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Nance O'Neil, born Gertrude Lamson, was an American stage and screen actress. When she decided to become an actress, her religious father, George Lamson, an auctioneer, denounced his daughter in church for going on the stage and asked the congregation to pray for her. O'Neil's first performance in a professional production was in the role of a nun in Sarah at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco on October 16, 1893. At the height of her career, she was promoted on theatre bills and in period trade publications and newspapers as the "American Sarah Bernhardt".
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01 November 1913
A French sailor, imprisoned for years on false charges of conpiring against the king, escapes and exacts revenge on his accusers.
27 January 1931
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to.
12 October 1932
The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state.
09 April 1917
Mrs. Balfame is a 1917 Mystery Drama
31 May 1930
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
14 November 1931
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.
01 January 1918
The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema couldn't help but jump on it immediately and create a couple of dramatizations.
17 March 1917
This story of gluttony was the final installment in the seven films based on the Seven Deadly Sins. The censors considered the word to vulgar for use as a title for a film.
16 August 1930
A postulant falls in love with a flamboyant singer from a cafe next door to her convent.
27 June 1931
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
26 January 1931
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita.
02 October 1916
Steel mill owner Sarah Maitland has raised her two children, Blair and Nannie, to be honest and caring, however Blair disappoints her when he seduces the wife of his best friend and breaks up her marriage.
15 January 1931
The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming general.
27 May 1932
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
28 September 1929
Being engaged against her will with a wealthy man, Princess Orsolini (Catherine Dale Owen) is in love with Captain Kovacs (John Gilbert), a cavalry officer she is secretly meeting.
08 July 1931
It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.
27 February 1916
A young woman uses her hypnotic powers to destroy the potential marriage of her crush.
12 July 1931
Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir Harry Congers, but in love with Basque peasant Esteban Cristera.
17 November 1939
At Marks Priory, Lady Lebanon is eager for her son, Lord William Lebanon, to marry Isla Crane, his cousin.
01 March 1915
Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather better remembered as Theda Bara's follow-up to the sensational A Fool There Was (1914).
30 August 1930
The Eyes of the World is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Henry King and written by Brewster Morse and Clarke Silvernail.
05 April 1930
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor.
17 January 1930
In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.
12 February 1917
Eve Leslie and Adam Moore become interested in the stock market. Eve decides to try to add to her fortunes by plunging.
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.
24 May 1930
A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.
20 May 1931
A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
05 June 1916
The Toilers is a 1916 American film drama directed by Edgar Lewis.
