A moving picture actress is mistaken for an escaped asylum patient; the insane girl then steps into the actress's life.
Cinematic Era: 1914 Vintage
1707 Matches Found
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The Tale of the Sleeping Princess and the Seven Knights
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Randall is a rich mine owner whose business affairs cause him to neglect his somewhat frivolous wife. There is a mutual friend whom Randall carelessly allows to entertain his wife. As a result, the friend pays more than natural attentions to the woman. The three visit one of Randall's mines. The wife and friend go down the mining shaft in a bucket. While they are yet underground, a quantity of dynamite explodes. The mine is filled with poisonous fumes.
A Flash in the Dark
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Comedy. A father whose looking for a suitable candidate for his daughter ends up having a mistress and tigers prowling all around him.
Paradise
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Mabel Normand stars in this comedy short in which she has a world of trouble with her rival lovers.
Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair
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Billy McVeigh, a member of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, runs amuck another person of this service undeserving of its uniform, named Nome. The latter becomes his sworn enemy and is alert for a chance to "get even."
In Defiance of the Law
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Officer 666
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Tupper meets the wealthy Miss Whipple at a baseball game. When she declares that she just adores baseball players, Tupper starts up a team.
Hearts and Diamonds
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Raymond Beahan, a young chap from the city, pays a visit to his uncle, John Purcell, the sheriff. The day after he arrives, he dresses up in his uncle's hat, cartridge belt, chaps, etc., and is about to take an old gun from the wall to put in his belt when his uncle asks him not to take the gun, as he prizes it very highly. He then tells the boy the story of how the gun came into his possession. The story is so vivid to the boy, that when his uncle leaves him to round up some bandits, and he is left alone in the cabin, he falls asleep and dreams the same story his uncle has just related to him, only HE is the hero.
The Story of the Old Gun
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Edward Abeles and Theodore Roberts as a couple of prospectors who get involved with greedy city types on a business trip to New York.
Ready Money
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The Anglers
The Anglers
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For fifty years the Dawsons and the Putnams have been engaged in a deadly family feud. Old Hen Dawson is now the patriarch of the Dawsons, and Jed Putnam is the leader of the Putnams.
The End of the Feud
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A crippled old man and his daughter plot to kill a young man they mistakenly believe was responsible for the man's injury. Matters get complicated when his other daughter, who is a twin, falls in love with the intended victim. 15 chapter serial-1) Flower o' Flames, 2) White Water, 3) The Sea Venture, 4) Dead Reckoning, 5) The Sunset Tide, 6) The Crack o' Doom, 7) The Stalemate, 8) The Mock Rose, 9) As the Crow Flies, 10) Steel Ribbons, 11)The Painted Hills, 12) The Mirage, 13) The Jaws of Death, 14) The First Law , 15) The Last Trump.
The Trey o' Hearts
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The plumber, a powerful fellow, decides to give up his trade and become a soda fountain clerk in order that he may compete with the small, well-dressed clerk, his rival, for the hand of little Miss Moffett.
Love and Soda
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Diana Grave's husband has left her, preferring any life to that of living with a woman who is not congenial to him. Howbeit, her husband gone is a different matter than her husband present. She commissioned a detective to locate him.
The Pursuit of Hate
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Wallace Beery dresses up as a lady to fool the man.
The Laundress
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Vera Knight is hired to assist a biologist, Madame Bartlett. Since Vera is a naive girl from the country, she falls prey to the charms of Madame Bartlett's secretary and bookkeeper, Paul Chilton. The inevitable happens, and she goes home to give birth to a little boy while Chilton makes excuses for not marrying her.
The Taint
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Grace and her brother Edwin are living in a modest city apartment when they receive an invitation from their wealthy uncle to live on his Southern California ranch. While Grace is eager for the new life, Edwin refuses to leave the city, prompting Grace to travel to the ranch alone. On the ranch, Grace falls in love with the foreman, Jack Winston. Their romance causes conflict with Jack’s former lover, Inez—a Spanish dancer who attempts to stab Jack in a fit of jealousy after he breaks off their relationship to be with Grace. Years later, Grace and Jack are married, but Edwin has fallen into poverty back east. He eventually decides to join his sister in the west. Upon arriving, Edwin visits a local saloon and becomes innocently embroiled in a quarrel with a drunken cowboy, leading to a fight.
For Her Brother's Sake
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Mr. Forflush has a great desire for spending money, but his salary does not warrant the luxuries his life necessitates. The time finally comes when his creditors hound him. A wild chase takes place, which ends by Mr. Forflush jumping into a huge puddle of mud, where he accidentally finds a big wallet stuffed with bills.
