Birthday: 1886-01-01
Place of Birth: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Florence Lawrence (born Florence Annie Bridgwood; January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as "The First Movie Star", and was the first film actor to be named publicly. At the height of her fame in the 1910s, she was known as "The Biograph Girl" for work as one of the leading ladies in silent films from the Biograph Company. Lawrence appeared in almost 300 films for various motion picture companies throughout her career.
A small textile factory down south is run by a cruel foreman that bullies and fires on whim the work...
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Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace i...
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An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement...
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When Peaceful Patton goes to work at the Martini ranch he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw the H...
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In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves....
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The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten m...
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Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, i...
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Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her ol...
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A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she wait...
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After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks....
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Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her ag...
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"Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle a...
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A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich...
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A mother works as a dancer to support her ill daughter. One night while performing, the mother has a...
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Mack Sennett appears as a Native American in this film produced by the Biograph Company....
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Pretty Miss Chrysanthemum has but little to say as to the disposal of her heart, at least, such is t...
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A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby asylum, he...
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At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the land...
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After his wife receives an extravagant dress, a man find himself the victim of an attempted burglary...
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D.W. Griffith film about an elderly father who grows tired of seeing his son bring home beautiful wo...
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This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here w...
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George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with...
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Mack Sennett appears as a member of the Wilkenson clan in this film produced by the Biograph Company...
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Mack Sennett appears as a policeman and waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company....
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Bachelor Reggie writes his uncle that he has a wife and child, but then must produce them when the u...
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While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds t...
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Mack Sennett appears as a lover in this film produced by the Biograph Company....
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Mack Sennett appears as a guest and a man in the fight in this film produced by the Biograph Company...
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Mack Sennett appears as a dinner guest and a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company...
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A woman is scarred in an accident and refuses to stand in the way of her lover's marriage to another...
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Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play....
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Flo is the headmistress at Dow's School for Boys (enrollment: 12). The boys get too rowdy at the din...
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Two thieves, Ned and Mike, scheme to rob a pawnbroker, Mr. Einstein. Ned seduces Einstein's daughter...
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Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biog...
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To a reception there is invited a celebrated professor of hypnotism, and during the evening he oblig...
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Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph...
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Mack Sennett appears as a wedding guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company....
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"A pathetic story of mother's grief. No more intense emotion can be imagined than a mother's grief f...
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Oh, the woe of simultaneous birthdays, as were Mr. and Mrs. Hardlucks', and both being of a generous...
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Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained...
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A girl from the New York slums falls in with crooks. After her love is arrested following a barfight...
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A young female boarding house tenant becomes an unwanted object of male attention....
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A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and ...
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Unable to bear the abuse of her drunken soldier husband, the wife left her home and went to the city...
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Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match wit...
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The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the ...
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A young couple conducts a series of robberies, followed by a chase, in which they are shot and kille...
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A Saxon prisoner rescues his Viking's captor's daughter, resulting in his freedom and their marriage...
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Henry and Marion have a lover's quarrel and part in anger. They do not reconcile, and ten years pass...
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Alice misunderstands when she sees her sweetheart Frank accidentally kissing her sister, and gets up...
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In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with cle...
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A tramp tries to get himself arrested so he can sleep in the nice, warm jail, but the police keep ig...
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Flo is not like the other girls at the Ferncliffe Seminary, in that she does not like the attention ...
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Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invite...
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A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she offers to...
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A short film based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was the first film to dramatiz...
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The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled c...
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In the third installment of the "Mr. and Mrs. Jones" series, Mrs. Jones hosts a luncheon for her Lad...
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A gang of lawless freebooters who terrorized the country and made travel in the mountains a hazardou...
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Daniel Boone is captured by Indians when he tries to rescue his abducted daughter....
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Young Wilkinson is leaving his dear old mother for a journey to seek his fortune in a foreign clime....
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During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is ...
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Mack Sennett appears as a waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company....
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A hunter lost in the Northern woods is rescued by a trapper and his wife. He makes advances to the w...
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Mack Sennett appears as a barbarian in this film produced by the Biograph Company....
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Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar and in the wedding party in this film produced by the Biogr...
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John Holland, a planter in a small way, is devotedly attached to his wife and infant child. The wife...
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King Herod is enchanted by Salome's dance and grants her wish for the head of John the Baptist....
