Mae Marsh

Born: 1894-11-07

Mae Marsh (born Mary Wayne Marsh, November 9, 1894 – February 13, 1968) was an American film actress with a career spanning over 50 years.


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The Searchers

as Dark Cloaked Woman at Fort Guarding Deranged Woman (uncredited)
Released: 1956-05-16

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his...

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The Quiet Man

as Father Paul's Mother (uncredited)
Released: 1952-07-21

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

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The Robe

as Jerusalem Woman Aiding Demetrius (uncredited)
Released: 1953-09-16

Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to...

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Fort Apache

as Mrs. Gates
Released: 1948-06-14

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military...

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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

as The Dear One (Modern Story)
Released: 1916-09-04

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven...

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Miracle on 34th Street

as Woman in Santa Line (uncredited)
Released: 1947-06-04

Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow...

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Cheyenne Autumn

as Woman (uncredited)
Released: 1964-10-15

A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.

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My Darling Clementine

as Simpson's Sister (uncredited)
Released: 1946-10-17

Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in...

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The Grapes of Wrath

as Muley's Wife (uncredited)
Released: 1940-03-15

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm...

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3 Godfathers

as Mrs. Perley Sweet
Released: 1948-12-31

Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to...

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The Birth of a Nation

as Flora Cameron
Released: 1915-02-08

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

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Donovan's Reef

as Family Council Member (uncredited)
Released: 1963-06-12

After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the...

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A Star Is Born

as Malibu Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: 1954-10-01

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own...

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Titanic

as Woman to Whom Norman Gave His Seat (uncredited)
Released: 1953-04-11

Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic....

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The Song of Bernadette

as Madame Blanche - Townswoman (uncredited)
Released: 1943-12-21

In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful...

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While the City Sleeps

as Mrs. Manners
Released: 1956-04-19

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

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A Letter to Three Wives

as Miss Jenkins (uncredited)
Released: 1949-01-20

A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is...

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Leave Her to Heaven

as Fisherwoman (uncredited)
Released: 1945-12-25

A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous...

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The Gunfighter

as Mrs. O'Brien (uncredited)
Released: 1950-06-23

The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

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The Last Hurrah

as Mourner at Wake (uncredited)
Released: 1958-12-31

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield,...

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Sergeant Rutledge

as Mrs. Nellie Hackett (uncredited)
Released: 1960-05-25

Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a...

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Jane Eyre

as Leah (uncredited)
Released: 1943-12-24

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a...

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Alice in Wonderland

as Sheep
Released: 1933-12-18

In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called...

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Impact

as Mrs. King
Released: 1949-03-20

After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the...

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Tobacco Road

as County Clerk's Assistant (uncredited)
Released: 1941-02-20

Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their...

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

as Tynmore Sister (uncredited)
Released: 1945-02-28

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and...

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Drums Along the Mohawk

as Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Released: 1939-11-10

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in...

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The Fighting Kentuckian

as Sister Hattie
Released: 1949-09-15

John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De...

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The Tall Men

as Emigrant (uncredited)
Released: 1955-09-22

Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from...

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The Love Goddesses

as (archive footage)
Released: 1965-03-03

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the...

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The Sun Shines Bright

as GAR Woman at the Ball
Released: 1953-05-02

With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is...

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Great Guns

as Aunt Martha
Released: 1941-10-10

Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick...

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Daisy Kenyon

as Woman Leaving Apartment (uncredited)
Released: 1947-12-25

Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing...

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The Moon Is Down

as Villager (uncredited)
Released: 1943-03-14

The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on...

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Black Fury

as Mrs. Mary Novak
Released: 1935-05-18

A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and...

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Ramona

as uncredited
Released: 1910-05-23

Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love...

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A Blueprint for Murder

as Anna Swenson (Uncredited)
Released: 1953-07-24

Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also...

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Tales of Manhattan

as Molly (Robinson sequence)
Released: 1942-08-05

Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed...

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Belle Starr

as Preacher's Wife (uncredited)
Released: 1941-09-12

After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain...

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The Meanest Man in the World

as Old Lady (uncredited)
Released: 1943-02-12

Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but...

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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

as Mrs. Purdy (uncredited)
Released: 1942-01-29

Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew...

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Little Man, What Now?

as His Wife
Released: 1934-06-04

A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the...

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Girls in Prison

as 'Grandma' Edwards
Released: 1956-07-01

An inmate is persuaded to take part in a breakout by cellmates anxious to cash in on loot they...

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Mother Wore Tights

as Resort Guest (uncredited)
Released: 1947-08-20

In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco...

