The best Marion Leonard’s movies

Marion Leonard

Marion Leonard

09/06/1881- 09/01/1956
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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 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.

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.

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”.

Resurrection

Resurrection
5.1/10
  • Release: 20/05/1909
  • Character: A Prisoner
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.

The Peachbasket Hat

The Peachbasket Hat
5.3/10
  • Release: 24/06/1909
  • Character: The Gypsy
Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm reading. After the gypsies leave, no one can find the baby, and everyone assumes it's been kidnapped, until the baby is found under a hatbox.

The Day After

The Day After
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/12/1909
Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens, and soon they are both cavorting drunkenly. Next morning Mr. Hilton, feeling very sick, is conscience-stricken over his drunkenness and his behavior with another woman. He fears to face his wife until he discovers that she feels just as guilty herself.

As It Is in Life

As It Is in Life
5.5/10
  • Release: 04/04/1910
A man sacrifices a new marriage for the happiness of his daughter.

The Drunkard's Reformation

The Drunkard's Reformation
5.6/10
  • Release: 31/03/1909
  • Character: In the Play
A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play, he's faced with his own drinking evils and how his life would be without them.

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).

His Lost Love

His Lost Love
5.6/10
  • Release: 18/10/1909
  • Character: The Sister / At Wedding
Mary marries James, after jilting his brother Luke. Mary's sister arrives and soon James is professing his love to her. The shock of this kills Mary and leaves her newborn daughter motherless. Luke offers to raise the daughter. Years later James returns and tries to convince his daughter to leave Luke, the only father she's ever known, and come with him.

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.

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!

The Lure of the Gown

The Lure of the Gown
4.5/10
  • Release: 15/03/1909
  • Character: Isabelle
"Fine feathers make fine birds." and handsome gowns make handsome women, and a handsome woman is the most fascinating thing extant. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a masterpiece of the dressmaker's art she easily fascinates the male contingent, among whom is Enrico, the sweetheart of Veronica, a street singer. Enrico is so enraptured at the sight of Isabelle in her resplendent attire that he becomes her abject slave, casting aside the poor, peasant-clad little Italian street singer, who has loved him devotedly. Crushed almost beyond endurance the poor girl stands sobbing at the entrance of the park where the inconsistent lever left her. Her tears attract the attention of a wealthy young couple who happen to pass. In answer to their queries she tells them how contemptibly her sweetheart acted, and all because of the fascinating influence of a gown.

Pippa Passes

Pippa Passes
5.2/10
  • Release: 03/10/1909
  • Character: Ottima
Pippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unknown to her, the music has a healing effect on all who hear her as she passes by.

Love Among the Roses

Love Among the Roses
5.1/10
  • Release: 08/05/1910
  • Character: The Lady
In the Kingdom of Never-Never Land there live a great Lord and Lady, each presiding over their own domain. This great Lord goes for a stroll through his estate and coming to the border of his own land he is struck by the entrancing beauty of the contiguous estate, so like his own, that the inclination to intrude is irresistible. His peregrination is halted by the appearance of the great Lady, who is indeed as fair as the flowers that clothe her land. He introduces himself and invites her to stroll with him in his gardens. She is in like manner entranced by the beauty of his possessions. How alike in beauty are they; a veritable fairyland. If they were only one, for it seems they should be. This thought is mutual, and the Lord proposes a way, a marriage, and so a betrothal of convenience ensues. They know nothing of love and so are content in the anticipation of being Lord and Lady of all Never-Never Land.

In Old California

In Old California
7.1/10
  • Release: 10/03/1910
  • Character: Perdita
An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned California in the early 19th century.

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.

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 Salvation Army Lass

The Salvation Army Lass
5.1/10
  • Release: 11/03/1909
  • Character: Landlady / Shoplifter
A girl from the New York slums falls in with crooks. After her love is arrested following a barfight turned deadly, her life seems directionless- that is, until she's saved from the streets by a band of Salvationists. She enrolls, and soon afterward encounters her former love in the same bar- but her faith is real, and strong.

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