Muriel Ostriche

Born: 1896-05-24

Muriel Hennrietta Ostriche (born May 24, 1896 – May 3, 1989) was an American silent film actress. Following tryouts with the Biograph and Pathe studios, Ostriche signed with Eclair for $5 per day. After a year and a half with Eclair, she joined Reliance for a higher salary. Following that experienced, she was signed by the Thanhouser Company based in New Rochelle, New York, and starred in 134 films in her career. Ostriche told author Michael G. Ankerich that A Daughter of the Sea (1915) was her best performance and her favorite film. In 1920, Ostriche was featured in advertising for Bonnie-B veils. She was living in Florida in the mid-1980s when author Q. David Bowers began researching a biography on Ostriche, which became Muriel Ostriche: Princess of Silent Films. He was shocked to discover that she was still living and a willing interview subject. She enjoyed a revival in her fame in the later portion of her life which she relished and because of this renewed interest, her own insights into her life are preserved today.


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Robin Hood

as Christabel
Released: 1912-08-21

Robin Hood is a 1912 film made by Eclair Studios when it and many other early film studios in...

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The Volunteer

as Madge's Mother
Released: 1917-12-24

Madge Evans, World Film Corp. juvenile star, is sent to her Quaker grandparents, Timothy and...

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Mortmain

as Bella Forsythe
Released: 1915-09-06

Surgeon Crisp announces to his student doctors and friends that he has solved the problem of...

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Kennedy Square

as Kate Seymour
Released: 1916-02-21

At a dance on his parents' plantation in the early nineteenth century, Harry Rutter wins a duel...

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The Farmer's Daughters

as May
Released: 1913-09-27

Unable to find help to work his farm, a farmer gets a bright idea--he advertises that any man...

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The Decoy

as Muriel Phelps
Released: 1914-07-02

A rather complex interweaving of romance and crime is squeezed into one reel. A "respectable"...

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A Square Deal

as Ruby Trailes
Released: 1917-02-19

Hugh Eltinge, a struggling artist, and Mark Dunbar, a genius of the pen, whom the world has as...

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For the Honor of the Crew

as Viola Scott
Released: 1915-11-09

Robert Brent and Dick Morgan, the former wealthy, the latter poor, are chums at one of the big...

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The Social Leper

as uncredited
Released: 1917-03-19

Adrianne is does not love Robert, but loves Henry. Henry is in love with Lorraine, but he fears...

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Sally in Our Alley

as Sally McGill
Released: 1916-07-17

Sally McGill, a little Irish girl, brought up in a particularly sordid section, is compelled to...

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A Circus Romance

as Babette
Released: 1916-01-24

Circus dancer Babette learns from Zaidee, her fortune-teller mother, that her father is the...

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When It Strikes Home

as Muriel Worth
Released: 1915-05-17

Dick hastily marries a young woman, yet his wealthy father rips them apart. Unbeknownst to him,...

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Who Killed Simon Baird

as Helen Maitland
Released: 1916-04-17

Edith and John Maitland will allow David Sterling to marry their daughter Helen as soon as he...

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An Elevator Romance

as uncredited
Released: 1911-04-27

A wealthy, hustling young westerner comes east, and immediately calls up his boyhood chum, now a...

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The Sacred Flame

as Ray Palton
Released: 1920-01-01

Young high school teacher Rosalie Allen rejects the love of Dr. Paul Duncan to "save" Lionel...

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The Men She Married

as Edith Trainor
Released: 1916-11-27

Tricked into marriage with a villain, the woman, believing him dead, marries another, only to...

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The Birth of Character

as uncredited
Released: 1916-03-01

A prologue shows an alchemist about to be burned at the stake. Before dying, he claims that his...

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Oh, You Ragtime!

as The Typist
Released: 1912-04-17

The famous pianist Tenorini has moved into the neighbourhood. He plays a song (a spring waltz...

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