Florence Short

Florence Short

Born: May 19, 1889
Died: July 10, 1946

Movies for Florence Short...

The Enchanted Cottage
Title: The Enchanted Cottage
Character: Ethel Bashforth
Released: March 23, 1924
Type: Movie
The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes home to a fiancée who promptly leaves him. Licking his wounds in solitude, he meets a young woman named Laura (May McAvoy). They fall in love and agree to marry, but unexpected and magical events occur inside The Enchanted Cottage where they have agreed to spend their wedding night.
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The Lights of New York
Title: The Lights of New York
Character: Mary Miggs
Released: November 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Silent drama with two different New York stories. One tells of a good man led astray until a dream causes him to change his ways. The other is about a man whose despair over his love marrying another is lifted through increasingly unlikely events.
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Silver Wings
Title: Silver Wings
Character: Widow Martin
Released: May 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Carr plays Anna Webb, whose husband John (Lynn Hammond) invents a new kind of sewing machine. The patent makes the family wealthy, and after Webb dies, Anna takes over the business. She puts her sons John (Percy Helton) and Harry Joseph Striker) in charge of the factory, while daughter Ruth (Jane Thomas) elopes. When Harry steals some money, the blame falls on John, who leaves town.
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Woman's Place
Title: Woman's Place
Character: Amy Bleeker
Released: October 17, 1921
Type: Movie
The Women's Political League decides to find a female candidate for mayor and their choice is Kay Gerson who, they figure, will win votes from the men because of her looks. But the town's political boss, Jim Bradley, counters with his own good-looking candidate, Freddy Bleeker, who he thinks will get the women's vote.
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Way Down East
Title: Way Down East
Character: The Eccentric Aunt
Released: September 3, 1920
Type: Movie
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
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The Love Flower
Title: The Love Flower
Character: Mrs. Bevan
Released: August 21, 1920
Type: Movie
A man murders his wife's lover and escapes with his daughter to the South Pacific. A detective pursues him, joined by a young man who eventually falls in love with the daughter.
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The Idol Dancer
Title: The Idol Dancer
Character: Pansy
Released: March 21, 1920
Type: Movie
A religious zealot and his nephew are thrown together on a South Seas Island with an alcoholic beach comber and a native dancer. A battle to see who will "civilize" whom ensues.
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Phil-for-Short
Title: Phil-for-Short
Character: Prudence
Released: June 2, 1919
Type: Movie
A feisty, independent young woman, Damophilia Illington ("Phil" for short, hence the title), the daughter of a progressive university professor, is devastated by the sudden death of her father. The town's banker, an arrogant stuffed shirt, wants to marry Phil and has himself declared her guardian. Not wanting to marry him, she quickly leaves town and lands a job at a nearby university as an assistant to a professor of Greek literature (an area in which her father trained her) who is bitter and resentful after the breakup of his engagement to a woman who, it turned out, had been lying to him. "Phil", however, is determined to win him over.
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The Eagle's Eye
Title: The Eagle's Eye
Character: Madame Augusta Stephan
Released: March 27, 1918
Type: Movie
A criminologist and a government agent team up to expose a ring of German spies.
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The Great Adventure
Title: The Great Adventure
Character: Hazel Lee
Released: March 10, 1918
Type: Movie
Ragna "Rags" Jansen has found local success and acclaim in her small town as an actress, but dreams of stardom on Broadway.
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The Public Defender
Title: The Public Defender
Released: November 3, 1917
Type: Movie