Mary Alden

Mary Alden

Born: June 18, 1883
Died: July 2, 1946
in New York City, New York, USA
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Mary Maguire Alden (June 18, 1883 – July 2, 1946) was an American motion picture and stage actress. She was one of the first Broadway actresses to work in Hollywood.

Born in New York City, Alden began her career on the Broadway stage. She spent five years on Broadway before moving to Hollywood where she worked for the Biograph Company and Pathé Exchange in the first portion of her career. Her most popular role in movies came in Birth of a Nation directed by D.W. Griffith in 1915. Alden played the role of a mulatto girl in love with a northern politician. The following year she was in Griffith's Intolerance with Mae Marsh, Miriam Cooper, and Vera Lewis. After making Less Than The Dust with Mary Pickford in 1917, she took a temporary leave from motion pictures, acting for a while on the stage. Critics acclaimed Alden's portrayal of the mother, Mrs. Anthon, in The Old Nest (1921) and her characterization of an old lady in The Man With Two Mothers (1922). The latter feature was produced by Sam Goldwyn.

Alden was prolific as a motion picture actress throughout the 1920s and into the early 1930s. A sampling of movies in which she had roles are The Plastic Age (1925), The Joy Girl (1927), Ladies of the Mob (1928), and Port of Dreams (1929). The final films she received screen credit for are Hell's House, Rasputin and the Empress, and Strange Interlude, each from 1932.

Alden died at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California in 1946. This had been her residence for the last four years of her life. She was 63 years of age.

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One More Spring
Title: One More Spring
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.
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Strange Interlude
Title: Strange Interlude
Character: Mary, Leeds' Maid
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.
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Hell's House
Title: Hell's House
Character: Lucy Mason
Released: January 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.
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The Bad Sister
Title: The Bad Sister
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
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Politics
Title: Politics
Character: Mary Evans
Released: February 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
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Girl Overboard
Title: Girl Overboard
Released: July 28, 1929
Type: Movie
A young man is sentenced to prison for a term of eight years, yet he's allowed out if he promises not to get married for those eight years, lest he be forced to complete his sentence behind bars. He goes to live on an old ship in the harbor with an old sea captain. One day a homeless girl is fished out of the water and brought to live on the boat, soon marrying the young man. All is well until his parole officer finds out.
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Ladies of the Mob
Title: Ladies of the Mob
Character: Soft Annie
Released: June 30, 1928
Type: Movie
A dead criminal's daughter falls in love with a small-time crook and tries to get him to reform before he winds up like her father.
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The Sawdust Paradise
Title: The Sawdust Paradise
Character: Mother
Released: June 28, 1928
Type: Movie
She dances- The Dance of Death. She Sings- The song of Life. Scintillating, Fascinating, Desirable, Swifty She Weaves the Web of Destruction and then Regeneration. A Drama of Lights and Shadows.
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The Cossacks
Title: The Cossacks
Character: Lukashka's mother
Released: June 23, 1928
Type: Movie
Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and chivalry. A mighty picturization of Count Leo Tolstoi's famous novel of the same name.
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Fools for Luck
Title: Fools for Luck
Character: Mrs. Hunter
Released: June 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears to be no oil, and everyone is angry until oil is re-discovered.
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Twin Flappers
Title: Twin Flappers
Released: September 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Twin Flappers is a 1927 silent film.
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The Joy Girl
Title: The Joy Girl
Character: Mrs. Courage
Released: September 3, 1927
Type: Movie
Though she loves one man, an ambitious Palm Beach girl marries another, whom she thinks is rich. He turns out to be a fraud who thought she was an heiress. She returns to a successful hat shop she maintains catering to socialites. Her true love turns out to be in fact, a rich man who let her think he was not to test her.
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The Potters
Title: The Potters
Character: Ma Potter
Released: January 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?
