Claire McDowell

Claire McDowell

Born: October 31, 1877
Died: October 23, 1966
in New York City, New York, USA
Claire McDowell (2 November 1877 – 23 October 1966) was an American actress. She appeared in 360 films between 1908 and 1945.

Still somewhat of a youthful beauty when she started in early silent films, McDowell appeared in numerous films, eventually graduating to playing character and mother types. She can be seen to good advantage in Douglas Fairbanks's 1920 The Mark of Zorro. McDowell appeared in two of the biggest films of the silent era, The Big Parade (1925) and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), both in which she played mothers.

She was married to silent screen character actor Charles Hill Mailes from 1906 to his 1937 death. The couple appeared in numerous silent films together, including The Mark of Zorro. They had two sons, Robert Mailes and Eugene Mailes.

Claire McDowell died, aged 88, in Hollywood, California.

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Movies for Claire McDowell...

Adventure
Title: Adventure
Character: Woman in Library (uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1945
Type: Movie
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Title: Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Character: Dr. Standish's Servant (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1944
Type: Movie
Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees her. Andy is clueless. On the train Andy meets Kay and Dr. Standish who are both headed for Wainwright. Andy likes Kay, but Dr. Standish also seems to take an interest in her. Things are going well at College with Kay, but the blonde is nice one minute and ignores Andy the next. When Andy finds out that the blonde is really identical twins, he tries to help them out with their father but gets caught at their rooming house after midnight.
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Men on Her Mind
Title: Men on Her Mind
Character: Mother Goodwin
Released: February 12, 1944
Type: Movie
A famous singer reflects on her life, including her journey from being an orphan to her fame as a singer, as she tries to decide which of her three suitors she will choose.
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Du Barry was a Lady
Title: Du Barry was a Lady
Character: Subway Passenger
Released: August 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
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This Land Is Mine
Title: This Land Is Mine
Character: Woman in Bathroom
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
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Presenting Lily Mars
Title: Presenting Lily Mars
Character: Dowager
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
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Hangmen Also Die!
Title: Hangmen Also Die!
Character: Counterwoman (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1943
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
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Keeper of the Flame
Title: Keeper of the Flame
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
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Lady Scarface
Title: Lady Scarface
Character: Mrs. Tuckerman
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.
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Whispers
Title: Whispers
Character: Gossip (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1941
Type: Movie
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Title: Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Character: Nurse for Mr. Winslow (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
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The Golden Fleecing
Title: The Golden Fleecing
Character: Pedestrian (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
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A Failure at Fifty
Title: A Failure at Fifty
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.
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Young Tom Edison
Title: Young Tom Edison
Character: Woman at Station
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Title: Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Character: Gossiper
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
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Thunder Afloat
Title: Thunder Afloat
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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One Against the World
Title: One Against the World
Character: Jane Todd Crawford (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
This short film presents the story of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, who came under scrutiny for his pioneering of surgical practices.
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Miracles for Sale
Title: Miracles for Sale
Character: Jack of Diamonds Woman
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
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Angel of Mercy
Title: Angel of Mercy
Character: Mother (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1939
Type: Movie
This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.
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Idiot's Delight
Title: Idiot's Delight
Character: Crying Mother
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
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Stand Up and Fight
Title: Stand Up and Fight
Character: Woman
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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Boys Town
Title: Boys Town
Character: Nun (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
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The Man on the Rock
Title: The Man on the Rock
Character: Napoleon's Mother (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1938
Type: Movie
A look at whether Napoleon Bonaparte indeed died on the island of St. Helena in 1821.
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They're Always Caught
Title: They're Always Caught
Character: Mrs. Fletcher (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1938
Type: Movie
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short shows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of cases, and how even the smallest detail can become a major clue.
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Three Comrades
Title: Three Comrades
Character: Landlady Frau Zalewski (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
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Test Pilot
Title: Test Pilot
Character: Funeral Home Associate (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
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A Night at the Movies
Title: A Night at the Movies
Character: Movie Patron (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer through a night at the movies. The film was nominated for an Academy Award at the 10th Academy Awards, held in 1937, for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
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Two-Fisted Sheriff
Title: Two-Fisted Sheriff
Character: Miss Herrick - Molly's Aunt
Released: June 14, 1937
Type: Movie
This is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of his friend, Sheriff Dick Houston, who has captured two stagecoach bandits and is about to be shot from ambush by a third. Bob is found a few days later near the murdered body of cattleman Herrick with a gun in his hand.
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Song of Revolt
Title: Song of Revolt
Character: Artistocratic Dowager (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1937
Type: Movie
This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution.
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Small Town Girl
Title: Small Town Girl
Character: Woman in Bed (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
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August Week End
Title: August Week End
Character: Alma Washburne
Released: February 17, 1936
Type: Movie
At a high-society dinner party, a wealthy, older and married man sets his sights on a beautiful young girl who's loved by a younger and not-so-wealthy man.
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Murder by Television
Title: Murder by Television
Character: Mrs. Houghland
Released: October 1, 1935
Type: Movie
James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast Houghland is mysteriously murdered in the middle of his demonstration and it falls to Police Chief Nelson to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present.
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Imitation of Life
Title: Imitation of Life
Character: Teacher Outside Classroom (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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Two Heads on a Pillow
Title: Two Heads on a Pillow
Character: Mrs. Helen Gorman
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
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British Agent
Title: British Agent
Character: Woman Saying 'Lenin will Live' (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1934
Type: Movie
An Englishman falls in love with a Russian spy.
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Dr. Monica
Title: Dr. Monica
Character: Miss Bryerly (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.
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Journal of a Crime
Title: Journal of a Crime
Character: Sister at Hospital (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
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It Happened One Night
Title: It Happened One Night
Character: Mother on Bus (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A renegade reporter and a young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
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Bedside
Title: Bedside
Character: Nurse
Released: January 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
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Wild Boys of the Road
Title: Wild Boys of the Road
Character: Mrs. Smith
Released: October 7, 1933
Type: Movie
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school Sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
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By Appointment Only
Title: By Appointment Only
Character: Mrs. Mary Carroll
Released: July 6, 1933
Type: Movie
When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in the woman's young daughter, and makes her his ward, but his fiancé doesn't particularly like it. After he returns from a three-year engagement in Europe, the doctor discovers that his ward is now a beautiful, full-grown woman, and finds himself falling for her--even though she's engaged to his fiancé's brother.
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The Working Man
Title: The Working Man
Character: Benjamin's Secretary
Released: April 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.
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Central Airport
Title: Central Airport
Character: Mrs. Blaine
Released: April 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.
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Lawyer Man
Title: Lawyer Man
Character: Gilmurry's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by Gilmurry and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.
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A Successful Calamity
Title: A Successful Calamity
Character: Struthers' Secretary (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
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The Phantom Express
Title: The Phantom Express
Character: Ma Nolan
Released: August 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Railroad foes cause terror on the tracks with the illusion of a ghost train.
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Cornered
Title: Cornered
Character: Jane's Aunt
Released: August 5, 1932
Type: Movie
Shortly after Moody Pierson saves Sheriff Tim's life, Moody is arrested for murder. Tim doesn't believe he did it and lets him get away. Kicked out as Sheriff, Tim goes after the real kiler and this leads him to the town controlled by Red Slavins.
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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Title: The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Character: Ann Marie's Caregiver Mrs. Schiller (uncredited)
Released: May 28, 1932
Type: Movie
A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.
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The Famous Ferguson Case
Title: The Famous Ferguson Case
Character: Brooks' Landlady (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
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Union Depot
Title: Union Depot
Character: Little Boy's Mother (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
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Under Eighteen
Title: Under Eighteen
Character: Seamstress (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
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Manhattan Parade
Title: Manhattan Parade
Character: Nancy - the Maid
Released: December 24, 1931
Type: Movie
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
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An American Tragedy
Title: An American Tragedy
Character: Mrs. Samuel Griffiths
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
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Mothers Cry
Title: Mothers Cry
Character: Mary's Mother
Released: December 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life of crime and now returns to inflict his insane behavior on the family household.
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Wild Company
Title: Wild Company
Character: Mrs. Laura Grayson
Released: July 5, 1930
Type: Movie
The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.
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The Big House
Title: The Big House
Character: Mrs. Marlowe
Released: June 14, 1930
Type: Movie
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
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Young Desire
Title: Young Desire
Character: Mrs. Spencer
Released: June 8, 1930
Type: Movie
A carnival sideshow dancer falls in love with a handsome young man.
