This is the filmography for Blanche Sweet . According to the Internet Movie Database, Sweet appeared in 161 films between 1909 and 1959. [1]
† | Denotes a lost or presumed lost film. |
Blanche Sweet started working at Biograph in 1909 under contract to director D. W. Griffith. Sweet remained at Biograph until 1914. Sweet starred in 85 films under Biograph, most of which were one or two reels.
Release date | Title | Role | Director | Studio(s) / Distributor(s) | Notes |
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1909 | A Man with Three Wives† | ||||
December 13, 1913 | A Corner in Wheat | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
December 23, 1909 | In Little Italy | At the Ball | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
December 27, 1909 | To Save Her Soul | Backstage at Debut/At Party | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
December 30, 1909 | The Day After | The New Year | D. W. Griffith Frank Powell | Biograph Company | |
December 30, 1909 | Choosing a Husband † | One of Gladys' Friends | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company |
Release date | Title | Role | Director | Studio(s) / Distributor(s) | Notes |
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January 3, 1910 | The Rocky Road | The Daughter, at Eighteen | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
January 15, 1910 | All on Account of the Milk | The Maid | Frank Powell | Biograph Company | |
April 11, 1910 | A Romance of the Western Hills | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
April 14, 1910 | The Kid † | Frank Powell | Biograph Company | ||
July 18, 1910 | A Flash of Light | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
November 17, 1910 | Love in Quarantine † | Frank Powell | Biograph Company |
Release date | Title | Role | Director | Studio(s) / Distributor(s) | Notes |
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January 2, 1911 | The Two Paths | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
February 6, 1911 | Heart Beats of Long Ago | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
February 23, 1911 | His Daughter † | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
February 27, 1911 | The Lily of the Tenements † | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
March 6, 1911 | A Decree of Destiny | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
March 16, 1911 | Was He a Coward? | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
March 23, 1911 | The Lonedale Operator | Daughter of the Linedale Operator | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | Uncredited |
March 27, 1911 | Priscilla's April Fool Joke † | On Lawn | Frank Powell | Biograph Company | |
March 30, 1911 | The Spanish Gypsy † | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
April 3, 1911 | Priscilla and the Umbrella † | The Sister | Frank Powell Mack Sennett | Biograph Company | |
April 6, 1911 | The Broken Cross † | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
April 27, 1911 | How She Triumphed † | Mary | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
May 11, 1911 | The Country Lovers † | Mack Sennett | Biograph Company | ||
May 15, 1911 | The New Dress † | At Wedding/At Market | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
May 25, 1911 | The White Rose of the Wilds † | White Rose | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
June 5, 1911 | The Smile of a Child † | The Peasant Woman | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
June 12, 1911 June 15, 1911 | Enoch Arden | On the Beach | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
June 22, 1911 | The Primal Call † | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
June 29, 1911 | Fighting Blood | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
July 17, 1911 | The Indian Brothers | Indian | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
July 24, 1911 | A Country Cupid | Edith | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
July 27, 1911 | The Last Drop of Water | Mary | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
August 3, 1911 | Out from the Shadow † | Mrs. Vane | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
August 17, 1911 | The Blind Princess and the Poet † | The Princess | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
September 4, 1911 | The Stuff Heroes Are Made Of | Alice | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
October 5, 1911 | The Making of a Man † | Young Woman | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
October 26, 1911 | The Long Road † | Edith | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
October 30, 1911 | Love in the Hills † | The Girl | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
November 6, 1911 | The Battle | The Boy's Sweetheart | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
November 16, 1911 | Through Darkened Vales | Grace | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
November 20, 1911 | The Miser's Heart | Neighbor | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
November 30, 1911 | A Woman Scorned † | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
December 28, 1911 | The Voice of the Child † | The Wife | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company |
Release date | Title | Role | Director | Studio(s) / Distributor(s) | Notes |
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January 11, 1912 | The Eternal Mother | Martha, the Wife | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
January 18, 1912 | The Old Bookkeeper † | The Old Bookkeeper's Employer's Wife | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
January 22, 1912 | For His Son | The Son's Fiancée | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
February 1, 1912 | The Transformation of Mike | The Tenement Girl | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
February 8, 1912 | A Sister's Love † | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
February 22, 1912 | Under Burning Skies | Emily | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
March 7, 1912 | A String of Pearls † | The Second Woman | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
March 25, 1912 | The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch † | The Goddess | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
