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Blanche Sweet
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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 G…
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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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BODY OF WORK
Blanche Sweet's Filmography
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Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
as Narrator (voice)
No Poster
Make Mine Memories
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
The Silver Horde
as Queenie
Show Girl in Hollywood
as Donny Harris
The Woman Racket
as Julia Barnes Hayes
Always Faithful
as Mrs. George W. Mason
No Poster
The Woman in White
as Laura Fairlie / Anne Catherick
Singed
as Dolly Wall
Diplomacy
as Dora Weymouth
The Far Cry
as Claire Marsh
Bluebeard's Seven Wives
as Juliet
The New Commandment
as Renee Darcourt
Why Women Love
as Molla Hansen
His Supreme Moment
as Carla King
No Poster
The Sporting Venus
as Lady Gwendolyn
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
as Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield
Those Who Dance
as Rose Carney
Anna Christie
as Anna Christie
In the Palace of the King
as Dolores Mendoza
The Meanest Man in the World
as Jane Hudson
Souls for Sale
as Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
Quincy Adams Sawyer
as Alice Pettengill
That Girl Montana
as Montana Rivers
Her Unwilling Husband
as Mavis
Help Wanted - Male
as Leona Stafford
Girl in the Web
as Esther Maitland
Simple Souls
as Molly Shine
The Deadlier Sex
as Mary Willard
Fighting Cressy
as Cressy
A Woman of Pleasure
as Alice Dane
The Hushed Hour
as Virginia Appleton Blodgett
The Unpardonable Sin
as Alice Parcot / Dinny Parcot
Those Without Sin
as Melanie Landry
No Poster
The Evil Eye
as Dr. Katherine Torrance
The Storm
as Natalie Raydon
No Poster
Public Opinion
as Hazel Gray
No Poster
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
as Olga Nelson
The Sowers
as Karin Dolokhof
The Ragamuffin
as Jenny
The Secret Sin
as Edith Martin / Grace Martin
The Case of Becky
as Dorothy/Becky
The Secret Orchard
as Diane
The Clue
as Christine Lesley
Stolen Goods
as Margery Huntley
The Captive
as Sonya Matinovich
The Warrens of Virginia
as Agatha Warren
The Little Country Mouse
as Dorothy
No Poster
The Odalisque
as May, a Stock Girl
The Tear That Burned
as Meg - the Wild Girl
No Poster
For Her Father's Sins
as Mary Ashton
No Poster
Her Awakening
as Mary
No Poster
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
as Mabel Mack
The Avenging Conscience
as The Sweetheart
Men and Women
as Agnes Rodman - Stephen's Daughter
No Poster
The Painted Lady
as Jane - the Elder Sister
Home, Sweet Home
as The Wife
Judith of Bethulia
as Judith
Strongheart
as Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister
No Poster
Classmates
as Sylvia Randolph
The House of Discord
as The Wife
No Poster
A Cure for Suffragettes
Two Men of the Desert
as The Authoress
Death's Marathon
as The Wife
If We Only Knew
as The Mother
No Poster
The Stolen Bride
as The Grower's Daughter
No Poster
The Hero of Little Italy
as Maria
Near To Earth
Broken Ways
as The Road Agent's Wife
No Poster
Love in an Apartment Hotel
as The Young Woman
No Poster
A Chance Deception
as The Wife
Oil and Water
as Mlle. Genova
No Poster
Pirate Gold
as The Daughter
Three Friends
as The Wife
The Coming of Angelo
as Theresa
No Poster
The God Within
as The Woman of the Camp
The Massacre
as Stephen's Ward
A Sailor’s Heart
as The Sailor's Second Sweetheart
The Painted Lady
as The Older Sister
The Chief's Blanket
as The Young Woman
Blind Love
as The Young Woman
With the Enemy's Help
as The Prospector's Wife
A Temporary Truce
as Alice Hardy - the Prospector's Wife
The Lesser Evil
as The Young Woman
One Is Business, the Other Crime
as Rich Wife
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
as The Goddess
A String of Pearls
as The Brother's Sweetheart
Under Burning Skies
as Emily
The Transformation of Mike
as The Tenement Girl
For His Son
as The Son's Fiancée
The Eternal Mother
as Martha, the Wife
The Voice of the Child
as The Wife
A Woman Scorned
The Miser's Heart
as Neighbor
Through Darkening Vales
as Grace
The Battle
as The Boy's Sweetheart
No Poster
Love in the Hills
as The Mountain Girl
The Long Road
as Edith
The Making of a Man
as Young Woman
No Poster
The Villain Foiled
as Miss Page
No Poster
The Blind Princess and the Poet
as The Princess
The Last Drop of Water
as Mary
A Country Cupid
as Edith
The Indian Brothers
as Indian
Fighting Blood
The Primal Call
Enoch Arden
as Woman on the Beach
Enoch Arden: Part I
No Poster
The New Dress
as At Wedding/At Market
No Poster
How She Triumphed
as Mary
No Poster
The Broken Cross
No Poster
The Spanish Gypsy
The Lonedale Operator
as Daughter of the Lonedale Operator
His Daughter
The Two Paths
A Flash of Light
All on Account of the Milk
as The Housemaid
The Rocky Road
The Day After
as The New Year
To Save Her Soul
as Stage Dancer