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The Second Floor Mystery
Title: The Second Floor Mystery
Character: Aunt Hattie
Released: April 26, 1930
Type: Movie
In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and Lady Grapefruit. When the man's neighbor is found dead upstairs, he and the lady are the prime suspects of a police inspector, who has his own very good reason for blaming them.
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Redemption
Title: Redemption
Character: Anna Pavlovna
Released: April 5, 1930
Type: Movie
In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée. Fedya quickly tires of domestic life and resumes his profligate ways, drinking and gambling away his family's fortune. Lisa refuses to leave him despite his deplorable ways, so he takes drastic measures to ensure that she will no longer be harmed by his actions and reputation.
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The Quitter
Title: The Quitter
Character: Mrs. Abbott
Released: April 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Neal Abbott (Ben Lyon), a disgraced surgeon, regains his self-respect after operating on and saving the life of cafe-owner Duffy Thompson (Fred Kohler).
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Silks and Saddles
Title: Silks and Saddles
Character: Mrs. Calhoun
Released: January 20, 1929
Type: Movie
Jockey Johnny Spencer loses his job with Mrs. Calhoun for throwing a race. An adventuress named Sybil, who made Johnny hold back Mrs. Calhoun's horse, Lady, leaves him, and he becomes a racetrack bum. Johnny returns to Mrs. Calhoun's stable when the new jockey proves unable to manage Lady. Johnny wins the next race, thereby regaining Mrs. Calhoun's confidence and winning the love of her attractive daughter, Lucy.
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The Flying Fleet
Title: The Flying Fleet
Character: Mrs. Hastings (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow has to take his place, while the others go out and celebrate.
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The Viking
Title: The Viking
Character: Lady Editha (as Claire MacDowell)
Released: November 2, 1928
Type: Movie
In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first Viking settlers to reach North America by sea, Norse half-brothers vie for a throne and for the same woman.
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Don't Marry
Title: Don't Marry
Character: Aunt Abigail Bowen
Released: June 13, 1928
Type: Movie
A flapper masquerades as her strait-laced cousin to try and impress a potential suitor.
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The Tragedy of Youth
Title: The Tragedy of Youth
Character: Mother
Released: March 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Neglected by shallow husband Dick, young bride Paula Wayne seeks male companionship outside the marital nest. She soon finds it in the form of mature lover Frank Gordon. Lost film.
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Almost Human
Title: Almost Human
Character: Mrs. Livingston
Released: December 26, 1927
Type: Movie
John Livingston is a rich mama's-boy, who owns a blooded dog named Paul. Paul meets Maggie Mutt, and Paul, being a pedigree canine and somewhat of a cad, lures trusting Maggie to the barn to have his way. He then departs for his palatial doghouse at the Livingston estate. Meanwhile Maggie is broken-hearted and also finds that she is in a "family way", and gives birth to a pup she names Hank. Maggie tells Hank to find his "human ", and departs the scene. Hank goes to the park, meets a "human" named Mary Kelly, who is a homeless waif and sweetheart of poverty, and the two adopt each other. Later on in the park Paul comes strolling along with his 'human', John. A child falls into the lake and Paul and Hank team up to save her.
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The Shield of Honor
Title: The Shield of Honor
Character: Mrs. MacDowell
Released: December 10, 1927
Type: Movie
Can Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel thieves?
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Tillie the Toiler
Title: Tillie the Toiler
Character: Ma Jones
Released: June 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Tillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire named Pennington Fish. Once she gets a stenographic position at Mr. Simpkins's company she sets her cap for the general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple. Eventually Tillie announces that she is going to "catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm."
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The Black Diamond Express
Title: The Black Diamond Express
Character: Martha Foster
Released: June 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Dan Foster, the engineer of the Black Diamond Express express train falls in love with Jeanne Harmon, whose snobbish, high society mother, Mrs. Harmon, does not approve of the blue-collar, rough-at-the-edges Dan Foster as a suitable husband for Jeanne.
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The Taxi Dancer
Title: The Taxi Dancer
Character: Aunt Mary
Released: February 5, 1927
Type: Movie
A southern girl tries her luck as a dancer in New York City.
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The Auctioneer
Title: The Auctioneer
Character: Mrs. Tim Eagan
Released: January 16, 1927
Type: Movie
Simon, a young Jewish man emigrating to the US, adopts the daughter of a dying woman on the ship. After he settles in the US, he eventually builds up a successful business as a pawnbroker and auctioneer. His adopted daughter Ruth falls in love with a young Wall Street broker, and her father invests his fortune in the young man's firm. However, a crooked broker at the firm causes Simon to lose all his money, and he must start all over again. He sets out to track down the crooked broker and get his money back.
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A Little Journey
Title: A Little Journey
Character: Aunt Louise
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie
A girl travelling by train to meet her boyfriend meets another young man and falls in love with him.
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The Flaming Forest
Title: The Flaming Forest
Character: Mrs. McTavish
Released: November 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Based on a James Oliver Curwood yarn, the outsized Northwest Mountie adventure The Flaming Forest stars Antonio Moreno as RCMP sergeant David Carrigan.
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The Show Off
Title: The Show Off
Character: Mom Fisher
Released: August 16, 1926
Type: Movie
A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young bride and then drives her family's finances to the brink of ruin.
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The Unknown Soldier
Title: The Unknown Soldier
Character: John Phillips' sister
Released: May 29, 1926
Type: Movie
The Unknown Soldier is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Renaud Hoffman and written by Richard Schayer and James J. Tynan. The film stars Charles Emmett Mack, Marguerite De La Motte, Henry B. Walthall, Claire McDowell, and George Cooper. The film was released on May 30, 1926, by Producers Distributing Corporation.
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The Shamrock Handicap
Title: The Shamrock Handicap
Character: Molly O'Shea
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Because he refuses to collect rent payments from his impoverished tenants, kindly Irish nobleman Sir Miles Gaffney is in danger of losing his estate. He is forced to sell off part of his racing stable to a wealthy American, who takes along Gaffney's jockey Neil Ross as part of the bargain. When Neil is crippled in a racing accident, Sir Miles and his daughter Sheila sail to America with their prize horse "Dark Rosaleen" in tow. The first film having an Irish motif that John Ford directed, a six reel delight set in Eire's County Kildare and in the United States, with a steeplechase background, mixing charged elements of comedy and sentimental drama.
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The Devil's Circus
Title: The Devil's Circus
Character: Mrs. Peterson
Released: February 14, 1926
Type: Movie
In 1913, Carl is released from prison, where he served a sentence for stealing. Spurned by his circumstance, Carl rejects God and resumes his fast life of crime. Before long, his fate intersects with that of Mary, a devout orphan, prompting a romance and a reevaluation.
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Title: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Character: Princess of Hur
Released: December 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.
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The Midnight Flyer
Title: The Midnight Flyer
Character: Liza Slater
Released: December 6, 1925
Type: Movie
The speed of lightning; the roar of thunder; the thrills of an earthquake; it's "The midnight flyer".
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The Big Parade
Title: The Big Parade
Character: Mrs. Apperson
Released: November 5, 1925
Type: Movie
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
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The Tower of Lies
Title: The Tower of Lies
Character: Katrina
Released: October 10, 1925
Type: Movie
After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected she may be using her body to get the money.
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Waking Up the Town
Title: Waking Up the Town
Character: Mrs. Joyce
Released: March 30, 1925
Type: Movie
Jim Joyce runs a garage with old Abner Hope. When Hope's granddaughter, Mary Ellen, comes to visit, Joyce falls in love with her. Joyce has a number of bizarre inventions and he dreams of harnessing the nearby falls for power, but he can't get any financing from the town banker.
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Those Who Dare
Title: Those Who Dare
Character: Mrs. Rollins
Released: November 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Captain Manning, a seasoned salt, is ordered to remove his battered ship, the Swallow, from the town's harbor because of a superstition connected with it. The captain, who lives alone, visits the Mariner's Home and relates the story of how he came into possession of the schooner. Manning was the first mate on the yacht of a wealthy man when it encountered the Swallow at sea. He went on board, accompanied by the drug-addicted son of his employer, and discovered a mutinous crew and a disabled captain fighting for control of the ship. Manning took charge and brought the ship safely to port, after successfully putting down the mutineers by humiliating their leader, who had kept them in fear by practicing voodoo in the ship's hold. Manning later married the captain's daughter. Now he controls the ship.
