Helen Gardner

Helen Gardner

Born: September 2, 1884
Died: November 20, 1968
in Binghamton, New York, USA
Not only was Helen Gardner the first American film actress to form her own production company, she was also the among the first filmmakers to embrace making features, and was the first vamp on screen.

Movies for Helen Gardner...

Sandra
Title: Sandra
Character: La Flamme's wife
Released: September 1, 1924
Type: Movie
BY DAY a beautiful wife-accepting a husband's humble love, his humble home, his humble pleasures. BY NIGHT a glittering butterfly yearning for the wine of life and tossing all to the winds when the glamour of romance calls.
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The Sleep of Cyma Roget
Title: The Sleep of Cyma Roget
Character: Cymba Roget
Released: July 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Cyma Roget, a beautiful young woman, has fallen under the influence of the evil Hindu scientist Chandra Dak, who can cast her at will into a hypnotic state resembling death. Chandra Dak's power over Cyma wanes as his love for her grows, however, and one night she escapes and takes refuge in the atelier of three young and struggling Bohemian artists. During her stay at the atelier, she becomes an artist's model and forms an attachment to one of the artists, Paul Bridere, but soon Chandra Dak falls out of love with Cyma and sends her into a hypnotic coma.
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The Common Sin
Title: The Common Sin
Released: March 13, 1917
Type: Movie
A gypsy girl grows up with the sole purpose of seeking revenge against the man responsible for her mother's death.
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Miss Jekyll and Madame Hyde
Title: Miss Jekyll and Madame Hyde
Character: Madeleine Jekyll / Madame Hyde
Released: June 19, 1915
Type: Movie
Madeline Jekyll meets Baron Stana, a distinguished looking man, and finds her father has promised her in marriage to Daggerts, a politician, who, in reward, has agreed to see that Jekyll is elected governor. Madeline is already in love with Robert Mayhew, and rebels at the prearranged marriage.
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The Breath of Araby
Title: The Breath of Araby
Character: Clothilde
Released: May 8, 1915
Type: Movie
A woman attempts to attract a man by using a thousand-year-old love potion.
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Snatched from a Burning Death
Title: Snatched from a Burning Death
Character: Joan Le Grande
Released: March 9, 1915
Type: Movie
LeGrande, an old trapper, refuses to vacate his favorite hunting grounds when ordered to do so by Sampson and other settlers, and his life is only saved through the intervention of his daughter, Joan. The rascals soon learn to fear the girl's keen wit and daring, and Sampson, already pledged to marry Sanchezza, a Mexican girl, falls in love with Joan.
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The Still, Small Voice
Title: The Still, Small Voice
Character: Musa
Released: February 23, 1915
Type: Movie
The influence of Musa, a wildly beautiful dumb girl, upon every citizen of Gallows Gulch, a rough western mining town, is almost uncanny. They fear, yet hate her, and claim she has "the evil eye."
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Underneath the Paint
Title: Underneath the Paint
Character: Tryphena Winter
Released: December 14, 1914
Type: Movie
Walking through the Ghetto, Arthur Kellogg rescues Tryphena Winters, an actress, and her little sister, Salome, from starvation. He falls in love with, and proposes marriage to Tryphena, but she tells him she must first make her success on the stage.
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The Moonshine Maid and the Man
Title: The Moonshine Maid and the Man
Character: Nancy - the Moonshine Maid
Released: December 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Dave wants to marry Nancy, and is determined to win a reward of $1000 for the arrest of some moonshiners. During a fight, Dave is mortally wounded. As he is dying, he learns that Nancy's father is the owner of the still, and Nancy is the "man" he suspected of being a moonshiner.
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The Butterfly
Title: The Butterfly
Character: Nancy North - the Butterfly
Released: October 27, 1914
Type: Movie
A father tries to keep his son from marrying a poor actress. She eventually becomes a famous and wealthy leading lady, and is reunited with the son.
