Herself (archive footage)
The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances Marion wrote screenplays for the Hollywood Star Mary Pickford and won two Oscars, Dorothy Arzner was the most powerful film director in Hollywood. And what do all of them have in common? They are all women and they have all been forgotten. Incredibly, it also took until 2010 for the first woman, Kathryn Bigelow, to win the Oscar for Best Director. Even if underrepresented women have always played a big part in Hollywood and it is this part of the film history left untold that this documentary sets out to uncover.
Writer
In this melodrama filmed on location in Hawaii, a sugar plantation manager finds himself falling in love with a native girl, but instead of committing to her, he marries a socially prominent young woman from San Francisco. The spoiled girl does not easily adapt to the rigors of plantation life and she gets terribly bored. She is just about to give in to the romantic overtures of a persistent native when her former lover shows up. The husband gets jealous and is about to attack him when the wife sets fire to the cane field. The husband's native lover saves him from death. Afterward, his wife leaves to be with her old flame, and the manager is free to be with the woman he's loved all along.
Director
In this melodrama filmed on location in Hawaii, a sugar plantation manager finds himself falling in love with a native girl, but instead of committing to her, he marries a socially prominent young woman from San Francisco. The spoiled girl does not easily adapt to the rigors of plantation life and she gets terribly bored. She is just about to give in to the romantic overtures of a persistent native when her former lover shows up. The husband gets jealous and is about to attack him when the wife sets fire to the cane field. The husband's native lover saves him from death. Afterward, his wife leaves to be with her old flame, and the manager is free to be with the woman he's loved all along.
Director
Babe Scott, una bailarina de cabaret que busca constantemente material sensacional para sorprender a sus clientes, concibe burlas a una chica del Ejército de Salvación y asiste a las reuniones de la misión en el East Side por la atmósfera. Allí conoce a Jerry Wilson, un conductor de camión honesto y amigo del capitán del ejército. Aunque el acto es un éxito, Babe se desilusiona al encontrar a Lonnie, una compañera de trabajo que ha estado enamorando con ella, robando su dinero y haciéndole propuestas a Big Bertha, la dura anfitriona del club.
Screenplay
Topsy is the main character in this movie. When the black girl who "jes' growed" is auctioned as a slave but nobody will bid on her, Little Eva purchases Topsy for a nickel. That's the one part of this movie that I found plausible: slaveholders often refused to buy children, since their upkeep in food usually exceeded any labour they performed. There's a gooey romantic subplot between Mariette (the niece of Simon Legree) and George Shelby, son of a prominent slaveholder.
Adaptation
Topsy is the main character in this movie. When the black girl who "jes' growed" is auctioned as a slave but nobody will bid on her, Little Eva purchases Topsy for a nickel. That's the one part of this movie that I found plausible: slaveholders often refused to buy children, since their upkeep in food usually exceeded any labour they performed. There's a gooey romantic subplot between Mariette (the niece of Simon Legree) and George Shelby, son of a prominent slaveholder.
Writer
Llega un nuevo pastor a la ciudad, un hombre joven y con las ideas muy claras acerca de su apostolado. Muy pronto se da cuenta de que el lugar está repleto de "trabajo" para él. Reina la despreocupación y la lujuria y como muestra conoce a una disoluta joven de la mejor sociedad quien, atraída e intrigada por él, tratará de hacerle difícil su tarea redentoria.
Director
Llega un nuevo pastor a la ciudad, un hombre joven y con las ideas muy claras acerca de su apostolado. Muy pronto se da cuenta de que el lugar está repleto de "trabajo" para él. Reina la despreocupación y la lujuria y como muestra conoce a una disoluta joven de la mejor sociedad quien, atraída e intrigada por él, tratará de hacerle difícil su tarea redentoria.
Writer
Una actriz de Broadway se convierte en una gran estrella gracias a la forma en la que trabaja con el director. Los dos se acaban enamorando, pero no pueden casarse debido a una cláusula en sus contratos, escrita por el productor.
Director
Una actriz de Broadway se convierte en una gran estrella gracias a la forma en la que trabaja con el director. Los dos se acaban enamorando, pero no pueden casarse debido a una cláusula en sus contratos, escrita por el productor.
Screenplay
Jewel stays with her grizzled, angry grandfather while her parents are overseas on business. Family squabbling is brought to heel through love and understanding from Jewel's pure love for others and trust in Divine Love. Complete copies are held by many film archives in Europe and the United States.