April 4, 1912 | The Punishment † | The Fruit Grower's Daughter | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
April 25, 1912 | One Is Business, the Other Crime | Rich Wife | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
April 29, 1912 | The Lesser Evil | The Young Woman | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
May 30, 1912 | An Outcast Among Outcasts † | The Young Woman | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
June 10, 1912 | A Temporary Truce | Alice, the Prospector's Wife | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
June 20, 1912 | The Spirit Awakened † | The Young Woman | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
July 1, 1912 | Man's Lust for Gold † | The Prospector's Daughter | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
August 12, 1912 | The Inner Circle | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
August 19, 1912 | With the Enemy's Help | The Prospector's Wife | Wilfred Lucas | Biograph Company | |
August 22, 1912 | A Change of Spirit † | The Young Woman | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
1912 | A Pueblo Romance† | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
September 12, 1912 | Blind Love † | The Young Woman | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
October 10, 1912 | The Chief's Blanket † | The Young Woman | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
October 24, 1912 | The Painted Lady | the Older Sister | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
November 25, 1912 | A Sailor's Heart | The Wife | Wilfred Lucas | Biograph Company | |
December 26, 1912 | The God Within | The Woman of the Camp | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company General Film Company |
Release date | Title | Role | Director | Studio(s) / Distributor(s) | Notes |
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January 2, 1913 | Three Friends † | The Wife | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
January 13, 1913 | Pirate Gold † | The Daughter | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
February 6, 1913 | Oil and Water | Mlle. Genova | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
February 24, 1913 | A Chance Deception † | The Wife | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
February 27, 1913 | Love in an Apartment Hotel † | The Young Woman | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
March 8, 1913 | Broken Ways | The Road Agent's Wife | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
March 20, 1913 | Near to Earth † | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
April 3, 1913 | The Hero of Little Italy † | Maria | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
April 7, 1913 | The Stolen Bride † | The Grower's Daughter | Anthony O'Sullivan | Biograph Company | |
May 1, 1913 | If We Only Knew † | The Mother | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
June 14, 1913 | Death's Marathon | The Wife | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
July 12, 1913 | The Mistake † | The Young Woman | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
1913 | The Coming of Angelo† | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
July 28, 1913 | The Vengeance of Galora † | Anthony O'Sullivan | Biograph Company | ||
August 23, 1913 | Two Men of the Desert † | The Authoress | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
November 17, 1913 | A Cure for Suffragettes | Edward Dillon | Biograph Company | ||
November 1913 | The Battle at Elderbush Gulch | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
December 13, 1913 | The House of Discord | The Wife | James Kirkwood Sr. | Biograph Company | |
1913 | Beyond All Law† | Frank Powell | Biograph Company | ||
1913 | Her Wedding Bell† | Biograph Company | |||
1913 | The Wedding Gown | Frank Powell | Biograph Company |
Release date | Title | Role | Director | Studio(s) / Distributor(s) | Notes |
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1914 | The Sentimental Sister† | Biograph Company | |||
February 14, 1914 | Classmates | Sylvia Randolph | James Kirkwood | Biograph Company | |
February 26, 1914 | The Massacre | Stephen's Ward | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
March 8, 1914 | Judith of Bethulia | Judith | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | |
March 19, 1914 | Strongheart † | Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister | James Kirkwood | Biograph Company | |
April 25, 1914 | Brute Force | D. W. Griffith | Biograph Company | ||
March 18, 1915 | His Desperate Deed † | Biograph Company |
Griffith left Biograph in 1914, wanting to continue directing feature films such as Judith of Bethulia. He took his actors with him and joined the Mutual Film Corporation. Most of Sweet's films under Mutual Film are now lost. Of the 14 films, only 3 are known to survive.
Release date | Title | Role | Director | Studio(s) / Distributor(s) | Notes |
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1914 | Ashes of the Past† | James Kirkwood Sr. | Mutual Film | ||
May 17, 1914 | Home, Sweet Home | The Wife | D. W. Griffith | Mutual Film | |
1914 | The Soul of Honor† | James Kirkwood Sr. | Mutual Film | ||
June 1, 1914 | The Escape † | May Joyce | D. W. Griffith | Mutual Film | |
August 2, 1914 | The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' | his sweetheart | D. W. Griffith | Mutual Film | |
1914 | The Second Mrs. Roebuck† | Mabel Mack | D. W. Griffith | Mutual Film | |
August 1914 | Men and Women † | Agnes Rodman | James Kirkwood | Biograph Company | |
1914 | For Those Unborn† | Christy Cabanne | Mutual Film | ||
1914 | Her Awakening† | Mary | Christy Cabanne | Mutual Film | |
1914 | For Her Father's Sins† | Mary Ashton | John B. O'Brien | ||
November 8, 1914 | The Tear That Burned † | John B. O'Brien | Mutual Film | ||
1914 | The Odalisque† | May, A Stock Girl | Christy Cabanne | Mutual Film | |
1914 | The Little Country Mouse | Dorothy | Donald Crisp | Mutual Film | |
1914 | The Old Maid† | John B. O'Brien | Mutual Film |
Sweet and Griffith parted ways in 1915 and Sweet signed with Famous Players Film Company for a higher pay. The studio would become known as Famous Players-Lasky following a merger in 1916. Films would be distributed by Paramount Pictures. 8 of the 20 films Sweet starred in survive, while 12 are presumed lost.
