Muriel Ostriche
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.
When It Strikes Home
as Muriel WorthDick hastily marries a young woman, yet his wealthy father rips them apart. Unbeknownst to him,...
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An Elevator Romance
as uncreditedA wealthy, hustling young westerner comes east, and immediately calls up his boyhood chum, now a...
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The Road to France
as MollieTom Whitney, well connected but a social derelict because of his weakness for drink, is released...
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A Circus Romance
as BabetteCircus dancer Babette learns from Zaidee, her fortune-teller mother, that her father is the...
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Robin Hood
as ChristabelRobin Hood is a 1912 film made by Eclair Studios when it and many other early film studios in...
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The Men She Married
as Edith TrainorTricked into marriage with a villain, the woman, believing him dead, marries another, only to...
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Sally in Our Alley
as Sally McGillSally McGill, a little Irish girl, brought up in a particularly sordid section, is compelled to...
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Oh, You Ragtime!
as The TypistThe famous pianist Tenorini has moved into the neighbourhood. He plays a song (a spring waltz...
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The Birth of Character
as uncreditedA prologue shows an alchemist about to be burned at the stake. Before dying, he claims that his...
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A Square Deal
as Ruby TrailesHugh 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 ScottRobert Brent and Dick Morgan, the former wealthy, the latter poor, are chums at one of the big...
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The Farmer's Daughters
as MayUnable to find help to work his farm, a farmer gets a bright idea--he advertises that any man...
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The Volunteer
as Madge's MotherMadge Evans, World Film Corp. juvenile star, is sent to her Quaker grandparents, Timothy and...
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Mortmain
as Bella ForsytheSurgeon Crisp announces to his student doctors and friends that he has solved the problem of...
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The Sacred Flame
as Ray PaltonYoung high school teacher Rosalie Allen rejects the love of Dr. Paul Duncan to "save" Lionel...
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The Social Leper
as uncreditedAdrianne is does not love Robert, but loves Henry. Henry is in love with Lorraine, but he fears...
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Who Killed Simon Baird
as Helen MaitlandEdith and John Maitland will allow David Sterling to marry their daughter Helen as soon as he...
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The Decoy
as Muriel PhelpsA rather complex interweaving of romance and crime is squeezed into one reel. A "respectable"...
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Kennedy Square
as Kate SeymourAt a dance on his parents' plantation in the early nineteenth century, Harry Rutter wins a duel...
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