Linda Arvidson

Linda Arvidson

Linda Arvidson (born Linda Arvidson Johnson, July 12, 1884 – July 26, 1949; sometimes credited as Linda Griffith) was an American stage and film actress and philanthropist through the Linda A. Griffith Fund. She became one of America's early motion picture stars while working at Biograph Studios in New York, where none of the company's actors, until 1913, were credited on screen. Along with Florence Lawrence, Marion Leonard, and other female performers there, she was often referred to by theatergoers and in trade publications as simply one of the "Biograph girls". Arvidson began working in the new, rapidly expanding film industry after meeting her future husband D. W. Griffith, who impressed her as an innovative screen director. Their marriage was kept secret for reasons of professional discretion. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

  • Title: Linda Arvidson
  • Popularity: 2.005
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1884-07-12
  • Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
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  • Also Known As: Linda Arvidson Johnson, Linda A. Griffith, Linda Griffith
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Linda Arvidson Movies

  • 1910
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    The Honor of His Family

    The Honor of His Family

    1 1910 HD

    An old colonel is proud as a peacock: his son leads a group of volunteers in the American Civil War. Untill one day his son returns home as a...

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  • 1909
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    To Save Her Soul

    To Save Her Soul

    4 1909 HD

    Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the...

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    A Corner in Wheat

    A Corner in Wheat

    6.156 1909 HD

    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...

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  • 1911
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    Enoch Arden: Part I

    Enoch Arden: Part I

    5.5 1911 HD

    Enoch Arden, a humble fisherman, marries Annie Lee. He signs on as a sailor to make more money to support their growing family. A storm wrecks his...

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    Enoch Arden: Part II

    Enoch Arden: Part II

    5.5 1911 HD

    Annie remains faithful to her husband, Enoch, even though he's been lost at sea for many years. Finally her grown children convince her to marry...

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    The Miser's Heart

    The Miser's Heart

    6 1911 HD

    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...

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  • 1911
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    Fate's Turning

    Fate's Turning

    5 1911 HD

    A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman who's there for the summer. However,...

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  • 1908
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    At the French Ball

    At the French Ball

    3.75 1908 HD

    A husband finishes packing a suitcase, and then says good-bye to his wife. As soon as he is gone, the wife has her maid help her to dress for a...

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    The Unchanging Sea

    The Unchanging Sea

    6.5 1910 HD

    In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident....

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    The Fatal Hour

    The Fatal Hour

    2.5 1908 HD

    This one-reeler has been regarded as a classic example of a Griffith thriller. It engages with the Chinese White slave traffic from the perspective...

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    The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals

    The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals

    3.8 1909 HD

    The amateur dramatic society chooses the Joneses' residence as the location of its next meeting, and both Joneses catch 'the acting bug' in this...

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    The Cricket on the Hearth

    The Cricket on the Hearth

    3.65 1909 HD

    After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement with a much older man.

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    Balked at the Altar

    Balked at the Altar

    3.3 1908 HD

    A woman who is filled with romantic ideas is making no secret of her eagerness to find a husband. Her father decides to help her by pressuring and...

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    Betrayed by a Handprint

    Betrayed by a Handprint

    2.9 1908 HD

    Mrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to her of a handsome diamond necklace by her...

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    The Song of the Shirt

    The Song of the Shirt

    3.583 1908 HD

    Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

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    A Drunkard's Reformation

    A Drunkard's Reformation

    5.45 1909 HD

    A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play,...

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  • 1909
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    Resurrection

    Resurrection

    4.875 1909 HD

    Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that...

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  • 1909
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    Confidence

    Confidence

    4.125 1909 HD

    Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail...

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  • 1914
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    A Fair Rebel

    A Fair Rebel

    1 1914 HD

    Steve Monteith and Ezra Mason, upper class men, and Bill Bronson, a plebe, are chums and roommates at West Point before the Civil War. Steve prepares...

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  • 1914
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    The Wife

    The Wife

    1 1914 HD

    A 1914 film drama

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  • 1909
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    Her First Biscuits

    Her First Biscuits

    2.75 1909 HD

    A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits...

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  • 1909
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    The Winning Coat

    The Winning Coat

    5 1909 HD

    A young courtier gambles in a tavern and wins a coat from the leader of a gang. In the pocket he finds details of a plan to kidnap the Queen. He...

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  • 1908
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    The Taming of the Shrew

    The Taming of the Shrew

    4.917 1908 HD

    Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

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    The Cord of Life

    The Cord of Life

    3.5 1909 HD

    Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are...

