Mary Fuller

Mary Fuller

Born: October 5, 1888
Died: December 9, 1973
in Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Mary Fuller was an American stage and silent film actress and screenwriter.

Movies for Mary Fuller...

Stars of Yesterday
Title: Stars of Yesterday
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1931
Type: Movie
Stars of Yesterday documentary film.
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The Huntress of Men
Title: The Huntress of Men
Character: The Huntress
Released: May 8, 1916
Type: Movie
Upon hearing about a woman dubbed The Huntress because of her wild attention craving ways, Fleming Harcourt decides he can domesticate her and they marry. He takes her to settle down in a mining town, however she soon becomes bored and returns to the city and her lavish parties with plenty of adoring male admirers. Fleming decides to make her jealous by flirting with other women. When the Huntress hears the rumors of his affairs, she soon realizes her one true love is Fleming, and they are happily reunited.
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Thrown to the Lions
Title: Thrown to the Lions
Released: April 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Linnie Carter, a cabaret entertainer, struggles to remain innocent in the midst of the fast life. Harry Sullivan, a gangster, becomes attentive to Linnie and asks her to marry him and, believing that his intentions are sincere, she accepts. When Linnie's friend Irma Wood and her husband Billy, who plays a clown in a cabaret act, discover that Harry has no intention of marrying Linnie and that Linnie is in danger, they rescue her from a phony marriage ceremony and force her to face the truth about Harry.
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The Strength of the Weak
Title: The Strength of the Weak
Character: Pauline D'Arcy
Released: March 12, 1916
Type: Movie
Soon after Pauline D'Arcy, an untutored country girl from the Northwest, is left destitute by the death of her father, she falls in love with a middle-aged married man, John Adams, whose alias is Abbott. Although never intending to marry her, Abbott promises to send Pauline to college. During her studies, she falls in love with her lover's son Richard, while at the same time establishing a literary career. She anonymously publishes a novel based on her experiences and it becomes a best seller.
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A Sea Mystery
Title: A Sea Mystery
Character: Mary
Released: January 21, 1916
Type: Movie
A drama in which the young Mona is chased by her wicked husband, but is then helped by the fishermen Bob and Paul.
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The Woman Who Lied
Title: The Woman Who Lied
Released: October 6, 1915
Type: Movie
After a stirring performance, Cleo Martell, a renowned stage actress, is visited in her dressing room by Gordon Trent, a too ardent admirer. When Cleo's husband enters, a fight ensues, and Trent kills his rival in the struggle. Jack Stanley arrives on the scene to help but is accused of the murder by Cleo and is sent off to prison. The opportunistic Trent marries Jack's rich fiancée Helen Forde, who believes that her former lover is guilty of unfaithfulness. Jealous of the arrangement, Cleo eventually tells Helen the truth about the killing, causing Betty, Helen's daughter, to cry over her mother's unhappiness. Moved by the girl's tears, Cleo joins forces with Helen against Trent, and the two women go West where Jack, escaped from prison, works as a cowboy.
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Under Southern Skies
Title: Under Southern Skies
Character: Lelia Crofton
Released: September 20, 1915
Type: Movie
Lelia Crofton, a Louisiana belle of the 1860s, loves Burleigh Mavor. By chance, she sees one of her father's black stablemen making love to a neighbor's maid, whom she supposed was white. The incident shocks Lelia and leaves a great impression upon her. When she rejects suitor Steve Daubeney, he threatens to expose a damaging secret about her mother, whom she has never met. Remembering the incident with the neighbor's maid, Lelia worries that her mother might be black, and when Daubeney learns of her fears, he leads her to believe that they are well-founded.
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The Heart of the Hills
Title: The Heart of the Hills
Character: Lizabeth Anne
Released: December 19, 1914
Type: Movie
Lisbeth Ann is a child of the wilds. In a gingham gown and bare feet she roams the mountain sides as care-free as the birds which carol in the pine trees above her. Creeping along the mountain trail one morning she overhears two men discussing a land deal in which her father has been concerned. To her dismay she learns that her father has disposed of a valuable piece of land underneath which are rich coal veins. Realizing that her father has been duped, the girl is about to shoot the man who has bought the property, when his kindly face restrains her.
