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Blanche Sweet (1896–1986)

Actress | Soundtrack | Producer

Born into a family of show people, Blanche first appeared on the stage when she was 18 months old. Blanche was a dancer by the time she was four and a talented actress by 1909 when she started work at Biograph with D.W. Griffith. At 14, she was two years younger than Mary Pickford, but her maturity and appearance soon lead to leading roles... See full bio »

Born:

Sarah Blanche Sweet
in Chicago, Illinois, USA

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(age 90) in New York City, New York, USA
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1960 The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (TV series)
Mrs. Dowell
– Where There's a Will (1960) … Mrs. Dowell
 
1959 The Five Pennies
Headmistress of School (uncredited)
 
1958 The Thin Man (TV series)
Mrs. Durkem
– I Loathe You, Darling (1958) … Mrs. Durkem
– Pack My Gat, Beulah (1958) … Mrs. Durkem
 
1930 The Silver Horde
Queenie
 
1930 Show Girl in Hollywood
Donny Harris
 
1930 The Woman Racket
Julia
 
1929 Always Faithful (short)
Mrs. George W. Mason
 
1929 The Woman in White
Laura Fairlie / Anne
 
1927 Singed
Dolly Wall
 
1926 Diplomacy
Dora Weymouth
 
1926 The Far Cry
Claire Marsh
 
1926 The Lady from Hell
Lady Margaret Darnely
 
1925 Bluebeard's Seven Wives
Juliet
 
1925 The New Commandment
Renee Darcourt
 
1925 Why Women Love
Molla Hansen
 
1925 The Sporting Venus
Lady Gwendolyn
 
1925 His Supreme Moment
Carla King
 
1924 Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield
 
1924 Those Who Dance
Rose Carney
 
1923 Anna Christie
Anna Christie
 
1923 In the Palace of the King
Dolores Mendoza
 
1923 The Meanest Man in the World
Jane Hudson
 
1922 Quincy Adams Sawyer
Alice Pettengill
 
1921 That Girl Montana
Montana Rivers
 
1920 Her Unwilling Husband
Mavis
 
1920 Help Wanted - Male
Leona Stafford
 
1920 The Girl in the Web
Esther Maitland
 
1920 Simple Souls
Molly Shine
 
1920 The Deadlier Sex
Mary Willard
 
1919 Fighting Cressy
Cressy
 
1919 A Woman of Pleasure
Alice Dane
 
1919 The Hushed Hour
Virginia Appleton Blodgett
 
1919 The Unpardonable Sin
Alice Parcot/Dinny Parcot
 
1917 The Silent Partner
Jane Colby
 
1917 The Tides of Barnegat
Jane Cobden
 
1917 Those Without Sin
Melanie Landry
 
1917 The Evil Eye
Dr. Katherine Torrance
 
1916 Unprotected
Barbara King
 
1916 The Storm
Natalie Raydon
 
1916 Public Opinion
Hazel Gray
 
1916/II The Dupe
Ethel Hale
 
1916 The Thousand-Dollar Husband
Olga Nelson
 
1916 The Sowers
Karin Dolokhof
 
1916 The Blacklist
Vera Maroff
 
1916 The Ragamuffin
Jenny
 
1915 The Secret Sin
Edith Martin/Grace Martin
 
1915 The Case of Becky
Dorothy/Becky
 
1915 The Secret Orchard
Diane
 
1915 The Clue
Christine Lesley
 
1915 Stolen Goods
Margery Huntley
 
1915 The Captive
Sonya Martinovich
 
1915 The Warrens of Virginia
Agatha Warren
 
1914 The Old Maid (short)
Dorothy
 
1914 The Little Country Mouse (short)
Dorothy
 
1914 The Odalisque (short)
May, a Stock Girl
 
1914 The Tear That Burned (short)
Anita - the Truant
 
1914 For Her Father's Sins (short)
Mary Ashton
 
1914/I Her Awakening (short)
Mary
 
1914 For Those Unborn (short)
 
1914 Men and Women (short)
Agnes Rodman, Stephen's Daughter
 
1914 The Second Mrs. Roebuck (short)
 
1914 The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill'
The Nephew's Sweetheart
 
1914 The Painted Lady (short)
Mary - the Elder Sister
 
1914 The Escape
May Joyce
 
1914 The Soul of Honor (short)
The Son's Wife
 
1914 Home, Sweet Home
The Wife
 
1914 Ashes of the Past (short)
The Gambler's Wife
 
1914 The Primitive Man (short)
(unconfirmed)
 
1914 Strongheart (short)
Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister
 
1914 Judith of Bethulia
Judith
 
1914 The Massacre (short)
Stephen's Ward
 
1914 Classmates (short)
Sylvia Randolph
 
1914 The Sentimental Sister (short)
 
1913 The Wedding Gown (short)
 
1913 Her Wedding Bell (short)
The Young Woman
 
1913 Beyond All Law (short)
 
1913 The House of Discord (short)
The Wife
 
1913 The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (short)
 
1913 A Cure for Suffragettes (short)
 
1913 Two Men of the Desert (short)
The Authoress
 
1913 The Vengeance of Galora (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1913 The Coming of Angelo (short)
Teresa
 
