Grace Cunard

Grace Cunard

Born: April 8, 1893
Died: January 19, 1967

Movies for Grace Cunard...

Girls of the Big House
Title: Girls of the Big House
Character: Medical Trustee
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.
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The Climax
Title: The Climax
Character: Backstage Maid (Uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1944
Type: Movie
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later, another young singer reminds Hohner of the late diva and his old mania kicks in. Hohner wants to prevent her from singing for anyone but him, even if it means silencing her forever.
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Title: The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Character: Second German Woman Spy [Chs. 6-7]
Released: January 5, 1943
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
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The Mummy's Tomb
Title: The Mummy's Tomb
Character: Farmer's Wife (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
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Winners of the West
Title: Winners of the West
Character: Townswoman
Released: July 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.
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Crashing Hollywood
Title: Crashing Hollywood
Character: Mrs. Armstrong (uncredited)
Released: January 7, 1938
Type: Movie
A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.
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Wings Over Honolulu
Title: Wings Over Honolulu
Character: Mrs. Strange
Released: May 16, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
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Night Waitress
Title: Night Waitress
Character: Waitress
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the latter, including Helen's unwelcome suitor Martin Rhodes, are after a mysterious, valuable hidden "cargo"; when violence erupts, Helen finds herself innocently involved, and is soon on the run from both cops and crooks.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Released: May 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
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Dangerous Waters
Title: Dangerous Waters
Character: Ship Stewardess (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1936
Type: Movie
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
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Chinatown Squad
Title: Chinatown Squad
Character: Schoolteacher
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
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Bride of Frankenstein
Title: Bride of Frankenstein
Character: Villager (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
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The Call of the Savage
Title: The Call of the Savage
Character: Mrs. Camerford Amster
Released: April 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
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Rustlers of Red Dog
Title: Rustlers of Red Dog
Character: Mrs. Perkins [Chs. 1, 4]
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 12 chapters: After gold is discovered in the town of Nugget, the titular band of thieves and cutthroats inundates the frontier settlement. A group of three compatriots -- upstanding ex-sheriff Jack Woods, his harmonica-playing friend Laramie and tricky, smooth-talking gambler Deacon -- combine their respective skills in a fateful struggle to deceive and disarm the gang.
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The Fourth Horseman
Title: The Fourth Horseman
Character: Mrs. Elmer Brown
Released: September 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Retiring from a life of train robbing, Benjamin R. Jones takes over the ghost town of Stillwell, knowing full well that the property belongs to Molly O'Rourke. Enter horse wrangler Tom Mason, who smells a rat and does his best to unmask Jones as the crook he knows him to be. Molly at first falls for Jones' scheme, but confronts him when a general feeling of lawlessness sets in. The villain, alas, has an ace up his sleeve: Molly owes back taxes on her property, which is ripe for a takeover.
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Heroes of the West
Title: Heroes of the West
Character: Flo
Released: June 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12-chapter movie serial.
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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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Resurrection
Title: Resurrection
Character: Olga
Released: January 27, 1931
Type: Movie
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
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A Lady Surrenders
Title: A Lady Surrenders
Character: Maid
Released: October 6, 1930
Type: Movie
A wealthy industrialist's wife gets into a big argument with him; to cool off, she goes on an ocean trip. He thinks she's left him for good, so he marries another woman. When his first wife returns, complications ensue.
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Little Accident
Title: Little Accident
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1930
Type: Movie
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
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Untamed
Title: Untamed
Character: Milly
Released: November 23, 1929
Type: Movie
In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for Bingo, Andy is penniless and refuses to agree to the match until he can provide for the wild, rich girl. Andy's prideful position is more than encouraged by Bingo's Uncle Ben, who seeks to scuttle their love match.
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The Ace of Scotland Yard
Title: The Ace of Scotland Yard
Character: Mary Duveen- aka Queen of Diamonds
Released: September 30, 1929
Type: Movie
From the Universal synopsis: Retired Inspector Blake of Scotland Yard learns that Lord Blanton has acquired the sacred "Love Ring"---a cursed jewel that has brought grief to its previous owners. Prince Darius seeks to obtain the ring, and the mummy of a princess of an ancient country to return them to his homeland.
