Florence La Badie
Florence La Badie (April 27, 1888 – October 13, 1917) was an American actress in the early days of the silent film era. Though little known today, she was a major star between 1911 and 1917. Her career was at its height when she died at age 29 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
In 1911, her career took a leap when she was hired by Edwin Thanhouser of the Thanhouser Film Corporation in New Rochelle, New York. With her sophistication and beauty, Florence La Badie soon became Thanhouser's most prominent actress, appearing in dozens of films over the next two years. Her most remembered films of that period were The Tempest (1911), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912), a film adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson story, and the first film of Shakespeare's Cymbeline (1914). Her most well-known work was in the 1914 - 1915 serial, The Million Dollar Mystery.
Athletic and daring, in these films she performed all her own stunts. In 1915, she was featured in the magazine Reel Life, which described her as "the Beautiful and talented Florence La Badie, of the Thanhouser Studios, conceded one of the foremost of American screen players". Over a course of six years La Badie's career had taken her to top-billing as a film actress.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.469 |
| Birthday | 1888-04-26 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Florence Russ, フローレンス・ラ・バディ , |
1911
Fighting Blood
6.3/3
After the Civil War, an ex-soldier and his family settle in the Dakota Territory. The son quarrels with the father and leaves home. Riding in the hill...
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Fighting Blood
1911
The Buddhist Priestess
10/1
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The Buddhist Priestess
1912
Jilted
10/1
Age old tale of a couple marooned.
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Jilted
1912
Jess
7/1
Silas Croft was a kindly old Englishman who had a farm in South Africa. With him resided his two nieces, whom he had taken from their drunken, worthle...
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Jess
1912
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
10/1
A romantic young girl, visiting St. Augustine, finds that she must make the choice which means happiness or misery for life. She has two suitors, one...
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The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
1912
My Baby's Voice
10/1
A neglected mother is tempted to stray, but she is saved by her baby's voice, whom she hears talking on the telephone.
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My Baby's Voice
1912
Whom God Hath Joined
10/1
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Whom God Hath Joined
1912
Dottie's New Doll
7/1
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Dottie's New Doll
1912
Lucile
0/0
A royal love triangle leads to heartbreak for all until 25 years hence all is made right for their descendants.
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Lucile
1912
Undine
0/0
In the days long ago when knights were brave and venturesome, enchanted forests grew and mythical creatures lived among us.
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Undine
1913
The Head Waiter
9/1
The head waiter was thoroughly impressed with his own importance and he ruled the fashionable restaurant, where he was employed, with a rod of iron. H...
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The Head Waiter
1911
Enoch Arden: Part II
5.5/6
Annie remains faithful to her husband, Enoch, even though he's been lost at sea for many years. Finally her grown children convince her to marry Phili...
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Enoch Arden: Part II
1917
The Man Without a Country
4.8/9
Convicted in a revolutionary conspiracy, a man rashly states that he wishes never again to hear the name of the United States of America. The judge gr...
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The Man Without a Country
1914
The Million Dollar Mystery
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This twenty-three episode serial told the story of a secret society called The Black Hundred and its attempts to gain control of a lost million dollar...
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The Million Dollar Mystery
1917
War and the Woman
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War and the Woman
1914
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
0/0
Lord Trevor and his ward, Nan, uncover a mysterious threat in Egypt. Disguised in Cairo, Nan infiltrates a deadly conspiracy targeting the English and...
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The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
1916
The Fugitive
10/1
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The Fugitive
1914
The Cat's Paw
8/1
In this adventure the diplomatic free-lance and his brilliant aid in war, Nan Tremain, are again pitted against their relentless enemy, Pfaff.
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The Cat's Paw
1913
Tannhäuser
5/4
Dramatic three-reel film based on Wagner's opera of chivalry and spiritual struggle. Wandering minstrel Tannhauser wins the heart of Elizabeth, niece...
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Tannhäuser
1909
Getting Even
3.8/4
All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a chance. At a dance, Bud dresses as a woman and all th...
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Getting Even
1911
The Primal Call
4/2
A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough sailor.
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The Primal Call
1917
The Woman in White
6.667/3
The lead Florence La Badie plays dual roles. Clever editing is used for the scene where her two characters meet. La Badie, however, does appear twice...
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The Woman in White
1913
Cymbeline
3.5/5
Southern California locations vividly suggest both elemental pre-Roman Britain and classical Rome. An energetic cinematic pacing and intimacy show rap...
