Helen Gardner

Helen Gardner

Birthday: 1884-09-02

Place of Birth: Binghamton, New York, USA

Biography: Not only was Helen Gardner the first American film actress to form her own production company, she was also the among the first filmmakers to embrace making features, and was the first vamp on screen.

Movies

Cleopatra
Cleopatra

The fabled queen of Egypt's affair with Roman general Marc Antony is ultimately disastrous for both ...

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The Illumination
The Illumination

Set in Biblical times, this tells the story of how Jesus affected the lives of two people: Joseph, a...

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How She Won Him
How She Won Him

Some possess youth; others good looks, and still others have money, but Muriel Hanson has all three ...

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The Inherited Taint
The Inherited Taint

Herbert Warning inherits a fortune. He becomes engaged to a society girl who leaves him for another ...

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The Moonshine Maid and the Man
The Moonshine Maid and the Man

Dave wants to marry Nancy, and is determined to win a reward of $1000 for the arrest of some moonshi...

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The Butterfly
The Butterfly

A father tries to keep his son from marrying a poor actress. She eventually becomes a famous and wea...

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A Tale of Two Cities
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 Lure of Vanity
The Lure of Vanity

Miss Edna White is very much grieved when she has not a suitable gown to wear at a party. Mrs. Donal...

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Barriers Burned Away
Barriers Burned Away

John and Edwin Martin, two brothers, occupy, each with his own family, a double house; they are all ...

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The Sleep Walker
The Sleep Walker

A young woman does strange things, which are explained when it is discovered she is a sleep walker....

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Treasure Trove
Treasure Trove

Patience and Anne, two spinsters of the old school of aristocratic birth, have managed to keep up ap...

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The Wooing of Winifred
The Wooing of Winifred

In order to inherit their uncle's property, two cousins must marry each other....

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For Her Brother's Sake
For Her Brother's Sake

The black sheep of the family is protected by his sister....

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She Came, She Saw, She Conquered
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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Snatched from a Burning Death
Snatched from a Burning Death

LeGrande, an old trapper, refuses to vacate his favorite hunting grounds when ordered to do so by Sa...

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The Breath of Araby
The Breath of Araby

A woman attempts to attract a man by using a thousand-year-old love potion....

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Underneath the Paint
Underneath the Paint

Walking through the Ghetto, Arthur Kellogg rescues Tryphena Winters, an actress, and her little sist...

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Miss Jekyll and Madame Hyde
Miss Jekyll and Madame Hyde

Madeline Jekyll meets Baron Stana, a distinguished looking man, and finds her father has promised he...

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The Still, Small Voice
The Still, Small Voice

The influence of Musa, a wildly beautiful dumb girl, upon every citizen of Gallows Gulch, a rough we...

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The Death of King Edward III
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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Sandra
Sandra

BY DAY a beautiful wife-accepting a husband's humble love, his humble home, his humble pleasures. BY...

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A Quaker Mother
A Quaker Mother

Mrs. Pearson is a little different from most mothers, at least in her general appearance, for she ha...

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A Princess of Bagdad
A Princess of Bagdad

A caliph imprisons the cobbler's son his daughter has fallen in love with, but the cobbler's discove...

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By Woman's Wit
By Woman's Wit

A woman objects to her bachelor friend getting married, so she makes him appear so ridiculous that t...

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For Love and Glory
For Love and Glory

Young Lieut. Osmond, of the British Army, is engaged to be married to Rose Seaton. His father object...

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Madge of the Mountains
Madge of the Mountains

Harry Brownley, son of a rich New Yorker, reads a newspaper account of U.S. Revenue officers' plan t...

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Regeneration
Regeneration

Hunter Ross deserts his wife and child and she is driven to the extremes of poverty, being obliged i...

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The Girl and the Sheriff
The Girl and the Sheriff

A mountaineer, who has been shot by a pursuing sheriff, is concealed by a mountain girl in her cabin...

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Arbutus
Arbutus

Carleton Holt locates at one of the mountain inns. On one of his daily trips he hears a mountain mai...

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An Aeroplane Elopement
An Aeroplane Elopement

Maude Brooks is in love with an aviator, George Pinckney. Maude tells her father that she intends to...

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Ups and Downs
Ups and Downs

Unless Marion Norman's intended husband can support her in the same style in which her father has, M...

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The Freshet
The Freshet

Tom Ennis, a stalwart, sturdy fellow, is apprenticed to John Matthews, the village blacksmith, whose...

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A Reformed Santa Claus
A Reformed Santa Claus

The employees of Harrison's mine have been out on strike for a long time. The men wait for him until...

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A Problem in Reduction
A Problem in Reduction

Mrs. Smartly thinks she is too fleshy and decides to take a course of treatment. She consults her ma...

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Her Boy
Her Boy

Far up in the mountains Mrs. Bailor's two sons, Tom and Harry, are engaged at their distilling, cons...

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Where the Money Went
Where the Money Went

Fred Hart, a young businessman, unknown to his wife, draws their savings from the bank with the purp...

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The Love of John Ruskin
The Love of John Ruskin

John Ruskin became acquainted with his wife through a loan which he made to her father, and his note...

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The Serpents
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
Yellow Bird

Disregarding the sanctity of "Song Bird's" feelings, John Strong, a young surveyor in the pioneer fo...

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The Old Silver Watch
The Old Silver Watch

Mary Collins dies leaving two children; Mildred ('Lucie') and Frank. On her deathbed, she gives Fran...

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The Heart of Esmeralda
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
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 Party Dress
The Party Dress

Lydia Borne picks up the only party dress she possesses and finds it full of wrinkles. A dance to wh...

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Eureka!
Eureka!

A woman is shipwrecked on a deserted island suffering a loss of memory during the incident. Rescued ...

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The Sleep of Cyma Roget
The Sleep of Cyma Roget

Cyma Roget, a beautiful young woman, has fallen under the influence of the evil Hindu scientist Chan...

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The Miracle
The Miracle

A story of that famous adventurer, Haroun al Rashid, the Caliph of Bagdad....

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Becky, Becky
Becky, Becky

Becky, Becky is a 1913 film short....

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Alixe; or, the Test of Friendship
Alixe; or, the Test of Friendship

Alixe is courted by many admirers. Her most persistent companion is Morton Shaw. Arlington Tappan al...

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The Wife of Cain
The Wife of Cain

One brother kills another over the love of a beautiful woman....

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Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair

In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the positio...

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An Innocent Theft
An Innocent Theft

Out of desperation, poor Joe, who lives with his sick mother, steals money from the church’s collect...

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The Show Girl
The Show Girl

Audrey, a charming actress, but classed among the show girls, is invited with some of her stage comp...

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A Sister to Carmen
A Sister to Carmen

Margo, daughter of Spanish smuggler Hamalo is loved by Quentin, a poor local boy, but she tells him ...

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The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray
The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray

Loose adaptation of Mary Shelley‘s “Frankenstein”....

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The Common Sin
The Common Sin

A gypsy girl grows up with the sole purpose of seeking revenge against the man responsible for her m...

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