Robert Harron
Birthday: 1893-04-12
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert "Bobby" Harron (April 12, 1893 – September 5, 1920) was an American motion picture actor of the early silent film era. Although he acted in scores of films, he is possibly best remembered for his roles in the Griffith-helmed films Intolerance and The Birth of a Nation. He was also the older brother of film actor John Harron and actress Mary Harron.
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The New York Hat
To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a styli...
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...
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The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
Kitty, the pretty young wife of a Texas businessman, feels neglected and unwanted as her husband pay...
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The Bad Boy
Small town youth Jimmie Bates is a well-intentioned, but troubled youth. Jimmie is a rowdy boy who i...
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The Avenging Conscience
Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as ...
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True Heart Susie
Susie secretly loves her neighbor, William Jenkins, but neither, it seems, can confess their feeling...
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The Long Road
Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, ...
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To Save Her Soul
Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and o...
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The Escape
A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partn...
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The Musketeers of Pig Alley
A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated ...
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The Sheriff's Baby
After the death of his wife the baby was all the sheriff had left, the promise of hope in the future...
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Two Daughters of Eve
Calumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this story ...
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A Cry for Help
Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and tr...
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Brothers
His dumb grief was mistaken for indifference at his mother's death-bed, but it was the non-committal...
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A Misappropriated Turkey
His mind perverted by the many lies forced upon him, Lang becomes an outcast from the Labor Union. I...
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Love in an Apartment Hotel
In the apartment hotel lived the aspiring maid, whose solicitude maintained order in the bachelor's ...
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The Conscience of Hassan Bey
From the dungeon where the lean beasts prowled, Hassan Bey summoned from her young lover's arms the ...
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Heredity
Nine-year-old Nedda is a direct descendant of the Trevors, a family that can trace its roots back to...
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My Hero
Stern parents have ever been relentless obstacles in love's young dream, but it is perhaps quite dou...
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Near To Earth
This is the story of Gato, an Italian immigrant, who lives with his wife, Marie, and his younger bro...
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The Sorrowful Shore
There dwelt the widowed fisherman and his indulged son. Then the girl, the sole survivor of the wrec...
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The Coming of Angelo
Young Theresa was thought to be much favored in the love of Guido, the leader of the Italian colony....
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Moonshine Molly
Molly Boone's father has been sent to prison for twenty years for alleged complicity in the killing ...
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Down by the Sounding Sea
Alice, an old beachcomber's daughter, and Bob, a young fisherman living on an island remote from the...
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Her Awakening
An attempt to hide her working-class origins appears to have disastrous consequences for an attracti...
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The Odalisque
May and Annie work in a fashionable millinery store, where the buyer, struck by May's beauty, advanc...
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An Unseen Enemy
The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert s...
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Judith of Bethulia
Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Je...
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One Is Business, the Other Crime
Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the...
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The Marriage of Molly-O
Brutal rental agent Joseph McGuire demands that Molly-O marry McGuire's son Denny, lest her family b...
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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting i...
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The Old Actor
An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is...
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A Misunderstood Boy
Everything he did seemed to be misconstrued, except by the little lady he loved. The town roisters m...
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Death's Marathon
Two business partners pursue the same woman. She accepts the marriage proposal of the irresponsible ...
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The Tender Hearted Boy
A butcher boy steals meat to give to a beggar woman and is ultimately rewarded for his kindness....
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The Perfidy of Mary
Rose and her cousin Mary dwell in the land of romance, but real Romeos are scarce in this prosaic ag...
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Those Awful Hats
A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats....
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A Sweet Revenge
After being jilted for another, a woman sends her lover's old letters to the new fiancée and looks f...
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The Little Darling
This might be termed a comedy of errors, for the overzealousness of a lot of good-hearted simple fol...
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Enoch Arden: Part II
Annie remains faithful to her husband, Enoch, even though he's been lost at sea for many years. Fina...
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The Painted Lady
A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice...
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The Battle
Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Ar...
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When a Man Loves
Mr. Bach, a wealthy man, visits the scenes of his boyhood days in his auto and meets farmer Brown, h...
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The Yaqui Cur
The prospector had taught the Indian boy the doctrine of peace. When his tribe resisted the attack o...
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So Near, Yet So Far
It's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles— namely shyness, and the temerity of other suito...
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The Massacre
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation....
