Florence Lawrence
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Florence Lawrence (born Florence Annie Bridgwood; January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as "The First Movie Star", and was the first film actor to be named publicly. At the height of her fame in the 1910s, she was known as "The Biograph Girl" for work as one of the leading ladies in silent films from the Biograph Company. Lawrence appeared in almost 300 films for various motion picture companies throughout her career.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6837 |
| Birthday | 1886-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
| Also Known As | Florence Annie Bridgwood, |
1931
Homicide Squad
8/1
The police use a gangster's son to get to him.
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Homicide Squad
1930
Sweeping Against the Winds
7/1
A small textile factory down south is run by a cruel foreman that bullies and fires on whim the workers, especially the office girl who starts a day n...
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Sweeping Against the Winds
1909
The Necklace
4/3
Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace is stolen, and Mr. Kendrick goes into debt to repla...
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The Necklace
1937
Night Must Fall
6.989/45
Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in. Mrs....
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Night Must Fall
1909
The Curtain Pole
4.5/12
An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very lo...
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The Curtain Pole
1931
The Hard Hombre
3.833/6
When Peaceful Patton goes to work at the Martini ranch he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw the Hard Hombre. This enables him to force the ranchers...
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The Hard Hombre
1909
The Mended Lute
4.6/21
In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.
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The Mended Lute
1909
Those Awful Hats
6.073/55
A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.
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Those Awful Hats
1909
Lady Helen's Escapade
4.1/7
A bored Lady Helen goes slumming as a domestic in a boarding house. There she falls in love with a sensitive young musician. The other women in the ho...
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Lady Helen's Escapade
1908
Money Mad
4.8/6
The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at the...
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Money Mad
1909
The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals
3.8/5
The amateur dramatic society chooses the Joneses' residence as the location of its next meeting, and both Joneses catch 'the acting bug' in this split...
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The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals
1908
Betrayed by a Handprint
2.9/5
Mrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to her of a handsome diamond necklace by her fiancé....
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Betrayed by a Handprint
1908
The Song of the Shirt
3.6/6
Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.
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The Song of the Shirt
1909
A Drunkard's Reformation
5.5/10
A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play, he'...
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A Drunkard's Reformation
1909
Resurrection
4.9/4
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that h...
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Resurrection
1909
Confidence
4.1/4
Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail her....
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Confidence
1908
After Many Years
2.5/2
A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?
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After Many Years
1909
Her First Biscuits
3/3
A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits ma...
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Her First Biscuits
1936
Yellow Dust
4.5/6
After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.
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Yellow Dust
1908
The Taming of the Shrew
4.9/6
Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.
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The Taming of the Shrew
1908
An Awful Moment
2.8/4
After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken forcefu...
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An Awful Moment
1909
The Lure of the Gown
3.7/3
"Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a maste...
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The Lure of the Gown
1932
Sinners in the Sun
4.9/10
A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.
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Sinners in the Sun
1908
The Girl and the Outlaw
3/1
Mack Sennett appears as a Native American in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Girl and the Outlaw
1908
Behind the Scenes: Where All Is Not Gold That Glitters
2/1
A mother works as a dancer to support her ill daughter. One night while performing, the mother has a vision of her child dying. She rushes home, but i...
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Behind the Scenes: Where All Is Not Gold That Glitters
1908
The Red Girl
3.5/1
Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Red Girl
1908
The Heart of O Yama
1.5/1
Pretty Miss Chrysanthemum has but little to say as to the disposal of her heart, at least, such is the custom in Japan. Her parents attend to that for...
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The Heart of O Yama
1908
Where the Breakers Roar
3.2/2
A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby asylum, heads for the surf, brandishing a knife. Innocent se...
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Where the Breakers Roar
1909
At the Altar
3.8/4
At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic tu...
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At the Altar
1908
A Smoked Husband
4/2
After his wife receives an extravagant dress, a man find himself the victim of an attempted burglary; He hides in his fireplace, which is then fired....
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A Smoked Husband
1908
Father Gets in the Game
3.3/5
D.W. Griffith film about an elderly father who grows tired of seeing his son bring home beautiful women so he gets a makeover and heads out on the pro...
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Father Gets in the Game
1908
Romance of a Jewess
4.1/5
This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic...
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Romance of a Jewess
1908
The Call of the Wild
3.1/4
George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the college...
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The Call of the Wild
1908
Concealing a Burglar
3/1
Mack Sennett appears as a policeman and waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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Concealing a Burglar
1908
The Clubman and the Tramp
4/1
Mack Sennett appears as a dinner guest and a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Clubman and the Tramp
1908
The Valet's Wife
3.5/1
Bachelor Reggie writes his uncle that he has a wife and child, but then must produce them when the uncle visits.
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The Valet's Wife
1908
The Feud and the Turkey
2/1
Mack Sennett appears as a member of the Wilkenson clan in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Feud and the Turkey
1908
The Reckoning
4/1
Mack Sennett appears as a lover in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Reckoning
1908
The Test of Friendship
4/1
Mack Sennett appears as a guest and a man in the fight in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Test of Friendship
1909
The Country Doctor
6.2/39
While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pl...