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The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan
Title: The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan
Character: Dolly Desmond
Released: January 31, 1914
Type: Movie
An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011 in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project.
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Alexia's Strategy
Title: Alexia's Strategy
Character: Alexia Trexel
Released: December 6, 1913
Type: Movie
Walter Young and John Osgood are both in love with Alexia Trexell, daughter of the president of the trust company where both young men work.
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Who Will Marry Mary?
Title: Who Will Marry Mary?
Released: July 26, 1913
Type: Movie
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A Proposal from the Duke
Title: A Proposal from the Duke
Character: Mary Cuyler
Released: July 22, 1913
Type: Movie
Episode of a romantic serial starring Mary Fuller. Mary is looking for a man, and this time she wants an aristocratic gentleman.
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With The Eyes Of The Blind
Title: With The Eyes Of The Blind
Character: Nora McLane
Released: April 1, 1913
Type: Movie
Short silent drama
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The Ambassador's Daughter
Title: The Ambassador's Daughter
Character: Foreign conspirators
Released: January 21, 1913
Type: Movie
The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.
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What Happened to Mary
Title: What Happened to Mary
Character: Mary
Released: July 25, 1912
Type: Movie
The forerunner of all serials, What Happened to Mary was a series of twelve monthly one reel episodes, each a complete entity in itself, revolving its immediate dramatic and melodramatic problems within the framework of a single episode and designed more for story and suspense situations than action.
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Children Who Labor
Title: Children Who Labor
Released: February 22, 1912
Type: Movie
The father of a working class family is having trouble finding a job, because the local textile mill is hiring only inexpensive child labor. Reluctantly, he allows his oldest daughter to work in the mill. Meanwhile, in New York, the wealthy businessman Hanscomb is being urged to speak out against child labor, but he declines to do so. Then, while Mrs. Hanscomb and her daughter are traveling, the young girl accidentally wanders away, gets lost, and is taken in by the working class family. To help them, she takes a job in the mill. While this is taking place, Hanscomb has initiated a search for the daughter even as he goes about building up his financial empire.
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A Question of Seconds
Title: A Question of Seconds
Character: Bonita - the Ranchman's Daughter
Released: January 13, 1912
Type: Movie
Hardwell, a young engineer, running a new railroad through a tough western section, falls in love with Bonita, daughter of Jim Collins, a wealthy ranchman. Haligo Laderez, a wealthy Mexican, also has his eye on Bonita. When he sees that Bonita is favoring Hardwell, he invites the gang of Mexicans working for Hardwell to strike for more money. They are refused, so Haligo sets about capturing Hardwell, who has escaped and is on his way to the sheriff. As he is making his way through a narrow railway cut, Hardwell is hemmed in at both sides by Haligo's men, so he takes refuge behind a barricade of rocks. Unable to get at Hardwell, Haligo places a can of gun powder in front of the rocks and lights the fuse. Just before the flame reaches the can, Bonita and the sheriff arrive, putting the Mexicans to flight. The next day Bonita's father agrees to let her become the wife of Hardwell.
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Thirty Days at Hard Labor
Title: Thirty Days at Hard Labor
Character: Beatrice, his daughter
Released: January 9, 1912
Type: Movie
Jack must prove himself before Beatrice's father will allow him to continue seeing his daughter.
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A Modern Cinderella
Title: A Modern Cinderella
Released: November 7, 1911
Type: Movie
This 20th-century retelling of the classic fairy tale keeps all the familiar elements — a selfish step-sister, a put-upon beauty, a Prince Charming, and, of course, a lost slipper — but shifts the action to a contemporary boarding house. Cinderella, played by Mary Fuller, befriends an elderly resident, who buys a party outfit for her favorite when Cinderella’s elder sister preens for a dance. The new clothes transform the unassuming maiden into the toast of the ball. Finding Cinderella’s missing shoe, a dashing young man follows the clue to his grandmother, Cinderella’s friend at the boarding house, who works her magic to reunite the couple.
