James Morrison
Birthday: 1888-11-14
Place of Birth: Mattoon, Illinois, USA
Biography: James Morrison, born James Woods Morrison, was an American silent movie actor with over 180 film credits. He later published two novels, Road End (1927) and April Luck (1932). He taught speech and drama classes at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn for many years.
Movies
Danger Ahead!
The impoverished Harlow family of New England is forced to take in summer boarders. Teenaged niece T...
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My Official Wife
This LOST film was Clara Kimball Young's first feature, and her last film for Vitagraph, where she h...
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The Wheels of Justice
Ralph Brooks, although engaged to Julia Dean, meets and becomes infatuated with Rita Reynolds. She g...
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A Yankee Go Getter
Popular action heroine Neva Gerber played the dual roles of Lucia and Vera Robilant in this low-budg...
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Beau Brummel
In the early part of the Nineteenth Century, Beau Brummell was the most talked-of person in all the ...
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Only a Shop Girl
Dann Mulvey (William Scott), just released from prison, is falsely accused of murder. The real culpr...
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Enlighten Thy Daughter
Lillian Stevens was raised without care, attention, or education on the ways of the world. When she ...
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Betty Becomes a Maid
Margaret is the older and Betty the younger of two sisters. Their brother Jack brings a young unmarr...
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The Seventh Son
At the outbreak of the Civil War in the United States, the six sons of widow Beecham enlist. The sev...
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At Scrogginses' Corner
The general store at Scrogginses' Corner is the favorite lounging and meeting place for the citizens...
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The Seepore Rebellion
Short film about the large-scale rebellion in British India against the East India Company's rule in...
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Kitty and the Cowboys
Fatty comes up with a plan to prank his cowboy buddies. He announces that his sister Kitty is coming...
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Troublesome Secretaries
A frustrated, protective father tries to stop his secretaries from falling in love with his charming...
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She Came, She Saw, She Conquered
Rose Leigh is a young schoolteacher. She sees a paragraph in the paper, saying that in a certain sma...
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The Death of King Edward III
King Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. He was a son of Edward the Second and he was born at Wind...
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The Serpents
Wending their way and locating in a land far from the contentions through which they passed a few we...
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Yellow Bird
Disregarding the sanctity of "Song Bird's" feelings, John Strong, a young surveyor in the pioneer fo...
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The Miracle
A story of that famous adventurer, Haroun al Rashid, the Caliph of Bagdad....
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The Heart of Esmeralda
Esmeralda Foster, an attractive girl, is very much impressed with Duncan Miller, a crafty country sw...
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Vampire of the Desert
Ishmael, the son of Hagar, an old hag, living on the edge of the desert, falls completely under the ...
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The Seventh Bandit
The story of David Scanlon - a former gunfighter turned farmer, who sells the family homestead in fa...
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A Cure for Pokeritis
This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin sta...
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The Redemption of Dave Darcey
Crook Dave Darcy gets reformed by working in a steel mill owned by someone who witnessed his crime....
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I'm on My Way
Harold Lloyd's character loves Bebe Daniels' character and is about to marry her. But then he meets ...
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Too Much Burglar
An exceptionally capable girl, Trixie Joyce, proves a great help, to her mother, a widow with a larg...
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The Geranium
One glance at the poor and disordered home of the Tunisons shows us there is something still lacking...
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She Never Knew
Left with the care of his little grandchild through the death of his daughter, old Mr. Blinn tries i...
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Shattered Idols
This exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at leas...
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A Tale of Two Cities
An early film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent ...
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The Battle Hymn of the Republic
This patriotic and historic picture portrays the writing of the famous national hymn by Mrs. Julia W...
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Bashful
In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family....
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Easter Babies
When little Dot and little Tot hear about the Easter Eggs, the stork and the Easter Babies, they are...
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The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
Mrs. Nag objects to her husband having a pretty female stenographer in his office, and orders him to...
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Moral Suicide
Wealthy Richard Covington, although aging and lonely, distresses his children, Waverly and Beatrice,...
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Cherry Blossoms
Billie and Dollie are very much in love with each other, and they declare their love under the cherr...