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The Country Doctor
1909
The Way of Man
4/2
A woman is scarred in an accident and refuses to stand in the way of her lover's marriage to another.
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The Way of Man
1908
Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy
4.7/6
Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
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Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy
1912
Flo's Discipline
7/2
Flo is the headmistress at Dow's School for Boys (enrollment: 12). The boys get too rowdy at the dinner table, so she dismisses the popular, but permi...
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Flo's Discipline
1908
The Christmas Burglars
2/2
Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Christmas Burglars
1908
Mr. Jones at the Ball
4.1/4
Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his...
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Mr. Jones at the Ball
1908
The Helping Hand
2/1
Mack Sennett appears as a wedding guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Helping Hand
1909
One Touch of Nature
3/1
"A pathetic story of mother's grief. No more intense emotion can be imagined than a mother's grief for her dead child. and this Biograph subject beaut...
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One Touch of Nature
1909
The Honor of Thieves
1.5/1
Two thieves, Ned and Mike, scheme to rob a pawnbroker, Mr. Einstein. Ned seduces Einstein's daughter Rachel to aid their plan, but during the attempte...
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The Honor of Thieves
1909
The Sacrifice
4/1
Oh, the woe of simultaneous birthdays, as were Mr. and Mrs. Hardlucks', and both being of a generous nature, were seized with an insatiable desire to...
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The Sacrifice
1909
The Criminal Hypnotist
2/1
To a reception there is invited a celebrated professor of hypnotism, and during the evening he obliges with an exhibition of his wonderful powers. Sev...
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The Criminal Hypnotist
1909
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
3/3
Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance Leagu...
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Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
1909
The Salvation Army Lass
4/4
A girl from the New York slums falls in with crooks. After her love is arrested following a barfight turned deadly, her life seems directionless-- tha...
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The Salvation Army Lass
1907
The Boy, the Bust and the Bath
8/2
A young female boarding house tenant becomes an unwanted object of male attention.
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The Boy, the Bust and the Bath
1909
The Cardinal's Conspiracy
3.7/3
A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to stage...
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The Cardinal's Conspiracy
1911
Her Child's Honor
9/1
Unable to bear the abuse of her drunken soldier husband, the wife left her home and went to the city, where she became a nurse in a hospital. Her husb...
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Her Child's Honor
1934
The Old-Fashioned Way
7.188/16
The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.
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The Old-Fashioned Way
1935
Man on the Flying Trapeze
6.235/17
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
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Man on the Flying Trapeze
1906
The Automobile Thieves
9/1
A young couple conducts a series of robberies, followed by a chase, in which they are shot and killed.
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The Automobile Thieves
1908
The Viking's Daughter: The Story of the Ancient Norsemen
3/1
A Saxon prisoner rescues his Viking's captor's daughter, resulting in his freedom and their marriage.
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The Viking's Daughter: The Story of the Ancient Norsemen
1909
Two Memories
4.2/5
Henry and Marion have a lover's quarrel and part in anger. They do not reconcile, and ten years pass without contact. Marion becomes a society girl an...
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Two Memories
1909
Sweet and Twenty
3.8/2
Alice misunderstands when she sees her sweetheart Frank accidentally kissing her sister, and gets upset. Frank claims he'll kill himself by throwing h...
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Sweet and Twenty
1933
Secrets
5.214/14
In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortu...
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Secrets
1909
Trying to Get Arrested
3.5/2
A tramp tries to get himself arrested so he can sleep in the nice, warm jail, but the police keep ignoring him or arresting the wrong person.
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Trying to Get Arrested
1912
Not Like Other Girls
10/1
Flo is not like the other girls at the Ferncliffe Seminary, in that she does not like the attention of the young men at the nearby college, and their...
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Not Like Other Girls
1909
The Peachbasket Hat
4.2/2
Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm read...
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The Peachbasket Hat
1909
The Slave
4.2/2
A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she offers to sell herself as a slave to allow them to buy food...
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The Slave
1908
The Zulu's Heart
4.3/6
A Boer woman and her daughter are captured by Zulu warriors.
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The Zulu's Heart
1908
Antony and Cleopatra, a Love Story of the Noblest Roman and the Most Beautiful Egyptian
2.5/1
A short film based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was the first film to dramatize the ill-fated romance between Mark Antony and Cl...
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Antony and Cleopatra, a Love Story of the Noblest Roman and the Most Beautiful Egyptian
1916
Elusive Isabel
0/0
Based on the spy novel of the same name by Jacques Futrelle.
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Elusive Isabel
1998
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
10/1
The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and...
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Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
1932
So Big!
5.688/16
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
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So Big!
1909
Mrs. Jones Entertains
3.2/2
In the third installment of the "Mr. and Mrs. Jones" series, Mrs. Jones hosts a luncheon for her Ladies' Temperance League chapter on the condition th...
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Mrs. Jones Entertains
1907
Daniel Boone; or, Pioneer Days in America
9/1
Daniel Boone is captured by Indians when he tries to rescue his abducted daughter.
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Daniel Boone; or, Pioneer Days in America
1908
The Bandit's Waterloo: The Outwitting of an Andalusian Brigand by a Pretty Senora
2.5/1
A gang of lawless freebooters who terrorized the country and made travel in the mountains a hazardous pastime hold up a stylish landau in which are se...