Adaptation
Jewel stays with her grizzled, angry grandfather while her parents are overseas on business. Family squabbling is brought to heel through love and understanding from Jewel's pure love for others and trust in Divine Love. Complete copies are held by many film archives in Europe and the United States.
Director
Jewel stays with her grizzled, angry grandfather while her parents are overseas on business. Family squabbling is brought to heel through love and understanding from Jewel's pure love for others and trust in Divine Love. Complete copies are held by many film archives in Europe and the United States.
Writer
According to this Lois Weber production, men don't really seem to know what they want at all -- first Frank (J. Frank Glendon) wants to be an inventor. Then he wants to marry his childhood sweetheart, Hallie (the lovely Claire Windsor). Then he wants children. Then, when his inventions bring him financial success, he becomes restless, so he takes up with another woman. Eventually he figures out that the woman's reputation is less than squeaky clean, so he wants his wife back.
Director
According to this Lois Weber production, men don't really seem to know what they want at all -- first Frank (J. Frank Glendon) wants to be an inventor. Then he wants to marry his childhood sweetheart, Hallie (the lovely Claire Windsor). Then he wants children. Then, when his inventions bring him financial success, he becomes restless, so he takes up with another woman. Eventually he figures out that the woman's reputation is less than squeaky clean, so he wants his wife back.
Producer
Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any. When the professor's rich student Phil West falls for beautiful Griggs daughter Amelia and also befriends the poor Reverend Gates (a young man who is also in love with Amelia), he observes the difference in his life and theirs and tries to help make a difference.
Writer
Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any. When the professor's rich student Phil West falls for beautiful Griggs daughter Amelia and also befriends the poor Reverend Gates (a young man who is also in love with Amelia), he observes the difference in his life and theirs and tries to help make a difference.
Director
Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any. When the professor's rich student Phil West falls for beautiful Griggs daughter Amelia and also befriends the poor Reverend Gates (a young man who is also in love with Amelia), he observes the difference in his life and theirs and tries to help make a difference.
Screenplay
An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.
Producer
An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.
Story
An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.
Director
An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.
Producer
A rich woman and a poor man fall in love, but they face the opposition of her family.
Director
A rich woman and a poor man fall in love, but they face the opposition of her family.
Writer
A rich woman and a poor man fall in love, but they face the opposition of her family.
Writer
A woman, having lost interest in her soon to be bankrupt husband, decides to seduce a doctor.
Director
A woman, having lost interest in her soon to be bankrupt husband, decides to seduce a doctor.
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Director
Writer
Envidiosa de la riqueza de sus compañeros de clase en el elegante internado al que sus padres lucharon por enviarla, Millicent Rankin oculta el hecho de que su padre es plomero. Invita a su amiga Beatrice Deering a su casa, que describe como lujosa, para las vacaciones, pero cree que Beatrice se negará. La vergüenza que siente Millicent cuando recibe un telegrama de que viene Beatrice le causa dolor a su madre, pero cuando la hermana de Millicent se enferma de escarlatina, Millicent va a la residencia de campo de Beatrice, donde espera conocer a un marido rico. En Deering's, Millicent pronto se decepciona de las costumbres de la sociedad. Después de casi sucumbir a las insinuaciones de Elmer Lacy, quien secretamente tiene una aventura con la madrastra de Beatrice, Millicent protege la reputación de la Sra. Deering humillándose a sí misma. Cuando se entera de que su madre está enferma, Millicent se apresura a casa y descubre la felicidad con su familia y su antiguo amor.
Director
Envidiosa de la riqueza de sus compañeros de clase en el elegante internado al que sus padres lucharon por enviarla, Millicent Rankin oculta el hecho de que su padre es plomero. Invita a su amiga Beatrice Deering a su casa, que describe como lujosa, para las vacaciones, pero cree que Beatrice se negará. La vergüenza que siente Millicent cuando recibe un telegrama de que viene Beatrice le causa dolor a su madre, pero cuando la hermana de Millicent se enferma de escarlatina, Millicent va a la residencia de campo de Beatrice, donde espera conocer a un marido rico. En Deering's, Millicent pronto se decepciona de las costumbres de la sociedad. Después de casi sucumbir a las insinuaciones de Elmer Lacy, quien secretamente tiene una aventura con la madrastra de Beatrice, Millicent protege la reputación de la Sra. Deering humillándose a sí misma. Cuando se entera de que su madre está enferma, Millicent se apresura a casa y descubre la felicidad con su familia y su antiguo amor.
