Kate Bruce

AKA: Phyllis Forde
0.1958

1860-02-16

Columbus, Indiana, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {178}

Mrs. Hare

1915-08-18 0

East Lynne

An adaptation of the stage warhorse East Lynne featuring a young, curly-haired Alan Hale as the villain. ...
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1914-06-14 0

The Rebellion of Kitty Belle

Kitty, the pretty young wife of a Texas businessman, feels neglected and unwanted as her husband pays more attention to his business interests than he does to her and spends more and more time away fr ...
Genre :Drama

Mother Bartlett

1920-09-03 7

Way Down East

A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Woman at Farewell

1910-01-24 0

The Honor of His Family

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 deserter. ...
Genre :Drama

Outside Theatre

1911-03-20 0

Teaching Dad to Like Her

Harry wants to marry Dolly, a showgirl, but only on the condition that she can win over his disapproving father. The father is so charmed when he meets Dolly that he wants to win her for himself. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Bettina's Aunt

1919-06-01 6.9

True Heart Susie

Susie secretly loves her neighbor, William Jenkins, but neither, it seems, can confess their feelings for each other. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1912-06-26 4.8

The School Teacher and the Waif

Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but when she's made to wear a dunce cap, she flees the ...
Genre :Drama

1915-09-15 0

The Soul of Pierre

Two tortured artists believe by committing suicide their souls will avail themselves on their ill friends and restore them to health. It appears to work but a harlot may prove the undoing of one until ...
Genre :Drama

The Nurse

1912-01-01 0

The Baby and the Stork

Bobby is jealous of the new baby, so he takes it to the zoo and tries to return it to the stork. ...
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The Housekeeper

1911-12-21 0

A Terrible Discovery

A criminal designs a plan to get revenge on the district attorney who convicted his brother. ...
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In Audience

1912-05-08 0

When the Fire-Bells Rang

They are brothers; one is a member of the village fire department, the other the property man at the "Opry House." A traveling dramatic company arrives, and. in putting on a Roman tragedy, needs twent ...
Genre :Comedy

Hank Hopkins' Wife

1912-07-25 0

The Would-Be Shriner

Hank Hopkins is a "rube" of the most extreme type, and on the morning of the great Shrine Parade in Los Angeles, he is met by a couple of friends, practical jokers, who make him believe that they can ...
Genre :Comedy

1927-02-06 0

Are Brunettes Safe?

Are Brunettes Safe? ...
Genre :Comedy

A Settler

1913-03-29 5

The Sheriff's Baby

After the death of his wife the baby was all the sheriff had left, the promise of hope in the future, and the reflection of all that was dear in the past. But a sheriff has no time to tread a cradle r ...
Genre :Western

Mother

1921-08-07 0

Experience

Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure and hangs out at the Primrose Path with the likes of ...
Genre :Drama

The Mother

1913-05-24 0

Just Gold

The brothers choose between love and gold. The three brothers sought the gold regions. The fourth chose to be a stay-at-home. He sought just love, and love was his reward: in the happiness of two old ...
Genre :Drama

The Young Woman's Mother

1913-04-17 0

A Frightful Blunder

An eye strain was really the cause of making the young business man realize that he loved the young typist and a wrongly compounded remedy for the same eye strain placed the girl in grave danger, the ...
Genre :Drama

The Indian Woman

1912-11-04 0

Heredity

Nine-year-old Nedda is a direct descendant of the Trevors, a family that can trace its roots back to the reign of King Charles I. Alas, the Trevors suffer severe financial reverses, and Nedda is yanke ...
Genre :Drama, Western

The Young Woman's Mother

1912-12-12 0

My Hero

Stern parents have ever been relentless obstacles in love's young dream, but it is perhaps quite doubtful if ever love could equal the accentuated bliss and anguish of these two. She refused to eat fo ...
Genre :Western

The Poor Man's Wife

1913-05-10 0

The Stolen Loaf

A poor man steals a loaf of bread to feed his family, not knowing there's a stolen diamond hidden inside. ...
Genre :Drama

Sam Miller's Wife

1913-06-10 0

The Enemy's Baby

A feud began with a political argument. Then the justice declared if granddad did not pay up he would attach his household goods. Granddad was that mad all he left of the furniture was kindling. When ...
Genre :Drama