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  • 1909
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    The Curtain Pole

    The Curtain Pole

    4.45 1909 HD

    An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very...

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  • 1908
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    An Awful Moment

    An Awful Moment

    2.75 1908 HD

    After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken...

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    At the Altar

    At the Altar

    3.75 1909 HD

    At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic...

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    Pippa Passes

    Pippa Passes

    5.583 1909 HD

    Pippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unbeknown to her, the music has a healing effect on all who hear her as she passes by.

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    The Lure of the Gown

    The Lure of the Gown

    3.667 1909 HD

    "Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a...

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  • 1909
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    Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe

    5.1 1909 HD

    As Poe's lover is slowly dying, he struggles to make money to care for her.

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  • 1909
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    Those Awful Hats

    Those Awful Hats

    6.11 1909 HD

    A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.

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  • 1909
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    Pranks

    Pranks

    2.5 1909 HD

    Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they each have to dress up as the opposite sex.

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  • 1908
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    The King's Messenger

    The King's Messenger

    1 1908 HD

    Mack Sennett appears as a soldier in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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  • 1908
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    The Stage Rustler

    The Stage Rustler

    3.5 1908 HD

    Mack Sennett appears as a man in a bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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  • 1908
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    The Red Girl

    The Red Girl

    3.5 1908 HD

    Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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  • 1908
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    Where the Breakers Roar

    Where the Breakers Roar

    3.2 1908 HD

    A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby asylum, heads for the surf, brandishing a knife. Innocent...

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  • 1908
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    After Many Years

    After Many Years

    2.5 1908 HD

    A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?

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  • 1908
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    The Pirate's Gold

    The Pirate's Gold

    4.5 1908 HD

    Young Wilkinson is leaving his dear old mother for a journey to seek his fortune in a foreign clime. Now, the little cottage is situated near the...

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  • 1908
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    The Feud and the Turkey

    The Feud and the Turkey

    2 1908 HD

    Mack Sennett appears as a member of the Wilkenson clan in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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  • 1909
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    Lines of White on a Sullen Sea

    Lines of White on a Sullen Sea

    3.25 1909 HD

    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...

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  • 1908
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    The Helping Hand

    The Helping Hand

    2 1908 HD

    Mack Sennett appears as a wedding guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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  • 1909
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    One Touch of Nature

    One Touch of Nature

    3 1909 HD

    Mack Sennett appears as a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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  • 1909
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    Love Finds a Way

    Love Finds a Way

    1 1909 HD

    Mack Sennett appears as a footman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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  • 1909
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    A Rural Elopement

    A Rural Elopement

    3 1909 HD

    Mack Sennett appears as a man in the crowd in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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  • 1909
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    The Sacrifice

    The Sacrifice

    4 1909 HD

    Oh, the woe of simultaneous birthdays, as were Mr. and Mrs. Hardlucks', and both being of a generous nature, were seized with an insatiable desire to...

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  • 1909
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    The Criminal Hypnotist

    The Criminal Hypnotist

    2 1909 HD

    Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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  • 1909
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    Mr. Jones Has a Card Party

    Mr. Jones Has a Card Party

    2.5 1909 HD

    Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance...

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  • 1909
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    The Fascinating Mrs. Francis

    The Fascinating Mrs. Francis

    0.5 1909 HD

    Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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  • 1909
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    The Welcome Burglar

    The Welcome Burglar

    2.5 1909 HD

    Mack Sennett appears as a butler and a man in an office in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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  • 1911
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    His Daughter

    His Daughter

    4 1911 HD

    William promises to marry his sweetheart, Mary, after completing medical school. William's father has saved enough money to set up William's medical...

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  • 1908
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    Classmates

    Classmates

    3 1908 HD

    Two students at college were friends until a girl appeared and by the workings of fate was beloved by both. The girl has given her heart to one of...

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  • 1910
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    The Thread of Destiny

    The Thread of Destiny

    1 1910 HD

    The orphan girl of San Gabriel meets and is attracted by a Spanish stranger. The Spaniard is accused of cheating and set to be lynched, but is saved...

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  • 1911
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    Enoch Arden

    Enoch Arden

    5.8 1911 HD

    Moving Picture World described the film: "There is a small need to describe this subject as the poem of Lord Tennyson is so well known, so suffice it...

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  • 1911
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    Fisher Folks

    Fisher Folks

    1 1911 HD

    A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt.

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  • 1909
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    Comata, the Sioux

    Comata, the Sioux

    4.25 1909 HD

    This story of the Black Hills consistently tells of the unrequited love of a Sioux brave for his chief's daughter, and how he premonished the awful...

