Bessie Wharton

Bessie Wharton

Movies for Bessie Wharton...

Welcome to Our City
Title: Welcome to Our City
Character: Agnes Scott
Released: February 1, 1922
Type: Movie
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Huns Within Our Gates
Title: Huns Within Our Gates
Character: Countess Von Shoenburg
Released: October 1, 1918
Type: Movie
During World War I, Arthur Morgan, an inventor from the South who has perfected a revolutionary airplane engine, needs money to complete his work because his family fortune was lost during the Civil War. A German spy offers to buy his invention, but Arthur refuses, after which the spy tries to capture Arthur's sweetheart and then seduce him through the wiles of the Countess Von Shoenburg. When the spy finally resolves to destroy Arthur's workshop, Rover, the family dog, carries the bomb away and drops it by the tree behind which the agent is hiding.
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Mission of the War Chest
Title: Mission of the War Chest
Released: January 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Mission of the War Chest is a 1918 silent film.
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The Great White Trail
Title: The Great White Trail
Character: Marie's guardian
Released: June 13, 1917
Type: Movie
A husband, mistakenly believing his wife has cheated on him and that he is now the father of their newborn son, throws both her and her child out of the house. Frantic to the point of madness, she abandons her baby, and when she gains her sanity she flees to Alaska to start a new life. However, her husband finds out and follows her there.
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The Black Stork
Title: The Black Stork
Released: February 28, 1917
Type: Movie
A young man and woman are considering marriage; eugenicist Harry J Haiselden warns that they are ill-matched and will produce defective offspring. He is right; their baby is born defective, dies quickly and floats into heaven.
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Beatrice Fairfax
Title: Beatrice Fairfax
Character: Madame Laurette / Mrs. Raven / Mrs. Malone
Released: August 7, 1916
Type: Movie
Beatrice Fairfax, the original advice-to-the-lovelorn reporter and her friend and not-so-secret admirer Jimmy Barton investigate calls for help and escape exotic perils and dangers. Episodes include exciting and fun stories of baby-napping, blackmail, jewel thievery, disguise, counterfeiting, and the long-unseen episode featuring entrancing cult starlet Olive Thomas and the real New York Yankees and Giants playing a game in the Polo Grounds.
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The Mysteries of Myra
Title: The Mysteries of Myra
Character: Mrs. Maynard
Released: April 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Myra Maynard's family is cursed by the devil-worshipping Black Order and she is marked for death by black magic on the eve of her eighteenth birthday. Dr. Payson Alden, the movies' first psychic detective, uses science to try and defeat the cult's evil spells, and is assisted by his friend Haji, a Hindu mystic. During the course of the 15 episodes of the serial, the clairvoyant Myra is assaulted by, among other supernatural menaces, astral demons, a fire elemental, even a "thought monster" brought to life by the malicious will of fifteen men, Levitation, crystal balls, automatic writing, mediums, witchcraft, a golden idol come to life, and many more bizarre elements which made movie history also figure into the story to make this a truly fascinating series that you will not want to miss. (mysteriesofmyra.com)
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The Romance of Elaine
Title: The Romance of Elaine
Character: Aunt Josephine
Released: June 14, 1915
Type: Movie
The heroine had little time for romancing newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, what with Doctor X, alias Marcus Del Mar, threatening American democracy in general and master detective Craig Kennedy's designs for a new torpedo in particular. Whenever Doctor X has Elaine or Jameson in his grasp, they are inevitably saved in the nick of time by a mystery figure garbed in black.
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The New Exploits of Elaine
Title: The New Exploits of Elaine
Character: Aunt Josephine
Released: April 5, 1915
Type: Movie
A silent action movie serial.
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Wooing the Cook
Title: Wooing the Cook
Character: Cora - the Cook
Released: February 3, 1914
Type: Movie
A rural comedy.