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The Bandit's Waterloo: The Outwitting of an Andalusian Brigand by a Pretty Senora
1908
Ingomar, the Barbarian
3/1
Mack Sennett appears as a barbarian in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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Ingomar, the Barbarian
1908
The Devil
1.5/1
Mack Sennett appears as a waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Devil
1908
The Ingrate
2/1
A hunter lost in the Northern woods is rescued by a trapper and his wife. He makes advances to the wife, is rejected, and tries to kill the trapper.
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The Ingrate
1908
The Pirate's Gold
4.5/1
Young Wilkinson is leaving his dear old mother for a journey to seek his fortune in a foreign clime. Now, the little cottage is situated near the coas...
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The Pirate's Gold
1908
The Planter's Wife
5/1
John Holland, a planter in a small way, is devotedly attached to his wife and infant child. The wife wearies of the monotonous grind of farm life and...
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The Planter's Wife
1909
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
5.2/6
During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers....
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1776, or The Hessian Renegades
1908
The Vaquero's Vow
3.5/1
Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar and in the wedding party in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Vaquero's Vow
1908
Romeo and Juliet, A Romantic Story of the Ancient Feud Between the Italian Houses of Montague and Capulet
3.5/1
Two feuding houses are united with the marriage and eventual death of their children.
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Romeo and Juliet, A Romantic Story of the Ancient Feud Between the Italian Houses of Montague and Capulet
1908
Salome; or, The Dance of the Seven Veils
10/1
King Herod is enchanted by Salome's dance and grants her wish for the head of John the Baptist.
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Salome; or, The Dance of the Seven Veils
1908
The Stolen Jewels
4/1
It would have taken more than the wonderful powers of deduction of a Sherlock Holmes to have dispelled the mystery that shrouded the disappearance of...
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The Stolen Jewels
1908
A Woman's Way
3.5/1
The pretty daughter of a French-Canadian backwoodsman incites the love of a trapper who is so smitten with the beauty of this wood nymph that he purch...
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A Woman's Way
1909
The Awakening of Bess
9/1
The Awakening of Bess is a silent short film of 1909 directed by Harry Solter . The protagonists of the film are Florence Lawrence (wife of the direct...
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The Awakening of Bess
1909
A Baby's Shoe
2/1
The story tells of the young widowed mother of two children who is forced by extreme poverty to part with one of her children, a baby girl, by placing...
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A Baby's Shoe
1909
The Brahma Diamond
1.5/1
An unscrupulous tourist plots to steal the famous diamond, "The Light of the World," tricking a young woman into helping him. She is caught and impris...
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The Brahma Diamond
1909
The Deception
2/1
A wife offers to support her artist husband by teaching piano. She can't find work at the conservatory, and ends up working in a laundry, without tell...
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The Deception
1909
Lucky Jim
3/3
Gertrude chooses Jim over Jack, which makes Jack very jealous. Later Jim dies, and Jack marries Gertrude. He finds himself once again very jealous of...
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Lucky Jim
1909
The Girls and Daddy
3/2
Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy's money.
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The Girls and Daddy
1909
Drive for a Life
1.5/1
Harry's jealous former mistress puts poison in some candy intended for his new fiancée. Harry discovers what she has done, and races to save his fianc...
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Drive for a Life
1909
Eloping with Auntie
2.5/1
A girl is being shipped off to Europe with her aunt to break up her romance. Her suitor dresses himself as the aunt and manages to fool everyone long...
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Eloping with Auntie
1909
Eradicating Aunty
0.5/1
A young couple must endure a tedious visit from their aunt until their friend offers to find a way to make her leave.
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Eradicating Aunty
1909
His Ward's Love
2.5/1
Reverend Howson loves his young ward, but urges her to marry someone else. She accepts the proposal, but then sees the Reverend kissing an object she...
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His Ward's Love
1909
His Wife's Mother
2/1
Jones's mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk.
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His Wife's Mother
1909
Jealousy and the Man
2.5/1
House painter Jim Brooks thinks his wife is cheating on him with his best friend John West. The intrigue is in fact a birthday surprise.
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Jealousy and the Man
1909
The Jilt
0.5/1
John is seduced and abandoned by a cruel flirt. Later he learns that his friend Frank is engaged to the same woman. He relates his story to Frank and...
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The Jilt
1909
Jones and His New Neighbors
2.5/1
Jones' new house looks like all the others on the street. One night Jones enters the wrong house and finds himself in a precarious situation.
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Jones and His New Neighbors
1907
The Despatch Bearer; or, Through the Enemy's Lines
8/1
A woman replaces her injured beau on a spy mission.
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The Despatch Bearer; or, Through the Enemy's Lines
1907
The Shaughraun, an Irish Romance
7/1
An early short featuring Florence Lawrence.
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The Shaughraun, an Irish Romance
1909
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
2.5/1
After overhearing Jones mocking her, the lady book agent slips a suggestive note into Jones's pocket. A jealous Mrs. Jones finds the note, and a huge...