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April Fool
Title: April Fool
Character: Amelia Rosen
Released: November 15, 1926
Type: Movie
An out-of-work pants presser starts an umbrella business and makes a fortune. His daughter is set to marry the nephew of a rich neighbor until the nephew is accused of stealing money from his uncle--but the money was really stolen by the rich man's son.
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Lovey Mary
Title: Lovey Mary
Character: Mrs. Wiggs
Released: June 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Lovely Mary, an orphan girl, reluctantly takes charge of her sister's child when her sister Kate is jailed.
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Brown of Harvard
Title: Brown of Harvard
Character: Mrs. Brown
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
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The Earth Woman
Title: The Earth Woman
Character: Martha Tilden (The Earth Woman)
Released: April 4, 1926
Type: Movie
The story is set in the hills of Tennessee, where practically everybody gets smashed on rotgut moonshine. A drink-benumbed hillbilly tries to rape heroine Sally Tilden (Priscilla Bonner), setting off a chain reaction of violence, murder, and false confessions.
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The Plastic Age
Title: The Plastic Age
Character: Mrs. Carver
Released: December 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to party, and finds that it's impossible to please her and still keep up with his studies and athletic training. Soon the two face some difficult decisions.
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Siege
Title: Siege
Released: September 27, 1925
Type: Movie
A stern old woman, who owns the largest factory in a small town and has ruled both the factory and the town with an iron hand, finds herself battling with the wife of her nephew, the man she has picked to succeed her.
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The Unwritten Law
Title: The Unwritten Law
Character: Miss Grant
Released: August 1, 1925
Type: Movie
The Unwritten Law is an extant 1925 silent film crime melodrama directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Elaine Hammerstein. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures Corporation. In the UK distribution was handled by Film Booking Offices of America.
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The Happy Warrior
Title: The Happy Warrior
Character: Aunt Maggie
Released: July 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Malcolm McGregor joins the circus and falls in love with Olive Borden but his life changes when he finds out he is a titled Lord.
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Faint Perfume
Title: Faint Perfume
Character: Ma Crumb
Released: June 8, 1925
Type: Movie
After a stormy six year marriage, Barnaby Powers divorces his wife Richmiel. She returns home, taking their young son Oliver with her. Barnaby follows her, to ask for custody of the boy, but meets and falls in love with Richmiel's pretty and sensitive cousin Ledda. Complications ensue.
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The Beloved Brute
Title: The Beloved Brute
Character: Augustina
Released: November 9, 1924
Type: Movie
A Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a side-show wrestling match.
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Babbitt
Title: Babbitt
Character: Mrs. Myra Babbitt
Released: June 15, 1924
Type: Movie
A small-town businessman bumbles into blackmail and a real-estate swindle.
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Painted People
Title: Painted People
Character: Mrs. Bryne
Released: January 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A 1924 film directed by Clarence G. Badger.
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Pleasure Mad
Title: Pleasure Mad
Character: Marjorie Benton
Released: November 5, 1923
Type: Movie
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The Bond Boy
Title: The Bond Boy
Character: Mrs. Newboat
Released: May 23, 1923
Type: Movie
For the sake of his impoverished mother, Joe Newbolt bonds himself to harsh Isom Chase. Ollie Chase tires of the difficult life her husband has forced on her and plans to elope with Cyrus Morgan, but Joe's sense of honor forces him to intervene. While Joe is trying to persuade Ollie not to proceed with her plans, Chase discovers him with his wife, misunderstands, reaches for his gun, and is accidentally killed. Joe protects Mrs. Chase, though he is accused of murder, tried, convicted, and sentenced to be hanged.
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A Woman's Woman
Title: A Woman's Woman
Character: Densie Plummer
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
A woman finds herself being a unpaid skivvy to her husband, two daughters and her son.
