Kate Bruce
Way Down East
as Mother BartlettA naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild...
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as Old Babylonian Mother / The City Mother (uncredited)The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven...
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Orphans of the Storm
as Sister Geneviève (uncredited)France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as...
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Ramona
as The MotherRamona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love...
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A Corner in Wheat
as uncreditedOn a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price...
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Wilful Peggy
as uncreditedPeggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a...
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His Trust
as uncreditedA Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of...
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Civilization
as A MotherCount Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless...
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The Wanderer
as The Old WomanA little over six minutes survive of this Biograph short. Not to be confused with another...
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True Heart Susie
as Bettina's AuntSusie secretly loves her neighbor, William Jenkins, but neither, it seems, can confess their...
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The Sunbeam
as Sunbeam's MammaSet in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour...
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The New York Hat
as Mrs. Mary HardingTo fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a...
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The Usurer
as One of the First DebtorsA wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.
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The Slave
as Mourning WomanA Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she...
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Judith of Bethulia
as Judtih's MaidGriffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of...
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Flying Pat
as Old LadyWild flapper Patricia Van Nuys decides to become a pilot like her husband Robert, but with a...
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Her Awakening
as The Crippled MotherAn attempt to hide her working-class origins appears to have disastrous consequences for an...
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They Would Elope
as The MotherTwo lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them...
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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
as A Settler (uncredited)Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events...
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Experience
as MotherYouth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city....
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Fighting Blood
as The Old Soldier's WifeAfter the Civil War, an ex-soldier and his family settle in the Dakota Territory. The son...
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The Furs
as The Husband's MotherMabel Normand is the wife of a rather rotund businessman, Dell Henderson. She doesn't get along...
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The Mothering Heart
as The Wife's MotherA young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy...
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Death's Marathon
as The NannyTwo business partners pursue the same woman. She accepts the marriage proposal of the...
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The Unchanging Sea
as Villager (uncredited)In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young...
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The Rocky Road
as The MaidThe evils of drink cause a man to separate from his family. In time he becomes sober and...
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Faithful
as John's Sweetheart's MotherAdonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a...
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What's Your Hurry?
as Mary's MotherPapa is proud of his new birthday present, a shotgun. Mary's boyfriend arrives for a visit and...
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To Save Her Soul
as The HousekeeperAgnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her...
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1776, or The Hessian Renegades
as Soldier's FamilyDuring the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington...
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The Greatest Thing in Life
as Jeannette's AuntA lost film. Leo Peret has a small quiet tobacco shop in Greenwich Village. Edward Livingston, a...
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The Informer
as The MotherThe young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his...
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His Daughter
as The NeighborWilliam promises to marry his sweetheart, Mary, after completing medical school. William's...
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The Squaw's Love
as MotherWild Flower follows her banished lover, Gray Fox, into the wilderness. Her departure is...
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The Struggle
as GrannyA young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.
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A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
as The MotherThe two brothers and their adopted daughter of the household grew up from childhood together....
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A Romance of Happy Valley
as Mrs. LoganJohn Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the...
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The Little Tease
as The Little Tease's MotherThe supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was...
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The Old Actor
as The Old Actor's WifeAn elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because...
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Hearts of the World
as The Mother of the BoyA group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace...
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Scarlet Days
as The AuntRosie Nell, a woman of disreputable dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged...
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The Country Doctor
as Poor MotherWhile caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He...
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Hot Stuff
as Hank's Sweetheart's MotherHank (Mack Sennett) loses his girl (Mabel Normand) to another guy (Dell Henderson) so he decides...
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What the Daisy Said
as The Spinster (uncredited)Two sisters want to know whether there is romance in their future. One sister pulls the petals...
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The School Teacher and the Waif
as uncreditedNora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends...
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Home Folks
as The Young Woman's MotherA stern father rules his family by what he thinks to be the Bible's precepts, but it is simply...
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Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
as The MotherSoon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return....
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Muggsy Becomes a Hero
as One of the Sisters FrostTwo spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is...
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Confidence
as uncreditedNellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of...
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The Sheriff's Baby
as A SettlerAfter the death of his wife the baby was all the sheriff had left, the promise of hope in the...
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Through the Breakers
as The NurseA society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl...
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The Painted Lady
as The MotherA lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an...
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The Girl Who Stayed at Home
as Mrs. Edward GreyRalph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the...
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A Country Cupid
as Edith's MotherSchoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him...
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Simple Charity
as The Poor WifeA pretty young woman attempts to help a poor, old couple while attracting the attention of a...
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The Light That Came
as The Girls' MotherA disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still...
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A Trap for Santa Claus
as Aunt's Home's Housekeeper (uncredited)The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.
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The One She Loved
as The Neighbor's WifeRoy Norris, a young author, proposes to pretty Mary Ford and is accepted. The first year or more...
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Heredity
as The Indian WomanNine-year-old Nedda is a direct descendant of the Trevors, a family that can trace its roots...
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An Arcadian Maid
as The Farmer's WifeA young maiden is seduced by a charming traveling peddler who persuades her to steal from her...
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One Is Business, the Other Crime
as First MaidGriffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich,...
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Heart Beats of Long Ago
as At the BallA feud existed between two Italian houses and it meant disaster to any one of the belligerents...
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The Idol Dancer
as Mrs. BlytheA religious zealot and his nephew are thrown together on a South Seas Island with an alcoholic...
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The White Rose
as John's AuntA wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes...
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The Redman's View
as IndianAn Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary...
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A Gold Necklace
as The GovornessMazie lends her necklace to Nellie, her guest. Nellie is asleep in a hammock when Sam, her...