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A Princess of Bagdad
Title: A Princess of Bagdad
Character: Princess Ojira
Released: September 1, 1913
Type: Movie
A caliph imprisons the cobbler's son his daughter has fallen in love with, but the cobbler's discovery of a treasure cave may be the key to freeing his son.
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A Sister to Carmen
Title: A Sister to Carmen
Character: Margo
Released: July 15, 1913
Type: Movie
A Sister to Carmen is a 1913 drama.
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Vampire of the Desert
Title: Vampire of the Desert
Character: Lispeth, Vampire of the Desert
Released: May 16, 1913
Type: Movie
Ishmael, the son of Hagar, an old hag, living on the edge of the desert, falls completely under the charms of Lispeth, a vampire. One day there passes the miserable hut in which these three strange people live, a wealthy banker, named William Corday, his wife and son. Derrick. Lispeth wields her magic power over the husband and soon has him in her power. When he attempts to kiss her, she repulses him. So clever is she that the wife has no idea of her husband's unfaithfulness.
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Eureka!
Title: Eureka!
Character: The Castaway
Released: May 5, 1913
Type: Movie
Eureka! is a 1913 silent short film.
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The Wife of Cain
Title: The Wife of Cain
Character: Save - the Wife of Cain
Released: May 1, 1913
Type: Movie
One brother kills another over the love of a beautiful woman.
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Alixe; or, the Test of Friendship
Title: Alixe; or, the Test of Friendship
Character: Alixe
Released: April 2, 1913
Type: Movie
Alixe is courted by many admirers. Her most persistent companion is Morton Shaw. Arlington Tappan also loves Alixe, and urges her to give up her associations with Shaw. She does so and is very happy until Arlington becomes more absorbed in his business affairs.
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Becky, Becky
Title: Becky, Becky
Character: Becky
Released: January 26, 1913
Type: Movie
Becky, Becky is a 1913 film short.
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Cleopatra
Title: Cleopatra
Character: Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
Released: November 13, 1912
Type: Movie
The fabled queen of Egypt's affair with Roman general Marc Antony is ultimately disastrous for both of them.
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The Party Dress
Title: The Party Dress
Character: Lydia Borne
Released: August 24, 1912
Type: Movie
Lydia Borne picks up the only party dress she possesses and finds it full of wrinkles. A dance to which she is invited is to be held that evening. Time is precious, so hurriedly beating an iron, she is pressing the skirt and accidentally scorches it. Her dress is ruined. She goes to the attic, where she picks up an old daguerreotype of her grandmother in a very pretty, old-fashioned gown, which is exactly the same style of the present period.
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The Heart of Esmeralda
Title: The Heart of Esmeralda
Character: Louise Lennox - a Novelist
Released: August 13, 1912
Type: Movie
Esmeralda Foster, an attractive girl, is very much impressed with Duncan Miller, a crafty country swain, who makes love to Esmeralda because of her father's wealth.
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The Miracle
Title: The Miracle
Character: Abbasah, the Caliph's Wife
Released: July 29, 1912
Type: Movie
A story of that famous adventurer, Haroun al Rashid, the Caliph of Bagdad.
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Yellow Bird
Title: Yellow Bird
Character: Song Bird, a Young Indian
Released: June 12, 1912
Type: Movie
Disregarding the sanctity of "Song Bird's" feelings, John Strong, a young surveyor in the pioneer forests of the west, makes love to the Indian maiden whenever he chances to meet her, until she longs and looks for his coming and going, and finds that he has made himself part of her life.
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An Innocent Theft
Title: An Innocent Theft
Character: Malcolm's Mother
Released: May 27, 1912
Type: Movie
Out of desperation, poor Joe, who lives with his sick mother, steals money from the church’s collection. His mother finds out, and wants him to bring the money back.
