Anna Lehr
Birth : 1890-11-17,
Death : 1974-01-22
History
From Wikipedia
Anna Lehr (November 17, 1890, New York City, New York –
January 22, 1974, Santa Monica, California) was an American silent film and
stage actress.
Lehr required courage while filming Civilization's Child
(1916) for Thomas Ince, a Triangle-Kay Bee feature. The screenplay was written
by C. Gardner Sullivan. There is a scene in which Russian cavalry charge over
her as she lies prostrate on the ground. Lehr's fear was abated somewhat by her
belief that horses will not step on people except by accident. She played
"Doris Ames" in the silent film Grafters (1917), which was directed
by Allan Dwan.
In 1919 Lehr was chosen by David Powell to play in Teeth of
the Tiger. She was forced to withdraw due to ptomaine poisoning. The movie was
being filmed by Famous Players-Lasky in New York City. Lehr's continued absence
necessitated the retaking of scenes which she had completed.
She was sued by Chappell, Inc., in 1921 for non-payment of
$916.85 worth of hats, gowns, and cloaks. Lehr testified that she had intended
to pay for the merchandise but delayed after a sheriff and collectors began
bothering her. Chappell contended that when she did not return to their store
to make arrangements for payment, they had a right to send out to collect the
amount owed them. Her attorney sought dismissal of the case on the grounds that
Edwin McKim was made a party to the suit, but had not been served; McKim was in
New York City at the time. The case was carried out in the Los Angeles, California
court of Judge J.P. Wood.
She was married to Edwin McKim; their daughter was actress
Ann Dvorak.
Mrs. Belknap-Jackson
An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.
Marina Paoli
An English naval officer and a Corsican youth have a duel, and the Corsican is killed. The young man's sister, Marina Paoli, swears vengeance on the killer. Mr. Barnes of New York, who happened to see the duel, finds the name Gerard Anstruther engraved on the pistols.....
Lola Forbes
A socialite couple thinks only of themselves. When they become bored with one another, they divorce and marry others (several times). The person who suffers most from their cavalier outlook on life is their cute little daughter Mary Jane Irving.
Naomi
Barry Gordon, the older son of a Virginia colonel, inherits a taste for alcohol--a habit that caused his father's death. His brother, Tom, falls in love with Muriel Beekman, their guardian's daughter. Barry also loves her but feels rejected. Three years later, after extended travels, Barry learns that Tom, having been sent to Morocco by Mr. Beekman, has been captured by desert marauders and is being held for ransom. He begins a search for him and in Tangiers encounters the Beekmans and Kitty Van Ness. Barry and Muriel discover their love for each other, but he refuses to commit himself while Tom is still alive.
Catherine Bell
Charles Stoddard is a poor artist living with his wife and two children in Greenwich Village. Destitute after his wife dies, he is forced to sell one of his children to a childless rich woman. He soon comes his senses however, and tries to back out of the deal.
Edith Sturgis
Edith Sturgis, the daughter of a judge, returns from studies abroad to find her widowed father remarried. The new Mrs. Sturgis does not reveal that she has a son Dick, once unjustly jailed by Judge Sturgis, but now working as a reporter while still maintaining an association with the Brownlow gang. Quarrelling with her stepmother, Edith leaves home, meets Dick and falls in love.
Ponotah
Convict Bill Hyde and his friend, Danny Dorgan, break out of prison, but in running from the guards, Danny is mortally wounded. The local doctor, Evan Thomas, tries so hard to save Danny that later, when Bill and the doctor meet in Alaska, the two become friends. A dying man gives his mine to the doctor, but upon discovering that it is worthless, Bill sells it to a crook named John Wesley Slayforth...
Mary Varenka
Anna Mirrel, a young Jewish girl in Czarist Russia, is forced to degrade herself in order to visit her father, whom she believes to be ill. She obtains a yellow passport, signifying that she is a prostitute.
Berna
After an idyllic mountain life in Russia, Berna goes to live with her uncle in the Jewish section of Kiev, arriving just as Cossacks massacre most of the Jews in the city. Berna escapes to New York and works at a sweatshop controlled by Boss Jim McManus, but he seduces her, then throws her out on the street, and she becomes a prostitute. Berna later marries Nicolay Turgenev, a young musician,
Mrs. Brent
Mary - Doyle's wife
Private Frank Austin, imprisoned for striking Colonel Kincaid, who was abusing a lame newsboy, escapes to Colorado. Meanwhile, Latin professor Thomas Doyle, his wife Mary and sister Kitty also move to Colorado because of Mrs. Doyle's health and are persuaded by Kincaid to buy a ranch that is worthless because it has no irrigation. While Mrs. Doyle gets well and Doyle's funds run out, Austin, on land bordering Doyle's, strikes gold and is blackmailed by Kincaid to let him have a controlling interest.
Marion Melton (as Anne Lehr)
Kate, whose father, a university graduate, died when she was very young, is adopted by her tenement neighbor, Mrs. McMahon, after her mother, a woman of refinement, dies. At ten, the ill-nourished girl, who has grown up watching her drunken foster father fight with her overworked foster mother, goes to work in a factory after Mr. McMahon loses his job. During the next eight years, Kate's stepbrother, Big Bill McMahon, becomes her friend, sweetheart and protector.
