Blanche Sweet
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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.
Fotos
Películas (122)
Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
1982 · Narrator (voice)
Make Mine Memories
1945
Twenty Years After
1944 · (archive footage)
The Silver Horde
1930 · Queenie
Show Girl in Hollywood
1930 · Donny Harris
The Woman Racket
1930 · Julia Barnes Hayes
Always Faithful
1929 · Mrs. George W. Mason
The Woman in White
1929 · Laura Fairlie / Anne Catherick
Singed
1927 · Dolly Wall
Diplomacy
1926 · Dora Weymouth
The Far Cry
1926 · Claire Marsh
The Lady from Hell
1926 · Lady Margaret Darnely
Bluebeard's Seven Wives
1926 · Juliet
The New Commandment
1925 · Renee Darcourt
Why Women Love
1925 · Molla Hansen
The Sporting Venus
1925 · Lady Gwendolyn
His Supreme Moment
1925 · Carla King
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
1924 · Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield
Those Who Dance
1924 · Rose Carney
Anna Christie
1923 · Anna Christie
In the Palace of the King
1923 · Dolores Mendoza
The Meanest Man in the World
1923 · Jane Hudson
Souls for Sale
1923 · Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
Quincy Adams Sawyer
1922 · Alice Pettengill
That Girl Montana
1921 · Montana Rivers
Her Unwilling Husband
1920 · Mavis
Help Wanted - Male
1920 · Leona Stafford
Girl in the Web
1920 · Esther Maitland
Simple Souls
1920 · Molly Shine
The Deadlier Sex
1920 · Mary Willard
Fighting Cressy
1919 · Cressy
A Woman of Pleasure
1919 · Alice Dane
The Hushed Hour
1919 · Virginia Appleton Blodgett
The Unpardonable Sin
1919 · Alice Parcot / Dinny Parcot
Those Without Sin
1917 · Melanie Landry
The Evil Eye
1917 · Dr. Katherine Torrance
The Storm
1916 · Natalie Raydon
Public Opinion
1916 · Hazel Gray
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
1916 · Olga Nelson
The Sowers
1916 · Karin Dolokhof
The Ragamuffin
1916 · Jenny
The Secret Sin
1915 · Edith Martin / Grace Martin
The Case of Becky
1915 · Dorothy/Becky
The Secret Orchard
1915 · Diane
The Clue
1915 · Christine Lesley
Stolen Goods
1915 · Margery Huntley
The Captive
1915 · Sonya Matinovich
The Warrens of Virginia
1915 · Agatha Warren
The Little Country Mouse
1914 · Dorothy
The Odalisque
1914 · May, a Stock Girl
The Tear That Burned
1914 · Meg - the Wild Girl
For Her Father's Sins
1914 · Mary Ashton
Her Awakening
1914 · Mary
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
1914 · Mabel Mack
The Avenging Conscience
1914 · The Sweetheart
Men and Women
1914 · Agnes Rodman - Stephen's Daughter
The Painted Lady
1914 · Jane - the Elder Sister
Home, Sweet Home
1914 · The Wife
Judith of Bethulia
1914 · Judith
Strongheart
1914 · Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister
Classmates
1914 · Sylvia Randolph
The House of Discord
1913 · The Wife
A Cure for Suffragettes
1913
Two Men of the Desert
1913 · The Authoress
Death's Marathon
1913 · The Wife
If We Only Knew
1913 · The Mother
The Stolen Bride
1913 · The Grower's Daughter
The Hero of Little Italy
1913 · Maria
Near To Earth
1913
Broken Ways
1913 · The Road Agent's Wife
Love in an Apartment Hotel
1913 · The Young Woman
A Chance Deception
1913 · The Wife
Oil and Water
1913 · Mlle. Genova
Pirate Gold
1913 · The Daughter
Three Friends
1913 · The Wife
The Coming of Angelo
1913 · Theresa
The God Within
1912 · The Woman of the Camp
The Massacre
1912 · Stephen's Ward
A Sailor’s Heart
1912 · The Sailor's Second Sweetheart
The Painted Lady
1912 · The Older Sister
The Chief's Blanket
1912 · The Young Woman
Blind Love
1912 · The Young Woman
With the Enemy's Help
1912 · The Prospector's Wife
A Temporary Truce
1912 · Alice Hardy - the Prospector's Wife
The Lesser Evil
1912 · The Young Woman
One Is Business, the Other Crime
1912 · Rich Wife
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
1912 · The Goddess
A String of Pearls
1912 · The Brother's Sweetheart
Under Burning Skies
1912 · Emily
The Transformation of Mike
1912 · The Tenement Girl
For His Son
1912 · The Son's Fiancée
The Eternal Mother
1912 · Martha, the Wife
The Voice of the Child
1911 · The Wife
A Woman Scorned
1911
The Miser's Heart
1911 · Neighbor
Through Darkening Vales
1911 · Grace
The Battle
1911 · The Boy's Sweetheart
Love in the Hills
1911 · The Mountain Girl
The Long Road
1911 · Edith
The Making of a Man
1911 · Young Woman
The Villain Foiled
1911 · Miss Page
The Blind Princess and the Poet
1911 · The Princess
The Last Drop of Water
1911 · Mary
A Country Cupid
1911 · Edith
The Indian Brothers
1911 · Indian
Fighting Blood
1911
The Primal Call
1911
Enoch Arden
1911 · Woman on the Beach
Enoch Arden: Part I
1911
The New Dress
1911 · At Wedding/At Market
How She Triumphed
1911 · Mary
The Broken Cross
1911
The Spanish Gypsy
1911
The Lonedale Operator
1911 · Daughter of the Lonedale Operator
His Daughter
1911
The Two Paths
1911
A Flash of Light
1910
All on Account of the Milk
1910 · The Housemaid
The Rocky Road
1910
The Day After
1909 · The New Year
To Save Her Soul
1909 · Stage Dancer
A Corner in Wheat
1909
