Florence Lawrence

The police use a gangster's son to get to him.

A small textile factory down south is run by a cruel foreman that bullies and fires on whim the workers, especially the office girl who starts a day...

Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace is stolen, and Mr. Kendrick goes into debt to...

Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him...

An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very...

When Peaceful Patton goes to work at the Martini ranch he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw the Hard Hombre. This enables him to force the...

In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.

A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.

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...

The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at...

The amateur dramatic society chooses the Joneses' residence as the location of its next meeting, and both Joneses catch 'the acting bug' in this...

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...

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play,...

Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that...

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...

A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?

A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits...

After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.

Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken...

"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...

A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.

Mack Sennett appears as a Native American in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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...

Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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...

A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby asylum, heads for the surf, brandishing a knife. Innocent...

At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic...

After his wife receives an extravagant dress, a man find himself the victim of an attempted burglary; He hides in his fireplace, which is then fired....

D.W. Griffith film about an elderly father who grows tired of seeing his son bring home beautiful women so he gets a makeover and heads out on the...

This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic...

George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the...

Mack Sennett appears as a policeman and waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a dinner guest and a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Bachelor Reggie writes his uncle that he has a wife and child, but then must produce them when the uncle visits.

Mack Sennett appears as a member of the Wilkenson clan in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a lover in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a guest and a man in the fight in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's...

A woman is scarred in an accident and refuses to stand in the way of her lover's marriage to another.

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

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...

Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his...

Mack Sennett appears as a wedding guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a man at the dance and a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Oh, the woe of simultaneous birthdays, as were Mr. and Mrs. Hardlucks', and both being of a generous nature, were seized with an insatiable desire to...

Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance...

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--...

A young female boarding house tenant becomes an unwanted object of male attention.

A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to...

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...

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.

A young couple conducts a series of robberies, followed by a chase, in which they are shot and killed.

A Saxon prisoner rescues his Viking's captor's daughter, resulting in his freedom and their marriage.

Henry and Marion have a lover's quarrel and part in anger. They do not reconcile, and ten years pass without contact. Marion becomes a society girl...

Alice misunderstands when she sees her sweetheart Frank accidentally kissing her sister, and gets upset. Frank claims he'll kill himself by throwing...

In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his...

A tramp tries to get himself arrested so he can sleep in the nice, warm jail, but the police keep ignoring him or arresting the wrong person.

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...

Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm...

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...

A Boer woman and her daughter are captured by Zulu warriors.

A short film based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was the first film to dramatize the ill-fated romance between Mark Antony and...

Based on the spy novel of the same name by Jacques Futrelle.

The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and...

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

Daniel Boone is captured by Indians when he tries to rescue his abducted daughter.

A gang of lawless freebooters who terrorized the country and made travel in the mountains a hazardous pastime hold up a stylish landau in which are...

Mack Sennett appears as a barbarian in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

A hunter lost in the Northern woods is rescued by a trapper and his wife. He makes advances to the wife, is rejected, and tries to kill the trapper.

Young Wilkinson is leaving his dear old mother for a journey to seek his fortune in a foreign clime. Now, the little cottage is situated near the...

John Holland, a planter in a small way, is devotedly attached to his wife and infant child. The wife wearies of the monotonous grind of farm life and...

During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers....

Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar and in the wedding party in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Two feuding houses are united with the marriage and eventual death of their children.

King Herod is enchanted by Salome's dance and grants her wish for the head of John the Baptist.

It would have taken more than the wonderful powers of deduction of a Sherlock Holmes to have dispelled the mystery that shrouded the disappearance of...

The pretty daughter of a French-Canadian backwoodsman incites the love of a trapper who is so smitten with the beauty of this wood nymph that he...

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...

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...

An unscrupulous tourist plots to steal the famous diamond, "The Light of the World," tricking a young woman into helping him. She is caught and...

A wife offers to support her artist husband by teaching piano. She can't find work at the conservatory, and ends up working in a laundry, without...

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...

Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy's money.

Harry's jealous former mistress puts poison in some candy intended for his new fiancée. Harry discovers what she has done, and races to save...

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...

A young couple must endure a tedious visit from their aunt until their friend offers to find a way to make her leave.

Reverend Howson loves his young ward, but urges her to marry someone else. She accepts the proposal, but then sees the Reverend kissing an object she...

Jones's mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk.

House painter Jim Brooks thinks his wife is cheating on him with his best friend John West. The intrigue is in fact a birthday surprise.