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The Hidden Woman
Title: The Hidden Woman
Character: Mrs. Randolph
Released: April 2, 1922
Type: Movie
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The Old Nest
Title: The Old Nest
Character: Mrs. Anthon
Released: June 28, 1921
Type: Movie
A mother raises her six children and one by one lets them go out into the world. Their failures and successes fill her life, but she grows lonely without them. Then when one of the children has a surprise to announce, they all return home to be with their mother.
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The Witching Hour
Title: The Witching Hour
Released: April 10, 1921
Type: Movie
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Snowblind
Title: Snowblind
Character: Bella
Released: March 22, 1921
Type: Movie
Hugh Garth hides from the law in the frozen Canadian northwest along with his young brother Pete and Pete's former nurse, Bella, who loves Hugh unrequitedly. When a lost and snowblind girl stumbles into their camp, Hugh falls in love with her and misleads her as to the age and relationship of Pete and Bella, in hopes of keeping the girl's attentions directed at himself. But when the girl's sight returns, she realizes the truth and discovers that Pete has fallen in love with her. But Hugh's cruel nature now threatens them both.
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Honest Hutch
Title: Honest Hutch
Character: Mrs. Hutchins
Released: September 19, 1920
Type: Movie
Ort Hutchins is a confirmed loafer who spends all of his time fishing while his wife toils over the washtub. One day, while digging for worms, Hutch uncovers a box containing $100,000 in bills, the loot of a bank robbed in the next town. Realizing that he cannot spend the money without arousing suspicion, Hutch resigns himself to taking a job for cover. ...
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Milestones
Title: Milestones
Character: Rose Sibley
Released: September 9, 1920
Type: Movie
1860 ushers in the era of iron ships, Richard Sibley, a builder of wooden ships, stubbornly resists the change, which leads him to forbid the marriage of his daughter Rose to John Rhead, a proponent of the new method. This injustice outrages John's sister Gertrude so much that she breaks off her engagement to Sibley's son Sam. Meanwhile, John and Rose elope.
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Miss Nobody
Title: Miss Nobody
Character: Jason's Wife
Released: May 1, 1920
Type: Movie
A raft carrying a little girl and a dead woman drifts in from a shipwreck to Devil's Island. There, a band of thieves and smugglers name the girl Rose Marie, though she grows up as "nobody's girl."
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Parted Curtains
Title: Parted Curtains
Character: Mrs. Masters
Released: April 2, 1920
Type: Movie
A young man just released from prison can't find work because no employer will hire an ex-convict. Broke and hungry, he steals money off of a painter. The painter, however, takes pity on him and decides to help him get his life back together.
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Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
Title: Silk Husbands and Calico Wives
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
After small-town attorney Deane Kendall wins an important case, a prestigious law firm lures him to the city. Accompanying him is his wife Edith, who retains her small-town ways, so does not fit into her husband's new social world. When adventuress Georgia Wilson meets the promising attorney, she falls in love and determines to break up his marriage. Georgia arranges for artist Charles Madison to lure Edith to his apartments and seduce her. Resisting his advances, Edith flees back to the innocent town of Harmony. Soon after, Kendall arrives, informed by Georgia that his wife is with Madison. However, the artist's mistress, who witnessed the incident, testifies to Edith's purity, and Kendall follows Edith back to their hometown, where they are reconciled.
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Erstwhile Susan
Title: Erstwhile Susan
Character: Erstwhile Susan
Released: November 16, 1919
Type: Movie
Barnabetta Dreary's grim life of slaving for her Pennsylvania Dutch father Barnaby and her two brothers, is surprisingly changed when Barnaby marries Juliet Miller. Known as Erstwhile Susan, she becomes fond of Barnabetta, and because she retains control of her fortune, induces the other Drearys to relieve Barnabetta of some of her drudgery.
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The Broken Butterfly
Title: The Broken Butterfly
Character: Zabie Elliot
Released: November 1, 1919
Type: Movie
A woman in Canada abused by her aunt falls in love with a foreign composer looking for inspiration, who comes to find it in her and the star-crossed romance that develops between them.
