Bessie Love

Bessie Love

Рождение : 1898-09-10, Midland, Texas, USA

Смерть : 1986-04-26

История

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bessie Love (September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986) was an American motion picture actress who achieved prominence mainly in the silent films and early talkies.  With a small frame and delicate features, she played innocent young girls, flappers, and wholesome leading ladies. In addition to her acting career, she wrote the screenplay for the 1919 movie A Yankee Princess. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bessie Love  licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Bessie Love

Фильмы

Будь естественным: Нерассказанная история Алис Ги-Блаше
Self (archive footage)
Рассказ о первой женщине-кинорежиссере Алис Ги-Блаше. Одновременно с признанием её роли в кинематографе расследуются обстоятельства, приведшие к её забвению.
Alice Guy-Blaché
Self
A one-hour biographical documentary about Alice Guy-Blaché, one of the first women to direct films.
Голод
Lillybelle
Катрин Денев играет холодную и прекрасную вампиршу Мириэм, которая блуждает в потемках модных ночных клубов Манхэттена в поисках свежей крови. Боуи исполняет роль Джона, ее двухсотлетнего партнера, с которым бессмертная героиня делит не только свою тайную жизнь, но и тайные страсти! Когда ее верный напарник Джон внезапно начинает необъяснимым образом стареть, к нему на помощь является обворожительная женщина-ученый, которая становится частью ужасного треугольника, сотканного из желания, секса и крови.
Красные
Mrs. Partlow
Фильм рассказывает правдивую историю Джона Рида, радикального американского журналиста во время Первой Мировой Войны. Он встречается с замужней женщиной Луизой Бриант, которая бросает своего мужа ради него. После политических разногласий в США, они уезжают в Россию, в то время когда там идет октябрьская революция 1917 года. Они вдохновляются решимостью коммунистов и возвращаются в штаты, надеясь устроить такую же революцию.
Регтайм
Old Lady - T.O.C.
На сшитом из лоскутков полотне жизни Нью-Йорка начала двадцатого века прослеживаются судьбы нескольких людей с акцентированием внимания на чернокожем герое, одержимо стремящемся добиться справедливости.
Любовник леди Чаттерлей
Flora
В результате ранения на англо-германской войне сэр Клиффорд Чаттерлей был частично парализован и был вынужден отныне передвигаться на коляске. Это его состояние делало невозможными нормальные сексуальные отношения с молодой красавицей женой Констанс. Конни (так ласково называл жену Чаттерлей) любила мужа и была готова сохранять ему верность, ухаживая за инвалидом. Понимая, что существование молодой женщины без секса ненормально, сэр Клиффорд благородно разрешил ей, если найдётся подходящий мужчина, завести любовника. Он даже был согласен дать ребёнку своё имя, если жена забеременеет. Но произошло то, чего сэр Чаттерлей ожидать никак не мог. Его Конни влюбилась в лесника Оливера Мэллорса.
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
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.
The Ritz
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.
Mousey
Mrs. Richardson
A high school teacher separated from his son plots revenge on his ex-wife.
Вампиры
American Lady
Две английские вампирши живут в замке близ Лондона и каждую ночь отправляются на поиск очередной наивной жертвы мужского пола. Однако встретившийся им однажды парень по имени Тэд оказался вампиршам не по зубам.
Воскрешение кровавого воскресения
Answering Service Lady
Апатию, охватившую английское общество в начале 70-х годов, Джон Шлезингер тонко отразил в своем фильме 1971 года «Воскресенье, проклятое воскресенье», который можно воспринимать как метафорическую картину горького пробуждения после бума 60-х, когда англичане вдруг увидели, что живут в захудалой стране, где люди согласны даже на «половину куска». Фильм повествует об одной неделе из жизни респектабельного пожилого доктора и интеллигентной женщины средних лет, которые не только пользуются одной телефонной службой, но и, как выясняется, делят одного любовника - амбициозного молодого изобретателя, в конце концов бросающего их обоих и уезжающего в Америку в поисках лучшей жизни.
Любовники Айседоры
Mrs. Duncan
Сюжет фильма рассказывает историю трагической жизни Айседоры Дункан - одной из лучших танцовщиц своего времени, одной из самых свободомыслящих женщин 20-го века, в орбиту которой были вовлечены талантливейшие современники - Роден, Пикассо, Кокто, Нижинский, Дягилев, Станиславский, Сара Бернар, Анна Павлова и многие-многие другие. Удивительная, полная бурных страстей и глубоких трагедий, судьба «божественной босоножки» - величайшей танцовщицы и актрисы, которая покорила поклонников балета в Европе и Соединенных Штатах и даже завоевала «красную Россию», а вместе с ней и сердце ее замечательного поэта Сергея Есенина.
Battle Beneath the Earth
Matron
Government officials discover a horrible plot: the Chinese are tunneling their way to the United States.
Promise Her Anything
Pet Shop Customer
A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is her employer doesn't know about her son and he doesn't particularly care for children despite his profession.
The Wild Affair
Marjorie's Mother
Young office assistant Majorie will marry soon, however she's plagued by doubts if her fiance is the right one. On her last day at work, her male colleagues don't miss a chance to comfort her... and flirt.
I Think They Call Him John
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.
Children of the Damned
Mrs. Robbin
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
Римская весна Миссис Стоун
Bunny