John is seduced and abandoned by a cruel flirt. Later he learns that his friend Frank is engaged to the same woman. He relates his story to Frank and...

Jones' new house looks like all the others on the street. One night Jones enters the wrong house and finds himself in a precarious situation.

A woman replaces her injured beau on a spy mission.

An early short featuring Florence Lawrence.

After overhearing Jones mocking her, the lady book agent slips a suggestive note into Jones's pocket. A jealous Mrs. Jones finds the note, and a huge...

Mr. Jones stays out late playing poker with his buddies. While he's gone, a burglar starts to break into his home. Mr. Jones arrives home just in...

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...

Mr. Jones jumps to the wrong conclusions when he sees a bouquet of flowers and a man's hat in the parlor.

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...

A girl saves her sweetheart from the dealings of a deceitful gang that he has fallen in with.

A circus girl must decide to stay under the big top or marry the minister who loves her.

Gerald and Percy inherit a fortune and spend all of it in pursuit of a young heiress.

An extravagant wife leaves her husband, but returns when he strikes it rich.

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...

A wife tries to drive away her husband's best friend by flirting with him, but trouble arises when the friend flirts back.

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...

A dramatic love triangle between two women and a man.

A rejected suitor rebuffs the woman he loves after the death of her husband.

Jane thinks she has witnessed a murder and the suspect is arrested; she later learns the truth and saves him from hanging.

A haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the...

Lady Florence hides her lover, a Prussian spy, from the French troops who are hunting for him. One of her other suitors, a French officer, discovers...

Katherine Nevin and her brother Jack are given positions on the newspaper of James Osborne following their father's death. Osborne's city editor,...

A local girl's romance with the lifeguard at a seaside lifesaving station is threatened by the arrival of tourists.

An escaped mental patient assumes the identity of a society girl's dead father and threatens her marriage.

A young governess catches the eye of an aristocrat and romance blossoms.

Nan feigns insanity when her former sweetheart unexpectedly appears.

When a bored wife seeks a Reno divorce, she regains the attentions of her inattentive husband.

One man squanders a fortune and loses his house and sweetheart to another who strikes it rich.

An orphaned young woman rejects her appointed suitor and falls in love with her guardian.

A sympathetic showgirl assumes the guilt for her cousin who is cheating on her husband.

A society woman gambles at cards.

A maid loves her employer, sacrificing her own happiness in order to insure his.

A kindhearted criminal saves the life of the sheriff's daughter and is allowed to make it across the state line in order to avoid jail.

Two brothers vie for Rosie's hand; she gives a rose to each of them.

A wayward brother is mistaken for a burglar in his own house.

A jealous mother is envious of the affection shown toward her future daughter-in-law by her husband.

Miguel casts out his daughter when she marries a poor man, causing his wife to leave him, too. After he is unable to find a reliable cook, he...

Mons. Flamant, a typical roué of the French nobility, is surrounded by all the pleasures and pastimes his fabulous wealth can procure. In a...

Schneider is trying to write a speech but he can't concentrate with all the noise around him. During the night, Schneider catches burglars in his...

A silly and extravagant wife must learn to curb her wild ways before her husband is willing to take her back.

The Harrington's first born has died and the father and mother are inconsolable in their grief. Mrs. Harrington later seeks diversion in society, but...

A surgeon risks his life in order to finish surgery on a patient when a fire breaks out in the hospital.

John Cummins, a wealthy society man, while out in his auto, discovers he is out of gasoline. He stops at a country store and meets Flo Page, the...

Florence, trying to escape fortune hunters, is residing at the seashore, when her maid dies. Florence has pretended to be the maid of this woman and...

A Florence Lawrence short film directed by Winthrop Kelley

Two boys find a pistol their father has hidden. While they're playing with it, they line up a target, not realizing their sisters are on the other...

Out-of-work, Tim steals a sandwich, then knocks out the policeman who chases him. He changes into the policeman's uniform, and is approached by a...

Sight unseen, a man buys a bag that turns out to contain burglar tools. He can't get rid of the bag, even when he's robbed. The thieves assume he's a...

A young courtier gambles in a tavern and wins a coat from the leader of a gang. In the pocket he finds details of a plan to kidnap the Queen. He...

A father wants to marry his daughter to a rich man, but she's in love with someone else. She borrows a tramp's wooden leg, pretending that it's hers,...

A few of us have had the chance to read our own obituary notice, but it fell to the lot of John Goodhusband the rare privilege of viewing his own...