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The Serpents
Title: The Serpents
Character: Linda
Released: May 8, 1912
Type: Movie
Wending their way and locating in a land far from the contentions through which they passed a few weeks before, Eric and Chloe are located in a garden spot of primeval beauty, surrounded by all the imposing grandeur of nature. Chloe is pursued by the covetous desire of Haakon, a false friend, who strives by subtle charms to lure her from Eric, who in turn is tempted by Linda, her cunning and beauty, to desert Chloe and live with her.
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The Illumination
Title: The Illumination
Character: Sabina
Released: April 5, 1912
Type: Movie
Set in Biblical times, this tells the story of how Jesus affected the lives of two people: Joseph, a young Jewish man, and Maximums, a centurion in the Roman army.
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The Old Silver Watch
Title: The Old Silver Watch
Released: March 19, 1912
Type: Movie
Mary Collins dies leaving two children; Mildred ('Lucie') and Frank. On her deathbed, she gives Frank a silver watch that belonged to his father. The children are separated from each other and grow up with foster parents. Lucie and Frank meet again when he rescues her from a thief. They fall in love, unaware they are brother and sister. On their wedding day Frank is shot by the vengeful thief. The bullet however is stopped by the silver watch. On seeing the watch, Lucie realizes that they are brother and sister; the marriage is cancelled.
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The Love of John Ruskin
Title: The Love of John Ruskin
Character: Mrs. John Ruskin
Released: February 20, 1912
Type: Movie
John Ruskin became acquainted with his wife through a loan which he made to her father, and his noted generosity no doubt appealed to her and it seems that she married him more out of gratitude than actual love. Be that as it may, the fact remains that when Millais met her, he and she fell desperately in love with each other.
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Her Boy
Title: Her Boy
Character: Sue - Harry's Sweetheart
Released: February 9, 1912
Type: Movie
Far up in the mountains Mrs. Bailor's two sons, Tom and Harry, are engaged at their distilling, constantly in fear of being pursued by the revenue officers, and arrested as moonshiners.
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A Problem in Reduction
Title: A Problem in Reduction
Character: Mrs. Smartly - a Woman Who Wants to Reduce
Released: February 3, 1912
Type: Movie
Mrs. Smartly thinks she is too fleshy and decides to take a course of treatment. She consults her maid, who recommends a beauty doctor, and the doctor in return recommends a course of exercises and appliances. She follows it regularly, but she still grows fatter and fatter until, disgusted, she gives up these fads and fancies and goes back to a normal state
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Where the Money Went
Title: Where the Money Went
Character: Mrs. Fred Hart - the Jealous Wife
Released: January 29, 1912
Type: Movie
Fred Hart, a young businessman, unknown to his wife, draws their savings from the bank with the purpose of buying a home as a birthday surprise for his wife. He finds a real estate agent who has just the kind of a home he is looking for. He has to visit the agent's home during the course of his business transactions, he becomes well acquainted with the agent's family. The real estate man, a camera fiend, suggests to Fred his taking a picture of him and his family. Fred is agreeable and the agent gives him a copy of the picture. Fred puts it in his pocket and returns home to his wife.
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A Reformed Santa Claus
Title: A Reformed Santa Claus
Character: The Widow
Released: December 22, 1911
Type: Movie
The employees of Harrison's mine have been out on strike for a long time. The men wait for him until he is leaving his office in the evening. They try to state their case but he entirely ignores them. They attack him. In terror, he flees before them, escaping by entering the home of a poor widow with two children.
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The Freshet
Title: The Freshet
Character: Meg Matthews
Released: November 28, 1911
Type: Movie
Tom Ennis, a stalwart, sturdy fellow, is apprenticed to John Matthews, the village blacksmith, whose daughter is a likable girl. Tom falls in love with her, but her father opposes him and Meg marries one who is her father's choice.
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The Girl and the Sheriff
Title: The Girl and the Sheriff
Character: The Mountain Girl
Released: November 14, 1911
Type: Movie
A mountaineer, who has been shot by a pursuing sheriff, is concealed by a mountain girl in her cabin. When the sheriff arrives, she gives him whiskey, while secretly removing the bullets from his gun.