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Jones and the Lady Book Agent
1909
Mr. Jones’ Burglar
1/1
Mr. Jones stays out late playing poker with his buddies. While he's gone, a burglar starts to break into his home. Mr. Jones arrives home just in time...
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Mr. Jones’ Burglar
1909
The Medicine Bottle
1/1
While she attends a party, Mrs. Ross leaves her young daughter to care for her bed-ridden mother. At the party, Mrs. Ross realizes she left the wrong...
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The Medicine Bottle
1909
Mrs. Jones' Lover or, I Want My Hat
0.5/1
Mr. Jones jumps to the wrong conclusions when he sees a bouquet of flowers and a man's hat in the parlor.
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Mrs. Jones' Lover or, I Want My Hat
1909
The Note in the Shoe
1/1
A shoe-factory worker puts a note in a shoe box offering to marry the lucky buyer. As a result, she is dismissed from her job, but her employer finds...
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The Note in the Shoe
1910
The Broken Oath
9/1
A girl saves her sweetheart from the dealings of a deceitful gang that he has fallen in with.
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The Broken Oath
1910
The Call of the Circus
10/1
A circus girl must decide to stay under the big top or marry the minister who loves her.
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The Call of the Circus
1910
The Count of Montebello
10/1
Gerald and Percy inherit a fortune and spend all of it in pursuit of a young heiress.
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The Count of Montebello
1910
Debt
10/1
An extravagant wife leaves her husband, but returns when he strikes it rich.
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Debt
1910
The Eternal Triangle
7/1
A young wife instigates a duel between a dashing count, with whom she has been having an affair, and her elderly husband. In the duel, the husband is...
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The Eternal Triangle
1910
A Game for Two
8/1
A wife tries to drive away her husband's best friend by flirting with him, but trouble arises when the friend flirts back.
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A Game for Two
1910
The Governor’s Pardon
7/1
An honest man trades places with a convict so the convict can see his dying wife, but he is killed on his way back to prison. The governor must step i...
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The Governor’s Pardon
1910
His Second Wife
7/1
A dramatic love triangle between two women and a man.
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His Second Wife
1910
The Irony of Fate
8/1
A rejected suitor rebuffs the woman he loves after the death of her husband.
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The Irony of Fate
1910
Jane and the Stranger
8/1
Jane thinks she has witnessed a murder and the suspect is arrested; she later learns the truth and saves him from hanging.
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Jane and the Stranger
1909
The Politician's Love Story
4.3/3
A haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the cartooni...
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The Politician's Love Story
1909
The Prussian Spy
5/1
Lady Florence hides her lover, a Prussian spy, from the French troops who are hunting for him. One of her other suitors, a French officer, discovers t...
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The Prussian Spy
1922
The Unfoldment
9/0
Katherine Nevin and her brother Jack are given positions on the newspaper of James Osborne following their father's death. Osborne's city editor, Char...
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The Unfoldment
1911
The Life Saver
8/1
A local girl's romance with the lifeguard at a seaside lifesaving station is threatened by the arrival of tourists.
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The Life Saver
1911
The Maniac
10/1
An escaped mental patient assumes the identity of a society girl's dead father and threatens her marriage.
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The Maniac
1911
The Matchmaker
9/1
A young governess catches the eye of an aristocrat and romance blossoms.
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The Matchmaker
1911
Nan’s Diplomacy
8/1
Nan feigns insanity when her former sweetheart unexpectedly appears.
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Nan’s Diplomacy
1911
One on Reno
7/1
When a bored wife seeks a Reno divorce, she regains the attentions of her inattentive husband.
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One on Reno
1911
Opportunity and the Man
9/1
One man squanders a fortune and loses his house and sweetheart to another who strikes it rich.
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Opportunity and the Man
1911
The Professor’s Ward
9/1
An orphaned young woman rejects her appointed suitor and falls in love with her guardian.
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The Professor’s Ward
1911
A Show Girl’s Strategem
8/1
A sympathetic showgirl assumes the guilt for her cousin who is cheating on her husband.
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A Show Girl’s Strategem
1911
The Snare of Society
7/1
A society woman gambles at cards.
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The Snare of Society
1911
The Slavey’s Affinity
7/1
A maid loves her employer, sacrificing her own happiness in order to insure his.
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The Slavey’s Affinity
1911
The State Line
8/1
A kindhearted criminal saves the life of the sheriff's daughter and is allowed to make it across the state line in order to avoid jail.
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The State Line
1911
The Story of Rosie’s Rose
8/1
The film follows a, love triangle in a Maine fishing village, where a girl named Rosie (Lawrence) gives a rose to two brothers who are vying for her h...
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The Story of Rosie’s Rose
1911
That Awful Brother
7/1
A wayward brother is mistaken for a burglar in his own house.
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That Awful Brother
1911
Through Jealous Eyes
8/1
A jealous mother is envious of the affection shown toward her future daughter-in-law by her husband.
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Through Jealous Eyes
1909
The Road to the Heart
5/1
Miguel casts out his daughter when she marries a poor man, causing his wife to leave him, too. After he is unable to find a reliable cook, he reconcil...
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The Road to the Heart
1909
The Roue’s Heart
4.5/1
Mons. Flamant, a typical roué of the French nobility, is surrounded by all the pleasures and pastimes his fabulous wealth can procure. In a quest of d...