When an infirm husband learns of the dire circumstances his wife must endure, he makes every effort to bring himself back to health.

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...

An abused wife takes a shot at her husband, and, as a result, he reforms.

A young woman marries a man she hardly knows or understands; in a moment of crisis, the two suddenly realize what they mean to each other.

A young woman pulls a fast switch on the fiance handpicked by her father.

A husband learns from his mistake after he wrongly accuses his wife of infidelity.

A mother loses her sanity when she loses her child. Her husband brings home a newly adopted child, and she regains her health.

A husband becomes jealous when he finds his wife's shawl in a suspicious location.

A philandering husband arranges an ill-planned rendezvous at the same restaurant his wife and daughter are dining at.

Two old gentlemen who have been pals from boyhood decide that their children ought to marry. This intention is a commendable one, to be sure, and...

A woman is forced to reevaluate the quiet man in her life when she finds he actually could be her knight in shining armor.

Roses and trousers have little in common and pressed roses presage something wrong in the scheme of things. When roses are pressed instead of a pair...

A couple goes to Reno to be divorced, but change their minds at the last moment.

There is always a right girl for all of us; sometime, somewhere, somehow we find her. But often the discovery leads through strange channels and...

Two girls fall for the same boy.

When a senator falls victim to morphine addiction, a look-alike double takes his place.

A clever girl inventively uses a stage prop to attract help when burglars enter her house.

A fickle tomboy eventually falls for the suitor who had previously been annoying her.

The indolent, thriftless black sheep of the family, the good-for-nothing son of a rich banker bothers his busy brother, who is disgusted with the...

After an accident, a young girl desperately needs a blood transfusion to save her life. A young blacksmith agrees to be the donor and wins her heart...

An orphaned girl raised by a miner in the wilderness falls in love with a tenderfoot, even though the miner loves her as well.

A girl's affections waver between the winner of a boxing match, and a greedy count.

The story revolves around a young woman named Lenore Vance (Mabel Forrest), who loses her memory after witnessing the death of her father Silas Gregg...

Bank clerk Vincent Forrest loses his savings in a gambling den run by Madame Zoe and her provider, Van Merton. Forrest's wife Ann begins an affair...

Dr. Jane Bixby, a new doctor in a rural town, solves the mystery of the moonshiner's still.

A spurned suitor threatens to kill Margie's sweetheart if she does not give him up.

A prima donna falls in love with the voice of a singer that she hears on a recording.

A brash young man loses the business he inherits but learns a lesson in love from the daughter of his rival.

A minister is talked into performing a marriage ceremony for his sister and the beau he despised.

A pianist's music annoys a painter, making him unable to work. Eventually they fall in love.

Little Flo is the daughter of a blind musician and the pair live by means of the few pennies tossed to them on the street, the father playing the...

An unattractive girl endeavors to make herself attractive to an artist, but he sees only the artificial beauty of a model.

Betty, a farm cook, yearns to be an actress, but her dreams turn into nightmares, and she seeks comfort in the arms of a hired hand.

A stray bullet accidentally kills a blackmailer.

Fred acts as a matchmaker for his cousin Flo and his friend George.

A foolish suitor gains favor in a girl's eyes when he pretends to have saved her life. When the truth is known, she rejects him for the real hero.

An heiress, under the protection of the Queen, falls in love with a poor knight.

Flo's suitor wins her mother's favor when he returns a lost pocketbook.

Two actors, trying to soak up local color for an upcoming play, fall in love with the same girl.

When a minister tries to clean up Riverton, he finds an unexpected ally in the barkeeper's daughter.

When a fireman rescues his long-lost sister-in-law he mistakes her for his wife when she dies, and contemplates suicide until he learns the truth.

Two old sweethearts, Henry Jones and Mrs. Mary Owen, he a widower and she a widow, meet at a summer resort and, renewing their old love, get married....

A country suitor's jealousy of his rival for his sweetheart's hand culminates in fisticuffs.

The daughter of an aristocratic Southern family, proud, but impoverished, enters into a marriage of convenience with a wealthy stockbroker.

A society girl changes places with her maid for an adventure.

Romance develops between a young woman from the Tennessee hills and a man from the city; she saves his life when her brothers threaten to kill him;...

A young girl survives a dreadful childhood and grows up to right an old wrong.

A mother, grieving over the loss of her child, finds contentment in loving a lame orphan.

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...

