Norman Kerry

Norman Kerry

Born: June 15, 1894
Died: January 12, 1956
in Rochester, New York, USA
From Wikipedia

Norman Kerry (born Norman Hussey Kaiser, June 16, 1894 – January 12, 1956) was an American actor whose career in the motion picture industry spanned over twenty-five years beginning in 1916 and peaking during the silent era of the 1920s.

Movies for Norman Kerry...

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Title: The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 24, 1961
Type: Movie
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
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Phantom of Santa Fe
Title: Phantom of Santa Fe
Character: Miguel 'Mike' Morago, aka The Hawk
Released: November 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A band of renegades attacks and loots a mission, stealing some priceless treasures. Local citizens blame an outlaw known as "The Hawk," who is also called "The Phantom of Santa Fe."
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Bachelor Apartment
Title: Bachelor Apartment
Character: Lee Graham
Released: April 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.
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Ex-Flame
Title: Ex-Flame
Character: Beaumont Winthrop
Released: November 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman's uncontrollable jealousy over her husband's former girlfriend results in her losing not only her house but her young son is taken away from her.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Title: The Phantom of the Opera
Character: Rhoul
Released: November 27, 1929
Type: Movie
The sound version of the classic silent version.
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Trial Marriage
Title: Trial Marriage
Character: Oliver Mowbray
Released: March 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Constance Bannister enters into a trial marriage contract with Dr. Thorvald Ware and finds happiness with him. She defies his wishes by dancing at a charity ball in a revealing costume, however, and he dissolves the contract, not knowing that she is with child. A year passes. Constance marries Oliver Mowbray, and Thorvald marries Constance's sister, Grace. Both couples are quite unhappy and later obtain divorces. Oliver and Grace go to Europe, and Constance and Thorvald are married in a civil ceremony, united by their love both for each other and for their child.
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Man, Woman and Wife
Title: Man, Woman and Wife
Character: Rance Rogers / Ralph Brandon
Released: January 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Helen Brandon, an unhappily married woman, marries former suitor Jack Mason when her husband, Ralph, is killed in action. The report of Ralph's death is false; he returns to the States, a deserter, under an assumed name and becomes a derelict.
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The Bondman
Title: The Bondman
Character: Jason
Released: January 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A British silent adventure directed by Herbert Wilcox
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The Woman from Moscow
Title: The Woman from Moscow
Character: Loris Ipanoff
Released: November 3, 1928
Type: Movie
A silent film directed by Ludwig Berger.
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The Foreign Legion
Title: The Foreign Legion
Character: Richard Farquhar
Released: June 23, 1928
Type: Movie
A man falsely accused of crime joins Foreign Legion, and when trouble develops is saved by the self sacrifice of the commanding officer, his own father.
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Body and Soul
Title: Body and Soul
Character: Ruffo
Released: October 1, 1927
Type: Movie
A disgraced alcoholic surgeon settles in a small village in the Swiss Alps. He falls for Hilda, a servant at the hotel where he lives. He tricks her into marrying him by making her think her lover, Ruffo, has abandoned her. Things don't go quite as planned, however, when Ruffo returns.
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Love Me and the World is Mine
Title: Love Me and the World is Mine
Character: Von Vigilatti
Released: September 26, 1927
Type: Movie
In Old Vienna in the days prior to The Great War, a beautiful woman, Hannerl, has her choice of two men; the first is a dashing young army officer who can provide blazing romance and little long-time security. The other is an older man, influential in the affairs of Austria, who could provide wealth...and tender devotion. Hannerl thinks about it.
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The Unknown
Title: The Unknown
Character: Malabar
Released: May 29, 1927
Type: Movie
A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.
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Annie Laurie
Title: Annie Laurie
Character: Ian Macdonald
Released: May 10, 1927
Type: Movie
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.
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The Claw
Title: The Claw
Character: Maurice Stair
Released: May 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Based on the 1911 novel by Cynthia Stockley, this is the story of Dierdre Saurin, whose infatuation with Major Kinsella takes her to Africa where native uprisings and the jealous connivings of Maurice Stair await her.