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The Roue’s Heart
1909
Schneider’s Anti-Noise Crusade
3.5/1
Schneider is trying to write a speech but he can't concentrate with all the noise around him. During the night, Schneider catches burglars in his hous...
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Schneider’s Anti-Noise Crusade
1911
Vanity and Its Cure
10/0
A silly and extravagant wife must learn to curb her wild ways before her husband is willing to take her back.
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Vanity and Its Cure
1911
The Wife’s Awakening
7/1
The Harrington's first born has died and the father and mother are inconsolable in their grief. Mrs. Harrington later seeks diversion in society, but...
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The Wife’s Awakening
1912
The Surgeon’s Heroism
9/1
A surgeon risks his life in order to finish surgery on a patient when a fire breaks out in the hospital.
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The Surgeon’s Heroism
1912
A Village Romance
10/0
John Cummins, a wealthy society man, while out in his auto, discovers he is out of gasoline. He stops at a country store and meets Flo Page, the daugh...
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A Village Romance
1916
The Face on the Screen
7/1
Florence, trying to escape fortune hunters, is residing at the seashore, when her maid dies. Florence has pretended to be the maid of this woman and s...
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The Face on the Screen
1918
The Love Craze
10/1
Florence, a romantic "slavey" (a maidservant) works in a boarding house. She spends her days lost in daydreams of becoming a Juliet to a handsome, her...
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The Love Craze
1909
Those Boys!
4.5/0
Two boys find a pistol their father has hidden. While they're playing with it, they line up a target, not realizing their sisters are on the other sid...
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Those Boys!
1909
Tis an Ill Wind That Blows No Good
2.5/1
Out-of-work, Tim steals a sandwich, then knocks out the policeman who chases him. He changes into the policeman's uniform, and is approached by a wife...
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Tis an Ill Wind That Blows No Good
1909
A Troublesome Satchel
3.5/1
Sight unseen, a man buys a bag that turns out to contain burglar tools. He can't get rid of the bag, even when he's robbed. The thieves assume he's a...
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A Troublesome Satchel
1909
The Winning Coat
5/1
A young courtier gambles in a tavern and wins a coat from the leader of a gang. In the pocket he finds details of a plan to kidnap the Queen. He retur...
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The Winning Coat
1909
The Wooden Leg
4/1
A father wants to marry his daughter to a rich man, but she's in love with someone else. She borrows a tramp's wooden leg, pretending that it's hers,...
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The Wooden Leg
1909
A Wreath in Time
4/1
A few of us have had the chance to read our own obituary notice, but it fell to the lot of John Goodhusband the rare privilege of viewing his own eleg...
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A Wreath in Time
1910
Bear Ye One Another’s Burdens
8/1
When an infirm husband learns of the dire circumstances his wife must endure, he makes every effort to bring himself back to health.
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Bear Ye One Another’s Burdens
1910
The Blind Man’s Tact
9/1
Five days more! Only five more days says the physician, and the man who has for so long a time been totally blind will be able to take off the bandage...
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The Blind Man’s Tact
1910
Justice in the Far North
10/1
An abused wife who takes a desperate stand against her husband. Following her violent reaction, the husband reforms his behavior
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Justice in the Far North
1910
The Maelstrom
9/1
A young woman marries a man she hardly knows or understands; in a moment of crisis, the two suddenly realize what they mean to each other.
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The Maelstrom
1910
The Miser’s Daughter
8/1
A young woman pulls a fast switch on the fiance handpicked by her father.
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The Miser’s Daughter
1910
The Mistake
8/1
A husband learns from his mistake after he wrongly accuses his wife of infidelity.
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The Mistake
1910
Mother Love
10/1
A mother loses her sanity when she loses her child. Her husband brings home a newly adopted child, and she regains her health.
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Mother Love
1910
The New Shawl
8/1
A husband becomes jealous when he finds his wife's shawl in a suspicious location.
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The New Shawl
1910
The Nichols on a Vacation
10/1
A philandering husband arranges an ill-planned rendezvous at the same restaurant his wife and daughter are dining at.
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The Nichols on a Vacation
1910
Old Heads and Young Hearts
9/1
Two old gentlemen who have been pals from boyhood decide that their children ought to marry. This intention is a commendable one, to be sure, and what...
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Old Heads and Young Hearts
1910
Once Upon a Time
7/1
A woman is forced to reevaluate the quiet man in her life when she finds he actually could be her knight in shining armor.
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Once Upon a Time
1910
Pressed Roses
8/1
Roses and trousers have little in common and pressed roses presage something wrong in the scheme of things. When roses are pressed instead of a pair o...
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Pressed Roses
1910
A Reno Romance
9/1
A couple goes to Reno to be divorced, but change their minds at the last moment.
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A Reno Romance
1910
The Right Girl
8/1
There is always a right girl for all of us; sometime, somewhere, somehow we find her. But often the discovery leads through strange channels and pecul...
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The Right Girl
1910
The Right of Love
10/1
Two girls fall for the same boy.
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The Right of Love
1910
The Senator’s Double
8/1
When a senator falls victim to morphine addiction, a look-alike double takes his place.
