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Myrtle Stedman
Born: 3rd Mar 1883 Chicago, Illinois, USA - Died 8th Jan 1938
Dept: Acting
From Wikipedia
Myrtle Stedman (March 3, 1883 – January 8, 1938) was a leading lady and later character actress in motion pictures beginning in silent films in 1910. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and educated at a private finishing school there. Miss Stedman performed in light opera and musical comedies there. Her voice was cultivated in France. Her tutor was Marchesi, who was known as one of the finest instructors of voice culture in his country. Myrtle did not enter the field of light opera because of her preference for light opera. She starred for a number of seasons in Isle of Spice and The Chocolate Soldier. She performed for a year at the Whitney Theater in Chicago and was a prima donna of the Chicago Grand Opera Company.
Her first appearances in movies were in Selig studio western and action short films. Among her feature films are Flaming Youth, The Valley of the Moon, The Dangerous Age, and The Famous Mrs. Fair. In 1936, she was signed by Warner Brothers to play bit and extra roles. Her last release was Accidents Will Happen, in 1938.
Myrtle Stedman died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California in 1938 at the age of 54. Interment at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood California. Her husband Marshall Stedman was a drama school conductor. They were divorced by 1920. Their son Lincoln Stedman was a prolific silent film character actor.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 126
Film: 126 (100%)
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Filmography
1938
A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife. ... view
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Professional Witness #2 (uncredited)
1938
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses. ... view
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Nurse (uncredited)
1937
A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman. ... view
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Mrs. Brown
1937
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City. ... view
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Minor Role (uncredited)
1937
The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would s ... view
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Marshall's Secretary
1937
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence. ... view
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Party Guest (uncredited)
1937
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval. ... view
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Mrs. Ransom - Rogers' Secretary (uncredited)
1937
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express get ... view
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Arlene's Maid (uncredited)
1937
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success. ... view
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Hospital Nurse with Bill (uncredited)
1937
After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners. ... view
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Nurse (uncredited)
1937
An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In or ... view
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Hospital Nurse
1937
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show. ... view
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Junior's Mother
1937
Set in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate Gen ... view
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Arlene's Mother
1937
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research ... view
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A Nurse
1937
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien ... view
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Nurse (uncredited)
1936
Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence. ... view
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Martha Washington
1936
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets ... view
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Mrs. Coburn
1935
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patro ... view
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Bit Part
1934
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, ... view
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Mrs. Winters
1934
John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homele ... view
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Nurse
1932
Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient dies. Charged with malpractice and manslaughter, h ... view
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Miss Fielding
1932
A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much. ... view
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Mrs. Hayes
1932
A countess boasts that she can easily pull off a jewelery robbery. A professional jewel thief beats her to the punch, but then finds that his newfound ... view
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Alice Lawton-Bond
1931
An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend. ... view
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Mrs. Frank Madison
1930
A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him. ... view
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Mrs. Ericson
1930
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby. ... view
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Mrs. Overbeck
1929
A beautiful girl exposes her shameful past to save the life of a girl she has never met. ... view
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1929
British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat is at present on leave in London. Falling in love with Ruth Dangan, the wife of his commanding officer, Yeullat d ... view
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Mrs. Faraker
1929
Pearl a vaudeville dancer is stranded somewhere in Alaska. With no official place to stay in the vicinity, Pearl is obliged to accept the hospitality ... view
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Sister Burton
1929
When Steve Maxwell and flapper Sue Randall wreck her father's automobile during a drunken escapade, her father exploits the mishap and blackmails Stev ... view
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Mrs Maxwell
1928
