Florence Lawrence

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Florence Lawrence (born Florence Annie Bridgwood; January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as "The First Movie Star", and was the first film actor to be named publicly. At the height of her fame in the 1910s, she was known as "The Biograph Girl" for work as one of the leading ladies in silent films from the Biograph Company. Lawrence appeared in almost 300 films for various motion picture companies throughout her career. Born : 1st-Jan-1886

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The Mended Lute

In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.
Released : 5th-Aug-1909

Lady Helen's Escapade

A bored Lady Helen goes slumming as a domestic in a boarding house. There she falls in love with a sensitive young musician. The other women in the house are jealous, and accuse her of trying to steal the musician's violin. Lady Helen retreats to her own home, and arranges a position for the musician which allows them to be together.
Released : 19th-Apr-1909

The Salvation Army Lass

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-- that is, until she's saved from the streets by a band of Salvationists. She enrolls, and soon afterward encounters her former love in the same bar. Her faith is real, and strong, and her former love doesn't like this.
Released : 11th-Mar-1909

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 number of the guests, among whom is Myrtle Vane. Miss Vane is playing in wretched luck, and is advised several times by Mrs. Wharton to desist, but she still plays on in the vain hopes of the tide of fortune turning, until at last, in the extreme of desperation, she stakes her all and loses. Shame and disgrace stare her in the face. What can she do to recoup her depleted fortune? As one of the guests there is Professor Francois Paracelsus, the eminent palmister, who of course, was called upon to read the palms of those present. Sheets of paper were prepared and each imprinted their hand on a sheet to be read by the erudite soothsayer at his leisure, and so were left on the drawing room table.
Released : 1st-Sep-1908

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 husband expresses his complete faith in her.
Released : 15th-Apr-1909

The Taming of the Shrew

Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.
Released : 10th-Nov-1908

The Red Girl

Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Released : 15th-Sep-1908

The Heart of O Yama

Pretty Miss Chrysanthemum has but little to say as to the disposal of her heart, at least, such is the custom in Japan. Her parents attend to that for her. However, pretty little O Yama Sum had a will of her own, and casting tradition to the winds, insisted upon making her own choice. The Grand Daimio has long loved the pretty O Yama and presents himself before her mother in quest of her hand. His offer is scorned by O Yama, for she loves another, a low-born but worthy warrior.
Released : 18th-Sep-1908

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. -- IMDB
Released : 11th-Sep-1908

Romance of a Jewess

This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic plot involves the conflict between generations in an immigrant Jewish family.
Released : 23rd-Oct-1908

The Clubman and the Tramp

Mack Sennett appears as a dinner guest and a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Released : 27th-Nov-1908

Flo's Discipline

Flo is the headmistress at Dow's School for Boys (enrollment: 12). The boys get too rowdy at the dinner table, so she dismisses the popular, but permissive, assistant principal. But the boys sneak out and he teaches them outdoors, until Flo turns the garden hose on them and chases the boys into the ice-house, which she locks. After an hour, she sends a bucket of hot coffee in with the assistant principal, but she removes the ladder he uses, stranding him. After another hour, he agrees to surrender, and she releases the boys. He leaves, but love has bloomed in the interim.
Released : 20th-Sep-1912

The Honor of Thieves

Mack Sennett appears as a man at the dance and a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Released : 11th-Jan-1909

The Christmas Burglars

Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Released : 22nd-Dec-1908

The Boy, the Bust and the Bath

A young female boarding house tenant becomes an unwanted object of male attention.
Released : 3rd-Aug-1907

Her Child's Honor

Unable to bear the abuse of her drunken soldier husband, the wife left her home and went to the city, where she became a nurse in a hospital. Her husband, recovering from a spree, treated his wife's disappearance as a joke and soon went with his company to the Philippines. Meantime a doctor at the hospital had fallen in love with the young wife and when news came from the Philippines that her husband had been killed she married him. They were very happy and a child was born to them. To a friend in her old home she sent a photograph of herself and family. Then her soldier husband returned for he had not been killed. During a reception at her new home he appeared on the scene. A dancer was to be there, but being unable to keep the engagement, the wife had prepared to perform the dance herself. The appearance of her soldier husband greatly excited her for it made her second marriage illegal.
Released : 26th-Mar-1911

The Viking's Daughter: The Story of the Ancient Norsemen

A Saxon prisoner rescues his Viking's captor's daughter, resulting in his freedom and their marriage.
Released : 1st-Aug-1908

Not Like Other Girls

Flo is not like the other girls at the Ferncliffe Seminary, in that she does not like the attention of the young men at the nearby college, and their efforts to win her affection prove disastrous to their ruffled spirits. Flo has a guardian, John Strong, who has made some unfortunate speculations and to recover his losses uses his ward's fortune, and in the end loses all. He writes to his son and tells him the truth and the only way to keep himself out of jail is a marriage between his son, Owen, and Flo, his ward. Owen arrives home and after persuasion on his father's part, agrees to help him. Flo is invited down for a visit.
Released : 26th-Jun-1912

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.
Released : 29th-Jul-1909

Elusive Isabel

Based on the spy novel of the same name by Jacques Futrelle.
Released : 15th-May-1916

