Blanche Sweet
Known For: Acting
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: June 16, 1896
Day of Death: September 6, 1986 (90 years old)
Place of Birth: 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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Actor The Sweetheart
The Avenging Conscience
Actor Meg - the Wild Girl
The Tear That Burned
Actor Mabel Mack
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Actor Mary
Her Awakening
Actor Mary Ashton
For Her Father's Sins
Actor May, a Stock Girl
The Odalisque
Actor Judith
Judith of Bethulia
Actor Agnes Rodman - Stephen's Daughter
Men and Women
Actor Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister
Strongheart
Actor Jane - the Elder Sister
The Painted Lady
Actor Sylvia Randolph
Classmates
Actor The Wife
Home, Sweet Home
Actor Dorothy
The Little Country Mouse
1913
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A Cure for Suffragettes
Actor The Daughter
Pirate Gold
Actor The Wife
A Chance Deception
Actor The Young Woman
Love in an Apartment Hotel
Actor Maria
The Hero of Little Italy
Actor The Mother
If We Only Knew
Actor
Near To Earth
Actor Theresa
The Coming of Angelo
Actor The Wife
Death's Marathon
Actor The Wife
The House of Discord
Actor The Wife
Three Friends
Actor The Road Agent's Wife
Broken Ways
Actor The Authoress
Two Men of the Desert
Actor Mlle. Genova
Oil and Water
Actor The Grower's Daughter
The Stolen Bride
1912
Actor The Older Sister
The Painted Lady
Actor The Young Woman
The Chief's Blanket
Actor The Young Woman
Blind Love
Actor The Tenement Girl
The Transformation of Mike
Actor Stephen's Ward
The Massacre
Actor Emily
Under Burning Skies
Actor The Young Woman
The Lesser Evil
Actor Rich Wife
One Is Business, the Other Crime
Actor The Son's Fiancée
For His Son
Actor Martha, the Wife
The Eternal Mother
Actor The Sailor's Second Sweetheart
A Sailor’s Heart
Actor The Prospector's Wife
With the Enemy's Help
Actor Alice Hardy - the Prospector's Wife
A Temporary Truce
Actor The Woman of the Camp
The God Within
Actor The Goddess
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
1911
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Fighting Blood
Actor Daughter of the Lonedale Operator
The Lonedale Operator
Actor
Enoch Arden: Part I
Actor Neighbor
The Miser's Heart
Actor The Boy's Sweetheart
The Battle
Actor Miss Page
The Villain Foiled
Actor Grace
Through Darkening Vales
Actor Mary
The Last Drop of Water
Actor Edith
A Country Cupid
Actor
A Woman Scorned
Actor
The Primal Call
Actor
His Daughter
Actor Young Woman
The Making of a Man
Actor Woman on the Beach
Enoch Arden
Actor Edith
The Long Road
Actor The Mountain Girl
Love in the Hills