Screenplay
Mary Regan is the daughter of a gentleman crook and an heiress. Although she has received a good upbringing, she refuses to marry Robert Clifford for fear of damaging his career as a city official. Some old associates of her father, Peter Loveman and Jim Bradley, want her to help them in their blackmailing schemes. She won't, and escapes from her trying situation by going to the mountains for a rest.
Scenario Writer
Mary Regan is the daughter of a gentleman crook and an heiress. Although she has received a good upbringing, she refuses to marry Robert Clifford for fear of damaging his career as a city official. Some old associates of her father, Peter Loveman and Jim Bradley, want her to help them in their blackmailing schemes. She won't, and escapes from her trying situation by going to the mountains for a rest.
Director
Mary Regan is the daughter of a gentleman crook and an heiress. Although she has received a good upbringing, she refuses to marry Robert Clifford for fear of damaging his career as a city official. Some old associates of her father, Peter Loveman and Jim Bradley, want her to help them in their blackmailing schemes. She won't, and escapes from her trying situation by going to the mountains for a rest.
Writer
Marie, una criada de un hotel, se enamora del hijo de un millonario, Roger, pero él no puede casarse con ella debido a su posición inferior y no querer hacer infeliz a su familia.
Director
Marie, una criada de un hotel, se enamora del hijo de un millonario, Roger, pero él no puede casarse con ella debido a su posición inferior y no querer hacer infeliz a su familia.
Writer
A minister and his young daughter Bess, journey west where he hopes to regain his health. They become involved with notorious outlaw 'Eagle' Ryan. The outlaw becomes influenced by the power of religion along with Bess's gentle persuasion, he is reformed from his life of crime and forgiven by all the townspeople.
Director
A minister and his young daughter Bess, journey west where he hopes to regain his health. They become involved with notorious outlaw 'Eagle' Ryan. The outlaw becomes influenced by the power of religion along with Bess's gentle persuasion, he is reformed from his life of crime and forgiven by all the townspeople.
Writer
Una preciosa joven pobre abandona a su novio por un hombre rico que cree que cuidará de ella, pero en realidad el hombre adinerado tiene otros planes para ella.
Director
Una preciosa joven pobre abandona a su novio por un hombre rico que cree que cuidará de ella, pero en realidad el hombre adinerado tiene otros planes para ella.
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Adaptation
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The mysterious "K" takes a humble job and falls in love with his landlady's daughter, Sidney Page. Sidney discourages her boyish admirer, Joe Drummond, and seeks training as a nurse. Infatuated with the head surgeon, Dr. Max Wilson, she accepts his proposal, which infuriates nurse Carlotta, who also loves Max. Carlotta lures Max to a roadhouse, where Joe, mistaking her for Sidney, shoots Max. K appears and, assuming his true identity as the famous Dr. Edwards, saves Max's life by performing his "Edwards operation."
Director
The mysterious "K" takes a humble job and falls in love with his landlady's daughter, Sidney Page. Sidney discourages her boyish admirer, Joe Drummond, and seeks training as a nurse. Infatuated with the head surgeon, Dr. Max Wilson, she accepts his proposal, which infuriates nurse Carlotta, who also loves Max. Carlotta lures Max to a roadhouse, where Joe, mistaking her for Sidney, shoots Max. K appears and, assuming his true identity as the famous Dr. Edwards, saves Max's life by performing his "Edwards operation."
Writer
Una hembra simula criar al niño huérfano (Tarzán) y lo cría en el transcurso de muchos años hasta que finalmente se lanza una misión de rescate y la partida de búsqueda peina la jungla por el desaparecido Lord Greystoke. Pero luego, uno de los miembros de la búsqueda, Jane Porter, se separa del grupo y se encuentra cara a cara con temibles animales salvajes. Tarzán la salva del daño justo a tiempo y el amor comienza a florecer.
Editor
A poor shopgirl is offered a "good time" for a week by the son of her employer. She accepts, but the offer is misunderstood by her brother, who informs the girl's parents of her "fling."
Writer
A poor shopgirl is offered a "good time" for a week by the son of her employer. She accepts, but the offer is misunderstood by her brother, who informs the girl's parents of her "fling."
Director
A poor shopgirl is offered a "good time" for a week by the son of her employer. She accepts, but the offer is misunderstood by her brother, who informs the girl's parents of her "fling."
Producer
A doctor's wife is arrested for educating impoverished women about birth control.
Writer
A doctor's wife is arrested for educating impoverished women about birth control.
Mrs. Broome
A doctor's wife is arrested for educating impoverished women about birth control.
Director
A doctor's wife is arrested for educating impoverished women about birth control.