Money Talks
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Those Happy Days is a 1914 Comedy short.
Those Happy Days
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Broncho Billy and his pal, Carl Stockdale, are in love with Peggy Adams. The two men receive a letter from the girl to the effect that the one who reaches her first shall be her husband. Broncho and Carl cut cards to see who will go, and the former wins. On the way, Broncho Billy is shot by a half-breed who has a grudge against him.
The Treachery of Broncho Billy's Pal
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A dancer has an accident, becomes a cleaner, and dies after dancing for her child.
The Two Columbines
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Zip is a young man whose job is to dodge baseballs at a resort concession. To impress a young lady under a parasol he gets a friend to substitute for him while he pretends to be a young man of leisure. Trouble starts when the girl happens along later and discovers what Zip's job really is.
Zip, the Dodger
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Manon Lescaut is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Herbert Hall Winslow and starring Lina Cavalieri, Lucien Muratore and Dorothy Arthur. It is an adaptation of the Abbé Prévost's novel Manon Lescaut (1731). It is now considered a lost film.
Manon Lescaut
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Slippery Slim and his wife, Sophie, drive to town. While Sophie does her shopping Slim sneaks over to the saloon to get a few drinks. Here he meets Mustang, so the two drink together. Slim has promised his wife that he will not take a drink as long as he wears a certain ring on his finger, so takes off the ring before each drink.
Snakeville's Reform Wave
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Engineer Daily is forced to discharge his fireman for habitual drunkenness. His young daughter, Rosanna, wanders down to the tracks, and the door of the freight is closed upon her. She falls into the discharged fireman's hands. He is quite in love with her, and when he learns whose daughter she is, concludes to keep her from the exasperated parents. That's where his conscience came in, leading to regeneration and better days.
His Fireman's Conscience
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A doctor commits perjury in order to win a woman whose husband could go to prison based on his testimony.
The Doctor’s Testimony
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The story concerns the reformation of a fast woman who runs a gambling establishment. Her one fear is of death and her regeneration is brought about.
The Spider and Her Web
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An Officer and a Gentleman
8.5 1914 • Cinematic -
A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Keystone comedy.
Lover's Luck
3.9 1914 • Cinematic -
Two foreign spies are commissioned by their government to secure at all costs a secret treaty which is in the possession of the Ambassador of Venezuela.
Adventures in Diplomacy
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Chief of Police Ivorytop and Chief of Detectives Sherlock Bonehead, of Rottenport, fall in love with Helen, a girl from the city
Sherlock Bonehead
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Zudora, not knowing she's an heiress to a $20 million fortune, lives with her uncle, a mystic and detective, who covets her inheritance. She wants to marry John Storm but her uncle is against it. However, the uncle makes a bargain; if Zudora can solve the next twenty mysteries brought to him, she can marry as she chooses. Episodes 1,2 and 8, plus another unidentified chapter, survive. The rest is believed to be lost.
Zudora
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Japanese horror movie from 1914.
The Ground Spider
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Rube Homer Splivins imitates the actions of a famous matinee idol in order to woo his lady love.
The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify
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A story of treachery and intrigue, with the outcome of the story contingent upon a packet of "secret papers."
The Seats of the Mighty
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Bobby Burnit, a naïve young man, inherits $300,000 from his father, a hard-working entrepreneur. Because the will specifies that the money must be invested, Agnes Elliston, Bobby's sweetheart, suggests that he take over his father's chain of stores. Soon Bobby becomes the dupe of various swindlers and charlatans, among them Sam Stone and Bobby's shady lawyer. With the help of Bobby's friend Biff Bates and Daniel Johnson, a loyal employee of Bobby's father, the swindlers are exposed in the newspaper and Bobby's inheritance is saved. Finally, after rescuing Agnes from Stone's advances, Bobby proposes to her, thus complying with all of his late father's wishes. -From TCM.com Database, powered by the AFI.
The Making of Bobby Burnit
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Tisdale and his lovely young wife are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary. Tisdale discovers his wife passionately kissing a love letter and upon obtaining possession of it, reads: "Ten o'clock at the old elm," and signed, "Your lover."
The Fatal Note
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Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where he runs into an odd group of men drinking and playing bowls. He drinks some of their mysterious brew and passes out. When he wakes up under a tree he is astonished to find that 20 years have passed and things are a lot different. This is a charming story about how America changed due to the cival war, only in a different and more subtle way than ever told before.
