Edwin Stevens
Actor · 1860 – 1923 · San Francisco, California, USA
Movies24
MovieDocumentaryReleased in June of 1914.
Movie9.0ComedyPosing as a nobleman, Allan Harrowby takes out a policy with Lloyd's to insure that his upcoming marriage will occur, Dick Minot, Lloyd's assistant manager in the U. S., travels to San Marcos, Florida to handle anything that threatens to disrupt the wedding. On the train, Dick falls in love with Cynthia Meyrick, then discovers she is Harrowby's bride-to-be, he subdues his feelings.
Love Insurance
1919 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaIn the city of Bolton, party politics are in the control of two men, Jim Durfee and Gordon Freeman, who intend to keep it that way by running a "figurehead" for mayor. They decide upon Sheridan Dows, known as "Sherry," a young society dilettante, who surprises the political bosses by taking his responsibilities seriously.
The Figurehead
1920 · 1 votes
Movie5.0DramaRomanceSculptor Leonard Hunt is urged by his wife Vivian to compete for a million dollar prize competition for a Victory Memorial commemorating the First World War. Sylvia Morton models for Hunt, and they become romantically involved. In an attempt to save her marriage, Vivian persuades him to close the studio and go on a second honeymoon. But Hunt is unable to forget Sylvia, so he leaves Vivian. Vivian threatens to kill Sylvia unless she promises to give up Hunt. Months later, Hunt returns, remorseful and begging forgiveness, saying that Sylvia has married someone else.
The Woman of Bronze
1923 · 2 votes
Movie9.0DramaActress Mignon is the toast of Paris until she marries young American engineer John Stanley. He is commissioned to go to work in the Sahara desert, and Mignon accompanies him with their baby. But it isn't long before she is lonely and horribly bored. When a wealthy Russian, Baron Alexis, passes through the camp, he offers to take her away to Cairo. She goes with him, and he surrounds her in luxury. Years pass, but the situation does not bring her happiness.
Sahara
1919 · 1 votes
Movie7.0FantasyRomance"The plot introduces Omar as a leader of his people but deals rather with the love of his nephew, Ben Ali, for the fairest daughter of the tribe" (Variety, 7 Oct 1925, p44).
A Lover's Oath
1925 · 2 votes
Movie8.0ComedyTwo gangs of crooks, living side-by-side, each mistake the other for a wealthy household and each plot to rob the other.
Cheating Cheaters
1919 · 1 votes
Movie7.0CrimeDramaGeorge Farrelly, the bored custodian of the safe-deposit vaults in a New York bank, is visited by his childhood sweetheart, Charity Garvice, who tells him that his blind old teacher, Martha Owen, has a premonition that something is wrong in George's life.
Faith
1919 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaNara, the daughter of a wealthy Russian killed by the Bolsheviki, flees to America and meets Adam Pine, a sculptor, who marvels at the beauty of her hands. Through him she meets Mrs. Vanessa Yates, a patroness of the arts, and Dr. Emlen Claveloux, who is completely absorbed in science. Connor Lee, a fake spiritualist, persuades her that she has a God-given power to cure ill people, and profits financially by her success in this work. This brings her into conflict with the physician, whom she loves, but her faith in the power of will and her beauty of character finally teach him that faith is at least an important adjunct to medicine.
The Hands of Nara
1922 · 1 votes
Movie7.0CrimeDramaAt a London auction, Princess Sonia bids against her husband, exiled Prince Victor, for a Corot landscape in which incriminating letters Sonia wrote are hidden, but it is bought by Michael Lanyard, suspected of being the mysterious, international thief "The Lone Wolf." After Lanyard gives Sonia the letters, she divorces Victor, marries Lanyard and dies after bearing their daughter Sonia. Years later, Sonia, who thinks she is the daughter of the Princess' maid, is found by Victor, now the leader of an underworld gang of Oriental crooks and Bolsheviks. Saying he is her father, Victor brings her to his home, hoping to entice Lanyard to make an appearance.
