Blanche Sweet
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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.
Known for
Credits
Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)
as Donny Harris
Simple Souls (1920)
as Molly Shine
Twenty Years After (1944)
as (archive footage)
Public Opinion (1916)
as Hazel Gray
To Save Her Soul (1909)
as Stage Dancer
Fighting Cressy (1919)
as Cressy
Classmates (1914)
as Sylvia Randolph
Three Friends (1913)
as The Wife
Blind Love (1912)
as The Young Woman
The Meanest Man in the World (1923)
as Jane Hudson
The Hushed Hour (1919)
as Virginia Appleton Blodgett
A Corner in Wheat (1909)
Actor
The Second Mrs. Roebuck (1914)
as Mabel Mack
Love in an Apartment Hotel (1913)
as The Young Woman
Home, Sweet Home (1914)
as The Wife
The Tear That Burned (1914)
as Meg - the Wild Girl
The Blind Princess and the Poet (1911)
as The Princess
Souls for Sale (1923)
as Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
If We Only Knew (1913)
as The Mother
Girl in the Web (1920)
as Esther Maitland
A String of Pearls (1912)
as The Brother's Sweetheart
Love in the Hills (1911)
as The Mountain Girl
The Miser's Heart (1911)
as Neighbor
The Chief's Blanket (1912)
as The Young Woman
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch (1912)
as The Goddess
Strongheart (1914)
as Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister
The Sowers (1916)
as Karin Dolokhof
Judith of Bethulia (1914)
as Judith
Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982)
as Narrator (voice)
The Last Drop of Water (1911)
as Mary
Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922)
as Alice Pettengill
The Warrens of Virginia (1915)
as Agatha Warren
The Ragamuffin (1916)
as Jenny
The Making of a Man (1911)
as Young Woman
The Coming of Angelo (1913)
as Theresa
The Hero of Little Italy (1913)
as Maria
The House of Discord (1913)
as The Wife
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1924)
as Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield
A Flash of Light (1910)
Actor
All on Account of the Milk (1910)
as The Housemaid
For Her Father's Sins (1914)
as Mary Ashton
The Woman in White (1929)
as Laura Fairlie / Anne Catherick
Oil and Water (1913)
as Mlle. Genova
Two Men of the Desert (1913)
as The Authoress
In the Palace of the King (1923)
as Dolores Mendoza
A Woman of Pleasure (1919)
as Alice Dane
One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912)
as Rich Wife
With the Enemy's Help (1912)
as The Prospector's Wife
The Thousand-Dollar Husband (1916)
as Olga Nelson
Enoch Arden: Part I (1911)
Actor
The Avenging Conscience (1914)
as The Sweetheart
The Silver Horde (1930)
as Queenie
The Case of Becky (1915)
as Dorothy/Becky
The Secret Orchard (1915)
as Diane
The Little Country Mouse (1914)
as Dorothy
The Transformation of Mike (1912)
as The Tenement Girl
The Two Paths (1911)
Actor
The Stolen Bride (1913)
as The Grower's Daughter
The Voice of the Child (1911)
as The Wife
Enoch Arden (1911)
as Woman on the Beach
Bluebeard's Seven Wives (1926)
as Juliet
Through Darkening Vales (1911)
as Grace
A Sailor’s Heart (1912)
as The Sailor's Second Sweetheart
The Lonedale Operator (1911)
as Daughter of the Lonedale Operator
The Massacre (1912)
as Stephen's Ward
The Indian Brothers (1911)
as Indian
Help Wanted - Male (1920)
as Leona Stafford
Near To Earth (1913)
Actor
Why Women Love (1925)
as Molla Hansen
A Woman Scorned (1911)
Actor
Those Without Sin (1917)
as Melanie Landry
Those Who Dance (1924)
as Rose Carney
Men and Women (1914)
as Agnes Rodman - Stephen's Daughter
The Unpardonable Sin (1919)
as Alice Parcot / Dinny Parcot
The Deadlier Sex (1920)
as Mary Willard
The Painted Lady (1912)
as The Older Sister
Death's Marathon (1913)
as The Wife
The Far Cry (1926)
as Claire Marsh
The Day After (1909)
as The New Year
A Chance Deception (1913)
as The Wife
The Woman Racket (1930)
as Julia Barnes Hayes
The Battle (1911)
as The Boy's Sweetheart
The Broken Cross (1911)
Actor
The Captive (1915)
as Sonya Matinovich
The New Dress (1911)
as At Wedding/At Market
The Secret Sin (1915)
as Edith Martin / Grace Martin
Her Unwilling Husband (1920)
as Mavis
The Sporting Venus (1925)
as Lady Gwendolyn
A Cure for Suffragettes (1913)
Actor
A Temporary Truce (1912)
as Alice Hardy - the Prospector's Wife
For His Son (1912)
as The Son's Fiancée
Fighting Blood (1911)
Actor
The Painted Lady (1914)
as Jane - the Elder Sister
The Odalisque (1914)
as May, a Stock Girl
The Lesser Evil (1912)
as The Young Woman
The Clue (1915)
as Christine Lesley
The Evil Eye (1917)
as Dr. Katherine Torrance
His Supreme Moment (1925)
as Carla King
A Country Cupid (1911)
as Edith
The Primal Call (1911)
Actor
The Eternal Mother (1912)
as Martha, the Wife
Diplomacy (1926)
as Dora Weymouth
How She Triumphed (1911)
as Mary
Broken Ways (1913)
as The Road Agent's Wife
The Rocky Road (1910)
Actor
Under Burning Skies (1912)
as Emily
That Girl Montana (1921)
as Montana Rivers
The Spanish Gypsy (1911)
Actor
The God Within (1912)
as The Woman of the Camp
The Long Road (1911)
as Edith
Stolen Goods (1915)
as Margery Huntley
Pirate Gold (1913)
as The Daughter
Anna Christie (1923)
as Anna Christie
The New Commandment (1925)
as Renee Darcourt
The Storm (1916)
as Natalie Raydon
Make Mine Memories (1945)
Actor
His Daughter (1911)
Actor
The Villain Foiled (1911)
as Miss Page
Singed (1927)
as Dolly Wall
Always Faithful (1929)
as Mrs. George W. Mason
Her Awakening (1914)
as Mary