Gene Gauntier

Gene Gauntier

Birthday: 1885-05-17

Place of Birth: Kansas City, Kansas, USA

Biography: Gene Gauntier, born Eugenia Gauntier Liggett, was an American screenwriter, director and actress who was one of the pioneers of the motion picture industry. A writer, director and actress in films from mid 1906 to 1920, she wrote screenplays for 31 films.

Movies

Ben Hur
Ben Hur

The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ....

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Dust of the Desert
Dust of the Desert

Dust of the Desert is a 1912 short film...

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A Prisoner of the Harem
A Prisoner of the Harem

Alice Durand, after weeks of discouragement, reads the following advertisement in the New York Heral...

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An Arabian Tragedy
An Arabian Tragedy

Ayub Kashif becomes embittered toward his wife, Fatima, because their union has been childless. He e...

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The Shaughraun
The Shaughraun

Robert Ffolliott is a young Irish lad who is done out of his land and sent off to a penal colony in ...

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Skyscrapers
Skyscrapers

A new skyscraper is being built in New York City, and numerous workmen are busy at hazardous jobs hi...

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Betrayed by a Handprint
Betrayed by a Handprint

Mrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to ...

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Gene of the Northland
Gene of the Northland

Jeanne La Roche lives alone with her brother in the great northwestern country. Jacques is a ne'er-d...

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The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew

Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her ag...

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From the Manger to the Cross
From the Manger to the Cross

The life of Jesus is played out in tableaux shot in the Holy Land....

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Thompson's Night Out
Thompson's Night Out

William Thompson and John Smith occupied offices in the same New York skyscraper, and both being sei...

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The Man in the Box
The Man in the Box

A poorly compensated bank clerk is, we may say, to that trying position of "Tantalus" in sight of to...

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The Stage Rustler
The Stage Rustler

Mack Sennett appears as a man in a bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company....

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The Girl and the Outlaw
The Girl and the Outlaw

Mack Sennett appears as a Native American in this film produced by the Biograph Company....

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The Little Spreewald Maiden
The Little Spreewald Maiden

Two American ladies touring through Germany happen on this little Spreewald girl and offer her a job...

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The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg
The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg

The opening scene of our story shows a Union powder wagon making its way down the road convoyed by a...

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For Love of an Enemy
For Love of an Enemy

A Federal spy operating within the Confederate lines, meets Hallie Coburn, a fair Southern girl, wit...

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The Lad from Old Ireland
The Lad from Old Ireland

A young man leaves Ireland for America, but doesn't forget home....

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You Remember Ellen
You Remember Ellen

Summer 1911, Sidney Olcott cross again the Atlantic to shoot films in Ireland for Kalem company. Wit...

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The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged
The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged

Anastasia is being picked up by an artist who wants to paint her picture.The artist have other inten...

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A Slave to Drink
A Slave to Drink

Illustrates a man's struggle to overcome an inherited love for drink. Although yet a young man, the ...

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When the Dead Return
When the Dead Return

acques and Antoine are both in love with the same girl, but Jacques proves the winner and marries Ma...

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Evangeline
Evangeline

About an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time...

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The Colleen Bawn
The Colleen Bawn

A young Irish boy has fallen in love with a poor girl and wants to marry her, but his mother will st...

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Captured by Bedouins
Captured by Bedouins

An American officer disguises himself as an Arab in order to rescue an American woman kidnapped by A...

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Way Down East
Way Down East

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Winning a Widow
Winning a Widow

While crossing the Atlantic, Jim White, an American tourist, is attracted by a charming young widow....

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His Mother
His Mother

An Irish mother uses her life savings to pay for her son, a talented musician, to study in America....

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For Ireland's Sake
For Ireland's Sake

Set in the late 1790s, a depiction of Irish villagers rebelling against British occupation (Red Coat...

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When Lovers Part
When Lovers Part

A young couple’s love is forbidden by the girl’s father. He forces her to write a farewell letter. T...

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The Fiddler’s Requiem
The Fiddler’s Requiem

The old musician playing his fiddle in his garret home dreams of his youth and his lost love. As the...

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The Further Adventures of the Girl Spy
The Further Adventures of the Girl Spy

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A Sawmill Hero
A Sawmill Hero

Jim Hemminway went to college, but did not make good. He had a fine time, but flunked in his studies...

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The Little Soldier of ’64
The Little Soldier of ’64

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Her Chum’s Brother
Her Chum’s Brother

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The Stepmother
The Stepmother

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The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War
The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War

The American Civil War is the setting for this film which portrays the efforts of a girl, with the a...

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Rory O'More
Rory O'More

Based on the story of the real-life 17th Century Irish rebel and the eighteen century ballad about h...

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Come Back to Erin
Come Back to Erin

The story opens in an inland village in Ireland, where Jerry, the village blacksmith, toils, that he...

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The Special Messenger
The Special Messenger

During the Civil War, a woman helps her injured husband by delivering an important message to his ge...

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The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter

"The Scarlet Letter" is a story of early Puritan days in New England. Hester, a beautiful young Engl...

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The Romance of a Trained Nurse
The Romance of a Trained Nurse

A nurse falls for her patient, a young man recently injured in a car accident....

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The Navajo's Bride
The Navajo's Bride

A short Western. Ivi, the beautiful daughter of an Indian chief, has three suitors. A competition wi...

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Tragedy of the Desert
Tragedy of the Desert

An English doctor based in Egypt finds his wife in the arms of a local diplomat, and in a madness-in...

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The Irish Honeymoon
The Irish Honeymoon

Larry Malone and Maggie McClusky get married, and for a honeymoon trip decide to journey through the...

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The Wives of Jamestown
The Wives of Jamestown

The romance between Bryan O'Sullivan and Lady Geraldine is broken when he unjusily suspects that she...

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Lady Peggy’s Escape
Lady Peggy’s Escape

A group of English Soldiers take the Home of the Fitzgeralds from its rightful owners, and force the...

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The Eye of the Government
The Eye of the Government

The story of a customs officer who pursues a trafficker between continents...

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Far from Erin's Isle
Far from Erin's Isle

Kathleen leaves behind her sweetheart in Ireland to emigrate to New York, finding a position in a sw...

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Vagabonds
Vagabonds

A story of love triangle, between Nell, Big Jim and Tom....

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The Fishermaid of Ballydavid
The Fishermaid of Ballydavid

Kathleen, the daughter of a fisherman meets Henry, the son of a Wall Street Broker, her father forbi...

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The Mayor from Ireland
The Mayor from Ireland

Shamus, humiliated at a Country Dance by Bridget leaves Kerry to travel to New York, where he meets ...

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The O'Neill
The O'Neill

An exiled patriot returns home, disgusted by the poverty of his countrymen he becomes a highway man...

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