Vivian Prescott

Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library of Congress and British Film Institute.

Ouida's novel made into a 1912 film -- released within days of another 2-reeler based on the same story.

Harry wants to marry Dolly, a showgirl, but only on the condition that she can win over his disapproving father. The father is so charmed when he...

Set in London (but filmed in New Jersey), the story endeavors to prove that man's greatest enemy is liquor. When elderly tosspot John Warriner is...

An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the...

The manicure lady spurns the barber and dates a rich cad instead.

Mr. Hobb's secretary and Mrs. Hobb's maid are sweethearts, but Mr. Hobbs has a tender feeling for his wife's maid, while Mrs. Hobbs forms a liking...

Woman Against Woman is a tale of two sisters. Bessie, the older and more sensible one, is forever losing her boyfriends to Miriam, the younger,...

An innocent man, serving a sentence of five years in prison through the perjured testimony of the real criminal, Steve Carson, foreman of a shipyard,...

A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not.

Charlie advertises for a wife. Madeline Blue, widow, writes Charlie to the effect that she will meet him at the park gate and that he is to wear a...

A montage of 13 remarkable short films recently digitized by the Library of Congress, whose themes echo the program of the Domitor 2022 conference,...

An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist,...

"Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a...

A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough sailor.

Amos Bentley was up against it in more senses than one. Times were so hard with him that he had to part with the furniture of his little apartment in...

Mrs. Thurston, a socially ambitious widow, is holding one of her famous Bohemian parties. To these functions are invited the leading lights of the...

Mary is the youngest of three sisters and of an impressionable nature. She and her sister Florence are living at home with their widowed mother,...

A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt.

Two creative bums invade a high society gathering by pretending to be rich.

Thieves follow a doctor as he takes home a large sum of money. Later, when they break into his house, the doctor's wife and daughter are trapped. One...

An old fellow has been ordered by the doctor to take a powder in a glass of spring water. He puts the powder in the glass and then starts off for the...

Between the wealth of the aristocrat and the fortune of the successful tradesman there is a great social difference, which is emphasized in this...

Gertrude chooses Jim over Jack, which makes Jack very jealous. Later Jim dies, and Jack marries Gertrude. He finds himself once again very jealous of...

During a stay at beach resort Mr. and Mrs. Randall neglect their daughter and follow their own interests. Mrs. Randall entertains the local minister,...

In the little Italian home the wife feels she is neglected and apparently it seems that her husband's love is growing cold, for he has become...