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The Love Thief
Title: The Love Thief
Character: Prince Boris Alexander Emanuel Augustus
Released: June 13, 1926
Type: Movie
To avert war between their countries an official marriage is arranged between Crown Prince Boris of Moraine and Princess Flavia of Norvia. Prince Karl of Norvia sees in the alliance an opportunity to gain control of both kingdoms but upon visiting Boris finds him unyielding and independent. Flavia, shedding her stately dignity in the palace garden, is accosted by the flirtatious Boris, who believes her to be the princess' cousin; and falling in love, he realizes that he cannot go through with the planned marriage.
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Mademoiselle Modiste
Title: Mademoiselle Modiste
Character: Etienne
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Robert Z. Leonard directed Griffith in a story based on a popular 1905 Victor Herbert operetta on Broadway, Mlle. Modiste, with a libretto by Henry Martyn Blossom, which was similar to the MGM film The Merry Widow. The film is now considered a lost film. The story was refilmed in 1930 as the talkie Kiss Me Again.
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The Barrier
Title: The Barrier
Character: Meade Burrell
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Years after Alaskan storekeeper Gale had rescued his ward Necia from Bennett, her murderous sea-captain father, Bennett shows up seeking his daughter -- and revenge.
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Under Western Skies
Title: Under Western Skies
Character: Robert Erskine
Released: February 7, 1926
Type: Movie
Bob Erskine, the son of a wealthy New York banker, falls in love with Ella Parkhurst, the daughter of an Oregon rancher. Bob goes to work as a fieldhand for the elder Parkhurst and discovers that the Oregon crops may fail because eastern bankers, led by Bob's father, refuse to advance the farmers credit. Bob intercedes with his father, who promises to help the ranchers if Bob wins the steeplechase in the Pendleton rodeo.
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Lorraine of the Lions
Title: Lorraine of the Lions
Character: Don Mackay
Released: October 11, 1925
Type: Movie
A ship carrying a touring circus troupe sinks at sea, and Lorraine, a young girl, is washed up on a deserted island. Her only companion is a gorilla from the circus, Bimi, who raises her as its own. Several years later Lorraine's wealthy grandfather, who has hired a psychic to help find her, is led by the psychic to Lorraine's island, and she and Bimi are taken back to "civiliation" in San Francisco, but things don't work out exactly as planned.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Title: The Phantom of the Opera
Character: Vicomte Raoul de Chagny
Released: September 22, 1925
Type: Movie
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
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Fifth Avenue Models
Title: Fifth Avenue Models
Character: Francis Doran
Released: April 26, 1925
Type: Movie
A model in an expensive clothing shop quarrels with another model, and an expensive gown is ruined. In order to pay for it, she asks her father, an artist, for the money. In order to get the money, the father gets mixed up with art thieves
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The Price of Pleasure
Title: The Price of Pleasure
Character: Garry Schuyler
Released: March 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Their only sim was that they loved too much: lovers never stop to count the cost. He was a young millionaire and she was only a "Bargain "Basement" girl, but they had one week of paradise that started two years of drama. The truest, sweetest love story in years.
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So This Is Marriage?
Title: So This Is Marriage?
Released: November 26, 1924
Type: Movie
The only known copy of this film copy was reported to have been destroyed in the 1967 MGM Vault fire.
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Butterfly
Title: Butterfly
Character: Konrad Kronski
Released: October 11, 1924
Type: Movie
Silent Feature Film by Clarence Brown
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Hello, 'Frisco
Title: Hello, 'Frisco
Character: Norman Kerry
Released: September 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
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Cytherea
Title: Cytherea
Character: Peyton Morris
Released: May 4, 1924
Type: Movie
Lee Randon, weary of business duties and a conventional home life, acquires a long-lost sense of excitement and romance with young flapper Claire Morris. When he meets her married aunt, Savina Grove, she appears to be the woman he imagines whenever he gazes at a doll he has christened Cytherea, goddess of love -----Cytherea features two dream sequences filmed in an early version of the Technicolor color film process.
