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Blanche Sweet

1896-06-16 Chicago, Illinois, USA

Image of Blanche Sweet

Biografia

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.

Películas

Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter Narrator (voice) 1982-10-09
Make Mine Memories 1945-10-19
Twenty Years After (archive footage) 1944-01-01
The Silver Horde Queenie 1930-10-24
Show Girl in Hollywood Donny Harris 1930-04-20
The Woman Racket Julia Barnes Hayes 1930-01-24
The Woman in White Laura Fairlie / Anne Catherick 1929-05-24
Always Faithful Mrs. George W. Mason 1929-12-29
Singed Dolly Wall 1927-08-23
Diplomacy Dora Weymouth 1926-09-20
Bluebeard's Seven Wives Juliet 1926-01-13
The Far Cry 1926-02-14
The Sporting Venus Lady Gwendolyn 1925-04-12
Why Women Love Molla Hansen 1925-10-18
His Supreme Moment Carla King 1925-04-12
The New Commandment Renee Darcourt 1925-11-01
Those Who Dance Rose Carney 1924-04-27
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield 1924-08-11
Souls for Sale Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited) 1923-04-22
In the Palace of the King Dolores Mendoza 1923-10-28
Anna Christie Anna Christie 1923-11-24
Quincy Adams Sawyer Alice Pettengill 1922-12-04
That Girl Montana Montana Rivers 1921-01-31
The Deadlier Sex Mary Willard 1920-03-28
The Girl in the Web Esther Maitland 1920-08-05
Her Unwilling Husband Mavis 1920-11-21
The Hushed Hour Virginia Appleton Blodgett 1919-05-18
A Woman of Pleasure Alice Dane 1919-11-09
The Unpardonable Sin Alice Parcot / Dinny Parcot 1919-04-01
The Evil Eye Dr. Katherine Torrance 1917-01-04
Those Without Sin Melanie Landry 1917-03-01
The Thousand-Dollar Husband Olga Nelson 1916-05-29
The Ragamuffin Jenny 1916-01-23
The Clue Christine Lesley 1915-07-08
Stolen Goods Margery Huntley 1915-05-14
The Secret Sin Edith Martin / Grace Martin 1915-10-21
The Captive Sonya Matinovich 1915-04-22
The Case of Becky Dorothy/Becky 1915-09-13
The Warrens of Virginia Agatha Warren 1915-02-14
The Little Country Mouse Dorothy 1914-11-16
Home, Sweet Home The Wife 1914-05-16
Strongheart Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister 1914-03-08
Classmates Sylvia Randolph 1914-02-14
The Painted Lady Jane - the Elder Sister 1914-07-19
The Odalisque May, a Stock Girl 1914-11-15
Judith of Bethulia Judith 1914-03-08
Her Awakening Mary 1914-09-20
The Second Mrs. Roebuck Mabel Mack 1914-08-23
The Avenging Conscience The Sweetheart 1914-08-02
The Tear That Burned Meg - the Wild Girl 1914-11-08
Men and Women Agnes Rodman - Stephen's Daughter 1914-08-01
For Her Father's Sins Mary Ashton 1914-10-18
Near To Earth 1913-03-20
Three Friends The Wife 1913-01-02
Broken Ways The Road Agent's Wife 1913-03-08
Oil and Water Mlle. Genova 1913-02-10
The Coming of Angelo Theresa 1913-01-01
Death's Marathon The Wife 1913-06-14
The House of Discord The Wife 1913-12-13
If We Only Knew The Mother 1913-05-01
The Hero of Little Italy Maria 1913-04-03
A Chance Deception The Wife 1913-02-24
Pirate Gold The Daughter 1913-01-13
Two Men of the Desert The Authoress 1913-08-23
The Stolen Bride The Grower's Daughter 1913-04-07
A Cure for Suffragettes 1913-11-17
Love in an Apartment Hotel The Young Woman 1913-02-27
With the Enemy's Help The Prospector's Wife 1912-08-19
A Temporary Truce Alice Hardy - the Prospector's Wife 1912-06-10
One Is Business, the Other Crime Rich Wife 1912-04-24
For His Son The Son's Fiancée 1912-01-21
The Eternal Mother Martha, the Wife 1912-01-10
A String of Pearls The Brother's Sweetheart 1912-03-07
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch The Goddess 1912-03-25
The God Within The Woman of the Camp 1912-12-26
The Lesser Evil The Young Woman 1912-04-29
The Chief's Blanket The Young Woman 1912-10-10
The Painted Lady The Older Sister 1912-10-24
A Sailor’s Heart The Sailor's Second Sweetheart 1912-11-25
Blind Love The Young Woman 1912-09-11
Under Burning Skies Emily 1912-02-21
The Transformation of Mike The Tenement Girl 1912-02-01
The Massacre Stephen's Ward 1912-12-19
The Villain Foiled Miss Page 1911-08-30
Love in the Hills The Mountain Girl 1911-10-30
The Miser's Heart Neighbor 1911-11-20
The Battle The Boy's Sweetheart 1911-11-06
The Primal Call 1911-06-21
A Woman Scorned 1911-11-30
The Voice of the Child The Wife 1911-12-28
Enoch Arden: Part I 1911-06-12
The Last Drop of Water Mary 1911-07-26
The Making of a Man Young Woman 1911-10-04
Enoch Arden Woman on the Beach 1911-06-15
A Country Cupid Edith 1911-07-23
His Daughter 1911-02-23
The Long Road Edith 1911-10-26
Through Darkening Vales Grace 1911-11-16
The Lonedale Operator Daughter of the Lonedale Operator 1911-03-23
Fighting Blood 1911-06-28
The Rocky Road 1910-01-03
All on Account of the Milk The Maid 1910-01-13
A Flash of Light 1910-07-17
The Day After The New Year 1909-12-30
A Corner in Wheat 1909-12-13
To Save Her Soul Stage Dancer 1909-12-27