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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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Filmography (Movies)
Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:09/10/1982
Make Mine Memories
Character:
Release Date:19/10/1945
Twenty Years After
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1944
The Silver Horde
Character:Queenie
Release Date:24/10/1930
Show Girl in Hollywood
Character:Donny Harris
Release Date:20/04/1930
The Woman Racket
Character:Julia Barnes Hayes
Release Date:24/01/1930
Always Faithful
Character:Mrs. George W. Mason
Release Date:29/12/1929
The Woman in White
Character:Laura Fairlie / Anne Catherick
Release Date:24/05/1929
Singed
Character:Dolly Wall
Release Date:23/08/1927
Diplomacy
Character:Dora Weymouth
Release Date:20/09/1926
The Far Cry
Character:Claire Marsh
Release Date:14/02/1926
Bluebeard's Seven Wives
Character:Juliet
Release Date:13/01/1926
The New Commandment
Character:Renee Darcourt
Release Date:01/11/1925
Why Women Love
Character:Molla Hansen
Release Date:18/10/1925
The Sporting Venus
Character:Lady Gwendolyn
Release Date:12/04/1925
His Supreme Moment
Character:Carla King
Release Date:12/04/1925
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Character:Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield
Release Date:11/08/1924
Those Who Dance
Character:Rose Carney
Release Date:27/04/1924
Anna Christie
Character:Anna Christie
Release Date:24/11/1923
In the Palace of the King
Character:Dolores Mendoza
Release Date:28/10/1923
The Meanest Man in the World
Character:Jane Hudson
Release Date:22/10/1923
Souls for Sale
Character:Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
Release Date:22/04/1923
Quincy Adams Sawyer
Character:Alice Pettengill
Release Date:04/12/1922
That Girl Montana
Character:Montana Rivers
Release Date:31/01/1921
Her Unwilling Husband
Character:Mavis
Release Date:21/11/1920
Help Wanted - Male
Character:Leona Stafford
Release Date:26/09/1920
Girl in the Web
Character:Esther Maitland
Release Date:05/08/1920
Simple Souls
Character:Molly Shine
Release Date:23/05/1920
The Deadlier Sex
Character:Mary Willard
Release Date:28/03/1920
Fighting Cressy
Character:Cressy
Release Date:22/11/1919
A Woman of Pleasure
Character:Alice Dane
Release Date:09/11/1919
The Hushed Hour
Character:Virginia Appleton Blodgett
Release Date:18/05/1919
The Unpardonable Sin
Character:Alice Parcot / Dinny Parcot
Release Date:01/04/1919
Those Without Sin
Character:Melanie Landry
Release Date:01/03/1917
The Evil Eye
Character:Dr. Katherine Torrance
Release Date:04/01/1917
The Storm
Character:Natalie Raydon
Release Date:05/10/1916
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
Character:Olga Nelson
Release Date:29/05/1916
The Sowers
Character:Karin Dolokhof
Release Date:30/03/1916
The Ragamuffin
Character:Jenny
Release Date:23/01/1916
The Secret Sin
Character:Edith Martin / Grace Martin
Release Date:21/10/1915
The Case of Becky
Character:Dorothy/Becky
Release Date:13/09/1915
The Secret Orchard
Character:Diane
Release Date:09/08/1915
The Clue
Character:Christine Lesley
Release Date:08/07/1915
Stolen Goods
Character:Margery Huntley
Release Date:14/05/1915
The Captive
Character:Sonya Matinovich
Release Date:22/04/1915
The Warrens of Virginia
Character:Agatha Warren
Release Date:14/02/1915
The Little Country Mouse
Character:Dorothy
Release Date:16/11/1914
The Odalisque
Character:May, a Stock Girl
Release Date:15/11/1914
The Tear That Burned
Character:Meg - the Wild Girl
Release Date:08/11/1914
For Her Father's Sins
Character:Mary Ashton
Release Date:18/10/1914
Her Awakening
Character:Mary
Release Date:20/09/1914
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Character:Mabel Mack
Release Date:23/08/1914
The Avenging Conscience
Character:The Sweetheart
Release Date:02/08/1914
Men and Women
Character:Agnes Rodman - Stephen's Daughter
Release Date:01/08/1914
