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The Battle At Elderbush Gulch
''The Battle at Elderbush Gulch'' (also known as ''The Battle of Elderbush Gulch'') is a 1913 American silent Western film directed by D. W. Griffith and featuring Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish, and Alfred Paget. Plot Salley (Mae Marsh) and her little sister are sent to visit their three uncles in the west. Among other baggage, they bring their two puppies. Melissa (Lillian Gish) is in the same stagecoach with husband and newborn baby. The uncles find the little girls amusing but tell them that the dogs must stay outside. Meanwhile, a nearby tribe of evil looking Indians is having a tribal dance. The puppies, left outside in a basket, run off. Sally, worried about the dogs, goes outside and discovers they are gone. She follows their trail and runs into two hungry Indians who have captured them for food. There is a scuffle but her uncles arrive and intervene. Gunfire ensues and one of the Indians is left dead. The other Indian returns to the tribe to inform them and aroused by "savag ...
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Mae Marsh
Mae Marsh (born Mary Wayne Marsh; November 9, 1894U.S. Census records for 1900, El Paso, Texas, Sheet No. 6 – February 13, 1968) was an American film actress with a career spanning over 50 years. Early life Mae Marsh was born Mary Wayne Marsh in Madrid, New Mexico Territory, on November 9, 1894. She was one of five children of Charles Marsh and Mary Wayne Marsh, and she attended Convent of the Sacred Heart School in Hollywood as well as public school. A frequently told story of Marsh's childhood is "Her father, a railroad auditor, died when she was four. Her family moved to San Francisco, California, where her stepfather was killed in the great earthquake of 1906. Her great-aunt then took Mae and er older sisterMarguerite to Los Angeles, hoping her show business background would open doors for jobs at various movie studios needing extras." However, her father, S. Charles Marsh, was a bartender, not a railroad auditor, and he was alive at least as late as June 1900, when ...
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Kate Bruce
Kate Bruce (February 17, 1860 – April 2, 1946) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in more than 280 films between 1908 and 1931. She was born in Columbus, Indiana and died in New York City. In 1885, Bruce left Boone, Iowa in a wagon with a group of traveling actors at a time when stages were illuminated by oil lights. On Broadway, Bruce performed in ''The Starbucks'' (1903). Partial filmography * ''The Greaser's Gauntlet'' (1908) * '' Betrayed by a Handprint'' (1908) * ''Behind the Scenes'' (1908) * '' An Awful Moment'' (1908) * '' One Touch of Nature'' (1909) * ''The Golden Louis'' (1909) * ''At the Altar'' (1909) * '' The Girls and Daddy'' (1909) * '' The Country Doctor'' (1909) * ''The Hessian Renegades'' (1909) * ''The Red Man's View'' (1909) * ''A Trap for Santa'' (1909) * ''In Little Italy'' (1909) * ''To Save Her Soul'' (1909) * ''Choosing a Husband'' (1909) * ''The Rocky Road'' (1910) * ''All on Account of the Milk'' (1910) * ''The Woman from ...
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1913 Short Films
Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the war. * January 13 – Edward Carson founds the (first) Ulster Volunteers, Ulster Volunteer Force, by unifying several existing Ulster loyalism, loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland. * January 23 – 1913 Ottoman coup d'état: Ismail Enver comes to power. * January – Stalin (whose first article using this name is published this month) travels to Vienna to carry out research. Until he leaves on February 16 the city is home simultaneously to him, Hitler, Trotsky and Josip Broz Tito, Tito alongside Alban Berg, Berg, Freud and Jung and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ludwig and Paul Wittgenstein. February * February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the ...
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1913 Western (genre) Films
Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the war. * January 13 – Edward Carson founds the (first) Ulster Volunteers, Ulster Volunteer Force, by unifying several existing Ulster loyalism, loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland. * January 23 – 1913 Ottoman coup d'état: Ismail Enver comes to power. * January – Stalin (whose first article using this name is published this month) travels to Vienna to carry out research. Until he leaves on February 16 the city is home simultaneously to him, Hitler, Trotsky and Josip Broz Tito, Tito alongside Alban Berg, Berg, Freud and Jung and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ludwig and Paul Wittgenstein. February * February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the ...
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1913 Films
Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the war. * January 13 – Edward Carson founds the (first) Ulster Volunteer Force, by unifying several existing loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland. * January 23 – 1913 Ottoman coup d'état: Ismail Enver comes to power. * January – Stalin (whose first article using this name is published this month) travels to Vienna to carry out research. Until he leaves on February 16 the city is home simultaneously to him, Hitler, Trotsky and Tito alongside Berg, Freud and Jung and Ludwig and Paul Wittgenstein. February * February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the world's largest railroad station. * February 3 – The 16th Amendment to the United States Const ...
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Lionel Barrymore Filmography
Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; 1878–1954) was an American actor of stage, screen, and radio. He also directed several films, wrote scripts, created etchings, sketches, and composed music. He was the eldest child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew Barrymore, and his two siblings were John and Ethel; these and other family members were part of an acting dynasty. Reluctant to follow his parents' career, Barrymore appeared together with his grandmother Louisa Lane Drew in a stage production of ''The Rivals'' at the age of 15. He soon found success on stage in character roles. Although he took a break from acting in 1906–1909 to train in Paris as a painter, he was not successful as an artist, and returned to the US and acting. He also joined his family troupe, from 1910, in their vaudeville act. Barrymore began his film career in 1911, appearing in numerous silent films, many of which have subsequently been lost. In 1911, he signed a contract with the B ...
