Linda Arvidson
Linda Arvidson (born Linda Arvidson Johnson, July 12, 1884 – July 26, 1949; sometimes credited as Linda Griffith) was an American stage and film actress and philanthropist through the Linda A. Griffith Fund. She became one of America's early motion picture stars while working at Biograph Studios in New York, where none of the company's actors, until 1913, were credited on screen. Along with Florence Lawrence, Marion Leonard, and other female performers there, she was often referred to by theatergoers and in trade publications as simply one of the "Biograph girls". Arvidson began working in the new, rapidly expanding film industry after meeting her future husband D. W. Griffith, who impressed her as an innovative screen director. Their marriage was kept secret for reasons of professional discretion.
[biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.313 |
| Birthday | 1884-07-12 |
| Place of Birth | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Linda Arvidson Johnson, Linda A. Griffith, Linda Griffith, |
1910
The Honor of His Family
0/0
An old colonel is proud as a peacock: his son leads a group of volunteers in the American Civil War. Untill one day his son returns home as a deserter...
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The Honor of His Family
1909
To Save Her Soul
4.333/3
Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the curate...
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To Save Her Soul
1909
A Corner in Wheat
6.156/93
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines an...
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A Corner in Wheat
1911
Enoch Arden: Part I
5.5/6
Enoch Arden, a humble fisherman, marries Annie Lee. He signs on as a sailor to make more money to support their growing family. A storm wrecks his shi...
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Enoch Arden: Part I
1911
Enoch Arden: Part II
5.5/6
Annie remains faithful to her husband, Enoch, even though he's been lost at sea for many years. Finally her grown children convince her to marry Phili...
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Enoch Arden: Part II
1911
The Miser's Heart
6/12
Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a little girl who lives...
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The Miser's Heart
1911
Fate's Turning
5/3
A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman who's there for the summer. However, hi...
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Fate's Turning
1908
At the French Ball
3.75/2
A husband finishes packing a suitcase, and then says good-bye to his wife. As soon as he is gone, the wife has her maid help her to dress for a costum...
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At the French Ball
1910
The Unchanging Sea
6.453/32
In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. Th...
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The Unchanging Sea
1908
The Fatal Hour
2.5/1
This one-reeler has been regarded as a classic example of a Griffith thriller. It engages with the Chinese White slave traffic from the perspective of...
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The Fatal Hour
1909
The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals
3.8/5
The amateur dramatic society chooses the Joneses' residence as the location of its next meeting, and both Joneses catch 'the acting bug' in this split...
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The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals
1909
The Cricket on the Hearth
3.65/10
After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement with a much older man.
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The Cricket on the Hearth
1909
A Drunkard's Reformation
5.45/10
A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play, he'...
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A Drunkard's Reformation
1908
The Song of the Shirt
3.583/6
Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.
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The Song of the Shirt
1908
Balked at the Altar
3.3/5
A woman who is filled with romantic ideas is making no secret of her eagerness to find a husband. Her father decides to help her by pressuring and thr...
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Balked at the Altar
1908
Betrayed by a Handprint
2.9/5
Mrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to her of a handsome diamond necklace by her fiancé....
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Betrayed by a Handprint
1909
Resurrection
4.875/4
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that h...
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Resurrection
1909
Confidence
4.125/4
Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail her....
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Confidence
1914
A Fair Rebel
0/0
Steve Monteith and Ezra Mason, upper class men, and Bill Bronson, a plebe, are chums and roommates at West Point before the Civil War. Steve prepares...
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A Fair Rebel
1914
The Wife
0/0
A 1914 film drama
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The Wife
1909
Her First Biscuits
3/3
A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits ma...
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Her First Biscuits
1909
The Winning Coat
5/1
A young courtier gambles in a tavern and wins a coat from the leader of a gang. In the pocket he finds details of a plan to kidnap the Queen. He retur...
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The Winning Coat
1908
The Taming of the Shrew
4.917/6
Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.
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The Taming of the Shrew
1909
The Cord of Life
3.5/4
Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are met...
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The Cord of Life
1909
The Curtain Pole
4.45/10
An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very lo...
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The Curtain Pole
1908
An Awful Moment
2.75/4
After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken forcefu...
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An Awful Moment
1909
At the Altar
3.75/4
At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic tu...
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At the Altar
1909
Pippa Passes
5.583/6
Pippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unbeknown to her, the music has a healing effect on all who hear her as she passes by.
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Pippa Passes
1909
The Lure of the Gown
3.667/3
"Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a maste...
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The Lure of the Gown
1909
Edgar Allan Poe
5.1/25
As Poe's lover is slowly dying, he struggles to make money to care for her.
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Edgar Allan Poe
1909
Those Awful Hats
6.098/51
A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.
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Those Awful Hats
1909
Pranks
2.5/1
Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they each have to dress up as the opposite sex.
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Pranks
1908
The King's Messenger
1/1
Mack Sennett appears as a soldier in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The King's Messenger
1908
The Stage Rustler
3.5/1
Mack Sennett appears as a man in a bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Stage Rustler
1908
After Many Years
2.5/2
A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?
