The best Jeanie Macpherson’s movies

Jeanie Macpherson

Jeanie Macpherson

18/05/1886- 26/08/1946
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jeanie Macpherson’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Jeanie Macpherson.
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A Corner in Wheat

A Corner in Wheat
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/12/1909
On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.

Carmen

Carmen
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/10/1915
  • Character: Gypsy Girl
Hot-blooded gypsy Carmen attempts to seduce Don Jose, a lawman sent to thwart a gang of illegal smugglers in Spain. Carmen's plan backfires when Don Jose's passion for the gypsy girl escalates into a jealous rage as she spurns him for her bullfighter beau, Escamillo, with tragic results.

The Usurer

The Usurer
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/08/1910
  • Character: At Luncheon
A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.

Money Mad

Money Mad
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/12/1908
  • Character: Bank Customer
The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at the bank, exchanging stolen notes for gold coin, a couple of thugs witness the transaction and see their opportunity-- It seems avarice grips the hearts of all those who'd possess the bag.

Enoch Arden

Enoch Arden
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/06/1911
  • Character: Woman on the Beach
Moving Picture World described the film: "There is a small need to describe this subject as the poem of Lord Tennyson is so well known, so suffice it to say that this Biograph subject is an unusually faithful portrayal of that beautiful romance of Enoch Arden, Annie Lee and Philip Ray, taken in scenes of rare beauty".

The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/02/1914
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.

Comrades

Comrades
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/03/1911
  • Character: The Maid
Two creative bums invade a high society gathering by pretending to be rich.

The Oath and the Man

The Oath and the Man
5.2/10
A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants. His priest made him swear an oath to leave vengeance to God, however.

The Faded Lilies

The Faded Lilies
4.6/10
  • Release: 17/06/1909
A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.

The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 10/11/1908
  • Character: Wedding Party
Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

The Girl of the Golden West

The Girl of the Golden West
5.3/10
A saloon hostess loves Ramerrez, a notorious highwayman. Sheriff Jack Rance, who loves the girl too, instigates a card game that will determine the fate of all three of them. If she wins, the girl's lover will go free; but if she loses…

A Gold Necklace

A Gold Necklace
5.2/10
  • Release: 06/10/1910
Mazie lends her necklace to Nellie, her guest. Nellie is asleep in a hammock when Sam, her sweetheart, arrives in his auto. He awakens Nellie with a kiss. As she starts up she drops the necklace in the grass and their efforts to find it prove futile. Sam promises to buy her one to replace it, thinking it was her own properly. He has her minutely describe it that he may get an exact duplicate. Meanwhile, the governess has found the necklace and given it to its owner, Mazie, who is unknown to Sam. He sees it on Mazie's neck and after a chase insists on purchasing it.

The Ghost Breaker

The Ghost Breaker
5/10
Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaines, a New York art collector, not knowing that the locket contains the clue to the Aragon family fortune's whereabouts. Based on the 1909 Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard.

The Captive

The Captive
6.4/10
Cecil B. DeMille’s thought-to-be-lost 1915 silent film The Captive, is a found treasure. Set during the Balkan Wars, The Captive tells the story of Sonia (Blanche Sweet, The Woman in White), a young woman living in Montenegro and left to care for her younger brother Milos (Gerald Ward, The Warrens of Virginia) and the family farm when older brother Marko (Page Peters, Davy Crockett) goes off to battle. Unable to handle the day-to-day tasks following her brother’s tragic death, help comes in the form of Mahmud Hassan (House Peters, Prisoners of the Storm) a captured Turk nobleman now a prisoner of war. Tasked with helping Sonia, their initial frosty relationship soon melts into love. As the war rages on Sonia, Mahmud and Milos will face near-insurmountable obstacles in their quest for a better life amidst the hell of war.

A Flash of Light

A Flash of Light
5.6/10
  • Release: 17/07/1910
An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist so she has her younger sister take her place.

The Fatal Hour

The Fatal Hour
5.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 18/08/1908
This one-reeler is regarded as a Griffith thriller. It engages with the Chinese White slave traffic from the perspective of a female detective, Marion Leonard, whose assignment is to expose and break the traffic ring.

Mr. Jones at the Ball

Mr. Jones at the Ball
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/12/1908
  • Character: Guest at Ball
Mack Sennett appears as a butler and a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

The Curtain Pole

The Curtain Pole
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/02/1909
  • Character: Party planner / Nurse with buggy
An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing entourage chasing him, until he escapes them through a bit of movie magic, only to discover that the pole has already been replaced.

Winning Back His Love

Winning Back His Love
5.5/10
  • Release: 25/12/1910
  • Character: A Servant
A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not.

The Rose of the Rancho

The Rose of the Rancho
3.4/10
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off till the cavalry shows up and he can declare his love for Juanita, called “the Rose of the Rancho.”

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