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Frank Powell was a Canadian-born stage and silent film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter who worked predominantly in the United States. After getting his start acting in D.W. Griffith films, he cast Theda Bara in her breakout role in the 1915 release A Fool There Was. Powell would continue to direct Bara at Fox while she became an international star as the film industry's most popular vamp.
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31 May 1909
It's Bob Allen's twenty-first birthday. His mother and his brother Jack, a policeman present him with a cap, personalized with his initals in the lining.
17 November 1919
Ranch foreman Kerry has boarded with Kitty Tynan and her mother for five years in western Canada, his past is a mystery to everyone.
31 March 1910
A young bride wonders at her husband's frequent absences. Suspicion mounts. What can the young man find more alluring than she, herself?
22 March 1915
A baby is left on the Brinbecombes' yacht while they are sailing up the Hudson River, and they adopt him and name him Everett.
17 June 1909
A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.
16 September 1909
George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink.
01 March 1918
Alaire Austin runs a cattle ranch along the Texas-Mexican border with her corrupt husband Ed. After Texas ranger Dave Law saves her from dying of thirst in the desert, the two fall in love.
17 July 1914
An ambitious bank teller (Edward Jose) steals a large deposit and starts life over under an assumed name.
24 April 1916
James Wadsworth sets his sights on the lovely society girl Anna Dalton and determines to marry her. To achieve that goal, he follows her everywhere she goes, including on a ship to South America.
02 December 1909
During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, Catholic worship is forbidden on pain of death. Three soldiers are arrested as Catholics and condemned to die.
12 January 1915
John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to an unfortunate accident, his wife and child can not come along with him.
01 July 1909
Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace is stolen, and Mr.
13 October 1910
Bessie, the new school teacher, arrives at the little western village, and on her way to the school she meets a gang of cowboys who bestow boxes of candy and other little offerings.
23 April 1921
While an immigrant couple are detained by authorities to see if they're fit, a smuggler tries to sneak a bottle into their luggage, but he accidentally gets trapped inside, and gets sent to the house where the new Americans will work.
04 May 1915
Dorothy, the girl who presides over the notion counter of the Emporium, the general store in a country town, is the sole support of her aged grandparents, with whom she lives.
27 February 1916
A young woman uses her hypnotic powers to destroy the potential marriage of her crush.
01 December 1923
A grief-stricken 18th-century Venetian gentleman is thwarted in love and placed in suspended animation.
20 March 1910
Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a corner when his car accidentally brushes against the tramp 'Faithful' and knocks him over.
21 April 1910
Bored by a doting wife who is too eager to please (she even puts a cigar in his mouth and lights it), Mr.
04 February 1910
Mildred lives with her husband, the prospector Steve Clark, in an out-of-the-way cabin in the mountains.
21 May 1914
Steve Monteith and Ezra Mason, upper class men, and Bill Bronson, a plebe, are chums and roommates at West Point before the Civil War.
26 February 1917
Farmer Leo Bannister is obsessed with his neighbor Auriole Praed, but she finds him too strong. She travels to Paris and marries a young painter, but Bannister plots to use an actress to win her back.
27 January 1910
Owen Moore is addicted to gambling and about to lose his family and job because of it. James Kirkwood, his brother-in-law, shows up and cures him of his gambling fever.
20 June 1910
Clarence McKnight and Felix De Grosse are rivals for the heart of pretty little Letitia Mooney, but it is evident that Clarence is the favored one.
01 September 1910
Two spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is called to the church meeting with her mother, she sends Muggsy a note asking him to meet her after the service so he may walk home with her.
21 February 1909
A haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist.
13 October 1910
Poor Hiram didn't anticipate the trouble laid out for him when he and his wife went for a stroll in the park.
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.
22 December 1910
Harry loved Betty, and vice versa, but Harry was very shy. No matter how he tried, he never could muster up sufficient courage to propose, despite the fact that Betty always endeavored to help him out.
28 October 1914
Former newsboy and jockey Joe Braxton, becomes a millionaire rancher and decides to visit New York. He soon becomes the prey of swindler Tom Linson and socialite Viola Grayson.
20 June 1910
The quartet comprising this story are of ages as the months are to each other. June, a young college boy, finds his resources in depletion, and to improve his financial condition, proposes to October, a wealthy spinster of the "where-is-he" stage, and is accepted with avidity, and so these two soul "mis"-mates start their engagement inning.
22 December 1913
He was one of a league whom society thought honest. The little French lady who became his wife believed him a diplomatic spy for her government, so she sailed quite contentedly off to America to work with him.
18 November 1909
After being jilted for another, a woman sends her lover's old letters to the new fiancée and looks forward to the reaction.
08 July 1909
While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.
26 March 1917
European peasants Albert & Louise are separated by war with Albert only able to return once during the conflict.
05 August 1909
In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.
16 June 1915
When her lover deserts her, Gioconda Dianti seeks revenge by wrecking the lives of other men. When famous sculptor Lucio Settala meets her and asks her to pose for him, she sets out to ruin him.
23 October 1916
Driven from Russia by the persecution of the police, who had caused the death of his wife, was Ivan Pavloff, a Nihilist, accompanied by his two infant twin daughters Olga and Nina, en route to America in search of freedom.
10 March 1910
An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned California in the early 19th century.
03 January 1910
The evils of drink cause a man to separate from his family. In time he becomes sober and prosperous. Then he meets and falls in love with a young woman, and they become engaged.
21 September 1910
A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants.
17 May 1915
Princess Fedora Romanoff, a wealthy, beautiful St. Petersburg widow, is betrothed to Vladimir Boroff, a young man of high social position in the Russian capital.
23 April 1917
A reception in their small village in celebration of the Count’s daughter Ann’s engagement to Baron Moreno is disrupted by the news that a mine in which the whole village has invested is worthless.
13 January 1910
The hero, a young contractor, is mistaken by the heroine for a laborer, while he thinks she is the maid although she is the daughter of the manor.
19 May 1910
Two eccentric Frenchmen argue for the hand of an eligible American girl, who finally discouraged both of them by introducing her betrothed.
18 August 1910
Diplomacy was not Tom's strong suit. So when May showed to him her latest painting he poured scorn on it.
11 January 1909
Two thieves, Ned and Mike, scheme to rob a pawnbroker, Mr. Einstein. Ned seduces Einstein's daughter Rachel to aid their plan, but during the attempted burglary they tie up both victims and set a candle to burn the shop.
06 October 1910
Mazie lends her necklace to Nellie, her guest. Nellie is asleep in a hammock when Sam, her sweetheart, arrives in his auto.
27 October 1909
Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a different port.
14 June 1909
A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn.
14 April 1910
To Walter Holden since the death of his wife, falls the responsibility of raising his only child.
22 August 1909
An Indian comforts a dying prospector in his last moments. In exchange, the prospector tells him the location of his gold claim.
15 May 1910
In the heart of the American west, a miner toils day after day at his rocker box while his young daughter keeps his camp.
21 April 1910
"It's in the surprise" that great plays are made and battles won, and our tenderfoot friend, appreciating this, pulls a victory that is amazing.