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True As Steel
Title: True As Steel
Character: Harry Boutelle
Released: April 20, 1924
Type: Movie
Successful middle-aged manufacturer Frank Parry takes a business trip to New York, where he becomes infatuated with Eva Boutelle, manager of the Swansea Cotton Mills. For a time, their affair develops, but Eva remains true to her husband ...
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The City of Stars: A Reporters Visit to the Universal Studios
Title: The City of Stars: A Reporters Visit to the Universal Studios
Released: March 21, 1924
Type: Movie
The City of Stars is structured as a "coming attractions" promo within the fictional framework of an Eastern editor (vaudeville actor Broderick O'Farrell) arriving in Los Angeles to meet with Universal's advertising manager. The sceneic resources of the studio are showcased throughout, with a "See America First" wagon visible in one scene, and a scattering of panoramic shots of Universal City and the Universal zoo.
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Daring Youth
Title: Daring Youth
Character: John J. Campbell
Released: February 1, 1924
Type: Movie
On the eve of the marriage of her daughter, Alita, Mrs. Allen, unhappily married for 25 years, advocates writer Fannie Hurst's widely publicized mode of living with her husband: only two breakfasts a week together and complete freedom otherwise.
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The Shadow of the East
Title: The Shadow of the East
Character: Said
Released: January 27, 1924
Type: Movie
Barry Craven meets former sweetheart Gillian Locke, who is visiting India with her father. Craven's love for Gillian is revived, but he already has a wife, Lolaire, a native. In a jealous rage, Lolaire kills herself, freeing Craven, who returns to England and marries Gillian. His Indian servant, Kunwar Singh, casts a spell on Craven, causing him to leave Gillian and to go into the Algerian desert. There he joins Said, an old university friend who is the son of an Algerian sheik. Gillian follows, the servant is killed, and with him dies the spell, "The Shadow of the East."
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The Satin Girl
Title: The Satin Girl
Character: Dr. Richard Taunton
Released: November 30, 1923
Type: Movie
The Satin Girl is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring Mabel Forrest, Norman Kerry and Marc McDermott.
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The Thrill Chaser
Title: The Thrill Chaser
Character: Himself - Cameo
Released: November 26, 1923
Type: Movie
In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood westerns impresses a visiting sheikh with his boxing skills and is engaged to go to Arabia, where he becomes involved in warring and falls in love with a beautiful princess.
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The Acquittal
Title: The Acquittal
Character: Robert Armstrong
Released: November 19, 1923
Type: Movie
When a wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom, one of his two adopted sons is arrested and charged with the killing. However, the verdict at his trial is an acquittal. Since the police don't seem to be particularly interested in finding the real killer, the dead man's daughter-in-law--the wife of the adopted son who wasn't charged--takes it upon herself to solve the crime.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Phoebus de Chateaupers
Released: September 6, 1923
Type: Movie
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
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Merry-Go-Round
Title: Merry-Go-Round
Character: Count Franz Maximilian Von Hohenegg
Released: July 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of his country's war minister.
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Is Money Everything?
Title: Is Money Everything?
Character: John Brand
Released: February 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A farmer, unhappy with his life, decides to go the city to try and make his fortune. He takes a friend along with him. The two of them become successful, but that success brings other, unforeseen problems into their lives.
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The Man From Home
Title: The Man From Home
Character: Prince Kinsillo
Released: April 30, 1922
Type: Movie
A fairly conventional romance of an American heiress, loved by boy back home, bedazzled by a glamorous prince in beautiful Italian surroundings.