1913 The Mistake (short)
The Young Woman
 
1913 Death's Marathon (short)
The Wife
 
1913 If We Only Knew (short)
The Mother
 
1913 The Stolen Bride (short)
The Grower's Daughter
 
1913 The Hero of Little Italy (short)
Maria
 
1913 Near to Earth (short)
 
1913 Broken Ways (short)
The Road Agent's Wife
 
1913 Love in an Apartment Hotel (short)
The Young Woman
 
1913 A Chance Deception (short)
The Wife
 
1913 Oil and Water (short)
Mlle. Genova
 
1913 Pirate Gold (short)
The Daughter
 
1913 Three Friends (short)
The Wife
 
1912 The God Within (short)
The Woman of the Camp
 
1912 A Sailor's Heart (short)
The Wife
 
1912 The Painted Lady (short)
The Older Sister
 
1912 The Chief's Blanket (short)
The Young Woman
 
1912 Blind Love (short)
The Young Woman
 
1912 A Pueblo Romance
 
1912 A Change of Spirit (short)
The Young Woman
 
1912 With the Enemy's Help (short)
The Prospector's Wife
 
1912 The Inner Circle (short)
 
1912 Man's Lust for Gold (short)
The Prospector's Daughter
 
1912 The Spirit Awakened (short)
The Young Woman
 
1912 A Temporary Truce (short)
Alice, the Prospector;s Wife
 
1912 An Outcast Among Outcasts (short)
The Young Woman
 
1912 The Lesser Evil (short)
The Young Woman
 
1912 One Is Business, the Other Crime (short)
Rich Wife
 
1912 The Punishment (short)
The Fruit Grower's Daughter
 
1912 The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch (short)
The Goddess
 
1912 A String of Pearls (short)
The Second Woman
 
1912 Under Burning Skies (short)
Emily
 
1912 A Sister's Love (short)
 
1912 The Transformation of Mike (short)
The Tenement Girl
 
1912 For His Son (short)
The Son's Fiancée
 
1912 The Old Bookkeeper (short)
The Old Bookkeeper's Employer's Wife
 
1912 The Eternal Mother (short)
Martha, the Wife
 
1911 The Voice of the Child (short)
The Wife
 
1911 A Woman Scorned (short)
 
1911 The Miser's Heart (short)
Neighbor
 
1911 Through Darkened Vales (short)
Grace
 
1911 The Battle (short)
The Boy's Sweetheart
 
1911/I Love in the Hills (short)
The Girl
 
1911 The Long Road (short)
Edith
 
1911 The Making of a Man (short)
Young Woman
 
1911 The Stuff Heroes Are Made Of (short)
Alice
 
1911 The Villain Foiled (short)
Miss Page
 
1911 The Blind Princess and the Poet (short)
The Princess
 
1911 Out from the Shadow (short)
Mrs. Vane
 
1911 The Last Drop of Water (short)
Mary
 
1911 A Country Cupid (short)
Edith
 
1911 The Indian Brothers (short)
Indian
 
1911 Fighting Blood (short)
 
1911 The Primal Call (short)
 
1911 Enoch Arden: Part I (short)
On the Beach
 
1911 The Smile of a Child (short)
The Peasant Woman
 
1911 The White Rose of the Wilds (short)
White Rose
 
1911 The New Dress (short)
At Wedding/At Market
 
1911 The Country Lovers (short)
The Country Lover
 
1911 How She Triumphed (short)
Mary
 
1911 The Broken Cross (short)
 
1911 Priscilla and the Umbrella (short)
The Sister
 
1911 The Spanish Gypsy (short)
 
1911 Priscilla's April Fool Joke (short)
On Lawn
 
1911 The Lonedale Operator (short)
Daughter of the Lonedale Operator (uncredited)
 
1911 Was He a Coward? (short)
Kate, the Rancher's Daughter
 
