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Violet Mersereau was an American stage and film actress. Over the course of her screen career, Mersereau appeared in over 100 short and silent film features.
Wild Blood is a 1915 American silent short drama film directed by and starring William Garwood in the lead role with Violet Mersereau.
You Can't Always Tell is a 1915 American silent short film directed by and starring William Garwood in the lead role with Violet Mersereau. It is one of several short films that Garwood and Mersereau starred in together and Garwood directed.
The Miracle Baby is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Val Paul and starring Harry Carey. With no prints of The Miracle Baby located in any film archives, it is a lost film.
Edmund Fessenden Cobb was an American actor who appeared in more than 620 films between 1912 and 1966.
Miss Arizona is a 1919 western silent film directed by Otis B. Thayer and starring Gertrude Bondhill and James O'Neill. The film was shot in Englewood, Colorado by Thayer's Art-O-Graf film company. There is at least one known 35mm nitro copy of this film stored at Filmarchiv Austria.
Wolves of the Street is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Otis B. Thayer and starring Edmund Cobb and Vida Johnson. The film was shot in Steamboat Springs, Colorado by the Thayer's Art-O-Graf film company. Franklyn Farnum was originally cast for the lead role, but he did not appear in the completed film.
The Desert Scorpion is a 1920 American silent Western film directed by Otis B. Thayer and starring Edmund Cobb and Vida Johnson. The film was shot in Denver, Colorado by the Thayer's Art-O-Graf film company.
Finders Keepers is a 1921 silent Western film based on a book by Robert Ames Bennett and directed by Otis B. Thayer, starring Edmund Cobb and Violet Mersereau. The film was shot in Denver, Colorado by the Thayer's Art-O-Graf film company. The film is now considered a lost film.
Otis Bryant Thayer was an American actor, director, producer and owner of silent era film production companies. Before his film career he was a stage actor and operatic comedian. By 1910, he piloted the Chicago based Selig Polyscope Company filming westerns on locations at Canon City. He founded the Art-O-Graf film company of Denver in 1919. And by 1920, he was the president of the "Superior Foto Play Company."
The Art-O-Graf Film Company was an American film production and distribution company founded by Otis B. Thayer that operated between 1919 and 1923 during the silent era. Four time Academy Awards nominee Vernon L. Walker started his career as the head cameraman for the company. Cameraman, William E. Smith, previously worked for Essanay Studios in Chicago. The company had offices in the Guardian Trust Building in Denver, Colorado, and Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The studio was at Englewood, Colorado. The company also filmed in Grand Junction, Colorado and surrounding areas. Many of the films produced by the company are now considered lost, but a number still survive. Perhaps the company's best known film is Wolves of the Street, also known as The Wolves in Wall Street.
Riders of the Range is a 1923 American silent Western film presented by Clifford S. Efelt, directed by Otis B. Thayer, and starring Edmund Cobb, Dolly Dale, Helen Hayes and Frank Gallagher. The film was shot in Colorado by Thayer's Art-O-Graf film company. It was a Roy M. Langdon Production. The film was released on VHS by Grapevine Video.
Dames Ahoy! is a 1930 American comedy film directed by William James Craft and starring Glenn Tryon, Otis Harlan and Gertrude Astor. Produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, it was also released in a silent version.
Susan's Gentleman is a lost 1917 silent film feature drama directed by Edwin Stevens, a stage actor who made a foray into silent films, and starred Violet Mersereau. It was produced by Bluebird Photoplays and released through the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. This film has an appearance by James O'Neill, famed for The Count of Monte Cristo, here making a rare screen appearance.
Finders Keepers is an extant 1928 American silent military comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and Otis B. Thayer and starring Laura La Plante and John Harron. Due to the public apathy towards silent films, a sound version was prepared late in 1928. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it features a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film may or may not be a remake of a 1921 film Finders Keepers singularly directed by Thayer.
Her Own Free Will is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Paul Scardon and starring Helene Chadwick, Holmes Herbert, and Violet Mersereau. It was based on a novel of the same name by the British writer Ethel M. Dell.
Little Miss Nobody is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Harry F. Millarde and starring Violet Mersereau, Clara Beyers and Helen Lindroth.
The Raggedy Queen is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Theodore Marston and starring Violet Mersereau, Grace Barton and Donald Hall.
The Girl by the Roadside is a 1917 American silent mystery film directed by Theodore Marston and starring Violet Mersereau, Cecil Owen and Ann Andrews.
The Little Terror is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Rex Ingram and starring Violet Mersereau, Sidney Mason and Ned Finley.