The Street Sweeper's Wife

1913-08-21 0

The Work Habit

After a lifetime of hard work, Dad consents to live with his married daughter in the city. The young couple try to make him forget work. Ill at ease under his enforced idleness, he makes a deal with a ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

The Nanny

1913-06-14 5.7

Death's Marathon

Two business partners pursue the same woman. She accepts the marriage proposal of the irresponsible partner, much to her later regret. He squanders money on gambling, as his interest in her gradually ...
Genre :Drama

The Mother

1913-11-01 0

The Stopped Clock

No doubt the old antique dealer was prejudiced against his junior clerk. After frequent shortages, the clerk's visit to the gambling house was reported by the detective and he was discharged. In truth ...
Genre :Drama

The Wife's Mother

1913-06-21 5.647

The Mothering Heart

A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and begins an affair with a be ...
Genre :Drama

Judtih's Maid

1914-03-08 6.141

Judith of Bethulia

Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrian tyrant Holofernes, a widow named Judith forms a plan to stop t ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

Grant's Mother

1915-03-18 0

His Desperate Deed

The hero's mother is desperately ill and the young fellow, while going afoot for a doctor, stops a mail carrier and forces him- at the point of the pistol- to give up his horse. ...
Genre :Drama, Western

1909-02-22 4.4

The Golden Louis

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, but he can't find her again to repay her. ...
Genre :Drama

First Maid

1912-04-24 5.8

One Is Business, the Other Crime

Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband attempts to burgle a ...
Genre :Drama

Kate's Mother

1914-02-14 0

A Nest Unfeathered

At her dying mother's bedside, Kate promises to bring her young brother into manhood. Eager to gain possession of the farm by marrying Kate, the foreman intends to get rid of the boy. He brings a phys ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Malarkey

1916-08-06 0

The Marriage of Molly-O

Brutal rental agent Joseph McGuire demands that Molly-O marry McGuire's son Denny, lest her family be thrown out of their humble shack. But Molly-O prefers the company of carriage driver Larry O'Dea, ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

The Old Actor's Wife

1912-05-06 5.4

The Old Actor

An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the theatre he panics at the thought of telling his family ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Mary Harding

1912-12-05 5.578

The New York Hat

To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a stylish hat, and gossip spreads through the town. ...
Genre :Drama

The Mother

1913-04-19 0

A Misunderstood Boy

Everything he did seemed to be misconstrued, except by the little lady he loved. The town roisters made fun of her and his love. That made trouble and the chief vigilante believed him the cause of it ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Hobbs

1912-01-25 0

With a Kodak

Mr. Hobb's secretary and Mrs. Hobb's maid are sweethearts, but Mr. Hobbs has a tender feeling for his wife's maid, while Mrs. Hobbs forms a liking for Hobbs' secretary. Both are fired for an offense o ...
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Old Mexican Woman

1912-06-24 4.3

A Dash Through the Clouds

Aviation enthusiast Josephine rescues her suitor, Chubby, from an angry mob with the help of Slim and his airplane. ...
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The Tender-Hearted Boy's mother

1913-01-23 0

The Tender Hearted Boy

A butcher boy steals meat to give to a beggar woman and is ultimately rewarded for his kindness. ...
Genre :Drama

Mary's Mother

1913-04-05 0

The Perfidy of Mary

Rose and her cousin Mary dwell in the land of romance, but real Romeos are scarce in this prosaic age. Yet Rose, in spite of a gay young Lothario who steps in the way of her own true love, finds her w ...
Genre :Drama

Confederate Mother

1910-11-07 4.7

The Fugitive

Two Johns, a Confederate and an Union soldier, leave their families to go to the front. After a skirmish they end up separated from their respective sides, the Union soldier shoots the Confederate, bu ...
Genre :Drama, War

The Mother

1912-10-24 5.5

The Painted Lady

A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems interested in her. However, unknown to her, he is a b ...
Genre :Drama

Strongheart's Mother

1913-05-16 0

The Yaqui Cur

The prospector had taught the Indian boy the doctrine of peace. When his tribe resisted the attack of another tribe the boy did not take part. The din of the battle, as the horsemen circled them again ...
Genre :Western

Miss Page's Mother

1911-08-30 4

The Villain Foiled

A Mack Sennett comedy for Biograph released as a split reel along with the comedy The Baron. ...
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The Old Soldier's Wife

