Self (archive footage)
Cuando Alice Guy completa su primera película en París en 1896, no solo fue la primera mujer cineasta, sino una de las primeras en hacer una película de ficción "El hada de las coles".
Self
A one-hour biographical documentary about Alice Guy-Blaché, one of the first women to direct films.
Lillybelle
Miriam Blaylock colecciona no sólo arte del Renacimiento y colgantes del Antiguo Egipto sino, sobre todo, amantes y almas. Moderna y elegante, Miriam es una vampiro intemporal residente en Manhattan, una mujer bendecida con la belleza y maldecida con su sed de sangre.
Mrs. Partlow
John Reed (1887-1920) es un legendario periodista y revolucionario americano, pionero del socialismo en Estados Unidos. Corresponsal en la revolución mexicana y la 1ª guerra mundial, es famoso por ser testigo directo de la Revolución de Octubre, que plasmó en su libro 'Diez días que estremecieron al mundo'. Convencido por aquellos acontecimientos, luchó por extender el bolchevismo en EEUU, y trabajó para la Komintern en la Rusia soviética. En 'Rojos', Warren Beatty escribe, produce, dirige y protagoniza un drama épico sobre su vida y la de su compañera —también escritora— Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton). Con su romance como excusa, la película es un maravilloso retrato de la América de 1912-19, desde la vida bohemia de los artistas del Greenwich Village de Nueva York, al incipiente sindicalismo revolucionario de la Industrial Workers of the World, el movimiento antibélico o la fundación del comunismo americano, salpicado de un toque documental con entrevistas a testigos de aquella era.
Old Lady - T.O.C.
Nueva York, 1906. En un barrio residencial de clase media, una familia escucha llantos durante la comida y descubre a un recién nacido de color abandonado en el jardín. A pesar de las objeciones del padre, la madre decide aceptarlo en casa. Por otro lado, el millonario Harry K. Thaw dispara contra el famoso arquitecto Stanford White a causa de una chica, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, desencadenando así el llamado "juicio del siglo".
Flora
Adaptación de la novela de D.H. Lawrence's novel. Lady Chatterly está casada con un hombre que, después de un accidente, quedó inmovilizado de la cintura para abajo. Alentada por su marido encuentra en un hombre rudo que trabaja en su castillo el consuelo a sus deseos.
Lady Cunard
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intentions to marry her.
Maurine
On his deathbed Carmine Vespucci's father tells him to "get Proclo". With "the hit" on, Gaetano tells a cab driver to take him where Carmine can't find him. He arrives at the Ritz, a gay bathhouse.
Mrs. Richardson
Un profesor de secundaria, recientemente divorciado y separado de su hijo, planea su venganza contra su ex-mujer.
American Lady
Dos amantes sáficas son asesinadas en una vieja mansión. Aparentemente esta muerte trágica da lugar a que el dúo se levante por las noches para beber la sangre de los vivos. A una de sus víctimas, sin embargo, no le quitan toda la sangre, sino que lo dejan con vida, aunque bastante debilitado (y apasionado por las cualidades eróticas del dúo, especialmente de una de ellas)
Answering Service Lady
R.U. /// Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson), una mujer de mediana edad, y el doctor Daniel Hirsh (Peter Finch) mantienen un affaire por separado con la misma persona, el joven científico Elkin (Murray Head). Ambos lucharán por su amor.
Mrs. Duncan
Retrato de la atormentada vida de la bailarina Isadora Duncan, una mujer precursora, a quien la danza y el ballet moderno le deben su razón de ser actual. Durante los años 20, transformó con su baile el panorama artístico mundial. (FILMAFFINITY)
Matron
Un general chino enloquece, y ha construido un sistema de túneles desde China a Estados Unidos, bajo el Océano Pacífico. Coloca bombas atómicas en todas las bases militares importantes...
Pet Shop Customer
Una joven viuda se propone consequir un nuevo marido y un padre para su bebé. Su jefe le parece el hombre ideal y decide enamorarlo. Para ello deja a su hijo al cuidado de un atractivo vecino que termina enamorándose de ella.
Marjorie's Mother
Visión satírica de la clase media británica en los años 60. Marjorie una joven asistente de oficina, se casará pronto pero esta llena de dudas sobre si su novio es el correcto. En su último día en el trabajo, sus colegas masculinos no pierden la oportunidad de consolarla ... y coquetear con ella.
