Movies: Gladys Egan
- 1909
A Corner in Wheat (1909)
A Corner in Wheat6.11909HD
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who wor...
- 1909
The Lonely Villa (1909)
The Lonely Villa6.21909HD
A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happe...
- 1912
The Sunbeam (1912)
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Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and...
- 1908
The Adventures of Dollie (1908)
The Adventures of Dollie5.31908HD
On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing....
- 1910
The Unchanging Sea (1910)
The Unchanging Sea6.41910HD
In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on the way, and soon a daughte...
- 1911
His Trust (1911)
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A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is killed in battle, George continues in his caring duties, faithful to his trust....
- 1911
His Trust Fulfilled (1911)
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Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a good life, until the money runs out and he tries to steal money from t...
- 1910
The Usurer (1910)
The Usurer51910HD
A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations....
- 1910
The House with Closed Shutters (1910)
The House with Closed Shutters5.21910HD
During the Civil War a young soldier loses his nerve in battle and runs away to his home to hide; his sister puts on his uniform, takes her brother's place in the battle, and is killed. Their mother, not wanting the shameful truth to become known, cl...
- 1909
The Country Doctor (1909)
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While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse....
- 1909
A Trap for Santa Claus (1909)
A Trap for Santa Claus5.61909HD
The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely....
- 1910
A Child of the Ghetto (1910)
A Child of the Ghetto51910HD
After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She flees the ghetto of New York's Lower East Side and h...
- 1909
A Drunkard's Reformation (1909)
A Drunkard's Reformation5.81909HD
A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play, he's faced with his own drinking evils and how his life would be without them....
- 1910
Rose o' Salem Town (1910)
Rose o' Salem Town5.21910HD
A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by the girl, he becomes furious and desiring revenge, declares to a council of elders that the girl and her mother are witches....
- 1910
In the Border States (1910)
In the Border States5.51910HD
During the Civil War, a father living in a border state leaves to join the Union Army. After he leaves, Confederate troops forage on his property, where a soldier encounters one of his daughters. The father himself is wounded on a hazardous mission a...
- 1910
The Broken Doll (1910)
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An American Indian child, maltreated by her mother and other tribespeople, accompanies her family to a nearby town to buy supplies. There, local white settlers — a couple and their young daughter — befriend the child and give her a doll, her first an...
- 1910
Gold Is Not All (1910)
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Mabel, a young woman living in a large mansion, is courted by Tom Darrell, a neighbour of the same class. Meanwhile, Ruth, Mabel’s laundress, is courted by the equally lowly Steve. Ruth and Steve watch the wealthy couple’s courtship enviously. Both c...
- 1909
The Way of Man (1909)
The Way of Man41909HD
A woman is scarred in an accident and refuses to stand in the way of her lover's marriage to another....
- 1913
Fate (1913)
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Sim Sloane and his beloved son were the reprobates of the village, not what would be called lovers of peace and kindness. But granddad dwelt in a house filled more with love, and when Sim came in for his brutal sport, he soon went out assisted by gra...
- 1908
Romance of a Jewess (1908)
Romance of a Jewess4.21908HD
This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic plot involves the conflict between generations in an immigrant Jewish family....