Release date | Title | Role | Director | Studio(s) / Distributor(s) | Notes |
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February 15, 1915 | The Warrens of Virginia | Agatha Warren | Cecil B. DeMille | Paramount Pictures | |
April 22, 1915 | The Captive | Sonya Martinovich | Cecil B. DeMille | Paramount Pictures | |
May 24, 1915 | Stolen Goods † | Margery Huntley | George Melford | Paramount Pictures | |
July 8, 1915 | The Clue † | Christine Lesley | James Neill Frank Reicher | Paramount Pictures | |
August 9, 1915 | The Secret Orchard † | Diane | Frank Reicher | Paramount Pictures | |
September 13, 1915 | The Case of Becky | Dorothy/Becky | Frank Reicher | Paramount Pictures | |
October 21, 1915 | The Secret Sin | Edith Martin/Grace Martin | Frank Reicher | Paramount Pictures | |
January 23, 1916 | The Ragamuffin | Jenny | William C. deMille | Paramount Pictures | |
February 20, 1916 | The Blacklist † | Vera Maroff | William C. deMille | Paramount Pictures | |
March 30, 1916 | The Sowers | Karin Dolokhof | William C. DeMille | Paramount Pictures | |
May 28, 1916 | The Thousand-Dollar Husband † | Olga Nelson | James Young | Paramount Pictures | |
July 2, 1916 | The Dupe † | Ethel Hale | Frank Reicher | Paramount Pictures | |
August 20, 1916 | Public Opinion | Hazel Gray | Frank Reicher | Paramount Pictures | |
October 5, 1916 | The Storm † | Natalie Raydon | Frank Reicher | Paramount Pictures | |
November 6, 1916 | Unprotected † | Barbara King | James Young | Paramount Pictures | |
January 4, 1917 | The Evil Eye | Dr. Katherine Torrance | George Melford | Paramount Pictures | |
March 1, 1917 | Those Without Sin † | Melanie Landry | Marshall Neilan | Paramount Pictures | |
April 12, 1917 | The Tides of Barnegat † | Jane Cobden | Marshall Neilan | Paramount Pictures | |
May 10, 1917 | The Silent Partner † | Jane Colby | Marshall Neilan | Paramount Pictures | |
March 2, 1919 | The Unpardonable Sin † | Alice Parcot/Dimny Parcot | Marshall Neilan | Paramount Pictures |
Sweet exclusively starred in films made by Pathé Exchange from 1919 to 1921. 6 of the 8 films are presumed lost.
Release date | Title | Role | Director | Studio(s) / Distributor(s) | Notes |
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November 19, 1919 | A Woman of Pleasure † | Alice Dane | Wallace Worsley | Pathé Exchange | |
January 11, 1920 | Fighting Cressy † | Cressy | Robert Thornby | Pathé Exchange | |
March 28, 1920 | The Deadlier Sex | Mary Willard | Robert Thornby | Pathé Exchange | |
May 12, 1920 | Simple Souls † | Molly Shine | Robert Thornby | Pathé Exchange | |
August 5, 1920 | The Girl in the Web † | Esther Maitland | Robert Thornby | Pathé Exchange | |
September 26, 1920 | Help Wanted – Male † | Leona Stafford | Henry King | Pathé Exchange | |
November 21, 1920 | Her Unwilling Husband † | Mavis | Paul Scardon | Pathé Exchange | |
January 1921 | That Girl Montana | Montana Rivers | Robert Thornby | Pathé Exchange |
Of the 17 films, 6 survive and 11 are presumed lost.