1911-06-28 6.3

Fighting Blood

After the Civil War, an ex-soldier and his family settle in the Dakota Territory. The son quarrels with the father and leaves home. Riding in the hills, he spots a band of Indians attacking a neighbor ...
Genre :Western, Action

John's Sweetheart's Mother

1910-03-20 4.5

Faithful

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. Feeling sorry for ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

The Husband's Mother

1912-05-12 3

The Furs

Mabel Normand is the wife of a rather rotund businessman, Dell Henderson. She doesn't get along with her mother Kate Bruce. She steals some money from her hubby to go shopping. Mack Sennett appears br ...
Genre :

Sunbeam's Mamma

1912-02-26 6.3

The Sunbeam

Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, no ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Edith's Mother

1911-07-23 5.6

A Country Cupid

Schoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him a note of reconciliation but throws it away. Without her knowledge, one of her students fishes it out of ...
Genre :Romance

The Mother

1910-05-23 4.75

Ramona

Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the lovers elope, only t ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Western

The Farmer's Wife

1910-08-01 4.8

An Arcadian Maid

A young maiden is seduced by a charming traveling peddler who persuades her to steal from her host family in order to repay his gambling debts. ...
Genre :Drama

Ruth's Mother

1910-06-06 4.5

A Child of the Ghetto

After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She fl ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Riley - Pat's Mother

1929-07-10 5.5

The Flying Fool

A man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see if she's the real thing or just trying to take advantage of him. Unfortunately, he winds up falling in ...
Genre :Romance, War

The Mountain Girl's Mother

1909-11-24 4.6

The Mountaineer's Honor

A mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down and kills him. In retaliation, the sheriff captures the brother and prepares to lynch him. Mother interven ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Wharton

1908-09-01 2.9

Betrayed by a Handprint

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 fiancé. During the evening bridge participated in by a num ...
Genre :Crime

1909-04-15 4.1

Confidence

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 her. When the blackmail plot is exposed, Nellie's husb ...
Genre :Drama

One of the Sisters Frost

1910-09-01 5

Muggsy Becomes a Hero

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 ser ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Granny

1931-12-10 6.7

The Struggle

A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism. ...
Genre :Drama

1914-08-21 0

A Lesson in Mechanics

Ruth Wilson, daughter of a wealthy landowner, receives a visit from her country sweetheart, Joe Merriam. who is a motorboat enthusiast. Unknown to anyone but her brother Frank, Ruth is an expert at fi ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Beth's Mother

1918-09-08 0

The Hun Within

A German-American father, loyal to his new U.S. home, finds himself on opposite sides with his son in the wartime conflict between Germany and America. The son becomes involved with German agents plot ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, War

Mary Ellen's mother

1920-03-21 10

Mary Ellen Comes to Town

A simple country girl comes to the big city and is taken advantage of by unscrupulous city-slickers. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sister Geneviève (uncredited)

1921-12-28 6.766

Orphans of the Storm

France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

1908-12-18 2.8

An Awful Moment

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 forcefully out of the courtroom. Later the gypsy follows ...
Genre :Drama

1909-02-25 3.8

At the Altar

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 turn of mind and her soul soared above plebeianism a ...
Genre :Drama

Party Guest

1909-09-12 3.8

Getting Even

All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a chance. At a dance, Bud dresses as a woman and all the men flirt with him and abandon Lucy. When his di ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Edward Grey

1919-03-23 4.8

The Girl Who Stayed at Home

Ralph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the granddaughter of his father's friend, a Civil war veteran not reconciled with the Union. Blossom, however, is en ...
Genre :Drama, War

Mrs. Allen - Bert's Mother

1914-06-29 0

The Honor of the Law

The District Attorney came face to face with the man who he believed had murdered his father years before. This man was held for murder. The District Attorney made every effort to find his victim guil ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

John's Aunt

1923-05-21 7.1

The White Rose

A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see what "the real world" is all about. He winds up in ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Mrs. Blythe

1920-03-21 5.2

The Idol Dancer

A religious zealot and his nephew are thrown together on a South Seas Island with an alcoholic beach comber and a native dancer. A battle to see who will "civilize" whom ensues. ...
Genre :Drama

First Customer's Wife

1911-05-18 5

The Manicure Lady

The manicure lady spurns the barber and dates a rich cad instead. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Logan