1911 A Decree of Destiny (short)
 
1911 The Lily of the Tenements (short)
 
1911 His Daughter (short)
 
1911 Heart Beats of Long Ago (short)
 
1911 The Two Paths (short)
 
1910 Love in Quarantine (short)
 
1910 A Flash of Light (short)
 
1910 The Kid (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1910 A Romance of the Western Hills (short)
 
1910 All on Account of the Milk (short)
The Maid
 
1910 The Rocky Road (short)
The Daughter, at Eighteen
 
1909 The Day After (short)
The New Year
 
1909 Choosing a Husband (short)
One of Gladys' Friends
 
1909 To Save Her Soul (short)
Backstage at Debut / At Party
 
1909 In Little Italy (short)
At the Ball
 
1909 A Corner in Wheat (short)
Woman in White Hat / Visitor to the Grain Elevator
 
1909 A Man with Three Wives (short)
 
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1930 Show Girl in Hollywood (performer: "There's a Tear for Every Smile in Hollywood" 1930 - uncredited)
 
1930 The Woman Racket (performer: "He's Good Enough for Me" - uncredited)
 
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1919 The Unpardonable Sin (producer)
 
Show ShowSelf (9 titles)
1982 Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (documentary)
Narrator (voice)
 
1980 Hollywood (TV mini-series documentary)
Herself / Herself - Interviewee
– The Man with the Megaphone (1980) … Herself - Interviewee
– Out West (1980) … Herself
– Hollywood Goes to War (1980) … Herself
– Pioneers (1980) … Herself
 
1979 Brave New Cowboy (documentary)
Herself - Actress
 
1975 D.W. Griffith (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1966 Girl Talk (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 9 December 1966 (1966) … Herself
– Episode dated 1 March 1966 (1966) … Herself
 
1930 The Voice of Hollywood No. 11 (short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1925 Screen Snapshots No. 2 (documentary short)
Herself
 
1923 Souls for Sale
Herself - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
 
1922 Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 6 (documentary short)
Herself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (8 titles)
2008 Spisok korabley (documentary)
 
1993 American Masters (TV series documentary)
 
1985 Proposta in quattro parti (TV documentary)
 
1947 Flicker Flashbacks No. 2, Series 5 (documentary short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1945 Flicker Flashbacks No. 3, Series 2 (short)
(uncredited) (unconfirmed)
 
1939 Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 12 (documentary short)
Herself
 
1933 March of the Movies
Herself, film clip (uncredited)
 
1932 Movie Album Featurettes (short)
 

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(20 May 1935) On radio: Began a series of 15-minute beauty talks over the CBS network that lasted through November. See more »

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Alternate Names:

Daphne Wayne

Height:

5' 4" (1.63 m)
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Star Sign:

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