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The Senator’s Double
1910
The Stage Note
9/1
A clever girl inventively uses a stage prop to attract help when burglars enter her house.
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The Stage Note
1910
The Taming of Jane
10/1
A fickle tomboy eventually falls for the suitor who had previously been annoying her.
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The Taming of Jane
1910
The Tide of Fortune
7/1
The indolent, thriftless black sheep of the family, the good-for-nothing son of a rich banker bothers his busy brother, who is disgusted with the anti...
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The Tide of Fortune
1910
Transfusion
0/1
After an accident, a young girl desperately needs a blood transfusion to save her life. A young blacksmith agrees to be the donor and wins her heart a...
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Transfusion
1910
Two Men
0/1
An orphaned girl raised by a miner in the wilderness falls in love with a tenderfoot, even though the miner loves her as well.
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Two Men
1910
The Winning Punch
9/1
A girl's affections waver between the winner of a boxing match, and a greedy count.
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The Winning Punch
1923
The Satin Girl
10/1
The story revolves around a young woman named Lenore Vance (Mabel Forrest), who loses her memory after witnessing the death of her father Silas Gregg...
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The Satin Girl
1924
Gambling Wives
10/0
Bank clerk Vincent Forrest loses his savings in a gambling den run by Madame Zoe and her provider, Van Merton. Forrest's wife Ann begins an affair wit...
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Gambling Wives
1912
The Advent of Jane
7/1
Dr. Jane Bixby, a new doctor in a rural town, solves the mystery of the moonshiner's still.
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The Advent of Jane
1912
After All
8/1
A spurned suitor threatens to kill Margie's sweetheart if she does not give him up.
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After All
1911
The Actress and the Singer
7/1
A prima donna falls in love with the voice of a singer that she hears on a recording.
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The Actress and the Singer
1911
Age Versus Youth
7/1
A young man inherits a business, struggles, but learns about love and life from the daughter of his rival.
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Age Versus Youth
1911
Always a Way
10/1
A minister is talked into performing a marriage ceremony for his sister and the beau he despised.
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Always a Way
1911
Art Versus Music
9/1
A pianist's music annoys a painter, making him unable to work. Eventually they fall in love.
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Art Versus Music
1912
All for Love
9/1
Little Flo is the daughter of a blind musician and the pair live by means of the few pennies tossed to them on the street, the father playing the viol...
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All for Love
1912
The Angel of the Studio
4/1
An unattractive girl endeavors to make herself attractive to an artist, but he sees only the artificial beauty of a model.
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The Angel of the Studio
1912
Betty’s Nightmare
7/1
Betty, a farm cook, yearns to be an actress, but her dreams turn into nightmares, and she seeks comfort in the arms of a hired hand.
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Betty’s Nightmare
1912
The Chance Shot
7/1
A stray bullet accidentally kills a blackmailer.
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The Chance Shot
1912
Her Cousin Fred
8/1
Fred acts as a matchmaker for his cousin Flo and his friend George.
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Her Cousin Fred
1912
In Swift Waters
0/0
A foolish suitor gains favor in a girl's eyes when he pretends to have saved her life. When the truth is known, she rejects him for the real hero.
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In Swift Waters
1912
The Lady Leone
9/2
An heiress, under the protection of the Queen, falls in love with a poor knight.
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The Lady Leone
1912
The Mill Buyers
10/1
Flo's suitor wins her mother's favor when he returns a lost pocketbook.
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The Mill Buyers
1912
The Players
10/1
Two actors, trying to soak up local color for an upcoming play, fall in love with the same girl.
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The Players
1912
The Redemption of Riverton
7/1
When a minister tries to clean up Riverton, he finds an unexpected ally in the barkeeper's daughter.
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The Redemption of Riverton
1912
Sisters
9/1
When a fireman rescues his long-lost sister-in-law he mistakes her for his wife when she dies, and contemplates suicide until he learns the truth.
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Sisters
1912
Tangled Relations
8/1
Two old sweethearts, Henry Jones and Mrs. Mary Owen, he a widower and she a widow, meet at a summer resort and, renewing their old love, get married....
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Tangled Relations
1912
The Winning Punch
10/1
A country suitor's jealousy of his rival for his sweetheart's hand culminates in fisticuffs.
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The Winning Punch
1913
The Closed Door
9/0
The daughter of an aristocratic Southern family, proud, but impoverished, enters into a marriage of convenience with a wealthy stockbroker.
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The Closed Door
1913
A Girl and Her Money
9/1
A society girl changes places with her maid for an adventure.
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A Girl and Her Money
1913
The Girl O’ the Woods
8/1
Romance develops between a young woman from the Tennessee hills and a man from the city; she saves his life when her brothers threaten to kill him; th...
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The Girl O’ the Woods
1913
His Wife’s Child
9/1
Florence Lawrence plays a woman who remarries and has a child, believing her first husband died, only for him to return.
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His Wife’s Child
1913
Influence of Sympathy
8/1
A mother, grieving over the loss of her child, finds contentment in loving a lame orphan.
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Influence of Sympathy
1910
The Rosary
10/1
A pretty model with two rival art students (her father's pupils) in love with her, a situation not at all surprising considering how alluring she look...