The Painted Lady
Character:Jane - the Elder Sister
Release Date:19/07/1914
Home, Sweet Home
Character:The Wife
Release Date:16/05/1914
Judith of Bethulia
Character:Judith
Release Date:08/03/1914
Strongheart
Character:Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister
Release Date:08/03/1914
Classmates
Character:Sylvia Randolph
Release Date:14/02/1914
The House of Discord
Character:The Wife
Release Date:13/12/1913
A Cure for Suffragettes
Character:
Release Date:17/11/1913
Two Men of the Desert
Character:The Authoress
Release Date:23/08/1913
Death's Marathon
Character:The Wife
Release Date:14/06/1913
If We Only Knew
Character:The Mother
Release Date:01/05/1913
The Stolen Bride
Character:The Grower's Daughter
Release Date:07/04/1913
The Hero of Little Italy
Character:Maria
Release Date:03/04/1913
Near To Earth
Character:
Release Date:20/03/1913
Broken Ways
Character:The Road Agent's Wife
Release Date:08/03/1913
Love in an Apartment Hotel
Character:The Young Woman
Release Date:27/02/1913
A Chance Deception
Character:The Wife
Release Date:24/02/1913
Oil and Water
Character:Mlle. Genova
Release Date:10/02/1913
Pirate Gold
Character:The Daughter
Release Date:13/01/1913
Three Friends
Character:The Wife
Release Date:02/01/1913
The Coming of Angelo
Character:Theresa
Release Date:01/01/1913
The God Within
Character:The Woman of the Camp
Release Date:26/12/1912
The Massacre
Character:Stephen's Ward
Release Date:19/12/1912
A Sailor’s Heart
Character:The Sailor's Second Sweetheart
Release Date:25/11/1912
The Painted Lady
Character:The Older Sister
Release Date:24/10/1912
The Chief's Blanket
Character:The Young Woman
Release Date:10/10/1912
Blind Love
Character:The Young Woman
Release Date:11/09/1912
With the Enemy's Help
Character:The Prospector's Wife
Release Date:19/08/1912
A Temporary Truce
Character:Alice Hardy - the Prospector's Wife
Release Date:10/06/1912
The Lesser Evil
Character:The Young Woman
Release Date:29/04/1912
One Is Business, the Other Crime
Character:Rich Wife
Release Date:24/04/1912
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
Character:The Goddess
Release Date:25/03/1912
A String of Pearls
Character:The Brother's Sweetheart
Release Date:07/03/1912
Under Burning Skies
Character:Emily
Release Date:21/02/1912
The Transformation of Mike
Character:The Tenement Girl
Release Date:01/02/1912
For His Son
Character:The Son's Fiancée
Release Date:21/01/1912
The Eternal Mother
Character:Martha, the Wife
Release Date:10/01/1912
The Voice of the Child
Character:The Wife
Release Date:28/12/1911
A Woman Scorned
Character:
Release Date:30/11/1911
The Miser's Heart
Character:Neighbor
Release Date:20/11/1911
Through Darkening Vales
Character:Grace
Release Date:16/11/1911
The Battle
Character:The Boy's Sweetheart
Release Date:06/11/1911
Love in the Hills
Character:The Mountain Girl
Release Date:30/10/1911
The Long Road
Character:Edith
Release Date:26/10/1911
The Making of a Man
Character:Young Woman
Release Date:04/10/1911
The Villain Foiled
Character:Miss Page
Release Date:30/08/1911
The Last Drop of Water
Character:Mary
Release Date:26/07/1911
A Country Cupid
Character:Edith
Release Date:23/07/1911
Fighting Blood
Character:
Release Date:28/06/1911
The Primal Call
Character:
Release Date:21/06/1911
Enoch Arden
Character:Woman on the Beach
Release Date:15/06/1911
Enoch Arden: Part I
Character:
Release Date:12/06/1911
The Lonedale Operator
Character:Daughter of the Lonedale Operator
Release Date:23/03/1911
His Daughter
Character:
Release Date:23/02/1911
A Flash of Light
Character:
Release Date:17/07/1910
All on Account of the Milk
Character:The Maid
Release Date:13/01/1910
The Rocky Road
Character:
Release Date:03/01/1910
The Day After
Character:The New Year
Release Date:30/12/1909
To Save Her Soul
Character:Stage Dancer
Release Date:27/12/1909
A Corner in Wheat
Character:
Release Date:13/12/1909
Television Appearances
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