Kate Lester

Kate Lester

Born: June 11, 1857
Died: October 12, 1924
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kate Lester (12 June 1857 – 12 October 1924) born Sarah Cody was an English theatrical and silent film actress born in Shouldham Thorpe, Norfolk, England. Her family, the Suydams of New York, were staying in England at the time of her birth.

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The Meddler
Title: The Meddler
Character: Mrs. Gilmore
Released: June 28, 1925
Type: Movie
Richard Gilmore, a staid Wall Street broker, is jilted by Dot Parkhurst when he fails to provide her with the romance and adventure that she wants out of life. Richard then goes west in an effort to prove himself a man and becomes a highwayman known as "The Meddler," robbing people only to return to them all that he stole, keeping only a valueless memento for himself.
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Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
Title: Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
Character: Lady Amersteth
Released: May 23, 1925
Type: Movie
Raffles is an English gentleman with a secret life—he is the notorious jewel thief known as "The Amateur Cracksman." While sailing from India to England accompanied by his friend, Bunny Manners, it is rumored that the infamous cracksman is aboard ship. Raffles warns a lady passenger to keep an eye on her necklace, which is stolen soon afterward. Although a search reveals no evidence, the necklace is returned upon reaching London.
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The Price of Pleasure
Title: The Price of Pleasure
Character: Mrs. Schuyler
Released: March 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Their only sim was that they loved too much: lovers never stop to count the cost. He was a young millionaire and she was only a "Bargain "Basement" girl, but they had one week of paradise that started two years of drama. The truest, sweetest love story in years.
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The Wife of the Centaur
Title: The Wife of the Centaur
Character: Mrs. Converse
Released: December 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Jeffrey Dwyer is a writer and a poet who wrestles with the conflicts between his idealism and his passion. The two sides of his nature are personified in the women he loves: the sweetly innocent Joan Converse, and the sexy, charismatic Inez Martin.
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The Beautiful Sinner
Title: The Beautiful Sinner
Released: October 1, 1924
Type: Movie
The Beautiful Sinner is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring William Fairbanks, Eva Novak, and George Nichols.
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The Goldfish
Title: The Goldfish
Character: Mrs. Bellmore
Released: March 30, 1924
Type: Movie
A newly married husband and wife make an agreement that should either of them want to terminate their relationship then a bowl with goldfish would be presented to the other signalling the end of their marriage.
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Black Oxen
Title: Black Oxen
Character: Jane Ogelthorpe
Released: December 29, 1923
Type: Movie
A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the century. At first he thinks it's just a coincidence, as the beautiful young woman he's romancing is much younger than the woman who vanished, who would be in her late 50s or early 60s by now. Soon, however, he begins to believe that maybe it's not such a coincidence after all.
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The Satin Girl
Title: The Satin Girl
Character: Mrs. Brown-Potter
Released: November 30, 1923
Type: Movie
The Satin Girl is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring Mabel Forrest, Norman Kerry and Marc McDermott.
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The Marriage Market
Title: The Marriage Market
Character: Harriet T. Whitcomb
Released: October 25, 1923
Type: Movie
The story of a wealthy young flapper, Theodora Bland (Pauline Garon), and the amorous adventures and misadventures she has after being expelled from a fashionable and costly east-coast boarding school.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: Madame de Condelaurier
Released: September 6, 1923
Type: Movie
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
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Mine to Keep
Title: Mine to Keep
Released: August 20, 1923
Type: Movie
Former playboy Victor Olney becomes jealous of his wife's love soon after he and Constance are married. He is especially hostile toward Clint Mowbray, a former suitor. When Mowbray implies that there was an affair between Olney and a dancer who was injured at Olney's bachelor party, Constance leaves her husband to nurse the girl back to health. Olney's mother-in-law convinces him that Constance was not unfaithful. They are reconciled when Olney goes to Constance and it is ascertained that there was nothing between him and the dancer.
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Her Accidental Husband
Title: Her Accidental Husband
Released: April 16, 1923
Type: Movie
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Gimme
Title: Gimme
Character: Mrs. Roland Ferris
Released: January 14, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman borrows money from her boss for her wedding dress. After the marriage he asks to be repaid, and she--not liking to ask her husband for money--writes a check on her husband's account. When he discovers that his wife has written a check to another man and not told him, complications ensue.
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
Title: Quincy Adams Sawyer
Character: Mrs. Sawyer
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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One Week of Love
Title: One Week of Love
Character: Honoria Van Dyke
Released: November 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Spoiled society girl Beth Wynn agrees to stake her marriage to Francis Fraser on the outcome of an airplane race with him.
