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Sarah Blanche Sweet (June 18, 1896 – September 6, 1986) was
an American silent film actress who began her career in the earliest days of
the Hollywood motion picture film industry.
Sweet is renowned for her energetic, independent roles, at
variance with the 'ideal' Griffith type of vulnerable, often fragile,
femininity. After many starring roles, her first real landmark film was the
1911 Griffith thriller The Lonedale Operator. In 1913 she starred in Griffith's
first feature-length movie, Judith of Bethulia. In 1914 Sweet was initially
cast by Griffith in the part of Elsie Stoneman in his epic The Birth of a
Nation but the role was eventually given to rival actress Lillian Gish, who was
Sweet's senior by three years. That same year Sweet parted ways with Griffith
and joined Paramount (then Famous Players-Lasky) for the much higher pay that
studio was able to afford.
Throughout the 1910s, Sweet continued her career appearing
in a number of highly prominent roles in films and remained a publicly popular
leading lady. She often starred in vehicles by Cecil B. DeMille and Marshall
Neilan, and she was recognised by leading film critics of the time to be one of
the foremost actresses of the entire silent era. It was during her time working
with Neilan that the two began a publicized affair, which brought on his
divorce from former actress Gertrude Bambrick. Sweet and Neilan married in
1922. The union ended in 1929 with Sweet charging that Neilan was a persistent
adulterer.
During the early 1920s Sweet's career continued to prosper,
and she starred in the first film version of Anna Christie in 1923. The film is
also notable as being the first Eugene O'Neill play to be made into a motion
picture. In successive years, she starred in Tess of the D'Urbervilles and The
Sporting Venus, both directed by Neilan. Sweet soon began a new career phase as
one of the newly formed MGM studio's biggest stars.
Sweet made just three talking pictures, including her
critically lauded performance in 1930's Show Girl in Hollywood, before retiring
from the screen that same year and marrying stage actor Raymond Hackett in
1935. The marriage lasted until Hackett's death in 1958.
Sweet spent the remainder of her performing career in radio
and in secondary Broadway stage roles. Eventually, her career in both of these
fields petered out, and she began working in a Los Angeles department store. In
the late 1960s, her acting legacy was resurrected when film scholars invited
her to Europe to receive recognition for her work.
On September 24, 1984, a tribute to Blanche Sweet was held
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Miss Sweet introduced her 1925
film, The Sporting Venus.
Sweet died in New York City of a stroke, on September 6,
1986, just weeks after her 90th birthday.
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27 February 1913
In the apartment hotel lived the aspiring maid, whose solicitude maintained order in the bachelor's apartment.
13 January 1913
Elusive as is the pursuit of pirate gold it is found in this picture and brought to the ship by the very mutineers themselves.
23 August 1927
Dance-hall girl Dolly Wall invests her life savings in an oil well. A gusher comes in, enriching not only Dolly but her ne'er-do-well socialite sweetheart Royce Wingate.
01 January 1913
Young Theresa was thought to be much favored in the love of Guido, the leader of the Italian colony. Then Angelo came.
14 February 1915
As the Civil War begins Ned Burton leaves his Southern love Agatha Warren and joins the Union army. He is later protected and saved from death by Agatha in spite of her loyalty to the South.
24 November 1923
A troubled young woman comes to live with her estranged father on the New York waterfront. A tough sailor falls in love with her, sparking conflict between her father and her suitor.
24 April 1912
Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor.
11 August 1924
A young girl is seduced and raped by an older middle class man in Victorian England. After moving on with her path, she gets married.
17 July 1910
An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist, and her younger sister take her place.
19 December 1912
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
24 January 1930
During a raid, a cop lets a pretty speakeasy employee escape and later begins dating her. Although she loves him, his salary and dull life leave her wanting.
25 March 1912
The Goddess, the prettiest and best-natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets the tenderfoot prospector and leaves him another worshiper of her.
08 July 1915
Russian brothers Count Boris and Alexis Rabourdin obtain a Japanese coastline defense map and plan to sell it to German agents in London.
12 June 1911
Enoch Arden, a humble fisherman, marries Annie Lee. He signs on as a sailor to make more money to support their growing family.
01 November 1925
Billy Morrow (Ben Lyon), who comes from a wealthy family, is sailing to Europe with his father (Holbrook Blinn) on their yacht.
08 March 1913
In this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question. After separating from her husband, whom she has discovered to be a brute and a criminal, she is about to give herself to another man, believing her husband dead, when he appears before her fleeing from justice.
29 April 1912
A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smugglers, who then also turn against their captain.
22 April 1923
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
04 January 1917
Leonard Sheldon is the manager of a Mexican vineyard which is suffering from a diphtheria epidemic. Sheldon calls for a doctor and gets Katherine, much to the chagrin of the Mexicans.
