Eugenie Besserer
Birthday: 1868-12-24
Place of Birth: Watertown, New York, USA
Biography: Eugenie Besserer was an American actress who appeared in supporting roles, typically portraying a mother or grandmother, in films of the Silent and early talkies eras.
Movies
The Jazz Singer
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects...
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The Road Through the Dark
Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morg...
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Who Shall Take My Life?
A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed. After...
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Twisted Trails
Ranch foreman Tom Snow is being hounded by sheriff Luke Fisher and his deputy, Brad Foster. The pair...
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Beware of Strangers
Beware of Strangers is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell...
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The Way of a Woman's Heart
While on a tour a theatrical company meets with small success and is forced to close early in the se...
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A Just Punishment
Uncle Preston, a financial "wizard," discovers that his nephew, Bob Preston, is a rogue, a gambler a...
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Greater Wealth
John Sharon, a steel magnate is immensely successful from the worldly point of view, while Ed Young,...
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Thou Shalt Not Covet
A scientist who is married to an amoral woman lives next door to a happily married couple. At first ...
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Friendly Enemies
As youths, Carl Pfeiffer and Henry Block came to America from Germany. Pfeiffer became a wholesale s...
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The Coast of Folly
Unable to abide her self-righteous husband, Nadine Gathway leaves home and drops out of sight for 20...
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Monte Cristo
An unauthorised adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Produced by Selig with the intent of be...
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Flesh and the Devil
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo ...
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Madame X
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney Gen...
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Mother, I Need You
A young woman who became pregnant from an assault faces legal trouble and scandal after having an ab...
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel....
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The Skyrocket
In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are...
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The Curse of Eve
When young Eva Stanley comes home from college, she finds that her mother is deeply involved in the ...
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The Garden of Allah
When her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden att...
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45 Minutes from Broadway
Kid Burns vicariously enjoys life with his wealthy playboy pal. But complications ensue when Kid fal...
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The Fighting Shepherdess
A young woman fights to keep her Wyoming sheep ranch from being overrun and destroyed by cattle ranc...
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A Lady of Chance
A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama....
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The Fire Brigade
Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin,...
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Scarlet Days
Rosie Nell, a woman of disreputable dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged with...
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The Yellow Lily
Archduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triump...
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Captain Salvation
A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standi...
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To the Last Man
In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison ...
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In Gay Madrid
Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs ...
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6 Hours to Live
The victim of a political assassination is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However,...
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Mister Antonio
Antonio Camaradino, florist and street musician, befriends a man robbed of his overcoat and money in...
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Turning the Tables
Doris Pennington is committed to an insane asylum by her aunt, who hopes to take over Doris's fortun...
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Anna Christie
A troubled young woman comes to live with her estranged father on the New York waterfront. A tough s...
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What Happened To Rosa
A fortune teller tells a store clerk with a romantic disposition that she was a Spanish noblewoman i...
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Speedway
Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest dr...
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Kindred of the Dust
Discovering that her husband is a bigamist, Nan returns with her child to her Puget Sound logging to...
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The Strangers' Banquet
In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and...
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The Eyes of Julia Deep
The Eyes of Julia Deep is a 1918 silent comedy-drama film starring Mary Miles Minter, directed by Ll...
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Illusion
A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated wit...
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Kiki
Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job ...
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The Circle
Elizabeth Cheney has a wealthy husband, social prominence and everything she could want in life . . ...
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Lilac Time
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirit...
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The Gift Supreme
Bradford Vinton falls in love with a girl singer from the slums, but his father makes plans to break...
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Thunderbolt
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob...
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Her Reputation
Discovering that he has only a brief time to live Louisiana plantation owner Andres Miro makes arran...
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Drums of Love
A princess is betrothed to a deformed monarch, but falls hard for his handsome brother....
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Confessions of a Queen
The King of Illyris marries a neighboring princess, who finds out he has a mistress, Sephora. Revolt...
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The Greatest Question
Young Nellie Jarvis, daughter of a wandering couple, witnesses the murder of a woman by a man and hi...
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The Sin of Martha Queed
Due to a misunderstanding, and the vicious streak of her relative David Boyd, Martha Queed is believ...
