Blanche Sweet

Blanche Sweet

Acting 1896-06-16 Chicago, Illinois, USA

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.

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1980 Self
1944 (archive footage)
1930 Donny Harris
1930 Julia Barnes Hayes
1930 Queenie
1929 Laura Fairlie / Anne Catherick
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1929 Mrs. George W. Mason
1927 Dolly Wall
1926 Dora Weymouth
1926 Claire Marsh
1926 Juliet
1925 Renee Darcourt
1925 Lady Gwendolyn
1925 Carla King
1925 Molla Hansen
1924 Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield
1924 Rose Carney
1923 Anna Christie
1923 Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
1923 Dolores Mendoza
1923 Jane Hudson
1922 Alice Pettengill
1921 Montana Rivers
1920 Mavis
1920 Mary Willard
1920 Esther Maitland
1920 Molly Shine
1920 Leona Stafford
1919 Virginia Appleton Blodgett
1919 Alice Dane
1919 Alice Parcot / Dinny Parcot
1919 Cressy
1917 Melanie Landry
1917 Dr. Katherine Torrance
1916 Jenny
1916 Olga Nelson
1916 Natalie Raydon
1916 Karin Dolokhof
1915 Margery Huntley
1915 Dorothy/Becky
1915 Christine Lesley
1915 Agatha Warren
1915 Sonya Matinovich
1915 Edith Martin / Grace Martin
1915 Diane
1914 The Sweetheart
1914 Meg - the Wild Girl
1914 Mabel Mack
1914 Mary
1914 Mary Ashton
1914 May, a Stock Girl
1914 Judith
1914 Agnes Rodman - Stephen's Daughter
1914 Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister
1914 Jane - the Elder Sister
1914 Sylvia Randolph
1914 The Wife
1914 Dorothy
1913 The Daughter
1913 The Young Woman
1913 The Wife
1913 Maria
1913 The Mother
1913 Theresa
1913 The Wife
1913 The Wife
1913 The Wife
1913 The Road Agent's Wife
1913 The Authoress
1913 Mlle. Genova
1913 The Grower's Daughter
1912 The Older Sister
1912 The Young Woman
1912 The Tenement Girl
1912 The Young Woman
1912 Stephen's Ward
1912 The Young Woman
1912 Emily
1912 The Son's Fiancée
1912 Martha, the Wife
1912 The Sailor's Second Sweetheart
1912 The Prospector's Wife
1912 Alice Hardy - the Prospector's Wife
1912 The Woman of the Camp
1912 The Goddess
1912 The Brother's Sweetheart
1911 Daughter of the Lonedale Operator
1911 Neighbor
1911 The Boy's Sweetheart
1911 Miss Page
1911 Grace
1911 Mary
1911 Edith
1911 Young Woman
1911 Woman on the Beach
1911 Edith
1911 The Mountain Girl
1911 The Wife
1910 The Maid
1909 The New Year
1909 Stage Dancer