Marguerite Bertsch

Writing

Marguerite Bertsch

Known for

Writing

Credits

28 titles

Screenwriter and director. Her book 'How to Write for Moving Pictures: A Manual of Instruction and Information' was published in 1917.

Known for

Behind the camera

The Law Decides poster
9.0

Mere years could not kill the overwhelming love which lay dormant in Lorenz's heart, though Florence was now the wife of another.

The Law Decides

1916

The Law Decides poster
9.0

Mere years could not kill the overwhelming love which lay dormant in Lorenz's heart, though Florence was now the wife of another.

The Law Decides

1916

No artwork available
NR

Robert Bardon has searched for years for animal trainer Gamo who seduced and abandoned Brandon's daughter Gladys. Finding him at last he corners him in a room and exacts his revenge.

The Tiger

1913

The Devil's Prize poster
5.0

Social-climbing Arnold St. Clair abandons his pregnant lover Myra to marry wealthy Adeline Stratton. Myra, looking to protect her child, marries Hugh Roland. Adeline's uncle Mark discovers Arnold's secret, and to keep him quiet, Arnold kills him.

The Devil's Prize

1916

The Devil's Prize poster
5.0

Social-climbing Arnold St. Clair abandons his pregnant lover Myra to marry wealthy Adeline Stratton. Myra, looking to protect her child, marries Hugh Roland. Adeline's uncle Mark discovers Arnold's secret, and to keep him quiet, Arnold kills him.

The Devil's Prize

1916

The Glory of Yolanda poster
NR

A Russian peasant girl becomes a member of the Imperial Ballet.

The Glory of Yolanda

1917

No artwork available
NR

A socialite bets that she can educate a lower class man and pass him off as a member of the upper class in a week.

The Cave Man

1915

The Soul Master poster
9.0

Deserted by his wife Arline, who absconds with their baby daughter Ruth as well, Robert Travers loses all faith in women. Years later, Travers, now known as the man without a soul, is the owner of a chain of department stores in which young Ruth Carroll is employed as a ribbon clerk. Finding himself strangely attracted to the girl, he takes a fatherly interest in her and offers Ruth a position in his office. Laura Wilson, who wants Travers for herself becomes jealous and tries to lure the girl away but Travers comes to realize she is his own daughter.

The Soul Master

1917

The Soul Master poster
9.0

Deserted by his wife Arline, who absconds with their baby daughter Ruth as well, Robert Travers loses all faith in women. Years later, Travers, now known as the man without a soul, is the owner of a chain of department stores in which young Ruth Carroll is employed as a ribbon clerk. Finding himself strangely attracted to the girl, he takes a fatherly interest in her and offers Ruth a position in his office. Laura Wilson, who wants Travers for herself becomes jealous and tries to lure the girl away but Travers comes to realize she is his own daughter.

The Soul Master

1917

Writing on the Wall poster
1.0

Irving Lawrence owns some of the most decrepit tenements in town and is an all-around bad guy. He won't cooperate with the efforts of his wife, Barbara, to help the poor and sees other women behind her back. Muriel, one of his cast-offs, meets and marries Barbara's brother, Payne. Lawrence makes trouble for Muriel and fabricates a scandal involving his kindly brother Schuyler and Barbara.

Writing on the Wall

1916

No artwork available
NR

Mark Stetson, a scheming politician, entangles the Brandons, husband and wife, and their friend, Antoinette, in his smuggling schemes and engineers their arrest, to protect himself. Edited into Shadows of the Past (1919).

Shadows of the Past

1914

For a Woman’s Fair Name poster
8.0

Right after a husband and wife (Robert Edeson and Eulalie Jensen) arrive home from their honeymoon, the husband goes to fetch his sister from boarding school. While he is away, the wife's friend and neighbor, McGregor (Harry Morey), invites her to a party, and she accepts. On the way back home, they're involved in an accident, and McGregor takes the wife, who's unconscious, to recover at a nearby roadhouse. Unfortunately, McGregor's coke fiend brother (William R. Dunn) is there partying, and he threatens to put a seamy spin on the innocent situation and tell all.