Narrator (voice)
The life of an old man, John Cartner Ronson, living alone in a huge block of flats in London since his wife died nine years earlier.
Mrs. Robbin
Seis jóvenes niños superdotados suponen una amenaza para el mundo. Los niños, que viven el Inglaterra pero proceden de diferentes partes del mundo, serían normales desde todos los puntos de vista si no fuera porque se trata de genios con poderes físicos muy desarrollados. Sin embargo, tienen algo más en común que sus coeficientes intelectuales: ninguno de ellos tiene padres y ninguno parece saber de dónde viene. Cuando un psicólogo intenta averiguar algo más, descubre un misterio terrorífico que puede llevar a la destrucción del universo. Asustados, los niños se retiran a una iglesia abandonada, donde utilizan sus poderes para protegerse del gobierno, que quiere destruirlos.
Bunny
La crítica y el público dicen que Karen Stone es demasiado vieja - a medida que se acerca a los 50 años - para su papel en una obra de teatro que está a punto de estrenar en Broadway. Su esposo, un hombre de negocios 20 años mayor que ella, que ha sido el sostén de la obra, le da una salida: ir de vacaciones a Roma por motivos de salud. Él sufre un ataque cardíaco fatal en el avión. La Sra. Stone se queda en Roma y alquila un magnífico apartamento con vista a las siete colinas desde la terraza, comenzando a relacionarse con la sociedad romana. La condesa Magda le presenta a un joven llamado Paolo; la condesa conoce a muchos jóvenes presentables y muchas viudas americanas solitarias. Traducción realizada con la versión gratuita del traductor www.DeepL.com/Translator
Mrs. Busch
A court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she was so young.
Harriet P. Jefferson
A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
Becky Wiener
Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack of confidence means he is completely out of his depth, at least until he finds his personality changes every day during the hour the ship's clocks stop to make allowance for their westward passage.
Art Gallery Customer
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband. Radiant performance by Heather Sears. Based on a book that nearly had Helen Keller's co-workers suing for libel due to perceived parallels between Carlo Landi and the husband of Annie Sullivan
Mrs Baxter
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm, that his new furniture designs, are not in keeping with the firms image. he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family, and emigrate to Australia. but his problems are only just beginning.
Mrs. Eubanks
Tres cineastas estadounidenses descubren a una extraordinaria bailarina llamada María Vargas. Sin perder ni un minuto, se trasladan a Hollywood y lanzan a la desconocida al estrellato. Kirk, el productor de sus películas, corteja en vano a María. Ella, para humillarle, accede a acompañar al multimillonario Bravano en un crucero por la Riviera.
Prisoner
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
Bride's Mother in Wedding Group
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Plane Passenger (uncredited)
Theodore, un ingeniero aeronáutico, debe someter a revisión un avión de su compañía. Después de examinarlo, detecta un cierto desgaste de los materiales que implicaría un riesgo lo bastante alto como para que le parezca oportuno advertir a la tripulación de un aparato que se encuentra en pleno vuelo.
Mrs. Mary McWilliams
Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
Herself
Propaganda short showing how London is coping with World War II.
Begonia Baggot
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
Helen Hutson
A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love.
Herself
This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them as seen from the streets. Considerable time is taken showing the kinds of architecture of private homes. There are images of various important buildings, and a depiction of the Hollywood Bowl. Finally, there is a sequence revolving around the premiere of the film “Dirigible” (1931) at the famed Chinese Theatre.
Ellen
Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.
Babe
A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
Margaret Holt
Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric mystery writer Winthrop Clavering help unravel the truth about the murder.
Mary
Atraidos por el encanto de las tablas, dos jugadores de béisbol cambian sus uniformes por carrerras en el teatro.
Carlie Seymour
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.
Self
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Hattie Hartley
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decide to marry and settle down. The lead actor helps set up the rest of the troupe with some performances. He then destroys the new marriage. Later the woman and the head actor fall in love. He then gives her the lead role in his newest show.
Helen Thayer
Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her family, part of "the great middle class" (as blowhard nephew Henry keeps reminding us), is happy for Joan, but reluctant to take charity from Will. He moves in with them, and they keep resisting, until one day he takes drastic action.
