchanted by the newspaper photos of New York society beauty Mrs. Pat Dyvenot that he decides to leave Colorado with his newly inherited fortune, travel to New York, and win her heart. On the train, some gamblers, apparently aided by a pretty girl named Martha, cheat Buddy out of a large sum, and in New York, his lack of eastern polish makes him appear foolish.
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The Squaw Man
Title: The Squaw Man
Character: Dowager Countess
Released: December 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918 remake of the 1913 original, the first feature length Hollywood film. It is considered to be a lost film with only one reel still extant.
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Inside the Lines
Title: Inside the Lines
Character: Mrs. Crandall
Released: August 26, 1918
Type: Movie
A spy known as "1932" during World War I, is commissioned by the German Secret Service to trail English agent Captain Woodhouse to the Straits of Gibraltar and there effect the destruction of the British fleet. Before his departure, 1932 helps Jane Gerson, an American girl falsely accused of espionage, and later falls in love with her.
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Wedlock
Title: Wedlock
Released: July 27, 1918
Type: Movie
Unknown to his proud and wealthy family, Granger Hollister marries Margery Harding, a telephone operator. Granger presents his new wife at an engagement party given for his sister Jane, but Jane's fiance, Lord Cecil Graydon, threatens to break off the betrothal unless Granger's marriage is annulled. To please his sister, Granger sacrifices Margery, who seeks work and later gives birth to a child. Following the baby's death, Margery goes West, where she befriends an old miner who later leaves her his fortune. Meanwhile, Granger becomes involved in a fraudulent mining deal, and because of George Osborne's perjured testimony, he is sent to prison for five years. When he escapes, Margery agrees to hide him and is ultimately responsible for obtaining his pardon. Granger then remarries the wife he once abandoned. - Written by Pamela Short, from IMDB.com
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The Shuttle
Title: The Shuttle
Character: Mrs. Vanderpoel
Released: February 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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The Great Secret
Title: The Great Secret
Character: Jane Warren
Released: January 8, 1917
Type: Movie
A wealthy young athlete comes to the aid of a beautiful heiress, whose fortune is being threatened by two arch villains, The Great Master and Doctor Zulph.
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Romeo and Juliet
Title: Romeo and Juliet
Character: Lady Capulet
Released: October 19, 1916
Type: Movie
Shakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud between their two families, and how the sins of the fathers bring disaster to their children.
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In the Diplomatic Service
Title: In the Diplomatic Service
Character: Mrs. Ryerson
Released: October 16, 1916
Type: Movie
Foreign powers keep getting their hands on U.S. military secrets, so the head of the American diplomatic corps calls in his nephew Dick Stansbury to help. Stansbury knows that Doctor Montell is at the bottom of this, so he poses as an inventor of an innovative aerial gun. This sparks the doctor's interest, and when they both attend a weekend party at the Ryerson estate, Montell tries to get Stansbury to sell the gun to his country.
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The Wall Between
Title: The Wall Between
Character: Mrs. Barclay
Released: March 20, 1916
Type: Movie
John Kendall was brought up in a wealthy family, but when his father loses the family fortune and then dies, John is left penniless. He joins the army and rises to the rank of sergeant. He soon meets and falls in love with Edith Ferris, the daughter of Col. Dickinson. When he talks to her at a party, Lt. Burkett upbraids him for fraternizing with an officer's family. Edith's mother, not wanting her daughter getting involved with a lowly enlisted man, conspires with Lt. Burkett to discredit John.
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A Corner in Cotton
Title: A Corner in Cotton
Character: Mrs. Carter
Released: February 21, 1916
Type: Movie
Peggy Ainslee, the daughter of a wealthy broker, tires of the empty life of society, and determines on a mission of charity and uplift in the poor quarters of New York City
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The Price of Malice
Title: The Price of Malice
Character: Lady Marion
Released: February 21, 1916
Type: Movie
Captain Mills is jealous of Jim Clifford, his fellow officer at the British War Department, so he steals an important document in an attempt to make Clifford look bad. Clifford has to undergo quite a bit to get the papers back, and his adventures take him to several fancy weekend parties, including one on a yacht, which wrecks. He discovers that Mills gave the document to Grace Weston, who doesn't realize what she's got.
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A Virginia Romance
Title: A Virginia Romance
Character: Mrs. Daniels
Released: January 1, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Silent Voice
Title: The Silent Voice
Character: Starr's Mother
Released: September 13, 1915
Type: Movie
Franklyn Starr, a talented and wealthy young musician, suffers a double misfortune in the sudden loss of his hearing and in the death of his Mother to whom he is deeply attached. He loses his generous, joyous nature and transforms into a gloomy and despondent misanthrope.
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The Second in Command
Title: The Second in Command
Character: Lady Sarah Harburgh
Released: July 25, 1915
Type: Movie
Lt. Col. Anstruther vies for the attention of Muriel Mannering with Major Bingham. The latter tricks Anstruther into believing that the girl loves Bingham, when in reality she has refused the major's proposal of marriage. When Anstruther saves Bingham's life during the Boer war, the deceitful major finally tells the truth.
