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