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Two feuding houses are united with the marriage and eventual death of their children....
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It would have taken more than the wonderful powers of deduction of a Sherlock Holmes to have dispell...
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The pretty daughter of a French-Canadian backwoodsman incites the love of a trapper who is so smitte...
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The Awakening of Bess is a silent short film of 1909 directed by Harry Solter . The protagonists of ...
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A wife offers to support her artist husband by teaching piano. She can't find work at the conservato...
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An unscrupulous tourist plots to steal the famous diamond, "The Light of the World," tricking a youn...
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The story tells of the young widowed mother of two children who is forced by extreme poverty to part...
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Gertrude chooses Jim over Jack, which makes Jack very jealous. Later Jim dies, and Jack marries Gert...
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Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy's money....
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Harry's jealous former mistress puts poison in some candy intended for his new fiancée. Harry discov...
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A girl is being shipped off to Europe with her aunt to break up her romance. Her suitor dresses hims...
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Reverend Howson loves his young ward, but urges her to marry someone else. She accepts the proposal,...
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Jones's mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and ge...
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A young couple must endure a tedious visit from their aunt until their friend offers to find a way t...
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House painter Jim Brooks thinks his wife is cheating on him with his best friend John West. The intr...
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After overhearing Jones mocking her, the lady book agent slips a suggestive note into Jones's pocket...
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Jones' new house looks like all the others on the street. One night Jones enters the wrong house and...
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A woman replaces her injured beau on a spy mission....
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John is seduced and abandoned by a cruel flirt. Later he learns that his friend Frank is engaged to ...
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Mr. Jones stays out late playing poker with his buddies. While he's gone, a burglar starts to break ...
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A shoe-factory worker puts a note in a shoe box offering to marry the lucky buyer. As a result, she ...
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Gerald and Percy inherit a fortune and spend all of it in pursuit of a young heiress....
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A circus girl must decide to stay under the big top or marry the minister who loves her....
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Mr. Jones jumps to the wrong conclusions when he sees a bouquet of flowers and a man's hat in the pa...
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Lady Florence hides her lover, a Prussian spy, from the French troops who are hunting for him. One o...
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A girl saves her sweetheart from the dealings of a deceitful gang that he has fallen in with....
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A wife tries to drive away her husband's best friend by flirting with him, but trouble arises when t...
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An honest man trades places with a convict so the convict can see his dying wife, but he is killed o...
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A rejected suitor rebuffs the woman he loves after the death of her husband....
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Jane thinks she has witnessed a murder and the suspect is arrested; she later learns the truth and s...
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A haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to...
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Katherine Nevin and her brother Jack are given positions on the newspaper of James Osborne following...
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A young governess catches the eye of an aristocrat and romance blossoms....
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A sympathetic showgirl assumes the guilt for her cousin who is cheating on her husband....
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Two brothers vie for Rosie's hand; she gives a rose to each of them....
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Miguel casts out his daughter when she marries a poor man, causing his wife to leave him, too. After...
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When a bored wife seeks a Reno divorce, she regains the attentions of her inattentive husband....
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A kindhearted criminal saves the life of the sheriff's daughter and is allowed to make it across the...
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Florence, trying to escape fortune hunters, is residing at the seashore, when her maid dies. Florenc...
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A maid loves her employer, sacrificing her own happiness in order to insure his....
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Two boys find a pistol their father has hidden. While they're playing with it, they line up a target...
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A local girl's romance with the lifeguard at a seaside lifesaving station is threatened by the arriv...
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Mons. Flamant, a typical roué of the French nobility, is surrounded by all the pleasures and pastime...
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A surgeon risks his life in order to finish surgery on a patient when a fire breaks out in the hospi...
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An orphaned young woman rejects her appointed suitor and falls in love with her guardian....
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John Cummins, a wealthy society man, while out in his auto, discovers he is out of gasoline. He stop...
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Out-of-work, Tim steals a sandwich, then knocks out the policeman who chases him. He changes into th...
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An escaped mental patient assumes the identity of a society girl's dead father and threatens her mar...
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The Harrington's first born has died and the father and mother are inconsolable in their grief. Mrs....
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One man squanders a fortune and loses his house and sweetheart to another who strikes it rich....
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A silly and extravagant wife must learn to curb her wild ways before her husband is willing to take ...