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Over the Chafing Dish
This is an extraordinary novelty, telling the story of love, courtship and marriage, simply through ...
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A Message from Beyond
Brought up in the lap of luxury and indulged in extravagance, Jack Morrison is gradually led into a ...
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Fanny's Melodrama
Although deeply in love with his wife, Smith is intensely jealous of her and when she receives a not...
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A Pair of Frauds
Young and pretty, Margery Dean, companion to Mrs. Sawyer, a wealthy lady, chances to meet Jack Drisl...
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The Vanity Case
In a jewelry store, Grace Norris, a wealthy girl, unnoticed by the salesman, absent-mindedly takes a...
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The Life Boat
Old Captain Bill and his wife have an only son, whom they idolize. He loses all his money at gamblin...
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The Younger Brother
When the two Werner brothers are called to the front it is not strange that the mother is very solic...
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He Never Knew
Unable to support her baby boy, Grace Devereaux, a widow, leaves him at an orphan asylum....
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The Hero
Very pretty, very attractive, very young; her name is Maude and she has a beau. He is very fat. Maud...
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The Fighting Schoolmaster
Before the Civil War, George Harris, a Yankee schoolteacher, takes charge of a southern country scho...
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The Portrait
Keen competition is aroused among a group of young artists in New York City by the announcement of a...
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The Mate of the 'John M'
Jim, the mate of the ship "John M.," is in love with Mandy, the daughter of Captain Dale. Before she...
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The Sex Lure
Wealthy capitalist, Clinton Reynolds, and his wife, Laura, have lost their son, Arthur, kidnapped an...
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Lulu's Anarchist
Lulu Leach is a reader of dime novels. One day she is reading a terrifying tale of anarchists. A for...
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The Christian
Glory Quayle, a natural-born mimic, leaves her country home, reaches London, goes on the stage, gain...
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The First Violin
Old Von Shultz, the first violin, finds as he grows older a longing for companionship. Hurrying from...
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The Struggle
Howard Peyton served two years for forgery. Jerry Grafton, a genteel crook, is on the lookout for hi...
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Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
The night of the grand reception and dance finds Belle Oakley in high glee as she leaves for the rec...
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Captain Jenks' Diplomacy
Sir Brian, an irascible old gentleman, who suffers from gout, receives a note saying his son Gerald ...
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Crazy by Proxy
A young man is about to marry; it is the dawn of his wedding morn. The bride-to-be is also present; ...
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The Antique Engagement Ring
George Darrel presents Helen Gray, his fiancée, with a very valuable engagement ring of antique desi...
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Dorothy Danesbridge, Militant
Dorothy Danesbridge is spoiled by her father and aunt, and through the influence of Phyllis, an old ...
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Miss Raffles
On account of an urgent business call, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie hurriedly close their summer home at Huds...
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Betty's Baby
At the circus, Betty takes a notion to a baby elephant and induces her father to buy it. He takes it...
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The Higher Mercy
No matter how absorbed with affairs of state, Abraham Lincoln was always ready to give audience to h...
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Tommy's Sister
Left with two small children, Mrs. Morgan finds it difficult to make both ends meet. Polly, her daug...
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An Eventful Elopement
Emphatically opposed to Jack Moss, old Mr. McGillicuddy puts the ban on his marriage to his daughter...
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Saving an Audience
Four young college students find themselves with no money and a lot of debts. Each has received a pe...
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The Pink Pajama Girl
Mrs. Wentworth and her daughter Cecile are living at one of the fashionable hotels in the city. Jame...
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Coronets and Hearts
Leaving England, in search of an American wife, young Cyril, son of the Earl of Creston, on reaching...
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The Indian Mutiny
Beatrice Wilson, visiting her brother, a British officer in India, is sought in marriage by a native...
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On the Pupil of His Eye
The household of Senator Walker consists of himself, his ward, Mary, and his nephew, Herbert. The ot...
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A Modern Atalanta
Fresh from her college matriculation. Ruth Grantland returns to her country home. She is courted by ...
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When Persistency and Obstinacy Meet
Short comedy about a arguing couple in which the man is doing everything to make up with his girlfri...
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Romance of a Rickshaw
Mabel, the beautiful daughter of General Lewis, has considerable variety of her love affairs when sh...