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  • 1910
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    The Converts

    The Converts

    1 1910 HD

    A dance hall girl is converted to a religious life by a phony evangelist. But can he, himself, be saved?

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  • 1910
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    The Broken Doll

    The Broken Doll

    4 1910 HD

    An American Indian child, maltreated by her mother and other tribespeople, accompanies her family to a nearby town to buy supplies. There, local...

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  • 1914
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    Beverly of Graustark

    Beverly of Graustark

    5 1914 HD

    Beverly Calhoun is invited by her friend, Princess Yestive of Graustark, to pay her a visit. On her journey, she is waylaid by bandits, and becomes...

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  • 1908
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    The Bandit’s Waterloo (The Outwitting of an Andalusian Brigand by a Pretty Senora)

    The Bandit’s Waterloo (The Outwitting of an Andalusian Brigand by a Pretty Senora)

    2.5 1908 HD

    A gang of lawless freebooters who terrorized the country and made travel in the mountains a hazardous pastime hold up a stylish landau in which are...

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  • 1908
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    A Calamitous Elopement

    A Calamitous Elopement

    4.182 1908 HD

    A young couple are enjoying a romantic interlude in the young woman's home, when her father discovers them and angrily chases the young man out of...

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  • 1908
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    The Stolen Jewels

    The Stolen Jewels

    4 1908 HD

    It would have taken more than the wonderful powers of deduction of a Sherlock Holmes to have dispelled the mystery that shrouded the disappearance of...

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  • 1908
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    A Woman's Way

    A Woman's Way

    3.5 1908 HD

    The pretty daughter of a French-Canadian backwoodsman incites the love of a trapper who is so smitten with the beauty of this wood nymph that he...

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  • 1909
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    A Baby's Shoe

    A Baby's Shoe

    2 1909 HD

    The story tells of the young widowed mother of two children who is forced by extreme poverty to part with one of her children, a baby girl, by...

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  • 1909
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    Drive for a Life

    Drive for a Life

    1.5 1909 HD

    Harry's jealous former mistress puts poison in some candy intended for his new fiancée. Harry discovers what she has done, and races to save...

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  • 1909
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    His Ward's Love

    His Ward's Love

    2.5 1909 HD

    Reverend Howson loves his young ward, but urges her to marry someone else. She accepts the proposal, but then sees the Reverend kissing an object she...

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  • 1909
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    His Wife's Mother

    His Wife's Mother

    2 1909 HD

    Jones's mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk.

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  • 1909
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    The Jilt

    The Jilt

    0.5 1909 HD

    John is seduced and abandoned by a cruel flirt. Later he learns that his friend Frank is engaged to the same woman. He relates his story to Frank and...

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  • 1909
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    The Medicine Bottle

    The Medicine Bottle

    1 1909 HD

    While she attends a party, Mrs. Ross leaves her young daughter to care for her bed-ridden mother. At the party, Mrs. Ross realizes she left the wrong...

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  • 1909
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    The Politician's Love Story

    The Politician's Love Story

    4.333 1909 HD

    A haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the...

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  • 1909
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    The Roue’s Heart

    The Roue’s Heart

    4.5 1909 HD

    Mons. Flamant, a typical roué of the French nobility, is surrounded by all the pleasures and pastimes his fabulous wealth can procure. In a...

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  • 1909
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    Those Boys!

    Those Boys!

    4.5 1909 HD

    Two boys find a pistol their father has hidden. While they're playing with it, they line up a target, not realizing their sisters are on the other...

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  • 1909
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    The Peachbasket Hat

    The Peachbasket Hat

    4.25 1909 HD

    Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm...

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  • 1908
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    The Adventures of Dollie

    The Adventures of Dollie

    5.212 1908 HD

    On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing.

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  • 1909
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    The Sealed Room

    The Sealed Room

    5.036 1909 HD

    The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. But...

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  • 1909
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    A Wreath in Time

    A Wreath in Time

    4 1909 HD

    A few of us have had the chance to read our own obituary notice, but it fell to the lot of John Goodhusband the rare privilege of viewing his own...

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  • 1909
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    The Voice of the Violin

    The Voice of the Violin

    4.714 1909 HD

    A music teacher is in love with Helen, one of his students, but she rejects him. In his hurt he joins an anarchist group who plan to blow up a rich...

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  • 1909
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    The Faded Lilies

    The Faded Lilies

    2.25 1909 HD

    A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.