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The Last Drop of Water
A wagon train heading west across the great desert runs out of water, and is attacked by Indians. On...
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Fighting Blood
After the Civil War, an ex-soldier and his family settle in the Dakota Territory. The son quarrels w...
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A Beast at Bay
A young woman is quite taken with a man she met; in fact, he is her “ideal”. However, after her new ...
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The Sands of Dee
A young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One day ...
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For His Son
A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke wh...
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The Burglar’s Dilemma
In this latter day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young b...
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At the Crossroads of Life
At the Crossroads of Life is a typically Victorian-style melodrama in which a girl's wishes to be an...
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Brute Force
A thin gent in formal wear, amid a club or party, reads a book about primitive man after he's ignore...
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Home, Sweet Home
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mot...
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Hearts of the World
A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is s...
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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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Balked at the Altar
A woman who is filled with romantic ideas is making no secret of her eagerness to find a husband. He...
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A Drunkard's Reformation
A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their da...
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Her Mother's Oath
The orthodox mother's indomitable will dwarfed the child's individuality, defeating the very purpose...
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By Man's Law
An oil tycoon corners the market, then cuts jobs and causes much suffering. Because she's lost her j...
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The Newer Woman
There is, at once, quite a change in Dot and her sweetheart Robert plainly doesn't like it. After a ...
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Their First Acquaintance
Bob Taylor was a valuable man. Talbot, his employer, told Miriam as much, showing his daughter the g...
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His Mother's Son
The hardship of earning an existence for the family made it impossible for the mother to approve the...
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A Lesson in Mechanics
Ruth Wilson, daughter of a wealthy landowner, receives a visit from her country sweetheart, Joe Merr...
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Sands of Fate
Society man Arthur Lee is in love with society belle Helen Robinson, who is also admired by James Ho...
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Man's Genesis
An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a wom...
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The Boy Detective, or The Abductors Foiled
As a newsboy is playing a game on the sidewalk with a friend, two men come near to them, and then st...
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The Mother and the Law
After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic ...
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Her First Adventure
A father arrives home, greets his wife and daughter, and then goes inside with his wife. Though they...
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At the Altar
At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the land...
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The Adopted Brother
A Western action film about two men who escape from prison to take revenge on the person who betraye...
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The Girl Who Stayed at Home
Ralph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the granddaughte...
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The Primal Call
A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough ...
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Her Terrible Ordeal
A young secretary is locked in an airtight vault by a robber. Only her boss knows the combination, a...
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The Lonely Villa
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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Under Burning Skies
Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady ...
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A Romance of Happy Valley
John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city...
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A Sailor’s Heart
A sweetheart at every port has ever characterized the sailor, but it is believed that the sailor in ...
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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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Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court
Mack Sennett appears as a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company....
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Behind the Scenes: Where All Is Not Gold That Glitters
A mother works as a dancer to support her ill daughter. One night while performing, the mother has a...
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Where the Breakers Roar
A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby asylum, he...
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The Great Love
Jim Young of Youngstown, Pennsylvania, reads of the German war atrocities and decides to enlist in t...
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The Greatest Thing in Life
A lost film. Leo Peret has a small quiet tobacco shop in Greenwich Village. Edward Livingston, a wea...
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The Feud and the Turkey
Mack Sennett appears as a member of the Wilkenson clan in this film produced by the Biograph Company...
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The Valet's Wife
Bachelor Reggie writes his uncle that he has a wife and child, but then must produce them when the u...
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The Life of General Villa
Silent biographical action–drama film starring Pancho Villa as himself. The movie incorporates both ...
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The Girl and Her Trust
A train-station telegraphist warns the next station of approaching bandits....
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The Broken Locket
George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one b...
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The Italian Barber
Tony, a barber, becomes enchanted by Alice, a young newsgirl, and the two quickly fall in love. Howe...
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The Newlyweds
A young man and a young woman, each unlucky in love, determine never to marry. But Cupid (and two se...
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Billy's Stratagem
While their mother is away from home, Billy and his sister are set upon by marauding Indians, who tr...
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The Helping Hand
Mack Sennett appears as a wedding guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company....
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The Welcome Burglar
“The Biograph people tell an excellent story in this, and tell it so strongly that it grips very clo...
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Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained...
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Two Memories
Henry and Marion have a lover's quarrel and part in anger. They do not reconcile, and ten years pass...