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Young People

as Maria Liggett
Released: 1940-08-30

Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They...

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When Willie Comes Marching Home

as Mrs. Clara Fettles (uncredited)
Released: 1950-02-17

When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only...

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My Blue Heaven

as Maid (uncredited)
Released: 1950-09-15

Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For...

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Quiet Please, Murder

as Miss Hartwig
Released: 1943-03-19

A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to...

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Swanee River

as Mrs. Jonathan Fry (uncredited)
Released: 1939-12-29

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who...

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The Avenging Conscience

as The Maid
Released: 1914-08-02

Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark...

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Julie

as Hysterical Passenger
Released: 1956-10-17

A terrified stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.

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Blue, White, and Perfect

as Mrs. Bertha Toby
Released: 1942-01-06

In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and...

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Everybody Does It

as Harris
Released: 1949-10-24

Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures...

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The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

as Mrs. Phillips (uncredited)
Released: 1942-08-28

Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.

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Remember the Day

as Teacher
Released: 1941-12-25

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls...

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Hell on Frisco Bay

as Mrs. Cobb, Steve's Landlady (uncredited)
Released: 1955-12-31

A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob...

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Dixie Dugan

as Mrs. Sloan
Released: 1943-03-12

Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a...

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Deep Waters

as Molly Thatcher
Released: 1948-07-22

A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.

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Swamp Water

as Mrs. McCord (uncredited)
Released: 1941-11-16

A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love...

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Green Grass of Wyoming

as Race Spectator (uncredited)
Released: 1948-06-03

The romance of a rancher's niece and a rival rancher's son parallels that of a stallion and a mare.

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Three Friends

as The Wife's Friend
Released: 1913-01-02

Each night, after the day's work at the factory, the three bachelor friends met and declared...

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Hollywood Boulevard

as Carlotta Blakeford
Released: 1936-08-20

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines...

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Judith of Bethulia

as Naomi
Released: 1914-03-08

Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of...

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Smoky

as Woman Watching Parade (uncredited)
Released: 1946-06-26

Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the...

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It Happens Every Spring

as Greenleaf's Maid (uncredited)
Released: 1949-06-10

A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly...

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The New York Hat

as A Town Gossip
Released: 1912-12-05

To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a...

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The Man in the Trunk

as Mrs. Inge (uncredited)
Released: 1942-09-19

The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.

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The Old Actor

as uncredited
Released: 1912-05-06

An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because...

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Home, Sweet Home

as Apple Pie Mary Smith
Released: 1914-05-16

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

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Thunder in the Valley

as Flower Vendor
Released: 1947-11-01

The popular Alfred Ollivant novel "Bob, Son of Battle" is the source for this drama about sheep...

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The White Rose

as Bessie
Released: 1923-05-21

A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes...

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A Beast at Bay

as The Young Woman's Friend
Released: 1912-05-26

Mary Pickford as "The Young Woman", is quite taken with Edwin August; in fact, he is her...

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Brutality

as The Young Woman
Released: 1912-12-02

An abusive father and husband attends a play one night and sees that the "villain" in the piece...

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Night Without Sleep

as Maid (Uncredited)
Released: 1952-09-26

Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he...

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The Lesser Evil

as The Young Woman's Companion
Released: 1912-04-29

A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of...

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The Life of General Villa

as American lover
Released: 1914-05-09

Silent biographical action–drama film starring Pancho Villa as himself. The movie incorporates...

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Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

as Extra as Empire State Building Tourist
Released: 1939-11-03

New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in...

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A Temporary Truce

as A Murdered Settler (uncredited)
Released: 1912-06-10

A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps...

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Hoodoo Ann

as Hoodoo Ann
Released: 1916-03-26

A teenage orphan (who believes herself to be "hoodooed") is taken in by a childless couple and...

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Lena and the Geese

as The 'Adopted' Daughter
Released: 1912-06-17

A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman,...

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The Mother and the Law

as The Little Dear One
Released: 1919-08-18

After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his...

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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

as Mrs. Stetson
Released: 1940-01-11

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death....

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Fighting Blood

as uncredited
Released: 1911-06-28

After the Civil War, an ex-soldier and his family settle in the Dakota Territory. The son...

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Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1975-04-19

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

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The Wanderer

as The Other Parents' Daughter, as an Adult
Released: 1913-05-02

A little over six minutes survive of this Biograph short. Not to be confused with another...

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Prince of Players

as Witch in 'Macbeth' (uncredited)
Released: 1955-01-11

Prince of Players is a biographical film about the 19th century American actor Edwin Booth.