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The Unpardonable Sin
Title: The Unpardonable Sin
Character: Mrs. Parcot
Released: April 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Based on the Rupert Hughes novel, this film concerns the German atrocities committed in Belgium at the beginning of the Great War.
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The Narrow Path
Title: The Narrow Path
Character: Margaret Dunn
Released: December 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Marion Clark, a manicurist, is unimpressed by the wealthy but dissipated men who frequent her shop, preferring city editor Dick Strong, who lives in her boardinghouse. Dick's sister Gladys, however, is intrigued by the wilder side of life in New York and allows one of the boarders to take her to a lively party.
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The Naulahka
Title: The Naulahka
Character: Prince's Mother
Released: February 14, 1918
Type: Movie
Trying to win the Three C's railroad line for his home town of Topaz, Colorado, Nicholas "Nick" Tarvin journeys to India to secure the famed jewel known as the Naulahka, which he plans to present to Mrs. Mutrie, the railroad president's wife.
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The Land of Promise
Title: The Land of Promise
Character: Gertie Marsh
Released: December 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.
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Less Than the Dust
Title: Less Than the Dust
Character: Mrs. Bradshaw
Released: November 4, 1916
Type: Movie
Young Hindu woman Radha, becomes best friends with Captain Raymond Townsend during his service in India, but he soon goes back to England to tend to the estate of an uncle who has just died. Then, Ramlan, the sword maker who raised Radha, is arrested for taking part in an anti-British uprising, and before he goes to jail, he decides to tell Radha the story of her birth, her real father, Captain Brooke, died of a drug overdose, and her destitute mother then entrusted her to Ramlan. After learning about her background, Radha goes to England to claim her rightful inheritance from the estate of her late grandfather, who is also Raymond's uncle. Raymond is delighted to discover that his Hindu friend is really a white woman, and after dividing the estate with Radha, he brings the fortune back together by marrying her.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Title: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character: Uplifter
Released: September 4, 1916
Type: Movie
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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The Narrow Path
Title: The Narrow Path
Released: September 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Bessie Allen, a girl of the slums, dances in the streets of the Lower East Side of New York to the delight of the crowds. She becomes an orphan when her father, in a drunken stupor, kills her mother, and then himself. Bessie is knocked down by the car of Mrs. Latham, a society matron, who takes an interest in the girl and procures her a job as a dress model.
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Pillars of Society
Title: Pillars of Society
Character: Lona Tonnesen
Released: August 27, 1916
Type: Movie
Based on Henrik Ibsen's play from 1877.
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Hell-to-Pay Austin
Title: Hell-to-Pay Austin
Character: Doris Valentine
Released: August 20, 1916
Type: Movie
After her father's death, little Briar Rose is taken in by the men at a lumber camp. The girl shows a definite preference for one of the lumberjacks, "Hell-to-Pay" Austin, so he becomes her new "father." Just as much as Hell-to-Pay takes care of Briar, she watches over him, and it is largely through her influence that he gives up hard drinking and needless fighting. Then, when Briar is old enough, she goes away to school and quickly falls in with the wrong crowd. Hell-to-Pay comes after her and takes her away from Doris Valentine, an adventuress who had been teaching Briar the tricks of the trade. When they are reunited, Hell-to-Pay and Briar realize that they are in love, so they decide to change their relationship from guardian and ward to husband and wife.
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An Innocent Magdalene
Title: An Innocent Magdalene
Character: The Woman
Released: June 18, 1916
Type: Movie
When Dorothy's Southern, aristocratic father Colonel Raleigh refuses to let her marry Forbes Stewart, a Northern gambler, the couple elopes. When Dorothy soon thereafter becomes pregnant, Forbes vows to reform, but authorities arrest him on a gambling charge, and he serves a year in prison. During that time, and just before the birth of the baby, a woman comes to Dorothy and claims to be Forbes' wife. Stunned, Dorothy returns to her father, but the colonel throws her out, and so, on her own, she has her baby, whom the community believes to be illegitimate. Convinced that she has sinned, Dorothy is about to kill herself when Forbes, just out of jail, finds her and explains that the other woman simply had been an ex-sweetheart trying to win him back.