Salome (The Dance of Seven Veils)

King Herod is enchanted by Salome's dance and grants her wish for the head of John the Baptist.
Released : 29th-Aug-1908

A Baby's Shoe

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 placing it in a basket on the door steps of a wealthy banker. Before leaving the baby the poor mother takes one of its little shoes to keep as a memento.
Released : 13th-May-1909

The Awakening of Bess

The Awakening of Bess is a silent short film of 1909 directed by Harry Solter . The protagonists of the film are Florence Lawrence (wife of the director) and King Baggot , a well-known theatrical actor, here in his cinematographic debut.
Released : 27th-Dec-1909

Eloping with Auntie

A girl is being shipped off to Europe with her aunt to break up her romance. Her suitor dresses himself as the aunt and manages to fool everyone long enough for them to elope.
Released : 24th-May-1909

The Shaughraun, an Irish Romance

An early short featuring Florence Lawrence.
Released : 20th-Aug-1907

The Despatch Bearer; or, Through the Enemy's Lines

A woman replaces her injured beau on a spy mission.
Released : 23rd-Nov-1907

The Medicine Bottle

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 medicine, and desperately tries to contact her daughter before it's too late.
Released : 29th-Mar-1909

The Note in the Shoe

A shoe-factory worker puts a note in a shoe box offering to marry the lucky buyer. As a result, she is dismissed from her job, but her employer finds her so attractive that he suggests a new job for her, as his wife.
Released : 6th-May-1909

The Unfoldment

Katherine Nevin and her brother Jack are given positions on the newspaper of James Osborne following their father's death. Osborne's city editor, Charles MacLaughlin, who is hated and feared by his business associates, is strongly attracted to Katherine, who accepts his mother's invitation to dinner. In spite of his ruthless manner Katherine tries to change the atheistic views of "Mac" and his embittered crippled brother, Angus.
Released : 1st-Jan-1922

Bear Ye One Another’s Burdens

When an infirm husband learns of the dire circumstances his wife must endure, he makes every effort to bring himself back to health.
Released : 28th-Jul-1910

The Blind Man’s Tact

Five days more! Only five more days says the physician, and the man who has for so long a time been totally blind will be able to take off the bandage, and have the great, light world before him!
Released : 14th-Feb-1910

The Rosary

A pretty model with two rival art students (her father's pupils) in love with her, a situation not at all surprising considering how alluring she looks in the garb of a nun, posing for their canvas. Jealousy and anger ensues.
Released : 11th-Apr-1910

The Little Rebel

A Civil War spy story in which a girl and the officer she loves find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.
Released : 1st-Jul-1911

The Two Fathers

An impoverished father is forced to give up his daughter for adoption. After she is grown, she realizes she has two fathers: her real one and her "adopted" one.
Released : 17th-Apr-1911

Taking a Chance

A matchmaking wife brings suspicion upon herself when she tries to reunite a young couple.
Released : 2nd-Aug-1912

The Doctor's Perfidy

A young doctor is jealous of one of his patient's romantic interest in his nurse.
Released : 16th-May-1910

Lady Jane’s Flight, a 17th Century Romance

A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.
Released : 25th-Jul-1908

The Forest Ranger’s Daughter

The forest ranger's daughter catches a spouse by hoodwinking Papa who brings in a minister.
Released : 15th-Nov-1909

Her Generous Way

A wife innocently inspires suspicion by generously giving away some money given to her for a hat.
Released : 29th-Nov-1909

Lest We Forget

A rich little girl helps a poor little girl by making their Christmas enjoyable.
Released : 20th-Dec-1909

Love's Stratagem

A short romance starring Florence Lawrence.
Released : 1st-Nov-1909

All the World’s a Stage

A jealous husband misinteprets the performance his actress wife is putting on with his best friend.
Released : 3rd-Oct-1910

The Broken Oath

A girl saves her sweetheart from the dealings of a deceitful gang that he has fallen in with.
Released : 14th-Mar-1910

The Call of the Circus

A circus girl must decide to stay under the big top or marry the minister who loves her.
Released : 7th-Jul-1910

The Count of Montebello

Gerald and Percy inherit a fortune and spend all of it in pursuit of a young heiress.
Released : 24th-Oct-1910

Debt

An extravagant wife leaves her husband, but returns when he strikes it rich.
Released : 19th-Sep-1910

The Eternal Triangle

A young wife instigates a duel between a dashing count, with whom she has been having an affair, and her elderly husband. In the duel, the husband is mortally wounded and his now repentant wife chooses to join him in death.
Released : 23rd-May-1910

A Game for Two

A wife tries to drive away her husband's best friend by flirting with him, but trouble arises when the friend flirts back.
Released : 30th-Jun-1910

The Governor’s Pardon

An honest man trades places with a convict so the convict can see his dying wife, but he is killed on his way back to prison. The governor must step in to assure the right man is released from prison.
Released : 28th-Feb-1910

His Second Wife

A dramatic love triangle between two women and a man.
Released : 7th-Apr-1910

The Irony of Fate

A rejected suitor rebuffs the woman he loves after the death of her husband.
Released : 1st-Aug-1910

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