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Secrets
Title: Secrets
Character: Elizabeth Channing
Released: March 24, 1924
Type: Movie
An old woman's memories are rekindled as she rereads her diary. She recalls her youth in England when she married a suitor over the objections of her parents and moved with him to the Wyoming frontier. They live a hardscrabble life there and suffered deprivation, hunger, Indian attacks, and the death of her baby. Although they eventually make a go of it, her husband becomes involved with another woman. Now that he is on his deathbed, will she forgive her husband after 40 years.
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Thy Name Is Woman
Title: Thy Name Is Woman
Character: Juan's Mother
Released: February 4, 1924
Type: Movie
A Spanish soldier seduces and falls in love with the young wife of a smuggler.
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Judgment of the Storm
Title: Judgment of the Storm
Character: Mrs. Heath
Released: January 6, 1924
Type: Movie
famed for being written by an amateur
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Ponjola
Title: Ponjola
Character: Mrs. Hope
Released: October 28, 1923
Type: Movie
Ponjola is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the novel of the same name by Cynthia Stockley and directed by Donald Crisp. The film stars Anna Q. Nilsson in a role in which she masquerades as a man. A print of Ponjola still exists and is held by a private collector.
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Ashes of Vengeance
Title: Ashes of Vengeance
Character: Margot's Aunt
Released: August 6, 1923
Type: Movie
This historical piece, set in the Huguenot days of France, is Norma Talmadge's 37th feature film and the longest to date at two hours. The plot involves a man forced into servitude who falls in love with the sister of his persecutor. It was Ms. Talmadge's fourth involvement with director, Frank Lloyd and the cast included future star, Wallace Beery.
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Circus Days
Title: Circus Days
Character: Martha
Released: July 30, 1923
Type: Movie
10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top.
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Human Wreckage
Title: Human Wreckage
Character: Mrs. Brown
Released: June 17, 1923
Type: Movie
An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.
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The West~Bound Limited
Title: The West~Bound Limited
Character: Mrs. Bill Buckley
Released: April 14, 1923
Type: Movie
The plot, old-hat though it is, does provide an opportunity for that wonderfully seedy villain, David Dirby, to do his dirty work and more importantly, to tie all the thrillingly on-the-spot railroad footage together. Railroad buffs will enjoy all the atmospheric detail director Johnson has obtained by filming in real freight yards and inside and alongside real steam engines and rolling stock.
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
Title: Quincy Adams Sawyer
Character: Mrs. Putnam
Released: December 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
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Heart's Haven
Title: Heart's Haven
Character: May Caroline
Released: August 8, 1922
Type: Movie
A fine cast brings depth to this melodrama of a crippled boy, an unhappy marriage, an injured young lady and the miracle of faith.
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Nice People
Title: Nice People
Character: Margaret Rainsford
Released: July 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Teddy Gloucester, one of the group of jazz age "nice people," is caught in a farmhouse during a storm with her intoxicated companion, Scotty. A stranger (Billy Wade) also seeking shelter saves her from Scotty's unwelcome attentions but not from the scandal which results from her father's discovery of her and Scotty--alone--the next morning. Hurt by the snubbing she receives from her friends, Teddy settles down and agrees to become an old-fashioned wife to Billy.
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Penrod
Title: Penrod
Character: Mrs. Schofield
Released: February 20, 1922
Type: Movie
Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name of protecting kids from too-strict parents and nasty neighbors. He heads the ABPA (American Boys' Protective Association) and through it disrupts a number of local social events. The townspeople are pretty fed up with Penrod and his gang, but when a couple of outlaws come to town, Penrod shows his mettle.
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Rent Free
Title: Rent Free
Character: Countess de Mourney
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
A penniless artist moves into an abandoned house, but is discovered by the daughter of its former owner.
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Love Never Dies
Title: Love Never Dies
Character: Liz Trott
Released: November 11, 1921
Type: Movie
John and Tilly's happy marriage is ruined when Tilly's father finds out about the scandalous past of John's mother. John, unaware of his father-in-law's meddling, thinks Tilly has left him, and he leaves town. Her father leads Tilly to believe that John has died in an accident, and he pushes her to marry someone else.
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What Every Woman Knows
Title: What Every Woman Knows
Character: Comtesse de la Brière
Released: April 24, 1921
Type: Movie
What Every Woman Knows (1934)
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Midsummer Madness
Title: Midsummer Madness
Character: Mrs. Osborne
Released: January 23, 1921
Type: Movie
Because Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson) feels the romance has ebbed away from their marriage. One night, while Meredith is at the office, family friend Julian Osborn (Conrad Nagel) -- whose own spouse (Lila Lee) is out of town -takes Margaret to a dance. They wind up at a hunting lodge and begin to get carried away, but stop before things get out of hand. The pair agree to keep their encounter a secret, but unfortunately, they've been seen and word gets back to their spouses.
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Prisoners of Love
Title: Prisoners of Love
Character: Her Mother
Released: January 16, 1921
Type: Movie
Blanche Henry, a vivacious young woman, finds what she believes is true love with a handsome young man, but then learns that he has designs on her younger sister.
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The Mark of Zorro
Title: The Mark of Zorro
Character: Dona Catalina Pulido
Released: December 5, 1920
Type: Movie
Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro.
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Something to Think About
Title: Something to Think About
Character: Housekeeper
Released: October 16, 1920
Type: Movie
Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a subway accident. Markley offers to marry her in name only to protect her new son.
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The Jack-Knife Man
Title: The Jack-Knife Man
Character: Lize Merdin
Released: July 31, 1920
Type: Movie
A dying mother left his child with an old man, but the village people want to take the child away from him because he is too old.
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The Gift Supreme
Title: The Gift Supreme
Character: Lalia Graun
Released: March 30, 1920
Type: Movie
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The Woman in the Suitcase
Title: The Woman in the Suitcase
Character: Mrs. James B. Moreland
Released: January 11, 1920
Type: Movie
Mary Moreland discovers the photograph of a woman not her mother in her father's suitcase and sets out to find her in hopes of returning her father to his rightful place in the family.
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The Feud
Title: The Feud
Character: Mary Lynch
Released: December 7, 1919
Type: Movie
Two Southern clans, the Lynches and the Summers, have been at odds with each other since long before Civil War times. But that hasn't stopped Jere Lynch and Betty Summers from falling in love.
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Heart o' the Hills
Title: Heart o' the Hills
Character: Martha Hawn
Released: November 30, 1919
Type: Movie
Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.
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Prudence on Broadway
Title: Prudence on Broadway
Character: Miss Grayson
Released: July 6, 1919
Type: Movie
Prudence's ( Olive Thomas ) parents send her from their Pennsylvania Quaker colony to a fashionable girls seminary, hoping she can learn about the devil's tricks, instead she engages in girlish pranks, but uses her pure appearance to escape blame. Later, Prudence visits her New York aunt, a society matron, and soon attracts an array of male admirers. She falls in love with wealthy Grayson Mills, but John Melbourne, who lives off of his wife's wealth, plots to seduce her. After Melbourne loans Prudence $200 to pay a gambling debt, he forces her to go to a roadhouse by threatening to show her stern father her canceled check. At dinner, Prudence produces a love letter which Melbourne had earlier written to an actress, and says that if she is not back by midnight, her hotel clerk will show Melbourne's wife his nineteen other love letters. After Melbourne hurries her back, he discovers that she only had the one letter. Prudence now becomes engaged to Grayson.
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The Follies Girl
Title: The Follies Girl
Character: Nina
Released: April 27, 1919
Type: Movie
The relatives of dying Edward Woodruff, Nina Leffingwell, her brother Frederic, and her cousin Basil, whom she wants to marry, scheme to inherit Woodruff's wealth. Since Woodruff continually calls for an imagined granddaughter, the child of his daughter who died before they could patch up a quarrel which estranged them, Nina gets Doll, a Follies girl, to impersonate the granddaughter, try to endear herself to Woodruff, and thus inherit the money. Doll would then be paid off and the relatives would get the inheritance. When Doll's administrations cause Woodruff to recover, Nina sends for Woodruff's grandson Ned, whom he disowned for marrying beneath him, hoping that Ned will send Doll away. When Ned seems to fall in love with Doll, Nina tells Woodruff that Ned and Doll are secretly meeting in the estate lodge. Woodruff investigates and finds that Doll and Ned are married and have a baby boy. Delighted, Woodruff forgives Ned.
