Blanche Sweet

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1896-06-16 (90 years old)

Deathday

1986-09-06

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Blanche Sweet

Biography

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 ro...

Acting

1919

The Hushed Hour

as Virginia Appleton Blodgett

1925

The New Commandment

as Renee Darcourt

1914

The Avenging Conscience

as The Sweetheart

1922

Quincy Adams Sawyer

as Alice Pettengill

1913

Pirate Gold

as The Daughter

1913

Love in an Apartment Hotel

as The Young Woman

1913

1913

If We Only Knew

as The Mother

1914

The Tear That Burned

as Meg - the Wild Girl

1913

1914

1914

1914

For Her Father's Sins

as Mary Ashton

1914

The Odalisque

as May, a Stock Girl

1917

Those Without Sin

as Melanie Landry

1914

1915

Stolen Goods

as Margery Huntley

1915

The Case of Becky

as Dorothy/Becky

1911

The Lonedale Operator

as Daughter of the Lonedale Operator

1913

Death's Marathon

as The Wife

1913

1914

Men and Women

as Agnes Rodman - Stephen's Daughter

1911

1912

The Painted Lady

as The Older Sister

1911

The Battle

as The Boy's Sweetheart

1912

The Chief's Blanket

as The Young Woman

1912

The Transformation of Mike

as The Tenement Girl

1912

Blind Love

as The Young Woman

1911

The Villain Foiled

as Miss Page

1912

The Massacre

as Stephen's Ward

1923

Anna Christie

as Anna Christie

1912

The Lesser Evil

as The Young Woman

1912

For His Son

as The Son's Fiancée

1912

The Eternal Mother

as Martha, the Wife

1911

1914

Strongheart

as Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister

1930

Show Girl in Hollywood

as Donny Harris

1924

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

as Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield

1930

The Woman Racket

as Julia Barnes Hayes

1926

Diplomacy

as Dora Weymouth

1915

The Clue

as Christine Lesley

1914

The Painted Lady

as Jane - the Elder Sister

1916

1929

The Woman in White

as Laura Fairlie / Anne Catherick

1914

Classmates

as Sylvia Randolph

1915

The Warrens of Virginia

as Agatha Warren

1916

1923

Souls for Sale

as Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)

1913

Three Friends

as The Wife

1920

The Deadlier Sex

as Mary Willard

1912

A Sailor’s Heart

as The Sailor's Second Sweetheart

1921

That Girl Montana

as Montana Rivers

1925

The Sporting Venus

as Lady Gwendolyn

1915

The Captive

as Sonya Matinovich

1919

A Woman of Pleasure

as Alice Dane

1930

1929

Always Faithful

as Mrs. George W. Mason

1914

Home, Sweet Home

as The Wife

1913

Broken Ways

as The Road Agent's Wife

1911

The Making of a Man

as Young Woman

1909

The Day After

as The New Year

1925

His Supreme Moment

as Carla King

1911

Enoch Arden

as Woman on the Beach

1912

With the Enemy's Help

as The Prospector's Wife

1911

1912

A Temporary Truce

as Alice Hardy - the Prospector's Wife

1944

Twenty Years After

as (archive footage)

1925

Why Women Love

as Molla Hansen

1913

Two Men of the Desert

as The Authoress

1913

Oil and Water

as Mlle. Genova

1919

The Unpardonable Sin

as Alice Parcot / Dinny Parcot

1927

Singed

as Dolly Wall

1911

Love in the Hills

as The Mountain Girl

1912

The God Within

as The Woman of the Camp

1915

The Secret Sin

as Edith Martin / Grace Martin

1917

The Evil Eye

as Dr. Katherine Torrance

1913

The Stolen Bride

as The Grower's Daughter

1909

To Save Her Soul

as Stage Dancer

1924

Those Who Dance

as Rose Carney

1920

Girl in the Web

as Esther Maitland

1912

A String of Pearls

as The Brother's Sweetheart

1911

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