A Civil War spy story in which a girl and the officer she loves find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.

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...

A matchmaking wife brings suspicion upon herself when she tries to reunite a young couple.

Aunt Jane's nieces and nephews bicker over an anticipated legacy.

An heiress, a businessman, and a playboy form the eternal triangle.

A young doctor is jealous of one of his patient's romantic interest in his nurse.

A dancer enchants a leacherous king but rebuffs his advances, resulting in his vengeful anger.

A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.

Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.

Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.

The forest ranger's daughter catches a spouse by hoodwinking Papa who brings in a minister.

A wife innocently inspires suspicion by generously giving away some money given to her for a hat.

A rich little girl helps a poor little girl by making their Christmas enjoyable.

A short romance starring Florence Lawrence.

A jealous husband misinteprets the performance his actress wife is putting on with his best friend.

An actress teaches a young girl how to flirt and win back her beau.

A nurse ignores her other patients in order to concentrate on her favorite one, a fascinating bachelor.

Misunderstandings abound when a minister's son and an actress become engaged.

A woman's sweetheart is prevented from killing himself by two burglars who are afraid they will be accused of murder if he pulls the trigger.

An actress cures a wayward young man of his extravagant spending.

At the opening of the film Pennsylvania Avenue is shown, nearly blocked by a motley mob of sightseers looking at the marching Suffragettes. The big...

A young Jewish woman wrestles with the dilemma of an interfaith marriage.

A woman is commanded under hypnosis to break into her father's safe.

An actress assumes a guilty appearance in order to save her faithless cousin's marriage.

Two lovers disguise themselves as counterfeiters in order to escape from the girl's disapproving parents.

A woman adopts the guise of a spy when she uncovers an arms plot concerning a country in Central America.

A maid discards her beau in favor of a musician whom she idolizes; when reality sets in, she takes her old beau back.

A doctor commits perjury in order to win a woman whose husband could go to prison based on his testimony.

A woman of loose morals takes the place of a young bride.

A promotional one-reel film promoting the stars of Universal Pictures.

A confirmed bachelor falls in love with the young woman whom he had pawned off on his aunt when she was first put into his custody.

Two couples head for Reno to swap partners, but change their minds at the last minute.

A young girl falls in love with a count, despite her father's disapproval.

A shopgirl assumes the guilt of her mother and is sent to prison.

A female mail carrier is injured on her route and recovers at a bachelor's lodge.

An uninhibited young woman is brought up by a reclusive eccentric.

A platonic experiment as to how a young couple should make love fails when it ceases to be platonic.

A moving picture actress is mistaken for an escaped asylum patient; the insane girl then steps into the actress's life.

A maid risks her life for her employer, with whom she is in love.

A wayward girl falls in love with the handsome image of a burglar she sees in a photograph.

When placed in a position to choose between two jealous suitors, a young woman turns the tables on them by choosing a third.

A new bride tries to win the affection of her stepchild.

A girl chooses between two boys by testing how each one would help the poor.

A young woman helps her brother by purchasing a much needed piece of land.

A girl from the country writes glowing letters about life in the big city despite the fact that it's really been disastrous.

A reformed woman shows a petty thief the righteous path by her good example.

Two brothers, one a minister and the other a cad, both love the same girl.

The sons and daughters on the opposing sides of a Kentucky feud fall in love and dismantle their fathers' guns to prevent further bloodshed.

A scheming suitor ends up losing his girl to a rival even after he receives an inheritance.

A husband uses a ruse to sneak back into the house after a night out.

A young man's parents refuse to accept his new wife, but a reconciliation is eventually brought about.

A hastily written letter is used in a blackmail scheme by a scorned suitor.

A young soldier is shipped overseas after a hasty marriage; when he returns he doesn't recognize his wife who has changed from the tomboy he married...

A widow threatens her rebellious daughter that she will remarry if the girl does not behave at school.

When a young man loses his wealth, he also loses his fiancee, but he is more than consoled by her younger sister.

Florence Lawrence stars in this society comedy in rural surroundings.

A sheriff must decide whether or not to allow his old friend, a criminal, to escape.

Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are...

A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses a beer with lunch, then gives in. After work, two...

Bob Spaulding, a manly fellow, meets Dr. Rankin and his wife on the street while they are engaged in a violent tiff. The doctor is about to strike...

During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat...

A mother punishes her son for eating a plate of cream puffs, unaware that the daughter really did it. As the daughter watches the punishment, she...