Hank Mahoney
Queenie y Hank son dos hermanas que buscan triunfar en Broadway como cantantes y bailarinas. Queenie se enamora de Eddie Kearns, pero él prefiere a Hank, y se vuelven pareja. Con la ayuda de Eddie empiezan una carrera en los escenarios de vodevil... El primer gran musical de la historia del cine (recién estrenado el cine sonoro, en 1927) obtuvo el Oscar a la mejor película (recién creados los premios de la Academia en 1928). (FILMAFFINITY)
Mitzi Lavelle
Una chica francesa se enamora de un soldado estadounidense y lo sigue después de la Guerra hasta Nueva York, donde es policía.
Sally Rand
Sally of the Scandals is a 1928 American silent crime drama film produced and released by Film Booking Offices of America. It was directed by Lynn Shores and starred Bessie Love.
The Swell Head is a 1928 silent comedy short
Ginger Bolivar
El famoso actor de teatro Don Wilson (Walker), después de los ensayos de una nueva obra, sale de excursión con unos amigos. En las afueras de la ciudad encuentran un teatro ambulante en el que actúa una compañía de aficionados, cuya primera actriz, Ginger Bolivar (Love), contrata a Don como actor secundario. Con él representan ante el productor Arnold Wingate (Hilliard) el melodrama “Guerra Civil”. El productor cree que es una magnífica comedia cómica, por lo que ofrece a la compañía un contrato para actuar en Broadway.
Janet Cleghorne
An amateur boxing champion stops at West Point to see a dress parade and falls for the commandant's daughter. He wins an appointment to the Academy and begins a rivalry for her affection.
Nora Banks
A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed by Renaud Hoffman, produced by DeMille Pictures, and distributed by Pathé Exchange. The film starred Rudolph Schildkraut, Junior Coghlan, May Robson, and Bessie Love, and was based on the short story by Evelyn Campbell.
Mary Ellen Stack
When the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car and relocate to California. Unbeknownst to them, their used car is worth more than they ever could have imagined.
Jane Wilton
Seref, who returns to his country after many years in America, as a dollar billionaire with a cowboy hat on his head, and with his Dallas-type boots has an interesting past: Twenty years ago he has lost his sweetheart Melek to his closest friend, and furthermore, has been put in prison. He found a way to escape from prison, going to America, the country of dreams. Here, he has become a businessman with boundless wealth, known as Seref The Turk. When he returns to his country as an American, even though he has some commercial aims in mind, his real desire is to take revenge. He will settle accounts with the friend who stabbed him in the back many years ago, and with Melek who is betrayed him. However, when he sets foot in Turkey with yearning, he meets 'Small America' in chaos. On top of that, while looking for Melek, he finds himself in the middle of a funny and exciting adventure where sexuality and violence mingle.
Marie
A young women is part a jewel theft ring, but opts out of a robbery because guns will be used. A man gets killed in that operation and the district attorney convicts an innocent man.
Victoria
Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.
Lovey Mary
Lovely Mary, an orphan girl, reluctantly takes charge of her sister's child when her sister Kate is jailed.
Leola Lane
Song and Dance Man was based on the play of the same name by George M. Cohan. Tom Moore plays vaudevillian Happy Farrell, who gives up show biz to take a "civilian" job. Finding success in the business world, Happy tries to go back on stage, only to find that it isn't quite so easy the second time around. Meanwhile, our hero's former vaude partner Leola Lane (Bessie Love), now a headliner at the Palace, gives it all up to become the bride of artist Joseph Murdock
Mary Young
A European Ruler falls in love with an American.
Thomas Bates Sr. (Robert McWade) takes his broom manufacturing business very seriously, and his idle son, Tom Jr. (Neil Hamilton), calls him a grouch. As a result, Bates decides to teach his son a lesson by putting him in charge of the business for a year.
Nora Shea
'Big Boy' Morgan and his friend, invalid Charlie Grey, must overcome the efforts of the villainous Holdbrook to foreclose on the Los Rosas ranch and make off with the beautiful Nora Shea.
Teita
Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job back home in the United States. After his studies in Italy, he moves to Paris, where he is forced to write popular songs for money when he stops receiving support from his father. He tires of selling out and, after an encounter with the mob, starts to travel. He begins a madcap journey from Paris to Port Said, Egypt, and to the South Seas, where he believes he has found love with Teita (Bessie Love).