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The Chinatown Mystery
Title: The Chinatown Mystery
Released: September 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for the silent-era serial, and brought together some of the biggest names of the era: director J.P. McGowan, actors Francis Ford and Joe Bonomo (a carnival strongman-turned-actor), producer Trem Carr (who would later help found Monogram Pictures), and a slew of silent-era supporting icons such as Ruth Hiatt, Grace Cunard, and more. Chapter names like “The Clutching Claw,” “The Devil’s Dice, “Galloping Fury,” and “The Invisible Hand” offer all one needs to know of the film’s concerns: to promise and deliver as much action and suspense as possible, and move our intrepid hero and heroine from one perilous situation to another. One of the biggest stars of the early silent era and a successful serials director in his own right, Francis Ford was the brother of director John Ford.
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Haunted Island
Title: Haunted Island
Character: Mary Strong
Released: March 26, 1928
Type: Movie
Rosalind Joy (Helen Foster) is an heiress who has inherited a South Seas island known as Pleasure Island. A hidden cache of gold is allegedly buried on the island, which has several haunted structures. Rosalind's uncle, Spring Gilbert (Al Ferguson), wants the gold for himself and declares he will stop at nothing, not even the death of his niece, to get it. Rosalind, meanwhile, is befriended by Jerry Fitzjames (Jack Dougherty), a playwright. Unfortunately, Jerry has only recently escaped from a psychiatric hospital. Although he swears to protect Rosalind, she doubts Jerry's sanity. The two lovers race against Uncle Gilbert (who has set several traps for them) to find the treasure. In the end, Rosalind and Jerry are aided by the "Phantom Rider," a spectral horseman.
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A Trick of Hearts
Title: A Trick of Hearts
Character: The Constable
Released: March 18, 1928
Type: Movie
In this comedy-western, based on the life of Henry Irving Dodge, our cowboy hero keeps his tongue firmly planted in his cheek as he goes up against a town run by such women as newly elected sheriff, Carrie Patience. Hoping to restore some masculinity to the sheriff's office, Gibson stages a series of fake hold-ups but is soon upstaged by a real crook
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Blake of Scotland Yard
Title: Blake of Scotland Yard
Character: Queen of Diamonds
Released: August 14, 1927
Type: Movie
Prequel to The Ace of Scotland Yard. This serial is presumed lost.
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The Denver Dude
Title: The Denver Dude
Character: Mrs. Bird
Released: February 13, 1927
Type: Movie
A cowboy begins to do such un-cowboylike things as dressing up and taking baths in order to impress a pretty young girl. He sees that a citified "dandy" is also after the girl, and the dude seems to be scoring some points with his "civilized" demeanor.
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A Dumb Romeo
Title: A Dumb Romeo
Character: Carolyn Van Colten
Released: July 31, 1926
Type: Movie
A dog tracks down thieves.
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The Strings of Steel
Title: The Strings of Steel
Character: Bowery Belle
Released: June 28, 1926
Type: Movie
The Strings of Steel is a silent Action serial.
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Outwitted
Title: Outwitted
Character: Lucy Carlisle
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
After being captured by T-Man Jack Blaisdell and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor on a counterfeiting rap, Tiger McGuire is sprung from jail by his old gang. Vowing to get even with Jack, Tiger kidnaps the young man's fiancée, Helen (Holmes), bringing the girl to his hideout, a fancy yacht owned by Lucy Carlisle.
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The Last Man on Earth
Title: The Last Man on Earth
Character: Gertie
Released: November 2, 1924
Type: Movie
An epidemic has killed off all of the fertile men on earth, except for Elmer Smith, a hillbilly who lives out in a cabin in the Ozarks, when he is discovered, every woman on the planet begins fighting over him.
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The Girl in the Taxi
Title: The Girl in the Taxi
Character: Marietta
Released: April 1, 1921
Type: Movie
The Girl in the Taxi (1921)
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A Daughter of the Law
Title: A Daughter of the Law
Character: The Secret Service Agent
Released: February 6, 1921
Type: Movie
A city girl revenuer spies on illegal whiskey making in the hills.
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Elmo, the Mighty
Title: Elmo, the Mighty
Character: Lucille Gray
Released: January 2, 1919
Type: Movie
An 18-episode movie serial
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After the War
Title: After the War
Released: July 1, 1918
Type: Movie
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Hell's Crater
Title: Hell's Crater
Character: Cherry Maurice
Released: January 14, 1918
Type: Movie
During the days of the California gold rush, Jim Shamrick toils on his claim, Hell's Crater, for two years and then decides to enjoy himself in a nearby mining camp. Bill Gordon, the owner of the local dance hall, gets Jim drunk and then, with the aid of Cherry Maurice ( Grace Cunard ), robs him. When the prospector realizes what has happened, he abducts Cherry and forces her to labor in his mine for a year. Though nearly broken by the hard work, Cherry comes to love Jim and eventually marries him.
