Mae Marsh Movies

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

Actor, writer, director and activist Ossie Davis narrates this look at the history of race films, those produced from the 1920s-50s catered to a...

A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.

Silent biographical action–drama film starring Pancho Villa as himself. The movie incorporates both staged scenes and authentic live footage...

Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a murder.

Cecelia Carne, dubbed "the little 'fraid lady" because she shuns society, seeks the solitude of the forest in order to perfect her talents as a...

The Bondage of Barbara is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Emmett J. Flynn.

Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but...

This shows the regeneration of a gang leader, who remains true to his first sweetheart after his change of fortune.

New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.

The Kaiser is playing cards with King Albert of Italy, who loses, but is rescued by Miss Liberty Loan.

In the apartment hotel lived the aspiring maid, whose solicitude maintained order in the bachelor's apartment. He was her ideal, and the all-adoring...

In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them....

D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The film focuses on a telephone girl who leaves work for...

In a small Nova Scotia, Canada, fishing village, Charity Byfleet marries William Pennland, a romantic soldier of fortune, just before he leaves on a...

A re-edited version of the fourth episode of Intolerance (1916); two youth are made homeless by a strike, and struggle valiantly to survive their...

Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle....

A young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One day she meets a wily artist painting on the beach, he...

Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out...

A butcher boy steals meat to give to a beggar woman and is ultimately rewarded for his kindness.