Paula White
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), además de Sherlock Holmes, creó otro héroe de ficción, el profesor George Edward Challenger, cuya aventura más conocida es la de "El mundo perdido", obra publicada en 1912. Harry O. Hoyt y Willis O'Brien efectuaron una temprana adaptación al cine con gran éxito de taquilla apoyado por un temprano merchandising: rompecabezas, muñecos, libros e incluso una canción compuesta por Rudolf Friml.
Lahleet
The Native American Siwash people have been displaced from their land and live on a reservation. The wealthy Mr. Boland attempts to buy the reservation from the Siwash for dubious reasons.
Ellen Crawley
Cattlemen attempt to keep their lands and herds from being overrun by nesters.
Violet
Gladstone Smith, a fearful young reporter, gets on the wrong side of a murderous criminal and flees to Alaska, along with the killer's wife, who is equally frightened of her husband. But the murderer pursues them to the frozen north and Gladstone must overcome his cowardice in order to overcome his nemesis.
Mary, his wife
The Silent Watcher is a lost 1924 American silent melodrama film directed by Frank Lloyd. It stars Glenn Hunter and Bessie Love.
Veda Anargas
A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to break up the gang.
Grace Pierce
The story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but had deserted her...and of a woman on the jury who refused to condemn her when eleven men had voted guilty...a woman brave enough to defy public opinion, brave enough to lose the loss of the love of her husband by baring her soul to the world in order to save the girl on trial.
Marie
Torment is a 1924 American silent film crime drama produced and directed by Maurice Tourneur and distributed by Associated First National. This film stars Bessie Love, Owen Moore, and Jean Hersholt.
Julia
Gentle Julia is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film based on the popular novel Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington. Directed by Rowland V. Lee, the film starred Bessie Love.
Pauline Gaudin
Poet Raphael de Valentin is down on his luck until a friend introduces him into society. He meets the Countess Fedora, and after she reads his poems, his work becomes an overnight sensation.
Edna Earle
St. Elmo is a man who killed his romantic rival in a brawl. Traveling the world as a confirmed misogynist, St. Elmo returns to home and hearth only to fall in love with the daughter of the local blacksmith. The film is based on the 1867 novel of the same name written by Augusta Jane Evans. Today, St. Elmo is a lost film.
Hilda Gray
A doctor's adopted son turns out to be an ungrateful whelp. He beds the doctor's maid, then his secretary, and finally targets the doctor's wife, his own stepmother as his next conquest....
Mary Finnegan
An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.
Herself (uncredited)
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?
Mui Far
The Purple Dawn is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film that was produced, written, and directed by Charles R. Seeling. Starring Bessie Love, Bert Sprotte, and William E. Aldrich. The film is presumed lost.
Herself - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Bernice
Originally planned as 12 two-reelers, only three were made: The Little Knight, The Love Charm, The Crown of Courage.
Effie Kugler
With his understanding manner policeman Donald Dorgan wins respect on his tough beat in "Little Hell." He tries to help Terry Rafferty "go straight" so that he may receive Rudolph Kugler's permission to marry Effie, but Terry gets into a fight and is sentenced to prison.
John Caspar / Virginia Cartwright
Three Who Paid is a 1923 American silent Western melodrama film directed by Colin Campbell, and starring Dustin Farnum, with Bessie Love and Frank Campeau. The film was based on the 1922 short story by George Owen Baxter,
Anna Moore (The Country Girl)
Anna Moore, a poor orphaned country girl, and her little brother, Tommy, live with hypocritical Squire Simpson, who conspires with his son to acquire the inheritance due the girl.
Self
A picture depicting the engrossing adventures of a small town youth in Hollywood and showing the intimate home life of some of the screen's greatest stars.
Self
Another entry in the popular one-reel series.
Rosemary Martin
De jóvenes, el escudero (Marshall) y el herrero del pueblo (Walling) están enamorados de la misma mujer (Boardman), con quien se casa el herrero. Esto enfurece al escudero. Años más tarde, el hijo del escudero, Anson (Yearsley), desafía al hijo del herrero, Johnnie (Hackathorne), a trepar a un árbol, del que cae y queda lisiado. De adultos, Anson y la hija del herrero Alice (Valli) se enamoran, lo que enfurece al herrero, que castiga a su hija. El otro hijo del herrero, Bill (Butler), regresa de la universidad y resulta herido en un accidente de tren. Anson roba $ 480 de un fondo de la iglesia que actualmente está en posesión de Alice. Alice es alcanzada por un rayo. El herrero lleva a Anson y al escudero a la iglesia, donde ambos se arrepienten.
