Edith Johnson
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The Scarlet Crystal
Feb 05, 1917Priscilla Worth, an innocent country girl, goes to the city to visit her aunt, who has sent for her, thinking that her childlike simplicity will afford a welcome relief to Vincent Morgan, a wealthy bachelor and man-about-town. The plan works, but soon after Vincent and Priscilla's marriage, Vincent, besieged by his friends to return to his gay life and suspicious of his wife's relationship with Durant--an artist who has painted her portrait--yields to temptation.
Crime
An Embarrassing Predicament
Oct 02, 1914Billy Quill, a bashful bookkeeper, loves Marjorie Keyes, the pretty stenographer. Anatole, the French barber, is also in love with Marjorie, but he is not at all bashful and makes himself a pest by declaring his love for her at every opportunity. Marjorie reciprocates Billy's love, and gives him every opportunity to express his feelings and "pop" the question, but Billy lacks nerve to say the fatal words.
Comedy
Conscience and the Temptress
Jan 14, 1914John Morton, a rising young businessman, comes under the fascinating spell of Vera Violetta, a burlesque actress, and lavishes costly gifts upon her.
Drama
Dixieland
Apr 16, 1913A minstrel troupe is embarking for a tour of the South. Henry Clay appears on the scene wearing the frayed coat of a Confederate General. He borrows a guitar from one of the minstrel men and begins singing "Way down South in Dixie," and the story unfolds.
Drama
Rosemary, That's for Remembrance
Nov 02, 1914Dorinda, a mountain girl, left alone by the death of her parents, is adopted by distant relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Greer. Mrs. Greer is not overjoyed by this addition to their family, because all her mother-love and affection is given to their only son, Harvey, just finishing a term at college.
Drama
If I Were Young Again
Nov 16, 1914Aged Jonathan Wise is head curator of the Department of Anthropology in the great museum at X. - He has a considerable fortune saved in the bank, and when Director Henshaw, head of the institution, jokingly shows him an advertisement of a brokerage firm which claims to make investors wealthy, the aged Curator shakes his head and replies, that if he were young again he would venture his savings in such an enterprise.
Drama
The Lure of the Windigo
Dec 14, 1914A young woman in the Canadian wilderness, seduced and then abandoned by her Canadian Mountie lover, turns for help to her old Indian friend.
Drama
Wade Brent Pays
Dec 22, 1914Wade Brent's father bequeaths to his son several hundred thousand dollars, but leaves this in the hands of a strict guardian. Wade's reckless expenditures and dissolute habits were the cause for these restrictions. Included in the property is Brent Hot Springs, a resort and the location of a sanitarium.
Drama
The Jaguar Trap
May 24, 1915Joe Grant is the renegade husband of Lengua, a beautiful South African native girl. John Lewis is a South American trader, living with his daughter Grace. Ned Singleton helps Lewis in his work. Grant steals from Lewis' trading post and orders the abused Lengua to aid him in secreting the loot, and she refuses. She tells Lewis of Grant's misdeeds.
Drama
The Girl and the Reporter
Jun 28, 1915Billie Benton, a cub reporter, goes to the home of Violet Reynolds, a society girl and settlement worker, and asks for an interview, which is refused. Billie returns to the reportorial room, expresses his failure and the city editor assigns Ned Pelton, another reporter, to get the story.
Drama
The Baby and the Leopard
Dec 11, 1915Fred Herman, a farmer in Africa, with his wife and baby, lives in happiness. Carl Snyder, an animal trapper, stops at the Herman home. He sees some of Mrs. Herman's paintings and tells her that her talent is too great to be hidden in the wilderness. He asks her to come to the city with him where her artistic talents will have greater scope, and she agrees.
Adventure
The Conspiracy
Oct 21, 1916Guilty
Nov 17, 1916
The Scarlet Car
Dec 24, 1917Paul Revere Forbes, an descendant of Paul Revere, is a teller at Cyrus Peabody's bank. He learns that Cyrus and his son, Ernest, have speculated with $35,000 of the bank's money, and the entire sum has been lost.
Drama
Smashing Barriers
Sep 01, 1919When sawmill owner Helen Cole is kidnapped by bandits, it falls on lumberjack Dan Stevens to rescue her, but "Wirenail" Hedges is not willing to give up without a fight. Originally a fifteen-episode serial, all that is known to survive of "Smashing Barriers" today is this single reel abridgment created for the home movie market in 1932.
Adventure
Hello, 'Frisco
Sep 28, 1924
Wolves of the North
Sep 21, 1924Serialized adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements and each other.
Adventure
Behind the Lines
Sep 11, 1916The daughter of an American diplomat is forced to spy for Mexican revolutionaries.
Drama
The Fighting Grin
Jan 28, 1918A man bets his father $10,000 that he'll marry his girlfriend within the next week, even with the opposition of both his and his girlfriend's fathers.
Comedy
The Circular Staircase
Sep 20, 1915Mystery
The Mystery of Dead Man's Isle
Jun 30, 1915A fisherman discovers a young woman on a long-uninhabited island who gives him the ominous warning that those who land on Dead Man's Isle don't have long to live.
Drama
Sweet Alyssum
Nov 15, 1915The boss of iron worker Roanoke Brooks (Power), is having an affair with his wife (Kathlyn Williams). Eventually she commits suicide and her lover dies in an accident. Roanoke lavishes all his love and attention on his daughter (Edith Johnson). As a young woman she goes to the West where she meets the son of the man who broke up her father's marriage.
Drama
The Shuttle
Feb 01, 1918American heiress Bettina Vanderpoel departs for England to visit her sister Rosalie and her impoverished nobleman husband Sir Nigel Anstruthers. Arriving at their dilapidated estate, Betty finds that Nigel not only has wasted Rosalie's fortune but has treated his wife and their little son cruelly. Betty jumps into action promptly repairing the estate with her own money and seeking to offer some relief to her sister by introducing her into English society. In the process, she meets Lord Mount Dunstan, a proud but penniless nobleman who lives in the adjacent estate. Strongly attracted to Betty, he nonetheless avoids her so as not to appear a fortune hunter. When an epidemic breaks out among the farmers it leads to life changing consequences for both sisters and the men in their sphere.
Drama
