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    The newlyweds After being jilted by their respective sweethearts, Dick Harcourt and Dora Dean have both become disenchanted with the opposite sex. Unknown to each other, they happen to share a seat on a passenger train. Due to a misunderstanding, the other passengers mistake them for newlyweds. As it happens, Dick is a member of an anti-marriage society, the members of which prepare a protest to...
    • Contributor: Barker, Florence - Henderson, Dell - Johnson, Arthur V. - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Biograph Company - Bruce, Kate - Quirk, Billy - Sennett, Mack - Hart, Ruth - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) ... Barker, Florence - Henderson, Dell - Johnson, Arthur V. - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Biograph Company - Bruce, Kate - Quirk, Billy - Sennett, Mack - Hart, Ruth - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Hedlund, Guy - Pickford, Mary - Walthall, Henry B. (Henry Brazeale) - Harron, Robert - Powell, Frank E. - Nichols, George - West, Dorothy - O'Sullivan, Tony - Grandon, Francis J. - Egan, Gladys - Evans, Frank - Craig, Charles B. - West, Charles H. - Paget, Alfred - Pickford, Jack - Opperman, Frank - Robinson, Gertrude - Miller, W. Christy
    • Date: 1910
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    The villain foiled Catalog Record Only Hector Durant, an unsuccessful suitor of Miss Page, gets Harry, his rival for her affection, drunk so as to win her away from him. The intended victim's friends thwart the villain's plans by making it appear that Harryhas attempted suicide because of her rejection. This so impresses her that she consents to an immediate marriage to him by the minister they have called in.
    • Contributor: Afi/Foley (Ed) Collection (Library of Congress) - Biograph Company - Prescott, Vivian - General Film Company - Sennett, Mack - Dillon, Edward - Lehrman, Henry
    • Date: 1911
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    The taming of the shrew
    Variant title: Taming of a shrew | Supplied title from MAVIS: Unidentified Phoenix Public Library no. 45755: costume drama
    "Two suitors have come to the home of the popular Bianca to court her. But her bad-tempered sister Katharina interrupts, deals with the men roughly and chases them out. Later she also assaults her music teacher. Only Petruchio, just arrived in town, wants to court Katharina. Her father eagerly agrees to arrange a wedding, and soon Petruchio and Katharina are locked in a battle...
    • Contributor: Inslee, Charles (Charles E.) - Lawrence, Florence - Bitzer, G. W. - Hedlund, Guy - Johnson, Arthur V. - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Solter, Harry L. - Lucas, Wilfred - Arvidson, Linda - Avery, Charles ... Inslee, Charles (Charles E.) - Lawrence, Florence - Bitzer, G. W. - Hedlund, Guy - Johnson, Arthur V. - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Solter, Harry L. - Lucas, Wilfred - Arvidson, Linda - Avery, Charles - Sennett, Mack - Biograph Company - Butler, William J. - Macpherson, Jeanie - Marvin, Arthur W. - Gebhardt, George - Phoenix Public Library Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Gauntier, Gene - Shakespeare, William
    • Date: 1908
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    Wilful Peggy Catalog Record Only Out walking on a hot day, an Irish lord stops at an inn. He wakes Peggy, the inkeeper's daughter, who is napping in the sun, and commands her to fetch him some water. His high-and-mighty manner rubs her the wrong way, and she refuses, until he asks nicely. The lord is impressed by her spirited nature, and returns later to see her trounce a...
    • Contributor: Bitzer, G. W. - Henderson, Dell - Walthall, Henry B. (Henry Brazeale) - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Biograph Company - Bracy, Clara T. - Sennett, Mack - Pickford, Mary - Butler, William J. - Bruce, Kate ... Bitzer, G. W. - Henderson, Dell - Walthall, Henry B. (Henry Brazeale) - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Biograph Company - Bracy, Clara T. - Sennett, Mack - Pickford, Mary - Butler, William J. - Bruce, Kate - Dillon, Edward - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - McDowell, Clare - Paget, Alfred - Miller, W. Christy - Hedlund, Guy
    • Date: 1910