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Margery Wilson was an American actress, writer, and silent movie director. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1914 and 1939.
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14 July 1918
Ellen Shannon, the daughter of self-made Irish politician Pat Shannon, is engaged to Ted Breslin, but because Pat began his career as a menial laborer, Ted's mother, Mrs.
30 June 1993
A documentary exploring the origins of the pioneers of women directors during the silent era.
24 June 1917
Everett Nelson is a naive young farmboy. Following unjust treatment on the farm, he runs away to the big city.
14 January 1917
Dr. Dudley Duprez is a well-known Louisiana physician. His beautiful but wayward niece, Rose Duprez, is abducted by Paul Crenshaw, a friend of the doctor, and to prevent her shame from becoming known, Rose kills herself.
07 October 1915
Harvy, the heavy, and Bella, the ingenue, of a cheap theatrical company are encumbered with an infant girl.
04 September 1916
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
25 February 1917
Jules Ingram ( William Desmond ), the sole survivor of an old Puritan family, seeks solace and forgetfulness in drink.
02 May 1920
Drifter Edwin Drake, estranged from his family, has a prophetic vision and gets his life back on track.
19 November 1916
Algy, a British youth of ideals, is sent to America for an arranged marriage with a wealthy heiress. He goes, but reluctantly, for he is actually in love with the daughter of his vicar.
27 May 1917
Tom "Wolf" Lowry confronts new settlers in his valley but has a change of heart when he sees Mary Davis.
08 February 1920
Floss Brannon, expelled from college for mischievous conduct, marries Chester Framm, a struggling young student who aspires to be an orator.
06 December 1915
Double Trouble is a 1915 American silent romantic comedy film written and directed by Christy Cabanne and stars Douglas Fairbanks in his third motion picture.
01 October 1920
Spaulding Nelson moves into an apartment after his uncle has been driven from it by the sounds of screams and whispers.
20 January 1918
During World War I, Jeanette Gontreau becomes a "godmother" to three Allied soldiers imprisoned in a German camp.
05 January 1918
Weak-willed Roy Hanford, driven from his father's house by the coldness of his stone-hearted wife and the sanctimonious attitude of his father, the deacon, flees to the city.
10 March 1915
Jim Dodson, a poor workman, has been in the habit of begging a streetcar transfer in town, in order to ride home each night from work.
26 January 1919
Buddy McNair is so enchanted by the newspaper photos of New York society beauty Mrs. Pat Dyvenot that he decides to leave Colorado with his newly inherited fortune, travel to New York, and win her heart.
11 February 1917
Cliff Hudspeth, the leader of a band of outlaws in Arizona, has won his place by the killing of notorious gun-bullies.
22 April 1917
William S. Hart directs and stars in a film that is a typical Western of the era. He plays Jim, a prospector who lands in the town of Broken Hope, and the name pretty much describes its inhabitants.
10 October 1922
About a woman whose life is almost ruined by the insinuations of a small-town gossip and a brother who falls in with bad company.
01 January 1922
Girl is held at mercy of gang of crooks, her only friend being a half-wit. A murder is committed and blame shifted to the girl.
09 November 1919
Ben Trimble, a country boy visiting the city, becomes involved with a safecracker and finds himself sliding into a life of crime.
21 November 1919
In this adaptation of Zane Grey's novel, adventurer Dick Gale (E.K. Lincoln) is traveling through the Southwest.
14 October 1916
A small town marshal’s secret past as an outlaw comes back to haunt him when an old associate shows up and threatens to expose his former dark deeds.
02 January 1998
In the later stages of her research into the history of cinema made by women, Katja Raganelli became interested in Margery Wilson, then one of the very few living women who had been able to direct fiction features during the silent period.
16 September 1917
Magazine writer J. Hamilton Vance travels to the mountains of Kentucky to get local color for his stories, and falls in love with Roxie Bradley, the daughter of a moonshiner.
14 October 1917
French Canadian Jacques Fontaine shoots a man in a tavern brawl and then flees, a fugitive from the North West Mounted Police.
16 July 1916
William H. Thompson plays a likeable old lighthouse keeper who must contend with his less likeable fellow villagers.
15 July 1917
When her baby daughter Eleanor is traumatized after her father perishes in a storm at sea, Mother Coutierre sends the girl to live with her aunt in Paris.
05 November 1916
When a distant Irish relative dies, a young American travels to Ireland to obtain his inheritance. He gets far more than he bargained for when a beautiful Irish colleen catches his eye.
