An anonymous donor drops a gold coin in the shoe of a homeless girl as she sleeps. A gambler with a 'sure thing' borrows the coin and wins a fortune, but he can't find her again to repay her.
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Adele DeGarde as The Child
Charles Inslee as The Gambler
Anita Hendrie as The Mother
Owen Moore as The Good Samaritan
Marion Leonard as Reveller
Linda Arvidson as Reveller
Mack Sennett as Gambler / Reveller
Dorothy West as Reveller
United States 22 February 1909
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The Golden Louis is a 1909 short drama film written and directed by Griffith. An old woman sends a girl begging in the streets of Paris on a snowy evening.
Silent Film: The Golden Louis (1909 Griffith) The Golden Louis is a 1909 short drama film written and directed by Griffith.
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28 June 1909
Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath and encircling a scene showing school children of 1830 receiving their marks of diligence at a distribution of rewards: then the wreath of bay tendered by the Human Senators to Caesar on the culmination of his career; now a beggar receives a loaf called a "crown" from a charitable passerby: Christ is shown crowned with thorns by the rabble; following the divine drama we see the old comedian's wreath presented him at a performance.
12 December 1909
Invited by Duke Alfonso II to the court of Ferrara to read his poems, the poet Torquato Tasso finds himself at the center of court intrigue because of his secret love for the Duke’s sister, Eleanora d’Este.
22 May 1909
"The Judgment of Solomon" was billed as a Vitagraph High Art Film. Biblical Production. It shared a split-reel with "Jephthah's Daughter, a Biblical Tragedy".
07 September 1909
At a house party, people are dancing.... but one of the guests slips away from his accomplice to go break open a locked cabinet and steal money.
12 November 1909
Don José Navarro, a cavalry brigadier in the Almanza regiment, meets Carmen, a gypsy girl from Seville whose beauty and provocative air seduces him to madness.
16 May 1909
Based on characters from Shakespeare's play: When Juliet's father refuses to let Romeo see her, Romeo resorts to extreme measures.
03 November 1909
Gerolamo Lo Savio's version of William Shakespeare's Othello.
17 June 1909
A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.
01 January 1909
Flower petals in the background create different shapes while actress Mary Cleo Tarlarini salutes the audience.
21 September 1909
It's the oldest Brazilian movie that survived and the film that captured the first car race in Brazil.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1909 American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