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The Good Bad Man
Title: The Good Bad Man
Character: Jane Stuart
Released: April 21, 1916
Type: Movie
An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.
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Acquitted
Title: Acquitted
Character: Mrs. Carter
Released: February 6, 1916
Type: Movie
Hard-working insurance company bookkeeper John Carter, comes home Easter eve to his suburban cottage with a potted lily for his loving wife and two daughters. The Carters live happily until cashier Charles Ryder is murdered by the night watchman, a "coke sniffer" in need of money, and Carter is accused because he worked with Ryder that evening.
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Macbeth
Title: Macbeth
Character: Lady Macduff
Released: January 2, 1916
Type: Movie
Shakespeare's tragedy of the Scots nobleman whose ambition leads him to betrayal, murder, and damnation.
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Her Mother's Daughter
Title: Her Mother's Daughter
Character: Marie's Mother
Released: December 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Marie is a village girl, very religious. Her mother, fearing some man will make her unhappy (as she had been made by a man) made her promise on her deathbed that she would enter a nunnery. Marie considers that promise sacred and will allow nothing to interfere with her keeping that promise.
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The Lily and the Rose
Title: The Lily and the Rose
Character: Mrs. Fairfax
Released: November 6, 1915
Type: Movie
To the dismay of Allison Edwards, her bookworm, adoring neighbor, Mary Randolph, falls in love with and marries Jack Van Norman, a rich and handsome former football star. After a few months of marital contentment, Jack becomes infatuated with Rose, an exotic dancer.
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Ghosts
Title: Ghosts
Character: Helen Alving
Released: May 31, 1915
Type: Movie
Captain Alving, a notorious rake and financially irresponsible, seeks wealthy heiress Helen's hand in marriage. The family doctor protests to the marriage, on the grounds of Alving's hereditary illness, but both parties disregard all warnings; Urged on by her ambitious parents, Helen marries Alving. Later Helen discovers a liaison between her husband and a young, married woman. Soon the sins of the father are visited upon all members of the Alving clan. Based on Henrik Ibsen's play.
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Man's Prerogative
Title: Man's Prerogative
Character: Elizabeth Towne
Released: April 19, 1915
Type: Movie
Oliver and Elizabeth wed. He is a famous lawyer, careless of his personal conduct, but has implicit faith in Elizabeth. She is a woman of strong mind, a magazine writer of repute, and believes he should guide himself by the same code that governs her. Two of their associates are profligates, Charles, an artist, and Catherine. Oliver trifles with Catherine and this so embitters Elizabeth, that she pretends to receive the attentions of Charles, although it is made clear that she has remained pure. Nevertheless, she purposely permits her husband to believe otherwise. He has considered her like Caesar's wife, but his faith is shattered. A child is born to her and the father doubts its parentage.
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The Lucky Transfer
Title: The Lucky Transfer
Character: Helen Holland
Released: March 10, 1915
Type: Movie
Jim Dodson, a poor workman, has been in the habit of begging a streetcar transfer in town, in order to ride home each night from work. Ford and Ransom, a couple of crooks, rob a store and among the things taken are a quantity of stamped envelopes with the name and address of the firm printed thereon.
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The Birth of a Nation
Title: The Birth of a Nation
Character: Stoneman's Housekeeper Lydia
Released: February 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
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Another Chance
Title: Another Chance
Character: Mrs. Mason
Released: November 24, 1914
Type: Movie
Mason, discharged from jail, promises his wife to lead a new life. While searching for work, he rescues Curly, a newsboy, from the clutches of a tramp, who, in trying to steal the boy's secret hoard, beats him up badly. Mason leaves the now helpless boy in care of his wife, and resumes his search for work.
