Directed by Alice Guy Blaché • 1912 • United States
Starring Magda Foy, Marian Swayne, Mace Greenleaf
This family melodrama echoes aspects of O. Henry’s 1907 short story “The Last Leaf” and depicts the clever attempts of a concerned young girl trying to save her older sister, who is dying of consumption.
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Making an American Citizen
Directed by Alice Guy Blaché • 1912 • United States
Starring Lee Beggs, Blanche CornwallAlice Guy Blaché depicts the pressures to assimilate faced by immigrants in this tale of an Eastern European couple who come to the United States, where the husband learns four lessons in “Americanism.”
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The Girl in the Armchair
Directed by Alice Guy Blaché • 1912 • United States
Starring Blanche Cornwall, Mace GreenleafThis drama about a gambling addict and the woman who loves him reveals Alice Guy Blaché to be a master of cinematic space as she skillfully stages action in the foreground and background of the frame an...
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Suspense
Directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley • 1913 • United States
Starring Lois Weber, Val Paul, Douglas GerrardLois Weber stars as a young mother who is home alone when a tramp enters the house in this visually captivating and stylistically inventive thriller, featuring a striking chase scene...