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The Cylinder's Secret
Employed as secretary to Howard Abele, Marjorie Abbott attracts the attention of Sydney, her employe...
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A Marriage of Convenience
Billy Emerson and Mildred Girard are secretly engaged to be married after Billy graduates from West ...
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The Signal of Distress
Dolly Dillard jumps at the conclusion that George Gordon is playing her false, as he affectionately ...
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Following the Star
Helen Winthrop has ambition for the stage and when, during his summer sojourn at her home town, she ...
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Two of a Kind
So much alike, you can't tell t'other from which, Edna and Alice, two twins, are receiving the atten...
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Babbling Tongues
When elderly Joseph Moreau and his young wife Therese offer refuge to starving young dramatist Paul ...
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Twin Flappers
Two young women transform from an innocent girls into a jazz mad flappers....
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The Impostor
The debauched son of a wealthy family, Dick Gilbert, is forced to raise money to pay off gambling de...
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The Passing of Diana
Geoffrey Brooke, an African explorer, becomes a friend of Rodney Miller, a struggling young artist. ...
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Held to Answer
John Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become ...
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The Crime of Cain
The two sons of Judge Stone, William and Wylie, are both in love with Nancy Sevier. Wylie is of a je...
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The Toll
While traveling in Italy, John Steele, a young American millionaire, is kidnapped by Antonio Perino,...
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The Soul of Luigi
In the poor Italian quarter of New York lives Luigi, an Italian peasant and inventor, who is so abso...
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The Apple
Promising to send for his sweetheart Roza, when he gets settled, Hugo Hunfalvy leaves Hungary for Am...
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The False and the True
Betty, the only daughter of Jenkins, a wealthy farmer, is secretly loved by Tom Saunders, a farm han...
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Two Stepchildren
Born with an artistic temperament, Joe Leigh feels keenly the bitterness and drudgery of life on a s...
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The Unknown Purple
Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his relea...
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A Lady and Her Maid
The photographer sends miss Ophelia a dozen photographs of her in different poses. Selecting the bes...
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Phantom Fortunes
Bob Deering on his way to business meets his sweetheart, Molly Sherman. He arrives at Milliken and C...
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The Dawn of Freedom
"The Dawn of Freedom" is a stinging satire on the death of those ideals that prompted the founders o...
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The Alibi
To help his dying father, assistant bank cashier Arthur Mansfield enters a fake sum in the bank's ac...
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The Man Hunt
The Twelfth Regiment is to leave for the front in the morning at seven, and Captain Steadwell, who h...
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The Hero of Submarine D-2
Lieutenant Commander Colton, U.S.N., is in love with Caroline Austen, daughter of a prominent politi...
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The Little Trespasser
Lillie's parents are caretakers of the property adjoining Mr. Montgomery's estate. He is a wealthy b...
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For the Honor of the Crew
Robert Brent and Dick Morgan, the former wealthy, the latter poor, are chums at one of the big colle...
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The Foster Child
Mr. and Mrs. Caspar, home-loving, industrious people, long for a little one to bless their lives and...
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The Black Sheep
You would think that the death of his wife through his dissipation and neglect would have brought Ja...
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The Two Battles
Just previous to his departure for South Africa and the Boer War, Gordon Frazier, a young officer in...
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The Ruling Power
Mr. Williams, a stern father and man of wealth, disinherits his son Hugh, for marrying Rose, a seams...
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The Greater Motive
Bob Hammond, a promising young boxer, is taken east by his manager to meet some of the better men in...
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The Little Minister
A Lord's fiancée poses as a gypsy and falls in love with the new minister....
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The Wheat and the Tares
In a game of cards, Stillwell, a young Southerner, incurs the hatred of Collins, an unscrupulous sco...
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The Volunteer Strike Breakers
A strike among the hotel waiters is on. The papers are full of it. Chester Colton, and Harris Baldwi...
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Handle with Care
Handle with Care is a 1922 silent comedy of marital complications and mix-ups....
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The Modern Prodigal
With all the good influences and favorable surroundings of a model home, Mr. and Mrs. Gray cannot un...
