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Operating on Cupid (1915)
Character: The New Nurse
A short comic film in which a young man has himself admitted to the hospital so as to see more of his girlfriend (who is a nurse there), to the displeasure of the surgeon.
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Her Rustic Romeo (1918)
Character: Mary
A Billie Rhodes comedy produced by Strand. Billy Bevan plays the farmer's son.
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Up She Goes (1918)
Character: N/A
Billie went up the "Angel's Flight" in Los Angeles and hubby went after, for he was jealous of the music "professor," who was teaching her the latest livery stable "blues" on the saxophone. Hubby threw the "professor" out of the house and the saxophone followed after.
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The Blue Bonnet (1919)
Character: Ruth
As an infant, Ruth Drake was stolen from her father by her vengeful mother, and then abandoned. She was adopted and raised by a pawnbroker, and as a young woman joins the Salvation Army in order to help the kinds of people she has seen--and was--growing up. When war breaks out in Europe, she volunteers to go to France
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The Girl of My Dreams (1918)
Character: The Weed
A girl nicknamed "The Weed" lives with her foster parents in their mountain cabin and frequently visits a nearby health resort to sell milk and eggs. On one of her excursions, she befriends a cantankerous old millionaire, George Bassett, who later bequeaths to her his entire estate. Ralph Long's car plunges down an embankment, and he is dragged from the wreckage and looked after by the Weed, who soon captivates him with her charm and ingenuousness. While he is in the hospital, however, the lecherous Kenneth Stewart snaps a photo of the girl swimming in the nude in a mountain pool and hangs an enlargement of it in his club.
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The Cave Men's War (1913)
Character: Lightfoot
The dramatized illustration of the invention of the bow-and-arrow through a romantic triangle foregrounded by the bloody conflicts between the Cave Dwellers and the Shell People.
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Something in Her Eye (1915)
Character: N/A
A woman passes a construction site and gets dirt in her eye, which causes her to wink involuntarily. Soon she has a trail of suitors.
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Chop Suey Louie (1923)
Character: N/A
Joe Rock short comedy, also featuring Billie Rhodes and Frank Alexander.
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A Two Cylinder Courtship (1917)
Character: Mary
A young couple head to Mexico to elope, but as they get closer to the border they realize they're running out of gas.
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A Maid to Order (1917)
Character: N/A
A lady unable to get a maid for a house showing dresses up as the main herself.
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The Frame-Up on Dad (1915)
Character: Billie
A father's plan to arrange a marriage for his son goes awry when the son marries another woman, then brings her back to meet the family disguised as a man. What could go wrong?
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His Pajama Girl (1920)
Character: 'Dolly' Dodd
Planning to fleece wealthy Henry Dodd, Blackie Blaisdell and his band of crooks convince the millionaire that they have located the deposed president of San Salvador, a country in which Dodd holds mining interests.
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Mary's Merry Mix-Up (1917)
Character: Mary, the girl
Father objects to Jack, Mary's new husband, believing him to be merely a flirtatious lifeguard. Mary's brother is in town and Jack believes her brother is something more-- that she may be 'false'. Jack disguises himself as the family's new butler to investigate.
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Good Night, Nurse (1916)
Character: Billie
Neal, while sitting in his room, notices an accident in the street and kindly goes to the man's rescue with his car and takes him to the hospital. The nurse assigned to the case, Billie, makes a great hit with Neal.
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Never Again Eddie! (1916)
Character: Billie - the Wife
Billie is waiting up for her husband, who has gone to the lodge. She is growing very impatient. Meanwhile hubby is having a great time. He has met some of the Gaiety Theater bunch and invites one to have a little supper with him. Just as things are going nicely, the wife's brother discovers them. The next morning, Billie finds a woman's glove, and, as Eddie can make no satisfactory explanation, she decides to leave him and go back to mother.
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Hoop-La (1919)
Character: Hoop-La Charters
Hoop-La, the beautiful star of Minor's Mammoth Circus, a one-ring affair which tours county fairs and small towns, delights crowds with her bare-back riding, trapeze acts, and clowning. Reared in the confines of the circus by Old Toodles the clown, in accordance with her father's dying request, Hoop-La naively accepts the attentions of good-looking Joe McGee, a cheap horseman, after winning a race for him as a jockey. Tony Barrows, the foppish scion of a wealthy family, falls in love with Hoop-La, but she resents his snobbery and makes faces at him. When Hoop-La learns that her father was wealthy, she secretly marries McGee to save herself from a dull society life, but when she discovers McGee's true character, she promises to keep him supplied with money if he leaves.
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The Tigers of the Hills (1914)
Character: Ruth Cameron - Howard's Sweetheart
Miller conceives a bitter hatred for Howard, his successful rival for the hand of Ruth, daughter of Colonel Cameron, commandant of a western array post. A party of immigrants, ignorant of Indian customs, destroy some burial scaffolds. The desecration is witnessed by the red men and a desperate battle ensues.
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The Star Reporter (1921)
Character: Nan Lambert
This episodic melodrama was adapted from the novel The Mysterious Mr. Trent, by Wyndham Martyn.
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The Lamb and the Lion (1919)
Character: Boots
A girl known as "Boots," who keeps house for a band of crooks led by her kind guardian, Uncle Ben, called "The Lion," demands that she be allowed to accompany them on a burglary. Dressed in boy's clothes, Boots is caught by Mrs. Kathryn Sylvester, a rich society widow, who, upon learning that Boots is a girl, resolves to avenge herself on James Graham, who refused to marry her stating that he wanted no stain on his lineage.
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Somebody's Widow (1918)
Character: Billie
A comedy in which the widow Mary makes a bet with her friends that she can win over a writer named Jack.
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In Search of Arcady (1919)
Character: Barbara Chichester
To escape the title-hunting suitors with whom her mother and aunt have surrounded her, Barbara Chichester disguises herself as a gypsy, and after buying a gypsy wagon, roams the countryside "in search of Arcady."
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Miss Nobody (1920)
Character: Rose Marie
A raft carrying a little girl and a dead woman drifts in from a shipwreck to Devil's Island. There, a band of thieves and smugglers name the girl Rose Marie, though she grows up as "nobody's girl."
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Over the Garden Wall (1918)
Character: Mary
Mary's sweetheart, Jack, is in the village jail for speeding, and Mary's dad, who didn't like Jack, saw that he was kept there. Mary captured two burglars and forced them to liberate Jack and put dad in jail. They then proceed to smoke out father with a smudge-pot until he consents to the wedding.
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