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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 16, 1896
Died
September 6, 1986
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Sarah Blanche Sweet
Blanche Sweet
0.3 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
5.7
Narrator (voice)
Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
1982
8.3
Self
Hollywood
1980
6.0
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959
7.5
The Thin Man
1957
🎬
0.0
Make Mine Memories
1945
6.0
(archive footage)
Twenty Years After
1944
5.3
Queenie
The Silver Horde
1930
5.4
Donny Harris
Show Girl in Hollywood
1930
4.7
Julia Barnes Hayes
The Woman Racket
1930
0.0
Mrs. George W. Mason
Always Faithful
1929
Credits
Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
as Narrator (voice)
1982
5.7
Hollywood
as Self
1980
8.3
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959
6.0
The Thin Man
1957
7.5
🎬
Make Mine Memories
1945
0.0
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
1944
6.0
The Silver Horde
as Queenie
1930
5.3
Show Girl in Hollywood
as Donny Harris
1930
5.4
The Woman Racket
as Julia Barnes Hayes
1930
4.7
Always Faithful
as Mrs. George W. Mason
1929
0.0
🎬
The Woman in White
as Laura Fairlie / Anne Catherick
1929
0.0
Singed
as Dolly Wall
1927
0.0
Diplomacy
as Dora Weymouth
1926
0.0
The Far Cry
as Claire Marsh
1926
0.0
Bluebeard's Seven Wives
as Juliet
1926
0.0
The New Commandment
as Renee Darcourt
1925
0.0
Why Women Love
as Molla Hansen
1925
0.0
🎬
The Sporting Venus
as Lady Gwendolyn
1925
6.5
His Supreme Moment
as Carla King
1925
0.0
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
as Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield
1924
5.0
Those Who Dance
as Rose Carney
1924
0.0
Anna Christie
as Anna Christie
1923
5.5
In the Palace of the King
as Dolores Mendoza
1923
0.0
The Meanest Man in the World
as Jane Hudson
1923
0.0
Souls for Sale
as Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
1923
6.2
Quincy Adams Sawyer
as Alice Pettengill
1922
0.0
That Girl Montana
as Montana Rivers
1921
0.0
Her Unwilling Husband
as Mavis
1920
0.0
Help Wanted - Male
as Leona Stafford
1920
0.0
Girl in the Web
as Esther Maitland
1920
0.0
Simple Souls
as Molly Shine
1920
0.0
The Deadlier Sex
as Mary Willard
1920
5.0
Fighting Cressy
as Cressy
1919
0.0
A Woman of Pleasure
as Alice Dane
1919
0.0
The Hushed Hour
as Virginia Appleton Blodgett
1919
0.0
The Unpardonable Sin
as Alice Parcot / Dinny Parcot
1919
0.0
Those Without Sin
as Melanie Landry
1917
0.0
🎬
The Evil Eye
as Dr. Katherine Torrance
1917
0.0
The Storm
as Natalie Raydon
1916
0.0
🎬
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
as Olga Nelson
1916
0.0
The Sowers
as Karin Dolokhof
1916
0.0
The Ragamuffin
as Jenny
1916
0.0
The Secret Sin
as Edith Martin / Grace Martin
1915
0.0
The Case of Becky
as Dorothy/Becky
1915
0.0
The Secret Orchard
as Diane
1915
0.0
The Clue
as Christine Lesley
1915
0.0
Stolen Goods
as Margery Huntley
1915
0.0
The Captive
as Sonya Matinovich
1915
6.0
The Warrens of Virginia
as Agatha Warren
1915
0.0
The Little Country Mouse
as Dorothy
1914
5.0
🎬
The Odalisque
as May, a Stock Girl
1914
0.0
The Tear That Burned
as Meg - the Wild Girl
1914
0.0
🎬
For Her Father's Sins
as Mary Ashton
1914
0.0
🎬
Her Awakening
as Mary
1914
0.0
🎬
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
as Mabel Mack
1914
0.0
The Avenging Conscience
as The Sweetheart
1914
5.9
Men and Women
as Agnes Rodman - Stephen's Daughter
1914
0.0
🎬
The Painted Lady
as Jane - the Elder Sister
1914
0.0
Home, Sweet Home
as The Wife
1914
5.0
Judith of Bethulia
as Judith
1914
6.1
Strongheart
as Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister
1914
5.0
🎬
Classmates
as Sylvia Randolph
1914
0.0
The House of Discord
as The Wife
1913
0.0
🎬
A Cure for Suffragettes
1913
0.0
Two Men of the Desert
as The Authoress
1913
0.0
Death's Marathon
as The Wife
1913
5.7
If We Only Knew
as The Mother
1913
0.0
🎬
The Stolen Bride
as The Grower's Daughter
1913
0.0
🎬
The Hero of Little Italy
as Maria
1913
0.0
Near To Earth
1913
0.0
Broken Ways
as The Road Agent's Wife
1913
0.0
🎬
Love in an Apartment Hotel
as The Young Woman
1913
0.0
🎬
A Chance Deception
as The Wife
1913
0.0
Oil and Water
as Mlle. Genova
1913
0.0
🎬
Pirate Gold
as The Daughter
1913
0.0
Three Friends
as The Wife
1913
5.0
The Coming of Angelo
as Theresa
1913
0.0
🎬
The God Within
as The Woman of the Camp
1912
0.0
The Massacre
as Stephen's Ward
1912
5.9
A Sailor’s Heart
as The Sailor's Second Sweetheart
1912
0.0
The Painted Lady
as The Older Sister
1912
5.5
The Chief's Blanket
as The Young Woman
1912
0.0
Blind Love
as The Young Woman
1912
3.0
With the Enemy's Help
as The Prospector's Wife
1912
3.0
A Temporary Truce
as Alice Hardy - the Prospector's Wife
1912
4.0
The Lesser Evil
as The Young Woman
1912
5.3
One Is Business, the Other Crime
as Rich Wife
1912
5.8
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
as The Goddess
1912
0.0
A String of Pearls
as The Brother's Sweetheart
1912
0.0
Under Burning Skies
as Emily
1912
4.7
The Transformation of Mike
as The Tenement Girl
1912
4.3
For His Son
as The Son's Fiancée
1912
5.5
The Eternal Mother
as Martha, the Wife
1912
4.8
The Voice of the Child
as The Wife
1911
0.0
A Woman Scorned
1911
0.0
The Miser's Heart
as Neighbor
1911
6.0
Through Darkening Vales
as Grace
1911
4.5
The Battle
as The Boy's Sweetheart
1911
4.8
🎬
Love in the Hills
as The Mountain Girl
1911
0.0
The Long Road
as Edith
1911
0.0
The Making of a Man
as Young Woman
1911
6.3
🎬
The Villain Foiled
as Miss Page
1911
4.0
The Last Drop of Water
as Mary
1911
5.1
A Country Cupid
as Edith
1911
5.6
Fighting Blood
1911
6.3
The Primal Call
1911
4.0
Enoch Arden
as Woman on the Beach
1911
5.8
Enoch Arden: Part I
1911
5.5
The Lonedale Operator
as Daughter of the Lonedale Operator
1911
6.1
His Daughter
1911
4.0
A Flash of Light
1910
5.0
All on Account of the Milk
as The Maid
1910
5.3
The Rocky Road
1910
4.0
The Day After
as The New Year
1909
2.8
To Save Her Soul
as Stage Dancer
1909
5.2
A Corner in Wheat
1909
6.1