For a Woman’s Fair Name

1916

He Never Knew poster
NR

Unable to support her baby boy, Grace Devereaux, a widow, leaves him at an orphan asylum.

He Never Knew

1914

My Official Wife poster
NR

A leader in the Russian nihilist movement has an American pretend to be her husband in order to cross the Russian border.

My Official Wife

1914

The Diver poster
6.0

Rita, who is in love, makes a false accusation against the “Nymph”, one of her rivals in love. But when the “Nymph” rescues Rita's daughter from the water, she has regrets, and retracts her accusation.

The Diver

1913

No artwork available
7.0

The dramatist’s wife pawns her necklace when her husband tells her he cannot afford to buy her a new gown for the Vavasour Ball. The pawnbroker's daughter borrows the necklace from his safe so that she may wear it to another ball. Trouble ensues for all.

The Vavasour Ball

1914

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4.0

A widower with four grown daughters remarries and brings his new wife home to meet them. The girls set out to make life as difficult as possible for their new mother.

The Troublesome Step-Daughters

1912

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NR

An escaped lunatic threatens the romance of his wife and her new suitor.

His Phantom Sweetheart

1915

Mortmain poster
NR

Surgeon Crisp announces to his student doctors and friends that he has solved the problem of limb-grafting, and shows proofs. Among those deeply interested is Mortmain, a musician and a friend of the surgeon.

Mortmain

1915

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nothing to Wear

1912

Through the Wall poster
NR

Through the Wall is a silent 1916 film

Through the Wall

1916

A Million Bid poster
NR

Agnes Belgradin is in love with a young doctor, Loring Brent. When Agnes' father dies, her mother takes her on a trip abroad. She insists that the young couple separate before they set sail, and promises that if they still love each other after a year they can reunite. But Mrs. Belgradin intercepts all the letters Agnes and Brent write one another, and convinces her daughter to marry a wealthy Australian millionaire.

A Million Bid

1914

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9.0

A mysterious, Christ-like stranger in modern (for 1913) clothing brings healing and peace to a family torn by fraternal conflict during the Civil War, using carpentry and his gentle demeanor to transform lives, focusing on redemption rather than literal carpentry, despite the title.

The Carpenter

1913

Salvation Joan poster
NR

Joan, a refined young Salvation Army volunteer, fall in love with a gangster.

Salvation Joan

1916

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Raised to believe that her mother Elois, is dead, 18-year-old Yvette Muree is aghast to learn that mom is a burlesque queen.

The Painted World

1914

A Florida Enchantment poster
4.4

Lillian Travers, a New York heiress, pops down to Florida to surprise her fiancé, Fred Cassadene, the house doctor at a prominent Saint Augustine hotel. The surprise, however, is Lillian's when she finds Fred in a series of compromising situations with a certain wealthy widow staying there. When she can take no more, Lillian discovers a box forgotten at an old curiosity shop in which lies a hundred-year-old secret: a vial of four rare and exotic African seeds that promises to transform whoever swallows one from a woman to a man or vice versa.

A Florida Enchantment

1914

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NR

On his way to New York to visit his relatives, the Masons, for the first time, Uncle Bill meets "Oiley" Curley, a crook. John Mason, Uncle Bill's nephew, is candidate for Governor and, on the eve of Uncle Bill's arrival, Mason and his political constituents are in secret conference with Murray of the money powers. Meantime, Julia, Mason's wife, goes on a little joy ride with Jack Trent, husband of Vivien, her friend who is on a joy ride with Mason's father, a delightful old rogue. Gladys, Julia's hoydenish sister with whose photo Uncle Bill has previously fallen in love, is left home alone.

Uncle Bill

1914

Captain Alvarez poster
NR

A melodrama about an American who becomes a revolutionary leader battling evil government spies in Argentina.

Captain Alvarez

1914