Blanche Sweet — Actor (21)
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Enoch Arden (1911) TMDB
Enoch Arden
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Wilfred Lucas / Linda Arvidson …
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 to say that this Biograph subject is an unusually faithful portrayal of that beautiful romance of Enoch Arden, Annie Lee and Philip Ray, taken in scenes of rare beauty". This is the combined feature version of Enoch Arden Parts I and II.
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If We Only Knew (1913) WikiData IMDb TMDB
If We Only Knew
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Henry B. Walthall / Blanche Sweet …
A careless nurse girl allowing the child to wander away, made the mother realize the poignancy of the little verse: "If we knew the baby's fingers / Pressed against the window pane / Would be cold and stiff tomorrow / Never trouble us again / Would the bright eyes of our darling / catch the frown upon our brow / Would the prints of rosy fingers / Vex us then as they do now?"
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Through Darkening Vales (1911) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Through Darkening Vales
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Blanche Sweet / Grace Henderson …
other title: Through Darkened Vales
Hard-working Dave loves Grace, but she rejects him for a flashier suitor. Grace is blinded in an accident, and her suitor abandons her. Meanwhile, Dave also goes blind from eye strain caused by overwork. Dave learns of Grace's misfortune and gives a doctor the money he was saving for his own operation, so her sight can be restored.
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Fighting Blood (1911) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Fighting Blood
director: D.W. Griffith actor: George Nichols / Kate Bruce …
other title: 戰爭中的血液
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 neighboring homestead, and he races back to warn his family as the Indians chase him.
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The Rocky Road (1910) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Rocky Road
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Frank Powell / Stephanie Longfellow …
other title: The Rocky Road (película)
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 this young woman is his own daughter.
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The Sporting Venus (1925) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Sporting Venus
director: Marshall Neilan actor: Blanche Sweet / Ronald Colman …
other title: Une femme très sport
Familiar story of spoiled heiress, Blanche Sweet, who dabbles in romance with commoner Ronald Colman. They roam the highlands together hunting since this is Sweet's "sport." They seem to have an idyllic affair going when into the mix comes an impoverished prince (Lew Cody). He determines to steal away the heiress and pay off his creditors. Indeed, this is the plan he shares with them.
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All on Account of the Milk (1910) WikiData IMDb TMDB
All on Account of the Milk
director: Frank Powell actor: Mary Pickford / Kate Bruce …
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 in order to see the maid. The daughter, in order to continue her impersonation, borrows the maid's clothes. At the end the two main characters are brought together in their true light with the blessing of their respective mothers.
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The Eternal Mother (1912) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Eternal Mother
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Edwin August / Blanche Sweet …
John and Mary divorce their spouses to marry each other. Mary dies after giving birth and the baby is taken in by John's first wife, Martha. She refuses all contact with John until many years later when he becomes ill and she finally forgives him for deserting her.
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To Save Her Soul (1909) WikiData IMDb TMDB
To Save Her Soul
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Mary Pickford / Arthur V. Johnson …
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 the city. Later the curate goes to hear Agnes perform and, fearing that her soul is being corrupted by show business, he asks her to return to the small town with him. When she refuses, he is prepared to kill her in order to protect the purity of her soul. This brings about her change of heart, and together they return to the little church.
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The Battle (1911) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Battle
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Charles West / Blanche Sweet …
other title: ザ・バトル
Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he finds his courage and crosses enemy lines to bring help to his trapped comrades.
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For His Son (1912) WikiData IMDb TMDB
For His Son
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Charles Hill Mailes / Charles West …
A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke which is laced with cocaine. Dopokoke is advertised as relief "for that tired feeling." The drink is a success, but the son becomes addicted to it, much to his father's regret. Loosely based on the allegations that the Coca-Cola company and other soft drink manufacturers laced their soda with dope.
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Death's Marathon (1915) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Death's Marathon
director: 大卫·格里菲斯 actor: Blanche Sweet / Lionel Barrymore
other title: 生死时速 / La maratón de la muerte …
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 wanes. One day after losing the company money in a card game, he decides to commit suicide. He telephones his wife from the office, as he puts a revolver near his head. The wife tries to keep him talking while the reliable business partner races to the office in an attempt to save his old friend. Will he make it in time?