Director
Carillo and his wife Selma are devoted to each other. As a sculptor, Carillo has achieved the qualities of honor and love until the Devil seeks to overturn these accomplishments by sending his imps Lust, Drink and Self Pity to the artist's home. Carillo succumbs to lust and sells his honor to the Devil.
Writer
A depressed man grows to love life just as his fortune teller's predictions become dire.
Director
A depressed man grows to love life just as his fortune teller's predictions become dire.
Bobby's mother dies and leaves him to care for the baby.
Producer
Una composición ficticia de varios casos de asesinatos célebres, en particular el caso de Stielow, en el que un hombre inocente es condenado a muerte por pruebas puramente especulativas.
Writer
Una composición ficticia de varios casos de asesinatos célebres, en particular el caso de Stielow, en el que un hombre inocente es condenado a muerte por pruebas puramente especulativas.
Director
Una composición ficticia de varios casos de asesinatos célebres, en particular el caso de Stielow, en el que un hombre inocente es condenado a muerte por pruebas puramente especulativas.
Director
Mina Rogers (Mary MacLaren) is unfairly cast out into the cruel, cruel world by her crotchety old uncle. She searches for a new home, resorting to deception so that she will be taken in. Along the way she meets a doctor, certain mysteries surrounding her are solved, and the doctor asks her to marry him.
Story
Mina Rogers (Mary MacLaren) is unfairly cast out into the cruel, cruel world by her crotchety old uncle. She searches for a new home, resorting to deception so that she will be taken in. Along the way she meets a doctor, certain mysteries surrounding her are solved, and the doctor asks her to marry him.
Adaptation
Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives. Only the first two of the original seven reels survive.
Producer
Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives. Only the first two of the original seven reels survive.
Writer
Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives. Only the first two of the original seven reels survive.
Anne
Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives. Only the first two of the original seven reels survive.
Director
Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives. Only the first two of the original seven reels survive.
Writer
A chorus girl gains infamy after the suicide of her beau.
Director
A chorus girl gains infamy after the suicide of her beau.
Producer
A young working girl must support her family on only five dollars a week. The strain of trying to feed, house and clothe her mother, her father and three sisters finally gets to be too much, and she winds up selling her body for a pair of shoes.
Writer
A young working girl must support her family on only five dollars a week. The strain of trying to feed, house and clothe her mother, her father and three sisters finally gets to be too much, and she winds up selling her body for a pair of shoes.
Director
A young working girl must support her family on only five dollars a week. The strain of trying to feed, house and clothe her mother, her father and three sisters finally gets to be too much, and she winds up selling her body for a pair of shoes.
Writer
Olaf escribe sus memorias, antes de su ejecución. Cuenta su vida como un granjero en apuros cuando Renie, varada en el pueblo, se queda una noche en su casa y Olaf se enamora de ella. Más tarde, dos hombres toman habitaciones en la casa, y Olaf, para sacar todo su dinero, mata a uno de ellos y hiere al otro, Paul. Paul es condenado por el asesinato y va a la cárcel, mientras Olaf, sintiendo culpable el "ojo de Dios" sobre él, deja su granja y comienza a vagar. Mientras tanto, Renie, que había sido la prometida de Paul, jura encontrar al verdadero asesino. Una vez más se encuentra con Olaf, de quien siempre sospechó, y finge amarlo. Luego ella lo acusa del asesinato y sigue acusándolo hasta que él, agotado, finalmente confiesa, liberando así a Paul.
Renie
Olaf escribe sus memorias, antes de su ejecución. Cuenta su vida como un granjero en apuros cuando Renie, varada en el pueblo, se queda una noche en su casa y Olaf se enamora de ella. Más tarde, dos hombres toman habitaciones en la casa, y Olaf, para sacar todo su dinero, mata a uno de ellos y hiere al otro, Paul. Paul es condenado por el asesinato y va a la cárcel, mientras Olaf, sintiendo culpable el "ojo de Dios" sobre él, deja su granja y comienza a vagar. Mientras tanto, Renie, que había sido la prometida de Paul, jura encontrar al verdadero asesino. Una vez más se encuentra con Olaf, de quien siempre sospechó, y finge amarlo. Luego ella lo acusa del asesinato y sigue acusándolo hasta que él, agotado, finalmente confiesa, liberando así a Paul.