Release date | Title | Role | Director | Studio(s) / Distributor(s) | Notes |
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1919 | The Hushed Hour | Virginia Appleton Blodgett | Edmund Mortimer | Harry Garson Productions | |
December 4, 1922 | Quincy Adams Sawyer † | Alice Pettengill | Clarence G. Badger | Metro Pictures | |
October 22, 1923 | The Meanest Man in the World † | Jane Hudson | Edward F. Cline | Principal Pictures | |
October 28, 1923 | In the Palace of the King † | Delores Mendoza | Emmett J. Flynn | Goldwyn Pictures | |
November 25, 1923 | Anna Christie | Anna Christie | John Griffith Wray | First National Pictures | |
April 28, 1924 | Those Who Dance † | Rose Carney | Lambert Hillyer | First National Pictures | |
August 11, 1924 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles † | Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield | Marshall Neilman | Pathé Exchange | |
April 13, 1925 | The Sporting Venus | Lady Gwendolyn | Marshall Neilan | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
May 3, 1925 | His Supreme Moment † | Carla King | George Fitzmaurice | First National Pictures | |
October 18, 1925 | Why Women Love † | Molla Hansen | Edwin Carewe | First National Pictures | |
November 1, 1925 | The New Commandment † | Renee Darcourt | Howard Higgin | First National Pictures | |
January 13, 1926 | Bluebeard's Seven Wives † | Juliet | Alfred Santell | First National Pictures | |
January 7, 1926 | The Lady from Hell | Lady Margaret Darnely | Stuart Paton | Stuart Paton Productions | |
February 14, 1926 | The Far Cry † | Claire Marsh | Silvano Balboni | First National Pictures | |
September 20, 1926 | Diplomacy | Dora | Marshall Neilan | Paramount Pictures | |
August 23, 1927 | Singed | Dolly Wall | John Griffith Wray | Fox Film Corporation | |
May 24, 1929 | The Woman in White † | Laura Fairlie/Anne | Herbert Wilcox | British and Dominions Imperial Studios |
Sweet starred only in five sound films, retiring in 1930. Her final role was uncredited in 1959. All are extant.
Release date | Title | Role | Director | Studio(s) / Distributor(s) | Notes |
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December 31, 1929 | Always Faithful | Mrs. George W. Mason | Alfred A. Cohn | Warner Bros. | *short |
January 24, 1930 | The Woman Racket | Julia Barnes Hayes | Robert Ober Albert H. Kelley | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
April 20, 1930 | Showgirl in Hollywood | Donny Harris (Mrs. Buelow) | Mervyn LeRoy | First National Pictures | Final reel was filmed in Technicolor but is now lost. |
October 25, 1930 | The Silver Horde | Queenie | George Archainbaud | RKO Pictures | |
June 18, 1959 | The Five Pennies | Headmistress of School | Melville Shavelson | Paramount Pictures | Uncredited |
Gottfried Wilhelm Bitzer was an American cinematographer, notable for his close association and pioneering work with D. W. Griffith.
The Biograph Company, also known as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1916. It was the first company in the United States devoted entirely to film production and exhibition, and for two decades was one of the most prolific, releasing over 3000 short films and 12 feature films. During the height of silent film as a medium, Biograph was the most prominent U.S. film studio and one of the most respected and influential studios worldwide, only rivaled by Germany's UFA, Sweden's Svensk Filmindustri and France's Pathé. The company was home to pioneering director D. W. Griffith and such actors as Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, and Lionel Barrymore.
Sarah Blanche Sweet was an American silent film actress who began her career in the early days of the motion picture film industry.
Judith of Bethulia (1914) is an American film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and produced and directed by D. W. Griffith, based on the play "Judith and the Holofernes" (1896) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, which itself was an adaptation of the Book of Judith. The film was the first feature-length film made by pioneering film company Biograph, although the second that Biograph released.
Henry Brazeale Walthall was an American stage and film actor. He appeared as the Little Colonel in D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915).
Mary Pickford (1892–1979) was a Canadian-American motion picture actress, producer, and writer. During the silent film era she became one of the first great celebrities of the cinema and a popular icon known to the public as "America's Sweetheart".
Herbert Yost was an American actor who in a career that spanned nearly half a century performed predominantly on stage in stock companies and in numerous Broadway productions. Yost also acted in motion pictures, mostly in one-reel silent shorts released by the Biograph Company and Edison Studios between November 1908 and July 1915. By the time he began working in the film industry, Yost already had more than a decade of stage experience in hundreds of dramatic and comedic roles and was widely regarded in the theatre community "as one of the country's finest stock actors". Reportedly, to reduce the risk of tarnishing his reputation as a professional actor by being identified as a screen performer, Yost often billed himself as "Barry O'Moore" while working in films. He was ultimately cast in scores of motion pictures in the early silent era, although with the exceptions of appearing in three more films in the sound era, Yost spent the remaining decades of his career acting in major theatre productions, almost exclusively on Broadway.
