Blanche Sweet

Blanche Sweet

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1896-06-16
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As: Sarah Blanche Sweet

Movies List of Blanche Sweet

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The Hushed Hour

1919 Movie
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The New Commandment

1925 Movie
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Her Unwilling Husband

1920 Movie
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Quincy Adams Sawyer

1922 Movie
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Pirate Gold

1913 Movie
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A Chance Deception

1913 Movie
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If We Only Knew

1913 Movie
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The Tear That Burned

1914 Movie
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Near To Earth

1913 Movie
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The Coming of Angelo

1913 Movie
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Fighting Blood

1911 Movie
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Her Awakening

1914 Movie
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For Her Father's Sins

1914 Movie
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The Odalisque

1914 Movie
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Those Without Sin

1917 Movie
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Judith of Bethulia

1914 Movie
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Stolen Goods

1915 Movie
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Make Mine Memories

1945 Movie
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The Case of Becky

1915 Movie
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The Lonedale Operator

1911 Movie
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Death's Marathon

1913 Movie
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The House of Discord

1913 Movie
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Men and Women

1914 Movie
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Enoch Arden: Part I

1911 Movie
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The Miser's Heart

1911 Movie
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The Painted Lady

1912 Movie
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The Battle

1911 Movie
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The Chief's Blanket

1912 Movie
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Blind Love

1912 Movie
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The Massacre

1912 Movie
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The Villain Foiled

1911 Movie
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Under Burning Skies

1912 Movie
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Anna Christie

1923 Movie
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The Lesser Evil

1912 Movie
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For His Son

1912 Movie
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A Country Cupid

1911 Movie
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The Eternal Mother

1912 Movie
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Strongheart

1914 Movie
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Disclosure

2020 Movie
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The Woman Racket

1930 Movie
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Diplomacy

1926 Movie
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The Clue

1915 Movie
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The Painted Lady

1914 Movie
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The Ragamuffin

1916 Movie
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The Woman in White

1929 Movie
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Classmates

1914 Movie
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A Woman Scorned

1911 Movie
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The Far Cry

1926 Movie
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Souls for Sale

1923 Movie
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A Flash of Light

1910 Movie
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The Primal Call

1911 Movie
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Three Friends

1913 Movie
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The Deadlier Sex

1920 Movie
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A Sailor’s Heart

1912 Movie
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That Girl Montana

1921 Movie
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The Sporting Venus

1925 Movie
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The Captive

1915 Movie
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A Woman of Pleasure

1919 Movie
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His Daughter

1911 Movie
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The Silver Horde

1930 Movie
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Always Faithful

1929 Movie
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Home, Sweet Home

1914 Movie
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The Making of a Man

1911 Movie
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Broken Ways

1913 Movie
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The Day After

1909 Movie
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His Supreme Moment

1925 Movie
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The Rocky Road

1910 Movie
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Enoch Arden

1911 Movie
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With the Enemy's Help

1912 Movie
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The Long Road

1911 Movie
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A Temporary Truce

1912 Movie
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Twenty Years After

1944 Movie
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Fashion News

1928 Movie
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Why Women Love

1925 Movie
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Two Men of the Desert

1913 Movie
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Oil and Water

1913 Movie
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The Unpardonable Sin

1919 Movie
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Singed

1927 Movie
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The God Within

1912 Movie
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Love in the Hills

1911 Movie
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The Secret Sin

1915 Movie
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The Evil Eye

1917 Movie
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The Stolen Bride

1913 Movie
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To Save Her Soul

1909 Movie
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Those Who Dance

1924 Movie
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A Corner in Wheat

1909 Movie
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Girl in the Web

1920 Movie