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Blanche Sweet

Blanche Sweet

Actress

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.

Born: June 16, 1896 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died: September 6, 1986 (Age 90)

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Blanche Sweet  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
6.8
ActressSelf - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)1923
Movie
ActressRose Carney1924
Movie
ActressJuliet1926
Movie
ActressVirginia Appleton Blodgett1919
Movie
ActressAlice Parcot / Dinny Parcot1919
Movie
ActressAlice Dane1919
Movie
ActressCarla King1925
Movie
7
ActressMontana Rivers1921
Movie
6.7
ActressMary Willard1920
Movie
ActressDolly Wall1927
Movie
6
ActressJulia1930
Movie
5.6
ActressQueenie1930
Movie
ActressDorothy/Becky1915
Movie
6.1
ActressNarrator (voice)1982
Movie
ActressEdith Martin / Grace Martin1915
Movie
ActressDr. Katherine Torrance1917
Movie
5.9
ActressAnna Christie1923
Movie
6
ActressAgatha Warren1915
Movie
6.3
ActressJudith1914
Movie
ActressJenny1916
Movie
7.6
ActressLady Gwendolyn1925
Movie
6.2
ActressSonya Matinovich1915
Movie
6.2
ActressThe Sweetheart1914
Movie
5.9
ActressDonny Harris1930
Movie
5.5
ActressThe Wife1914
Movie
ActressEsther Maitland1920
Movie
ActressRenee Darcourt1925
Movie
ActressMavis1920
Movie
ActressAlice Pettengill1922
Movie
ActressMelanie Landry1917
Movie
ActressMargery Huntley1915
Movie
4.4
ActressTeresa "Tess" Durbeyfield1924
Movie
8.1
ActressJudith (archive footage)2020
Movie
ActressDora Weymouth1926
Movie
ActressChristine Lesley1915
Movie
ActressLaura Fairlie / Anne Catherick1929
Movie
ActressMolla Hansen1925
Movie
ActressOlga Nelson1916
Movie
5.1
Actress1926
TV Show
6.9
Actress2 Episodes1957-1959
TV Show
7.5
Actress1 Episode1959-1963
Short Film
4.5
ActressGrace1911
Short Film
4.1
ActressMiss Page1911
Short Film
5.4
ActressThe Young Woman1912
Short Film
5.5
ActressMary1911
Short Film
5.8
ActressThe Maid1910
Short Film
5.4
ActressThe Boy's Sweetheart1911
Short Film
5.9
ActressRich Wife1912
Short Film
5.1
ActressSelf (1930)1930
Short Film
6.3
ActressStephen's Ward1912
Short Film
6.1
ActressNeighbor1911
Short Film
6.6
ActressThe Authoress1913
Short Film
6.3
ActressMrs. George W. Mason1929
Short Film
5.8
ActressStage Dancer1909
Short Film
4.6
ActressEdith1911
Short Film
5
Actress1911
Short Film
6.4
Actress1909
Short Film
5.8
ActressThe Wife1913
Short Film
5.7
ActressDorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister1914
Short Film
5.5
Actress1910
Short Film
5.5
ActressDorothy1914
Short Film
5.9
ActressThe Woman of the Camp1912
Short Film
5.5
ActressThe Mountain Girl1911
Short Film
5.4
Actress1910
Short Film
5.5
ActressAlice Hardy - the Prospector's Wife1912
Short Film
5.9
ActressThe Son's Fiancée1912
Short Film
6.1
ActressThe Wife1913
Short Film
5.3
ActressThe New Year1909
Short Film
5.2
ActressThe Road Agent's Wife1913
Short Film
6
Actress(archive footage)1944
Short Film
3.6
ActressThe Young Woman1912
Short Film
5.5
ActressThe Tenement Girl1912
Short Film
5.3
ActressEmily1912
Short Film
4.7
ActressMartha, the Wife1912
Short Film
5.2
Actress1911
Short Film
4.7
ActressEdith1911
Short Film
ActressThe Sailor's Second Sweetheart1912
Short Film
6.3
ActressDaughter of the Lonedale Operator1911
Short Film
ActressThe Prospector's Wife1912
Short Film
5.3
ActressSylvia Randolph1914
Short Film
5.7
ActressThe Older Sister1912
Short Film
6
Actress1911
Short Film
ActressThe Grower's Daughter1913
Short Film
5.5
ActressYoung Woman1911
Short Film
6.1
ActressThe Goddess1912
Short Film
ActressThe Daughter1913
Short Film
7
ActressMeg - the Wild Girl1914
Short Film
5.2
ActressMlle. Genova1913
Short Film
6.1
ActressMaria1913
Short Film
4.3
ActressThe Wife1913
Short Film
6.1
ActressThe Young Woman1913
Short Film
5.2
ActressThe Mother1913
Short Film
5.3
Actress1913
Short Film
5.1
Actress1911
Short Film
ActressMabel Mack1914
Short Film
ActressMary1914
Short Film
ActressMay, a Stock Girl1914
Short Film
5.7
ActressMary Ashton1914
Short Film
5
Actress1945
Short Film
ActressThe Wife1913
Short Film
6.2
ActressAgnes Rodman - Stephen's Daughter1914
Short Film
5.3
ActressThe Young Woman1912
Short Film
Actress1913
Short Film
ActressJane - the Elder Sister1914
Short Film
6
ActressTheresa1913
Short Film
6.2
Actress1911
Limited Series
9.1
ActressSelf
13 Episodes
1980-1980
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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