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Society's Driftwood
Title: Society's Driftwood
Released: October 22, 1917
Type: Movie
When Judge Grant sentences Paul Rogers to jail on circumstantial evidence, Paul's sister Lena swears revenge.
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The Vault of Mystery
Title: The Vault of Mystery
Released: January 2, 1917
Type: Movie
Episode 12 of the "Purple Mask" serials. Directed by Grace Cunard and Francis Ford.
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The Purple Domino
Title: The Purple Domino
Character: Lucille Love, "The Purple Domino"
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
The Purple Domino is a movie serial
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The Leap
Title: The Leap
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Episode 13 of the "Purple Mask" serial. Directed by Grace Cunard and Francis Ford.
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Unmasked
Title: Unmasked
Character: Meg - a Crook
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
In the film, Cunard plays a jewel thief pursuing the same wealthy marks as another thief, played by Francis Ford.
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The Purple Mask
Title: The Purple Mask
Character: Patricia Montez/Queen of the Apaches
Released: December 25, 1916
Type: Movie
Cunard turns into The Queen of the Apaches, an outlaw who steals from the rich to gives to the poor, always leaving a purple mask behind as a trademark.
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The Bandit's Wager
Title: The Bandit's Wager
Character: Nan Jefferson
Released: November 5, 1916
Type: Movie
After a man and his sister move West, she fights off the advances of a bandit who makes a bet that one day she will kiss him without any pressure from him.
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The Princely Bandit
Title: The Princely Bandit
Character: The Madcap Queen
Released: September 9, 1916
Type: Movie
The Princely Bandit
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Brennon o' the Moor
Title: Brennon o' the Moor
Character: Molly Dawn
Released: August 27, 1916
Type: Movie
Brennon o' the Moor
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The Unexpected
Title: The Unexpected
Character: Betty
Released: April 26, 1916
Type: Movie
Betty starts out for a walk and is warned by her sweetheart and his friends to be careful as there are likely to be bandits about. She laughingly tells them she is not afraid, as she has her dog with her, who will be ample protection. During her stroll Betty finds a shack and decides to investigate.
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Behind the Mask
Title: Behind the Mask
Character: Madcap Queen
Released: April 8, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Madcap Queen of Crona
Title: The Madcap Queen of Crona
Character: The Madcap Queen / Marcia Avery (dual role)
Released: March 21, 1916
Type: Movie
The Madcap Queen of Crona
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Born of the People
Title: Born of the People
Character: Cecil George - the Stenographer
Released: March 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Born of the People
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His Majesty Dick Turpin
Title: His Majesty Dick Turpin
Character: The Madcap Queen
Released: February 12, 1916
Type: Movie
His Majesty Dick Turpin
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Her Better Self
Title: Her Better Self
Character: Yvette
Released: January 19, 1916
Type: Movie
Yvette, known as a society woman, but in reality a leader of a gang of crooks, sits at the telephone, laughing at the impulsive young man at the other end. Yvette still laughs when Ralph threatens to kill himself if she does not promise to marry him.
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The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring
Title: The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring
Character: Peg O' the Ring
Released: January 2, 1916
Type: Movie
The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring is a 1916 American drama film serial directed by Francis Ford and Jacques Jaccard. It is now considered to be lost.
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The Campbells Are Coming
Title: The Campbells Are Coming
Released: October 18, 1915
Type: Movie
In 1857, Mary McLean leaves her sweetheart in the Scottish Highlands to teach school in India, where her father is a missionary. In India, the new Sepoy leader, Nana Sahib, sends his agent Azimooah to appeal to Queen Victoria to restore the pension given during his father's reign, but the Queen refuses because Nana Sahib is an adopted son. The infuriated Sepoys attack an English town and capture Mary and her father. After Nana Sahib adds Mary to his harem, she pretends to like him to learn information about his plans, which she passes on to British officers when she escapes.
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The Broken Coin
Title: The Broken Coin
Character: Kitty Gray
Released: June 21, 1915
Type: Movie
A movie serial directed by Francis Ford.