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An Old Fashioned Young Man
Frank Trent, raised by his father with an old-fashioned reverence for women, goes to the city where ...
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Enoch Arden
Moving Picture World described the film: "There is a small need to describe this subject as the poem...
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The Birth of a Nation
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...
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Hoodoo Ann
A teenage orphan (who believes herself to be "hoodooed") is taken in by a childless couple and quick...
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Fate
Sim Sloane and his beloved son were the reprobates of the village, not what would be called lovers o...
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The Informer
The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his broth...
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A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
The two brothers and their adopted daughter of the household grew up from childhood together. The gi...
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Home Folks
Griffith interweaves two tales of one family: A stern father rules his family by what he thinks to b...
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Fate's Interception
The representative of an American Syndicate comes to Mexico to look over some land. While there, he ...
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Sunshine Sue
A country girl follows a city suitor, but is left alone and must fend for herself....
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A Temporary Truce
A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the...
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The Little Tease
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost g...
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Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled c...
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The Reformers
Behold in this film the Uplifter, a peculiarity of the human species, quite convinced that all that ...
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The Battle of the Sexes
Frank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his w...
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Sunshine Alley
In the poorest section of the city lives Nell, who spends her days at her grandfather's bird store, ...
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Bobby the Coward
Bobby's girlfriend thinks he's a coward when he refuses to fight a gang of toughs after they insult ...
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A Timely Interception
A farmer has saved all his life to pay for his daughter's wedding, but when his brother is fired fro...
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A Child of the Paris Streets
When the son of a leader of a Paris underworld family known as The Apaches is arrested and tried in ...
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The Lady and the Mouse
The question is, would the young tramp really have fallen in love with the groceryman's daughter if ...
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Pranks
Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they e...
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Ramona
Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with t...
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A Lodging for the Night
Dick Logan, a young writer, stops at a little border town and takes lodging at the Mexican Inn. Two ...
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The Blue or the Gray
It was Christmas Eve in the south, but the spirit of peace and love did not pervade the northern gir...
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The House of Darkness
A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano....
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Drive for a Life
Harry's jealous former mistress puts poison in some candy intended for his new fiancée. Harry discov...
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A Calamitous Elopement
A young couple are enjoying a romantic interlude in the young woman's home, when her father discover...
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The School Teacher and the Waif
Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her...
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1776, or The Hessian Renegades
During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is ...
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A Corner in Wheat
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of br...
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The Test of Friendship
Mack Sennett appears as a guest and a man in the fight in this film produced by the Biograph Company...
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The Hindoo Dagger
Jack Windom experiences a sensation of awe at the reception of the Hindoo dagger from his old chum, ...
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The Converts
A dance hall girl is converted to a religious life by a phony evangelist. But can he, himself, be sa...
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The Unveiling
The boy, who is the idol of his widowed mother, returns from college with a collegiate record she is...
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The Diving Girl
The girl visits the seashore with her uncle and goes bathing with a party of her brother’s friends. ...
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Through the Breakers
A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes ...
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They Would Elope
Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into...
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The Miser's Heart
Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them...
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Bobby's Kodak
A boy takes pictures of everything, including some embarrassing situations. When he projects the pic...
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A Burglar’s Mistake
Henry is being blackmailed. When the blackmailer breaks into his house, Henry apprehends him at gunp...
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A Smoked Husband
After his wife receives an extravagant dress, a man find himself the victim of an attempted burglary...
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A String of Pearls
A story about a poor young man who falls ill, while his wealthy employer ignores his plight and inst...
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The Salvation Army Lass
A girl from the New York slums falls in with crooks. After her love is arrested following a barfight...
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His Duty
It's Bob Allen's twenty-first birthday. His mother and his brother Jack, a policeman present him wit...
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The Girls and Daddy
Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy's money....
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Professional Jealousy
Two young ladies, members of a dramatic stock company, are rivals for stellar honors. One seems to h...
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A Child's Impulse
Mrs. Thurston, a socially ambitious widow, is holding one of her famous Bohemian parties. To these f...
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The Modern Prodigal
In the opening of this subject we find the callow youth as he points towards the city's spires, excl...
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Winning Back His Love
A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not....
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A Wild Girl of the Sierras
A teenage girl lives with two grizzly bears in a cave in the California Sierras and plays with rabbi...
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