1919-01-26 6.9

A Romance of Happy Valley

John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several years he r ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

1908-09-11 2

Behind the Scenes: Where All Is Not Gold That Glitters

A mother works as a dancer to support her ill daughter. One night while performing, the mother has a vision of her child dying. She rushes home, but it is too late. ...
Genre :Drama

David's Housekeeper

1916-12-31 0

The House Built Upon Sand

Evelyn Dare is a butterfly of fashion. David Westebrooke, her fiancé, is an altruist interested in sociology. He has made his home in the factory town of Oreville, where he works as factory manager. H ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Jeannette's Aunt

1918-12-22 0

The Greatest Thing in Life

A lost film. Leo Peret has a small quiet tobacco shop in Greenwich Village. Edward Livingston, a wealthy young clubman and man-about-town, comes in frequently ostensibly to buy cigarettes but in reali ...
Genre :Drama, War, Romance

Poor Mother

1909-07-08 6.2

The Country Doctor

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, wh ...
Genre :Drama

At Party

1909-08-02 4.3

A Strange Meeting

Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into helping with the burglary of her minister's apartment, she comes face to face with her misdeeds. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Ruth's Mother

1909-09-16 3.5

The Broken Locket

George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink. One might have concluded he was lost, but there was the chance which the hand of Provide ...
Genre :Drama

The Lacemaker's Mother

1910-05-08 4.7

Love Among the Roses

In the Kingdom of Never-Never Land there live a great Lord and Lady, each presiding over their own domain. This great Lord goes for a stroll through his estate and coming to the border of his own land ...
Genre :Romance

Mother

1911-01-09 4

The Italian Barber

Tony, a barber, becomes enchanted by Alice, a young newsgirl, and the two quickly fall in love. However, their happiness is soon disrupted when Alice’s sister, Florence, a vaudeville performer, return ...
Genre :Comedy

Old Babylonian Mother / The City Mother (uncredited)

1916-09-04 7.071

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Bob & John's Mother

1913-09-05 5

The Strong Man's Burden

A crime drama in which a police officer does everything possible to help his criminal younger brother. ...
Genre :Drama

The housekeeper

1911-08-24 5.7

The Rose of Kentucky

A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother's death and sends her off to school. After she's grown, he encourages her to consider his younger brother as a husband. When the younger brother prove ...
Genre :Romance, History

The Mother

1909-10-27 3.2

Lines of White on a Sullen Sea

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. Emily waits faithfully for six years, fin ...
Genre :Drama

1909-01-01 3

One Touch of Nature

"A pathetic story of mother's grief. No more intense emotion can be imagined than a mother's grief for her dead child. and this Biograph subject beautifully portrays a story of maternal bereavement. ...
Genre :Drama

The Mother

1910-05-12 0

The Two Brothers

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 noble in both station and character, they were vast ...
Genre :Western

Aunt Sophie

1917-05-26 0

Madame Bo-Peep

A 1917 film directed by Chester Withey. ...
Genre :Western, Comedy

Mrs. Letchworth

1917-03-24 0

A Woman's Awakening

A 1917 film directed by Chester Withey. ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Randall

1917-03-04 0

Betsy's Burglar

Betsy Harlow is a hard-working maid in a boarding house. Her dream. however, is to be a detective, a dream she shares with her boyfriend Oscar, a delivery boy for a local grocer. One day a mysterious ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

A Mother

1916-06-02 5.214

Civilization

Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless passenger ship during wartime. His submarine is sunk in the following fracas. In the spirit world, Christ co ...
Genre :Drama

One of the First Debtors

1910-08-15 5

The Usurer

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

The Sheriff's Wife

1910-08-28 5.2

The Modern Prodigal

In the opening of this subject we find the callow youth as he points towards the city's spires, exclaiming to his dear old mother, "Mother, there in the big city is my sphere. There will I turn the wo ...
Genre :Drama

The Young Woman's Mother

1910-01-13 5.3

All on Account of the Milk

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. The hero continues to represent himself as a laborer ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Thayer

1910-02-17 0

The Englishman and the Girl

A small-town drama group's rehearsal is interrupted when one of their members receives a letter telling him his English relative is arriving for a visit. The Englishman turns out to be stuffy and humo ...
Genre :

