Jeanie Macpherson

Jeanie Macpherson

Born: May 17, 1886
Died: August 26, 1946
in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Movies for Jeanie Macpherson...

Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Jeanie Macpherson
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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Carmen
Title: Carmen
Character: Gypsy Girl
Released: October 31, 1915
Type: Movie
Hot-blooded gypsy Carmen attempts to seduce Don Jose, a lawman sent to thwart a gang of illegal smugglers in Spain. Carmen's plan backfires when Don Jose's passion for the gypsy girl escalates into a jealous rage as she spurns him for her bullfighter beau, Escamillo, with tragic results.
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The Captive
Title: The Captive
Character: Milka
Released: April 22, 1915
Type: Movie
Set during the Balkan Wars, The Captive tells the story of Sonia, a young woman living in Montenegro and left to care for her younger brother Milos and the family farm when older brother Marko goes off to battle. Unable to handle the day-to-day tasks following her brother’s tragic death, help comes in the form of Mahmud Hassan, a captured Turk nobleman, now a prisoner of war. Tasked with helping Sonia, their initial frosty relationship soon melts into love. As the war rages on Sonia, Mahmud and Milos will face near-insurmountable obstacles in their quest for a better life amidst the hell of war.
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The Girl of the Golden West
Title: The Girl of the Golden West
Character: Nina
Released: January 4, 1915
Type: Movie
A saloon hostess loves Ramerrez, a notorious highwayman. Sheriff Jack Rance, who loves the girl too, instigates a card game that will determine the fate of all three of them. If she wins, the girl's lover will go free; but if she loses…
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The Ghost Breaker
Title: The Ghost Breaker
Character: Juanita
Released: December 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaines, a New York art collector, not knowing that the locket contains the clue to the Aragon family fortune's whereabouts. Based on the 1909 Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard.
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The Rose of the Rancho
Title: The Rose of the Rancho
Character: Isabelita, Espinoza's Daughter
Released: November 15, 1914
Type: Movie
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off till the cavalry shows up and he can declare his love for Juanita, called “the Rose of the Rancho.”
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The Outlaw Reforms
Title: The Outlaw Reforms
Character: Mary
Released: May 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Bill, squatter, while playing it the side of the hill, accidentally discovers silver.
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The Merchant of Venice
Title: The Merchant of Venice
Released: February 1, 1914
Type: Movie
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
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Revenge Is Sweet
Title: Revenge Is Sweet
Character: One of the Office Girls
Released: July 16, 1912
Type: Movie
A short comedy in which the newest employee is teased by the office girls, but he retaliates by putting black polish in a powder-box. Ultimately the girls use the resulting black powder on the young employee himself.
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The Butler and the Maid
Title: The Butler and the Maid
Character: Jennie the Maid
Released: April 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Jennie, a coquettish housemaid, flirts with the grocer's delivery boy and thereby incites the jealousy of her sweetheart, Frank, the butler. Frank goes to his station in the hall and, in his anger, tells the marble statue that is a part of the furnishings of the handsome home, that his sweetheart is as cold as the stone of which it is made. He quiets down, and as he is not very busy, soon becomes drowsy, and dreams that the statue comes to life and goes with him to a ball. While they are walking along the street, a policeman meets them and questions Frank. He gets frightened, they run and as they rush back into the hall, the statue falls and breaks into a thousand pieces. His sweetheart comes down the steps and wakes him up and tells him to answer the bell. Frank's surprise at seeing the statue whole is plainly shown and his delight that is has all been a dream causes him to make up with his sweetheart.
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Enoch Arden
Title: Enoch Arden
Character: Philip Ray's Maid
Released: June 15, 1911
Type: Movie
Moving Picture World described the film: "There is a small need to describe this subject as the poem of Lord Tennyson is so well known, so suffice it to say that this Biograph subject is an unusually faithful portrayal of that beautiful romance of Enoch Arden, Annie Lee and Philip Ray, taken in scenes of rare beauty".
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Enoch Arden
Title: Enoch Arden
Character: Woman on the Beach
Released: June 15, 1911
Type: Movie
Moving Picture World described the film: "There is a small need to describe this subject as the poem of Lord Tennyson is so well known, so suffice it to say that this Biograph subject is an unusually faithful portrayal of that beautiful romance of Enoch Arden, Annie Lee and Philip Ray, taken in scenes of rare beauty".
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Comrades
Title: Comrades
Character: The Maid
Released: March 13, 1911
Type: Movie
Two creative bums invade a high society gathering by pretending to be rich.
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Fisher Folks
Title: Fisher Folks
Character: At Wedding
Released: February 16, 1911
Type: Movie
A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt.
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Winning Back His Love
Title: Winning Back His Love
Character: A Servant
Released: December 25, 1910
Type: Movie
A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not.
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The Lesson
Title: The Lesson
Character: A Friend
Released: December 19, 1910
Type: Movie
Short drama about the commandment "honour your father and your mother".
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Sunshine Sue
Title: Sunshine Sue
Character: Sweatshop Employee / Piano Store Employee
Released: November 14, 1910
Type: Movie
A country girl follows a city suitor, but is left alone and must fend for herself.
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A Gold Necklace
Title: A Gold Necklace
Character: A Friend
Released: October 6, 1910
Type: Movie
Mazie lends her necklace to Nellie, her guest. Nellie is asleep in a hammock when Sam, her sweetheart, arrives in his auto. He awakens Nellie with a kiss. As she starts up she drops the necklace in the grass and their efforts to find it prove futile. Sam promises to buy her one to replace it, thinking it was her own properly. He has her minutely describe it that he may get an exact duplicate. Meanwhile, the governess has found the necklace and given it to its owner, Mazie, who is unknown to Sam. He sees it on Mazie's neck and after a chase insists on purchasing it.
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The Oath and the Man