The Lonedale Operator is a 1911 short American drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet and written by Mack Sennett for the Biograph Company. The plot of the film involves a girl who takes over a telegraph station after her father takes ill. After the payroll for the town's mine is delivered, two drifters try to steal the money. Their robbery is foiled because the girl is able to telegraph for help and then hold the would-be robbers off until help arrives. The Lonedale Operator includes "elements of romance, drama, suspense, Western, and even a bit of comedy near the end."
The Voice of the Child is a 1911 American drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet. The film was made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century.
The Battle of the Sexes is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith for the Majestic Motion Picture Company. No complete print of the film is known to exist; however, a fragment has survived. Griffith remade the film as The Battle of the Sexes in 1928 as a comedy-drama and this latter version is available on DVD.
The Escape is a 1914 American silent drama film written and directed by D. W. Griffith and starred Donald Crisp. The film is based on the play of the same name by Paul Armstrong who also wrote the screenplay. It is now considered lost. The master negative of the production was destroyed in the disastrous 1914 Lubin vault fire in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Last Drop of Water is a 1911 American short silent Western film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet. Three known prints of the film survive. It was filmed in the San Fernando desert as well as Lookout Mountain, California. The film was considered the "most ambitious film made by Griffith during the California trip of 1911" before the Biograph company moved back to New York. It was filmed on or between the 14 May and May 20, 1911. It was reissued by Biograph August 13, 1915.
The Making of a Man is a 1911 American short silent drama film produced by the Biograph Company of New York, directed by D. W. Griffith, and starring Dell Henderson and Blanche Sweet.
The Eternal Mother is a surviving 1912 American short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet. The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey when Biograph Company and other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century.
For His Son is a 1912 American short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet. The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey when Biograph Company and other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century. A print of the film survives today.
Gladys Egan was an early 20th-century American child actress, who between 1907 and 1914 performed professionally in theatre productions as well as in scores of silent films. She began her brief entertainment career appearing on the New York stage as well as in plays presented across the country by traveling companies. By 1908 she also started working in the film industry, where for six years she acted almost exclusively in motion pictures for the Biograph Company of New York. The vast majority of her screen roles during that period were in shorts directed by D. W. Griffith, who cast her in over 90 of his releases. While most of Egan's films were produced by Biograph, she did work for other motion-picture companies between 1911 and 1914, such as the Reliance Film Company and Independent Moving Pictures. By 1916, Egan's acting career appears to have ended, and she no longer was being mentioned in major trade journals or included in published studio personnel directories as a regularly employed actor. Although she may have performed as an extra or in some bit parts after 1914, no available filmographies or entertainment publications from the period cite Egan in any screen or stage role after that year.
The Massacre is a 1912 American silent Western film directed by D. W. Griffith and released by Biograph Studios. It stars Blanche Sweet and Wilfred Lucas. The film was shot in 1912 and released in Europe that year, but not released in the United States until 1914.
Edgar Allen Poe [sic] is a 1909 American silent drama film produced by the Biograph Company of New York and directed and co-written by D. W. Griffith. Herbert Yost stars in this short as the 19th-century American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe, while Linda Arvidson portrays Poe's wife Virginia. When it was released in February 1909 and throughout its theatrical run, the film was consistently identified and advertised with Poe's middle name misspelled in its official title, using an "e" instead of the correct second "a". The short was also originally shipped to theaters on a "split reel", which was a single reel that accommodated more than one film. This 450-foot drama shared its reel with another Biograph short, the 558-foot comedy A Wreath in Time. Prints of both films survive.
A Wreath in Time is a 1909 American silent comedy film written and directed by D. W. Griffith, produced by the Biograph Company of New York City, and co-starring Mack Sennett and Florence Lawrence. At its release in February 1909, the short was distributed to theaters on a "split reel", which was a single reel that accommodated more than one film. A Wreath in Time shared its reel with another Biograph short also directed by Griffith, the drama Edgar Allen Poe [sic]. Original paper rolls of contact prints of both motion pictures, as well as safety-stock copies of the two films, are preserved in the Library of Congress.
A Sound Sleeper is a 1909 American comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith and produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. The short was filmed in one day in the Coytesville borough of Fort Lee, New Jersey, which at the time was a popular filming location for many early motion-picture studios in the northeastern United States. Due to the brief running time of this comedy, it was originally distributed in April 1909 on a split reel with another Biograph release, a longer dramatic film titled The Winning Coat.