A shipping clerk falls under the spell of a socialite, but eventually returns to the girl from his own social class who really loves him. ... view
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Peggy's Mother
1928
Sports-loving inventor Richard Shelby develops an "Elasto-Tweed" golf suit then hits the road in hopes of making a few sales. Along the way, he meets ... view
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Mrs. Elliott
1927
Starry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her like it. ... view
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Mrs. Montgomery
1927
J. Harrison Gray, a wealthy playboy and notorious womanizer, finally decides to find the "right" girl and settle down. He finds the right girl, Betty, ... view
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Hortense Brown
1927
Salesgirl Dolly Morton becomes disillusioned about men after an incident with her boyfriend, so she becomes, with the help of her roommate, a gold dig ... view
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Mrs. James Crane
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Penelope Jones
1927
A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game. ... view
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Mrs. Betsy Clark
1927
Dan Foster, the engineer of the Black Diamond Express express train falls in love with Jeanne Harmon, whose snobbish, high society mother, Mrs. Harmon ... view
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Mrs. Harmon
1926
Better by far that ten Guilty men escape than that one Innocent man die for another's crime-Upon this is built the most thrilling melodrama of the sea ... view
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Mary Alvoid
1926
A concert pianist who is popular with women tries to discourage a teenage admirer. ... view
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Madame Cavallar
1926
Frederick, Prince of Pilsen, rebelling against his coming marriage with Princess Bertha of Thorwald, meets Hans Wagner, a brewer, and his daughter Nel ... view
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Princess Bertha of Thorwald
1925
Cigar counter girl Tessie tips off her mechanic boyfriend that a wealthy women is going to buy a car, and he leaves Tessie for Mrs. Welles. ... view
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Mrs. Wells
1925
Young stenographer Chickie Bryce dreams of marrying a millionaire. Until then, though, she is content to carry on with Barry, a lawyer from a nearby o ... view
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Janina
1925
Having a municipal position, Bernard Ingals has almost bankrupted himself sending his three children to college. The youngsters all arrive home for Ch ... view
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Eunice Ingals
1925
Sally works at a cafe resort in Paris. After dancing at the cafe, Otis, an American theatrical agent, convinces her to pose as a Russian dancer. After ... view
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Mrs. Ten Brock
1925
A teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life. ... view
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Gladys Herrington
1925
When his son marries a woman whose mother is the madame of a brothel, a wealthy father in San Francisco disowns him. The newlyweds travel to the South ... view
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Madame Margot
1924
When Charles Hale is visiting his mistress, Sybil Russell, he is shot in the arm by Sybil's estranged and outraged husband. Hale's daughter, Marjorie, ... view
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Helen Hale
1924
John Warriner, facing financial ruin, accepts the proposal of a bootlegger, Benedict, to underwrite the business of illegal wine-selling. His daughter ... view
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Mrs. Warriner
1924
The story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but had deserted her...and of a woman on the jury who ref ... view
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Marion Masters
1924
A young mother, Mildred, doesn't know that her husband Walter is cheating on her. One night she attends a party with a friend of her husband's, and th ... view
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Mazie
1924
Mary Heath's brother Dave is accidentally killed in a gambling den. Mary’s sweetheart, John Trevor, discovers the joint is secretly owned by his mot ... view
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Mrs. Trevor
1923
When Mona Frentiss dies, she has her confidante "Doctor Bobs" watch over her family, especially her youngest daughter Patricia. The family has been ra ... view
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Mona Fentriss
1923
Laline, a pretty young woman, falls in love with Dion, a young sculptor, but her mother wants her to marry a wealthy Englishman. Laline and Dion are v ... view
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Olive Kingston
1923
Janet Loring is a young widow with a young son. She marries millionaire Malcolm Trask, but doesn't tell him about her previous marriage or her son, Ra ... view
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Janet Loring
1923
Temporary Marriage is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Kenneth Harlan, Mildred Davis, and Myrtle Stedman. ... view
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Mrs. Hugh Manners
1923
Gracia, a half-breed Indian girl, plots with Cons Saunders to steal cattle from Blake because he is oblivious to her charms. With his stock gone, he c ... view
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Celia
1923
A silent film drama based on the Broadway play of the same name by James Forbes.. ... view
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Mrs. Fair
1923
Married for 22 years, Mary Emerson treats her husband, John, more like a son than a husband. He is stung by her rebuffs and, therefore, succumbs to th ... view
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Mrs. Sanderson
1922
Wealthy John and Gay Masters lead a busy social life to the neglect of their son, Jackie. Also feeling herself slighted, Gay innocently flirts with Ju ... view
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Mrs. Davenport
1922
Nara, the daughter of a wealthy Russian killed by the Bolsheviki, flees to America and meets Adam Pine, a sculptor, who marvels at the beauty of her h ... view
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Vanessa Yates
1922
