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Blanche Sweet
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Blanche Sweet
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1896-06-16,Chicago, Illinois, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
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.

Filmography

A Cure for Suffragettes

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A Cure for Suffragettes
1913-11-17

The Hushed Hour

0

The Hushed Hour
1919-05-18

The New Commandment

0

The New Commandment
1925-11-01

The Avenging Conscience

6.2

The Avenging Conscience
1914-08-02

Quincy Adams Sawyer

0

Quincy Adams Sawyer
1922-12-04

Her Unwilling Husband

0

Her Unwilling Husband
1920-11-21

0

Pirate Gold
1913-01-13

Love in an Apartment Hotel

0

Love in an Apartment Hotel
1913-02-27

A Chance Deception

0

A Chance Deception
1913-02-24

The Hero of Little Italy

0

The Hero of Little Italy
1913-04-03

If We Only Knew

0

If We Only Knew
1913-05-01

The Tear That Burned

0

The Tear That Burned
1914-11-08

0

Near To Earth
1913-03-20

The Coming of Angelo

0

The Coming of Angelo
1913-01-01

6.3

Fighting Blood
1911-06-28

The Second Mrs. Roebuck

0

The Second Mrs. Roebuck
1914-08-23

0

Her Awakening
1914-09-20

For Her Father's Sins

0

For Her Father's Sins
1914-10-18

0

The Odalisque
1914-11-15

Those Without Sin

0

Those Without Sin
1917-03-01

Judith of Bethulia

6.35

Judith of Bethulia
1914-03-08

0

Stolen Goods
1915-05-14

Make Mine Memories

0

Make Mine Memories
1945-10-19

The Case of Becky

0

The Case of Becky
1915-09-13

The Lonedale Operator

6.1

The Lonedale Operator
1911-03-23

Death's Marathon

5.7

Death's Marathon
1913-06-14

The House of Discord

0

The House of Discord
1913-12-13

0

Men and Women
1914-08-01

Enoch Arden: Part I

5.5

Enoch Arden: Part I
1911-06-12

The Miser's Heart

6

The Miser's Heart
1911-11-20

The Painted Lady

5.5

The Painted Lady
1912-10-24

4.8

The Battle
1911-11-06

The Chief's Blanket

0

The Chief's Blanket
1912-10-10

The Transformation of Mike

4.5

The Transformation of Mike
1912-02-01

3

Blind Love
1912-09-11

The Villain Foiled

4

The Villain Foiled
1911-08-30

5.9

The Massacre
1912-12-19

Through Darkening Vales

4.5

Through Darkening Vales
1911-11-16

The Last Drop of Water

5.1

The Last Drop of Water
1911-07-26

5.5

Anna Christie
1923-11-24

The Lesser Evil

5.3

The Lesser Evil
1912-04-29

Under Burning Skies

4.7

Under Burning Skies
1912-02-21

One Is Business, the Other Crime

5.8

One Is Business, the Other Crime
1912-04-24

5.5

For His Son
1912-01-21

The Eternal Mother

4.8

The Eternal Mother
1912-01-10

A Country Cupid

4.5

A Country Cupid
1911-07-23

5

Strongheart
1914-03-08

Show Girl in Hollywood

5.8

Show Girl in Hollywood
1930-04-20

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

5

Tess of the D'Urbervilles
1924-08-11

The Woman Racket

4.667

The Woman Racket
1930-01-24

0

Diplomacy
1926-09-20

0

The Clue
1915-07-08

The Painted Lady

0

The Painted Lady
1914-07-19

0

The Ragamuffin
1916-01-23

The Woman in White

0

The Woman in White
1929-05-24

0

Classmates
1914-02-14

Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter

5.7

Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
1982-10-09

The Warrens of Virginia

0

The Warrens of Virginia
1915-02-14

A Woman Scorned

0

A Woman Scorned
1911-11-30

The Thousand-Dollar Husband

0

The Thousand-Dollar Husband
1916-05-29

0

The Far Cry
1926-02-14

6.2

Souls for Sale
1923-04-22

A Flash of Light

5

A Flash of Light
1910-07-17

The Primal Call

4

The Primal Call
1911-06-21

5

Three Friends
1913-01-02

The Deadlier Sex

5

The Deadlier Sex
1920-03-28

A Sailor’s Heart

0

A Sailor’s Heart
1912-11-25

That Girl Montana

0

That Girl Montana
1921-01-31

The Sporting Venus

6.5

The Sporting Venus
1925-04-12

6

The Captive
1915-04-22

A Woman of Pleasure

0

A Woman of Pleasure
1919-11-09

4

His Daughter
1911-02-23

The Silver Horde

5.3

The Silver Horde
1930-10-24

Always Faithful

0

Always Faithful
1929-12-29

Home, Sweet Home

5.3

Home, Sweet Home
1914-05-16

0

Broken Ways
1913-03-08

The Making of a Man

6.3

The Making of a Man
1911-10-04

2.75

The Day After
1909-12-30

His Supreme Moment

0

His Supreme Moment
1925-04-12

4

The Rocky Road
1910-01-03

5.8

Enoch Arden
1911-06-15

All on Account of the Milk

5.3

All on Account of the Milk
1910-01-13

With the Enemy's Help

0

With the Enemy's Help
1912-08-19

0

The Long Road
1911-10-26

A Temporary Truce

4

A Temporary Truce
1912-06-10

Twenty Years After

6

Twenty Years After
1944-01-01

5

Fashion News
1928-11-06

0

Why Women Love
1925-10-18

Two Men of the Desert

0

Two Men of the Desert
1913-08-23

Bluebeard's Seven Wives

0

Bluebeard's Seven Wives
1926-01-13

0

Oil and Water
1913-02-10

The Unpardonable Sin

0

The Unpardonable Sin
1919-04-01

0

Singed
1927-08-23

Love in the Hills

0

Love in the Hills
1911-10-30

0

The God Within
1912-12-26

0

The Secret Sin
1915-10-21

The Little Country Mouse

5

The Little Country Mouse
1914-11-16

0

The Evil Eye
1917-01-04

The Stolen Bride

0

The Stolen Bride
1913-04-07

The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch

0

The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
1912-03-25

To Save Her Soul

4.333

To Save Her Soul
1909-12-27

Those Who Dance

0

Those Who Dance
1924-04-27

A Corner in Wheat

6.2

A Corner in Wheat
1909-12-13

Girl in the Web

0

Girl in the Web
1920-08-05

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

5.786

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959-09-29

7.6

The Thin Man
1957-09-20

8.3

Hollywood
1980-01-08