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Remembrance
Title: Remembrance
Character: Mrs. Grout
Released: October 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Although he graduated from that time-worn university, the college of hard knocks, the tireless efforts of John P. Grout have paid off. He owns a number of department stores and his wife and children are well provided for. However, his family is completely ungrateful and takes him -- and his money -- for granted. Grout's attempts to keep them all happy are driving him to bankruptcy and he eventually becomes seriously ill. Eventually his wife and kids come to realize how badly they've treated Pops.....
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The Eternal Flame
Title: The Eternal Flame
Character: Princess de Vlamont-Chaurray
Released: September 17, 1922
Type: Movie
A 1922 film directed by Frank Lloyd.
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A Tailor-Made Man
Title: A Tailor-Made Man
Character: Mrs. Stanlaw
Released: August 5, 1922
Type: Movie
A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.
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The Fourteenth Lover
Title: The Fourteenth Lover
Character: Aunt Letitia
Released: January 9, 1922
Type: Movie
Vi Marchmont (Viola Dana) is a spoiled rich girl who has thirteen lovers. Her Aunt Letitia (Kate Lester) wants her to halt her flirtatious ways and has picked Clyde Van Ness (Theodore Von Eltz) as the right one out of the bunch -- not that Vi agrees. Aunt Letitia sends her off to the country, along with Van Ness and the gardener, Richard Hardy (Jack Mulhall). Vi winds up falling for the gardener, much to her aunt's horror, and in spite of the class differences, he becomes her fourteenth lover.
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The Glorious Fool
Title: The Glorious Fool
Character: Head Nurse
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Billy Grant, a wealthy young playboy, drunkenly crashes his car and appears near death. Afraid that his greedy and unpleasant relatives will get his estate, he convinces his nurse, Jane Brown, to marry him. When Billy regains his health, Jane finds herself in a situation she never imagined nor intended.
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The Beautiful Liar
Title: The Beautiful Liar
Character: Mrs. Van Courtlandt-Van Allstyn
Released: December 26, 1921
Type: Movie
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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The Hole in the Wall
Title: The Hole in the Wall
Character: Mrs. Ramsey
Released: December 12, 1921
Type: Movie
When spiritualist Madame Mysteria is killed in a train wreck, her three associates decide to replace her instead of declaring her dead. One of them, the Fox, calls on Jean Oliver, who he knew from prison. Jean was serving time after being framed by her former employer, Mrs. Ramsey, for a theft just to keep her and her son, Donald Ramsey, from marrying. Jean agrees to the crooks' scheme providing that they help her kidnap the baby that belongs to Donald and the woman that his mother had him marry.
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Dangerous Curve Ahead
Title: Dangerous Curve Ahead
Character: Mrs. Noxon
Released: October 2, 1921
Type: Movie
Engaged to Harley Jones, fickle Phoebe Mabee flirts with Anson Newton. She and Harley, as a result, break their engagement, but within six months they are reconciled and married. Phoebe becomes a mother, and when Harley is sent abroad by his business firm she and her two children go to a summer resort where she renews her romance with Newton.
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Oh Mary Be Careful
Title: Oh Mary Be Careful
Character: Kathleen McEchran
Released: September 1, 1921
Type: Movie
"Mary Meacham, the most popular girl in college, goes to live with her maiden aunt, Miss Myra. Auntie is a man-hater who has various theories for testing the desirable qualities of the male sex. Mary sees a dreary man-less time before her and sends an S. O. S. to various sisters and their brothers to visit her while Auntie is away.
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Don't Neglect Your Wife
Title: Don't Neglect Your Wife
Character: Mrs. Hunt McLane
Released: July 31, 1921
Type: Movie
The wife of a prominent San Francisco doctor, feeling neglected by her husband, finds herself attracted to a young newspaper reporter. ...
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Made in Heaven
Title: Made in Heaven
Character: Mrs. Royce
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
William Lowry rescues Claudia Royce from a burning building, and upon hearing that her parents are trying to force her to accept millionaire Leland, whom she does not love, he proposes a marriage of convenience to himself. She accepts, and Bill arranges a fake ceremony; but when she falls in love with Davidge, Bill refuses her a "divorce." Later, Bill gets rich in the manufacture of a patented fireman's pole, and when he buys a house for Claudia she realizes her love for him and they are legally married.
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Officer 666
Title: Officer 666
Character: Mrs. Burton
Released: October 30, 1920
Type: Movie
Upon learning that notorious art thief Alf Wilson plans to steal his valuable paintings, idle millionaire Travers Gladwyn decides to amuse himself by guarding his own home. After bribing Policeman Phelan, Officer 666, with a $500 bill, Travers dons the officer's uniform and identity. When Wilson appears at his mansion, Travers questions him and discovers that Wilson is posing as Travers, claiming that he is packing up his paintings for safe keeping. ...