A cautionary tale for aspiring flappers. Five of six reels survive. ... view
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Mrs. Schuyler-Foster
1922
A young man in financial difficulties persuades his wife to help him blackmail a supposedly wealthy man. ... view
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Mrs. Crafton
1922
Adopted by the Kellys from an orphanage, Nancy is reared in dreadful surroundings and mistreated as the household drudge. She accidentally makes the a ... view
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Mrs. Halliday
1921
Japanese architect Yoda is hired as groundskeeper for retired criminal Benson Burleigh. ... view
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Blanche De Vore
1921
Robert must avenge his son who was killed in a workplace accident. ... view
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Mrs. Chapple
1921
When Rosamond, a convent girl, discovers that her mother is Baby Brabant, a notorious queen of Petworth's gambling house, her ideals are shattered and ... view
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Baby Brabant
1921
A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's husband takes in the pianist's wife, and all four ... view
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Mary Martinot
1920
The film begins in the southern California home of Alexander MacAllister (Lawson Butt) where he is confronting Andrew Hyde (Miles McCarthy) who is acc ... view
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1920
Mr. Bretton's wife decides she would rather pursue an opera career, so they separate, leaving him to raise their young daughter Daphne (Mildred Harris ... view
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Virginia Bretton
1920
Harriet Field, living the Bohemian life in Greenwich Village, is tricked into a mock marriage with the unscrupulous Royal Blondin. She leaves him, tak ... view
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Isabelle Carter
1920
A young man who has proven a failure in business goes to Alaska and enters the salmon-fishing industry, in direct competition with the father of the w ... view
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Cherry Malotté
1920
A Broadway actress uses her sex appeal to ruin a marriage only to dump her lover for a richer prospect. ... view
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Mrs. Overman
1919
Wealthy businessman Frank Powell falls in love late in life with Olive Meade, the sister of Governor Carroll Carson's wife Irene. One day Frank sees O ... view
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Olive Meade
1919
Living quietly under the assumed name Paul Sernine, reformed gentleman crook Arsene Lupin is summoned to protect his invalid, wealthy friend Henry For ... view
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Marie Forbes
1918
Wife of wealthy ladies' man Challis Wrandall, Sara, is called to a roadhouse to identify her husband's body and told that he was murdered by an uniden ... view
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Sara Wrandell
1917
The Rustler's Vindication is an early Tom Mix film from Fox. ... view
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1917
Bob Fulton is the superintendent of a mine in the West. He wins the enmity of dancehall owner Jack King when he saves one of the girls, Rose De Braisy ... view
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Beth Hoover
1917
Helen Ainsworth, a young philanthropist, who is interested in a prison reform movement, is engaged to Norman Morris, administrator of the Ainsworth mi ... view
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Helen Ainsworth
1917
Constance, the beautiful wife of Mark Barr, is in fear of her husband's jealousy. Among the guests at their reception are Myrtle Gale and her fiancé, ... view
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Constance Barr
1916
When his fiancée commits suicide after being used by an American artist, a Japanese art dealer seeks to get vengeance by seducing the artist's wife. ... view
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Anne Willoughby
1916
The infant daughter of a wealthy couple is thought to be lost at sea, but she survives and is raised by a poor family. ... view
Character:
Ruth Cleave / Mrs. Ellsworth
1916
The adventures of Pasquale, an Italian immigrant to New York who runs a little grocery store. ... view
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Banker's wife
1916
An aspiring New York painter returns home to the Kentucky mountains to settle a feud between two rival families. ... view
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Adrienne Lescott
1915
Realizing that his mayoral campaign is in serious trouble, reform candidate Frank Grandell sends his people out to dig up some dirt on Art Hoke, the b ... view
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1915
A fantasy from Ibsen's verse drama. Ne'er-do-well and braggart Peer Gynt has many adventures in varied countries, making and losing money, gaining for ... view
Character:
Solveig
1915
The story of a Virginia judge who sternly hands down severe sentences while in court only to later help the families of those he condemns ... view
Character:
Virginia Fairfax
1915
Young Frederica Calhoun, naïve to the ways of the world, having grown up on her father’s Montana ranch, is swept off her feet by the arrival of Lor ... view
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Mrs. Reginald Brooks
1915
Little Doris Calhoun, of a wealthy English family, makes a playmate of Pierre, a crippled gypsy boy, and drifts away with him and the gypsy band on th ... view
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Lady Leigh
1915
Nicknamed "Wild Olive," Miriam Strange discovers that her mom was an Indian, she moves to a hovel close to an Allegheny stumble camp. Norrie Passage, ... view
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Miriam Strange, 'The Wild Olive'
1915
Orphaned heiress Katherine Bradley, known as "Kit," is an orphan and heiress is attending a fashionable and select seminary for young women. A favorit ... view
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Elaine Vernon
1915
The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Purity, who is also represented by a ghostly naked g ... view
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The Woman (as Miss Myrtle Stedman)
1915
The story of a ruddy-cheeked rural postman who dabbles in poetry-writing on the side. He utilizes his hobby to spread a bit of sunshine throughout the ... view