The Lone Wolf's Daughter
1919 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceA young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth and a frightening social whirl.
Her Kingdom of Dreams
1919 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyTraveling saleswoman Mary Marbury thrashes a masher on a train when he tries to kiss a young girl in a tunnel.
The Homebreaker
1919 · 1 votes
Movie6.3AdventureComedyAmerican law clerks Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne and Rodney Blake are nearly broke in Monte Carlo when Hawthorne breaks the bank. While driving through the impoverished kingdom of Bovinia, Hawthorne falls in love with a woman he meets when he retrieves his blown-off cap. Deciding to stay, Hawthorne is persuaded to finance a revolution until he learns that the woman he loves is Princess Irma and that she is in danger of being assassinated.
Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
1919 · 8 votes
Movie9.0AdventureIn Southern California during the Mexican regime, Don Marcello, son of the territorial governor, returns home to find that his father's secretary, Mendozza, has seized power. The coup arouses the anger of the revolutionary faction, which forms an alliance with Don Marcello.
The Spider and the Rose
1923 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaA rich woman and a poor man fall in love, but they face the opposition of her family.
What's Worth While?
1921 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaWhen her father is killed in an automobile accident on a western ranch, Dorothy Keith falls in love with young miner Joel Gant and marries him. Gant's claim is seized by her cousin, Ben, on behalf of a development company, and the couple go through years of poverty and hardship.
The Sting of the Lash
1921 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyHijinks surrounding the attendance of a Prince at a Yacht Club dinner.
The Dollar-a-Year Man
1921 · 1 votes
Movie10.0RomanceDramaLord Carlyle governs a province in India. Although he weds the beautiful Adrienne, he can't make her love him. And no wonder -- he's not only cruel, he's unfaithful. Adrienne leaves him and boards a ship with the intention of returning to England. But on the boat she meets Andrew Fabian, who is studying for the clergy. They fall in love, and he convinces her to accompany him on a pilgrimage to Damascus.
The Voice from the Minaret
1923 · 1 votes
Movie6.5AdventureDramaWastrel New York millionaire Roland Van Dam travels to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, looking for adventure and romance. Because the costume he is wearing includes a red gardenia, he is mistaken for escaped prisoner Emile Le Duc by a woman (who turns out to be a long-lost cousin) who was to meet Le Duc, who was to be wearing a red gardenia. It turns out that Le Duc is the head of a vicious gang of counterfeiters, and Roland winds up getting in more adventures than he had hoped for.
The Crimson Gardenia
1919 · 2 votes
MovieDramaThe Devil's Toy is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Harley Knoles and starring Adele Blood, Edwin Stevens and Montagu Love.
The Devil's Toy
1916
Movie7.0DramaFacing a prison term, James Moreton makes provision for the care of his motherless daughter, Lucia, by his brother and sister-in-law; she is cruelly treated by them and runs away with her nurse, Nora Burke. As a young woman, she takes the name Lucia Burke, and after Nora's death she gets a domestic position in the home of her uncle--each unaware of the other's identity.
The Ragged Heiress
1922 · 1 votes
Movie5.8WesternFramed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918 remake of the 1913 original, the first feature length Hollywood film. It is considered to be a lost film with only one reel still extant.
The Squaw Man
1918 · 2 votes
Movie10.0DramaBased on the Rupert Hughes novel, this film concerns the German atrocities committed in Belgium at the beginning of the Great War.
The Unpardonable Sin
1919 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyRomanceLiving in Cuba with her parents and grandmother, Inez Hastings, does not care for Lavendera, her persistent suitor. Contrary to her father's wishes, she attends a cockfight and makes the acquaintance of Rush Thompson, a United States revenue officer assigned to track down Cuban bootleggers. Their romance awakens the jealousy of Lavendera, who attempts to kill Rush.
A Game Chicken
1922 · 1 votes