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Earthbound
Title: Earthbound
Character: Miss DeWindt
Released: August 10, 1920
Type: Movie
When Jim Rittenshaw learns that his friend Richard Desborough is having an affair with Jim's wife Daisy, Jim kills Richard. The murdered man's ghost then takes up residence and attempts to positively influence the lives of those he had wronged.
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Stop Thief
Title: Stop Thief
Character: Mrs. Carr
Released: August 1, 1920
Type: Movie
When Jack Dougan and Snatcher Nell, partners in crime as well as love, decide to purloin the gifts at the wedding of Madge Carr to James Cluney, Nell poses as a maid to gain entrance to the household. Soon after, articles begin to disappear and Madge's father, a kleptomaniac, begins to feel guilty, while the groom almost suspects himself.
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The Woman in Room 13
Title: The Woman in Room 13
Character: Lottie Hanson
Released: April 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Laura Bruce is married to John Bruce, police commissioner. She discovers her husband is enjoying a drunken revel with another woman, and vows she will obtain a divorce. After doing so she weds Paul Ramsey. His employer, Dick Turner, a libertine, offers his a responsible position in the west, and she faces a long separation. Ramsey later learns that Turner is interested in his wife and engages a man to protect her, who happens to be her former husband.
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The Paliser Case
Title: The Paliser Case
Character: Mrs. Austen
Released: February 15, 1920
Type: Movie
A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from ruin. When her marriage is disrupted by a murder, three different people confess to it.
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The Cup of Fury
Title: The Cup of Fury
Character: Lady Webling
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Sir Joseph and Lady Webbing are the foster parents of Marie-Louise. The couple are also in league with Verrinder, a German spy. When their work against England is discovered, they commit suicide. Marie-Louise, who has been an unwitting part of their schemes, is allowed to go to the U.S. if she promises to keep everything a secret.
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The Gay Lord Quex
Title: The Gay Lord Quex
Character: Lady Owbridge
Released: December 21, 1919
Type: Movie
Having followed the road of romance through many countries, Lord Quex finally falls in love with Muriel Eden. After resisting Lord Quex because of his reputation, Muriel finally capitulates to his charms and agrees to marry him. In her heart, however, Muriel still treasures an affection for Caption Bastling, a fortune hunting womanizer, and when Muriel is told of Lord Quex's continuing contact with the Duchess of Dowager, a situation brought about through the scheming of the Duchess, Muriel turns to Bastling and agrees to meet him at her friend Sophie Fullgarney's manicurist shop.
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Bonds of Love
Title: Bonds of Love
Character: Mrs. Cunningham
Released: November 2, 1919
Type: Movie
A young woman is hired as a governess for the son of a man grieving the loss of his wife. The governess's presence is unwelcome to the rest of the family, especially after the governess develops a romantic attachment to her employer.
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Lord and Lady Algy
Title: Lord and Lady Algy
Character: Mrs. Vokins
Released: September 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Lord and Lady Algy separate amicably after he breaks his promise not to gamble again on the horses. When the wife of soap magnate Brabazon Tudway, is courted by Algy's philandering elder brother, Algy tries to help his brother escape Tudway's wrath by hiding Mrs. Tudway in his apartments. Tudway discovers her there ....
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Through the Wrong Door
Title: Through the Wrong Door
Character: Mrs. Carter
Released: July 20, 1919
Type: Movie
A young woman goes to visit friends but mistakenly rings at the wrong address. She is greeted and taken in out of the storm by a handsome young man to whom she is immediately attracted. What she does not know, however, is that this young man has been fleeced by her father and has sworn vengeance against him.
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The Solitary Sin
Title: The Solitary Sin
Character: Mrs. Ralston
Released: July 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Bob, John, and Edward--three young boys growing up in the same neighborhood--have vastly-different experiences with sex. Bob's father patiently explains "the birds and the bees" to him, and even takes him to a hospital to see the effects of venereal disease.
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The Crimson Gardenia
Title: The Crimson Gardenia
Character: Mrs. Banniman
Released: June 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Wastrel New York millionaire Roland Van Dam travels to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, looking for adventure and romance. Because the costume he is wearing includes a red gardenia, he is mistaken for escaped prisoner Emile Le Duc by a woman (who turns out to be a long-lost cousin) who was to meet Le Duc, who was to be wearing a red gardenia. It turns out that Le Duc is the head of a vicious gang of counterfeiters, and Roland winds up getting in more adventures than he had hoped for.