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Rosalind at Redgate
Title: Rosalind at Redgate
Released: January 11, 1919
Type: Movie
Short drama
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You Can't Believe Everything
Title: You Can't Believe Everything
Character: Grace Dardley
Released: June 23, 1918
Type: Movie
Patricia Reynolds, the belle of the summer resort she is visiting with her friend, Amy Powellson, attracts the attention of Arthur Kirby, whom Amy loves. On an evening drive, Arthur tries to kiss Patricia , whereupon she leaps from the car and walks home. While Amy, disguised in Patricia 's clothing, accompanies Arthur to a roadhouse, Patricia , walking near the beach, sees her invalid friend, Jim Wheeler, jump into the ocean intending to kill himself. After rescuing him, Patricia persuades Jim to visit a specialist, but when she later is accused of spending the night with Arthur, she refuses to defend herself in order to conceal Jim's attempted suicide.
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Captain of His Soul
Title: Captain of His Soul
Released: February 10, 1918
Type: Movie
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The Storm Woman
Title: The Storm Woman
Released: October 2, 1917
Type: Movie
Lost film.
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The Empty Gun
Title: The Empty Gun
Character: Mary
Released: September 4, 1917
Type: Movie
Frank, riding through the storm, approaches the station, to give ten thousand dollars worth of gold, which he has just brought from the mine, into safe keeping. Dave the agent hears him, and when he finally appeared, disappointment awaited Frank. "I can't take charge of the money," says Dave. "I'm sorry, Frank, but the train is late, and the gold can't go on tonight. I saw two suspicious-looking characters hanging around here, and I won't take the responsibility."
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The Clean-Up
Title: The Clean-Up
Character: Vera Vincent
Released: August 6, 1917
Type: Movie
A publicist for a racy burlesque troupe romances the daughter of the head of The Purity League, an organization that wishes to see such shows banned.
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The Bronze Bride
Title: The Bronze Bride
Character: A-Che-Chee
Released: April 2, 1917
Type: Movie
Disgusted with his son Harvey's attitude since his return from college, wealthy William Ogden turns the boy out to make his own way in the world. Harvey finally lands in the Canadian North Woods, where he goes into business with Joe Dubois, a hunter and trapper. One day while Harvey is trapping, his leg is caught in a steel trap. He is rescued by A-Che-Chee, the daughter of Black Lynx the Indian Chief. A-Che-Chee takes Harvey to her cabin, where she dresses his wound. When her father and brother discover Harvey there, they insist upon an immediate marriage. Harvey protests, but finally agrees in order to maintain the good will of the Indians.
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The Gates of Doom
Title: The Gates of Doom
Character: Indore / Agatha
Released: March 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Indore, an Indian woman married to the English Captain Terence Unger is imprisoned by the prince after she gives birth to a baby daughter named Agatha. On his deathbed, Unger beseeches his friend Francis Duane to care for Agatha which Duane does, returning to England with the infant.
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The White Raven
Title: The White Raven
Character: Daisy
Released: January 14, 1917
Type: Movie
William Baldwin, ruined in business by his partner, John Blaisdell, implores Blaisdell's aid, and receives in answer a five-dollar bill across the face of which is written, "Spend this for a gun and use it on yourself."
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The Right to Be Happy
Title: The Right to Be Happy
Character: Mrs. Cratchit
Released: December 25, 1916
Type: Movie
Considered to be lost.
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Mixed Blood
Title: Mixed Blood
Character: Nita Valyez
Released: December 18, 1916
Type: Movie
For Nita Valyez, who is half-Spanish and half-Irish, Carlos represents potential violence and danger, two things to which she is both attracted and repelled. In contrast, she has only a passing interest in Big Jim, the town's honest, good-hearted sheriff. Then, after Carlos kills a faro dealer, he forces Nita to make an escape with him.
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A Stranger from Somewhere
Title: A Stranger from Somewhere
Character: Olga
Released: November 13, 1916
Type: Movie
A rancher moves to the city, and finds competition for the affections of an heiress in the form of a doppelganger.
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As It Happened
Title: As It Happened
Character: The Ranchman's Daughter
Released: July 12, 1915
Type: Movie
The new foreman falls in love with the ranchman's daughter, and notes with jealousy her joy over a letter which her father receives.
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Old Offenders
Title: Old Offenders
Character: Joe's Wife
Released: July 10, 1915
Type: Movie
Under police espionage, Crooked Joe is living with his wife and baby when Norris, his former pal, tries to interest him in a job. He refuses, and subsequently earns his old pal's animosity when Norris makes advances to his wife. Norris "frames" Joe, and he is sent to prison on a charge of robbing his employers.
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Her Convert
Title: Her Convert
Character: The Old Inventor's Daughter
Released: June 24, 1915
Type: Movie
The old inventors daughter is a mission worker. She makes a convert of a young crook and eventually becomes engaged to marry him. But her father does not approve of him, and shows him the door when he learns from a detective the record of his daughter's suitor. The inventor's plans are stolen by an unscrupulous manufacturer, and the crook volunteers to recover them.
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The Way Out
Title: The Way Out
Character: The Young School Teacher
Released: June 19, 1915
Type: Movie
While packing her trunk preparatory to leaving home for the adjoining county, where she has been called to teach, the young schoolteacher discovers that one of her rings is broken. Her father volunteers to have the ring mended and bring it to her. On her first day at school a new pupil is enrolled, the motherless daughter of a resident, who personally escorts the child to school. The acquaintance thus begun ripens into love. The girl's father writes that he is coming to visit her. He does not come, but is brought in, dead, by men who have found his body on the trail, a victim of bandits. When the girl resumes her school work, her lover's daughter, among others, brings her a little token of sympathy.
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Her Dormant Love
Title: Her Dormant Love
Character: The Discontented Wife
Released: June 4, 1915
Type: Movie
The discontented wife of the young rancher does not realize that the unsatisfactory state of things is her fault. She has not ceased to love her husband because she has not yet begun to love him. His tenderness and courtesy antagonize her.
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Truth Stranger Than Fiction
Title: Truth Stranger Than Fiction
Character: Crook
Released: May 29, 1915
Type: Movie
Hard pressed for money, the broker has appropriated funds of the firm, and dreads his partner's discovery of the deed. He tries in vain to borrow money, and determines to end his life after writing a confession. In the act of placing a pistol to his head, he is interrupted by a message informing him that oil has been discovered in the vicinity of his land
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The Canceled Mortgage
Title: The Canceled Mortgage
Character: The Widowed Mother
Released: May 17, 1915
Type: Movie
Two road agents hold up the stagecoach and rob the passengers. In making their getaway, one of the road agents is shot by the stage driver. They stop at a lonely cabin, where a miner's widow lives with her little daughter, and ask for aid.
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A Day's Adventure
Title: A Day's Adventure
Character: Hogan's Moll
Released: May 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Over Bentley's shoulder, the crook read the lawyer's letter telling the young man of his inheritance. He immediately wired his pals. When Bentley arrived the girl scraped his acquaintance by the simple means of losing her bag, and decoyed him to the crooks' rendezvous, where he was overpowered, bound and gagged
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The Gambler's I.O.U.
Title: The Gambler's I.O.U.
Character: Nell - Daddy Wilson's Daughter
Released: April 12, 1915
Type: Movie
At the assay office in town, Jim Bevins turned his gold into dollars, then sat into a game because he felt lucky, and broke the gambler. On the way home two observers of his luck held him up. Badly wounded, he contrived to reach the mine and died in his partner's arms. Dick Smith found the gambler's I.O.U. in his pocket
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The Miser's Legacy
Title: The Miser's Legacy
Character: The Crook's Wife
Released: April 9, 1915
Type: Movie
Hiding from the police in an alley, two crooks see, through a window, the dying miser entrust to the doctor the fortune he bequeaths to his erring son. They trail the doctor home, overpower him, and in their search for the money, terrify his wife and child.
