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person_profile-Blanche Sweet

Blanche Sweet Died at age: 90

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Blanche Sweet

Date of Birth:

Jun 16, 1896

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Sep 06, 1986

Biography of

Blanche Sweet

    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.

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Blanche Sweet

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Filmography of

Blanche Sweet

Found 32 Movies in total

Disclosure

Judith (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2020

The Silver Horde

Queenie ( Actor )

... 1930

Show Girl in Hollywood

Donny Harris ( Actor )

... 1930

The Woman Racket

Julia ( Actor )

... 1930

Singed

Dolly Wall ( Actor )

... 1927

Diplomacy

Dora Weymouth ( Actor )

... 1926

Bluebeard's Seven Wives

Juliet ( Actor )

... 1926

The New Commandment

Renee Darcourt ( Actor )

... 1925

Why Women Love

Molla Hansen ( Actor )

... 1925

His Supreme Moment

Carla King ( Actor )

... 1925

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield ( Actor )

... 1924

Those Who Dance

Rose Carney ( Actor )

... 1924

Anna Christie

Anna Christie ( Actor )

... 1923

Souls for Sale

Herself - Celebrity Actress (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1923

Quincy Adams Sawyer

Alice Pettengill ( Actor )

... 1922

That Girl Montana

Montana Rivers ( Actor )

... 1921

Her Unwilling Husband

Mavis ( Actor )

... 1920

Girl in the Web

Esther Maitland ( Actor )

... 1920

The Deadlier Sex

Mary Willard ( Actor )

... 1920

The Hushed Hour

Virginia Appleton Blodgett ( Actor )

... 1919

The Unpardonable Sin

Alice Parcot / Dinny Parcot ( Actor )

... 1919

Those Without Sin

Melanie Landry ( Actor )

... 1917

The Ragamuffin

Jenny ( Actor )

... 1916

The Secret Sin

Edith Martin / Grace Martin ( Actor )

... 1915

The Case of Becky

Dorothy/Becky ( Actor )

... 1915

The Clue

Christine Lesley ( Actor )

... 1915

Stolen Goods

Margery Huntley ( Actor )

... 1915

The Captive

Sonya Matinovich ( Actor )

... 1915

The Warrens of Virginia

Agatha Warren ( Actor )

... 1915

The Avenging Conscience

The Sweetheart ( Actor )

... 1914

Home, Sweet Home

The Wife ( Actor )

... 1914

Judith of Bethulia

Judith ( Actor )

... 1914