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Emily turns down an offer of marriage from sailor Joe, and accepts sailor Bill. He sails away and soon forgets about his promise to Emily, leaving her to wait for six, long years. Unbeknownst to her, he marries More
A greedy tycoon decides, on a whim, to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing the grain's producers into charity lines and further into poverty. Shows the differences between More
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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 More
Harry teases his girl's father about his bad luck with fishing and is consequently forbidden to see his girl. The next day, Dad goes fishing again. After he leaves, the young couple goes for a walk. They pass a More
Iola, an Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats. She is rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. In gratitude, she promises to help him to find gold, and, when his fiancee is about to be burned at th More
An elderly widower takes lodgings at a seaside boarding house owned by a widow and her daughter. Attracted to the widow, but self-conscious about his thinning hair, the widower writes a letter to inquire about More
An aristocratic woman is forced to give up her newborn daughter to be raised by Gretchen, a peasant woman. The girl grows up with Lena, the peasant's real daughter, who tends a flock of geese. On her deathbed, More
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A young mountain girl falls in love with a faithless lowlander, who loves her and leaves her. Her angry, over-protective brother follows the man to town and attempts to force him to marry the girl, but is mocke More
Still from the American film Way Down East (1920). Subjects: motion pictures, actors, actresses
Way Down East 1920
Kate Bruce dancing with her son Richard Barthelmess, a lobby card for the American film Way Down East (1920).
Still from the American film Way Down East (1920) where Lillian Gish's character Anna is sent out into the snow storm. With (from left) Burr McIntosh, Kate Bruce, Lowell Sherman, Mary Hay, Creighton Hale, Geor More
Lobby card for the American drama film The Idol Dancer (1920) with Kate Bruce, Herbert Sutch, Clarine Seymour, George MacQuarrie, and Richard Barthelmess.
Kate Bruce and Thomas Meighan in The City of Silent Men (1921)
Kate Bruce and Richard Barthelmess in Way Down East (1920)
Kate Bruce, Richard Barthelmess and Marjorie Daw in Experience (1921).
Gretchen Hartman (left) and Kate Bruce (right) in The Smuggler's Ward (1915)
Ad for the American film A Romance of Happy Valley (1919) with Lillian Gish, George Fawcett, Kate Bruce, and Robert Harron, on page 830 of the February 15, 1919 Moving Picture World.
Kate Bruce, Photoplay Magazine, December 1921
Kate Bruce, D.W. Griffith, Richard Barthelmess, Lillian Gish, Burr McIntosh, and Lowell Sherman in Way Down East (1920)
Lillian Gish (left) and Kate Bruce in D.W. Griffith's Way Down East