Blanche Sweet
Known for Acting · 124 credits
- Born
- 1896-06-16
- Died
- 1986-09-06
- Place of birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Also known as
- Sarah 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 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.
Known For
TV Shows (3)
Movies (121)
Classmates
1914
as Sylvia Randolph
The Massacre
1912
as Stephen's Ward
The Odalisque
1914
as May, a Stock Girl
Anna Christie
1923
as Anna Christie
Judith of Bethulia
1914
as Judith
Enoch Arden
1911
as Woman on the Beach
Show Girl in Hollywood
1930
as Donny Harris
Twenty Years After
1944
as (archive footage)
Strongheart
1914
as Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister
The Woman Racket
1930
as Julia Barnes Hayes
Near To Earth
1913
A Corner in Wheat
1909
Quincy Adams Sawyer
1922
as Alice Pettengill
The Silver Horde
1930
as Queenie
Broken Ways
1913
as The Road Agent's Wife
The Avenging Conscience
1914
as The Sweetheart
Souls for Sale
1923
as Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
Home, Sweet Home
1914
as The Wife
The Unpardonable Sin
1919
as Alice Parcot / Dinny Parcot
Death's Marathon
1913
as The Wife
Three Friends
1913
as The Wife
Fighting Blood
1911
Men and Women
1914
as Agnes Rodman - Stephen's Daughter
The Captive
1915
as Sonya Matinovich
The Primal Call
1911
The House of Discord
1913
as The Wife
Enoch Arden: Part I
1911
A Cure for Suffragettes
1913
The Ragamuffin
1916
as Jenny
Through Darkening Vales
1911
as Grace
The Broken Cross
1911
To Save Her Soul
1909
as Stage Dancer
A Woman of Pleasure
1919
as Alice Dane
Diplomacy
1926
as Dora Weymouth
The Long Road
1911
as Edith
For His Son
1912
as The Son's Fiancée
The Secret Sin
1915
as Edith Martin / Grace Martin
Help Wanted - Male
1920
as Leona Stafford
The Tear That Burned
1914
as Meg - the Wild Girl
One Is Business, the Other Crime
1912
as Rich Wife
The Painted Lady
1912
as The Older Sister
If We Only Knew
1913
as The Mother
The Day After
1909
as The New Year
Singed
1927
as Dolly Wall
The Secret Orchard
1915
as Diane
The Little Country Mouse
1914
as Dorothy
The Two Paths
1911
Love in an Apartment Hotel
1913
as The Young Woman
That Girl Montana
1921
as Montana Rivers
The God Within
1912
as The Woman of the Camp
The Hushed Hour
1919
as Virginia Appleton Blodgett
The Clue
1915
as Christine Lesley
A Flash of Light
1910
His Daughter
1911
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
1914
as Mabel Mack
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
1924
as Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield
Stolen Goods
1915
as Margery Huntley
Always Faithful
1929
as Mrs. George W. Mason
The New Dress
1911
as At Wedding/At Market
In the Palace of the King
1923
as Dolores Mendoza
The Stolen Bride
1913
as The Grower's Daughter
The New Commandment
1925
as Renee Darcourt
The Last Drop of Water
1911
as Mary
The Miser's Heart
1911
as Neighbor
The Hero of Little Italy
1913
as Maria
A Woman Scorned
1911
Simple Souls
1920
as Molly Shine
Oil and Water
1913
as Mlle. Genova
The Deadlier Sex
1920
as Mary Willard
The Chief's Blanket
1912
as The Young Woman
For Her Father's Sins
1914
as Mary Ashton
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
1916
as Olga Nelson
The Sowers
1916
as Karin Dolokhof
All on Account of the Milk
1910
as The Maid
Bluebeard's Seven Wives
1926
as Juliet
The Voice of the Child
1911
as The Wife
The Transformation of Mike
1912
as The Tenement Girl
The Woman in White
1929
as Laura Fairlie / Anne Catherick
The Painted Lady
1914
as Jane - the Elder Sister
A Country Cupid
1911
as Edith
His Supreme Moment
1925
as Carla King
The Battle
1911
as The Boy's Sweetheart
Love in the Hills
1911
as The Mountain Girl
Blind Love
1912
as The Young Woman
The Villain Foiled
1911
as Miss Page
A Temporary Truce
1912
as Alice Hardy - the Prospector's Wife
The Coming of Angelo
1913
as Theresa
Those Who Dance
1924
as Rose Carney
Her Unwilling Husband
1920
as Mavis
The Lonedale Operator
1911
as Daughter of the Lonedale Operator
Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
1982
as Narrator (voice)
The Far Cry
1926
as Claire Marsh
Fighting Cressy
1919
as Cressy
The Sporting Venus
1925
as Lady Gwendolyn
Those Without Sin
1917
as Melanie Landry
The Rocky Road
1910
Girl in the Web
1920
as Esther Maitland
Her Awakening
1914
as Mary
The Evil Eye
1917
as Dr. Katherine Torrance
Two Men of the Desert
1913
as The Authoress
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
1912
as The Goddess
The Lesser Evil
1912
as The Young Woman
Why Women Love
1925
as Molla Hansen
A Chance Deception
1913
as The Wife
The Spanish Gypsy
1911
The Indian Brothers
1911
as Indian
Under Burning Skies
1912
as Emily
How She Triumphed
1911
as Mary
Make Mine Memories
1945
The Meanest Man in the World
1923
as Jane Hudson
The Eternal Mother
1912
as Martha, the Wife
The Making of a Man
1911
as Young Woman
The Storm
1916
as Natalie Raydon
Public Opinion
1916
as Hazel Gray
With the Enemy's Help
1912
as The Prospector's Wife
The Warrens of Virginia
1915
as Agatha Warren
The Blind Princess and the Poet
1911
as The Princess
A Sailor’s Heart
1912
as The Sailor's Second Sweetheart
The Case of Becky
1915
as Dorothy/Becky
A String of Pearls
1912
as The Brother's Sweetheart
About 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 in… With 124 credits spanning from 1909 to 1982, Blanche Sweet has appeared in 121 films and 3 TV shows.
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- Classmates (1914) — as Sylvia Randolph
- The Massacre (1912) — as Stephen's Ward
- The Odalisque (1914) — as May, a Stock Girl
- Anna Christie (1923) — as Anna Christie
- Judith of Bethulia (1914) — as Judith
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