Movies: William E. Shay

  • 1916
    A Daughter of the Gods

    A Daughter of the Gods (1916)

    A Daughter of the Gods

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    A sultan agrees to help an evil witch destroy a mysterious beauty if the witch will bring his young son back to life....

    A Daughter of the Gods
  • 1911
    The Lighthouse Keeper

    The Lighthouse Keeper (1911)

    The Lighthouse Keeper

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    Tom Alkins, a sturdy fisherman, loves Polly Berry, the daughter of old Nat Berry, the keeper of the light. Bert Duncan also loves Polly and is insanely jealous of Tom. The course of true love runs smoothly for the happy couple with the exception of a...

    The Lighthouse Keeper
  • 1914
    Neptune's Daughter

    Neptune's Daughter (1914)

    Neptune's Daughter

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    The daughter of King Neptune takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister, who was caught in a fishing net. However, she falls in love with the king, the man she holds responsible....

    Neptune's Daughter
  • 1912
    Shamus O'Brien

    Shamus O'Brien (1912)

    Shamus O'Brien

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    Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library of Congress and British Film Institute....

    Shamus O'Brien
  • 1918
    The Fall of the Romanoffs

    The Fall of the Romanoffs (1918)

    The Fall of the Romanoffs

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    The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema couldn't help but jump on it immediately and create a couple of dramatizations....

    The Fall of the Romanoffs
  • 1915
    Sin

    Sin (1915)

    Sin

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    Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America....

    Sin
  • 1917
    The Lone Wolf

    The Lone Wolf (1917)

    The Lone Wolf

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    Based on a character created by Louis Joseph Vance...

    The Lone Wolf
  • 1912
    A Cave Man Wooing

    A Cave Man Wooing (1912)

    A Cave Man Wooing

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    George, a somewhat "unathletic" young man, falls for Clarice, a healthy, athletically inclined young woman. Unfortunately for George, however, a strapping, musclebound stud is also after Clarice, and she seems to prefer him to George. After reading a...

    A Cave Man Wooing
  • 1912
    A Timely Repentance

    A Timely Repentance (1912)

    A Timely Repentance

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    A lost film. John Crawford, an honest mechanic, and Wilbur Robinson, a young man of leisure, both love the same girl. She marries Crawford and they have a baby. Crawford is engaged in perfecting an invention and money is short leaving the wife dissat...

    A Timely Repentance
  • 1915
    The Clemenceau Case

    The Clemenceau Case (1915)

    The Clemenceau Case

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    This was Theda Bara's third starring film, and the first which she carried all on her own, with no other name actors in the cast. Based on the Alexander Dumas story, The Clemenceau Case involves Iza, a vampire-wife (Bara), whose wicked ways scandaliz...

    The Clemenceau Case
  • 1907
    The Boy, the Bust and the Bath

    The Boy, the Bust and the Bath (1907)

    The Boy, the Bust and the Bath

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    A young female boarding house tenant becomes an unwanted object of male attention....

    The Boy, the Bust and the Bath
  • 1915
    Kreutzer Sonata

    Kreutzer Sonata (1915)

    Kreutzer Sonata

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    Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather better remembered as Theda Bara's follow-up to the sensational A Fool There Was (1914)....

    Kreutzer Sonata
  • 1915
    The Two Orphans

    The Two Orphans (1915)

    The Two Orphans

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    This picture is based on the same story that became D.W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm in 1921. This version, made by the Fox Studios, stars famous "vamp" actress Theda Bara in the role that Lillian Gish later made famous...

    The Two Orphans
  • 1911
    Sweet Memories

    Sweet Memories (1911)

    Sweet Memories

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    An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her now-departed husband and the things they did together. Though it is sad that these times are now gone, she is comforted by her memories and by the hope of sha...

    Sweet Memories
  • 1927
    The Telephone Girl

    The Telephone Girl (1927)

    The Telephone Girl

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    Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers. Right now she is concerning herself with the well-being of Tom Blake, the honest son of crooked political boss Jim Blake....

    The Telephone Girl
  • 1912
    Up Against It

    Up Against It (1912)

    Up Against It

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    Amos Bentley was up against it in more senses than one. Times were so hard with him that he had to part with the furniture of his little apartment in order to pay his debts. However, things were inclined to take a better turn for him. He was invited ...

    Up Against It
  • 1917
    The Eternal Sin

    The Eternal Sin (1917)

    The Eternal Sin

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    Gennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has married the Duke of Ferrara. After Lucretia's brother is killed by five conspirators, the fathers of Gennaro's dearest friends, Lucretia tortures the old men to...

    The Eternal Sin
  • 1913
    His Hour of Triumph

    His Hour of Triumph (1913)

    His Hour of Triumph

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    Leonard Dare, a producer, finds himself without a player strong enough to enact the part of Philip Dawany, one of the important characters of the cast. His company is temporarily dismissed and he returns home. Derwent Hall calls for an interview with...

    His Hour of Triumph
  • 1915
    The Soul of Broadway

    The Soul of Broadway (1915)

    The Soul of Broadway

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    Grace Leonard, a typical woman of the New York stage, beautiful but old in sin, seduces William Craig, who becomes a thief in order to shower luxuries upon her. He is sentenced to prison and emerges five years later as a sad-faced, gray-haired man, e...

    The Soul of Broadway
  • 1911
    'Tween Two Loves

    'Tween Two Loves (1911)

    'Tween Two Loves

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    A story of an only daughter of a farmer; her mother is dead and she is her father's consolation. She grows up and falls in love with the young man in her father's employ, but when they tell the father of their love affair, he orders the lover off the...

    'Tween Two Loves