Title: The Oath and the Man
Character: Aristocrat
Released: September 21, 1910
Type: Movie
A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants. His priest made him swear an oath to leave vengeance to God, however.
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The Usurer
Title: The Usurer
Character: At Luncheon
Released: August 15, 1910
Type: Movie
A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.
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A Salutary Lesson
Title: A Salutary Lesson
Character: The Friend
Released: August 11, 1910
Type: Movie
During a stay at beach resort Mr. and Mrs. Randall neglect their daughter and follow their own interests. Mrs. Randall entertains the local minister, while Mr. Randall agrees to take his daughter on a walk along the beach. However, he is attracted by a flirtatious young woman, and the little girl wanders off on her own. She clambers onto a seaside rock where she falls asleep, unmindful of the incoming tide. Her parents at last notice her absence and begin searching for her. However, the incoming tide has by this time surrounded her rock, cutting her off from land. A lifeguard hears her cries and swims to the rescue just as the rising tide is about to engulf her. The child is returned to her parents, who receive from their near tragedy a salutary lesson in the importance of being more careful parents.
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A Flash of Light
Title: A Flash of Light
Released: July 17, 1910
Type: Movie
An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist, and her younger sister take her place.
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The Day After
Title: The Day After
Character: Party Guest
Released: December 30, 1909
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens, and soon they are both cavorting drunkenly. Next morning Mr. Hilton, feeling very sick, is conscience-stricken over his drunkenness and his behavior with another woman. He fears to face his wife until he discovers that she feels just as guilty herself.
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To Save Her Soul
Title: To Save Her Soul
Character: In Audience
Released: December 27, 1909
Type: Movie
Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the curate who loves her, she accepts the offer and goes to the city. Later the curate goes to hear Agnes perform and, fearing that her soul is being corrupted by show business, he asks her to return to the small town with him. When she refuses, he is prepared to kill her in order to protect the purity of her soul. This brings about her change of heart, and together they return to the little church.
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A Corner in Wheat
Title: A Corner in Wheat
Released: December 13, 1909
Type: Movie
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.
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A Sweet Revenge
Title: A Sweet Revenge
Character: Alice Baross - 2nd Fiancee
Released: November 18, 1909
Type: Movie
After being jilted for another, a woman sends her lover's old letters to the new fiancée and looks forward to the reaction. But when she spots her old lover's glove left behind, she has a change of heart and repents.
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The Peachbasket Hat
Title: The Peachbasket Hat
Character: In Store
Released: June 24, 1909
Type: Movie
Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm reading. After the gypsies leave, no one can find the baby, and everyone assumes it's been kidnapped-- until the baby is found under a hatbox.
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The Faded Lilies
Title: The Faded Lilies
Released: June 17, 1909
Type: Movie
A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.
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Confidence
Title: Confidence
Released: April 15, 1909
Type: Movie
Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail her. When the blackmail plot is exposed, Nellie's husband expresses his complete faith in her.
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The Curtain Pole
Title: The Curtain Pole
Character: Party planner / Nurse with buggy
Released: February 15, 1909
Type: Movie
An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing entourage chasing him, until he escapes them through a bit of movie magic, only to discover that the pole has already been replaced.
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Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Title: Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Character: Guest
Released: January 21, 1909
Type: Movie
Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance League. But Oh! the ordeal, for such it was, was telling on him, and his pent-up spirits were threatening ebullition, when at last the chance comes. The league arranges to attend a three-days' convention out of town, and when Mrs. Jones departs, Jones sends a note to Smith, telling him to bring the gang, and they would have a "Prayer Meeting," enjoining him not to forget the "fixings." Well, the gang are not long in putting in an appearance, for they feel that every minute's delay is a chunk lost from a golden opportunity for fun.
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The Criminal Hypnotist
Title: The Criminal Hypnotist
Character: Party Guest
Released: January 18, 1909
Type: Movie
Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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Mrs. Jones Entertains
Title: Mrs. Jones Entertains
Character: The Maid
Released: January 9, 1909
Type: Movie
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One Touch of Nature
Title: One Touch of Nature
Character: First Couple
Released: January 1, 1909
Type: Movie
Mack Sennett appears as a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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Mr. Jones at the Ball
Title: Mr. Jones at the Ball
Character: Guest at Ball
Released: December 25, 1908
Type: Movie
Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his long-suffering wife. In this film, Jones rips his suit pants and chaos ensues.
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The Christmas Burglars
Title: The Christmas Burglars
Character: Customer
Released: December 22, 1908
Type: Movie
Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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Money Mad
Title: Money Mad
Character: Bank Customer
Released: December 4, 1908
Type: Movie
The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at the bank, exchanging stolen notes for gold coin, a couple of thugs witness the transaction and see their opportunity-- It seems avarice grips the hearts of all those who'd possess the bag.
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The Taming of the Shrew
Title: The Taming of the Shrew
Character: Wedding Party
Released: November 10, 1908
Type: Movie
Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.
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The Fatal Hour
Title: The Fatal Hour
Released: August 18, 1908
Type: Movie
This one-reeler has been regarded as a classic example of a Griffith thriller. It engages with the Chinese White slave traffic from the perspective of a female detective, played by Marion Leonard, whose assignment is to expose and break the traffic ring. A fragment is widely available.