At the beginning of this documentary on early cinematographer Edwin S. Porter (1869-1941), director Charles Musser gives some...
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1982
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The Five Pennies is the life story of influential jazz cornetist Red Nichols, played here by a remarkably straight-faced...
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1959
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This wonderful Warner Bros. epic was one of the earliest talkie musicals with a Hollywood background -- and the last of its...
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Donna Harris
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1930
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A somewhat primitive early talkie version of Rex Beach's lusty 1909 novel of Alaska salmon fishers, RKO's The Silver Horde...
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Queenie
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1930
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In this crime drama, a policeman marries a nightclub hostess. Together, they move into a cramped, ramshackle apartment....
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Julia Barnes
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1930
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Laura Fairlie @ Anna Catherick
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1929
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Dolly Wall
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1927
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This society drama, adapted from the play by Arthur Richman, was the first directorial effort of cinematographer Silvano...
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Claire Marsh
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1926
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This playful spoof on the film business featured several stars including Ben Lyon, Lois Wilson, and Blanche Sweet. John Hart...
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Juliet
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1926
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Margaret Domely
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1926
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Adapted from a play by Victor Sardou, Diplomacy was another collaboration between actress Blanche Sweet and her then-husband...
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Dora
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1926
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Lady Gwendolyn (Blanche Sweet, who, at the time, was married to Marshall Neilan) is the daughter of Sir Alfred Grayle, a...
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Lady Gwendolyn
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1925
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Although Blanche Sweet was often busy making films with her then-husband Marshall Neilan, during 1925 and 1926, she also made...
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Molla
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1925
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Seven years after its end, there was a resurgence of films about World War I. This one, based on the novel Invisible Wounds...
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Renee Darcourt
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1925
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Carla King
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1925
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This melodrama was personally supervised by producer Thomas Ince, and, depending on how one looked at it, it was either...
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1924
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Tess Durbeyfield
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1924
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This picture was based on a George M. Cohan stage play. Lawyer Richard Clarke (Bert Lytell) can't seem to find success...
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1923
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This film is based on the novel by F. Marion Crawford, and involves the court of King Philip II of Spain. Philip is jealous...
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Dolores Mendoza
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1923
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This comedy-melodrama, based on the novel by Rupert Hughes (who also directed), blends fiction and reality to tell the story...
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1923
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Anna Christie
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1923
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Based on the popular novel of rural life by Charles Felton Pidgin, this motion picture featured most of the star names that...
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Alice Pettengill
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1922
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Based on a 1901 novel by Marah Ellis Ryan, this silent Western starred Blanche Sweet in the title-role of Montana Rivers,...
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1921
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After her father's death, Mary Willard (Blanche Sweet) successfully takes charge of his business. Her only problem is the...
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1920
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Even luminaries such as actress Blanche Sweet and director Henry King had off days and they must have been going through...
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1920
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Here, the eternal theme of a feud between two families is brought out to the West by author Bret Harte and adapted to the...
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1919
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Based on the Rupert Hughes novel, this film concerns the German atrocities committed in Belgium at the beginning of the Great...
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1919
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Blanche Sweet portrays Dr. Katherine Torrance, a woman doctor. Tom Forman is Leonard Sheldon, manager of a Mexican vineyard...
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1917
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Richard Landry (C.H. Geldert) is a Southern aristocrat who works for the U.S. government in the days before the Civil War....
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1917
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1917
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The Sowers was set in pre-Soviet Russia. Prince Paul Alexis (Thomas Meighan is supposed to marry Princess Tanya...
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1916
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Social secretary Ethel Hale (Blanche Sweet) goes to work for society matron Mrs. Strong (Veda McEvers). Having grown weary of...
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1916
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1916
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1916
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The trials and tribulations of heroine Diane (Blanche Sweet) begin when she's seduced by a far-from-noble nobleman, the Duke...
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1915
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Although she is wealthy, Helen North (Cleo Ridgeley) is a kleptomaniac. When she steals some expensive lace from a...
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1915
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In the years before he became known for his sexy domestic films and elaborate spectaculars, fledgling director Cecil B....
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1915
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1915 was a big year for civil war films -- this powerful five-reeler was released around the same time as D.W. Griffith's...
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1915
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1914
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1914
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1914
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Forced by the dictates of his Biograph contract to give up directing in favor of "supervising," D.W. Griffith left the studio...
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1914
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Conservative Biograph Studios, having galloped to prominence on the coattails of their star director D.W. Griffith, refused...
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Judith
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1914
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Based on a popular stage play, the Biograph three-reeler Strongheart was originally released in May of 1913. The film was...
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1914
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1914
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1914
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This innovative psychological drama represents one of D.W. Griffith's early full-length feature films and contains...
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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Paul Armstrong's venerable stage melodrama The Escape was first brought to the screen by D.W. Griffith in 1914. In true...
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Mae Joyce
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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The "three friends" in this sentimental Gaumont effort are an elderly cab driver, his faithful horse and his pet dog. Early...
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1913
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A besieged blockhouse containing a frightened Lillian Gish, marauding Indians, and a Mexican who heroically brings the...
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1912
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1912
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A wagon train is attacked by marauding Indians in this typically grisly Biograph one-reel western melodrama preserved in the...
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1912
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1911
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Wintering in Southern California 1910-1911, D. W. Griffith and the Biograph stock company filmed this western melodrama,...
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1911
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1911
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D.W. Griffith's The Two Paths is frequently written off as a "potboiler," but, in 1911 at least, any one of Griffith's...
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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This simple and very effective melodramatic short film was a landmark in its day; in fact, today it is still a fine example...
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1910
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This 990-foot Biograph "temperance melodrama" was filmed in late November of 1909. Charles Craig plays the leading character,...
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1910
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1910
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1909
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1909
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Completed in late 1909, Biograph's Choosing a Husband was a rare comedy effort from D.W.Griffith. The heroine is ardently...
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1909
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1909
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