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Sight unseen, a man buys a bag that turns out to contain burglar tools. He can't get rid of the bag,...
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Five days more! Only five more days says the physician, and the man who has for so long a time been ...
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A young courtier gambles in a tavern and wins a coat from the leader of a gang. In the pocket he fin...
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When an infirm husband learns of the dire circumstances his wife must endure, he makes every effort ...
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A few of us have had the chance to read our own obituary notice, but it fell to the lot of John Good...
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A father wants to marry his daughter to a rich man, but she's in love with someone else. She borrows...
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An abused wife takes a shot at her husband, and, as a result, he reforms....
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A husband becomes jealous when he finds his wife's shawl in a suspicious location....
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A young woman pulls a fast switch on the fiance handpicked by her father....
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A young woman marries a man she hardly knows or understands; in a moment of crisis, the two suddenly...
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A husband learns from his mistake after he wrongly accuses his wife of infidelity....
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A mother loses her sanity when she loses her child. Her husband brings home a newly adopted child, a...
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A couple goes to Reno to be divorced, but change their minds at the last moment....
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Two old gentlemen who have been pals from boyhood decide that their children ought to marry. This in...
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An orphaned girl raised by a miner in the wilderness falls in love with a tenderfoot, even though th...
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A philandering husband arranges an ill-planned rendezvous at the same restaurant his wife and daught...
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A woman is forced to reevaluate the quiet man in her life when she finds he actually could be her kn...
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When a senator falls victim to morphine addiction, a look-alike double takes his place....
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A fickle tomboy eventually falls for the suitor who had previously been annoying her....
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A girl's affections waver between the winner of a boxing match, and a greedy count....
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A clever girl inventively uses a stage prop to attract help when burglars enter her house....
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There is always a right girl for all of us; sometime, somewhere, somehow we find her. But often the ...
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Roses and trousers have little in common and pressed roses presage something wrong in the scheme of ...
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After an accident, a young girl desperately needs a blood transfusion to save her life. A young blac...
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The indolent, thriftless black sheep of the family, the good-for-nothing son of a rich banker bother...
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The story revolves around a young woman named Lenore Vance (Mabel Forrest), who loses her memory aft...
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Bank clerk Vincent Forrest loses his savings in a gambling den run by Madame Zoe and her provider, V...
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A spurned suitor threatens to kill Margie's sweetheart if she does not give him up....
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Dr. Jane Bixby, a new doctor in a rural town, solves the mystery of the moonshiner's still....
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A prima donna falls in love with the voice of a singer that she hears on a recording....
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A brash young man loses the business he inherits but learns a lesson in love from the daughter of hi...
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A pianist's music annoys a painter, making him unable to work. Eventually they fall in love....
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A minister is talked into performing a marriage ceremony for his sister and the beau he despised....
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Betty, a farm cook, yearns to be an actress, but her dreams turn into nightmares, and she seeks comf...
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Little Flo is the daughter of a blind musician and the pair live by means of the few pennies tossed ...
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An unattractive girl endeavors to make herself attractive to an artist, but he sees only the artific...
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An heiress, under the protection of the Queen, falls in love with a poor knight....
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Two actors, trying to soak up local color for an upcoming play, fall in love with the same girl....
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A foolish suitor gains favor in a girl's eyes when he pretends to have saved her life. When the trut...
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Flo's suitor wins her mother's favor when he returns a lost pocketbook....
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Two old sweethearts, Henry Jones and Mrs. Mary Owen, he a widower and she a widow, meet at a summer ...
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When a minister tries to clean up Riverton, he finds an unexpected ally in the barkeeper's daughter....
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When a fireman rescues his long-lost sister-in-law he mistakes her for his wife when she dies, and c...
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A mother, grieving over the loss of her child, finds contentment in loving a lame orphan....
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The daughter of an aristocratic Southern family, proud, but impoverished, enters into a marriage of ...
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A young girl survives a dreadful childhood and grows up to right an old wrong....
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Romance develops between a young woman from the Tennessee hills and a man from the city; she saves h...
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A country suitor's jealousy of his rival for his sweetheart's hand culminates in fisticuffs....
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A Civil War spy story in which a girl and the officer she loves find themselves on opposite sides of...
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An impoverished father is forced to give up his daughter for adoption. After she is grown, she reali...