Mrs. Hendricks

1910-03-24 0

The Twisted Trail

Ranch hand Bob Gorman loves pretty Molly Hendricks, and Daddy isn't happy about that. Then Bob is falsely accused of killing Mr. Hendricks. Soon we will discover whether Bob will sacrifice his own lif ...
Genre :Drama

Aunt

1910-06-02 0

In the Season of Buds

It is springtime when little Mabel arrives at her Uncle Zeke's farm. Henry and Steve, two farmhands, are chums, having spent the years of their adolescence together on Uncle Zeke's farm. They have nev ...
Genre :Drama

1918-11-17 0

Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal

Instead of buying bonds, Lillian buys new clothes. Then she has a dream that her home has been invaded by German soldiers, and her family has been taken away. Two officers enter her room and as she st ...
Genre :

October

1910-06-20 5

May and December

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, ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

The Govorness

1910-10-06 5.5

A Gold Necklace

Mazie lends her necklace to Nellie, her guest. Nellie is asleep in a hammock when Sam, her sweetheart, arrives in his auto. He awakens Nellie with a kiss. As she starts up she drops the necklace in th ...
Genre :Comedy

Bessie's Mother

1910-10-13 0

A Lucky Toothache

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. Not long after the ...
Genre :

The Poor Wife

1910-11-10 0

Simple Charity

A pretty young woman attempts to help a poor, old couple while attracting the attention of a handsome doctor. ...
Genre :Drama

An Indian

1910-11-21 0

The Song of the Wildwood Flute

Gray Cloud (Dark Cloud) successfully woos Dove Eyes (Mary Pickford). But after he brings his bride home to his tent, he is shadowed by a jealous rival (Dell Henderson) who leaves him for dead when he ...
Genre :Drama

Edith's Mother

1910-11-28 0

A Plain Song

Edith is a salesgirl in a department store who envys her store-mates, as she views them passing by with their sweethearts, lighthearted and happy. Therefore she feels highly flattered and pleased at t ...
Genre :Drama

The Mother

1911-02-02 0

Three Sisters

Mary is the youngest of three sisters and of an impressionable nature. She and her sister Florence are living at home with their widowed mother, while Adele travels on the road with a theatrical compa ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

The Mother

1909-08-09 5.1

They Would Elope

Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when they return home. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mary's Mother

1909-11-01 5.25

What's Your Hurry?

Papa is proud of his new birthday present, a shotgun. Mary's boyfriend arrives for a visit and she is anxious to introduce him to Papa. When Harry sees Papa walk in with a shotgun he misunderstands an ...
Genre :Comedy

The Old Wife

1913-03-15 5

The Unwelcome Guest

Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated beneath the false bottom of an old shipping trunk. After her death, her husband, believing himself ...
Genre :Drama

The Mother

1909-11-18 0.5

A Midnight Adventure

Mercedes orders her sweetheart to prove his love by doing something dangerously heroic. He agrees, breaking into another young woman's house in order to steal a photograph. The young woman catches him ...
Genre :

The Nurse

1909-12-06 4.2

Through the Breakers

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 his ways and stays home with her, demanding his wif ...
Genre :Drama

The Mother

1912-11-21 0

The Informer

The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart during the perilous times which are to follow. But the ...
Genre :Drama

The Neighbor's Wife

1912-10-21 0

The One She Loved

Roy Norris, a young author, proposes to pretty Mary Ford and is accepted. The first year or more of their married life is one of bliss, made all the sweeter by the arrival of their first-born. The lit ...
Genre :Drama

The Mother

1912-10-03 4.5

A Feud in the Kentucky Hills

The two brothers and their adopted daughter of the household grew up from childhood together. The girl and the younger brother were childhood sweethearts. His elder brother was considered the bad man ...
Genre :Drama

The Widow

1912-07-08 4

An Indian Summer

A lonely old widower arrives in town and seeks out a pleasant boarding place. The house he selects may be pleasant and homelike, but most of all it is owned by a widow, and managed by her daughter. Th ...
Genre :Romance

Gretchen

1912-06-17 4.4

Lena and the Geese

A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who is the widowed mother of a child about the same age. The two children grow up as sisters. Later, up ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Family, History

The Young Woman's Mother

1912-06-06 0

Home Folks

Griffith interweaves two tales of one family: A stern father rules his family by what he thinks to be the Bible's precepts, but it is simply the influence of his own narrow mind. Hence when his boy su ...
Genre :Drama