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An Aeroplane Elopement
Title: An Aeroplane Elopement
Released: November 11, 1911
Type: Movie
Maude Brooks is in love with an aviator, George Pinckney. Maude tells her father that she intends to marry George, as he is a splendid fellow, but her father will not listen to her. So she decides to elope. Maude meets George at the machine and together they fly up into the air. Mr. Brooks, who has been apprised of his daughter's intentions, starts in pursuit.
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Arbutus
Title: Arbutus
Character: The Mountain Woman Who Becomes a Celebrated Singer
Released: November 8, 1911
Type: Movie
Carleton Holt locates at one of the mountain inns. On one of his daily trips he hears a mountain maid singing in the woods. Jumping from his horse, he makes his way to where she is sitting to find her holding a bunch of arbutus in her hands. He is fascinated. It is mutual.
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Madge of the Mountains
Title: Madge of the Mountains
Character: Madge of the Mountains
Released: October 31, 1911
Type: Movie
Harry Brownley, son of a rich New Yorker, reads a newspaper account of U.S. Revenue officers' plan to raid an illicit distillery in the Tennessee mountains. The young fellow asks his father's permission to join the forces under Sheriff Jackson, of Pikesville, Tennessee. The father reluctantly consents and the son starts out to satisfy his adventurous nature.
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Regeneration
Title: Regeneration
Character: Elfie - Ross's Sweetheart
Released: October 28, 1911
Type: Movie
Hunter Ross deserts his wife and child and she is driven to the extremes of poverty, being obliged in sell pencils to keep the spark of life in herself and little one. Fearing the worst, she writes a note, saying, "I am the wife of Hunter Ross, and this is our child," pinning the note on the child's dress in the hope that someone will find and care for the little girl, in case anything should happen to herself.
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Ups and Downs
Title: Ups and Downs
Character: The Young Wife
Released: October 7, 1911
Type: Movie
Unless Marion Norman's intended husband can support her in the same style in which her father has, Mr. Norman will not agree to her marriage with Billy Wallace, and threatens to disinherit her if she disobeys him.
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By Woman's Wit
Title: By Woman's Wit
Character: The Wife
Released: September 16, 1911
Type: Movie
A woman objects to her bachelor friend getting married, so she makes him appear so ridiculous that the other woman refuses to marry him.
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For Love and Glory
Title: For Love and Glory
Character: Rose Seaton
Released: August 14, 1911
Type: Movie
Young Lieut. Osmond, of the British Army, is engaged to be married to Rose Seaton. His father objects. Later they are married, and Lieut. Osmond is denounced as his son.
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The Death of King Edward III
Title: The Death of King Edward III
Character: Alice Ferrers
Released: August 5, 1911
Type: Movie
King Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. He was a son of Edward the Second and he was born at Windsor Castle, November 13th, 1312. He was celebrated for his wars with the Scottish king and his battles with France. He started the "One Hundred Years' War." In his invasions of France, he was accompanied by his eldest son, "The Black Prince,"
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She Came, She Saw, She Conquered
Title: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered
Character: Rose Leigh - a Young Schoolteacher
Released: July 26, 1911
Type: Movie
Rose Leigh is a young schoolteacher. She sees a paragraph in the paper, saying that in a certain small village they have had in six months, three teachers (men), and all have left because the boys are so unruly and impossible. She resolves to try the experiment of giving them a woman teacher, and applies for the situation. The trustees of the school, who are at their wits' end, gladly accept the offer.
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Treasure Trove
Title: Treasure Trove
Released: July 25, 1911
Type: Movie
Patience and Anne, two spinsters of the old school of aristocratic birth, have managed to keep up appearances under very trying conditions and with limited means, until they are reduced to such circumstances they are obliged to sell their household furnishing, of antique pattern, to raise the necessary "wherewithal" to live and pay the mortgage off the old home.