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The Fable of a Night Given Over to Revelry
Title: The Fable of a Night Given Over to Revelry
Released: April 28, 1915
Type: Movie
Having declared himself in on a jolly college dinner, Mr. Dubley, member of the class of '88, counted on having a Hot Old Time. Now at a College Dinner the main idea is to get a flying start. It was to be a Dry dinner, so most of the sons of Bohunkus were doing what a Camel does just before crossing a Desert. At 8:15 the Crowd was herded into the banquet hall. Dr. Dubley found himself marooned between two pious elders. The Oysters had been warming up since 6:30. Fortunately, the soup was not warm enough to scald the thumb of a willing longshoreman who had been brought in as an extra waiter.
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Graustark
Title: Graustark
Character: Aunt Yvonne
Released: April 16, 1915
Type: Movie
While traveling by train from Denver to Washington, DC, wealthy young Grenfall Lorry meets a beautiful young girl. When they are accidentally left behind in a mining town, they race through the mountains and finally catch it. They travel to Washington and have a great time, but they soon part. They meet again later in the small European country of Graustark, where Grenfall and his friend Harry rescue her from kidnappers, and they then discover that she is actually the country's Princess Yetiva. She is engaged to Prinze Lorenz of Asphan in order to pay off Graustark's enormous debt from the war, but Lorenz is murdered and Grenfall is framed for the crime. Complications ensue.
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The Ambition of the Baron
Title: The Ambition of the Baron
Released: January 29, 1915
Type: Movie
A young woman is used as a pawn to entice Count Jean de Lugnan into a game of ruritanian political intrigue.
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The Misjudged Mr. Hartley
Title: The Misjudged Mr. Hartley
Character: Mrs. Worthington
Released: January 19, 1915
Type: Movie
In honor of his return from abroad, Mrs. Worthington invites her cousin, Brian Hartley, to dinner that evening, but forgets to tell him she has moved from her old address. He goes to the old home where he is met at the door by Celia Thayer, a guest of the Holbrooks, who now occupy the residence. None of the family being at home, Ceclia admits him, thinking he has been invited to dinner. When her hostess does not arrive the two have dinner together and become quite infatuated. Later it develops that the house was robbed while Mr. Hartley was there and, of course, he is suspected.
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The Fable of the Husband Who Showed Up and Did His Duty
Title: The Fable of the Husband Who Showed Up and Did His Duty
Character: Mrs. Clymer
Released: December 23, 1914
Type: Movie
Mrs. Clymer has great social aspirations, and every time she gave a party her husband was in the habit of going to the Hash House for his sinkers and coffee. One night she panned him to a whisper for not showing up at one of her shindigs, so he promised to be on hand for the next one. Sometime later Mrs. Clymer railed the hens one afternoon for a musical. Hubby happened home early, so nothing would do but he must get gussied up and entertain the ladies. There was one young grass widow present who looked mighty good to hubby. His wife had told him to pay some attention to her lady friends, so he extended himself. Before sending the widow home he got her address and told her he kind of wished he was single. Mrs. Clymer got his number and forbade him to ever show up at another one of her parties.
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Mrs. Trenwith Comes Home
Title: Mrs. Trenwith Comes Home
Character: Franchette - the Nurse
Released: December 8, 1914
Type: Movie
Mrs. Trenwith is a typical shallow, thoughtless society woman. Her husband is wrapped up in business and as a result their little daughter, Marjory, suffers greatly from neglect. Her old nurse, Franchette, loves her dearly. Mr. Trenwith leaves town on a business trip while his wife goes to a house party, where she meets Ralph Eccles, a typical society tempter. She leads him on.
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The Fable of Aggie and the Aggravated Attacks
Title: The Fable of Aggie and the Aggravated Attacks
Character: Her Mother
Released: November 25, 1914
Type: Movie
Aggie has survived the measles, mumps and scarlet rash, so when she brought home the high school diploma her parents thought she was a young lady now and couldn't catch anything more. That very fall she had a severe attack of photomania. She had the old folks posing for pictures half the time, and when she developed them you could almost tell which was which.
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Beyond Youth's Paradise
Title: Beyond Youth's Paradise
Character: Captain Fane's Sister
Released: November 24, 1914
Type: Movie
Captain Fane, an English army officer stationed at Cairo, is in love with Lady Fiennis, who is treated most cruelly by her husband. Fane returns to England when he finds that she refuses to leave him. Five years later Fane's sister summons him to tell him that her son Frankie, who is only twenty-two years old, has decided to marry a widow many years his senior.
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Within Three Hundred Pages
Title: Within Three Hundred Pages
Character: Mrs. Stuyvesant
Released: November 10, 1914
Type: Movie
A necklace belonging to Mrs. Stuyvesant is stolen from Lawyer Smirney's office. It was smuggled in from China years before. Chief Knox is notified and believes Smirney guilty when he finds a diagram in his pocket, and following it, finds a necklace. Ho Fing-Tang, a Chinaman, studying law in the office, is not suspected by Knox, but Spider, a newspaper reporter, believes differently. Ho Fing-Tang is injured and in a delirium keeps repeating "Huns 764." Spider goes to the office and from a book called "Hun's 129 Reports," he extracts the real necklace. The stones Knox found prove to be paste.