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Find the Woman
Title: Find the Woman
Character: Marc Weber
Released: April 2, 1922
Type: Movie
This whodunit bears no relation to the 1918 picture of the same name, but both films coincidentally had the same director, Tom Terriss. When sleazy theatrical agent Maurice Beiner (Arthur Donaldson) is found stabbed to death in his office, just about everybody is a suspect -- there's aspiring actress Clancy Deane (Eileen Huban), who was one of the last people to see him alive, and Sophie Carey (Alma Rubens) who knows he has some love letters she wrote to Judge Walbrough (George MacQuarrie) before she married her alcoholic husband, Don (Henry Sedley). Or is it Marc Weber (Norman Kerry), who had a falling out with Beiner, or Weber's devoted wife, Fay (Ethel Duray)?
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Three Live Ghosts
Title: Three Live Ghosts
Character: Billy Foster
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Adapted from a popular Broadway play and concerns three veterans who return to London from the War only to discover that they have been officially listed as dead.
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Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Title: Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Character: 'Blackie' Daw
Released: December 4, 1921
Type: Movie
Two confidence men pose as investors to fleece the denizens of a small town. They build a carpet-tack factory with the funds, but some stockholders are suspicious. Eventually, someone tries to take over the business by buying it from them. The film is presumed lost.
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Little Italy
Title: Little Italy
Character: Antonio Tumullo
Released: July 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Rosa is told by her father that she must marry a man from her own clan. She refuses, and vows to marry the first man she meets. That man is Antonio, who is from a hated clan. Antonio is in love with Rosa, although she hates him. Despite this, she keeps her vow and marries him.
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The Wild Goose
Title: The Wild Goose
Character: Ogden Fenn
Released: June 5, 1921
Type: Movie
While visiting New York, Ogden Fenn finds himself charmed with Diana Manners, wife of Frank Manners, an architect who is away on business in San Francisco, and they become involved. The husband returns unexpectedly and learns that his wife loves Fenn. When Diana and Fenn go to the latter's cabin near New York, Mrs. Hastings, who though married loves Frank, persuades him not to interfere because of the effects on his child. Mr. Hastings, learning of his wife's own infidelity, motors to the cabin, forces Fenn into his car, and drives the vehicle over a steep embankment.
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Proxies
Title: Proxies
Character: Peter Mendoza
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Carlotta Darley (Dean) is engaged to Homer Carleton (Crosby), but regrets that Homer is not as tall and handsome as the butler Peter (Kerry).
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Buried Treasure
Title: Buried Treasure
Character: Dr. John Grant
Released: April 9, 1921
Type: Movie
Strung around the idea of reincarnation, this film goes back in time to the days of the Spanish galleons and pirates burying their treasure; treasure to be found centuries later.
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A Splendid Hazard
Title: A Splendid Hazard
Character: John Fitzgerald
Released: September 26, 1920
Type: Movie
Karl Breitman, obsessed with the notion that he is a descendant of Napoleon, is driven to restore the monarchy in France. To accomplish this, he courts Hedda Gobert, who, he has learned, possesses Napoleon's papers. Upon winning Hedda, Breitman steals the documents, which lead him to America and the home of Admiral Killigrew where, the papers allege, the emperor's hidden wealth resides.
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Passion's Playground
Title: Passion's Playground
Character: Prince Vanno Della Robbia
Released: April 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Mary Grant has a gambling father and a mother who has disappeared. Even though she has been raised in a convent she proves true to her ancestry by running away to Monte Carlo and spending her small inheritance at the gambling table.
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Soldiers of Fortune
Title: Soldiers of Fortune
Character: Robert Clay
Released: November 22, 1919
Type: Movie
Civil engineer Robert Clay is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron deposits in the tiny South American republic of Olancho. General Mendoza, the unscrupulous head of the army, unsuccessfully tries to persuade President Alvarez, and then Clay, to divide the spoils of the contract.
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The Dark Star
Title: The Dark Star
Character: Jim Neeland
Released: August 3, 1919
Type: Movie
A fabulous jewel known as the 'Dark Star' is stolen; a pastor's daughter gets involved, falling into the depths of a spy plot concerning war plans and fortifications...