The Maid

1912-04-22 4

Won by a Fish

Papa becomes so miserable over his bad luck as a fisherman, it causes him to reject Harry, his daughter's sweetheart, who tease him about it. The next day he starts out with the hope of better luck, a ...
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The Maid

1912-04-18 0

Just Like a Woman

When the suitor of the daughter of an apparently wealthy widow finds out that the oil stocks, in which her late husband's fortune is invested, are worthless, he finds the daughter less attractive. The ...
Genre :Romance

The Lady's Friend

1913-01-06 5.7

The Telephone Girl and the Lady

D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The film focuses on a telephone girl who leaves work for her lunch break at the same time as "The Lady" goes ...
Genre :Drama

A Nun

1909-09-29 3.667

The Awakening

A confirmed bachelor learns that he will inherit his late uncle's fortune only if he marries, which he does reluctantly. Shortly afterward he returns to his bachelor lifestyle but realizes he can't ge ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Mother Superior

1911-10-26 0

The Long Road

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. ...
Genre :Drama

The Little Tease's Mother

1913-04-12 5

The Little Tease

The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her unsuspecting parents and the wild things of her mountain home ...
Genre :Drama

The Aunt

1919-11-18 5.8

Scarlet Days

Rosie Nell, a woman of disreputable dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged with the murder of one of her fellow entertainers. Because her daughter, who knows nothing of her mother ...
Genre :Adventure, Romance, Western

The Sons' Mother

1909-05-31 3.875

His Duty

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. Jack then goes to work and Bob goes out also. ...
Genre :Drama

1917-05-19 0

Souls Triumphant

Lillian Vale is the naïve and unworldly daughter of minister Josiah Vale. Swept off her feet by handsome Robert Powers, Lillian marries him, unaware that he is constitutionally incapable of fidelity. ...
Genre :Drama

The Mother of the Boy

1918-03-11 6

Hearts of the World

A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies village, bringing both destruction and torture. The y ...
Genre :Drama, War

Claude's Mother

1924-03-16 0

His Darker Self

A small town man takes a mail-order detective course. When a Black friend is murdered, he goes undercover in black-face to investigate at a notorious, knife-wielding bootlegger's roadhouse. Originally ...
Genre :Comedy

The Maid

1913-07-06 0

The Reformers

Behold in this film the Uplifter, a peculiarity of the human species, quite convinced that all that is, is wrong. Forth to the uplift he minds everybody's business but his own, until that business is ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Villager (uncredited)

1910-05-05 6.419

The Unchanging Sea

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. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his ...
Genre :Drama

1910-08-04 0

Her Father's Pride

A Quaker father is bringing up his daughter Ann in a stern, religious manner, often disturbed by her frivolity. A motorist, a concert singer from the city, has an accident near their rural home, and h ...
Genre :

1910-09-29 0

Examination Day at School

A rural schoolmaster, beloved by his pupils, is dismissed from his teaching post when the county’s visiting school inspector is mildly ridiculed in a cartoon which a mischievous pupil has drawn on a b ...
Genre :

The Old Woman

1913-05-02 5.5

The Wanderer

A little over six minutes survive of this Biograph short. Not to be confused with another Biograph short, Olaf- An Atom (1913, starring Harry Carey, later re-released as The Wanderer), a film not dire ...
Genre :Drama

1916-02-20 0

Betty of Greystone

After the death of her father, Betty Lockwood goes to Graystone Gables, the estate where he had been the caretaker, to spend some time alone there. She meets David Chandler, Graystone's owner, who is ...
Genre :Drama

Olaf's Mother

1913-05-19 0

Olaf—An Atom

Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is given a meal by a woman at the homestead where she lives with her husband and baby. Olaf is able to ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

(archive footage) (uncredited)

1955-08-19 4

Film Fun

A nostalgic look at film clips from the Silent era. ...
Genre :Comedy

The Crippled Mother

1911-09-28 0

Her Awakening

An attempt to hide her working-class origins appears to have disastrous consequences for an attractive office worker. ...
Genre :Drama

Old Lady

1920-11-11 0

Flying Pat

Wild flapper Patricia Van Nuys decides to become a pilot like her husband Robert, but with a difference--she wants to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by airplane. Capt. Endicott, a ...
Genre :Comedy

