The best Marion Leonard’s drama movies

Marion Leonard

Marion Leonard

09/06/1881- 09/01/1956
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Marion Leonard’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 Marion Leonard.
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The Sealed Room

The Sealed Room
6/10
The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. But unbeknownst to the Count, his wife has set her eyes on the court minstrel. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's “The Cask of Amontillado” and Honoré de Balzac's “La Grande Breteche”.

The Lonely Villa

The Lonely Villa
6.2/10
A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.

The Rocky Road

The Rocky Road
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/01/1910
The evils of drink cause a man to separate from his family. In time he becomes sober and prosperous. Then he meets and falls in love with a young woman, and they become engaged. Unbeknownst to him this young woman is his own daughter.

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.

Two Memories

Two Memories
5.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/05/1909
  • Character: Marion Francis
Henry and Marion have a lover's quarrel and part in anger. They do not reconcile, and ten years pass without contact. Marion becomes a society girl and spends her time at parties with her friends. Henry has become very ill and wishes to see Marion one more time. He writes asking her to visit. When she recieves the note, she laughs and tosses it on the floor, but, later, on a whim, decides to take all her drunken friends with her to visit him. When they arrive, Marion finds Henry dead, clutching her portrait in his hand. She sends her friends away and falls to her knees in remorse. Mary Pickford's debut!

Lines of White on a Sullen Sea

Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/10/1909
  • Character: The Second Wife
Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a different port. Emily waits faithfully for six years, finally becoming dangerously ill. When Bill suddenly appears in town with his family, Joe, who has loved Emily all along, forces Bill to make Emily's final moments happy by pretending he has returned to marry her.

Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim
4.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/04/1909
  • Character: Gertrude
Gertrude chooses Jim over Jack, which makes Jack very jealous. Later Jim dies, and Jack marries Gertrude. He finds himself once again very jealous of the late Lucky Jim.

The Light That Came

The Light That Came
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/11/1909
A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love her when his sight is restored?

A Trap for Santa Claus

A Trap for Santa Claus
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/12/1909
Even the great D.W. Griffith made holiday films back in the day. Of course, he put his own spin on the genre and made something quite unique. In A TRAP FOR SANTA, the children attempt to capture the man-in-the-red-suit but they catch something else entirely.

The Way of Man

The Way of Man
5.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/06/1909
  • Character: Wedding Guest
A woman is scarred in an accident and refuses to stand in the way of her lover's marriage to another.

An Awful Moment

An Awful Moment
4.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/12/1908
  • Character: Fiammetta, Matteo's Wife
After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken forcefully out of the courtroom. Later the gypsy follows the judge to his home and plots a vicious revenge on his wife (Florence Lawrence).

Carmen

Carmen
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/04/1913
  • Character: Carmen
A 1913 short directed by Stanner E.V Taylor and starring Marion Leonard.

Over Silent Paths

Over Silent Paths
6/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 15/05/1910
  • Character: The Daughter
In the heart of the American west, a miner toils day after day at his rocker box while his young daughter keeps his camp. His daughter persuades him to return to civilization, where they may enjoy the fruits of their labor. Both are happy in the anticipation of what seems a bright future. While she's away, a desert wanderer appears at the camp, and at the sight of the old man weighing his gold is seized with cupidity. He himself had toiled long in the wilds, but with no success, so he demands that the old man divide his gains with him. This, of course, the miner decries, and the wanderer uses force to obtain the old man's gold. The wanderer collapses in the desert, only to be rescued by a certain young woman: the miner's daughter.

Where the Breakers Roar

Where the Breakers Roar
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/09/1908
Mack Sennett appears as a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

The Broken Locket

The Broken Locket
4.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/09/1909
  • Character: Mexican Woman
George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink. One might have concluded he was lost, but there was the chance which the hand of Providence always bestows in the person of pretty little Ruth King, who had secretly loved George since their childhood days. She succeeds in persuading him from his reckless life, and he determines to cut off from his old loose companions by going out West and making a man of himself. Bidding Ruth and her mother good-bye, he realizes that he loves his little preserver and promises to return worthy of her love and confidence. They plight their troth with their first kiss and a heart shaped locket, which Ruth wears, she breaking it in two, giving George one side while she retains the other, which symbolized the reunion of their hearts with his return.

The Cord of Life

The Cord of Life
5.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/01/1909
  • Character: Galora's Wife
Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are met with a positive rebuff, and when he becomes insistent be is forcibly ejected by Galora. As he leaves the tenement he vows to get even, and lies in wait until Galora has gone out on business. Climbing to the fifth floor, on which the Galoras live, he watches his chance, which comes when Mrs. Galora goes for an instant to visit a neighbor on the same floor. Darting into the apartment and raising the window he perceives the awful result of a drop to the ground, five stories below, and so evolves a plan that is dastardly in the extreme. Taking the infant child from the cradle, and placing it in a basket he lets it out with a short rope, the end of which he secures by letting the sash down on it, so that to raise the window would precipitate the baby to destruction.

The Politician's Love Story

The Politician's Love Story
4.8/10
A haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the cartoonist is a pretty woman, he falls instantly in love and wastes no time in trying to woo her.

At the Altar

At the Altar
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/02/1909
  • Character: Minnie, the Daughter
At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic turn of mind and her soul soared above plebeianism and her aspirations were romantic. Most persistent among her suitors was Grigo, a coarse Sicilian, whose advances were odiously repulsive. The arrival at the boarding house from the old country of Giuseppe Cassella, the violinist, filled the void in her yearning heart. Romantic, poetic and a talented musician, Giuseppe was indeed a desirable husband for Minnie.

The Golden Louis

The Golden Louis
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/02/1909
  • Character: Reveller
An anonymous donor drops a gold coin in the shoe of a homeless girl as she sleeps. A gambler with a 'sure thing' borrows the coin and wins a fortune, but he can't find her again to repay her.

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