Вивьен Ли играет стареющую звезду сцены Карен Стоун, которая только что провалилась в роли, более подходящей для молодой женщины. Она решает отдохнуть в Европе, но неудачи продолжают преследовать ее. Ее богатый супруг заболевает и умирает на пути в Италию, но она все-таки приезжает в Рим. Когда вдова признается подруге Мэг, что не отказалась бы от мужского общества, та знакомит ее с великосветской сводницей, которая находит вдове красивого юношу - итальянца. Карен влюбляется в молодого человека с самыми печальными для себя последствиями.
Too Young to Love
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.
Nowhere to Go
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.
Next to No Time
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.
The Story of Esther Costello
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
Touch and Go
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.
Босоногая графиня
Mrs. Eubanks
Испанская танцовщица Мария Варгас грациозна и талантлива, она родилась для того, чтобы стать звездой. В ночном кабаке в Мадриде, где она танцевала босоногой, ее заприметил режиссер Гарри и вскоре Мария добивается головокружительного успеха на голливудской фабрике грез. Непременный атрибут звездной жизни — череда любовников: известный гитарист, латиноамериканский миллионер… Появляется и законный супруг — итальянский граф Винченцо, шофер которого вскоре занимает место очередного любовника Марии… Остается совсем немного времени до трагической развязки, но… Босоногая графиня никогда не будет танцевать под чужую музыку!
The Weak and the Wicked
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.
Оставшийся в тени
Bride's Mother in Wedding Group
Фильм посвящен трагической судьбе изобретателя первой в мире кинокамеры Уильяма Фриз-Грина. Свою деятельность Фриз-Грин начал в одной из фотостудий Бристоля и вскоре завоевал признание своими талантливыми снимками. Но ему хочется воспроизвести жизнь в движении. После долгих усилий ему удалось создать необходимый аппарат, но им никто не заинтересовался и бедность не покидала семейство Фриз-Гринов. Он похоронил первую жену, а вторая ушла, не вынеся постоянной нужды. Сыновья вступили в армию во время Первой мировой войны, и Фриз-Грин умер в полной неизвестности, одиноким, без всяких средств к существованию.
Нет пути
Plane Passenger (uncredited)
Великобритания. Королевский авиационный исследовательский центр разрабатывает самолет марки Ренфир с оригинальным строением хвоста. Для работы над проектом приглашен специалист по металлам — Деннис Скотт, на испытательной площадке он знакомится с эксцентричным ученым Теодором Хоуни. Теодор утверждает, что по его расчетам новая модель может потерпеть аварию в виду усталости металла через 1440 часов эксплуатации, но компания не признает это, ведь самолет уже давно себя показал как надежная машина.
Совместное путешествие
Mrs. Mary McWilliams
Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
London Scrapbook
Herself
Propaganda short showing how London is coping with World War II.
Atlantic Ferry
Begonia Baggot
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
Morals for Women
Helen Hutson
A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love.
Round About Hollywood
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.
See America Thirst
Ellen
Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.
Good News
Babe
A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
Conspiracy
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.
They Learned About Women
Mary
Jack and Jerry are doing okay between profession baseball and Vaudeville. That is, until love and gold-diggers get in the way.
Chasing Rainbows
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.
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Self
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
The Girl in the Show
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.
The Idle Rich
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.
Бродвейская мелодия
Hank Mahoney
Танцующие певицы сестры Махони приезжают на Бродвей, где их друг Эдди Керне хочет задействовать их в одном из новых шоу Фрэнсиса Занфилда. Эдди и одна из сестер даже состоят в отношениях и намереваются обвенчаться, однако Эдди влюбляется во вторую сестру, на которую положил глаз член высшего общества Нью-Йорка Джок Уорринер…
Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
Mitzi Lavelle
Anybody Here Seen Kelly? is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by William Wyler. This was the first non-Western film to be directed by Wyler and is now considered to be a lost film. This is Bessie Love's final silent film.
Sally of the Scandals
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
The Swell Head is a 1928 silent comedy short
The Matinee Idol
Ginger Bolivar
The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don?
Dress Parade
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.
A Harp in Hock
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.
Rubber Tires
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.
The American
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.
Going Crooked
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.
Young April
Victoria
Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.
Lovey Mary
Lovey Mary
Lovely Mary, an orphan girl, reluctantly takes charge of her sister's child when her sister Kate is jailed.
The Song and Dance Man
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
The King On Main Street
Mary Young
A European Ruler falls in love with an American.
New Brooms
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.
A Son of His Father
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.
Soul-Fire
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).
Затерянный мир
Paula White
Первая адаптация классического романа Сэра Артура Конан Дойла, повествующего о крае, в котором до сих пор обитают древние существа.
Tongues of Flame
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.
Sundown
Ellen Crawley
Cattlemen attempt to keep their lands and herds from being overrun by nesters.
Dynamite Smith
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.
The Silent Watcher
