
Acting
Lila Chester
Born
1888-04-22 (138)
Known for
Acting
Credits
16 titles
Wiki - Lila Hayward Chester was born in Richmond, Virginia, and was educated at the University of California. She followed a career in stock and vaudeville on the stage. Her middle name was rarely used in publicity. She worked with P.A. Powers in 1911 and January 1912. Around the same time she also was an actress with Gaumont and Edison. Early in 1912 Lila Chester moved to Thanhouser, for whom she played in many films through 1915. In 1913 The New York Times named her as "one of the prettiest girls of today," in a contest judged by artists who specialized in the so-called "American girl," including James Montgomery Flagg, C. Allen Gilbert, Clarence F. Underwood, and Penrhyn Stanlaws. In the …
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Comte Paul De Valreas is attracted to Frou Frou, the frivolous wife of Henri De Sartorys and the indifferent mother of their young son Georges. Paul persuades Frou Frou to bring her somber sister Louise, who secretly loves Henri, into the household, thus freeing her from any domestic duties.
Frou Frou
1914
NRMiss Petticoats stops a runaway horse, saves a wealthy woman from death, is rewarded with position as a private secretary. Society shuns her. She goes abroad; then see how she becomes the acknowledged daughter of a French Count and falls heir to a title.
Miss Petticoats
1916
10.0The pretty young stenographer in a New York lawyer's office had two weeks' vacation coining to her, and decided for once in her life she would cut a dash in society. She expended what for her was an enormous amount of money on clothes, and went to a fashionable seashore resort.
When a Count Counted
1912
NRThis twenty-three episode serial told the story of a secret society called The Black Hundred and its attempts to gain control of a lost million dollars.
The Million Dollar Mystery
1914
5.3An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working mill.
The Cry of the Children
1912
10.0The merchant had succeeded in business because he was utterly heartless and had ground down all opposition. His employees hated him, his competitors feared him, and the servants in his home lived in mortal dread of him.
Coals of Fire
1914
Film credits
1910s · 16 titles
Comte Paul De Valreas is attracted to Frou Frou, the frivolous wife of Henri De Sartorys and the indifferent mother of their young son Georges. Paul persuades Frou Frou to bring her somber sister Louise, who secretly loves Henri, into the household, thus freeing her from any domestic duties.
Frou Frou
1914
NRMiss Petticoats stops a runaway horse, saves a wealthy woman from death, is rewarded with position as a private secretary. Society shuns her. She goes abroad; then see how she becomes the acknowledged daughter of a French Count and falls heir to a title.
Miss Petticoats
1916
10.0The pretty young stenographer in a New York lawyer's office had two weeks' vacation coining to her, and decided for once in her life she would cut a dash in society. She expended what for her was an enormous amount of money on clothes, and went to a fashionable seashore resort.
When a Count Counted
1912
NRThis twenty-three episode serial told the story of a secret society called The Black Hundred and its attempts to gain control of a lost million dollars.
The Million Dollar Mystery
1914
5.3An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working mill.
The Cry of the Children
1912
10.0The merchant had succeeded in business because he was utterly heartless and had ground down all opposition. His employees hated him, his competitors feared him, and the servants in his home lived in mortal dread of him.
Coals of Fire
1914
8.0One little girl lived in the country. She was a model child, everybody admitted it, but it cannot be denied that she was more or less of a cry-baby and a coward.
Cousins
1912
NRA foundling is raised in a convent and becomes a nun there, until she falls in love with a wounded soldier under her care. When she leaves the convent, a statue of the Virgin Mary comes to life and assumes the girl's appearance to carry on her work.
The Legend of Provence
1913
NROn the promise of marriage, Sylvia Smith, a simple girl from Lone Meadows, follows her lover to the city only to discover that he already has a wife.
A Self-Made Widow
1917
6.5A romantic story utilizing flashback sequences, featuring Harry Benham, Mignon Anderson and Helen Badgley (http://thanhouser.org/).
Just a Shabby Doll
1913
3.3During a raid on a gambling establishment run by her father, Cosmo Lester, Diana Lester rescues Hugh Carton, a member of the English Parliament and a candidate for the Cabinet. Hugh gratefully offers Diana a position as his sister's companion, and soon, the two fall desperately in love.
Stolen Hours
1918
NRA French woman has to marry a Russian to preserve the reputation of her society mother. However she is in love with someone else.
Moths
1913
No synopsis available yet.
A Plugged Nickel
1915
6.5An American family in need of some money decides to pull a little innocent scam on a wealthy English relative.
Uncle's Namesakes
1913
A society woman who lives in the suburbs near the sea had laid her plans to insure the marriage of her daughter to a wealthy young banker.
Peggy's Invitation
1913
9.0David Spencer (Holbrook Blinn) is a basically good man, but like all men he has a few character flaws. Alas, these flaws deepen into weaknesses, leading to disaster for Spencer and his lady love.
The Unpardonable Sin
1916
