Florence Lawrence

Acting

Florence Lawrence

Born 1886-01-01 · Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Florence Lawrence (born Florence Annie Bridgwood; January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as "The First Movie Star", and was the first film actor to be named publicly. At the height of her fame in the 1910s, she was known as "The Biograph Girl" for work as one of the leading ladies in silent films from the Biograph Company. Lawrence appeared in almost 300 films for various motion picture companies throughout her career.

Acting credits

1776, or The Hessian Renegades poster
5.2

During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers. He takes refuge with a civilian family, but is soon detected. The family and their neighbors must then make plans to see that the important message gets through after all.

1776, or The Hessian Renegades

1909

Secrets poster
5.2

In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortune. Mary and John endure the difficult journey and settle into a small cabin, then face the hostilities of a cattle rustling gang, as well as the tragic loss of their only son. With Mary's help, John defeats the gang, which propels him to political power that, over the years, gradually erodes the once-happy marriage.

Secrets

1933

Eradicating Aunty poster
0.5

A young couple must endure a tedious visit from their aunt until their friend offers to find a way to make her leave.

Eradicating Aunty

1909

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7.0

A young soldier is shipped overseas after a hasty marriage; when he returns he doesn't recognize his wife who has changed from the tomboy he married to a sophisticated young woman.

The Hoyden

1911

Night Must Fall poster
7.0

Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in. Mrs. Bramson's niece Olivia takes a liking to Danny, and comes to believe that he may have been involved in the disappearance of a local woman.

Night Must Fall

1937

The Casting Couch poster
8.3

An unprecedented anthology of never-before-told true stories by and about some of Hollywood's most interesting stars, legends, and wannabes, and takes readers inside Hollywood's inner sanctum to show how casting decisions are made, who makes them, and who has the final word.

The Casting Couch

1995

So Big! poster
5.8

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

So Big!

1932

The Old-Fashioned Way poster
7.2

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

The Old-Fashioned Way

1934

Lady Helen's Escapade poster
4.2

A bored Lady Helen goes slumming as a domestic in a boarding house. There she falls in love with a sensitive young musician. The other women in the house are jealous, and accuse her of trying to steal the musician's violin. Lady Helen retreats to her own home, and arranges a position for the musician which allows them to be together.

Lady Helen's Escapade

1909

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4.7

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy

1908

Yellow Dust poster
4.5

After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.

Yellow Dust

1936

Antony and Cleopatra poster
2.5

A short film based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was the first film to dramatize the ill-fated romance between Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of Egypt.

Antony and Cleopatra

1908

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8.0

A young doctor is jealous of one of his patient's romantic interest in his nurse.

The Doctor's Perfidy

1910

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4.0

A father wants to marry his daughter to a rich man, but she's in love with someone else. She borrows a tramp's wooden leg, pretending that it's hers, and the disgusted suitor rejects her.

The Wooden Leg

1909

I Did It, Mamma poster
2.5

A mother punishes her son for eating a plate of cream puffs, unaware that the daughter really did it. As the daughter watches the punishment, she feels guilty, and confesses her misdeed.

I Did It, Mamma

1909

Man on the Flying Trapeze poster
6.2

Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.

Man on the Flying Trapeze

1935

No artwork available
2.5

A girl is being shipped off to Europe with her aunt to break up her romance. Her suitor dresses himself as the aunt and manages to fool everyone long enough for them to elope.

Eloping with Auntie

1909

His Chorus Girl Wife poster
8.0

A young man's parents refuse to accept his new wife, but a reconciliation is eventually brought about.

His Chorus Girl Wife

1911

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7.0

A maid loves her employer, sacrificing her own happiness in order to insure his.

The Slavey’s Affinity

1911

The Medicine Bottle poster
1.0

While she attends a party, Mrs. Ross leaves her young daughter to care for her bed-ridden mother. At the party, Mrs. Ross realizes she left the wrong medicine, and desperately tries to contact her daughter before it's too late.

The Medicine Bottle

1909

The Lonely Villa poster
6.0

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 happening, he must race against time to get back home.

The Lonely Villa

1909

No artwork available
9.0

Unable to bear the abuse of her drunken soldier husband, the wife left her home and went to the city, where she became a nurse in a hospital. Her husband, recovering from a spree, treated his wife's disappearance as a joke and soon went with his company to the Philippines. Meantime a doctor at the hospital had fallen in love with the young wife and when news came from the Philippines that her husband had been killed she married him. They were very happy and a child was born to them. To a friend in her old home she sent a photograph of herself and family. Then her soldier husband returned for he had not been killed. During a reception at her new home he appeared on the scene. A dancer was to be there, but being unable to keep the engagement, the wife had prepared to perform the dance herself. The appearance of her soldier husband greatly excited her for it made her second marriage illegal.

Her Child's Honor

1911

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4.0

An unattractive girl endeavors to make herself attractive to an artist, but he sees only the artificial beauty of a model.

The Angel of the Studio

1912

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists poster
10.0

The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and 1919.

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists

1998