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Known credits:
107
Birthday:
1896-06-16
Place of birth:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Blanche Sweet

Overview

From Wikipedia

Sarah Blanche Sweet (June 18, 1896 – September 6, 1986) was an American silent film actress who began her career in the earliest days of the Hollywood motion picture film industry.

Sweet is renowned for her energetic, independent roles, at variance with the 'ideal' Griffith type of vulnerable, often fragile, femininity. After many starring roles, her first real landmark film was the 1911 Griffith thriller The Lonedale Operator. In 1913 she starred in Griffith's first feature-length movie, Judith of Bethulia. In 1914 Sweet was initially cast by Griffith in the part of Elsie Stoneman in his epic The Birth of a Nation but the role was eventually given to rival actress Lillian Gish, who was Sweet's senior by three years. That same year Sweet parted ways with Griffith and joined Paramount (then Famous Players-Lasky) for the much higher pay that studio was able to afford.

Throughout the 1910s, Sweet continued her career appearing in a number of highly prominent roles in films and remained a publicly popular leading lady. She often starred in vehicles by Cecil B. DeMille and Marshall Neilan, and she was recognised by leading film critics of the time to be one of the foremost actresses of the entire silent era. It was during her time working with Neilan that the two began a publicized affair, which brought on his divorce from former actress Gertrude Bambrick. Sweet and Neilan married in 1922. The union ended in 1929 with Sweet charging that Neilan was a persistent adulterer.

During the early 1920s Sweet's career continued to prosper, and she starred in the first film version of Anna Christie in 1923. The film is also notable as being the first Eugene O'Neill play to be made into a motion picture. In successive years, she starred in Tess of the D'Urbervilles and The Sporting Venus, both directed by Neilan. Sweet soon began a new career phase as one of the newly formed MGM studio's biggest stars.

Sweet made just three talking pictures, including her critically lauded performance in 1930's Show Girl in Hollywood, before retiring from the screen that same year and marrying stage actor Raymond Hackett in 1935. The marriage lasted until Hackett's death in 1958.

Sweet spent the remainder of her performing career in radio and in secondary Broadway stage roles. Eventually, her career in both of these fields petered out, and she began working in a Los Angeles department store. In the late 1960s, her acting legacy was resurrected when film scholars invited her to Europe to receive recognition for her work.

On September 24, 1984, a tribute to Blanche Sweet was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Miss Sweet introduced her 1925 film, The Sporting Venus.

Sweet died in New York City of a stroke, on September 6, 1986, just weeks after her 90th birthday.