Director
Olaf escribe sus memorias, antes de su ejecución. Cuenta su vida como un granjero en apuros cuando Renie, varada en el pueblo, se queda una noche en su casa y Olaf se enamora de ella. Más tarde, dos hombres toman habitaciones en la casa, y Olaf, para sacar todo su dinero, mata a uno de ellos y hiere al otro, Paul. Paul es condenado por el asesinato y va a la cárcel, mientras Olaf, sintiendo culpable el "ojo de Dios" sobre él, deja su granja y comienza a vagar. Mientras tanto, Renie, que había sido la prometida de Paul, jura encontrar al verdadero asesino. Una vez más se encuentra con Olaf, de quien siempre sospechó, y finge amarlo. Luego ella lo acusa del asesinato y sigue acusándolo hasta que él, agotado, finalmente confiesa, liberando así a Paul.
Scenario Writer
Olaf escribe sus memorias, antes de su ejecución. Cuenta su vida como un granjero en apuros cuando Renie, varada en el pueblo, se queda una noche en su casa y Olaf se enamora de ella. Más tarde, dos hombres toman habitaciones en la casa, y Olaf, para sacar todo su dinero, mata a uno de ellos y hiere al otro, Paul. Paul es condenado por el asesinato y va a la cárcel, mientras Olaf, sintiendo culpable el "ojo de Dios" sobre él, deja su granja y comienza a vagar. Mientras tanto, Renie, que había sido la prometida de Paul, jura encontrar al verdadero asesino. Una vez más se encuentra con Olaf, de quien siempre sospechó, y finge amarlo. Luego ella lo acusa del asesinato y sigue acusándolo hasta que él, agotado, finalmente confiesa, liberando así a Paul.
Writer
Walton, the District Attorney, yearns to have children. Soon after defending an author on trial for publishing indecent literature, Walton discovers a secret his wife and her socialite friends have been hiding from him.
Producer
Walton, the District Attorney, yearns to have children. Soon after defending an author on trial for publishing indecent literature, Walton discovers a secret his wife and her socialite friends have been hiding from him.
Director
Walton, the District Attorney, yearns to have children. Soon after defending an author on trial for publishing indecent literature, Walton discovers a secret his wife and her socialite friends have been hiding from him.
Director
Aunque ha sido designado para proteger la fortuna del joven Thomas Creighton, el inescrupuloso Lord John Needham decide gastarlo todo después de que Tom huye. Luego, sin embargo, llega un anuncio de que Tom regresa y que planea reclamar su dinero. Temiendo el castigo, tanto de Tom como de las autoridades, John mata a su primo y doble exacto, Joseph Norbury, y toma el lugar de Joseph, haciendo que parezca que el hombre muerto es realmente John.
Director
Cora Madison, the town flirt, delights in making men love her and then dropping them, so when newcomer Valentine Corliss arrives, she views him as just another potential victim. Rather than falling for her charms, however, Valentine persuades Cora to use them in getting her past suitors to invest money in one of his phony business deals. Cora soon falls in love with Valentine but also discovers, along with the other townspeople, that he has been swindling almost everyone and that he courted Cora simply to be able to use her well-respected father's name in connection with his business scam.
Writer
Cora Madison, the town flirt, delights in making men love her and then dropping them, so when newcomer Valentine Corliss arrives, she views him as just another potential victim. Rather than falling for her charms, however, Valentine persuades Cora to use them in getting her past suitors to invest money in one of his phony business deals. Cora soon falls in love with Valentine but also discovers, along with the other townspeople, that he has been swindling almost everyone and that he courted Cora simply to be able to use her well-respected father's name in connection with his business scam.
Screenplay
Lydia Jansen
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Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
Adaptation
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
Director
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
Writer
Ed Brown plays a old war veteran tired of living in a veterans' home and decides to move in with his wealthy nephew.
Director
Ed Brown plays a old war veteran tired of living in a veterans' home and decides to move in with his wealthy nephew.
Writer
When her husband dies and leaves her penniless, Mrs. Lawrence Evringham moves in with her wealthy but grim father-in-law and schemes to marry Eloise, her daughter, to the rich Dr. Ballard.
Director
A Cigarette - That's All
Writer
The lives of a stenographer and her boss are thrown into turmoil by reckless gossip.
Daisy Dean
The lives of a stenographer and her boss are thrown into turmoil by reckless gossip.
Director
The lives of a stenographer and her boss are thrown into turmoil by reckless gossip.
Director
Director
A romantic melodrama set in old California.
Writer
A woman known as Sunshine Molly gets a job in an oil field, and clashes with a belligerent employee named "Bull" Forrest. (Note: multiple reels of this film were damaged beyond repair. Only three reels remain, two of which are also heavily damaged.)