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After Many Years
1908
Where the Breakers Roar
3.2/2
A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby asylum, heads for the surf, brandishing a knife. Innocent se...
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Where the Breakers Roar
1908
The Red Girl
3.5/1
Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Red Girl
1908
The Pirate's Gold
4.5/1
Young Wilkinson is leaving his dear old mother for a journey to seek his fortune in a foreign clime. Now, the little cottage is situated near the coas...
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The Pirate's Gold
1908
The Feud and the Turkey
2/1
Mack Sennett appears as a member of the Wilkenson clan in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Feud and the Turkey
1909
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
3.25/2
Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a differe...
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Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
1908
The Helping Hand
2/1
Mack Sennett appears as a wedding guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Helping Hand
1909
One Touch of Nature
3/1
Mack Sennett appears as a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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One Touch of Nature
1909
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
2.5/2
Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance Leagu...
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Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
1909
A Rural Elopement
3/1
Mack Sennett appears as a man in the crowd in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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A Rural Elopement
1909
The Criminal Hypnotist
2/1
Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Criminal Hypnotist
1909
The Welcome Burglar
2.5/1
Mack Sennett appears as a butler and a man in an office in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Welcome Burglar
1909
Love Finds a Way
1/1
Mack Sennett appears as a footman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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Love Finds a Way
1909
The Sacrifice
4/1
Oh, the woe of simultaneous birthdays, as were Mr. and Mrs. Hardlucks', and both being of a generous nature, were seized with an insatiable desire to...
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The Sacrifice
1909
The Fascinating Mrs. Francis
0.5/1
Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Fascinating Mrs. Francis
1911
His Daughter
4/1
William promises to marry his sweetheart, Mary, after completing medical school. William's father has saved enough money to set up William's medical p...
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His Daughter
1908
Classmates
3/2
Two students at college were friends until a girl appeared and by the workings of fate was beloved by both. The girl has given her heart to one of the...
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Classmates
1910
The Thread of Destiny
0/0
The orphan girl of San Gabriel meets and is attracted by a Spanish stranger. The Spaniard is accused of cheating and set to be lynched, but is saved b...
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The Thread of Destiny
1911
Enoch Arden
5.8/6
Moving Picture World described the film: "There is a small need to describe this subject as the poem of Lord Tennyson is so well known, so suffice it...
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Enoch Arden
1911
Fisher Folks
0/0
A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt.
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Fisher Folks
1909
Comata, the Sioux
4.25/4
This story of the Black Hills consistently tells of the unrequited love of a Sioux brave for his chief's daughter, and how he premonished the awful re...
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Comata, the Sioux
1910
The Converts
0/0
A dance hall girl is converted to a religious life by a phony evangelist. But can he, himself, be saved?
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The Converts
1910
The Broken Doll
4/1
An American Indian child, maltreated by her mother and other tribespeople, accompanies her family to a nearby town to buy supplies. There, local white...
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The Broken Doll
1914
Beverly of Graustark
5/1
Beverly Calhoun is invited by her friend, Princess Yestive of Graustark, to pay her a visit. On her journey, she is waylaid by bandits, and becomes en...
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Beverly of Graustark
1908
A Calamitous Elopement
4.182/11
A young couple are enjoying a romantic interlude in the young woman's home, when her father discovers them and angrily chases the young man out of the...
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A Calamitous Elopement
1908
The Bandit’s Waterloo (The Outwitting of an Andalusian Brigand by a Pretty Senora)
2.5/1
A gang of lawless freebooters who terrorized the country and made travel in the mountains a hazardous pastime hold up a stylish landau in which are se...
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The Bandit’s Waterloo (The Outwitting of an Andalusian Brigand by a Pretty Senora)
1908
A Woman's Way
3.5/1
The pretty daughter of a French-Canadian backwoodsman incites the love of a trapper who is so smitten with the beauty of this wood nymph that he purch...
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A Woman's Way
1908
The Stolen Jewels
4/1
It would have taken more than the wonderful powers of deduction of a Sherlock Holmes to have dispelled the mystery that shrouded the disappearance of...
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The Stolen Jewels
1909
A Baby's Shoe
2/1
The story tells of the young widowed mother of two children who is forced by extreme poverty to part with one of her children, a baby girl, by placing...
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A Baby's Shoe
1909
Drive for a Life
1.5/1
Harry's jealous former mistress puts poison in some candy intended for his new fiancée. Harry discovers what she has done, and races to save his fianc...
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Drive for a Life
1909
His Ward's Love
2.5/1
Reverend Howson loves his young ward, but urges her to marry someone else. She accepts the proposal, but then sees the Reverend kissing an object she...
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His Ward's Love
1909
His Wife's Mother
2/1
Jones's mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk.
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His Wife's Mother
1909
The Jilt
0.5/1
John is seduced and abandoned by a cruel flirt. Later he learns that his friend Frank is engaged to the same woman. He relates his story to Frank and...
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The Jilt
1909
The Medicine Bottle
1/1
While she attends a party, Mrs. Ross leaves her young daughter to care for her bed-ridden mother. At the party, Mrs. Ross realizes she left the wrong...
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The Medicine Bottle
1909
The Politician's Love Story
4.333/3
A haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the cartooni...