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Cymbeline
1912
Flying to Fortune
10/1
A wealthy old man, who has been a semi-invalid for years, is informed by his physician that his case is hopeless. The invalid decides to put "his home...
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Flying to Fortune
1912
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
5.9/38
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1912
The Girl of the Grove
7/1
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The Girl of the Grove
1912
Rejuvenation
7/1
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Rejuvenation
1912
The Saleslady
9/1
Diligent saleslady Nora Grady feels sympathy for a gawky country boy who has been assigned to the wrapping department and takes him under her wing. Th...
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The Saleslady
1911
The Manicure Lady
5/2
The manicure lady spurns the barber and dates a rich cad instead.
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The Manicure Lady
1912
The Portrait of Lady Anne
6.6/5
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The Portrait of Lady Anne
1909
A Strange Meeting
4.3/3
Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into helping with the burglary of her minister's apartment, s...
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A Strange Meeting
1911
The Rose of Kentucky
5.7/8
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The Rose of Kentucky
1916
The Return of Draw Egan
5.2/18
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The Return of Draw Egan
1912
The Voice of Conscience
4/1
Two girls fall in love with the same man. Out motoring one day they are thrown from the machine and carried to the hospital. One of the girls poisons...
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The Voice of Conscience
1911
Enoch Arden
6/7
Moving Picture World described the film: "There is a small need to describe this subject as the poem of Lord Tennyson is so well known, so suffice it...
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Enoch Arden
1913
The Marble Heart
6.5/2
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The Marble Heart
1915
Crossed Wires
5/1
An innocent man is accused of murdering his aunt.
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Crossed Wires
1912
Star of Bethlehem
5/2
Following a bright wandering star, three magi from the East travel to Bethlehem of Judea to meet a very special newborn baby. Meanwhile, King Herod, d...
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Star of Bethlehem
1912
Petticoat Camp
6/2
Several married couples go on a camp-out together, but the women soon realize that the men expect them to do all the dirty work.
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Petticoat Camp
1913
The Evidence of the Film
5.952/21
A messenger boy is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000. Luckily, a film crew is shooting a moving picture on the same street. The boy's...
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The Evidence of the Film
1911
Cinderella
6.4/7
Elaborately produced version of the well known George O. Nichols fairy tale interrupted by just a few summarizing intertitles, with Florence LaBadie a...
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Cinderella
1912
East Lynne
10/1
Based on the novel of the same name by Mrs. Henry Wood (Ellen Wood).
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East Lynne
1909
Comata, the Sioux
4.2/4
This story of the Black Hills consistently tells of the unrequited love of a Sioux brave for his chief's daughter, and how he premonished the awful re...
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Comata, the Sioux
1916
The Pillory
0/0
A young girl is kept ignorant of her mother by her aunt. After her aunt dies, the girl is used by crooks and arrested. In prison she meets a kindly wo...
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The Pillory
1916
Divorce and the Daughter
3/3
A married man suddenly inherits a fortune and finally has enough money to live his dream of becoming an artist. He moves his wife and daughter to a bi...
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Divorce and the Daughter
1912
Under Two Flags
9/1
Drama of life in the foreign legion of Africa
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Under Two Flags
1911
In The Chorus
9/1
A young widow is compelled because of her poverty to leave her only child, a little daughter, at a charitable institution, while she hunts for work.
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In The Chorus
1911
David Copperfield
8/1
Thanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's tribulation-filled journey to adulthood, Thanhouser rel...
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David Copperfield
1909
Through the Breakers
4.2/2
A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of h...
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Through the Breakers
1917
When Love Was Blind
10/1
Blind Eleanor is cared for by her father's friend and eventual lover, Burton Lester, who arranges a sight-restoring operation. Upon recovering her sig...
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When Love Was Blind
1915
A Disciple of Nietzsche
8/1
A man is so impressed with the philosophy of survival of the fittest and the rights of the strong against the weak that he tries to put these principl...
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A Disciple of Nietzsche
1915
The Country Girl
0/0
Sisters Phyllis and Alithea are kept in the countryside until they reach the age of eighteen when their guardian, the Squire, takes them to London. Pl...
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The Country Girl
1915
A Freight Car Honeymoon
8/1
When telegraph operator Dan Boynton is dismissed shortly after his marriage, he and his new bride Alice decide they will take their honeymoon at the r...