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Blanche Sweet Filmography
__NOTOC__ This is the filmography for Blanche Sweet. According to the Internet Movie Database, Sweet appeared in 161 films between 1909 and 1959. ---- 1909 - 1910 - 1911 - 1912 - 1913 - 1914 - 1915 - 1916 - 1917 - 1919 - Later films - References ---- 1909 * ''A Man with Three Wives'' (lost) * ''A Corner in Wheat'' * ''In Little Italy'' * ''To Save Her Soul'' * ''The Day After'' * ''Choosing a Husband'' 1910 * ''The Rocky Road'' * ''All on Account of the Milk'' * ''A Romance of the Western Hills'' * ''The Kid'' * '' A Flash of Light'' * '' Love in Quarantine'' 1911 * '' The Two Paths'' * ''Heart Beats of Long Ago'' * ''His Daughter'' * ''The Lily of the Tenements'' * '' A Decree of Destiny'' * ''Was He a Coward?'' * ''The Lonedale Operator'' * ''Priscilla's April Fool Joke'' * ''The Spanish Gypsy'' * ''Priscilla and the Umbrella'' * '' The Broken Cross'' * ''How She Triumphed'' (lost) * ''The Country Lovers'' * ''The New Dress'' * ''The Whit ...
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Lillian Gish Filmography
__NOTOC__ These are the films of Lillian Gish. ---- Silent: 1912 – 1913 – 1914 – 1915 – 1916 – 1917 – 1918 – 1919 – 1920s Post Silent: 1930s – 1940s – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – References ---- Silent 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920s Post Silent 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s References * Lilian Gish official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Gish, Lillian Actress filmographies Filmography A filmography is a list of films related by some criteria. For example, an actor's career filmography is the list of films they have appeared in; a director's comedy filmography is the list of comedy films directed by a particular director. The ... American filmographies ...
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Harry Carey Filmography
This is a list of films featuring Harry Carey. 1910 * ''Bill Sharkey's Last Game'' * ''Gentleman Joe'' 1912 * ''An Unseen Enemy'' as The Thief * ''Two Daughters of Eve'' as In Audience * ''Friends'' as Bob Kyne - the Prospector * '' So Near, yet So Far'' as A Thief * ''A Feud in the Kentucky Hills'' as Second Clan Member * '' In the Aisles of the Wild'' as Bob Cole * ''The One She Loved'' as The Neighbor's Friend * ''The Painted Lady'' as At Ice Cream Festival (uncredited) * ''The Musketeers of Pig Alley'' as Snapper's Sidekick * ''Heredity'' as White Renegade Father * ''Gold and Glitter'' as Lumberman (uncredited) * '' The Informer'' as The Union Corporal * '' Brutality'' as At Theatre * '' My Hero'' as Indian * ''The Burglar's Dilemma'' as Older Crook * '' A Cry for Help'' as The Thief * ''The God Within'' 1913 * '' Three Friends'' as In Saloon / In First Factory (uncredited) * ''The Telephone Girl and the Lady'' as The Thief * '' Pirate Gold'' * ''An Adventure in the A ...
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List Of American Films Of 1913
A List of American films of 1913 is a compilation of American films that were released in the year 1913. See also * 1913 in the United States References External links 1913 filmsat the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:American films of 1913 1913 Films A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ... Lists of 1913 films by country or language 1910s in American cinema ...
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Blanche Sweet
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. Early life Born Sarah Blanche Sweet (though her first name Sarah was rarely used) in Chicago, Illinois, in 1896, she was the daughter of Pearl Alexander, a dancer, and Gilbert Joel Sweet, a wine merchant. The actors Antrim and Gertrude Short were cousins of Blanche. Her mother died when Blanche was an infant, and she was raised by her maternal grandmother, Cora Blanche Alexander. Cora Alexander found her many parts as a young child. At the age of four she toured in a play called '' The Battle of the Strong'' with Marie Burroughs and Maurice Barrymore. A decade later, Sweet acted with Barrymore's son Lionel in a D. W. Griffith-directed film. In 1909, she started work at Biograph Studios under contract to director D. W. Griffith. By 1910, she had become a rival to Mary Pickford, who had also ...
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Elmo Lincoln
Elmo Lincoln (born Otto Elmo Linkenhelt; February 6, 1889June 27, 1952) was an American stage and film actor whose career in motion pictures spanned the silent and sound eras. He performed in over 100 screen productions between 1913 and 1952 and was the first actor to portray on film novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs' fictional "jungle" character Tarzan, initially appearing in that role in the 1918 release ''Tarzan of the Apes''. Early years Lincoln was born Otto Elmo Linkenhelt in Rochester, Indiana. He had six siblings, and he left home at 18 to begin a railroad career as a brakeman on a train. He went on to be a boxer, sailor, and stevedore before he became an actor. Career Lincoln began acting for director D. W. Griffith, who changed the performer's name. Lincoln's first role was in ''The Battle of Elderbush Gulch'' (1914), followed by ''Judith of Bethula'' (1914), ''The Birth of a Nation'' (1915), and ''Intolerance'' (1916). Tarzan films Stellan Windrow, who initially por ...
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