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Blanche Sweet

Ur. 16 czerwca 1896Zm. 06 września 1986Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biografia

From Wikipedia Sarah Blanche Sweet (June 18, 1896 – September 6, 1986) was an American silent film actress who began her career in the earliest days of the Hollywood motion picture film industry. Sweet is renowned for her energetic, independent roles, at variance with the 'ideal' Griffith type of vulnerable, often fragile, femininity. After many starring roles, her first real landmark film was the 1911 Griffith thriller The Lonedale Operator. In 1913 she starred in Griffith's first feature-length movie, Judith of Bethulia. In 1914 Sweet was initially cast by Griffith in the part of Elsie Stoneman in his epic The Birth of a Nation but the role was eventually given to rival actress Lillian Gish, who was Sweet's senior by three years. That same year Sweet parted ways with Griffith and joined Paramount (then Famous Players-Lasky) for the much higher pay that studio was able to afford. Throughout the 1910s, Sweet continued her career appearing in a number of highly prominent roles in films and remained a publicly popular leading lady. She often starred in vehicles by Cecil B. DeMille and Marshall Neilan, and she was recognised by leading film critics of the time to be one of the foremost actresses of the entire silent era. It was during her time working with Neilan that the two began a publicized affair, which brought on his divorce from former actress Gertrude Bambrick. Sweet and Neilan married in 1922. The union ended in 1929 with Sweet charging that Neilan was a persistent adulterer. During the early 1920s Sweet's career continued to prosper, and she starred in the first film version of Anna Christie in 1923. The film is also notable as being the first Eugene O'Neill play to be made into a motion picture. In successive years, she starred in Tess of the D'Urbervilles and The Sporting Venus, both directed by Neilan. Sweet soon began a new career phase as one of the newly formed MGM studio's biggest stars. Sweet made just three talking pictures, including her critically lauded performance in 1930's Show Girl in Hollywood, before retiring from the screen that same year and marrying stage actor Raymond Hackett in 1935. The marriage lasted until Hackett's death in 1958. Sweet spent the remainder of her performing career in radio and in secondary Broadway stage roles. Eventually, her career in both of these fields petered out, and she began working in a Los Angeles department store. In the late 1960s, her acting legacy was resurrected when film scholars invited her to Europe to receive recognition for her work. On September 24, 1984, a tribute to Blanche Sweet was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Miss Sweet introduced her 1925 film, The Sporting Venus. Sweet died in New York City of a stroke, on September 6, 1986, just weeks after her 90th birthday.

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124 pozycji

Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter

Film • 1982

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Hollywood

Serial • 1980

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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Serial • 1959

The Thin Man

Serial • 1957

Make Mine Memories

Film • 1945

Twenty Years After

Film • 1944

jako (archive footage)

Srebrna ławica

Film • 1930

jako Queenie

Hollywoodzka rewia

Film • 1930

jako Donny Harris

The Woman Racket

Film • 1930

jako Julia Barnes Hayes

Always Faithful

jako Renee Darcourt

Why Women Love

Film • 1925

jako Molla Hansen

The Sporting Venus

Film • 1925

jako Lady Gwendolyn

His Supreme Moment

Film • 1925

jako Carla King

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Film • 1924

jako Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield

Those Who Dance

Film • 1924

jako Rose Carney

Anna Christie

Film • 1923

jako Anna Christie

In the Palace of the King

Film • 1923

jako Dolores Mendoza

The Meanest Man in the World

Film • 1923

jako Jane Hudson

Souls for Sale

Film • 1923

jako Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)

Quincy Adams Sawyer

Film • 1922

jako Alice Pettengill

That Girl Montana

Film • 1921

jako Montana Rivers

Her Unwilling Husband

Film • 1920

jako Mavis

Help Wanted - Male

Film • 1920

jako Leona Stafford

The Girl in the Web

Film • 1920

jako Esther Maitland

Simple Souls

Film • 1920

jako Molly Shine

The Deadlier Sex

Film • 1920

jako Mary Willard

Fighting Cressy

Film • 1919

jako Cressy

A Woman of Pleasure

Film • 1919

jako Alice Dane

The Hushed Hour

Film • 1919

jako Virginia Appleton Blodgett

The Unpardonable Sin

Film • 1919

jako Alice Parcot / Dinny Parcot

Those Without Sin

Film • 1917

jako Melanie Landry

The Evil Eye

Film • 1917

jako Dr. Katherine Torrance

The Storm

Film • 1916

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Public Opinion

jako Agatha Warren

The Little Country Mouse

Film • 1914

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The Odalisque

Film • 1914

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The Tear That Burned

Film • 1914

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For Her Father's Sins

Film • 1914

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Her Awakening

Film • 1914

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The Second Mrs. Roebuck

Film • 1914

jako Mabel Mack

The Avenging Conscience

Film • 1914

jako The Sweetheart

Men and Women

Film • 1914

jako Agnes Rodman - Stephen's Daughter

The Painted Lady

Film • 1914

jako Jane - the Elder Sister

Home, Sweet Home

Film • 1914

jako The Wife

Judith of Bethulia

Film • 1914

jako Judith

Strongheart

Film • 1914

jako Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister

Classmates

Film • 1914

jako Sylvia Randolph

The House of Discord

Film • 1913

jako The Wife

A Cure for Suffragettes

Film • 1913

Two Men of the Desert

Film • 1913

jako The Authoress

Death's Marathon

Film • 1913

jako The Wife

If We Only Knew

Film • 1913

jako The Mother

The Stolen Bride

Film • 1913

jako The Grower's Daughter

The Hero of Little Italy

Film • 1913

jako Maria

Near To Earth

Film • 1913

Broken Ways

Film • 1913

jako The Road Agent's Wife

Love in an Apartment Hotel

Film • 1913

jako The Young Woman

A Chance Deception

Film • 1913

jako The Wife

Oil and Water

Film • 1913

jako Mlle. Genova

Pirate Gold

Film • 1913

jako The Daughter

Three Friends

Film • 1913

jako The Wife

The Coming of Angelo

jako Martha, the Wife

The Voice of the Child

Film • 1911

jako The Wife

A Woman Scorned

Film • 1911

The Miser's Heart

Film • 1911

jako Neighbor

Through Darkening Vales

Film • 1911

jako Grace

The Battle

Film • 1911

jako The Boy's Sweetheart

Love in the Hills

Film • 1911

jako The Mountain Girl

The Long Road

Film • 1911

jako Edith

The Making of a Man

Film • 1911

jako Young Woman

The Villain Foiled

Film • 1911

jako Miss Page

The Blind Princess and the Poet

Film • 1911

jako The Princess

The Last Drop of Water

Film • 1911

jako Mary

A Country Cupid

Film • 1911

jako Edith

The Indian Brothers

Film • 1911

jako Indian

Fighting Blood

Film • 1911

The Primal Call

Film • 1911

Enoch Arden

Film • 1911

jako Woman on the Beach

Enoch Arden: Part I

Film • 1911

The New Dress

Film • 1911

jako At Wedding/At Market

How She Triumphed

Film • 1911

jako Mary

The Broken Cross

Film • 1911

The Spanish Gypsy

Film • 1911

The Lonedale Operator

Film • 1911

jako Daughter of the Lonedale Operator

His Daughter

Film • 1911

The Two Paths

Film • 1911

A Flash of Light

Film • 1910

All on Account of the Milk

Film • 1910

jako The Housemaid

The Rocky Road

Film • 1910

The Day After

Film • 1909

jako The New Year

To Save Her Soul

Film • 1909

jako Stage Dancer

A Corner in Wheat

Film • 1909