Director
A woman known as Sunshine Molly gets a job in an oil field, and clashes with a belligerent employee named "Bull" Forrest. (Note: multiple reels of this film were damaged beyond repair. Only three reels remain, two of which are also heavily damaged.)
Sunshine Molly
A woman known as Sunshine Molly gets a job in an oil field, and clashes with a belligerent employee named "Bull" Forrest. (Note: multiple reels of this film were damaged beyond repair. Only three reels remain, two of which are also heavily damaged.)
Producer
The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Purity, who is also represented by a ghostly naked girl that flits through the film.
Writer
The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Purity, who is also represented by a ghostly naked girl that flits through the film.
Director
The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Purity, who is also represented by a ghostly naked girl that flits through the film.
Writer
The story of a ruddy-cheeked rural postman who dabbles in poetry-writing on the side. He utilizes his hobby to spread a bit of sunshine throughout the village, at one point reuniting a long-estranged family.
Director
The story of a ruddy-cheeked rural postman who dabbles in poetry-writing on the side. He utilizes his hobby to spread a bit of sunshine throughout the village, at one point reuniting a long-estranged family.
Backstage drama
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Backstage drama
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Backstage drama
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Un grupo de hombres celosos conspiran para derrotar a un rival romántico que ha captado la atención de todas las damas en un hotel de verano. (Nota: la mayor parte de esta película se considera perdida. Solo sobrevive un fragmento).
Director
Un grupo de hombres celosos conspiran para derrotar a un rival romántico que ha captado la atención de todas las damas en un hotel de verano. (Nota: la mayor parte de esta película se considera perdida. Solo sobrevive un fragmento).
Summer Girl
Un grupo de hombres celosos conspiran para derrotar a un rival romántico que ha captado la atención de todas las damas en un hotel de verano. (Nota: la mayor parte de esta película se considera perdida. Solo sobrevive un fragmento).
Diana Grave
Diana Grave's husband has left her, preferring any life to that of living with a woman who is not congenial to him. Howbeit, her husband gone is a different matter than her husband present. She commissioned a detective to locate him.
Director
Diana Grave's husband has left her, preferring any life to that of living with a woman who is not congenial to him. Howbeit, her husband gone is a different matter than her husband present. She commissioned a detective to locate him.
Madame DuBarr
The Spider and Her Web is a 1914 silent film.
Scenario Writer
The Spider and Her Web is a 1914 silent film.
Director
The Spider and Her Web is a 1914 silent film.
Portia
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
Writer
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
Director
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
Writer
Early Lois Weber film. Isaac and his faithful wife, Rachel, deplore that in America their children are forced to work on the Jewish Sabbath. Leah and Sam are not so strict as their parents and the old customs pall about their more American spirits. Sam is employed in a cloak house and secretly loves his employer's daughter, but she refuses to recognize him. Leah is loved by the handsome gentile floorwalker, and despite her father's objections, she marries him. Isaac orders Leah from the house. Later, the daughter of the cloak manufacturer marries an admirer and Sam is invited to the wedding. He drinks and disgraces himself, and returning home, is turned out by the heartbroken rabbi. He leaves, telling the old man that he will return when the father celebrated the Christian Christmas.
Leah - Isaac's Daughter
Early Lois Weber film. Isaac and his faithful wife, Rachel, deplore that in America their children are forced to work on the Jewish Sabbath. Leah and Sam are not so strict as their parents and the old customs pall about their more American spirits. Sam is employed in a cloak house and secretly loves his employer's daughter, but she refuses to recognize him. Leah is loved by the handsome gentile floorwalker, and despite her father's objections, she marries him. Isaac orders Leah from the house. Later, the daughter of the cloak manufacturer marries an admirer and Sam is invited to the wedding. He drinks and disgraces himself, and returning home, is turned out by the heartbroken rabbi. He leaves, telling the old man that he will return when the father celebrated the Christian Christmas.
Director
Early Lois Weber film. Isaac and his faithful wife, Rachel, deplore that in America their children are forced to work on the Jewish Sabbath. Leah and Sam are not so strict as their parents and the old customs pall about their more American spirits. Sam is employed in a cloak house and secretly loves his employer's daughter, but she refuses to recognize him. Leah is loved by the handsome gentile floorwalker, and despite her father's objections, she marries him. Isaac orders Leah from the house. Later, the daughter of the cloak manufacturer marries an admirer and Sam is invited to the wedding. He drinks and disgraces himself, and returning home, is turned out by the heartbroken rabbi. He leaves, telling the old man that he will return when the father celebrated the Christian Christmas.
