Henry B. Walthall
Henry Brazeale Walthall (March 16, 1878 – June 17, 1936) was an American film actor. Walthal was born on a cotton plantation in Shelby County, Alabama, and received his education from a private tutor. As a young man, he enlisted in the Spanish-American War, but was infected with malaria while his regiment was encamped in Jacksonville, Florida. Soon after his recovery, the regiment was discharged. He became ambitious for the stage and joined the Murray Hill Theater stock company, where he played small parts. Later he became affiliated with the American Theater stock company and soon afterward joined the Providence, Rhode Island, stock company. Walthall began his career as a stage actor, appearing on Broadway in a supporting role in William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide in 1906–1908. During his stage career, he appeared in Winchester, Under Southern Skies (1901) by Charlotte Blair Parker, Pippa Passes, The Faith Healer, The Only Way and other productions. For several seasons he was associated with Margaret Anglin and at the conclusion of that engagement, he joined the Biograph Company.
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The Sin of Nora Moran
A weird and wonderful slab of homegrown surrealism, THE SIN OF NORA MORAN’s surprisingly complex narration and florid montage editing makes it well-deserving of the UCLA Festival of Preservation’s accolades as “haunting, hallucinatory, artistic, exploitative…maybe the best...Watch Movie
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The Raven
This biographical film chronicles the immigration of Edgar Allan Poe's ancestors, the embittered life Poe led and his early and untimely death all within the framework of his famous poem. While the source materials are undoubtedly less than ideal, the subject matter (and rarity of the film)...Watch Movie
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The Scarlet Letter
The heartbreaking Colleen Moore stars as Hester Prynne, living in Puritan New England in the era of torture and "witch" burnings. She is convicted of adultery after giving birth to a daughter out of wedlock and condemned to wear a scarlet letter "A" on her chest for the rest...Watch Movie
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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Lillian Gish stars as a young wife-with-child, traveling by stagecoach, in this legendary D.W. Griffith short. When her group is attacked by Native Americans, things go from bad to worse as puppies go missing, children get kidnapped and the calvary comes to the rescue.Watch Movie
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Death's Marathon
"Partners in business and rivals in love." Not with each other, of course (not in 1913, anyway). Two gentlemen have an interest in the same woman. One wins, one doesn't. The winner has a few bad habits that create unexpected problems in the relationship. DEATH'S MARATHON is a...Watch Movie
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Friends
In the era of the gold rush, Dora (Mary Pickford) likes one fellow but he decides to prospect elsewhere and leaves her behind. Before long, another fellow (Lionel Barrymore) decides to make a play for the lonely young woman, too. A remarkably talented cast distances the relatively simple...Watch Movie
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Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
RESCUED FROM AN EAGLE'S NEST features D. W. Griffith in his first major screen role, that of a father who battles an eagle while attempting to rescue his child from the bird's nest. The story for this family-centered drama was taken from a famous incident that had been...Watch Movie
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The House with Closed Shutters
D.W. Griffith throws an exciting wrench in this otherwise conventional Civil War melodrama when a proud daughter of the confederacy takes her coward brother's place on the battlefield. She's killed in heroic fashion and her mother shutters the house to protect the secret of...Watch Movie
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