
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.

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The Thin Man

Fighting Blood

The Making of a Man

Souls for Sale

A Corner in Wheat

Judith of Bethulia

The Lonedale Operator

The Miser's Heart

The Captive

Enoch Arden

Twenty Years After

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

The Avenging Conscience

The Massacre

One Is Business, the Other Crime

Death's Marathon

Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter

A Country Cupid

Enoch Arden: Part I

The Painted Lady

Anna Christie

For His Son

Show Girl in Hollywood

The Lesser Evil

The Silver Horde

All on Account of the Milk

To Save Her Soul

The Last Drop of Water

Strongheart

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

A Flash of Light

Three Friends

The Deadlier Sex

Home, Sweet Home

The Little Country Mouse

The Battle

The Eternal Mother

Under Burning Skies

The Woman Racket

Through Darkening Vales

The Transformation of Mike

The Primal Call

His Daughter

The Rocky Road

A Temporary Truce

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Blind Love

With the Enemy's Help

The Day After

The Hushed Hour

The New Commandment

Her Unwilling Husband

Quincy Adams Sawyer

If We Only Knew

The Tear That Burned

Near To Earth

The Coming of Angelo

Those Without Sin

Stolen Goods

The Case of Becky

The House of Discord

Men and Women

The Chief's Blanket

Diplomacy

The Clue

The Ragamuffin

The Warrens of Virginia

A Woman Scorned

The Far Cry

A Sailor’s Heart

That Girl Montana

A Woman of Pleasure

Always Faithful

Broken Ways

His Supreme Moment

The Long Road

Why Women Love

Two Men of the Desert

Bluebeard's Seven Wives

Oil and Water

The Unpardonable Sin

Singed

The Secret Sin

The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch

Those Who Dance

The Girl in the Web

A String of Pearls

The Voice of the Child

In the Palace of the King

The Storm

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The Meanest Man in the World

Fighting Cressy

Simple Souls

The Secret Orchard

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