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Scarface
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots...
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When the Night Call Came
When the night call came, it found a young woman struggling with great emotions, the better impulses...
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The Blacksmith's Love
The Civil War has begun, and Mace Brewer goes to the front, leaving his young wife alone. His friend...
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A Fool and His Money
John Smart (William Haines), a hack writer, inherits a fortune from a distant relative and buys a ca...
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The Lonely Road
Betty Austin gives up her dream of going to the city and marries Warren Wade, but she sadly finds hi...
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Enemies of Children
A street waif of questionable parentage through circumstances is taken into a wealthy home where she...
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Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position...
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Little Orphant Annie
Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her...
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For the Soul of Rafael
Marta Estevan is ready to leave the convent where she has been reared. Dona Luisa Artega, mother of ...
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The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan
Betrayal and duplicity in the deserts of the Pasha before a happy resolution....
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Slightly Used
Cynthia Martin’s father insists she marry before her two younger sisters Helen and Grace. So, she in...
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A Royal Romance
A young writer, John Hale, inherits a fortune and moves into an alleged-haunted castle with his serv...
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Bright Lights
Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an invent...
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Molly O'
An Irish washerwoman's daughter falls in love with one of America's most eligible bachelors, much to...
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The Sea Flower
U.S. Secret Service agent Truxton Darnley attires himself as a sailor and boards a schooner owned by...
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The Scoffer
Dr. Stannard Wayne -- like all "good" men of the times -- is a God-fearing soul. He marries the form...
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's e...
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The Circular Staircase
Wealthy spinster, Rachel Innes rents a country house with her niece and nephew for the summer, only ...
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Wandering Footsteps
Hal Whitney, an irresponsible young millionaire, befriends Timothy Payne, a wise old college profess...
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When a Man Loves
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in...
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Indian Summer
A Confederate soldier battles with amnesia, vagrants, and tramps as he makes his way back home and t...
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The Rosary
After his uncle dies, founder of the fishing village of Sandy Bay, Kenwood Wright is cut off with on...
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Seeds of Vengeance
In the mountains of West Virginia, Alderson Cree is mortally wounded in an ambush by Kip Ryerson, af...
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June Madness
Clytie Whitmore (Viola Dana) finally consents to marry Cadbury Todd (Gerald Pring), but while walkin...
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A Hoosier Romance
Pretty Patience Thompson, a "girl with a singing soul," lives with her cold-hearted and avaricious f...
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Almonds and Raisins
This documentary examines the dozens of Yiddish-language talking films made in the United States and...
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The Still Alarm
John Bird and Franklyn Fordham were once business partners, but because of Bird’s shady dealings the...
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Seven Faces
A 1929 American pre-Code drama film with fantasy elements that was released by Fox Film Corporation ...
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The Carpet from Bagdad
Horace Wadsworth (played by Guy Oliver), one of a gang of criminals also planning a bank robbery in ...
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The Night of Love
Montero, son of a Gypsy leader, is about to take a bride according to primitive ritual, when the Duk...
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The Price She Paid
In order to save her extravagant mother from bankruptcy, shame and scandal, young society girl Mildr...
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The Brand of Lopez
When a famed matador is forced to become an outlaw, he seeks to get revenge on the dancing girl who ...
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The Still Alarm
"Bird," a clerk in Fordham's drugstore, agrees to place a large sum of money in the store's safe for...
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The City of Purple Dreams
Miss Otis nearly hits a derelict with her car, and out of sympathy she gives him some money and advi...
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The Breaking Point
Ruth Marshall's dire financial situation forces her to marry Richard Janeway, a wealthy but drunken ...
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The Light in the Clearing
When Barton Baynes's mother and father die, his Aunt Deel and Uncle Peabody provide a home for him. ...
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Good Women
Katherine Brinkley, a rich young woman who delights in challenging conventions, elopes with a marrie...
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The Hands of Nara
Nara, the daughter of a wealthy Russian killed by the Bolsheviki, flees to America and meets Adam Pi...
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Wandering Girls
A small-town, jazz-mad girl, Peggy Marston (Dorothy Revier), becomes involved with a pair of society...
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