The Maid
Three men in succession propose marriage to Grace Darling; she accepts all! Since they are roommates, the three discover their problem in short order; when they return for an explanation, they're in for a surprise.
Producer
Three men in succession propose marriage to Grace Darling; she accepts all! Since they are roommates, the three discover their problem in short order; when they return for an explanation, they're in for a surprise.
Director
Three men in succession propose marriage to Grace Darling; she accepts all! Since they are roommates, the three discover their problem in short order; when they return for an explanation, they're in for a surprise.
Writer
An isolated house is too remote for a lone servant, who leaves a note, quietly exits the back door, and puts the key under the mat. Left alone in the house is a mother and her infant. A tramp has watched the servant leave and begins to skulk. When the lady of the house sees him outside as he discovers the key, she's terrified and desperately phones her husband, who's at work in town. He jumps into a car that's idling in front of his office and races toward home, the car's owner, and police, in hot pursuit.
The Wife
An isolated house is too remote for a lone servant, who leaves a note, quietly exits the back door, and puts the key under the mat. Left alone in the house is a mother and her infant. A tramp has watched the servant leave and begins to skulk. When the lady of the house sees him outside as he discovers the key, she's terrified and desperately phones her husband, who's at work in town. He jumps into a car that's idling in front of his office and races toward home, the car's owner, and police, in hot pursuit.
Director
An isolated house is too remote for a lone servant, who leaves a note, quietly exits the back door, and puts the key under the mat. Left alone in the house is a mother and her infant. A tramp has watched the servant leave and begins to skulk. When the lady of the house sees him outside as he discovers the key, she's terrified and desperately phones her husband, who's at work in town. He jumps into a car that's idling in front of his office and races toward home, the car's owner, and police, in hot pursuit.
The Soldier's Sweetheart
Haunting and hypnotic, this artistic gem recounts the lyrics from a popular 1898 song of the same name. Weber’s stylistics, including circular matte shots, foregrounding of the cross and the rosary, and placement of the characters within each shot bring to the film an enormous emotional and spiritual range.
Director
Haunting and hypnotic, this artistic gem recounts the lyrics from a popular 1898 song of the same name. Weber’s stylistics, including circular matte shots, foregrounding of the cross and the rosary, and placement of the characters within each shot bring to the film an enormous emotional and spiritual range.
Alleged silent short adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel, first mentioned in a 1966 copy of Films In Review. Recent scholarship argues this film never existed and is erroneously included in the publication.
Screenplay
Alleged silent short adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel, first mentioned in a 1966 copy of Films In Review. Recent scholarship argues this film never existed and is erroneously included in the publication.
Director
A Japanese Idyll is a 1912 silent short drama film directed by and starring Lois Weber. The film was produced by the Rex Motion Picture Company for release by Universal Film Manufacturing Company.
A Japanese Idyll is a 1912 silent short drama film directed by and starring Lois Weber. The film was produced by the Rex Motion Picture Company for release by Universal Film Manufacturing Company.
Writer
Early Lois Weber film.
Director
Early Lois Weber film.
Director
A self-centred wealthy woman is transformed after she is confronted with the harsh reality of the living conditions endured by the employees of her husband's mill.
The Millionaire's Wife
A self-centred wealthy woman is transformed after she is confronted with the harsh reality of the living conditions endured by the employees of her husband's mill.
The Artist's Model
The Fine Feathers is a 1912 silent film dramatic short directed by and starring Lois Weber.
Director
The Fine Feathers is a 1912 silent film dramatic short directed by and starring Lois Weber.
Writer
Pretty Ann, and Joe, the hostler, one day chance to meet. Strong is Joe, and simple, and Ann is shy and sweet. As man and maid have done before, they love, and marry, too. And live happy ever after? Ah, this tale is new to you! Yes, the tale is drear, prosaic; and so poetry won't do. A baby boy comes to bless the union. Joe is working in the stables when they tell him of his joy: his heart is gay and happy, and he tells the horses so. Then, it might be the angels were jealous of such mortal happiness; it might be the devil, seeing the stage so set, entered to play the leading role.
Director
Pretty Ann, and Joe, the hostler, one day chance to meet. Strong is Joe, and simple, and Ann is shy and sweet. As man and maid have done before, they love, and marry, too. And live happy ever after? Ah, this tale is new to you! Yes, the tale is drear, prosaic; and so poetry won't do. A baby boy comes to bless the union. Joe is working in the stables when they tell him of his joy: his heart is gay and happy, and he tells the horses so. Then, it might be the angels were jealous of such mortal happiness; it might be the devil, seeing the stage so set, entered to play the leading role.