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The Sheriff's Dilemma
Title: The Sheriff's Dilemma
Character: Molly
Released: April 2, 1915
Type: Movie
Dismissed from the church because of his seemingly undue intimacy with the schoolteacher, the young minister becomes an evangelist and, after an incident in which he thrashes the drunken sheriff, is appointed sheriff by the mayor. In the girl's home he sees a picture of her father, whom he recognizes as identical with that on a circular calling for the arrest of Idaho Mac, a notorious desperado. He promises the girl that he will never use his gun against her father, but sends his deputy, the ex-sheriff, to apprehend Idaho Mac at the border. The bandit, badly wounded by the deputy's bullets, reaches his daughter's house, and she thinks the sheriff false to his word.
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Men and Women
Title: Men and Women
Character: Mrs. Stephen Rodman
Released: August 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Robert Stevens robs the bank where he is employed, and through the efforts of Calvin Stedman, the prosecuting attorney, he is sentenced to six years' imprisonment. While in jail his wife dies and his little daughter, Agnes, is placed in a convent.
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The Cracksman's Gratitude
Title: The Cracksman's Gratitude
Released: July 4, 1914
Type: Movie
The young lawyer took the cracksman's part when he was falsely accused. Later, the chemist, in revenge for his fancied wrong, refused the lawyer's wife the serum which would save her husband's life. It was then the cracksman showed his gratitude.
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Her Hand
Title: Her Hand
Character: Olga
Released: March 12, 1914
Type: Movie
Olga, true to the cause their hearts held so dear, stole the evidence which would send her friends to Siberia, hut Orlanof, of the Russian police, sentenced the prisoners without it. Ivan, Olga's brother, in hiding, volunteered to do away with Orlanof. Olga now loved that most hated man and saved him with her own life.
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Her Father's Silent Partner
Title: Her Father's Silent Partner
Released: February 23, 1914
Type: Movie
After his daughter's return the jeweler attempted to break the partnership he had with the crook. His partner, however, won the girl's love, and threatened to expose the father if he attempted to break off the match. By a clever ruse the father set the gangsters against their leader. His plan did not prove altogether successful.
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A Nest Unfeathered
Title: A Nest Unfeathered
Character: Kate
Released: February 14, 1914
Type: Movie
At her dying mother's bedside, Kate promises to bring her young brother into manhood. Eager to gain possession of the farm by marrying Kate, the foreman intends to get rid of the boy. He brings a physician to prove him demented. Kate refuses to believe this. Later, the foreman is a worthless husband to another and for the sake of the son that might have been hers, Kate demonstrates the golden rule.
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His Fireman's Conscience
Title: His Fireman's Conscience
Character: Mrs. Daily
Released: January 26, 1914
Type: Movie
Engineer Daily is forced to discharge his fireman for habitual drunkenness. His young daughter, Rosanna, wanders down to the tracks, and the door of the freight is closed upon her. She falls into the discharged fireman's hands. He is quite in love with her, and when he learns whose daughter she is, concludes to keep her from the exasperated parents. That's where his conscience came in, leading to regeneration and better days.
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The Fatal Wedding
Title: The Fatal Wedding
Released: January 19, 1914
Type: Movie
The hero, Howard, has just married his sweetheart Mabel. Howard's ex-flame Cora remains in love with Howard, but she despises Mabel. With the help of her old acquaintance Robert, Cora breaks up Howard and Mabel's marriage. On the verge of wedding Howard herself, Cora is exposed for the viper that she is by the careless Robert.
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Waifs
Title: Waifs
Released: January 17, 1914
Type: Movie
The waif came to live with the unsuspecting old shoemaker. Then a homeless newsboy followed. One friendly heart bred another. That was too much for the proud, wealthy widowed sister. She declared she would have no orphans wished on her. Stilling her conscience, she took the children's legacy, but one Sunday morning after the war, peace silenced all conflict.
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Concentration
Title: Concentration
Character: The Mother
Released: January 12, 1914
Type: Movie
The dead man's decentralized life is exemplified in a half-finished will and an incompleted invention of a printing press. The mother impresses upon her two sons the power of concentration by a magnifying glass held to the sun's rays. One accepts the lesson and finishes the work of the father. The other becomes the tool of the rival printer. His lesson was to come through experience and the suffering of others.
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The Abandoned Well
Title: The Abandoned Well
Character: The Widow
Released: December 27, 1913
Type: Movie
From his hard and lonely life with his foster father, the adopted son finds solace in Cynthia, the neighbor's daughter. Father promises to give them money to start their happy married way, but forgets when a widow, with a little girl, comes home with him as a bride. Then it is that the abandoned well comes into play and father's eyes are opened to his neglect.
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For Her Government
Title: For Her Government
Released: December 22, 1913
Type: Movie
He was one of a league whom society thought honest. The little French lady who became his wife believed him a diplomatic spy for her government, so she sailed quite contentedly off to America to work with him. Far from home and friends, she learned his true character, but the crisis was met.
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The House of Discord
Title: The House of Discord
Character: The Sister-in-Law
Released: December 13, 1913
Type: Movie
In her youth the mother was saved from the fatal mistake by an accident, but it caused her years of separation from child and husband. It had occurred primarily through her self-righteous sister-in-law's domination and interference. A like fate and downfall threatened the daughter, now reaching maturity. The mother's insistence separated the child from her environment. Love and understanding did the rest.
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All for Science
Title: All for Science
Character: Detective
Released: November 24, 1913
Type: Movie
After all, the young chemist proves himself quite human. He would have ended his life because he had not the money to spend on his desired research for a cancer cure, had not his uncle prevented. The old man became a thief "for science, not personal gain." The young man, however, fell in love with the very girl who was sent to track him, and thus forgot his original intention.
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The Detective's Stratagem
Title: The Detective's Stratagem
Character: Kate, the Bank Clerk's Sweetheart
Released: November 20, 1913
Type: Movie
In his moment of weakness, the bank thieves prevented the young cashier from becoming that against which his heart rebelled, a thief. Evidence however, was against him. The detective's clever unwinding of threads saved both his own and his sweetheart's happiness.
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The Stopped Clock
Title: The Stopped Clock
Character: The Antique Dealer's Daughter
Released: November 1, 1913
Type: Movie
No doubt the old antique dealer was prejudiced against his junior clerk. After frequent shortages, the clerk's visit to the gambling house was reported by the detective and he was discharged. In truth, he had gone to find the senior clerk, who owed him money which he needed for his mother, hovering close to the edge of life. By sharp detective work, the designs of the senior clerk were frustrated.
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The Van Nostrand Tiara
Title: The Van Nostrand Tiara
Character: Kate
Released: October 20, 1913
Type: Movie
When Mrs. Van Nostra returned from Europe her new tiara was much advertised. A new lady's maid arrived, highly recommended, but following events proved that she was but the accomplice of Raffles. His crafty substitution of the diamonds on the famous tiara was discovered by the society detective, who captured the offenders in spite of their clever ruse.
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A Tender-Hearted Crook
Title: A Tender-Hearted Crook
Character: Edith
Released: October 2, 1913
Type: Movie
The girl decided after what happened at the garden party that she did not want his love any longer, but could not live without it. She decided to leave this world. Her unexpected caller had something to say about that. He did not have to read "Sarah Hardcrab's Advice to the Lovelorn" to know what to do. Being a very human and sensible person, he brought two young people together in his own original way.
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The Law and His Son
Title: The Law and His Son
Character: Marguerite, Manning's Sister
Released: September 22, 1913
Type: Movie
In this film one is shown the contrast of two fathers. One father refuses to believe his son guiltless, while the other, fully realizing the weakness of his son, struggles to save him from further disgrace. In this attempt he exonerates the innocent youth, but at the same time exposes the guilt of his own son.
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The Stolen Treaty
Title: The Stolen Treaty
Character: Olga
Released: September 13, 1913
Type: Movie
On the day of the meeting which should settle the controversy regarding the Panama Canal, the Japanese Embassy commissioned Olga to obtain a copy of the agreement. The young Secretary to the Secretary of State became her dupe, but the detective succeeded in recovering the stolen treaty by a clever unwinding of threads taking thereby a desperate and thrilling chance.
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The Strong Man's Burden
Title: The Strong Man's Burden
Character: Ida Glynn, The Nurse
Released: September 5, 1913
Type: Movie
A crime drama in which a police officer does everything possible to help his criminal younger brother.
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The Crook and the Girl
Title: The Crook and the Girl
Character: The Uncle's Adopted Daughter
Released: August 25, 1913
Type: Movie
In the guise of a gardener he came to steal the paper telling the whereabouts of the second will. That was so the nephew might enjoy the inheritance alone. Then the girl learned his true mission, but in the end he restored her confidence and beat her enemies at their own game.