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The Heart of Lincoln
Title: The Heart of Lincoln
Character: Betty Jason
Released: February 9, 1915
Type: Movie
During the Civil War, a young man joins the Union army. His sweetheart's brother, on the other hand, joins the Confederate forces. During a battle the Confederate is captured and brought to the young Union officer, who recognizes him, and later allows him to escape. For that action he is tried for treason, convicted and sentenced to hang. All that remains now is for President Abraham Lincoln to sign his death warrant.
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A Study in Scarlet
Title: A Study in Scarlet
Released: December 29, 1914
Type: Movie
This is the first of the Sherlock Holmes' stories by the famous English author. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes and his friend, Dr. Watson, receives an invitation from Mr. Gregson, of Scotland Yard, to assist in unraveling a murder mystery. Holmes makes a careful study of the case and as a result of his ingenious deductions rounds up the murderer, one Jefferson Hope, a cabman. The man confesses his guilt and tells his life story and of the vengeance of the many wrongs he has suffered at the hands of the dead man in the years gone by. Before the case comes to trial the prisoner dies from heart failure. This is another victory for Holmes and his wonderful deductive methods, as the officers of Scotland Yard had all but fastened the guilt upon another and an innocent person.
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The Phantom Violin
Title: The Phantom Violin
Released: October 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Awakened during the night by a thunderstorm, a young Parisian woman hears a violin playing in the house next door. The following morning, she becomes acquainted with Ellis, the musician, and they fall in love. The happiness of their subsequent marriage is brief, however. The wife begins frequenting the cabaret where Ellis is employed as a violinist, accompanied by one of her husband's friends, and she becomes disenchanted with her marriage. Learning of his wife's infidelity, Ellis attempts to jump into the Seine, but he is restrained by the police. He returns, insane, to the cabaret, where he discovers a secret door leading to a crypt. There he dwells among the bones, and time passes.
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The Great Universal Mystery
Title: The Great Universal Mystery
Character: Herself
Released: July 10, 1914
Type: Movie
A promotional one-reel film promoting the stars of Universal Pictures.
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Washington at Valley Forge
Title: Washington at Valley Forge
Character: Betty
Released: March 30, 1914
Type: Movie
The great awakening in the Colonies in the spring of 1775; the patriotic activities of Samuel Adams and John Hancock; the midnight ride of Paul Revere; the gathering of the Minute Men and the battle of Lexington, all these important details of Colonial history are shown as a prelude to the intense war romance woven around the situation at Valley Forge during the terrible winter of 1777, when the cause of Liberty looked next to Betty, daughter of a Minute Man who was killed in the battle of Lexington, is stopping at the inn of her uncle, a Tory sympathizer, near the winter camp of Washington's army at Valley Forge.
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In the Fall of '64
Title: In the Fall of '64
Character: Virginia - the Southern Belle
Released: February 3, 1914
Type: Movie
At a military hall in a Southern mansion the Confederate officers are amusing themselves. Captain Ford is the officer in charge and Virginia, the young hostess, is his sweetheart. At the height of their fun the sentries outside report the approach of Union soldiers. All officers hurry to their commands. At first the Confederates, having less men, attempt to outmarch the Federals. However, after a short time, they change plans and entrench themselves on the surrounding hills.
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Lucille Love: The Girl of Mystery
Title: Lucille Love: The Girl of Mystery
Character: Lucille Love
Released: January 2, 1914
Type: Movie
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When Lincoln Paid
Title: When Lincoln Paid
Released: January 31, 1913
Type: Movie
The mother of a dead Union soldier attempts to convince President Lincoln to pardon a similarly condemned Confederate soldier whose unjust conviction was the result of her vindictive scheme.
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Custer's Last Fight
Title: Custer's Last Fight
Released: October 3, 1912
Type: Movie
Custer's Last Fight chronicles George Armstrong Custer's final battle against the forces of Sitting Bull at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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The Heart of an Indian
Title: The Heart of an Indian
Released: March 1, 1912
Type: Movie
When Indians attack a white settlement, a brave kidnaps a white baby to give to his wife as a replacement for their dead baby. The white mother goes to the Indian camp to look for her child and is captured by the Indians who plan to torture her. The settlers attack the Indian camp, destroying it completely and killing the braves, while the Indian wife returns the baby to the white woman and allows her to escape. The Indian wife mourns her baby at its grave, unaware of the destruction of the Indian camp.