Gloria Phillips
College athlete Jimmy Brent is sent to Wyoming by his wealthy uncle John Morton, who has promised him $50,000 if he beats up Bob Phillips, who was once Morton's rival for Mary Allen. Jimmy finds Phillips, but when he falls in love with Phillips' daughter Gloria, he starts to think twice about performing his "job" for Uncle John. Matters are further complicated when a ranch hand tricks Phillips into thinking that Jimmy is the head of a gang of rustlers.
Ann, The Girl
Young mother Mary Gordoon is too poor to take care of her infant daughter, Ann, and leaves the child at an orphanage. Ann grows up with a crippled leg in the orphanage, and has fallen in love with a fellow orphan, Jimmy.
Hyacinth
The Vermilion Pencil is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Norman Dawn, and produced and distributed by Robertson–Cole. It is based on the eponymous 1908 novel by Homer Lea. The film stars Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa in multiple roles, and white actors Ann May, Bessie Love, and Sidney Franklin, all in Asian roles. It is now a lost film.
The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers, which honored 13 (15 in 1932) young actresses each year whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom.
Blossom Nelson
When his long-suffering wife leaves him, the hard-driving captain of a whaling ship turns bitter and takes out his anger, resentment and frustrations on all those around him, leading to tensions with his crew that come up to the point of mutiny.
The Spirit of the Lake is a 1921 American silent short Western drama film produced by Cyrus J. Williams and distributed by Pathé Exchange. It was directed by Robert North Bradbury and stars Tom Santschi, Bessie Love, and Ruth Stonehouse.
Mary
Mary and her son Buster live in a single room in the slums of the city, having been deserted by their husband and father, wealthy Spencer Wellington. While selling newspapers, Buster meets Wang.
The Geologist's Wife
The Honor of Rameriz is a 1921 American silent short Western film produced by Cyrus J. Williams and distributed by Pathé Exchange. It was directed by Robert North Bradbury and stars Tom Santschi, Bessie Love, and Ruth Stonehouse.
Penny
Penny arrives in the West by aeroplane. She is considered a suspicious character and thrown into jail. Kurt Walters, a ranch foreman and deputy sheriff, discovers that she is the same girl that his friend, Jo Gary, met in Chicago. Gary fell in love with her, but she confessed she was a thief. Since Penny claims she wants to reform, Walters releases her and sends her to live with Mrs. Kingdon. In spite of her teasing and taunts (or perhaps because of them), Walters finds himself falling in love with Penny.
Bonnie May
Young actress Bonnie May finds work in a private play given at Mrs. Baron’s mansion, where she endears herself to all, especially Victor Baron, the invalid son who has written the play. He begs her to stay on to help him write another play, despite the reluctance of his mother.
Pegeen O'Neill
Pegeen O'Neill must fend for herself when her father Dan becomes mentally unbalanced after his wife Mary's death. Dan spends his days searching for his wife, setting fires in the belief that the flames will illuminate his Mary. The townspeople, enraged at the arson that is slowly destroying their village, track down Dan and trap him in a burning cabin. Pegeen rushes to comfort her dying father, who consoles himself at death with the hallucination that his wife has returned in the figure of his daughter. Pegeen is then rescued from the raging fire by Jimmie, who proposes to the waif as he delivers her from the flames.
Alannah Malone
Young and spunky Alannah, an Irish immigrant living in a tenement, sells newspapers to support her family. She is soon helping a district attorney secure proof that the unjust town mayor is collecting bribes. For her reward, Alannah and her boyfriend Jimmy are appointed managers of a municipal restaurant.
Peggy Gordon
Peggy ( Bessie Love ) and her sister Frances ( Myrtle Reeves ) live with their father, but because of his idleness, they must all move to humbler quarters. Peggy adapts quickly to their new surrounding, while Frances misses the social life she once enjoyed. Their neighbors are well off, and Peggy begins a romance with their son, whom she thinks is the chauffeur. Meanwhile, Frances has become involved with a roguish character and plans to elope with him. Peggy saves her sister from imminent disgrace, but comes close to compromising herself instead. Peggy's sweetheart comes to her rescue and now his true identity is revealed to the very grateful girl.
Geraldine Farleigh
Geraldine Farleigh, a timid village schoolteacher, supports her family and must pay off her late father's debt to Bruce Cartwright.