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The Politician's Love Story
1909
The Roue’s Heart
4.5/1
Mons. Flamant, a typical roué of the French nobility, is surrounded by all the pleasures and pastimes his fabulous wealth can procure. In a quest of d...
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The Roue’s Heart
1909
Those Boys!
4.5/0
Two boys find a pistol their father has hidden. While they're playing with it, they line up a target, not realizing their sisters are on the other sid...
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Those Boys!
1909
The Peachbasket Hat
4.25/2
Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm read...
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The Peachbasket Hat
1908
The Adventures of Dollie
5.212/26
On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing.
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The Adventures of Dollie
1909
The Sealed Room
5.036/28
The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. But...
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The Sealed Room
1909
A Wreath in Time
4/1
A few of us have had the chance to read our own obituary notice, but it fell to the lot of John Goodhusband the rare privilege of viewing his own eleg...
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A Wreath in Time
1909
The Voice of the Violin
4.714/7
A music teacher is in love with Helen, one of his students, but she rejects him. In his hurt he joins an anarchist group who plan to blow up a rich ca...
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The Voice of the Violin
1909
The Faded Lilies
2.25/2
A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.
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The Faded Lilies
1908
The Test of Friendship
4/1
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 Test of Friendship
1908
Father Gets in the Game
3.3/5
D.W. Griffith film about an elderly father who grows tired of seeing his son bring home beautiful women so he gets a makeover and heads out on the pro...
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Father Gets in the Game
1908
At the Crossroads of Life
4/2
At the Crossroads of Life is a typically Victorian-style melodrama in which a girl's wishes to be an actress are condemned by her stern father, a man...
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At the Crossroads of Life
1909
The Eavesdropper
3.5/1
Hidalgo offers his daughter's hand in marriage when he can't repay a loan to Manuella. But when Manuella overhears the daughter bidding farewell to he...
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The Eavesdropper
1909
The Children's Friend
3/1
Three little girls fall into a sand pit and can't get out. One of them ties a note around her pet pigeon's neck and releases it. The pigeon flies home...
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The Children's Friend
1909
Fool's Revenge
0.5/1
A court fool believes the Duke is after his beautiful daughter, and arranges to have the Duke murdered. The daughter overhears the plot and, disguised...
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Fool's Revenge
1909
The Golden Louis
4.375/8
An anonymous donor drops a gold coin in the shoe of a homeless girl as she sleeps. A gambler with a 'sure thing' borrows the coin and wins a fortune,...
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The Golden Louis
1908
When Knights Were Bold
3.25/2
Two noblemen fight over a lady.
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When Knights Were Bold
1909
Leather Stocking
3.5/1
A short version of James Fenimore Cooper's famous tale about Natty Bumppo, or "Hawkeye," and his exploits during the French and Indian war.
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Leather Stocking
1909
The Mills of the Gods
1.5/1
A woman in love with an unsuccessful author tries to convince a publisher to accept his work.
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The Mills of the Gods
1909
Tragic Love
4/0
Bob Spaulding, a manly fellow, meets Dr. Rankin and his wife on the street while they are engaged in a violent tiff. The doctor is about to strike his...
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Tragic Love
1909
The Salvation Army Lass
4/4
A girl from the New York slums falls in with crooks. After her love is arrested following a barfight turned deadly, her life seems directionless-- tha...
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The Salvation Army Lass
1910
The Rocky Road
4/1
The evils of drink cause a man to separate from his family. In time he becomes sober and prosperous. Then he meets and falls in love with a young woma...
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The Rocky Road
1910
The Last Deal
0/0
Owen Moore is addicted to gambling and about to lose his family and job because of it. James Kirkwood, his brother-in-law, shows up and cures him of h...
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The Last Deal
1909
The Day After
2.75/2
Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens, a...
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The Day After
1910
The Two Brothers
0/0
In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born in a noble Spanish family and reared by a mother n...
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The Two Brothers
1909
Through the Breakers
4.25/2
A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of h...
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Through the Breakers
1910
The Usurer
5/11
A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.
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The Usurer
1911
Heart Beats of Long Ago
5/2
A feud existed between two Italian houses and it meant disaster to any one of the belligerents to intrude into the opposing house. The Lord of the hou...
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Heart Beats of Long Ago
1911
His Trust
4.1/23
A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is ki...
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His Trust
1911
His Trust Fulfilled
3.7/14
Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own meag...
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His Trust Fulfilled
1913
The Scarlet Letter
0/0
Poor Hester Prynne finds herself most unwelcome in England.
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The Scarlet Letter
1908
The Man and the Woman
2/1
John and Tom Wilkins are brothers and most divergent in natures. John is a clergyman and a noble, upright fellow, while Tom is a scapegrace, wild, rec...
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The Man and the Woman
1908
For a Wife's Honor
1.5/1
Irving Robertson, a successful playwright, has just received a message from out of town to witness the initial performance of one of his plays. As he...
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For a Wife's Honor
1909
I Did It
2.5/2
A mother punishes her son for eating a plate of cream puffs, unaware that the daughter really did it. As the daughter watches the punishment, she feel...
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