Acting · Chicago, Illinois, USA · Born June 16, 1896
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.
MovieBefore the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
1982
as Narrator (voice)
TVHollywood
1980
as Self
TVThe Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959
TVThe Thin Man
1957
Make Mine Memories
1945
MovieTwenty Years After
1944
as (archive footage)
MovieThe Silver Horde
1930
as Queenie
MovieShow Girl in Hollywood
1930
as Donny Harris
MovieThe Woman Racket
1930
as Julia Barnes Hayes
MovieAlways Faithful
1929
as Mrs. George W. Mason
The Woman in White
1929
as Laura Fairlie / Anne Catherick
MovieSinged
1927
as Dolly Wall
MovieDiplomacy
1926
as Dora Weymouth
MovieThe Far Cry
1926
as Claire Marsh
MovieBluebeard's Seven Wives
1926
as Juliet
MovieThe New Commandment
1925
as Renee Darcourt
MovieWhy Women Love
1925
as Molla Hansen
The Sporting Venus
1925
as Lady Gwendolyn
MovieHis Supreme Moment
1925
as Carla King
MovieTess of the D'Urbervilles
1924
as Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield
MovieThose Who Dance
1924
as Rose Carney
MovieAnna Christie
1923
as Anna Christie
MovieIn the Palace of the King
1923
as Dolores Mendoza
MovieThe Meanest Man in the World
1923
as Jane Hudson
MovieSouls for Sale
1923
as Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
MovieQuincy Adams Sawyer
1922
as Alice Pettengill
MovieThat Girl Montana
1921
as Montana Rivers
MovieHer Unwilling Husband
1920
as Mavis
MovieHelp Wanted - Male
1920
as Leona Stafford
MovieGirl in the Web
1920
as Esther Maitland
MovieSimple Souls
1920
as Molly Shine
MovieThe Deadlier Sex
1920
as Mary Willard
MovieFighting Cressy
1919
as Cressy
MovieA Woman of Pleasure
1919
as Alice Dane
MovieThe Hushed Hour
1919
as Virginia Appleton Blodgett
MovieThe Unpardonable Sin
1919
as Alice Parcot / Dinny Parcot
MovieThose Without Sin
1917
as Melanie Landry
The Evil Eye
1917
as Dr. Katherine Torrance
MovieThe Storm
1916
as Natalie Raydon
Public Opinion
1916
as Hazel Gray
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
1916
as Olga Nelson
MovieThe Sowers
1916
as Karin Dolokhof
MovieThe Ragamuffin
1916
as Jenny
MovieThe Secret Sin
1915
as Edith Martin / Grace Martin
MovieThe Case of Becky
1915
as Dorothy/Becky
MovieThe Secret Orchard
1915
as Diane
MovieThe Clue
1915
as Christine Lesley
MovieStolen Goods
1915
as Margery Huntley
MovieThe Captive
1915
as Sonya Matinovich
MovieThe Warrens of Virginia
1915
as Agatha Warren
MovieThe Little Country Mouse
1914
as Dorothy
The Odalisque
1914
as May, a Stock Girl
MovieThe Tear That Burned
1914
as Meg - the Wild Girl
For Her Father's Sins
1914
as Mary Ashton
Her Awakening
1914
as Mary
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
1914
as Mabel Mack
MovieThe Avenging Conscience
1914
as The Sweetheart
MovieMen and Women
1914
as Agnes Rodman - Stephen's Daughter
The Painted Lady
1914
as Jane - the Elder Sister
MovieHome, Sweet Home
1914
as The Wife
MovieJudith of Bethulia
1914
as Judith
MovieStrongheart
1914
as Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister
Classmates
1914
as Sylvia Randolph
MovieThe House of Discord
1913
as The Wife
A Cure for Suffragettes
1913
MovieTwo Men of the Desert
1913
as The Authoress
MovieDeath's Marathon
1913
as The Wife
MovieIf We Only Knew
1913
as The Mother
The Stolen Bride
1913
as The Grower's Daughter
The Hero of Little Italy
1913
as Maria
MovieNear To Earth
1913
MovieBroken Ways
1913
as The Road Agent's Wife
Love in an Apartment Hotel
1913
as The Young Woman
A Chance Deception
1913
as The Wife
MovieOil and Water
1913
as Mlle. Genova
Pirate Gold
1913
as The Daughter
MovieThree Friends
1913
as The Wife
MovieThe Coming of Angelo
1913
as Theresa
The God Within
1912
as The Woman of the Camp
MovieThe Massacre
1912
as Stephen's Ward
MovieA Sailor’s Heart
1912
as The Sailor's Second Sweetheart
MovieThe Painted Lady
1912
as The Older Sister
MovieThe Chief's Blanket
1912
as The Young Woman
MovieBlind Love
1912
as The Young Woman
MovieWith the Enemy's Help
1912
as The Prospector's Wife
MovieA Temporary Truce
1912
as Alice Hardy - the Prospector's Wife
MovieThe Lesser Evil
1912
as The Young Woman
MovieOne Is Business, the Other Crime
1912
as Rich Wife
MovieThe Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
1912
as The Goddess
MovieA String of Pearls
1912
as The Brother's Sweetheart
MovieUnder Burning Skies
1912
as Emily
MovieThe Transformation of Mike
1912
as The Tenement Girl
MovieFor His Son
1912
as The Son's Fiancée
MovieThe Eternal Mother
1912
as Martha, the Wife
MovieThe Voice of the Child
1911
as The Wife
MovieA Woman Scorned
1911
MovieThe Miser's Heart
1911
as Neighbor
MovieThrough Darkening Vales
1911
as Grace
MovieThe Battle
1911
as The Boy's Sweetheart
Love in the Hills
1911
as The Mountain Girl
MovieThe Long Road
1911
as Edith
MovieThe Making of a Man
1911
as Young Woman
The Villain Foiled
1911
as Miss Page
The Blind Princess and the Poet
1911
as The Princess
MovieThe Last Drop of Water
1911
as Mary
MovieA Country Cupid
1911
as Edith
MovieThe Indian Brothers
1911
as Indian
MovieFighting Blood
1911
MovieThe Primal Call
1911
MovieEnoch Arden
1911
as Woman on the Beach
MovieEnoch Arden: Part I
1911
The New Dress
1911
as At Wedding/At Market
How She Triumphed
1911
as Mary
The Broken Cross
1911
The Spanish Gypsy
1911
MovieThe Lonedale Operator
1911
as Daughter of the Lonedale Operator
MovieHis Daughter
1911
MovieThe Two Paths
1911
MovieA Flash of Light
1910
MovieAll on Account of the Milk
1910
as The Maid
MovieThe Rocky Road
1910
MovieThe Day After
1909
as The New Year
MovieTo Save Her Soul
1909
as Stage Dancer
MovieA Corner in Wheat
1909