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A Freight Car Honeymoon
1914
A Debut in the Secret Service
9/1
Lord Trevor and his ward, Nan Tremain are prominent figures in London society, as well as clandestine agents of the government. With the help of wealt...
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A Debut in the Secret Service
1915
Mr. Meeson's Will
0/0
The wealthy, greedy publisher Mr. Meeson exploits the writer Augusta Smithers. After a shipwreck, Meeson has his dying will tattooed onto Augusta's ba...
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Mr. Meeson's Will
1912
The County's Prize Baby
7/1
A couple is driven apart by the wife’s preference for country living while the husband has political ambitions. They separate with the wife keeping th...
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The County's Prize Baby
1912
The Wrecked Taxi
7/1
The young girl has two devoted suitors. She makes her choice yet manages to remain devoted friends with her former suitor as well. After marriage, the...
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The Wrecked Taxi
1912
The Silent Witness
8/1
The president of a state bank, guilty of malfeasance bribes the District Attorney to suppress the case. The DA’s secretary takes a photograph of the m...
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The Silent Witness
1916
The Fear of Poverty
9/1
When her husband Jim strikes it rich, Grace, who has had a lifelong fear of poverty, strictly raises her daughter Florence to accept only luxury. When...
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The Fear of Poverty
1915
The Six-Cent Loaf
0/0
John Rapley, head of Associated Baking Companies, executes a commercial coup that raises the price of bread to 6 cents a loaf. The price increase has...
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The Six-Cent Loaf
1915
God's Witness
0/0
A story is told of a woman who, disinherited after a scandal, later needs expensive surgery. Her father, General Darrington, initially refuses her ple...
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God's Witness
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
1911
The Trail of Books
0/0
Upset that her parents are getting ready to separate a little girl grabs a handful of books and heads off to school without anyone’s knowledge. When h...
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The Trail of Books
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
1916
Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
10/1
Unable to agree on the man responsible for the plays commonly attributed to William Shakespeare, Miss Gray, who favors Francis Bacon, and Lieutenant S...
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Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player
1911
The Indian Brothers
4/2
A renegade Indian kills a chief who has insulted him. The chief's brother swears vengeance and pursues the renegade, overtaking him just in time to re...
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The Indian Brothers
1909
The Seventh Day
3/1
A neglectful woman wants custody of her children in her divorce. The judge rules that he will give her the children only if she can demonstrate her ch...
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The Seventh Day
1909
In the Window Recess
1.5/1
An escaped convict takes refuge in the home of a police officer out on duty. He seizes the officer's daughter and pulls her into a window recess, with...
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In the Window Recess
1910
Taming a Husband
0/0
Neglected by a husband too engrossed by his activities and social obligations, a woman convinces a girlfriend to dress as a man and make love to her o...
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Taming a Husband
1910
Serious Sixteen
0/0
When young Tom and Adele learn they must wait four years before they can marry, they agree to kill themselves. They reconsider, and then decide to elo...
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Serious Sixteen
1910
A Gold Necklace
5.5/2
Mazie lends her necklace to Nellie, her guest. Nellie is asleep in a hammock when Sam, her sweetheart, arrives in his auto. He awakens Nellie with a k...
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A Gold Necklace
1910
The Troublesome Baby
10/1
Martin is hurriedly called to High Beach to close a big deal with the president of a construction company stopping there.
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The Troublesome Baby
1910
After the Ball
0/0
A wife is waiting for her fun-loving husband to return from a club masquerade. The husband returns home with two companions who set up a diversion to...
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After the Ball
1911
The Two Paths
0/0
Two sisters, Nellie and Florence, support themselves and their mother by sewing. A man accompanying a wealthy client tempts first Nellie and then Flor...
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The Two Paths
1911
The Diamond Star
0/0
When John Wilson comes home drunk, his marriage collapses, and he agrees to live separately from his wife in their apartment. His evenings now free, h...
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The Diamond Star
1911
The Spanish Gypsy
0/0
Jose becomes engaged to Pepita, but still has eyes for Mariana. He runs off with Mariana, but he is accidentally blinded, and she deserts him. Pepita...
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The Spanish Gypsy
1911
The Broken Cross
0/0
Before Tom departs for the city, he becomes engaged to Kate. She gives him half of her broken pendant cross, with the agreement that either can end th...
