
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.
Movie | Disclosure | Judith (archive footage) | 2020-06-19 |
Movie | Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter | Narrator (voice) | 1982-01-01 |
Series | Hollywood | 1980-01-08 | |
Movie | Twenty Years After | 1944-01-01 | |
Movie | The Silver Horde | Queenie | 1930-10-24 |
Movie | Show Girl in Hollywood | Donny Harris | 1930-04-20 |
Movie | The Woman Racket | Julia | 1930-01-24 |
Movie | Always Faithful | Mrs. George W. Mason | 1929-12-29 |
Movie | Fashion News | 1928-11-06 | |
Movie | Singed | 1927-08-23 | |
Movie | Bluebeard's Seven Wives | Juliet | 1926-01-13 |
Movie | Why Women Love | Molla Hansen | 1925-10-18 |
Movie | The Sporting Venus | Lady Gwendolyn | 1925-04-12 |
Movie | His Supreme Moment | Carla King | 1925-04-12 |
Movie | Anna Christie | Anna Christie | 1923-11-24 |
Movie | Souls for Sale | Herself - Celebrity Actress (uncredited) | 1923-04-22 |
Movie | That Girl Montana | Montana Rivers | 1921-01-31 |
Movie | The Deadlier Sex | 1920-03-28 | |
Movie | A Woman of Pleasure | Alice Dane | 1919-11-09 |
Movie | The Unpardonable Sin | 1919-04-01 | |
Movie | The Hushed Hour | 1919-05-18 | |
Movie | The Evil Eye | Dr. Katherine Torrance | 1917-01-04 |
Movie | The Ragamuffin | Jenny | 1916-01-23 |
Movie | The Captive | Sonya Matinovich | 1915-04-22 |
Movie | The Warrens of Virginia | Agatha Warren | 1915-02-14 |
Movie | The Case of Becky | Dorothy/Becky | 1915-09-13 |
Movie | The Secret Sin | 1915-10-21 | |
Movie | The Little Country Mouse | Dorothy | 1914-11-16 |
Movie | The Tear That Burned | Meg - the Wild Girl | 1914-11-08 |
Movie | The Avenging Conscience | His Sweetheart | 1914-08-02 |
Movie | Home, Sweet Home | The Wife | 1914-05-16 |
Movie | Judith of Bethulia | Judith | 1914-03-08 |
Movie | Strongheart | Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister | 1914-03-08 |
Movie | Three Friends | The Wife | 1913-01-02 |
Movie | Oil and Water | 1913-02-10 | |
Movie | Love in an Apartment Hotel | The Young Woman | 1913-02-27 |
Movie | A Chance Deception | The Wife | 1913-02-24 |
Movie | Two Men of the Desert | The Authoress | 1913-08-23 |
Movie | Broken Ways | The Road Agent's Wife | 1913-03-08 |
Movie | The Lesser Evil | The Young Woman | 1912-04-29 |
Movie | The Eternal Mother | Martha, the Wife | 1912-01-10 |
Movie | For His Son | The Son's Fiancée | 1912-01-21 |
Movie | The Transformation of Mike | The Tenement Girl | 1912-02-01 |
Movie | One Is Business, the Other Crime | Rich Wife | 1912-04-24 |
Movie | A Temporary Truce | Alice, the Prospector;s Wife | 1912-06-10 |
Movie | With the Enemy's Help | The Prospector's Wife | 1912-08-19 |
Movie | The Painted Lady | The Older Sister | 1912-10-24 |
Movie | A Sailor’s Heart | The Sailor's Second Sweetheart | 1912-11-25 |
Movie | The Massacre | Stephen's Ward | 1912-12-19 |
Movie | The God Within | The Woman of the Camp | 1912-12-26 |
Movie | A Country Cupid | Edith | 1911-07-23 |
Movie | His Daughter | 1911-02-23 | |
Movie | The Lonedale Operator | Daughter of the Lonedale Operator | 1911-03-23 |
Movie | Enoch Arden: Part I | 1911-06-12 | |
Movie | Enoch Arden | Woman on the Beach | 1911-06-15 |
Movie | The Primal Call | 1911-06-21 | |
Movie | Fighting Blood | 1911-06-28 | |
Movie | Love in the Hills | The Mountain Girl | 1911-10-30 |
Movie | The Last Drop of Water | Mary | 1911-07-26 |
Movie | The Villain Foiled | Miss Page | 1911-08-30 |
Movie | The Making of a Man | Young Woman | 1911-10-04 |
Movie | The Long Road | Edith | 1911-10-26 |
Movie | The Battle | The boy's sweetheart | 1911-11-06 |
Movie | Through Darkening Vales | Grace | 1911-11-16 |
Movie | The Miser's Heart | 1911-11-20 | |
Movie | A Flash of Light | 1910-07-17 | |
Movie | All on Account of the Milk | The Maid | 1910-01-13 |
Movie | The Rocky Road | 1910-01-03 | |
Movie | The Day After | 1909-12-30 | |
Movie | To Save Her Soul | Stage Dancer | 1909-12-27 |
Movie | A Corner in Wheat | 1909-12-13 |