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Love Without Question
Old Silas Blackburn, a wealthy recluse, lives alone with his butler and his ward Katherine. One nigh...
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Getting Up a Practice
Becoming impatient waiting for patients, young Doctor Bob Lyons is about discouraged. To add to his ...
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Sacred Silence
Lieut. Ralph Harrison is in love with Major Marston's wife, who pretends to love him. Harrison's mot...
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The Midnight Bride
While waiting on a New York park bench for the return of her friends, country girl Jeanne Sterling m...
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The Woman Game
To please her once wealthy mother, Amy Terrell fraternizes with members of high society who find her...
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The Tiger Lily
Thinking that her husband is paying more attention to his work and to their little daughter, Nina, t...
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The Web
Lester Phillips finds that the allurements of Beatrice Esmond, an adventuress, have attracted him, a...
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A Homespun Tragedy
Although deeply in love with his wife, Dorothy, Mr. Thomson's jealousy is aroused by her attentions ...
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He Fell in Love with His Mother-in-Law
That the way to a man's heart is by means of his appetite, is strikingly shown. Mother-in-law comes ...
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Tricks of the Trade
Jack Breen and his wife, Lizzie, are professional crooks, who live in a fine house and set themselve...
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Cupid Through a Keyhole
While making preparations for the entertainment of Aunt Maria, who had announced her arrival by tele...
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The Butler's Secret
After a serious quarrel with his father concerning his debts, Wallace Dixon leaves the house in ange...
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The Honeymooners
No sooner have Jimmy and Mary, a newly-married couple, entered their new home when Jimmie receives a...
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Regan's Daughter
Known as a saloon-keeper, a politician and a bad man, Regan becomes the sworn enemy of Phil Riordan,...
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The Unwritten Play
A new theatrical star is born when Ivy Liversedge, daughter of Silas, an unsuccessful playwright, sc...
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The Swan Girl
A wealthy young fellow during vacation becomes infatuated with a poor country girl....
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The Sale of a Heart
To avoid ruin, an impoverished count arranges a marriage between his daughter and a wealthy man she ...
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The Third Party
Dr. Williams is so deeply immersed in his work he unconsciously neglects his wife. Newell Russell, a...
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From Out of the Big Snows
Harris, a young adventurer into the big snows of the Northwest, through an accident, becomes a great...
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Marrying Sue
Sue's father has chosen Percy; Sue's mother has chosen Patterson, while Sue has chosen Jack. Mother ...
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A Christmas Story
Though her father forbids her to marry Jack Harvey, a poor young artist, Molly Wilson becomes his wi...
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Mortmain
Surgeon Crisp announces to his student doctors and friends that he has solved the problem of limb-gr...
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What Did He Whisper?
Under an assumed name, Phineas courts a widow and makes love to his own wife. He lands in court with...
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Up in a Balloon
The Simpsons go for a picnic in the woods. After luncheon, while mother and father enjoy a nap, Bett...
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Four Grains of Rice
The leader of "The Sons of the Brazen Joss," one of the Tongs, or Chinese social organizations, is m...
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Pawns of Mars
Conducting experiments with a new explosive of tremendous power, Dr. Lefone, a celebrated chemist, r...
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In the Days of Famine
Jan De Bar, a young French-Canadian, is sent out from the Hudson Bay Company's post at God's Lake to...
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A Madcap Adventure
Willfull, headstrong and inclined to be sporty, but withal, a very lovable girl, Thomasin Webb (call...
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The Man, the Mission and the Maid
Living in adjoining homes at Oakdale, Hal Oilman and Alice Blanchard are childhood friends and playm...
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A Wireless Rescue
A romance of the rail, this two-part "thriller" uses wireless telegraphy as the means of averting a ...
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Twice Rescued
Saved from a terrible shipwreck by Stephan Royston, son of a farmer. Nana, orphaned by the catastrop...
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A Fortune Hunter
When Rupert's uncle tells him he must quit his writing and offers him a real job in his tannery, the...
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Mother's Roses
John Morrison, Wall Street financier, is in the habit of bringing home to his wife daily a bunch of ...
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The Love of Pierre Larosse
When Pierre Larosse, a trapper, calls on his sweetheart, Jeanne Coudert, to present her with the ski...