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The Work Habit
Title: The Work Habit
Character: The Daughter in the City
Released: August 21, 1913
Type: Movie
After a lifetime of hard work, Dad consents to live with his married daughter in the city. The young couple try to make him forget work. Ill at ease under his enforced idleness, he makes a deal with a disabled old street cleaner to keep his job. Finding him out, the young folks give in, and it's "back to the farm" for Dad.
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Under the Shadow of the Law
Title: Under the Shadow of the Law
Character: John Haywood's Sister
Released: August 7, 1913
Type: Movie
In this picture it is shown how a convict's life still remains under the ban of the law, even after the expiration of his term. With the detective continually on his track, he is able to save both a young woman's honor and her weak brother from the hands of a designing employer.
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I Was Meant for You
Title: I Was Meant for You
Character: Lavina
Released: August 1, 1913
Type: Movie
Theron is Lavina's natural choice, though she imagines herself in love with Luke, who is secretly loved by Lavina's sister, Susan. Susan sees that the couple are ill-suited to each other and adopts her own means to break the match. She is successful, but it is not until all have passed through a stirring and leavening experience that each couple realizes they were meant for each other.
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The Vengeance of Galora
Title: The Vengeance of Galora
Character: Galora
Released: July 28, 1913
Type: Movie
In her own outraged sense of injury Galora sought to bring the young express agent into the justice that men might give, while the other woman sought to save his life from moral disaster and won. So the vengeance of Galora worked for the common good; one man was saved in a moment of weakness, while through many thrilling adventures the real offenders were brought to justice.
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A Misappropriated Turkey
Title: A Misappropriated Turkey
Character: Mrs. Fallon / Widow Logan
Released: July 27, 1913
Type: Movie
His mind perverted by the many lies forced upon him, Lang becomes an outcast from the Labor Union. In order to reinstate himself he conceives a plot to do away with the owner of the iron works, an infernal machine stuffed in a turkey's breast. The story tells how the turkey found its way to a table where there was more love than plenty.
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The Mirror
Title: The Mirror
Character: Daisy
Released: July 24, 1913
Type: Movie
The girl's lessons from the young station agent on the manipulation of the telegraph code served her in good stead. By it, hemmed in on all sides at the lonely farmhouse, she was able to save both herself and her father's money from desperate tramps, an experience which is grippingly illustrated in this Biograph melodrama.
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A Gambler's Honor
Title: A Gambler's Honor
Character: Beth
Released: July 14, 1913
Type: Movie
The brother at cards failed to make up the shortage at the express office, but the gambler determined to save him. His intention, however, was misconstrued until the sheriff's investigation brought the truth. The gambler then awoke to the justice of the girl's plea against his previous life and the tragedy of a dead brother's weakness was lightened.
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A Gamble with Death
Title: A Gamble with Death
Character: Kate
Released: June 30, 1913
Type: Movie
The stakes were to go to the one who outlived the other two. In a quarrel one ended the chance of another. In the mountain the two survivors of the bet came together again, one now an outlaw but through a woman's subterfuge the money fell to the less likely of them all, Reed, declared to be "on his last legs."
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The Switchtower
Title: The Switchtower
Character: The Switchman's Wife
Released: June 15, 1913
Type: Movie
"He was a regular boy and his father a switchman. The boy determined to be like his dad and spent his play hours around the switch-tower. Thus at the crucial moment he was able to save his father's honor as a switchman, when the struggle between love and duty came and later to come to the aid of his parents in the hands of the desperate counterfeiters, eventually causing their capture." —Moving Picture World synopsis.
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The Well
Title: The Well
Character: The Farmer's Wife
Released: June 12, 1913
Type: Movie
Success is often coveted instead of honestly earned. Through honest effort the farmer was enjoying the fruits of his labor. A large irrigation well was among his new acquisitions. Therein his designing helpers held him prisoner while they left with his wealth and his daughter. There is an old saying, however, that an evil purpose always defeats its own end by some committing act.
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The Enemy's Baby
Title: The Enemy's Baby
Character: Miller's Wife
Released: June 10, 1913
Type: Movie
A feud began with a political argument. Then the justice declared if granddad did not pay up he would attach his household goods. Granddad was that mad all he left of the furniture was kindling. When he learned his act had made him liable to the law he fled with his family, but came back after a lost baby, now in the hands of the enemy.
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The Ranchero's Revenge
Title: The Ranchero's Revenge
Character: The Schemer's Associate
Released: June 2, 1913
Type: Movie
The heartless woman with her partner answered the ranchero's call for a wife. Then the adventuress soon discovered she was not as heartless as she at first imagined. She learned to love and when the other man appeared to perpetrate the infamous design, true woman nature came into the struggle, saving both herself and the ranchero.
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Olaf—An Atom
Title: Olaf—An Atom
Character: A Parent
Released: May 19, 1913
Type: Movie
Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is given a meal by a woman at the homestead where she lives with her husband and baby. Olaf is able to return her kindness when he overhears a plot to rob the settlers of their home. He alerts the couple and delays the would-be thieves long enough for the husband to file a claim on his land. Olaf is injured by the claim jumpers but he recovers, alone and forgotten by those he has helped. He then moves aimlessly along.
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The House of Darkness
Title: The House of Darkness
Character: The Doctor's Wife
Released: May 10, 1913
Type: Movie
A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano. But shortly afterwards he breaks free, eludes his pursuers, and acquires a gun. He soon comes to a house where a young wife is home alone, and there is a tense confrontation.
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The Stolen Loaf
Title: The Stolen Loaf
Character: The Rich Woman
Released: May 10, 1913
Type: Movie
A poor man steals a loaf of bread to feed his family, not knowing there's a stolen diamond hidden inside.
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The Tenderfoot's Money
Title: The Tenderfoot's Money
Character: The Prospector's Wife
Released: May 5, 1913
Type: Movie
The tenderfoot came into camp with his ill-gotten money intending to purchase a claim. The faker salted a claim, hoping thereby to secure the money. But the gambler got ahead of him through cheating at cards. Later the tenderfoot sought to regain his money and in the struggle it fell into worthier hands.
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The Wanderer
Title: The Wanderer
Character: The Female Lover
Released: May 2, 1913
Type: Movie
A little over six minutes survive of this Biograph short. Not to be confused with another Biograph short, Olaf- An Atom (1913, starring Harry Carey, later re-released as The Wanderer), a film not directed by Griffith.
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The Stolen Bride
Title: The Stolen Bride
Character: The Wife
Released: April 7, 1913
Type: Movie
The Stolen Bride is a 1913 short drama.
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The Unwelcome Guest
Title: The Unwelcome Guest
Character: The Wife
Released: March 15, 1913
Type: Movie
Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated beneath the false bottom of an old shipping trunk. After her death, her husband, believing himself penniless, has to leave their old home and move in with his son's family, where he's treated with no respect or consideration. Also on the scene is a newly-hired kindly young housekeeper. She and the old gentleman become close friends and eventually run away together (taking the old shipping trunk with them).
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The Wrong Bottle
Title: The Wrong Bottle
Character: The Blind Sister
Released: March 6, 1913
Type: Movie
Happy in her devotion to her unfortunate sister and the promise of honest love that had come into her life, the girl was perhaps blind to true values. She became indifferent to her life and its surroundings. Accordingly she accepted the stranger and his doubtful promises. Honest love and duty were forgotten, until, caught near life's uncertain edge, she was called back by her blind sister's peril. Thus was true love separated from blind infatuation and life's lesson learned.
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The Telephone Girl and the Lady
Title: The Telephone Girl and the Lady
Character: The Lady
Released: January 6, 1913
Type: Movie
D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The film focuses on a telephone girl who leaves work for her lunch break at the same time as "The Lady" goes to a jewelry store to pick up some priceless jewels. When the telephone girl returns to work she gets a phone call from the house of "The Lady" as a robber has broken in and is trying to steal the jewels.
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The God Within
Title: The God Within
Character: The Woodsman's Wife
Released: December 26, 1912
Type: Movie
The woman of the camp implores her lover to marry her, and he promises to do so, but goes away and does not return. Target of the camp's jeers, she lives alone until her child is born dead. The doctor fears for her reason if she discovers that all her shame and anguish have been in vain. He has another maternity case on the outskirts of the camp, where the Saint, as the trapper's wife is known, dies in giving birth to a child...