Ann
Pretty Ann, and Joe, the hostler, one day chance to meet. Strong is Joe, and simple, and Ann is shy and sweet. As man and maid have done before, they love, and marry, too. And live happy ever after? Ah, this tale is new to you! Yes, the tale is drear, prosaic; and so poetry won't do. A baby boy comes to bless the union. Joe is working in the stables when they tell him of his joy: his heart is gay and happy, and he tells the horses so. Then, it might be the angels were jealous of such mortal happiness; it might be the devil, seeing the stage so set, entered to play the leading role.
Grace - The Wife
A marital romance in which a married artist woos the wife of another man.
Mrs. Brown
Little Sherlock Holmes, Jr., reads the doughty doings of his hero-god, and at once determines to become a detective himself.
Flora Brown
Jack Norton had traveled the downgrade, had transgressed the laws of man, had trespassed the forbidden, and paid the penalty.
Director
Jack Norton had traveled the downgrade, had transgressed the laws of man, had trespassed the forbidden, and paid the penalty.
Story
A 1911 silent drama film written and directed by Edwin S. Porter and Lois Weber. Starring Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, and Charles De Forrest.
Director
A 1911 silent drama film written and directed by Edwin S. Porter and Lois Weber. Starring Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, and Charles De Forrest.
Tess
A 1911 silent drama film written and directed by Edwin S. Porter and Lois Weber. Starring Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, and Charles De Forrest.
The Twin Sisters
The baby daughter of Mrs. Norton, a widowed seamstress, dies. The sorrow-stricken mother gazes at the empty cradle and decides to replace the departed soul with an orphan child upon whom she can lavish the love, the rightful object of which the Great Giver and Taker has taken from her. She goes to the orphanage and asks to be given a baby girl, and is given one of the twin baby sisters. Richard Golden, a wealthy shirtwaist manufacturer, has an only son, a little boy, who yearns for a sister and continually begs his father to bring him a little sister to be a playmate to him, and the father, to satisfy the child's persistent pleading, goes to the orphan home and brings home the other little twin sister. Years roll by and both girls have grown to young womanhood in their different stations in life. Jack Golden, now grown to manhood, and knowing that the girl is only a foster sister, asks her to become his wife.
Writer
The baby daughter of Mrs. Norton, a widowed seamstress, dies. The sorrow-stricken mother gazes at the empty cradle and decides to replace the departed soul with an orphan child upon whom she can lavish the love, the rightful object of which the Great Giver and Taker has taken from her. She goes to the orphanage and asks to be given a baby girl, and is given one of the twin baby sisters. Richard Golden, a wealthy shirtwaist manufacturer, has an only son, a little boy, who yearns for a sister and continually begs his father to bring him a little sister to be a playmate to him, and the father, to satisfy the child's persistent pleading, goes to the orphan home and brings home the other little twin sister. Years roll by and both girls have grown to young womanhood in their different stations in life. Jack Golden, now grown to manhood, and knowing that the girl is only a foster sister, asks her to become his wife.
Director
The baby daughter of Mrs. Norton, a widowed seamstress, dies. The sorrow-stricken mother gazes at the empty cradle and decides to replace the departed soul with an orphan child upon whom she can lavish the love, the rightful object of which the Great Giver and Taker has taken from her. She goes to the orphanage and asks to be given a baby girl, and is given one of the twin baby sisters. Richard Golden, a wealthy shirtwaist manufacturer, has an only son, a little boy, who yearns for a sister and continually begs his father to bring him a little sister to be a playmate to him, and the father, to satisfy the child's persistent pleading, goes to the orphan home and brings home the other little twin sister. Years roll by and both girls have grown to young womanhood in their different stations in life. Jack Golden, now grown to manhood, and knowing that the girl is only a foster sister, asks her to become his wife.
Director
A chemist named Aratus invents a concoction that will turn creatures to stone, but only realizes the dangers of his creation when his wife falls victim to it.
Aratus' Wife
A chemist named Aratus invents a concoction that will turn creatures to stone, but only realizes the dangers of his creation when his wife falls victim to it.
Director
During the American Revolution, an innkeeper's daughter learns of a plot to assassinate George Washington while he will be staying at her father's inn.
The Tavern Keeper's Daughter
During the American Revolution, an innkeeper's daughter learns of a plot to assassinate George Washington while he will be staying at her father's inn.