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The Lure of Vanity
Title: The Lure of Vanity
Character: Edna White
Released: July 18, 1911
Type: Movie
Miss Edna White is very much grieved when she has not a suitable gown to wear at a party. Mrs. Donald, a wealthy customer, calls and asks Edna to try the dress on she has bought for her inspection. It answers her purposes, and Edna is instructed to deliver the dress that night, on her way home.
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A Quaker Mother
Title: A Quaker Mother
Character: Lois Pearson Harmon - A Quaker Wife
Released: June 27, 1911
Type: Movie
Mrs. Pearson is a little different from most mothers, at least in her general appearance, for she has that sweetness and calmness of disposition, which is characteristic of the Quakeress. Lois, her only child, does not inherit her mother's sedate and quiet temperament, apparently she is no different from other girls, quite natural, and does not object to the attentions paid her by John Harmon, who is very much in love with her.
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Barriers Burned Away
Title: Barriers Burned Away
Character: John's Wife
Released: June 24, 1911
Type: Movie
John and Edwin Martin, two brothers, occupy, each with his own family, a double house; they are all very much united. Each one of the brothers has a child. John has a little boy, named Frank, and Edwin, a little daughter named Tillie. The two children are playmates and the wives are the closest of friends. Everything is harmonious, when like a flash of lightning from a clear sky, a quarrel, through some trifling difference of opinion, arises between the two wives, which leads to the severance of the happy relations of the two families, excepting the two children, who fortunately cannot grasp the meaning of it all and consequently remain in blissful ignorance of its purpose and are happy only when in each other's company.
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The Sleep Walker
Title: The Sleep Walker
Character: Lucy Langham
Released: June 23, 1911
Type: Movie
A young woman does strange things, which are explained when it is discovered she is a sleep walker.
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For Her Brother's Sake
Title: For Her Brother's Sake
Character: Bessie Black - The Sister
Released: June 6, 1911
Type: Movie
The black sheep of the family is protected by his sister.
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The Show Girl
Title: The Show Girl
Character: Audrey, an Actress
Released: May 18, 1911
Type: Movie
Audrey, a charming actress, but classed among the show girls, is invited with some of her stage companions, to have lunch with an old friend, by the name of Dr. Renfrew. The doctor and Audrey, eating together, talk over old times and renew their friendship; she takes his attentions seriously and becomes very much impressed with his pleasant companionship. Night after night the doctor attends the performance in which she appears as the "headliner," and never fails to greet her with generous applause and a bouquet of flowers as marks of admiration. To emphasize his friendship or infatuation he sends her a string of pearls, begging her to accept it as a souvenir of happy days gone by. Through a member of the company in which she is playing, she learns that Dr. Renfrew is married, and at her friend's suggestion redirects his note back to his wife.
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The Wooing of Winifred
Title: The Wooing of Winifred
Character: Winifred
Released: April 11, 1911
Type: Movie
In order to inherit their uncle's property, two cousins must marry each other.
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The Inherited Taint
Title: The Inherited Taint
Character: The Nurse
Released: March 31, 1911
Type: Movie
Herbert Warning inherits a fortune. He becomes engaged to a society girl who leaves him for another man. Warning takes to drinking. When he meets Kathleen Holt, a nurse, he falls in love and asks her to marry him. She promises to do so if he can give up drinking for one year.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Released: February 20, 1911
Type: Movie
A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.
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Vanity Fair
Title: Vanity Fair
Character: Becky Sharp
Released: January 2, 1911
Type: Movie
A silent short film telling the classic story of Becky Sharp.
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How She Won Him
Title: How She Won Him
Character: Muriel Hanson
Released: September 9, 1910
Type: Movie
Some possess youth; others good looks, and still others have money, but Muriel Hanson has all three and she is engaged to be married to a fine young man named Arthur Lewis, whose father, supposed to be a wealthy man, dies penniless.