The Mother

1909-09-30 3.5

Wanted, a Child

A poor, elderly couple with many children is tempted when the husband's brother offers to pay to adopt one of the children himself. However, when forced to choose, the parents realize they can't part ...
Genre :

An Old Maid

1910-10-13 0

The Masher

Poor Hiram didn't anticipate the trouble laid out for him when he and his wife went for a stroll in the park. ...
Genre :

Mrs Simpson

1916-11-19 0

The Microscope Mystery

When a wealthy hypochondriac is dissatisfied by the care of the town doctor (Doc Arnold), he consults with a new physician in town who swindles him out of a large sum of money. When his daughter tries ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Mystery

The Housekeeper

1909-12-27 5.2

To Save Her Soul

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 curate who loves her, she accepts the offer and goes to ...
Genre :Drama

Blanche

1945-10-19 0

Make Mine Memories

Richard Fleischer provides a funny twist and amusing narrative commentary by Ward Wilson on two re-edited silent films in this RKO short film. ...
Genre :Comedy

Soldier's Family

1909-09-06 5.2

1776, or The Hessian Renegades

During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers. He takes refuge with a civilian family, but is soo ...
Genre :History, War, Drama

1909-12-13 6.1

A Corner in Wheat

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. The film contrasts ...
Genre :Drama

A Maid

1909-10-18 2

His Lost Love

Mary marries James, after jilting his brother Luke. Mary's sister arrives and soon James is professing his love to her. The shock of this kills Mary and leaves her newborn daughter motherless. Luke of ...
Genre :

1909-07-12 3.7

The Cardinal's Conspiracy

A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to stage an attack on the princess which he easily repels. ...
Genre :Drama

Mourning Woman

1909-07-29 4.2

The Slave

A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she offers to sell herself as a slave to allow them to buy food. ...
Genre :Drama

Woman on Sidewalk

1909-11-01 4.1

The Gibson Goddess

A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the stockings have been stuffed with cotton to make her ...
Genre :Comedy

In Doorway

1910-02-08 0

The Converts

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

Hank's Sweetheart's Mother

1912-03-21 4.2

Hot Stuff

Hank (Mack Sennett) loses his girl (Mabel Normand) to another guy (Dell Henderson) so he decides to get even with some hot sauce. ...
Genre :

Alice's Mother

1912-03-10 4

The Engagement Ring

Alice has two persistent suitors, one rich, one poor. Each buys her an engagement ring; the rich man pays cash, but the poor man must pay on installments. He has trouble making the payments, but then ...
Genre :

Mother

1911-09-13 5

The Squaw's Love

Wild Flower follows her banished lover, Gray Fox, into the wilderness. Her departure is witnessed by Silver Fawn, who mistakenly thinks Wild Flower is stealing her fiancé. Silver Fawn sets out in purs ...
Genre :Drama, Western

1910-08-24 5

Wilful Peggy

Peggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a wealthy lord, who proposes marriage and wants to introduce her into his social circle. But complications arise ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Comedy

The Maid

1910-01-03 4

The Rocky Road

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. Unbeknownst to him thi ...
Genre :Drama

The Maid

1910-04-04 5.2

As It Is in Life

A man sacrifices a new marriage for the happiness of his daughter. ...
Genre :Drama

The Spinster (uncredited)

1910-07-11 4.667

What the Daisy Said

Two sisters want to know whether there is romance in their future. One sister pulls the petals off of a flower, while the other has her fortune told by a gypsy. When the gypsy tells the fortune so as ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

The Girls' Mother

1909-11-11 4.1

The Light That Came

A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love her when his sight is restored? ...
Genre :Drama

Indian

1909-12-09 5.2

The Redman's View

An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one young Indian woman stay behind. This woman is thus sep ...
Genre :Western

Aunt's Home's Housekeeper (uncredited)

1909-12-20 5.5

A Trap for Santa Claus

The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely. ...
Genre :Drama

Extra

1910-10-10 5

That Chink at Golden Gulch

In China, before leaving for America, Charlie Lee promises that he will never dishonour his family by cutting his pigtail. Later, as a laundryman in a California mining town, Charlie is tormented by l ...
Genre :Drama, Western

1911-01-16 4.1

His Trust

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 killed in battle, George continues in his caring dut ...
Genre :History, Drama, War