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The Rosary
1911
The Little Rebel
8/1
A Civil War spy story in which a girl and the officer she loves find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.
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The Little Rebel
1911
The Two Fathers
0/0
An impoverished father is forced to give up his daughter for adoption. After she is grown, she realizes she has two fathers: her real one and her "ado...
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The Two Fathers
1912
Taking a Chance
7/1
A matchmaking wife brings suspicion upon herself when she tries to reunite a young couple.
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Taking a Chance
1911
Aunt Jane’s Legacy
9/1
Aunt Jane's nieces and nephews bicker over an anticipated legacy.
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Aunt Jane’s Legacy
1911
Duke de Ribbon Counter
7/1
An heiress, a businessman, and a playboy form the eternal triangle.
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Duke de Ribbon Counter
1910
The Doctor's Perfidy
8/1
A young doctor is jealous of one of his patient's romantic interest in his nurse.
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The Doctor's Perfidy
1908
The Dancer and the King, a Romantic Story of Spain
10/1
A dancer enchants a leacherous king but rebuffs his advances, resulting in his vengeful anger.
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The Dancer and the King, a Romantic Story of Spain
1908
Lady Jane’s Flight, a 17th Century Romance
9/1
A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.
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Lady Jane’s Flight, a 17th Century Romance
1908
Macbeth, Shakespeare’s Sublime Tragedy
4/2
Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.
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Macbeth, Shakespeare’s Sublime Tragedy
1908
Richard III, a Shakespearian Tragedy
3/1
Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.
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Richard III, a Shakespearian Tragedy
1909
The Forest Ranger’s Daughter
9/1
The forest ranger's daughter catches a spouse by hoodwinking Papa who brings in a minister.
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The Forest Ranger’s Daughter
1909
Her Generous Way
9/1
A wife innocently inspires suspicion by generously giving away some money given to her for a hat.
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Her Generous Way
1909
Lest We Forget
10/1
A rich little girl helps a poor little girl by making their Christmas enjoyable.
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Lest We Forget
1909
Love's Stratagem
8/1
Nell Connors is in love with Jack, a sailor, but is unaware that he was shipwrecked and is facing trials. Meanwhile, her father is saved from drowning...
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Love's Stratagem
1910
All the World’s a Stage
10/1
A jealous husband misinteprets the performance his actress wife is putting on with his best friend.
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All the World’s a Stage
1911
During Cherry Time
8/1
An actress teaches a young girl how to flirt and win back her beau.
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During Cherry Time
1911
A Fascinating Bachelor
10/1
A nurse ignores her other patients in order to concentrate on her favorite one, a fascinating bachelor.
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A Fascinating Bachelor
1911
A Game of Deception
9/1
Misunderstandings abound when a minister's son and an actress become engaged.
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A Game of Deception
1911
A Good Turn
0/0
A woman's sweetheart is prevented from killing himself by two burglars who are afraid they will be accused of murder if he pulls the trigger.
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A Good Turn
1913
The Spender
8/1
An actress cures a wayward young man of his extravagant spending.
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The Spender
1913
Suffragettes Parade in Washington
10/1
At the opening of the film Pennsylvania Avenue is shown, nearly blocked by a motley mob of sightseers looking at the marching Suffragettes. The big ba...
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Suffragettes Parade in Washington
1913
Unto the Third Generation
9/0
A young Jewish woman wrestles with the dilemma of an interfaith marriage.
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Unto the Third Generation
1914
The Bribe
9/1
A woman is commanded under hypnosis to break into her father's safe.
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The Bribe
1914
The Coryphee
7/1
An actress assumes a guilty appearance in order to save her faithless cousin's marriage.
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The Coryphee
1914
Counterfeiters
0/0
Two lovers disguise themselves as counterfeiters in order to escape from the girl's disapproving parents.
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Counterfeiters
1914
Diplomatic Flo
10/1
A woman adopts the guise of a spy when she uncovers an arms plot concerning a country in Central America.
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Diplomatic Flo
1914
The Disenchantment
8/1
A maid discards her beau in favor of a musician whom she idolizes; when reality sets in, she takes her old beau back.
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The Disenchantment
1914
The Doctor’s Testimony
9/1
A doctor commits perjury in order to win a woman whose husband could go to prison based on his testimony.
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The Doctor’s Testimony
1914
The False Bride
8/1
A woman of loose morals takes the place of a young bride.
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The False Bride
1914
The Great Universal Mystery
8/1
A promotional one-reel film promoting the stars of Universal Pictures.
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The Great Universal Mystery
1914
Her Ragged Knight
7/1
A confirmed bachelor falls in love with the young woman whom he had pawned off on his aunt when she was first put into his custody.
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Her Ragged Knight
1914
The Honeymooners
9/1
Two couples head for Reno to swap partners, but change their minds at the last minute.
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The Honeymooners
1914
The Honor of the Humble
10/1
A young girl falls in love with a count, despite her father's disapproval.
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The Honor of the Humble
1914
The Law’s Decree
8/1
A shopgirl assumes the guilt of her mother and is sent to prison.
