Cast
Blanche Sweet
Acting
Cast
Blanche Sweet
Known for
Acting
Born
1896-06-16
From
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died
1986-09-06
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. Sweet made just three talking pictures, including her critically lauded performance in 1930's Show Girl in Hollywood, before retiring from the screen that same year and marrying stage actor Raymond Hackett in 1935. The marriage lasted until Hackett's death in 1958. Sweet spent the remainder of her performing career in radio and in secondary Broadway stage roles. Eventually, her career in both of these fields petered out, and she began working in a Los Angeles department store. In the late 1960s, her acting legacy was resurrected when film scholars invited her to Europe to receive recognition for her work. On September 24, 1984, a tribute to Blanche Sweet was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Miss Sweet introduced her 1925 film, The Sporting Venus. Sweet died in New York City of a stroke, on September 6, 1986, just weeks after her 90th birthday.
Classmates
as Sylvia Randolph
The Massacre
as Stephen's Ward
The Odalisque
as May, a Stock Girl
Anna Christie
as Anna Christie
Judith of Bethulia
as Judith
Enoch Arden
as Woman on the Beach
Show Girl in Hollywood
as Donny Harris
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
Strongheart
as Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister
The Woman Racket
as Julia Barnes Hayes
Near To Earth
A Corner in Wheat
Quincy Adams Sawyer
as Alice Pettengill
The Silver Horde
as Queenie
Broken Ways
as The Road Agent's Wife
The Avenging Conscience
as The Sweetheart
Souls for Sale
as Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
Home, Sweet Home
as The Wife
The Unpardonable Sin
as Alice Parcot / Dinny Parcot
Death's Marathon
as The Wife
Three Friends
as The Wife
Fighting Blood
Men and Women
as Agnes Rodman - Stephen's Daughter
The Captive
as Sonya Matinovich
The Primal Call
The House of Discord
as The Wife
Enoch Arden: Part I
A Cure for Suffragettes
The Ragamuffin
as Jenny
Through Darkening Vales
as Grace
The Broken Cross
To Save Her Soul
as Stage Dancer
A Woman of Pleasure
as Alice Dane
Diplomacy
as Dora Weymouth
The Long Road
as Edith
For His Son
as The Son's Fiancée
The Secret Sin
as Edith Martin / Grace Martin
Help Wanted - Male
as Leona Stafford
The Tear That Burned
as Meg - the Wild Girl
One Is Business, the Other Crime
as Rich Wife
The Painted Lady
as The Older Sister
If We Only Knew
as The Mother
The Day After
as The New Year
Singed
as Dolly Wall
The Secret Orchard
as Diane
The Little Country Mouse
as Dorothy
The Two Paths
Love in an Apartment Hotel
as The Young Woman
That Girl Montana
as Montana Rivers
The God Within
as The Woman of the Camp
The Hushed Hour
as Virginia Appleton Blodgett
The Clue
as Christine Lesley
A Flash of Light
His Daughter
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
as Mabel Mack
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
as Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield
Stolen Goods
as Margery Huntley
Always Faithful
as Mrs. George W. Mason
The New Dress
as At Wedding/At Market
In the Palace of the King
as Dolores Mendoza
The Stolen Bride
as The Grower's Daughter
The New Commandment
as Renee Darcourt
The Last Drop of Water
as Mary
The Miser's Heart
as Neighbor
The Hero of Little Italy
as Maria
A Woman Scorned
Simple Souls
as Molly Shine
Oil and Water
as Mlle. Genova
The Deadlier Sex
as Mary Willard
The Chief's Blanket
as The Young Woman
For Her Father's Sins
as Mary Ashton
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
as Olga Nelson
The Sowers
as Karin Dolokhof
All on Account of the Milk
as The Maid
Bluebeard's Seven Wives
as Juliet
The Voice of the Child
as The Wife
The Transformation of Mike
as The Tenement Girl
The Woman in White
as Laura Fairlie / Anne Catherick
The Painted Lady
as Jane - the Elder Sister
A Country Cupid
as Edith
His Supreme Moment
as Carla King
The Battle
as The Boy's Sweetheart
Love in the Hills
as The Mountain Girl
Blind Love
as The Young Woman
The Villain Foiled
as Miss Page
A Temporary Truce
as Alice Hardy - the Prospector's Wife
The Coming of Angelo
as Theresa
Those Who Dance
as Rose Carney
Her Unwilling Husband
as Mavis
The Lonedale Operator
as Daughter of the Lonedale Operator
Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
as Narrator (voice)
The Far Cry
as Claire Marsh
Fighting Cressy
as Cressy
The Sporting Venus
as Lady Gwendolyn
Those Without Sin
as Melanie Landry
The Rocky Road
Girl in the Web
as Esther Maitland
Her Awakening
as Mary
The Evil Eye
as Dr. Katherine Torrance
Two Men of the Desert
as The Authoress
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
as The Goddess
The Lesser Evil
as The Young Woman
Why Women Love
as Molla Hansen
A Chance Deception
as The Wife
The Spanish Gypsy
The Indian Brothers
as Indian
Under Burning Skies
as Emily
How She Triumphed
as Mary
Make Mine Memories
The Meanest Man in the World
as Jane Hudson
The Eternal Mother
as Martha, the Wife
The Making of a Man
as Young Woman
The Storm
as Natalie Raydon
Public Opinion
as Hazel Gray
With the Enemy's Help
as The Prospector's Wife
The Warrens of Virginia
as Agatha Warren
The Blind Princess and the Poet
as The Princess
A Sailor’s Heart
as The Sailor's Second Sweetheart
The Case of Becky
as Dorothy/Becky
A String of Pearls
as The Brother's Sweetheart
Pirate Gold
as The Daughter