Miriam Cooper

Miriam Cooper

Birthday: 1891-11-06

Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Biography: ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Miriam Cooper (November 7, 1891 – April 12, 1976) was a silent film actress who is best known for her work in early film including Birth of a Nation and Intolerance for D.W. Griffith and The Honor System and Evangeline for her husband Raoul Walsh. She retired from acting in 1923 but was rediscovered by the film community in the 1960s, and toured colleges lecturing about silent films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Miriam Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...

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I Am Not a Racist
I Am Not a Racist

A parody of D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", "I Am Not a Racist" rearranges the scenes of t...

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The Woman and the Law
The Woman and the Law

Jack La Salle marries South American heiress Blanquetta Del Castillo, and the two settle into a happ...

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Shenandoah
Shenandoah

Bronson Howard's Great Civil War Story in Three Reels, Featuring General Philip Sheridan's Ride from...

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A Railroad Wooing
A Railroad Wooing

A short romantic comedy about two women whose canoe capsizes; they are then rescued by two train eng...

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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom and Eliza's child are sold to Haley, a slave dealer. When Eliza learns that her son is to ...

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The Odalisque
The Odalisque

May and Annie work in a fashionable millinery store, where the buyer, struck by May's beauty, advanc...

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Evangeline
Evangeline

In the Canadian province of Acadia, young Evangeline is betrothed to Gabriel. But before their weddi...

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Their First Acquaintance
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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The Burned Hand
The Burned Hand

Three college boys graduate. One is in love with a girl, whose mother and father have domestic diffi...

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Serenade
Serenade

In the Spanish town of Magdalena live María and her sweetheart, Pancho, son of the governor. When th...

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The Prussian Cur
The Prussian Cur

A German spy who is married to Lillian, the sister of Rosie O'Grady....

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The Mother and the Law
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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Kindred of the Dust
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 Darling of the CSA
The Darling of the CSA

Anna Q. Nilsson is the title character, Agnes Lane, a daring spy for the South during the Civil War....

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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
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 Honor System
The Honor System

A potentially lost film, this film tells the story of a man is convicted unjustly of a crime and the...

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Home, Sweet Home
Home, Sweet Home

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mot...

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The Confederate Ironclad
The Confederate Ironclad

During the Civil War, Elinor, a pretty Northern girl, comes south to visit her aunt-- Little does an...

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The Broken Wing
The Broken Wing

An American pilot flying in Mexico crash-lands on a ranch, and is nursed back to health by the daugh...

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Her Accidental Husband
Her Accidental Husband

After attempting to succeed in his father-in-law’s fishing business, Gordon Gray persuades his wife,...

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Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily ...

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Is Money Everything?
Is Money Everything?

A farmer, unhappy with his life, decides to go the city to try and make his fortune. He takes a frie...

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The Deep Purple
The Deep Purple

Doris Moore is a country girl who is conned by two crooks, Harry Leland and Pop Clark. They convince...

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Should a Husband Forgive?
Should a Husband Forgive?

After Mary Carroll's husband learns that she has had an affair, he challenges her former lover to a ...

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The Innocent Sinner
The Innocent Sinner

An innocent country girl, Mary Ellen Ellis, moves to the city with an experienced man, Walter Benton...

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The Hero
The Hero

Oswald Lane is welcomed by his hometown as a war hero and enjoys recounting his adventures to anyone...

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Daughters of the Rich
Daughters of the Rich

Maud Barhyte visits Paris with her fiancé, Gerald Welden, and her father. Sally Malakoff, Welden's c...

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After the Ball
After the Ball

A fun-loving husband is mistaken for a bandit and sent to prison. He allows everyone, including his ...

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