Character:
Bess Judd
1914
A small-town politician is elected to congress. As he fights for his constituents' rights, his plain-Jane wife sits quietly at home. Only when Billy B ... view
Character:
Myrtle Marshall
1914
The Chechako is a 1914 adventure drama based on Jack London's Smoke Bellew ... view
Character:
Joy Gastell
1914
Accompanied by his dog Skookum, artist Richard Alden goes to work painting the beauty of Laguna Beach. There he courts a city woman, much to the delig ... view
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Helen Alden
1914
The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Mart ... view
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1914
When boxer Billy Roberts marries laundress Saxon, he tries to please his spouse by leaving his former profession behind and becoming a teamster drivin ... view
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Saxon
1914
Arthur Baxter comes to spend the week end with John Masterson, a wealthy merchant. With him are his nephew, Jack Warrington, and his niece. Margaret W ... view
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Margaret Warrington
1913
A pair of precious loafers in a mining town learn from one of their "kidney" that Dick Mackey's partner, Bill Bryson, has died and that his gold dust ... view
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Mrs. Bryson
1913
Jim Dolan is a prospector who incurs the hatred of Ed Jones, foreman of the Brown Ranch, because of his attentions to Grace Wellington, daughter of a ... view
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Grace Wellington
1913
Texas Pete, a gun-man, is "extra" bad when in liquor. This, however, does not terrify the ranch foreman, who discharges him for drunkenness. Pete lace ... view
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The Baby's Mother
1913
Bud Harris, a young miner with a reputation for courage, goes prospecting in the desert with Tom Jones in an attempt to locate a turquoise mine. Their ... view
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One of the Girls
1913
Rob Ralston is forced to go to "town" for supplies, and "Injun" Jim, a sneaking rascal, announces that he proposes to jump his claim. This arouses the ... view
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Sallie
1913
The marshal is compelled to arrest his brother-in-law for accidentally shooting a Mexican. His wife pleads for his release, but it is ineffectual. Whe ... view
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The Marshal's Wife
1913
Willie Clever, city born and bred, having been spoiled with plenty of money, thinks he knows it all, or nearly all. His father buys a ranch in Arizona ... view
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Jessie Reardon
1913
Dakota Wilson escapes from the Deer Lodge Penitentiary, and, after a period of quietness, secures a position on the Diamond S ranch, owned by Buffalo ... view
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Grace
1913
Wesley Judell, as a missionary, finds a futile but puzzling field for work in the far, wild west. ... view
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Winona Judell
1913
Steve, ambitious to outstrip his rivals, Slim and Tex, in a race for Betty's hand, orders a dress-snit by mail. The spike-tail is an awful fit and Ste ... view
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Betty
1913
It was a time when men thought quick and shot quick, self-preservation being Nature's first law. The stage-coach, having the precious freight of two f ... view
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One of the Girls
1913
Big "Bud" O'Neill, the sheriff of Yavapai County, is in love with Nellie Bowen, daughter of a wealthy rancher. ... view
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Nellie Bowen (Bud's sweetheart)
1913
Dare Devil Tom Wallace, so called because of his seeming lack of fear, is held up while riding in the stage and robbed by a masked desperado named Mor ... view
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Dolores
1913
Ted, the foreman of "The Diamond S. Ranch" is in love with Dora, Dad's daughter. Tafe is the leader of a band of desperate characters that have been t ... view
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Dora
1912
Red Reagan, and two companions, Brooks and Mathis, lose their way while on a prospecting trip in the mountains. Fortunately they come to an Indian cam ... view
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So-Jun-Wah
1912
Among the many beautiful and exciting romances that saw birth, blossomed and grew, during the dark and foreboding days of our great Civil War period, ... view
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Alice Munroe - Jack's Sister
1912
Harry Mason, a young New Yorker of good family, tries to borrow money from his brother, Tom. One afternoon Tom collects $5,000 for his father. As it i ... view
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Nellie Wright - Tom's Sweetheart
1912
Alice Marson, an eastern young lady, becomes engaged to Glen Arnold, a young man just out of college. Girl-like, she rushes to her friend, Lucy Starr, ... view
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Alice Marson, the Real Best Girl
1911
Hiram Hughes, foreman on "Pop" Lynd's ranch in Bingo Gulch, has quit his job. He has had enough of "Wild Jim," who is the pest of the ranch. In despai ... view
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Jess Lynd, Pop's Daughter
1911
The Texas Rangers, led by Tom Wilson, are hot on the trail of the Mexican bootleggers, who have been smuggling whiskey into American territory and sup ... view
Character:
Nellie Smith, Tom's Sweetheart
1911
Sam Long leaves his invalid wife to seek work in a neighboring town. He is unsuccessful in his quest and being penniless, and his wife in need of food ... view
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Mrs. Long
1911
Told in Colorado is a short, silent thriller ... view
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Edythe Bellaires
1911
REEL ONE: Diane Eleanor De Vaudrey secretly marries a man beneath her. A child is born, Louise, the blind girl. Diane's father kills her husband and f ... view
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Countess de Linieres
1910
Each year the unique surroundings and novel characters of this great and typical American custom is becoming more and more obsolete and in a few short ... view
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