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A Stage Romance
Title: A Stage Romance
Released: February 17, 1911
Type: Movie
Mary is as stage actress preparing for opening night. Her part calls for her to shoot a Union soldier being played by her beau. Unknown to Mary another spurned suitor replaces the blanks in the prop gun with real bullets hoping to kill her beau.
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Aida
Title: Aida
Released: January 2, 1911
Type: Movie
Aida, daughter of the King of Ethiopia, having fallen a prisoner into the hands of the Egyptians, is given as a slave by their king to his daughter Amneris who, captivated by the grace and beauty of the unknown maid, takes her into favor. Radames, a young captain of the king's guards, loved by Amneris, suspecting a rival in her slave, swears to be avenged. Meanwhile war is again declared between Egypt and Ethiopia and Radames, appointed leader of the army by the High Priest of Isis, is invested with the sacred arms and departs to fight the Ethiopians who, headed by their king, have invaded Egypt. Radames defeats them and returns victorious, followed by the prisoners, among whom is the king himself, disguised as an officer.
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His Mother's Thanksgiving
Title: His Mother's Thanksgiving
Character: Fiancee
Released: November 22, 1910
Type: Movie
This holiday-themed melodrama released by Edison Studios in 1910 concerns Robert, a young man who leaves his mother’s home in New England to forge a career in the big city. When he achieves “fame and fortune” six years later, his proud mother can’t wait to welcome him home for Thanksgiving. Robert, however, intends to stay in the city to enjoy a holiday feast with his society friends and beautiful fiancée. When Mom decides to pay a surprise visit on Thanksgiving Day, she is saddened to find that her son is so ashamed of her that he relegates her to an upstairs room, out of sight and out of mind.
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Jean the Match-Maker
Title: Jean the Match-Maker
Released: September 19, 1910
Type: Movie
Bent on having a summer’s vacation, two working girls hire a tent and pitch their camp on the shore of a beautiful lake. As fate would have it, two farmer lads, living with their widowed mother and their pet border collie Jean, unexpectedly come onto the tent of the girls.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Character: Eliza
Released: July 26, 1910
Type: Movie
The incidents of this story are some of those preceding and leading up to the Civil War in 1861 and the Declaration of Emancipation. The central figure in the drama is Uncle Tom, a slave initially in the possession of the Shelbys of Kentucky. A 1927 re-release of this film cut the original runtime in half, and in its extant, fragmentary state, it runs 14 minutes.
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A Modern Cinderella
Title: A Modern Cinderella
Released: June 7, 1910
Type: Movie
This Cinderella is up to date. She and her sister Jane receive an invitation to a reception. Jane, selfish and arrogant, is carried away with her own vanity and anticipation of making a "hit" and being the belle of the evening. Cinderella, her sister, looks at her simple and ordinary drew, which is the best of her limited wardrobe, and says she will have to wear it or stay at home. Jane says she will look like a "frump," and be out of place, anyway. Poor Cinderella decides to remain at home. Mrs. Marvin, an elderly visitor, happens into the room and Cinderella, always kind and thoughtful, makes the old lady comfortable. She is attracted to the display of Jane's finery and asks the reason. Cinderella tells her all about the reception.
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Michael Strogoff
Title: Michael Strogoff
Released: April 1, 1910
Type: Movie
A graphic reproduction of Jules Verne's famous story under the above title. It deals with a secret mission in Russia
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Frankenstein
Title: Frankenstein
Character: Elizabeth (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1910
Type: Movie
Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster.
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The House of Cards
Title: The House of Cards
Character: The Girl
Released: December 10, 1909
Type: Movie
The rancher whom Tom works for has entrusted Tom with a bag of gold to take to the bank. But on arriving at the bank, Tom finds that it is closed for the day. It is not long before Tom is lured into a game of cards, and loses the rancher's money. Soon there is a warrant out for Tom's arrest on a charge of embezzlement, and his situation becomes increasingly desperate.
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Hansel and Gretel
Title: Hansel and Gretel
Character: Gretel
Released: October 14, 1909
Type: Movie
One of the first, of not the first, film adaptation of Grimm's fairytale.
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Leah the Forsaken
Title: Leah the Forsaken
Released: October 10, 1908
Type: Movie