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The Baby and the Leopard (1915)
Character: Ella Herman
Fred 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.
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The Scarlet Car (1917)
Character: Beatrice Forbes
Paul 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.
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The Mystery of Dead Man's Isle (1915)
Character: Hulda
A 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.
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The Conspiracy (1916)
Character: Marjorie Montague
Accused of stealing the annual report of the Great Western Railroad Dick Olney is discharged though it was really the president’s secretary Hodges who took it to sell information to the opposition. When Dick saves the life of the president’s daughter, Marjorie and her mother, the boss wishes to reward him, so he gives Dick another chance. Dick becomes suspicious of Hodges, when he learns that he and money lender, Gentry, are in cahoots. He takes desperate measures to foil their plans and succeeds in saving the day!
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Guilty (1916)
Character: Grace
Author Ramon Valentine lives in the slums looking for inspiration for his novel, but finds life threatening danger instead.
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Conscience and the Temptress (1914)
Character: Vera's Maid
John Morton, a rising young businessman, comes under the fascinating spell of Vera Violetta, a burlesque actress, and lavishes costly gifts upon her.
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If I Were Young Again (1914)
Character: N/A
Aged 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.
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The Lure of the Windigo (1914)
Character: Annette Le Clerq
A young woman in the Canadian wilderness, seduced and then abandoned by her Canadian Mountie lover, turns for help to her old Indian friend.
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Wade Brent Pays (1914)
Character: Ruth Illington
Wade 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.
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The Jaguar Trap (1915)
Character: N/A
Joe 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.
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The Girl and the Reporter (1915)
Character: Violet Reynolds - Society Girl
Billie 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.
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An Embarrassing Predicament (1914)
Character: Marjorie Keyes - the Stenographer
Billy 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.
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Smashing Barriers (1919)
Character: Helen Cole
When 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.
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The Shuttle (1918)
Character: Rosalie Vanderpoel
American 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.
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Dixieland (1913)
Character: Emily - Will's Wife
A 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.
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Wolves of the North (1924)
Character: Helen Mears
Serialized adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements and each other.
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Behind the Lines (1916)
Character: Nina Garcia
The daughter of an American diplomat is forced to spy for Mexican revolutionaries.
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Sweet Alyssum (1915)
Character: Sweet Alyssum
The 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.
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The Fighting Grin (1918)
Character: Margie Meredith
A 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.
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The Scarlet Crystal (1917)
Character: N/A
Priscilla 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.
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Rosemary, That's for Remembrance (1914)
Character: Margaret Snow - the Society Girl
Dorinda, 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.
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