Rip Van Winkle
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Cold Souls
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Ruined by Charles Wainwright, George Garrison commits suicide but begs his son Henry to avenge him before expiring. Henry goes West makes a fortune, then returns to New York. Assuming the name of Henry Thompson he becomes Wainwright's protégé and through his machinations is elected mayor of New York. For his support Wainwright wants a franchise binding the city to the financier's railway, but Henry refuses. Attempting to frame Henry on an old murder charge fails when the “victim,” Henry's partner Joe Standing shows up. Finally, Henry confronts Wainwright exposing his evil deeds. Wainwright’s daughter, Dallas, proclaims her love for Henry.
Man of the Hour
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Helen, the telegrapher at Downing Junction, receives word that an engineer has been accidentally shot by a partridge hunter, and the runaway train will collide with the Eastbound Express. Helen jumps onto a nearby standing locomotive, opens it up full throttle, catches up the Express, warns the engineer of the impending danger
The Girl at the Throttle
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John Dale, a lawyer, who, after a trip to the Middle East, is asked by his niece why he's never married, leading him to recount a tale of a yachting party and a love affair.
After the Ball
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Geoffrey Brooke, an African explorer, becomes a friend of Rodney Miller, a struggling young artist. Through his influence Miller becomes celebrated. Brooke is called to the Congo, leaving behind his bride of a few months. Miller is about to despair of finding a suitable model for his supreme artistic effort, a painting of Circe, the temptress, when Cleo, a bewitchingly beautiful woman enters and offers to pose for it.
The Passing of Diana
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A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.
The Cavalry
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Once a lot of grown-up girls organized a club for the discussion of current evils. The principal current evil they discussed was man. The object was to find some way to keep them home at nights. One dame thought every wife ought to provide her companion with an intellectual atmosphere so he wouldn't sneak out at night to the thirst parlor.
The Fable of the Club Girls and the Four Times
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A Change of Complexion
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A mounted police lieutenant investigates the murder of a factor, MacKenzie, discovering it's a tale of vengeance: MacKenzie had stolen the assistant factor Burke's wife and daughter, leading Burke to kill him in a coin toss for the first shot, a brutal act presented as a chilling story of betrayal and revenge in the wilderness.
A Tragedy of the North Woods
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Pisa, 1494. Young Severo, who has sworn to stab the tyrant in his town, learns that it is his own father.
Severo Torelli
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Bert Stafford, who is in love with Sylvia Randolph, his mother's ward, despises Duncan Irving, a poor boy who is the object of Sylvia's affections.
Classmates
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Allen Bancroft of Lancashire is framed by criminals leading to his imprisonment and subsequent struggle to clear his name and find work, all while facing coercion from the same criminals.
The Ticket-of-Leave Man
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Thomas Lattier is a well-to-do westerner in the cattle business. One fine day he sells a herd of cattle, receiving for it cash payment in bills of large denomination. He proceeds to town alone to deposit it in his bank. Two bad men, Bretall and Hayes, have learned of the deal and trail him with a view to securing the money.
Shotgun Jones
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An actress assumes a guilty appearance in order to save her faithless cousin's marriage.
The Coryphee
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Helen and Joe are in love. He receives a letter from his uncle offering him a good position in his law office. He shows Helen the letter and she shows him one from the Standard, also a check for a short story. They have a quarrel over a slight thing and he leaves for his uncle's place. Six years go by and Helen is now a very successful writer on a large daily.
The Exposure
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Stuart Webbs investigates a coin counterfeiting gang.
Das Panzergewölbe
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Sue's father has chosen Percy; Sue's mother has chosen Patterson, while Sue has chosen Jack. Mother and father decide that they can never be reconciled while each champions a candidate for their daughter's hand.
Marrying Sue
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A kabuki film based on Tolstoy's novel Resurrection.
Katyusha
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Mr. Hadley shows Bill a photograph of his fiancée, Alice Mordaunt, and instructs Bill to admit her immediately should she arrive at the office. Bill leaves for lunch. Upon his return, he discovers his boss kissing Ethel, who is Mr. Hadley's sister, not his fiancée. Bill, unaware of their family relationship, is horrified, believing his boss is being unfaithful to Alice Mordaunt. Feeling a strong sense of loyalty to the absent fiancée, Bill decides to get even with his boss. He informs Mr. Hadley's real fiancée, Alice, about his boss's perceived "duplicity". The outcome is a comical situation as Bill's interference leads to misunderstandings and fallout, which is how Bill "squares it" with his boss.
How Bill Squared It with His Boss
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Mr. Meekley, a baseball fan, has a flat tire on his way to a pennant game. He remains determined to make it to the game regardless of this and further setbacks. The film's climax was shot at a pivotal game between the New York Giants and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Getting to the Ball Game
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A scientist resurrects his dead daughter, only to realize she now lacks a soul.
Lola
0.0 1914 • Cinematic