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The Law’s Decree
1914
The Little Mail Carrier
9/1
A female mail carrier is injured on her route and recovers at a bachelor's lodge.
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The Little Mail Carrier
1914
The Mad Man’s Ward
7/1
An uninhibited young woman is brought up by a reclusive eccentric.
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The Mad Man’s Ward
1914
The Man Who Was Never Kissed
8/1
A platonic experiment as to how a young couple should make love fails when it ceases to be platonic.
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The Man Who Was Never Kissed
1914
A Mysterious Mystery
9/1
A moving picture actress is mistaken for an escaped asylum patient; the insane girl then steps into the actress's life.
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A Mysterious Mystery
1914
The Pawns of Destiny
10/1
A maid risks her life for her employer, with whom she is in love.
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The Pawns of Destiny
1914
The Romance of the Photograph
9/1
A wayward girl falls in love with the handsome image of a burglar she sees in a photograph.
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The Romance of the Photograph
1914
A Singular Cynic
0/0
When placed in a position to choose between two jealous suitors, a young woman turns the tables on them by choosing a third.
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A Singular Cynic
1914
The Stepmother
9/1
A new bride tries to win the affection of her stepchild.
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The Stepmother
1911
The Test
9/2
A girl chooses between two boys by testing how each one would help the poor.
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The Test
1911
A Head for Business
10/1
A young woman helps her brother by purchasing a much needed piece of land.
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A Head for Business
1911
Her Artistic Temperament
9/1
A girl from the country writes glowing letters about life in the big city despite the fact that it's really been disastrous.
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Her Artistic Temperament
1911
Her Humble Ministry
10/1
A reformed woman shows a petty thief the righteous path by her good example.
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Her Humble Ministry
1911
Her Two Sons
0/0
Two brothers, one a minister and the other a cad, both love the same girl.
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Her Two Sons
1911
Higgenses Versus Judsons
10/1
The sons and daughters on the opposing sides of a Kentucky feud fall in love and dismantle their fathers' guns to prevent further bloodshed.
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Higgenses Versus Judsons
1911
His Bogus Uncle
8/1
A scheming suitor ends up losing his girl to a rival even after he receives an inheritance.
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His Bogus Uncle
1911
His Friend, the Burglar
7/1
A husband uses a ruse to sneak back into the house after a night out.
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His Friend, the Burglar
1911
His Chorus Girl Wife
8/1
A young man's parents refuse to accept his new wife, but a reconciliation is eventually brought about.
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His Chorus Girl Wife
1911
A Girlish Impulse
7/1
A hastily written letter is used in a blackmail scheme by a scorned suitor.
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A Girlish Impulse
1911
The Hoyden
7/1
A young soldier is shipped overseas after a hasty marriage; when he returns he doesn't recognize his wife who has changed from the tomboy he married t...
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The Hoyden
1911
A Rebellious Blossom
10/1
A widow threatens her rebellious daughter that she will remarry if the girl does not behave at school.
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A Rebellious Blossom
1911
Romance of Pond Cove
9/1
When a young man loses his wealth, he also loses his fiancee, but he is more than consoled by her younger sister.
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Romance of Pond Cove
1911
A Rural Conqueror
8/1
Rural man Ira Smiley fears losing his sweetheart, Marjorie Thorne, to her more sophisticated city friends. In an attempt to win her back, Ira upgrades...
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A Rural Conqueror
1911
The Sheriff and the Man
9/1
A sheriff must decide whether or not to allow his old friend, a criminal, to escape.
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The Sheriff and the Man
1909
The Cord of Life
3.5/4
Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are met...
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The Cord of Life
1909
What Drink Did
4.5/12
A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses a beer with lunch, then gives in. After work, two...
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What Drink Did
1909
Tragic Love
4/1
Bob Spaulding, a manly fellow, meets Dr. Rankin and his wife on the street while they are engaged in a violent tiff. The doctor is about to strike his...
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Tragic Love
1909
Nursing a Viper
4.2/5
During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat bursts...
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Nursing a Viper
1909
I Did It
2.5/2
A mother punishes her son for eating a plate of cream puffs, unaware that the daughter really did it. As the daughter watches the punishment, she feel...
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I Did It
1910
The Time-Lock Safe
0/0
Early movie star Florence Lawrence appears in this dramatic farce, in which the police pay a famous burglar to save the life of a child thought to be...
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The Time-Lock Safe
1909
Saul and David
0/0
Tells the biblical story of Saul's jealousy of the young David, taken from the book of Samuel
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Saul and David
1909
The Lonely Villa
6/66
A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interio...
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The Lonely Villa
1909
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
4.167/3
Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a differe...
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Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
1909
The Judgment of Solomon
9/1
"The Judgment of Solomon" was billed as a Vitagraph High Art Film. Biblical Production. It shared a split-reel with "Jephthah's Daughter, a Biblical T...
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The Judgment of Solomon
1909
Tender Hearts
3/1
A country boy and a city boy are both courting the same girl. The girl sees the country boy's tender treatment of a wounded bird and chooses him.
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Tender Hearts
1995
The Casting Couch
8.333/3
An unprecedented anthology of never-before-told true stories by and about some of Hollywood's most interesting stars, legends, and wannabes, and takes...
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