Known for

Acting
2020 Disclosure Actor Judith (archive footage) 63
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2008 Spisok korabley Actor (archive footage) 60
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1982 Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter Actor Narrator (voice) 59
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1980 Hollywood Actor Self 72
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1945 Make Mine Memories Actor N/A
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1944 Twenty Years After Actor (archive footage) 59
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1930 The Silver Horde Actor Queenie 58
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1930 Show Girl in Hollywood Actor Donny Harris 59
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1930 The Woman Racket Actor Julia 59
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1929 Always Faithful Actor Mrs. George W. Mason N/A
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1929 The Woman in White Actor Laura Fairlie / Anne Catherick N/A
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1928 Fashion News Actor Self (1930) N/A
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1927 Singed Actor Dolly Wall N/A
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1926 Diplomacy Actor Dora Weymouth N/A
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1926 The Far Cry Actor N/A
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1926 Bluebeard's Seven Wives Actor Juliet N/A
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1925 The New Commandment Actor Renee Darcourt N/A
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1925 Why Women Love Actor Molla Hansen N/A
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1925 His Supreme Moment Actor Carla King N/A
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1925 The Sporting Venus Actor Lady Gwendolyn 59
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1924 Tess of the D'Urbervilles Actor Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield 58
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1924 Those Who Dance Actor Rose Carney N/A
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1923 Anna Christie Actor Anna Christie 59
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1923 Souls for Sale Actor Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited) 59
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1922 Quincy Adams Sawyer Actor Alice Pettengill N/A
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1921 That Girl Montana Actor Montana Rivers N/A
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1920 Her Unwilling Husband Actor Mavis N/A
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1920 Girl in the Web Actor Esther Maitland N/A
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1920 The Deadlier Sex Actor Mary Willard 58
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1919 A Woman of Pleasure Actor Alice Dane N/A
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1919 The Hushed Hour Actor Virginia Appleton Blodgett N/A
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1919 The Unpardonable Sin Actor Alice Parcot / Dinny Parcot N/A
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1917 Those Without Sin Actor Melanie Landry N/A
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1917 The Evil Eye Actor Dr. Katherine Torrance N/A
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1916 The Thousand-Dollar Husband Actor Olga Nelson N/A
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1916 The Ragamuffin Actor Jenny N/A
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1915 The Secret Sin Actor Edith Martin / Grace Martin N/A
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1915 The Case of Becky Actor Dorothy/Becky N/A
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1915 The Clue Actor Christine Lesley N/A
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1915 Stolen Goods Actor Margery Huntley N/A
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1915 The Captive Actor Sonya Matinovich 59
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1915 The Warrens of Virginia Actor Agatha Warren N/A
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1914 The Little Country Mouse Actor Dorothy 59
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1914 The Odalisque Actor May, a Stock Girl N/A
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1914 The Tear That Burned Actor Meg - the Wild Girl N/A
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1914 For Her Father's Sins Actor Mary Ashton N/A
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1914 Her Awakening Actor Mary N/A
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1914 The Second Mrs. Roebuck Actor Mabel Mack N/A
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1914 The Avenging Conscience Actor The Sweetheart 59
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1914 Men and Women Actor Agnes Rodman - Stephen's Daughter N/A
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1914 The Painted Lady Actor Jane - the Elder Sister N/A
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1914 Home, Sweet Home Actor The Wife 59
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1914 Judith of Bethulia Actor Judith 59
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1914 Strongheart Actor Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister 58
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1914 Classmates Actor Sylvia Randolph N/A
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1913 The House of Discord Actor The Wife N/A
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1913 A Cure for Suffragettes Actor N/A
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1913 Two Men of the Desert Actor The Authoress N/A
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1913 Death's Marathon Actor The Wife 58
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1913 If We Only Knew Actor The Mother N/A
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1913 The Stolen Bride Actor The Grower's Daughter N/A
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1913 The Hero of Little Italy Actor Maria N/A
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1913 Near To Earth Actor N/A
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1913 Broken Ways Actor The Road Agent's Wife N/A
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1913 Love in an Apartment Hotel Actor The Young Woman N/A
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1913 A Chance Deception Actor The Wife N/A
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1913 Oil and Water Actor Mlle. Genova N/A
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1913 Pirate Gold Actor The Daughter N/A
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1913 Three Friends Actor The Wife 58
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1913 The Coming of Angelo Actor Theresa N/A
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1912 The God Within Actor The Woman of the Camp N/A
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1912 The Massacre Actor Stephen's Ward 59
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1912 A Sailor’s Heart Actor The Sailor's Second Sweetheart N/A
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1912 The Painted Lady Actor The Older Sister 58
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1912 The Chief's Blanket Actor The Young Woman N/A
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1912 Blind Love Actor The Young Woman 58
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1912 With the Enemy's Help Actor The Prospector's Wife N/A
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1912 A Temporary Truce Actor Alice Hardy - the Prospector's Wife 58
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1912 The Lesser Evil Actor The Young Woman 58
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1912 One Is Business, the Other Crime Actor Rich Wife 58
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1912 The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch Actor The Goddess N/A
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1912 Under Burning Skies Actor Emily 58
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1912 The Transformation of Mike Actor The Tenement Girl 58
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1912 For His Son Actor The Son's Fiancée 58
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1912 The Eternal Mother Actor Martha, the Wife 58
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1911 A Woman Scorned Actor N/A
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1911 The Miser's Heart Actor Neighbor 58
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1911 Through Darkening Vales Actor Grace 58
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1911 The Battle Actor The Boy's Sweetheart 58
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1911 Love in the Hills Actor The Mountain Girl N/A
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1911 The Long Road Actor Edith N/A
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1911 The Making of a Man Actor Young Woman 58
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1911 The Villain Foiled Actor Miss Page 58
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1911 The Last Drop of Water Actor Mary 58
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1911 A Country Cupid Actor Edith 58
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1911 Fighting Blood Actor 58
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1911 The Primal Call Actor 58
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1911 Enoch Arden Actor Woman on the Beach 59
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1911 Enoch Arden: Part I Actor 59
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1911 The Lonedale Operator Actor Daughter of the Lonedale Operator 59
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1911 His Daughter Actor 58
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1910 A Flash of Light Actor 58
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1910 All on Account of the Milk Actor The Maid 58
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1910 The Rocky Road Actor 58
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1909 The Day After Actor The New Year 58
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1909 To Save Her Soul Actor Stage Dancer 58
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1909 A Corner in Wheat Actor 59
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