Vivian Prescott Movies

Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library of Congress and British Film Institute.

Genre: Drama

Cast: King Baggot

Ouida's novel made into a 1912 film -- released within days of another 2-reeler based on the same story.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Herschel Mayall

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joseph Graybill

Set in London (but filmed in New Jersey), the story endeavors to prove that man's greatest enemy is liquor. When elderly tosspot John Warriner is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: W. Chrystie Miller

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mack Sennett

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...

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Cast: Edward Dillon

Woman Against Woman is a tale of two sisters. Bessie, the older and more sensible one, is forever losing her boyfriends to Miriam, the younger,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

An innocent man, serving a sentence of five years in prison through the perjured testimony of the real criminal, Steve Carson, foreman of a shipyard,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not.

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Cast: Wilfred Lucas

Charlie advertises for a wife. Madeline Blue, widow, writes Charlie to the effect that she will meet him at the park gate and that he is to wear a...

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Cast: Vivian Prescott

A montage of 13 remarkable short films recently digitized by the Library of Congress, whose themes echo the program of the Domitor 2022 conference,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles West

"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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marion Leonard

A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough sailor.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Wilfred Lucas

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Henry Bergman

Amos Bentley was up against it in more senses than one. Times were so hard with him that he had to part with the furniture of his little apartment in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: King Baggot

Mrs. Thurston, a socially ambitious widow, is holding one of her famous Bohemian parties. To these functions are invited the leading lights of the...

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Cast: Vivian Prescott

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Pickford

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wilfred Lucas

Two creative bums invade a high society gathering by pretending to be rich.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mack Sennett

Thieves follow a doctor as he takes home a large sum of money. Later, when they break into his house, the doctor's wife and daughter are trapped. One...

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Cast: Wilfred Lucas

An old fellow has been ordered by the doctor to take a powder in a glass of spring water. He puts the powder in the glass and then starts off for the...

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Cast: Edward Dillon

Between the wealth of the aristocrat and the fortune of the successful tradesman there is a great social difference, which is emphasized in this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Morgan

Gertrude chooses Jim over Jack, which makes Jack very jealous. Later Jim dies, and Jack marries Gertrude. He finds himself once again very jealous of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marion Leonard

During a stay at beach resort Mr. and Mrs. Randall neglect their daughter and follow their own interests. Mrs. Randall entertains the local minister,...

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Cast: Charles West

In the little Italian home the wife feels she is neglected and apparently it seems that her husband's love is growing cold, for he has become...

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Cast: Charles West