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The Little Country Mouse
Title: The Little Country Mouse
Character: Dorothy's Cousin
Released: November 16, 1914
Type: Movie
Country girl May loses at cards and must borrow $250 from Captain Stiles, but the wealthy roué's loan does not come without an expectation of repayment.
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The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Title: The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Character: Katherine Roebuck
Released: August 23, 1914
Type: Movie
Mabel Mack's mother is deserted by her father and the mother dies. All that Mabel retains of her family history is a group photograph of her father, mother and herself, in a locket which she always wears.
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Lord Chumley
Title: Lord Chumley
Character: Jessie - Butterworth's Sweetheart
Released: June 14, 1914
Type: Movie
After Gasper La Sage and his cohort, Blink Blunk, are released from prison, they make plans for another robbery. The scheme, which requires La Sage to pose as a gentleman, fails. Blunk is arrested, but La Sage goes free. Some time later, La Sage goes to England where he blackmails Lt. Hugh Butterworth, an officer who misappropriated money intended for the widow of a fellow officer, and who owes La Sage money for gambling debts. As payment, La Sage wants Hugh to arrange for him to marry Eleanor, Hugh's sister. Hugh tells his friend Lord Chumley about La Sage, however, and Chumley is able to learn about La Sage's past when he overhears Blunk, now out of jail, threaten his former friend. After La Sage intensifies his suit for Eleanor, Chumley is finally able to discredit him by tearing open his shirt and revealing the mark of the prison. With La Sage out of the way, Chumley and Eleanor announce their engagement as do Hugh and his faithful sweetheart, Jessie.
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Home, Sweet Home
Title: Home, Sweet Home
Character: The Mother
Released: May 16, 1914
Type: Movie
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.
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The Quicksands
Title: The Quicksands
Released: May 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Captain Lanning and Lieutenant Osborne are stationed at an army post in the Philippines. Lanning conceives a deadly hatred toward Osborne when the latter wins Gladys, General Fields' daughter.
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Cigar Butts
Title: Cigar Butts
Released: April 28, 1914
Type: Movie
Short film telling the story of diamond smuggling.
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The Battle of the Sexes
Title: The Battle of the Sexes
Character: Mrs. Frank Andrews
Released: April 12, 1914
Type: Movie
Frank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his wife, son and daughter. He suddenly finds himself enthralled by the advances of a gay young woman siren, who lives in the same apartment house as he does. So marked an influence does she have over him as time progresses that at last he quite forgets his home ties, neglects his family, and goes the way of many other men who have forgotten the meaning of paternity and blood ties. The story is advanced through many scenes enacted with the accompanying notes of New York's night life, and the denouement comes when the faithful wife discovers her husband's infidelity. At this time the mother's mind nearly loses balance, while Jane, the beautiful daughter, crazed by the grief of her mother, determines to take part in the tragedy. With revolver in hand she steals up to the apartment of the woman, but her frail nature is overcome by the temperamental anger of the woman and her mission fails.
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A Brass Button
Title: A Brass Button
Character: Mrs. Lowden
Released: February 2, 1911
Type: Movie
Stock broker Albert Lowden is in danger of losing his business if he can't soon pay his creditors.
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I Am Not a Racist
Title: I Am Not a Racist
Character: the housekeeper
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A parody of D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", "I Am Not a Racist" rearranges the scenes of the classic movie and recreates its dialogues to criticize the racism in it and also in the world today. Freemenville is a little city somewhere in the USA. A city ashamed because of its past of slavery, but proud of being the first in the country to end it. There is an annual ball to celebrate this fact. And this year's ball may be the biggest ever, because of the possible presence of a big celebrity, who is coming to town to see the premiere of a play. However, the play happens to be D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", a racist work that starts a series of events exposing the racism that still exists in the city, culminating in the recreation of the KKK.