Blanche Sweet
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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.
Known for
Credits
Blind Love (1912)
as The Young Woman
Public Opinion (1916)
as Hazel Gray
Fighting Cressy (1919)
as Cressy
Classmates (1914)
as Sylvia Randolph
Through Darkening Vales (1911)
as Grace
Twenty Years After (1944)
as (archive footage)
Three Friends (1913)
as The Wife
Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)
as Donny Harris
Simple Souls (1920)
as Molly Shine
The Sowers (1916)
as Karin Dolokhof
Judith of Bethulia (1914)
as Judith
Strongheart (1914)
as Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister
The Ragamuffin (1916)
as Jenny
Souls for Sale (1923)
as Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
Home, Sweet Home (1914)
as The Wife
The Secret Orchard (1915)
as Diane
Love in the Hills (1911)
as The Mountain Girl
To Save Her Soul (1909)
as Stage Dancer
The Meanest Man in the World (1923)
as Jane Hudson
Death's Marathon (1913)
as The Wife
The Tear That Burned (1914)
as Meg - the Wild Girl
The Blind Princess and the Poet (1911)
as The Princess
The Stolen Bride (1913)
as The Grower's Daughter
Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922)
as Alice Pettengill
The Second Mrs. Roebuck (1914)
as Mabel Mack
Those Without Sin (1917)
as Melanie Landry
A Woman Scorned (1911)
Actor
Oil and Water (1913)
as Mlle. Genova
The Unpardonable Sin (1919)
as Alice Parcot / Dinny Parcot
The Woman in White (1929)
as Laura Fairlie / Anne Catherick
Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982)
as Narrator (voice)
The Deadlier Sex (1920)
as Mary Willard
The Avenging Conscience (1914)
as The Sweetheart
The Woman Racket (1930)
as Julia Barnes Hayes
Help Wanted - Male (1920)
as Leona Stafford
The Broken Cross (1911)
Actor
The Far Cry (1926)
as Claire Marsh
How She Triumphed (1911)
as Mary
The Two Paths (1911)
Actor
The Painted Lady (1914)
as Jane - the Elder Sister
A Corner in Wheat (1909)
Actor
A Country Cupid (1911)
as Edith
Near To Earth (1913)
Actor
The Transformation of Mike (1912)
as The Tenement Girl
A Temporary Truce (1912)
as Alice Hardy - the Prospector's Wife
The Warrens of Virginia (1915)
as Agatha Warren
Enoch Arden (1911)
as Woman on the Beach
The Massacre (1912)
as Stephen's Ward
The Hero of Little Italy (1913)
as Maria
The Captive (1915)
as Sonya Matinovich
Why Women Love (1925)
as Molla Hansen
The Spanish Gypsy (1911)
Actor
The Eternal Mother (1912)
as Martha, the Wife
A Flash of Light (1910)
Actor
The Day After (1909)
as The New Year
Love in an Apartment Hotel (1913)
as The Young Woman
The Primal Call (1911)
Actor
The Hushed Hour (1919)
as Virginia Appleton Blodgett
The Silver Horde (1930)
as Queenie
Those Who Dance (1924)
as Rose Carney
The House of Discord (1913)
as The Wife
Broken Ways (1913)
as The Road Agent's Wife
The Painted Lady (1912)
as The Older Sister
The Rocky Road (1910)
Actor
The Case of Becky (1915)
as Dorothy/Becky
His Supreme Moment (1925)
as Carla King
The New Dress (1911)
as At Wedding/At Market
Fighting Blood (1911)
Actor
Pirate Gold (1913)
as The Daughter
In the Palace of the King (1923)
as Dolores Mendoza
Her Unwilling Husband (1920)
as Mavis
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1924)
as Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield
Diplomacy (1926)
as Dora Weymouth
The Voice of the Child (1911)
as The Wife
The Long Road (1911)
as Edith
If We Only Knew (1913)
as The Mother
Bluebeard's Seven Wives (1926)
as Juliet
Men and Women (1914)
as Agnes Rodman - Stephen's Daughter
The Indian Brothers (1911)
as Indian
The Clue (1915)
as Christine Lesley
Enoch Arden: Part I (1911)
Actor
That Girl Montana (1921)
as Montana Rivers
The Lesser Evil (1912)
as The Young Woman
A Cure for Suffragettes (1913)
Actor
Two Men of the Desert (1913)
as The Authoress
For His Son (1912)
as The Son's Fiancée
The Last Drop of Water (1911)
as Mary
The New Commandment (1925)
as Renee Darcourt
The Odalisque (1914)
as May, a Stock Girl
Anna Christie (1923)
as Anna Christie
The Miser's Heart (1911)
as Neighbor
The Thousand-Dollar Husband (1916)
as Olga Nelson
The Battle (1911)
as The Boy's Sweetheart
The Storm (1916)
as Natalie Raydon
For Her Father's Sins (1914)
as Mary Ashton
The Sporting Venus (1925)
as Lady Gwendolyn
His Daughter (1911)
Actor
The Lonedale Operator (1911)
as Daughter of the Lonedale Operator
A Sailor’s Heart (1912)
as The Sailor's Second Sweetheart
Make Mine Memories (1945)
Actor
The Secret Sin (1915)
as Edith Martin / Grace Martin
A Chance Deception (1913)
as The Wife
The Little Country Mouse (1914)
as Dorothy
The Making of a Man (1911)
as Young Woman
The Evil Eye (1917)
as Dr. Katherine Torrance
Her Awakening (1914)
as Mary
The God Within (1912)
as The Woman of the Camp
One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912)
as Rich Wife
The Chief's Blanket (1912)
as The Young Woman
With the Enemy's Help (1912)
as The Prospector's Wife
A String of Pearls (1912)
as The Brother's Sweetheart
A Woman of Pleasure (1919)
as Alice Dane
Girl in the Web (1920)
as Esther Maitland
Under Burning Skies (1912)
as Emily
The Coming of Angelo (1913)
as Theresa
Always Faithful (1929)
as Mrs. George W. Mason
All on Account of the Milk (1910)
as The Maid
Singed (1927)
as Dolly Wall
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch (1912)
as The Goddess
The Villain Foiled (1911)
as Miss Page
Stolen Goods (1915)
as Margery Huntley