Ouida

Birth : 1839-01-01, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK

Death : 1908-01-25

Movies

The Dog of Flanders
Novel
Poor but happy, young Nello and his grandfather live alone, delivering milk as a livelihood, in the outskirts of Antwerp, a city in Flanders (the Flemish or Dutch-speaking part of modern-day Belgium). They discover a beaten dog (a Bouvier, a large sturdy dog native to Flanders) and adopt it and nurse it back to health, naming it Patrasche, the middle name of Nello's mother Mary, who died when Nello was very young. Nello's mother was a talented artist, and like his mother, he delights in drawing, and his friend Aloise is his model and greatest fan and supporter.
Under Two Flags
Story
Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends Victor on dangerous assignments to be rid of him. He falls in love with Lady Venetia Cunningham, a visitor to the garrison
A Dog of Flanders
Novel
Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter.
Flames of Desire
Writer
The drama of a girl who knew beauty's power.
A Boy of Flanders
Story
An orphan boy wins a prize for his drawing.
Her Greatest Love
Novel
Vere Herbert lives with her wicked mother, Lady Dolly (Marie Curtis), who is living in sin with Lord Jura (Glen White). Although Vere is in love with an opera singer, Lucien Correze (Harry Hilliard), Lady Dolly convinces her that marrying the dissolute Prince Zouroff (Walter Law) will save her father's honor. But the Prince makes her miserable and insists on having his mistress, Jeanne deSonnaz (Caille Torrez), live with them.
Under Two Flags
Novel
The Legion's mascot, Cigarette falls for an Englishman, Bertie Cecil (Herbert Heyes), and when he is sentenced to a firing squad, she heroically takes the bullet herself.
Under Two Flags
Novel
Tells the story of an English aristocrat, apparently in disgrace, who disappears and joins a French battalion in Algeria, loosely based on the Foreign Legion.
Moths
Novel
A French woman has to marry a Russian to preserve the reputation of her society mother. However she is in love with someone else.
Under Two Flags
Story
Ouida's novel made into a 1912 film -- released within days of another 2-reeler based on the same story.
Under Two Flags
Story
Drama of life in the foreign legion of Africa