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  • 1908
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    At the Crossroads of Life

    At the Crossroads of Life

    4 1908 HD

    At the Crossroads of Life is a typically Victorian-style melodrama in which a girl's wishes to be an actress are condemned by her stern father, a man...

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  • 1908
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    Father Gets in the Game

    Father Gets in the Game

    3.3 1908 HD

    D.W. Griffith film about an elderly father who grows tired of seeing his son bring home beautiful women so he gets a makeover and heads out on the...

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  • 1908
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    The Test of Friendship

    The Test of Friendship

    4 1908 HD

    Mack Sennett appears as a guest and a man in the fight in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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  • 1909
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    The Children's Friend

    The Children's Friend

    3 1909 HD

    Three little girls fall into a sand pit and can't get out. One of them ties a note around her pet pigeon's neck and releases it. The pigeon flies...

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  • 1909
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    The Eavesdropper

    The Eavesdropper

    3.5 1909 HD

    Hidalgo offers his daughter's hand in marriage when he can't repay a loan to Manuella. But when Manuella overhears the daughter bidding farewell to...

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  • 1909
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    Fool's Revenge

    Fool's Revenge

    0.5 1909 HD

    A court fool believes the Duke is after his beautiful daughter, and arranges to have the Duke murdered. The daughter overhears the plot and,...

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  • 1909
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    The Golden Louis

    The Golden Louis

    4.375 1909 HD

    An anonymous donor drops a gold coin in the shoe of a homeless girl as she sleeps. A gambler with a 'sure thing' borrows the coin and wins a fortune,...

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  • 1908
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    When Knights Were Bold

    When Knights Were Bold

    3.25 1908 HD

    Two noblemen fight over a lady.

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  • 1909
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    Leather Stocking

    Leather Stocking

    3.5 1909 HD

    A short version of James Fenimore Cooper's famous tale about Natty Bumppo, or "Hawkeye," and his exploits during the French and Indian war.

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    The Mills of the Gods

    The Mills of the Gods

    1.5 1909 HD

    A woman in love with an unsuccessful author tries to convince a publisher to accept his work.

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  • 1909
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    The Salvation Army Lass

    The Salvation Army Lass

    4 1909 HD

    A girl from the New York slums falls in with crooks. After her love is arrested following a barfight turned deadly, her life seems directionless--...

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  • 1909
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    Tragic Love

    Tragic Love

    4 1909 HD

    Bob Spaulding, a manly fellow, meets Dr. Rankin and his wife on the street while they are engaged in a violent tiff. The doctor is about to strike...

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  • 1910
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    The Rocky Road

    The Rocky Road

    4 1910 HD

    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...

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    The Day After

    The Day After

    2.75 1909 HD

    Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens,...

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  • 1910
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    The Last Deal

    The Last Deal

    1 1910 HD

    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...

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  • 1910
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    The Two Brothers

    The Two Brothers

    1 1910 HD

    In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born in a noble Spanish family and reared by a mother...

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    Through the Breakers

    Through the Breakers

    4.25 1909 HD

    A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of...

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    The Usurer

    The Usurer

    5 1910 HD

    A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.

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  • 1911
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    His Trust

    His Trust

    4.1 1911 HD

    A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is...

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    His Trust Fulfilled

    His Trust Fulfilled

    3.7 1911 HD

    Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own...

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    Heart Beats of Long Ago

    Heart Beats of Long Ago

    5 1911 HD

    A feud existed between two Italian houses and it meant disaster to any one of the belligerents to intrude into the opposing house. The Lord of the...

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  • 1913
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    The Scarlet Letter

    The Scarlet Letter

    1 1913 HD

    Poor Hester Prynne finds herself most unwelcome in England.

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  • 1908
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    The Man and the Woman

    The Man and the Woman

    2 1908 HD

    John and Tom Wilkins are brothers and most divergent in natures. John is a clergyman and a noble, upright fellow, while Tom is a scapegrace, wild,...

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  • 1908
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    For a Wife's Honor

    For a Wife's Honor

    1.5 1908 HD

    Irving Robertson, a successful playwright, has just received a message from out of town to witness the initial performance of one of his plays. As he...

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  • 1909
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    I Did It

    I Did It

    2.5 1909 HD

    A mother punishes her son for eating a plate of cream puffs, unaware that the daughter really did it. As the daughter watches the punishment, she...

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  • 1911
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    Enoch Arden

    Enoch Arden

    5.8 1911 HD

    Moving Picture World described the film: "There is a small need to describe this subject as the poem of Lord Tennyson is so well known, so suffice it...

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