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.
Those Who Dance
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.
The Woman on the Jury
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.
Torment
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.
Gentle Julia
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.
Slave of Desire
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.
St. Elmo
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.
The Eternal Three
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....
Human Wreckage
Mary Finnegan
An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.
Mary of the Movies
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?
The Purple Dawn
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.
Souls for Sale
Herself - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
The Strange Adventures of Prince Courageous
Bernice
Originally planned as 12 two-reelers, only three were made: The Little Knight, The Love Charm, The Crown of Courage.
The Ghost Patrol
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.
Three Who Paid
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,
Deserted at the Altar
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.
Night Life in Hollywood
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.
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
Self
Another entry in the popular one-reel series.
The Village Blacksmith
Rosemary Martin
(survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith (Walling) are in love with the same woman (Boardman), whom the blacksmith marries. This angers the squire. Years later, the squire's son Anson (Yearsley) dares the blacksmith's son Johnnie (Hackathorne) to climb a tree, from which he falls and is crippled. As adults, Anson and the blacksmith's daughter Alice (Valli) fall in love, which angers the blacksmith, who chastises his daughter. The blacksmith's other son Bill (Butler) returns from college and is injured in a train accident. Anson steals $480 from a church fund which is currently in Alice's possession. Alice is struck by lightning. The blacksmith take Anson and the squire to church where they both repent.
Bulldog Courage
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.
Forget Me Not
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.
The Vermilion Pencil
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 of 1922
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.
The Sea Lion
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
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.
The Swamp
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 Honor of Rameriz
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 of Top Hill Trail
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.
The Midlanders
Bonnie May
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
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.
A Fighting Colleen
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.
Over the Garden Wall
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.
Cupid Forecloses
Geraldine Farleigh
Geraldine Farleigh, a timid village schoolteacher, supports her family and must pay off her late father's debt to Bruce Cartwright.
The Little Boss
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.
A Yankee Princess
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.
The Wishing Ring Man
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.
Carolyn of the Corners
The story of an orphan girl and her dog.
The Enchanted Barn
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.
The Dawn of Understanding
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.
A Little Sister of Everybody
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."
How Could You, Caroline?
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.
The Great Adventure
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
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
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.
The Sawdust Ring
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.
Cheerful Givers
Judy
A 1917 film directed by Paul Powell.
A Daughter of the Poor
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, the Flower Girl
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.
The Heiress at Coffee Dan's
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.
A Sister of Six
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.
Нетерпимость
The Bride of Cana (Judean Story)
Фильм «Нетерпимость» — один из этапных в развитии мирового киноискусства; — это сложная сюжетная конструкция из четырех перемежающихся новелл, показывавших четыре различные эпохи. В ленте, снятой с грандиозным постановочным размахом, был затронут широкий круг философских и моральных проблем. Нетерпимость трактована как зло, отравляющее жизнь во все времена и у всех народов. Обратившись к огромному историческому и мифологическому материалу, Гриффит использовал при его воплощении необычные для того времени кинематографические средства и приемы, определившие новаторское значение фильма.
Hell-to-Pay Austin
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.
Stranded
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.
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
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.
Reggie Mixes In
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.
Хороший плохой человек
Amy
Бандит по прозвищу Прохожий останавливает и грабит поезда, чтобы потом отдать всё награбленное сиротам. Он мало знает о своем прошлом, но преследующий его шериф - знает. Прохожий встречает девушку и влюбляется. Бандит по прозвищу Волк, пытается помешать их счастью.
The Aryan
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.
The Flying Torpedo
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.
Acquitted
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.