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The Plum Tree
Title: The Plum Tree
Character: Mrs. Ewell
Released: September 18, 1914
Type: Movie
A young woman's father arranges a loveless marriage for her to a banker to whom he owes money, but she is eventually reunited with the man she truly loves.
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When Knights Were Bold
Title: When Knights Were Bold
Character: The Earl's Mother
Released: September 7, 1914
Type: Movie
The Earl is disgusted when his parents insist that he marry the girl of their choice, not his own. He has been reading a book called "When Knights Were Bold," and only wishes that he might have lived in "Ye Olden Times," when he could fight for his "Lady Love."
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The Fable of the Manoeuvres of Joel and Father's Second Time on Earth
Title: The Fable of the Manoeuvres of Joel and Father's Second Time on Earth
Character: Joel's Wife
Released: August 12, 1914
Type: Movie
Old man Suggs was feeling Kippy one day, so his son Joel, a little short of pocket money, persuades him to sign over all his property to him, and relieve the old gent of all the worry, he said. Shortly after, Joel got a hunch that the old Duffer was a nuisance, so sent him to the home for the destitute.
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Yarn a-Tangle
Title: Yarn a-Tangle
Character: The Belle in Old Age
Released: April 28, 1914
Type: Movie
They loved each other when they were young. They were about to elope when Frank met with an accident which caused the loss of his memory. She pined for a while and then married. He forgot about her. Years later, Margaret lost her husband and Frank lost his wife. Business brought the two of them together and they married.
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Miss Milly's Valentine
Title: Miss Milly's Valentine
Character: Miss Milly Vincent
Released: February 11, 1914
Type: Movie
Miss Milly Vincent is not on speaking terms with her neighbor, Theophile Dour, and when her Angora kitten is discovered eating Mr. Dour's breakfast, he becomes furious. A note is hastily penned and delivered to Miss Vincent, requesting, "that she keep her cat off Mr. Dour's premises."
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Dawn and Twilight
Title: Dawn and Twilight
Character: Mrs. Delani - Pietro's Mother
Released: February 3, 1914
Type: Movie
A blind violinist's sight is restored by an operation paid for by a young woman who loves him, but the fickleness of fate strikes them further tragic blows.
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The Way Perilous
Title: The Way Perilous
Character: Mrs. Davenport - The Mother
Released: October 21, 1913
Type: Movie
A young man leaves his Southern home, his father and his sweetheart, and falls into bad company in the big city.
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The Right of Way
Title: The Right of Way
Character: Mrs. Lee
Released: September 19, 1913
Type: Movie
The Right of Way
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A Wolf Among Lambs
Title: A Wolf Among Lambs
Character: Sister Valencia
Released: April 3, 1913
Type: Movie
Don Fernando, smitten with Giulia, a Spanish dancer, persuades the young and innocent girl to run away with him. Valeska, the sister, finds a note on the table the following morning, telling her that Giulia has gone, never to return. Months later, however, Giulia returns to her home, having been deserted by her unfaithful lover. Giulia enters the convent. The sister meets Don Fernando some time later. He tries to influence the girl to marry him. Don Fernando's life is saved by Sister Valencia, who interferes just as Valeska is about to stab the villain. Valeska is later thrown into a dungeon by Fernando, who declares he will '"have her." The pretty Spanish girl does not stay in her prison long. Sister Valencia, discovering Valeska's whereabouts, gets her out of her prison in a clever way. Valeska then enters the convent, where her sister is overjoyed at the happy meeting, and ending.
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Billy McGrath on Broadway
Title: Billy McGrath on Broadway
Released: March 4, 1913
Type: Movie
John Steppling is Billy McGrath in this popular series directed by Archer McMackin, of which this is the only existing example. Billy wants to be a Broadway producer but finds is isn't so easy.
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The Virtue of Rags
Title: The Virtue of Rags
Character: The Widow
Released: December 17, 1912
Type: Movie
A grouchy landlord discharges a kind-hearted rent collector for failing to collect the rent from an impoverished widow. After dreaming that he himself is experiencing the sordid experiences of being destitute, the old man sees the error of his ways and becomes suddenly charitable.
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The Iron Heel
Title: The Iron Heel
Character: Robert's Mother
Released: November 29, 1912
Type: Movie
An old man plots to have his enemy's son convicted of his own murder.
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When Wealth Torments
Title: When Wealth Torments
Character: Mrs. Mahoney
Released: November 8, 1912
Type: Movie
A young man must overcome a stubborn mother's objections in order to marry the girl he loves.
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The Voice of Conscience
Title: The Voice of Conscience
Character: Mrs. Frank Craig - Fannie's Mother
Released: September 27, 1912
Type: Movie
An accidental death on a hunting trip results in an innocent young man being accused of murder.