10 October 1912
When the Great Chief's body is placed before the funeral pile by his mourning braves, his sacred blanket is covered over it and a sentinel left to watch that this, his last resting place, is not desecrated.
29 December 1929
The wife and secretary of a mine operator attempt to conceal their romantic affair.
13 January 1926
Bank clerk John Hart is about to marry Mary Kelly, but she insists that before that happens he must grow a mustache.
20 November 1911
Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a little girl who lives in his building.
21 January 1912
A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke which is laced with cocaine.
26 July 1911
A wagon train heading west across the great desert runs out of water, and is attacked by Indians. One man -- their last hope -- is sent out to find water.
01 January 1944
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
13 December 1913
In her youth the mother was saved from the fatal mistake by an accident, but it caused her years of separation from child and husband.
18 October 1914
Laura Bell runs away from her country home to the city, where she becomes a clerk in a department store.
23 July 1911
Schoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him a note of reconciliation but throws it away.
05 August 1920
A woman decides to take money from her wealthy mother to pay her gambling debts, but discovers that the contents of her mother's safe has already been stolen.
05 October 1916
A young woman asks her former sweetheart, a minister, to perform the marriage service in her wedding to another man.
20 September 1926
Heroine Dora de Zares comports herself in a most mysterious fashion in this spy mystery.
24 May 1929
Following a promise she made to her father on his deathbed, Laura Fairlie go to Scotland with Sir Percival Glyde to his mysterious mansion to be married.
04 October 1911
A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks away to join him in the next town, but her father forces her to return home.
21 February 1912
Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady who spurns his advances and elopes with a fresh-faced young cowpoke.
07 April 1913
The Stolen Bride is a 1913 short drama.
18 May 1919
Judge Robert Appleton (Winter Hall) has led an exemplary life. His four children, however, fell short once they grew up and had to fend for themselves.
27 April 1924
A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to break up the gang.
16 May 1914
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery.
10 June 1912
A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the prospector's wife.
01 March 1917
Melaine is captured by a northern soldier while she is carrying secret southern messages. She falls into the hands of her father's former superior who attempts to compromise her.
30 March 1916
Headed by a young nobleman, the Russian League of Freedom determines to free the peasants from oppression by the government.
01 May 1913
A careless nurse girl allowing the child to wander away, made the mother realize the poignancy of the little verse: "If we knew the baby's fingers / Pressed against the window pane / Would be cold and stiff tomorrow / Never trouble us again / Would the bright eyes of our darling / catch the frown upon our brow / Would the prints of rosy fingers / Vex us then as they do now?
23 January 1916
In planning to break into the house of the wealthy Bob Van Dyke, Jenny's stepfather decides that his stepdaughter should do most of the dirty work, and Jenny, not wanting to disappoint him, grudgingly agrees.
10 February 1913
A stage dancer (Sweet) and a serious-type homebody (Walthall) discover, after marriage, that their individual styles don't mesh.
08 March 1914
STRONGHEART (1914) is a Native American Indian drama. Based on a famous play of the time, the film features an all-star cast.
26 December 1912
The woman of the camp implores her lover to marry her, and he promises to do so, but goes away and does not return.
17 November 1913
Caroline Spankhurst and her suffragette brigade conclude to stop at nothing, so in their dauntless enthusiasm they forget their babies peacefully reposing on the sidewalk.
02 January 1913
Each night, after the day's work at the factory, the three bachelor friends met and declared anew their attachment over a social glass.
04 December 1922
Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
03 April 1913
It was on the night of the Italian ball when Maria, to tease her sweetheart, Tony, indulged in a mild flirtation with Joe, his enemy.
16 November 1911
Hard-working Dave loves Grace, but she rejects him for a flashier suitor. Grace is blinded in an accident, and her suitor abandons her.
26 October 1911
Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, now poverty-stricken, and secretly helps his family.
24 October 1930
A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
12 April 1925
Familiar story of spoiled heiress, Blanche Sweet, who dabbles in romance with commoner Ronald Colman.
22 November 1919
A feud over boundaries between the McKinstry and Harrison families, both from Kentucky, but squatting in California in search of gold, has caused Cressy McKinstry to show disdain for Joe Masters, a cousin of the Harrisons, even though she secretly loves him.
20 March 1913
This is the story of Gato, an Italian immigrant, who lives with his wife, Marie, and his younger brother, Giuseppe, on a small truck farm in the west.
13 December 1909
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty.
19 October 1945
Richard Fleischer provides a funny twist and amusing narrative commentary by Ward Wilson on two re-edited silent films in this RKO short film.
27 December 1909
Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job.
