Movies: Bessie Learn

  • 1915
    Through Turbulent Waters

    Through Turbulent Waters (1915)

    Through Turbulent Waters

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    The west is the stamping ground for Paul Temple and his thespian associates. He is talking with his sweetheart, Jane Dinsmore, as Alice Robinson, Jane's intimate friend, enters with a letter from an erstwhile associate, advising her to go to New York...

    Through Turbulent Waters
  • 1914
    The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan

    The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan (1914)

    The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan

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    An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011 in partnersh...

    The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan
  • 1919
    The Lost Battalion

    The Lost Battalion (1919)

    The Lost Battalion

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    World War I, October 1918. The more than 500 men of the 77th Infantry Division of the United States Army, who have been recruited in New York City and trained in Yaphank, are sent to France, to help break down the German defenses located in the Argon...

    The Lost Battalion
  • 1915
    Across the Great Divide

    Across the Great Divide (1915)

    Across the Great Divide

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    Short western melodrama. A cash-strapped operator is working far from his beloved. A criminal and his accomplice trying to force him to cooperate with the cause of a train crash....

    Across the Great Divide
  • 1912
    The Totville Eye

    The Totville Eye (1912)

    The Totville Eye

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    A printer and his young assistant take over a local newspaper while the editor is away....

    The Totville Eye
  • 1915
    The Call of the City

    The Call of the City (1915)

    The Call of the City

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    A naive young lady comes to the big city but is unfortunately befriended by a couple who probably are up to no good. However, she is unaware of this and accepts their offer to help. Soon, and completely out of the blue, another crook accosts them--an...

    The Call of the City
  • 1913
    The Doctor's Duty

    The Doctor's Duty (1913)

    The Doctor's Duty

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    A socially-minded drama about a doctor who keeps his fiancée waiting at their engagement party, because a sick child needs help....

    The Doctor's Duty
  • 1915
    The Lone Game

    The Lone Game (1915)

    The Lone Game

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    A brother, a sister, and a friend all battle against the deadly disease of tuberculosis....

    The Lone Game
  • 1913
    Over the Back Fence

    Over the Back Fence (1913)

    Over the Back Fence

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    Harry Beaumont and Bessie Learn are in love, but their respective uncle and aunt, back fence neighbors, feud bitterly with each other and insist the youngsters have nothing to do with each other. The young leads come up with a plan in this pleasant E...

    Over the Back Fence
  • 1913
    A Short Life and a Merry One

    A Short Life and a Merry One (1913)

    A Short Life and a Merry One

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    An imp makes a tramp change places with a scarecrow who is permitted to roam about changing other scarecrows into living beings and having merry times with them so long as he keeps the magic wand in his hand....

    A Short Life and a Merry One
  • 1912
    When She Was About Sixteen

    When She Was About Sixteen (1912)

    When She Was About Sixteen

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    A romantic comedy about two lovers; the parents of the girl forbid them from being together....

    When She Was About Sixteen
  • 1913
    Bread on the Waters

    Bread on the Waters (1913)

    Bread on the Waters

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    A son, down and out on liquor, finds redemption....

    Bread on the Waters
  • 1912
    A Romance of the Rails

    A Romance of the Rails (1912)

    A Romance of the Rails

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    For years, William West has been living in a little house owned by the railroad. He has never paid rent. One day, railroad employee. George Lessey is ordered to go collect back rent. When he arrives, he discovers two things: West has no intention of ...

    A Romance of the Rails
  • 1915
    McQuade of the Traffic Squad

    McQuade of the Traffic Squad (1915)

    McQuade of the Traffic Squad

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    Policeman Patrick McQuade, of the traffic squad, has a sweetheart. Patrick has a rival in Policeman Flynn, who does not stop at anything to depreciate Patrick in Nora's eyes....

    McQuade of the Traffic Squad
  • 1913
    John Manley's Awakening

    John Manley's Awakening (1913)

    John Manley's Awakening

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    John Manley one day learns to his great sorrow that Caroline Hastings, whom he was going to ask to be his wife, is already betrothed to another....

    John Manley's Awakening
  • 1912
    Revenge Is Sweet

    Revenge Is Sweet (1912)

    Revenge Is Sweet

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    A short comedy in which the newest employee is teased by the office girls, but he retaliates by putting black polish in a powder-box. Ultimately the girls use the resulting black powder on the young employee himself....

    Revenge Is Sweet
  • 1912
    His Mother's Hope

    His Mother's Hope (1912)

    His Mother's Hope

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    His Mother's Hope