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The Broken Cross
1911
Paradise Lost
0/0
The Parson and his friend Pete, a worthless inebriate of the village, in a drunken sleep by the roadside. His cure has been tried often, but in vain....
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Paradise Lost
1911
Madame Rex
0/0
Located in the south of France, a woman, who, after the death of her husband, is forced to assume the management of the Gambling Casino, of which he w...
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Madame Rex
1911
A Knight of the Road
0/0
A tramp overhears a rancher's plans to go to town for the ranch's payroll. He tries to enlist another loafer (the Knight) to help with a robbery. Inst...
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A Knight of the Road
1911
How She Triumphed
0/0
Mary, an orphan, comes to live with her aunt. Being in rather poor health and what some might call homely, the poor girl despairs of ever receiving an...
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How She Triumphed
1911
The New Dress
0/0
Marta asks her husband Jose to buy her a new dress she saw at the market. On his way home, he goes with a friend to a saloon and drunkenly gives the d...
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The New Dress
1911
Dave's Love Affair
7/1
Dave is sweet on May and she likes him, so while he is sitting with her on the front steps, he all togged out in his glad clothes, his boy pals play a...
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Dave's Love Affair
1911
Her Sacrifice
0/0
The young son of a wealthy Mexican house returns home from school. He is the only son of a widowed mother, whose heart beats only for him. He becomes...
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Her Sacrifice
1911
The Thief and the Girl
0/0
A gentleman thief has for a sweetheart and accomplice a maid, whose plan it is to get employment in a house and tip him off as to the lay of the land.
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The Thief and the Girl
1911
Bobby the Coward
0/0
Bobby's girlfriend thinks he's a coward when he refuses to fight a gang of toughs after they insult him. But when the gang breaks into his apartment,...
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Bobby the Coward
1911
The Smuggler
7/1
An old man has an ingenious plan to circumvent the customs officials and for a time it works like a charm.
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The Smuggler
1911
The Sorrowful Example
0/0
The little family of husband, wife and infant child are just existing, the wife toiling to make ends meet, while the husband is a worthless scamp. The...
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The Sorrowful Example
1911
The Blind Princess and the Poet
0/0
A blind princess is informed that her sight can be restored by the first kiss of unselfish love she receives. She remains blind until a humble poet st...
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The Blind Princess and the Poet
1911
Swords and Hearts
4.6/13
A poor girl is secretly in love with a wealthy young planter.
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Swords and Hearts
1911
The Last of the Mohicans
7/1
During the French and Indian War, Col. Munro’s daughters journeying to Fort William Henry are betrayed by guide Magua. Hawkeye and Mohicans rescue the...
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The Last of the Mohicans
1911
A Mother's Faith
10/1
The spoiled son of a wealthy man is expelled from college. He regards it as rather a good joke, but his father warns him that he will have but one mor...
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A Mother's Faith
1911
A Master of Millions
8/1
A man of dominating personality by exceptional ability arose from the humble position of foreman of a railroad section gang, to that of a millionaire,...
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A Master of Millions
1911
The Baseball Bug
10/1
A little frog who splashes into a tiny puddle sometimes thinks he has created a commotion in the Atlantic Ocean. A young clerk in a small town was lik...
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The Baseball Bug
1911
The Tempest
8/1
Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, is a kindly man, but a student. His fondness for literature gives his enemies a chance to plot against him, and...
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The Tempest
1911
Beneath the Veil
7/1
A young artist is a great lover of the beautiful, and has a natural horror of anything repulsive.
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Beneath the Veil
1912
Her Ladyship's Page
7/1
Her Ladyship, the Countess, had a faithful little page, whom she chose as her constant companion. The Lady was wooed by a wicked Baron, whom she loath...
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Her Ladyship's Page
1912
As It Was in the Beginning
8/1
A society girl, admired and courted by many men is still indifferent to one and all.
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As It Was in the Beginning
1912
The Trouble Maker
7/1
A poor but happy young married couple moved to a fashionable suburban colony in the East. They hired a social secretary to educate them and be their s...
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The Trouble Maker
1912
When a Count Counted
10/1
The pretty young stenographer in a New York lawyer's office had two weeks' vacation coining to her, and decided for once in her life she would cut a d...
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When a Count Counted
1913
Little Brother
0/0
They were the model engaged couple at the summer resort until, well, until they quarreled. They were members of a crabbing party, and May caught the b...
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