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Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
as uncreditedInstead of buying bonds, Lillian buys new clothes. Then she has a dream that her home has been...
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An Awful Moment
as uncreditedAfter a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard)...
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The Fugitive
as Confederate motherTwo Johns, a Confederate and an Union soldier, leave their families to go to the front. After a...
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His Trust Fulfilled
as uncreditedContinuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master's...
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The Telephone Girl and the Lady
as The Lady's FriendD.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The...
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Betsy's Burglar
as Mrs. RandallBetsy Harlow is a hard-working maid in a boarding house. Her dream. however, is to be a...
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As It Is in Life
as The MaidA man sacrifices a new marriage for the happiness of his daughter.
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The Awakening
as A NunA confirmed bachelor learns that he will inherit his late uncle's fortune only if he marries,...
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The Flying Fool
as Mrs. Riley - Pat's MotherA man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see...
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The Hun Within
as Beth's MotherA German-American father, loyal to his new U.S. home, finds himself on opposite sides with his...
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Getting Even
as Party GuestAll the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a...
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A Terrible Discovery
as The HousekeeperA criminal designs a plan to get revenge on the district attorney who convicted his brother.
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The Modern Prodigal
as uncreditedIn the opening of this subject we find the callow youth as he points towards the city's spires,...
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A Dash Through the Clouds
as Old Mexican WomanAviation enthusiast Josephine rescues her suitor, Chubby, from an angry mob with the help of...
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East Lynne
as Mrs. HareAn adaptation of the stage warhorse East Lynne featuring a young, curly-haired Alan Hale as the...
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His Duty
as The Sons' MotherIt's Bob Allen's twenty-first birthday. His mother and his brother Jack, a policeman present him...
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The Engagement Ring
as Alice's MotherAlice has two persistent suitors, one rich, one poor. Each buys her an engagement ring; the rich...
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The Two Brothers
as The MotherIn Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel....
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Olaf—An Atom
as Olaf's MotherBroken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until...
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The Marriage of Molly-O
as Mrs. MalarkeyBrutal rental agent Joseph McGuire demands that Molly-O marry McGuire's son Denny, lest her...
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A Strange Meeting
as At PartyMary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into...
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Love Among the Roses
as The Lacemaker's MotherIn the Kingdom of Never-Never Land there live a great Lord and Lady, each presiding over their...
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The Broken Locket
as Ruth's MotherGeorge Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal...
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The Manicure Lady
as First Customer's WifeThe manicure lady spurns the barber and dates a rich cad instead.
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The Cardinal's Conspiracy
as uncreditedA royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave...
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The Long Road
as Mother SuperiorEdith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him...
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Souls Triumphant
as uncreditedLillian Vale is the naïve and unworldly daughter of minister Josiah Vale. Swept off her feet by...
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The Unwelcome Guest
as The Old WifeJust before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly...
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The Strong Man's Burden
as Bob & John's MotherA crime drama in which a police officer does everything possible to help his criminal younger...
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Betrayed by a Handprint
as Mrs. WhartonMrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation...
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That Chink at Golden Gulch
as ExtraIn China, before leaving for America, Charlie Lee promises that he will never dishonour his...
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All on Account of the Milk
as The Young Woman's MotherThe hero, a young contractor, is mistaken by the heroine for a laborer, while he thinks she is...
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The Gibson Goddess
as Woman on SidewalkA pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a...
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Lena and the Geese
as GretchenA first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman,...
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A Woman's Awakening
as Mrs. LetchworthA 1917 film directed by Chester Withey.
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His Lost Love
as A MaidMary marries James, after jilting his brother Luke. Mary's sister arrives and soon James is...
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The Italian Barber
as MotherTony, the barber, on his way to the shop meets little Alice, the newsgirl, who runs a stand on a...
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At the Altar
as uncreditedAt the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the...
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The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
as uncreditedKitty, the pretty young wife of a Texas businessman, feels neglected and unwanted as her husband...
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Betty of Greystone
as uncreditedAfter the death of her father, Betty Lockwood goes to Graystone Gables, the estate where he had...
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A Child of the Ghetto
as Ruth's MotherAfter her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers...
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An Indian Summer
as The WidowA lonely old widower arrives in town and seeks out a pleasant boarding place. The house he...
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Won by a Fish
as The MaidPapa becomes so miserable over his bad luck as a fisherman, it causes him to reject Harry, his...
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The Mountaineer's Honor
as The Mountain Girl's MotherA mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down...
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A Lucky Toothache
as Bessie's MotherBessie, the new school teacher, arrives at the little western village, and on her way to the...
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The Golden Louis
as uncreditedAn anonymous donor drops a gold coin in the shoe of a homeless girl as she sleeps. A gambler...
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The Rose of Kentucky
as The housekeeperA farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother's death and sends her off to school. After...
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The Microscope Mystery
as Mrs SimpsonWhen a wealthy hypochondriac is dissatisfied by the care of the town doctor (Doc Arnold), he...
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The Baby and the Stork
as The NurseBobby is jealous of the new baby, so he takes it to the zoo and tries to return it to the stork.
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A Plain Song
as Edith's MotherEdith is a salesgirl in a department store who envys her store-mates, as she views them passing...
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May and December
as OctoberThe quartet comprising this story are of ages as the months are to each other. June, a young...
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The Song of the Wildwood Flute
as An IndianHer trademarked curls hidden under a black wig, Mary Pickford stars as a wide-eyed Indian...
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His Darker Self
as Claude's MotherA small town man takes a mail-order detective course. When a Black friend is murdered, he goes...
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Mary Ellen Comes to Town
as Mary Ellen's motherA simple country girl comes to the big city and is taken advantage of by unscrupulous city-slickers.
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