1911-01-18 3.7

His Trust Fulfilled

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 meager savings to give the girl a good life, until the ...
Genre :History, Drama, War

At the Ball

1911-02-06 5

Heart Beats of Long Ago

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 house gives a feast in honor of the arrival of a weal ...
Genre :

The Neighbor

1911-02-23 4

His Daughter

William promises to marry his sweetheart, Mary, after completing medical school. William's father has saved enough money to set up William's medical practice. However, Mary's alcoholic father discover ...
Genre :

1908-07-17 0

The Fight for Freedom

In a saloon in a Mexican border town, a group of cowboys, including a Mexican named Pedro, play poker. One man is discovered cheating, and is shot dead by Pedro, who is wounded as he attempts to escap ...
Genre :Western

A Settler (uncredited)

1913-12-01 5.9

The Battle at Elderbush Gulch

Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting in an Indian attack on the town. ...
Genre :Action, Western

In Hallway

1910-10-24 0

The Message of the Violin

A girl's family suddenly becomes rich and rejects her long-time sweetheart. ...
Genre :Drama

The Poor Woman's Mother

1912-03-07 0

A String of Pearls

A story about a poor young man who falls ill, while his wealthy employer ignores his plight and instead spends lavishly on a pearl necklace for his wife. The poor man recovers with the help of his com ...
Genre :Drama

The Maid

1911-12-28 0

The Voice of the Child

A businessman neglects his wife, who is tricked into believing he is having an affair. She packs to leave him, but is distracted by their little girl, and can't bear to go. ...
Genre :Drama

1909-06-28 4

The Way of Man

A woman is scarred in an accident and refuses to stand in the way of her lover's marriage to another. ...
Genre :Drama

Servant

1909-11-08 4.5

The Restoration

A husband suspects his wife of an affair. The wife's cousin borrows a shawl to meet her lover in the garden. The husband spies the couple embracing, and, thinking it's his wife, he strikes the lover. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1909-02-01 3

The Girls and Daddy

Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy's money. ...
Genre :Drama

The Old Woman

1910-01-31 3

The Cloister’s Touch

A peasant family comprising the father, mother and little boy child are happy in their own sphere until one day several courtiers of a hunting party stopped at the humble home for refreshments. The me ...
Genre :Drama

The Maid

1910-03-03 5

The Newlyweds

A young man and a young woman, each unlucky in love, determine never to marry. But Cupid (and two separate bands of misinformed revelers) has other ideas. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Widow Garrity

1916-09-03 6

Gretchen the Greenhorn

Gretchen Van Houck is just arriving in the USA, on a ship from Holland. She joins her father, who has already spent several years in America, where he owns an engraving business. In the tenement commu ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

self

1920-08-24 0

Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 7)

An episode of the Screen Snapshots newsreels, showing seven segments of filmmakers behind the scenes. Featuring Oscar Micheaux,Colleen Moore, Ormer Locklear, and more. ...
Genre :Documentary

Howard's Mother

1909-10-14 0

A Change of Heart

Howard Norris, a wealthy young man from the city makes the acquaintance of a lovely young daughter of a farmer. By promising marriage, he entices her into accompanying him to the city. There is a fak ...
Genre :Drama

The Maid

1911-10-18 5.7

The Adventures of Billy

Little Billy, the bootblack, finding luck against him, decides to move to some other town. To do this he must walk, as he hasn’t the wherewithal for a railroad ticket. While trudging through the count ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Mrs. Montgomery

1921-05-01 0

The City of Silent Men

Jim Montgomery receives a life sentence for a murder he did not commit. He escapes upon hearing that his mother is ill and begins a new life in California after her funeral. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Mrs. Randolph Johnstone

1916-05-15 0

Susan Rocks the Boat

Susan, a pretty society girl, bored with her lot in life, reads and decides to use her time and money to help the poor. She founds the Joan of Arc Mission and quickly becomes an easy mark for con men. ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Eyre

1925-03-22 0

I Want My Man

Gulian Eyre, an American soldier blinded in action during the World War, remains in France after the cessation of hostilities and marries his nurse, Vida. Gulian is later operated on by a skilled Fren ...
Genre :Drama, War, Romance

Mrs. Mason

1927-09-01 0

Ragtime

The romance between a Tin Pan Alley songwriter and a high society girl. ...
Genre :Drama