Gladys Leslie

Gladys Leslie

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Broadway Broke
Title: Broadway Broke
Character: Mary Karger
Released: October 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Nellie Wayne, a retired Broadway actress, has a small dog named "Chum", who is part of a vaudeville act and is the sole support of the family.
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Haldane of the Secret Service
Title: Haldane of the Secret Service
Character: Adele Ormsby
Released: September 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Heath Haldane (Houdini) tracks down a vicious gang of counterfeiters, narrowly missing death several times. He must rescue Adele Ormsby, whom he loves despite her pending marriage.
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Man and Wife
Title: Man and Wife
Character: Dolly Perkins
Released: March 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Dora Perkins is a country girl who runs away to New York City. She gets work as a nurse and marries Dr. Howard Fleming, a famed brain surgeon. Supposedly she dies in a fire, and some time later Fleming takes a vacation in the country, where by some odd coincidence he winds up meeting Dolly, Dora's sister. Without realizing her relationship to Dora, he marries her. Soon Dolly is expecting, and not long after, Dora pops up -- she survived the fire, but has been left hopelessly insane.
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If Winter Comes
Title: If Winter Comes
Character: Effie Bright
Released: March 7, 1923
Type: Movie
Mark Sabre hires young Effie Bright to keep his snobbish, cold-hearted wife Mabel company while he goes off to war. When he returns home from the front wounded, he finds that Mabel has fired Effie, who shows up at Mark's door with her baby, having no place to go. Mark takes her in, but Mabel leaves him when the town shuns him for what they believe is going on with Mark and Effie. Matters are further complicated when Effie, driven to desperation, commits an unspeakable act that results in Mark having a nervous breakdown--and then things get worse.
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Timothy's Quest
Title: Timothy's Quest
Character: Miss Dora
Released: September 16, 1922
Type: Movie
A charming pastoral about two unwanted children finding acceptance and love, Timothys Quest (1922) is a rare, cinematic gem based on a novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), who was then known as Americas best loved author of stories about children.
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God's Country and the Law
Title: God's Country and the Law
Released: June 1, 1921
Type: Movie
God's Country and the Law is a 1921 American silent drama film produced by Pine Tree Pictures and distributed by Arrow Films. It was directed by Sidney Olcott with Fred C. Jones and Gladys Leslie in the leading roles. It was adapted from the 1915 novel God’s Country and the Woman by James Oliver Curwood,which had been previously filmed under that title in 1916.
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Jim the Penman
Title: Jim the Penman
Character: Agnes Ralston
Released: April 4, 1921
Type: Movie
A bank clerk forges a check to help his girlfriend's father. He's found out, but instead of being arrested he becomes a member of a gang of forgers.
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Straight Is the Way
Title: Straight Is the Way
Character: Dorcas
Released: March 6, 1921
Type: Movie
Bob Carter and "Loot" Follet, are two thieves who locate themselves in the unused part of the New Hampshire home of Aunt Mehitable and her niece Dorcas. Loan shark Jonathan Squoggs presses Mehitable for payment of the mortgage, and the two crooks decide to help the ladies when they consult their Ouija board to find a hidden treasure. Finding the treasure reveals a surprise thief and a chance for new lives for the crooks, Dorcas, and Mehitable.
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A Child for Sale
Title: A Child for Sale
Character: Ruth Gardner
Released: April 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Charles Stoddard is a poor artist living with his wife and two children in Greenwich Village. Destitute after his wife dies, he is forced to sell one of his children to a childless rich woman. He soon comes his senses however, and tries to back out of the deal.
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The Midnight Bride
Title: The Midnight Bride
Character: Jeanne Sterling
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
While waiting on a New York park bench for the return of her friends, country girl Jeanne Sterling meets Forrest Chenoweth, a rich young wastrel who, while drunk, registered for a marriage license with fortune-hunting Helen Dorr. Enchanted with Jeanne's innocence, Forrest proposes to Jeanne, and they are married by an alderman friend of Forrest's with the license that Forrest had taken out with Helen. That night Forrest drinks too much, falls in his room and kills himself. The scandal appears in the papers, forcing Jeanne to confess the marriage to her sweetheart Robert Pitcairn. However, Helen, in an attempt to acquire the Chenoweth fortune, claims to be Forrest's widow, thus disgracing Jeanne.
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The Golden Shower
Title: The Golden Shower
Character: Mary Kane
Released: November 30, 1919
Type: Movie
A rich libertine leaves all his money to a college girl who had refused his advances. The ensuing scandal makes her retire to a small town, where she meets the dead man's son.
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Miss Dulcie from Dixie
Title: Miss Dulcie from Dixie
Character: Dulcie Culpepper
Released: March 24, 1919
Type: Movie
To receive the $5,000 promised in her Uncle Stephen's will, Dulcie Culpepper must live with her Uncle John in New York for six months so that her father, a Confederate colonel, will be reconciled with his brother whose marriage to a Northern woman long ago caused a breach.
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It Happened to Adele
Title: It Happened to Adele
Character: Adele
Released: July 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Adele has grown up in a tenement, but she longs for greater things. She gets her chance at the stage when her mother runs into an old friend, Blanche. Blanche has been working steadily in the theater, and she helps Adele get work. The young girl finds romance with Vincent Harvey, an aspiring composer. One day Adele suffers an accidental fall out of a window.
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The Vicar of Wakefield
Title: The Vicar of Wakefield
Character: Sophia Primrose
Released: February 24, 1917
Type: Movie
The production vindicated the new feature-length movie format by restoring several characters, plot complications, and atmosphere that had been truncated in Thanhouser’s 1910 version of less than one-sixth the length.
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Cartoons in the Country
Title: Cartoons in the Country
Character: Eleanor Douglas
Released: October 20, 1915
Type: Movie
Donald and Eleanor are in love, so that Jim realizes it is up to him to pick a peach for himself. There is only one room left at their country boarding house and Jim wants to make sure that no one but the proper peach rents it. In order to keep the proprietress busy while he interviews the applicants for the room, Jim gives her the animated picture book to look at.
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Cartoons in a Seminary
Title: Cartoons in a Seminary
Character: Laura
Released: September 22, 1915
Type: Movie
Laura tells her companions at Miss Syntax's seminary that Jim, her sweetheart, is to visit her that afternoon. Shortly afterward, Jim climbs the fence surrounding the school playground, and after greeting the them girls, shows a copy of the "Grouch Chaser." The girls get a great laugh out of "Silas Bunkum's Boarders Picnic" in which Silas, his wife and their three guests spend a lively day in the country.
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Cartoons on the Beach
Title: Cartoons on the Beach
Character: Trixie Brody
Released: September 7, 1915
Type: Movie
The romantic escapades of two couples at the beach form the framing story for four animated cartoons.
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It May Be You
Title: It May Be You
Character: The Banker's Secretary
Released: July 7, 1915
Type: Movie
Jack goes from business to business, trying to sell ad space in his newspaper. At each stop he catches the boss in a compromising position with a secretary. He writes an editorial about the practice, hinting that he could expose prominent businessmen. Suddenly everyone wants to buy ads in his paper.
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Cartoons in the Hotel
Title: Cartoons in the Hotel
Released: June 29, 1915
Type: Movie
An entry from Raoul Barre's Animated Grouch Chaser series