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Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III....
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A rich little girl helps a poor little girl by making their Christmas enjoyable....
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An actress teaches a young girl how to flirt and win back her beau....
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A matchmaking wife brings suspicion upon herself when she tries to reunite a young couple....
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A jealous husband misinteprets the performance his actress wife is putting on with his best friend....
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A dancer enchants a leacherous king but rebuffs his advances, resulting in his vengeful anger....
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Nell Connors is in love with Jack, a sailor, but is unaware that he was shipwrecked and is facing tr...
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A wife innocently inspires suspicion by generously giving away some money given to her for a hat....
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The forest ranger's daughter catches a spouse by hoodwinking Papa who brings in a minister....
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An heiress, a businessman, and a playboy form the eternal triangle....
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A young doctor is jealous of one of his patient's romantic interest in his nurse....
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Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor....
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A pretty model with two rival art students (her father's pupils) in love with her, a situation not a...
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A nurse ignores her other patients in order to concentrate on her favorite one, a fascinating bachel...
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A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's fathe...
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Misunderstandings abound when a minister's son and an actress become engaged....
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A woman's sweetheart is prevented from killing himself by two burglars who are afraid they will be a...
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A young Jewish woman wrestles with the dilemma of an interfaith marriage....
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A confirmed bachelor falls in love with the young woman whom he had pawned off on his aunt when she ...
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Two lovers disguise themselves as counterfeiters in order to escape from the girl's disapproving par...
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At the opening of the film Pennsylvania Avenue is shown, nearly blocked by a motley mob of sightseer...
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A young girl falls in love with a count, despite her father's disapproval....
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A doctor commits perjury in order to win a woman whose husband could go to prison based on his testi...
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An actress assumes a guilty appearance in order to save her faithless cousin's marriage....
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A maid discards her beau in favor of a musician whom she idolizes; when reality sets in, she takes h...
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A promotional one-reel film promoting the stars of Universal Pictures....
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A woman adopts the guise of a spy when she uncovers an arms plot concerning a country in Central Ame...
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Two couples head for Reno to swap partners, but change their minds at the last minute....
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A maid risks her life for her employer, with whom she is in love....
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A female mail carrier is injured on her route and recovers at a bachelor's lodge....
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A platonic experiment as to how a young couple should make love fails when it ceases to be platonic....
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When placed in a position to choose between two jealous suitors, a young woman turns the tables on t...
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A moving picture actress is mistaken for an escaped asylum patient; the insane girl then steps into ...
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A wayward girl falls in love with the handsome image of a burglar she sees in a photograph....
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A young woman helps her brother by purchasing a much needed piece of land....
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A young man's parents refuse to accept his new wife, but a reconciliation is eventually brought abou...
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Two brothers, one a minister and the other a cad, both love the same girl....
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A reformed woman shows a petty thief the righteous path by her good example....
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A young soldier is shipped overseas after a hasty marriage; when he returns he doesn't recognize his...
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A hastily written letter is used in a blackmail scheme by a scorned suitor....
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A girl from the country writes glowing letters about life in the big city despite the fact that it's...
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The sons and daughters on the opposing sides of a Kentucky feud fall in love and dismantle their fat...
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A husband uses a ruse to sneak back into the house after a night out....
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A scheming suitor ends up losing his girl to a rival even after he receives an inheritance....
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Florence Lawrence stars in this society comedy in rural surroundings....
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A widow threatens her rebellious daughter that she will remarry if the girl does not behave at schoo...
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When a young man loses his wealth, he also loses his fiancee, but he is more than consoled by her yo...
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A sheriff must decide whether or not to allow his old friend, a criminal, to escape....
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Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic,...
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A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses ...
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Bob Spaulding, a manly fellow, meets Dr. Rankin and his wife on the street while they are engaged in...
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During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a...
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A mother punishes her son for eating a plate of cream puffs, unaware that the daughter really did it...
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Early movie star Florence Lawrence appears in this dramatic farce, in which the police pay a famous ...
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Tells the biblical story of Saul's jealousy of the young David, taken from the book of Samuel...
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A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and child...
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Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown...
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"The Judgment of Solomon" was billed as a Vitagraph High Art Film. Biblical Production. It shared a ...
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A country boy and a city boy are both courting the same girl. The girl sees the country boy's tender...
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