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Netty or Letty
Twins in all but disposition, Netty and Letty quarrel continually. Letty goes to spend a few days at...
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Saved from a Life of Crime
Becoming imbued with a lawless spirit, Tom, a street waif of twelve, holds up an old woman with a to...
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Within an Ace
On shipboard, Edwin Forrester, a middle-aged Scotchman, makes the acquaintance of Tom Munroe, a conf...
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Over the Top
The film is based on a book of the same name by Arthur Guy Empey, detailing his service as an Americ...
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Miss Dulcie from Dixie
To receive the $5,000 promised in her Uncle Stephen's will, Dulcie Culpepper must live with her Uncl...
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Children of the Feud
Jabez Morton goes to a nearby field to drive some cows to an upper pasture. He pulls down part of Ca...
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The Greater Love
Shortly after the engagement of John Brown and Hope Avery is announced, he receives an offer of a fi...
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The First Endorsement
An adjutant comes in and lays before Colonel Allen, the charges against John Wild, a young soldier a...
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Iron and Steel
Herr Ludwig Kronitz is a king in his own works and rules with a controlling hand. He is known as the...
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The Battle Cry of Peace
Enemy agents under the leadership of "Emanon" conspire with pacifists to keep the American defense a...
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Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation
When the nation of Ruthania declares war on the United States, an army of enemy soldiers invades the...
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Wine of Youth
Based on a play be Rachel Crothers, WINE OF YOUTH is a solid drama about "the modern young generatio...
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The Picture Idol
A short comedy about a girl (played by Clara Kimball Young) who is in love with a movie star (Mauric...
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One Law for Both
Elga Pulaski and her brother Ossip live in Warsaw. They belong to a secret society whose goal is to ...
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The Nth Commandment
A department store clerk decides to marry a withdrawing colleague with tuberculosis, over another da...
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Dr. LaFleur's Theory
Dr. Lafleur is convinced that crime is an illness and can be treated like that....
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Willie's Sister
Willie Green, off for college, tearfully kisses Ma and Pa and Sister good-bye. Arrived on the campus...
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A Vitagraph Romance
After meeting a handsome writer, Senator Carter's daughter leaves home and enters the employ of the ...
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As You Like It
After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguise...
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Stenographer Troubles
A comic one-act film featuring the character Bunny, which takes place in an office....
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Suing Susan
A romantic comedy in which two new neighbours initially cannot get along, but their staff get along ...
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Captain Blood
Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy a...
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell's "autobiography" of a horse named Black Beauty is here expanded to include the adventur...
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Sins of Ambition
Andrew Maxwell is so intent on creating a universal language that he completely neglects his wife, L...
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Sowing the Wind
When Rosamond, a convent girl, discovers that her mother is Baby Brabant, a notorious queen of Petwo...
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The Man Next Door
The story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a surge o...
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The Adventure of the Italian Model
Master detective, Lambert Chase, unravels a case of poisoning...
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The Dangerous Age
Married for 22 years, Mary Emerson treats her husband, John, more like a son than a husband. He is s...
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On the Banks of the Wabash
An inventor, David Hammond is the son of a ship's captain. He leaves his sweetheart, Lisbeth Bixler,...
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Life or Honor?
When retired merchant J. T. Manly is murdered, his son James, with whom he had quarreled, is arreste...
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The Loyalty of Sylvia
The daughter of an old friend is staying with Dr. Laurence. Sylvia is a naughty girl; she puts sneez...
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How Could You, Caroline?
Caroline Rogers, a spirited young girl with a taste for highly romantic novels, comes home from boar...
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When We Were Twenty-One
Dick Audaine, known affectionately as the "Imp," is engaged to Phyllis Ericson, even though she is i...
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The Strategy of Ann
A Short comedy starring Mabel Normand. The film is considered lost....
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When a Man’s Married His Trouble Begins
Jack Howard, through hard work, has at last placed himself in a comfortable position and finds himse...
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Easy Money
A small boy, Bobby, substitutes some counterfeit which is intended for stage use for a real roll of ...
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Wreckage
In order to protect Grant Demarest from a siren named Margot, Stuart Ames attempts to disillusion hi...
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