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A Cry for Help
Title: A Cry for Help
Character: The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient
Released: December 23, 1912
Type: Movie
Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and treated to a square meal. The husband of a patient has just died, calls on the doctor, intending to kill him. The grief-crazed man is foiled several times by the return of the tramp, whom the maid at last pushes out of the house. She hears the doctor struggling with his assailant and faints. The tramp hears the doctor's cry for help and enters by a rear window, despite the objections of a policeman, in time to save his benefactor.
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The Massacre
Title: The Massacre
Character: Stephen's Belle - In Prologue
Released: December 19, 1912
Type: Movie
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
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The New York Hat
Title: The New York Hat
Character: The Main Gossip
Released: December 5, 1912
Type: Movie
To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a stylish hat, and gossip spreads through the town.
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A Sailor’s Heart
Title: A Sailor’s Heart
Character: The Sailor's Third Sweetheart
Released: November 25, 1912
Type: Movie
A short film directed by Wilfred Lucas for the Biograph Company.
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In the Aisles of the Wild
Title: In the Aisles of the Wild
Character: The Elder Daughter
Released: October 14, 1912
Type: Movie
A widower and his two daughters live in the wilds of the north woods. They form the acquaintance of two trappers, Bob Cole and Jim Watson, who hunt in the neighborhood. As fate will have it, both trappers love the same girl, the elder sister, but she loves Bob, while the younger girl is attracted by Jim. The elder girl, however, through a woman's whim, pays marked attention to Jim simply to arouse jealousy in Bob. He, in temper, cannot reason her motive and leaves, so through pique she accepts and marries Jim. Later Bob revisits the place, feeling that the girl loves him best, and tries to induce her to go away with him. He finally succeeds and, as you may imagine, fate brings about justice.
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So Near, Yet So Far
Title: So Near, Yet So Far
Character: Rich Woman in Other Town
Released: September 29, 1912
Type: Movie
It's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles-- namely shyness, and the temerity of other suitors-- place themselves in the way of his love. Unknowingly, the Boy and the young woman of his fancy both stay at the home of mutual friends-- But all is not well, as robbers lurk outside the house.
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Two Daughters of Eve
Title: Two Daughters of Eve
Character: The Mother
Released: September 19, 1912
Type: Movie
Calumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this story acted conventionally, she nevertheless maligned the other woman simply because of her profession, an actress. While out on a shopping tour, the wife and her husband enter a store, leaving their little child in the auto in the care of the chauffeur. This gentleman pays but scant attention to the child, so the little one wanders off and strolls into the stage door of a theater during the matinee. The parents upon their return to the auto discover the child's absence and trace him to the theater stage, where they find him in the arms of one of the show girls. The mother matches the child from the girl's arms, scornfully exclaiming, "How dare you contaminate my child with your touch?" For this remark, together with the derisive laughter it occasions, the girl vows to be avenged.
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Man's Genesis
Title: Man's Genesis
Character: Cave Woman
Released: July 10, 1912
Type: Movie
An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated by Bruteforce, he bumps into Lillywhite, who has also been cowering in her cave in mourning. The two new lovers form a connection, but Bruteforce separates the couple and sends Weakhands scrambling. In his cave, Weakhands thinks up the design of a stone club. With this equalizer, he soon vanquishes Bruteforce and wins Lillywhite back again-- An early step in human progress.
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The School Teacher and the Waif
Title: The School Teacher and the Waif
Character: The Street Fakir's Sweetheart
Released: June 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but when she's made to wear a dunce cap, she flees the schoolhouse in shame. Unsupervised by her alcoholic father, Nora becomes a determined truant, wandering the town during school hours. There she catches the attention of a huckster, who convinces her that they will run away and be married. The schoolmaster, meanwhile, preoccupied by Nora's absence, leaves his other students to go find her. He encounters her at a crossroads, being spirited away by the huckster, and calls the man's bluff by saying that he'll find them a minister.
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Lena and the Geese
Title: Lena and the Geese
Character: Lena's Mother
Released: June 17, 1912
Type: Movie
A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who is the widowed mother of a child about the same age. The two children grow up as sisters. Later, upon her deathbed, the noble lady repents and sends for her child to reinstate her. Gretchen takes this opportunity to make a great lady of her own daughter Lena, the goose girl, by sending her to court instead of the real heiress. Hence Lena is taken before the noble lady, happy in the belief that she has made reparation. Lena is now a great lady, but the title does not fit well-- She longs to be back with Gretchen and her "geeses".
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A Temporary Truce
Title: A Temporary Truce
Character: Mexican Jim's Wife
Released: June 10, 1912
Type: Movie
A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the prospector's wife. In the meantime, a group of drunkards shoot and kill an old Indian; The son, a brave, vows revenge and asks the tribal chief for help. When the Indians attack both prospector and Mexican, these two make a temporary truce and join forces against the common enemy.
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When the Fire-Bells Rang
Title: When the Fire-Bells Rang
Character: An Actress
Released: May 8, 1912
Type: Movie
They are brothers; one is a member of the village fire department, the other the property man at the "Opry House." A traveling dramatic company arrives, and. in putting on a Roman tragedy, needs twenty "supers" to play "Roman soldiers." "Props" engages the members of the fire company, who are rehearsed and dressed in Roman costumes. Everything goes fine until the fire-bells ring out an alarm, then, well...
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The Old Actor
Title: The Old Actor
Character: At Audition
Released: May 6, 1912
Type: Movie
An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the theatre he panics at the thought of telling his family the bad news and decides to disguise himself as a beggar. His daughter's beau accidentally gives him a five dollar gold piece, thinking that it was a smaller coin. A chase ensues with a policeman, the daughter, and her beau in hot pursuit. When caught he is recognized by his shocked daughter, but is quickly forgiven by all. Meanwhile the actor hired to replace him has already been fired and a messenger is dispatched to rehire the Old Actor to the delight of his wife, daughter, and fellow actors.
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The Female of the Species
Title: The Female of the Species
Character: The Miner's Wife
Released: April 15, 1912
Type: Movie
A man and three women leave an abandoned mining town and travel across the desert. After the man's death, his wife plans revenge against her companion, whom the wife suspects had an affair with her deceased husband.
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The Sunbeam
Title: The Sunbeam
Character: The Spinster
Released: February 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.
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The Sands of Dee
Title: The Sands of Dee
Character: Artist's fiancee
Released: February 21, 1912
Type: Movie
A young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One day she meets a wily artist painting on the beach, he seduces the young girl and gives her a ring, with the promise of marriage. When the young admiring fellow comes to propose, she proudly announces her engagement to the artist. Shocked he leaves and her parents demand meeting her husband to be. She goes to bring him home, and finds he already has a sophisticated fiancée. Distraught she hurries home, and when her father realizes what she has done, he orders her out of the house. As she wanders despondent along the sea, the young fellow who has found out about her betrayal, immediately goes to see her. Finding she has been disowned by her father, he goes looking for her...
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Under Burning Skies
Title: Under Burning Skies
Character: The Friend
Released: February 21, 1912
Type: Movie
Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady who spurns his advances and elopes with a fresh-faced young cowpoke. An angry Joe eventually gets his revenge.
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Billy's Stratagem
Title: Billy's Stratagem
Character: Billy's Mother
Released: February 12, 1912
Type: Movie
While their mother is away from home, Billy and his sister are set upon by marauding Indians, who trap them in their cabin. Billy rigs a keg of gunpowder and tricks the Indians into entering the cabin, while he and his sister escape.
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The Baby and the Stork
Title: The Baby and the Stork
Character: The Workman
Released: January 1, 1912
Type: Movie
Bobby is jealous of the new baby, so he takes it to the zoo and tries to return it to the stork.
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The Baby and the Stork
Title: The Baby and the Stork
Character: The Mother
Released: January 1, 1912
Type: Movie
Bobby is jealous of the new baby, so he takes it to the zoo and tries to return it to the stork.
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A Woman Scorned
Title: A Woman Scorned
Character: The Doctor's Wife
Released: November 30, 1911
Type: Movie
Thieves follow a doctor as he takes home a large sum of money. Later, when they break into his house, the doctor's wife and daughter are trapped. One of the thieves has jilted his sweetheart, who tells the doctor of the robbery, and helps him save his family.
