07 January 1913 27 mins
Sylvia and Janet lose their mother and are left destitute orphans. Jenny Smart (a leading moving picture actress) takes an interest in the girls and brings them to a studio. Sylvia is employed as a moving picture actress and is cast as the lead in a retelling of "Cinderella". A rare glimpse of filmmaking in Turin’s Ambrosio studio.
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Italy 07 January 1913
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Released on December 28 1914: While gathering wood a poor old woman in rags is abused by the sisters but Cinderella is kind to her and discovers that she ...
Actress Florence LaBadie.
Cinderella (1911
I added music by Chopin (performed by Moriz Rosenthal) for a musical score to this 1911 Thanhouser short starring Florence LaBadie.
Cinderella or the Glass Slipper (French: Cendrillon ou la Pantoufle merveilleuse) is a 1913 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès based on the fairy tale ...
Filmed in 1911 by George Nichols and released through the Thanhouer Company this film attempts to tell the classic story in a single reel.
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09 January 1913
Marie, the daughter of a pastor, and major Trolle are young and in love, and they seem destined to become engaged.
20 December 1913
Lizette loves Jean but a 10,000 franc dowry insisted upon by Jean's father is keeping them apart. Paul, Lizette's "black sheep" brother, begs that she gives him her saved money so he can increase it for her - at the gaming table!! He does win but there are a few who are determined he shall not reach home with his money.
27 June 1913
A railroad plant is set afire by striking workmen, and the firemen are prevented from extinguishing the flames by the infuriated strikers.
26 November 1913
"You're worth your weight in gold!" This is what Charles Watson, a young spendthrift, told every girl he met.
20 January 1913
In The Struggle (Broncho, 1913) a prospector and his son Bob depart from home in the morning, while the wife, at home, offers food to a passing stranger.
10 October 1913
Mr. Burns, a student of Theosophy, has a dream in the hammock. He sees himself, his wife and her admirer, in a previous existence.
15 March 1913
Broncho Billy is in love with Agnes Shephard. The jealousy of the step-sister Evelyn arouses in her a scheme which, if carried out, would result in the breaking of the engagement.
23 November 1913
Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!
19 May 1913
Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is given a meal by a woman at the homestead where she lives with her husband and baby.
12 April 1913
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her unsuspecting parents and the wild things of her mountain home.
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