Peggy Winston (The Little Boss)
The Little Boss is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by David Smith and produced by Vitagraph Studios.[2] The story and screenplay were by Rida Johnson Young starring Bessie Love and Wallace MacDonald.
Patsy O'Reilly
A Yankee Princess is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It was directed by David Smith and stars Bessie Love, who also wrote the screenplay. It is a lost film.
Joy Havenith
Forced to wear quaint short dresses and pigtails so that she will inspire her grandfather's sentimental poetry, nineteen-year-old Joy Havenith longs for companions of her own age.
The story of an orphan girl and her dog.
Shirley Hollister
The Hollisters, a bright, spirited, wholesome family, are compelled to move into the country. After many efforts to secure a home, Shirley, eldest of the Hollisters, contrives a way out by renting a magnificent old stone barn at a ridiculously low price, transforming it into a house. The owner of the barn is not an ordinary landlord, as you will see, for he is a young man with fine ideals, and he is not content with establishing Shirley and her family in the quaintly beautiful old place, but makes the world a much happier place to live in for all of them.
Sue Prescott
The Dawn of Understanding is a lost 1918 American silent Western comedy film produced by The Vitagraph Company of America and directed by David Smith. It stars Bessie Love in the first film of her nine-film contract with Vitagraph.
Celeste Janvier
Young Celeste Janvier ( Bessie Love ) lives in an East Side tenement with her immigrant grandfather, a humanitarian and socialist. Like her kindly grandfather, Celeste also has a kindhearted soul, and her friendly nature has earned her the nickname, " the little sister of everybody."
Caroline Rogers
Caroline Rogers, a spirited young girl with a taste for highly romantic novels, comes home from boarding school to attend her sister Ethel's wedding. Having read a particularly lurid novel entitled Twin Souls recently, she arrives at the rehearsal wearing a daring gown in the hope of ensnaring a "soul mate." Because of his poetic name, Caroline becomes involved with Reginald Van Alden, a married fortune-seeker. On the morning of the wedding, she abandons her old sweetheart, Bob Worth, to take a ride with Reginald, but when he takes her to a disreputable roadhouse, she escapes and then tries to commit suicide by drinking cologne.
Rags
Ragna "Rags" Jansen has found local success and acclaim in her small town as an actress, but dreams of stardom on Broadway.
Polly Ann
Young Polly-Ann works in a small town inn as a maidservant. A troupe of actors comes to town and the innocent girl falls in love with one of its members. Howard Straightlane is sent to the small town by his father, to work as a schoolteacher in hopes of smartening up the young man from his wild ways. Howard soon meets Polly-Ann and saves her from the unscrupulous actor.
Wee Lady Betty
Wee Lady Betty rules the O'Reilly castle with a stern hand and a big heart until she learns that Roger, the O'Reilly heir, is coming to take possession of his estate. Unable to provide for her aged father, Betty conceives of a scheme. Feigning to leave the castle, she returns after dark with her father and installs him in the haunted chamber.
Janet Magie
Janet sets out to find her circus ringleader father, who her mother abandoned believing him to be unfaithful. Along the way, Janet and her friend Peter join Colonel Simmonds's circus, she as a trick horse rider and he as a clown, but Janet cannot help but wonder why she finds Simmonds so familiar.
Judy
A 1917 film directed by Paul Powell.
Rose Eastman
A young girl, Rose Eastmen lives with her lazy Uncle, who works as a janitor in a publishing house. Lacking education, both Rose and her Uncle are susceptible to the socialist ideas of writer Rudolph Creig. One day Rose encounters Jack Steven's the wealthy son of the publishing house, working on his car. She believes he is a common laborer, and begins seeing him. Through her exposure to Jack, Rose begins to realize the rich are not such an abominable people. Rudolph has also reached this conclusion after learning Steven's has published his book. Now with a hefty royalty check and success, Rudolph is able to marry Rose.
Nina
Nina, a blind girl, lives with her grandmother, who has taught her to make artificial flowers, which she sells at a flower-stand. Nina, and Jimmie, a crippled newsboy who sells papers on the same corner, are sweethearts. Nina's grandmother dies, and she turns to Jimmie. One day Jimmie has a fight with another newsboy, whom he thinks is hanging about Nina's stand too much, and the other boy is soon begging for mercy. Miss Fifi Chandler, an artist, happens to be passing, and becoming interested, she accompanies Nina and Jimmie to their rooms, and is surprised to find that Jimmie is an artist, having made a beautiful plaster cast of Nina. Fifi brings Jimmie and his protégé to the notice of her fellow artist, Fred Townsend, who falls in love with Nina.
