Gertrude McCoy
Actor · 1890 – 1967 · Sugar Valley, Georgia, USA
From Wikipedia Gertrude McCoy (June 30, 1890 – July 17, 1967) was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 131 films between 1911 and 1926. She was born in Sugar Valley, Georgia and died in Atlanta, Georgia.
Movies22
Movie5.2ComedyA British short comedy about two married couples whose romantic entanglements lead to farcical complications. When the original director Hugh Croise fell ill, Alfred Hitchcock and Seymour Hicks completed the film. Released in 1923 as a remake of the 1914 Leedham Bantock version, only one of its two reels is known to survive.
Always Tell Your Wife
1923 · 4 votes
Movie9.0ComedyPeriodically, Edward Sherry has received sums of money from his uncle Theophilus, because he made his uncle believe that he had a wife and children. When Theophilus comes to visit with his niece Yvonne, who has just left a convent, Edward hires a wife and borrows children to perpetuate the ruse.
Madame Sherry
1917 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Romance
A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.
Heartstrings
1923 · 1 votes
- Movie5.7Drama
An elderly bank clerk declines to donate money to a tuberculosis fund, but soon his daughter comes down with the disease.
Hope - A Red Cross Seal Story
1912 · 3 votes
- Movie9.0
William Thompson slips away to New York, leaving his wife and daughter to shift for themselves. He obtains a station and finally becomes head waiter in one of the gay restaurants of the Great White Way. As years slip by his daughter becomes star-struck. Harry Valentine, the manager, notices her pretty face and tries to take her from town with him, although he has no position in the company to offer her. This she declines, but when he later writes her that he will marry her if she will come to New York and will also place her on the stage, she decides to leave her mother and accept the offer. Of course, Valentine has no intention of marrying her and when he meets her in New York he takes her for a little supper at the restaurant before the supposititious wedding ceremony and thus Thompson is brought face to face with his daughter.
His Daughter
1912 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaGerman made drama was one of several the notorious Mary Nolan, under her given name Imogene Robertson, made during her European exile brought on by innumerable scandals in America.
Movie3.0HistoryRecounts some highlights in the career of Admiral Nelson, including his battles with the French fleet under Napoleon, and his dalliances with Lady Hamilton.
Nelson
1926 · 3 votes
- Movie4.0
Lieutenant John Miller, U.S.A., receives a note from his southern sweetheart chiding him for not getting through the enemy's lines to visit her. His pride determines him, and going to his general he asks leave of absence. The general tells Miller that leave of absence will be given him on condition that he purposely gets captured in his fiancée's home with a decoy dispatch on him.
A Soldier's Duty
1912 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
A Lady stops her daughter from eloping with a farmer, takes away her baby, and makes her marry a Lord.
Tell Your Children
1922 · 2 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
A silent drama film directed by Sidney Morgan.
Miriam Rozella
1924 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaMen
1918 · 1 votes
Movie6.7DramaFantasyPeasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
The Blue Bird
1918 · 38 votes
- MovieDrama
Uncle Sam is mistaken for Marion's uncle Sam.
- Movie10.0
Should she marry for love or for money?
How They Outwitted Father
1913 · 1 votes
Movie5.7Here with the Edison Company -- most notably Charles Ogle as the usurer -- we see a 'typical' case of the victims of usury. Although offered as a 'realistic' view of the effects of usury, it veers frequently into melodrama.
The Usurer's Grip
1912 · 3 votes
Movie9.0FantasyWe see Jack and his mother very poor and the project of selling the cow discussed. Jack meets the familiar figure of the butcher who bargains with him for the cow and finally Jack consents to part with the animal for the wonderful beans which will grow up overnight until they reach the sky. He takes them to his mother, and, of course, she is heart-broken and throws the beans out of the window. The next morning the vine not only covers the window, but reaches far above the top of the house out of sight in the clouds, and we see Jack start to climb upward. Upon arriving at the giant's castle Jack meets the ogre's wife, who towers majestically above him, and after some parley is invited in, on his plea of hunger. Before he can be served the giant is heard and Jack is hidden in the kettle. The giant comes on and then follows the familiar scenes in which the ogre calls for his bags of gold, his magic harp and the wonderful hen that lays the golden eggs.
Jack and the Beanstalk
1912 · 1 votes
MovieDrama- Movie10.0CrimeDrama
A doctor poisons his dying friend and is framed by his valet for poisoning his wife's first husband.
The Temptation of Carlton Earle
1923 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0DramaAdventure
A son tries to overturn the disgrace of his father, who committed suicide.
Nets of Destiny
1924 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0DramaMystery
Resemblance of a society man to a notorious crook forms the basis of this dramatic, thrilling romance. the crook is after the other's jewels and a young girl is searching for an important paper. All three are involved in a Tango which reaches a sensational climax in the death of the other crook.
The Brass Bowl
1914 · 1 votes
MovieDramaThe west is the stamping ground for Paul Temple and his thespian associates. He is talking with his sweetheart, Jane Dinsmore, as Alice Robinson, Jane's intimate friend, enters with a letter from an erstwhile associate, advising her to go to New York and accept a place in the chorus. A word from Temple, and Alice has made up her mind. She leaves for New York. Temple and Jane have been married some time and are living unhappily, apart from the old folks. The former's reputation as a heavy actor is wide, but drink has degraded him. Subsequently, Jane dies, due to Temple's abuse of her.
Movie5.7ComedyA short comedy in which the newest employee is teased by the office girls, but he retaliates by putting black polish in a powder-box. Ultimately the girls use the resulting black powder on the young employee himself.
Revenge Is Sweet
1912 · 3 votes