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Virtuous Sinners
Title: Virtuous Sinners
Character: Hamilton Jones
Released: May 25, 1919
Type: Movie
A near-forgotten film, Virtuous Sinners tells the story of Dawn Emerson (Wanda Hawley), an abused wife cast out into the street by her uncaring husband. Rescued by a gang of down-and-out patrons of the “End of the Trail” mission, Dawn soon falls for a dapper mission benefactor, Hamilton Jones (Norman Kerry), who is also a high-end burglar. When a member of the mission gang, McGregor, is run over by a car while saving a child, Hamilton robs a home to pay his medical bills. Ratted out by a informant, Hamilton goes on trial, but Dawn and the rest of the gang – including a young Rudolph Valentino in a bit part – stand by his side.
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Getting Mary Married
Title: Getting Mary Married
Character: James Winthrop, Jr.
Released: April 19, 1919
Type: Movie
Early feature from American cinema pioneer Allan Dwan, starring Marion Davies
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Toton
Title: Toton
Character: David Lane
Released: March 30, 1919
Type: Movie
In the Latin Quarter of Paris, American artist David Lane (Norman Kerry) marries his model Yvonne (Olive Thomas), but just prior to the birth of their baby, David's mother dies, and he is forced to depart for the United States. In David's absence, his father hires a lawyer to convince Yvonne that David has abandoned her, and grief-stricken, she dies soon after her little girl is born. Yvonne's trusted friend Pierre rears the girl as a boy, whom he calls Toton, and trains her to become a skilled pickpocket. Meanwhile, David adopts a boy named Carew, and when he grows to manhood, the two move to Paris to establish an art studio. In robbing the studio, Pierre recognizes David, and to avenge Yvonne's death, he claims that Toton has been taught to hate her father. Later, Pierre becomes convinced of David's innocence, and before he dies, he reveals the truth to Toton. Finally, the girl is reunited with her father and marries Carew.
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The Talk of the Town
Title: The Talk of the Town
Released: September 28, 1918
Type: Movie
Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand on a book called "How to Attract the Opposite Sex," she takes its advice to heart. She uses her newly found wiles on Lawrence Tabor (William Stowell) and gets him to marry her. Only after the wedding does she tell him she married him just to get away from her family, and that she intends to do exactly as she pleases.
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Good Night, Paul
Title: Good Night, Paul
Character: Richard Landers
Released: June 20, 1918
Type: Movie
Mrs. Richard is happily married, but still agrees to pose as the wife of a businessman to hoodwink the businessman's rich uncle. Unfortunately, uncle plans to extend his visit, forcing the two schemers to keep up the pretense.
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Rose o' Paradise
Title: Rose o' Paradise
Character: Theodore King
Released: May 13, 1918
Type: Movie
Thomas Singleton broke down when his wife died giving birth to their daughter. He eventually recovered, but his half-brother Morse kept him locked up at the asylum. After seventeen years, Singleton escapes and tracks down his daughter, Virginia, who is due to inherit a fortune on her eighteenth birthday. Convinced that his half-brother will try to trick Virginia out of her inheritance, Singleton sends her to live with his former gardener......
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Up The Road With Sallie
Title: Up The Road With Sallie
Character: Joshua Cabot II, aka Smith Jones
Released: April 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Sallie Waters inherits $5,000 along with other legatees unknown to her. Whichever of the heirs uses his initial bequest to the best advantage is to receive the main residue of the estate.
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Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Title: Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Character: Gordon Phillips
Released: March 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who comes from a rich family, and she begins to be drawn into the world of the upper class.
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A Little Princess
Title: A Little Princess
Character: Capt. Richard Crewe
Released: November 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.
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The Little American
Title: The Little American
Character: Wounded Soldier (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1917
Type: Movie
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.
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The Black Butterfly
Title: The Black Butterfly
Character: Vladimir
Released: December 4, 1916
Type: Movie
Sonia Smirnov, a Paris opera singer known as "The Black Butterfly", starts an affair with young Alan Hall. Hall, however, is still pining over his previous lover, a young peasant girl.