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The Stronger Vow
Title: The Stronger Vow
Character: Señora de Cordova
Released: April 27, 1919
Type: Movie
During the Easter Carnival, Dolores de Cordova flirts with Juan Estudillo, not knowing that he is a member of the family with whom her ancestors have long feuded. Dolores' cousin, Pedro Toral, jealous of her attentions to Juan, kills her brother that night and after leaving Juan's handkerchief by the body, makes Dolores swear to avenge the death with her own hands....
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A Man And His Money
Title: A Man And His Money
Character: Mrs. Johnston DeLong
Released: March 16, 1919
Type: Movie
Inheriting a fortune allows Harry Lathrop to indulge in extravagant spending and wild wine parties with chorus girls, decides to change his ways after his childhood sweetheart, Betty Dalrymple, gives back her engagement ring because he arrives drunk for dinner.
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Little Women
Title: Little Women
Character: Marmee
Released: November 30, 1918
Type: Movie
Jo March and her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy live in a happy family in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo yearns to be a writer, and through the course of the years, finds much within her own family.
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Doing Their Bit
Title: Doing Their Bit
Character: Mrs. Velma Vanderspent
Released: August 4, 1918
Type: Movie
Little Kate and Janie O'Dowd are sent to their wealthy American uncle, Michael O'Dowd, after their Irish father loses his life on a World War I battlefield. Having been locked accidentally into O'Dowd's munitions plant one evening, the children catch sight of their intoxicated cousin Miles O'Dowd admitting two men into the factory. The girls recognize the two as spies they had seen on the boat to America sending signals to a German submarine. After the spies knock Miles cold, the children trap them in a die-stamping machine until help arrives.
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The Cross Bearer
Title: The Cross Bearer
Character: The Cardinals Housekeeper
Released: April 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Cardinal Mercier protects the altar of his church from desecration when German forces invade the Belgian city of Louvain during World War I. Although the soldiers commit widespread atrocities, the cardinal does his best to protect the townspeople.
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The Unbeliever
Title: The Unbeliever
Character: Margaret Landicutt
Released: February 15, 1918
Type: Movie
A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.
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The Volunteer
Title: The Volunteer
Character: Tabitha Mendenhall
Released: December 24, 1917
Type: Movie
Madge Evans, World Film Corp. juvenile star, is sent to her Quaker grandparents, Timothy and Tabitha Mendenhall, when her father and mother go to serve in World War I. After bidding farewell to the World stars, Madge goes to her grandparent's home where she experiences stern discipline.
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Betsy Ross
Title: Betsy Ross
Character: Mrs. Vernon
Released: September 16, 1917
Type: Movie
Revolutionary War heroine Betsy Ross finds herself in competition with her sister for the affections of a British soldier.
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To-Day
Title: To-Day
Character: Mrs. Farington
Released: June 1, 1917
Type: Movie
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God's Man
Title: God's Man
Character: Mrs. L'Hommedieu
Released: April 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Arnold L'Hommedieu and his friends Archie Hartogensis and Hugo Waldemar go to New York to find work after being unfairly expelled from college. Arnold starts off as helpful and idealistic, but after being beaten down by life, he decides he is only after money and becomes an opium smuggler. His pals have fared no better: Archie becomes a drug addict and is in debt thanks to his spendthrift fiancee, while Hugo has lost his money after investing in a show that flopped. The two go to Arnold for financial aid. They await a shipment of opium, but the police are onto them and raid the hideout; only Arnold evades the cops.
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The Fortunes of Fifi
Title: The Fortunes of Fifi
Character: Madame Bourcet
Released: February 26, 1917
Type: Movie
Fifi is an actress in Napoleon-era France. She wins a lottery and leaves Cartouche, the man she loves to go live with a rich family. The conniving Louis Bourcet tries to woo her because he wants her money. But Fifi wants nothing to do with him, and ultimately she gives up her money and returns to Cartouche. But Cartouche, believing he is too old, refuses to marry her until Napoleon himself orders him to do it.
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The Social Secretary
Title: The Social Secretary
Character: Mrs. de Puyster
Released: September 16, 1916
Type: Movie
An attractive young girl struggles to hold a job as she deals with unwanted romantic advances from her boss.
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Destiny's Toy
Title: Destiny's Toy
Character: Mrs. Calvin
Released: June 15, 1916
Type: Movie
Young Nan was rescued from a shipwreck by a man who becomes her foster father. Years later, when he dies, she moves to a nearby city and unknowingly gets involved with a criminal gang. When the gang attempts and fails to rob wealthy Thomas Carter's home, Nan finally discovers what they are and tells the police all she knows, resulting in the imprisonment of Bad Riley, the gang's leader. Grateful, the Carter family takes Nan into their home, to replace a young daughter who had drowned years before, and the young son, Rev. Robert Carter, begins a romance with her. However, the jailed Riley soon escapes and comes after Nan.