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The Escape

as Jennie Joyce
Released: 1914-06-01

A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own...

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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch

as Sally Cameron
Released: 1913-12-01

Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events...

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Fate

as Mother, Loving Family
Released: 1913-03-22

Sim Sloane and his beloved son were the reprobates of the village, not what would be called...

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Just Off Broadway

as Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
Released: 1942-08-28

Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a...

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The Beloved Traitor

as Mary Garland
Released: 1918-02-24

Wanting her sweetheart, Judd Minot, a Maine fisherman, to develop his sculpting talents, Mary...

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Daddies

as Ruth Atkins
Released: 1924-02-09

A group of confirmed bachelors finds their informal "anti-matrimony club" turned into a home for...

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Man's Genesis

as Lillywhite
Released: 1912-07-10

An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a...

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For Beauty's Sake

as Night Manager (uncredited)
Released: 1941-06-06

A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a...

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The School Teacher and the Waif

as Schoolgirl
Released: 1912-06-26

Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends...

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Two Daughters of Eve

as uncredited
Released: 1912-09-19

Calumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this...

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Arabella

as Arabella
Released: 1924-10-01

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That's My Boy

as Mother Scott
Released: 1932-11-13

Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern...

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Broken Ways

as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Released: 1913-03-08

In this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question....

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Brute Force

as Lilywhite
Released: 1914-04-24

A thin gent in formal wear, amid a club or party, reads a book about primitive man after he's...

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The Telephone Girl and the Lady

as The Telephone Girl
Released: 1913-01-06

D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The...

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I Am Not a Racist

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

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It Happened in Flatbush

as Aunt Mae (uncredited)
Released: 1942-05-28

A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports...

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

as Aunt Jane
Released: 1932-07-03

A young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a...

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All Woman

as Susan Sweeney
Released: 1918-06-09

Susan Sweeney inherits a country hotel. When she arrives to take possession, she discovers it to...

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Over the Hill

as Ma Shelby
Released: 1931-11-29

In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children,...

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Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand

as Belgian Girl
Released: 1918-10-01

The Kaiser is playing cards with King Albert of Italy, who loses, but is rescued by Miss Liberty...

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Near To Earth

as One of Gato's Sweetheart's Friends
Released: 1913-03-20

This is the story of Gato, an Italian immigrant, who lives with his wife, Marie, and his younger...

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Nobody's Kid

as uncredited
Released: 1921-04-17

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Flames of Passion

as Dorothy Hawke
Released: 1922-11-01

Dorothy, a young girl, is seduced by her father's chauffeur. She gives birth to a child who is...

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The Marriage of Molly-O

as Molly-O
Released: 1916-08-06

Brutal rental agent Joseph McGuire demands that Molly-O marry McGuire's son Denny, lest her...

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Polly of the Circus

as Polly
Released: 1917-09-08

When circus aerialist Polly Fisher is injured, she is taken to the nearby home of minister John...

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Sunshine Alley

as Nell
Released: 1917-11-03

In the poorest section of the city lives Nell, who spends her days at her grandfather's bird...

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The Racing Strain

as Lucille Cameron
Released: 1918-12-22

Lucille Cameron, the spirited daughter of a Kentucky colonel, discovers that her father is...

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The Face in the Dark

as Jane Ridgeway
Released: 1918-04-15

Jane Ridgeway, the daughter of retired Secret Service man Charles Ridgeway, has inherited her...

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The Little Tease

as The Little Tease, as an Adult
Released: 1913-04-12

The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was...

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Paddy The Next Best Thing

as Paddy Adair
Released: 1923-01-01

A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.

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The Cinderella Man

as Marjorie Caner
Released: 1917-12-16

When Marjorie Caner returns from abroad, she is quite lonely in her millionaire father's big...

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A Lodging for the Night

as First Mexican Couple - the Woman
Released: 1912-05-09

Dick Logan, a young writer, stops at a little border town and takes lodging at the Mexican Inn....

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It's Everybody's War

as Mrs. Stone (uncredited)
Released: 1942-09-06

Wartime documentary propagandizing for greater participation in the U.S. war effort during the...

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Life in Hollywood No. 4

as uncredited
Released: 1927-08-25

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

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The Sands of Dee

as Mary
Released: 1912-02-21

A young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One...

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A Child of the Paris Streets

as Julie / the Child-Wife
Released: 1916-05-21

When the son of a leader of a Paris underworld family known as The Apaches is arrested and tried...

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Wagon Train

as Mrs. Jesse Grant
First aired: 1957-09-18

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later...

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