Waffles
"Waffles," the waitress at "Coffee Dan's" hash-house, is selected by Bert Gallagher and Clara Johnstone, a pair of crooks, to be represented as a missing heiress whose story they have read about in the papers. "Waffles" herself believes the story, as she was orphaned early and remembers little of her childhood, and by adroit coaching is able to convince the estate's none too bright lawyers of the validity of her claim. With this unlimited money, poor little "Waffles" nevertheless has only three desires: to buy the little restaurant for her old benefactor, Shorty Olson, to publish the music written by her lover, Carl Miller, a young, eccentric, absent-minded musical genius, and to adopt the baby that a Mrs. O'Shaughnessy is too poor to care for.
Prudence
A young woman and her five little brothers and sisters are left orphans by the murder of their father over gold found on his ranch. Together the seven offspring fight against their greedy neighbors to keep what is rightfully theirs.
The Bride of Cana (Judean Story)
Clásico del cine mudo que muestra a través de varios episodios históricos las injusticias provocadas por la intolerancia religiosa y social. La idea inicial de Griffith era narrar las sangrientas huelgas de 1912 en EE.UU. (un huelguista es acusado de la muerte de su patrón), pero después decidió rodar tres episodios más: "La caída de Babilonia, "La Pasión de Cristo" y "La noche de San Bartolomé" (sangriento episodio de las luchas entre hugonotes y católicos que tuvo lugar en París en 1572). De presupuesto y recursos desmesurados para la época -una sola escena reunió a 15.000 extras y 250 carros- aún hoy sigue asombrando por su espectacularidad.
Briar Rose Dawson
After her father's death, little Briar Rose is taken in by the men at a lumber camp. The girl shows a definite preference for one of the lumberjacks, "Hell-to-Pay" Austin, so he becomes her new "father." Just as much as Hell-to-Pay takes care of Briar, she watches over him, and it is largely through her influence that he gives up hard drinking and needless fighting. Then, when Briar is old enough, she goes away to school and quickly falls in with the wrong crowd. Hell-to-Pay comes after her and takes her away from Doris Valentine, an adventuress who had been teaching Briar the tricks of the trade. When they are reunited, Hell-to-Pay and Briar realize that they are in love, so they decide to change their relationship from guardian and ward to husband and wife.
The Girl
H. Ulysses Watts is a traveling Shakespearean actor whose career is on the decline, as his audiences are more interested in cinema and vaudeville. When the troupe is robbed by Stoner, Watts cares for an injured young trapeze artist.
Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his time into periods of "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drinks". In fact, he overcomes every situation with drugs: consuming cocaine to increase his energy or injecting it in his opponents to incapacitate them. To help the police, he tracks down a contraband of opium (which he eagerly tastes) transported within "leaping fishes", saving a "fish-blower" girl from blackmail along the way.
Agnes
Reggie, a wealthy young man about town, is eager for excitement, so he takes to visiting the rougher sections of the city in search of thrills. He meets and falls for a cabaret singer, but she turns out to be the inamorata of the local gang boss. The gangster sends his men after Reggie, but eventually it comes down to a duel between the two men themselves.
Amy
Un fuera de la ley hace un alto en su camino delictivo para ayudar a unos niños en dificultad.
Mary Jane Garth
Steve Denton, rich from years of prospecting, is fleeced by the citizens of Yellow Ridge. In his rage, he kidnaps the woman most responsible and makes her his slave in a desert hideaway.
Hulda
In the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American officials, coming to the realisation that the country is basically defenceless, offer $1,000,000 to anyone who can come up with a weapon to defeat the invaders. Winthrop Clavering, a writer and inventor, hears of the reward and tells his friend Bartholomew Thompson, a scientist and inventor who has been working on developing flying torpedo. However, enemy agents have also heard about Thompson's project, and set out to kill him and steal his plans. This film is now considered lost.
Helen Carter
Hard-working insurance company bookkeeper John Carter, comes home Easter eve to his suburban cottage with a potted lily for his loving wife and two daughters. The Carters live happily until cashier Charles Ryder is murdered by the night watchman, a "coke sniffer" in need of money, and Carter is accused because he worked with Ryder that evening.