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The Long Road
Title: The Long Road
Character: Ned's Wife
Released: October 26, 1911
Type: Movie
Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, now poverty-stricken, and secretly helps his family.
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The Adventures of Billy
Title: The Adventures of Billy
Character: Rich Woman
Released: October 18, 1911
Type: Movie
Billy witnesses two tramps accidentally kill someone during a robbery. The tramps lock him up and decide that he must be killed, too.
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The Squaw's Love
Title: The Squaw's Love
Character: Silver Fawn
Released: September 13, 1911
Type: Movie
Wild Flower follows her banished lover, Gray Fox, into the wilderness. Her departure is witnessed by Silver Fawn, who mistakenly thinks Wild Flower is stealing her fiancé. Silver Fawn sets out in pursuit and jealously attacks Wild Flower. They fall into the river but are rescued by Gray Fox.
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Swords and Hearts
Title: Swords and Hearts
Character: Irene Lambert
Released: August 27, 1911
Type: Movie
A poor girl is secretly in love with a wealthy young planter.
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A Country Cupid
Title: A Country Cupid
Character: The Half-Wit's Mother
Released: July 23, 1911
Type: Movie
Schoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him a note of reconciliation but throws it away. Without her knowledge, one of her students fishes it out of the trash and sends it to her fiancé. Later, Edith is alone grading papers when a man bursts in and threatens her.
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The Primal Call
Title: The Primal Call
Character: The Woman
Released: June 21, 1911
Type: Movie
A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough sailor.
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The Manicure Lady
Title: The Manicure Lady
Character: Lunchroom Hostess
Released: May 18, 1911
Type: Movie
The manicure lady spurns the barber and dates a rich cad instead.
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A Decree of Destiny
Title: A Decree of Destiny
Character: A Nun
Released: March 6, 1911
Type: Movie
Kenneth Marsden, a young artist in failing health is advised to go south to New Orleans, where he expects to find accommodation with an old-time friend of his mother. The old lady receives the son of her dear friend with open arms, but her two convent-bred nieces, Mary and Edith, are horrified at the thought of a man in the house. However, it isn't long after his arrival that he has made a decided impression upon the young ladies.
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Fisher Folks
Title: Fisher Folks
Character: At Fair
Released: February 16, 1911
Type: Movie
A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt.
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What Shall We Do with Our Old?
Title: What Shall We Do with Our Old?
Character: The Old Carpenter's Wife
Released: February 13, 1911
Type: Movie
An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensitive shop foreman lays him off from his job because of his age. Unable to find work, and with his wife's condition getting worse, he soon becomes desperate.
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Fate's Turning
Title: Fate's Turning
Character: At Hotel/At Wedding
Released: January 22, 1911
Type: Movie
A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman who's there for the summer. However, his impending nuptials with another woman complicate the matter.
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His Trust Fulfilled
Title: His Trust Fulfilled
Character: Mrs. Frazier
Released: January 18, 1911
Type: Movie
Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a good life, until the money runs out and he tries to steal money from the girl's rich cousin.
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His Trust
Title: His Trust
Character: Col. Frazier's wife
Released: January 16, 1911
Type: Movie
A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is killed in battle, George continues in his caring duties, faithful to his trust.
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The Golden Supper
Title: The Golden Supper
Character: Lady-in-Waiting
Released: December 12, 1910
Type: Movie
Julian loves his cousin and foster sister Camilla, who is wooed and won by Lionel, his friend and rival. He is a witness to their marriage and after the ceremony he departs heartbroken to his own house. Utopian was the existence of Lionel and Camilla, until some time later Camilla is seized with a serious illness, and Lionel's grief knew no bounds when he heard "That low knell tolling his lady dead." "She had lain three days without a pulse all that look'd on her had pronounced her dead, So they bore her, for in Julian's land they never nail a dumb head up in elm, bore her free-faced to the free airs of heaven, and laid her in the vault of her own kin." Julian learns of the death of Camilla, and hastens to the house, arriving in time to see the funeral cortège moving slowly towards the sepulcher. Following in its wake he exclaims, "Now, now, will 1 go down into the grave; I will be all alone with all I love."
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His New Lid
Title: His New Lid
Released: November 24, 1910
Type: Movie
A comedy short about a man trying to get a new hat.
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Waiter No. 5
Title: Waiter No. 5
Character: The Chief of Police's Wife
Released: November 3, 1910
Type: Movie
After conducting a raid on a Rebel camp, a Czarist officer discovers that his wife has joined the revolutionaries. Out of loyalty to his wife, the officer resigns his commission and escapes with her to America. Several years later, the ex-officer is gainfully employed as a waiter in a Russian restaurant. For the sake of his grown son, who is engaged to marry a wealthy socialite, our hero pretends to be a man of great wealth and prestige. The truth is revealed in the final scene, but "Waiter Number 5" is saved from disgrace by the timely arrival of his former superior officer.
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The Iconoclast
Title: The Iconoclast
Released: October 3, 1910
Type: Movie
A printer, drinking excessively and neglectful of his family obligations, is fired from his job when he offends his wealthy employer and his employer’s guests as they tour the printworks. Seeking revenge, the dismissed employee enters his former employer’s house with the intention of shooting him. There he sees the employer and his severely disabled daughter, and recognizes the strong emotional bond between father and daughter. This convincing demonstration of affection brings the printer to his senses. He asks pardon, is reinstated in his old job, and becomes a model worker, husband, and father.
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Rose o' Salem Town
Title: Rose o' Salem Town
Released: September 25, 1910
Type: Movie
A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by the girl, he becomes furious and desiring revenge, declares to a council of elders that the girl and her mother are witches.
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The Oath and the Man
Title: The Oath and the Man
Character: Rebel
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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A Mohawk's Way
Title: A Mohawk's Way
Released: September 12, 1910
Type: Movie
In Colonial America a doctor refuses to "waste time on an Indian" whose daughter is ill. The doctor’s wife secretly travels to the Indian village to administer medicine. After the child’s recovery, the young Indian mother wears the medicine bottle as a necklace talisman, which the doctor roughly tries to grab back when he spots it. "The white man’s insult" leads to an Indian uprising in which the doctor is killed. His wife too is set for execution until the Indian mother intervenes and escorts her back to safety.
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Muggsy Becomes a Hero
Title: Muggsy Becomes a Hero
Character: One of the Sisters Frost
Released: September 1, 1910
Type: Movie
Two spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is called to the church meeting with her mother, she sends Muggsy a note asking him to meet her after the service so he may walk home with her. Muggsy is there on time, however, the old ladies are afraid to make the return trip unaccompanied. The pastor asks that a man escort them home. Poor Muggsy gets chosen, and when the trio reach the deserted part of the road, the tramps again appear.
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Wilful Peggy
Title: Wilful Peggy
Character: Housemaid
Released: August 24, 1910
Type: Movie
Peggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a wealthy lord, who proposes marriage and wants to introduce her into his social circle. But complications arise when the lord's nephew also becomes attracted to Peggy.
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The Usurer
Title: The Usurer
Character: Despairing Mother / One of the Third Debtors
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 Flash of Light
Title: A Flash of Light
Character: At First Party
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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Love Among the Roses
Title: Love Among the Roses
Released: May 8, 1910
Type: Movie
In the Kingdom of Never-Never Land there live a great Lord and Lady, each presiding over their own domain. This great Lord goes for a stroll through his estate and coming to the border of his own land he is struck by the entrancing beauty of the contiguous estate, so like his own, that the inclination to intrude is irresistible. His peregrination is halted by the appearance of the great Lady, who is indeed as fair as the flowers that clothe her land. He introduces himself and invites her to stroll with him in his gardens. She is in like manner entranced by the beauty of his possessions. How alike in beauty are they; a veritable fairyland. If they were only one, for it seems they should be. This thought is mutual, and the Lord proposes a way, a marriage, and so a betrothal of convenience ensues. They know nothing of love and so are content in the anticipation of being Lord and Lady of all Never-Never Land.
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The Planter's Wife
Title: The Planter's Wife
Character: Mrs. John Holland
Released: October 20, 1908
Type: Movie
John Holland, a planter in a small way, is devotedly attached to his wife and infant child. The wife wearies of the monotonous grind of farm life and is easy prey of a contemptible villain, in the person of Tom Roland, the ubiquitous "other man".
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The Devil
Title: The Devil
Released: October 2, 1908
Type: Movie
Mack Sennett appears as a waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.