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1918 in film
The year 1918 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*Following litigation for anti-trust activities, the US Supreme Court orders the Motion Picture Patents Company to disband....

 drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies...

. Prints of the film survive at the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House
George Eastman House
The George Eastman House is the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York, USA. World-renowned for its photograph and motion picture archives, the museum is also a leader in film preservation and...

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  • Elliott Dexter
    Elliott Dexter
    Elliott Dexter was an American film and stage actor. Dexter started his career in vaudeville and didn't move to films until he was 45. He retired from acting in 1925....

     - Charles Murdock
  • Florence Vidor
    Florence Vidor
    Florence Vidor was an American actress.Born Florence Arto, her father, J. P. Arto, was an important executive and she started working in silent movies thanks to her husband, film director King Vidor. She signed her first contract with Vitagraph Studios in 1916...

     - Juliet Raeburn
  • Sylvia Ashton
    Sylvia Ashton
    Sylvia Ashton was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 134 films between 1912 and 1929. She was born in Denver, Colorado and died in Los Angeles, California...

     - Sophy Murdock
  • Wanda Hawley
    Wanda Hawley
    Wanda Hawley , was a veteran of the silent screen films era. She entered the theatrical profession with an amateur group in Seattle, and later toured the U.S. and Canada as a singer. She co-starred with Rudolph Valentino in the 1922's The Young Rajah, and rose to stardom in a number of Cecil B...

     - Sophy in Prologue
  • Theodore Roberts
    Theodore Roberts
    Theodore Roberts the actor is not to be confused with author Theodore Goodridge Roberts, 1877–1953, who wrote "The Harbor Master". Please see discussion page....

     - Tom Berkeley
  • Helen Jerome Eddy
    Helen Jerome Eddy
    Helen Jerome Eddy was a motion picture actress from New York, New York. She was noted as a character actress who played genteel heroines in films such as Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm .-Biography:...

     - Norma Murdock
  • Marcia Manon - Viola Hastings
  • Julia Faye
    Julia Faye
    Julia Faye was a motion picture actress from Richmond, Virginia.-Career overview:Faye had resided in St. Louis, Missouri prior to coming to Hollywood in 1916, to visit friends. She visited one of the film studios and was introduced to Christy Cabanne. The two reminisced about St...

     - Jessie
  • J. Parks Jones - Charley Murdock
  • Edna Mae Cooper - Bertha
  • Gustav von Seyffertitz
    Gustav von Seyffertitz
    Gustav von Seyffertitz was a German film actor and director. He appeared in 118 films between 1917 and 1939.He was born in Haimhausen, Bavaria and died in Los Angeles, California, aged 81.-Selected filmography:...

     - Melville Bladen
  • Tully Marshall
    Tully Marshall
    William Phillips was an American character actor known as Tully Marshall, with nearly a quarter century of theatrical experience behind before he made his first film appearance in 1914.-Career:...

     - Simcox
  • Lillian Leighton
    Lillian Leighton
    Lillian Brown Leighton was an American silent film actress. She was signed in 1910 and starred in over 200 films before her retirement in 1940.-Selected filmography:-External links:...

     - Maid
  • Mayme Kelso
    Mayme Kelso
    Mayme Kelso , was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 79 films between 1911 and 1927.She was born in Columbus, Ohio, and died in South Pasadena, California from a heart attack.-Selected filmography:...

     - Housekeeper
  • Alice Terry
    Alice Terry
    Alice Terry was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era, appearing in thirty-nine films between 1916 and 1933.-Career:...

     - Saleslady (as Alice Taafe)
  • Noah Beery
    Noah Beery, Sr.
    Noah Nicholas Beery was an American actor, who appeared in films from 1913 to 1945.-Early life:His parents originally came from Switzerland. Beery was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He and his brothers William C. Beery and Wallace Beery became Hollywood actors...

     - Doctor (uncredited)
  • William Boyd
    William Boyd (actor)
    William Lawrence Boyd was an American film actor best known for portraying Hopalong Cassidy.-Biography:...

     - Extra (uncredited)
  • Edythe Chapman
    Edythe Chapman
    Edythe Chapman , was an American stage and silent film actress from Rochester, New York. As early as 1898 she appeared in New York, New York in the Charity Ball. Edythe performed at the Shubert Theater in Brooklyn, New York in a production of The Light Eternal in 1907...

     - Mrs. Berkeley (uncredited)
  • Raymond Hatton
    Raymond Hatton
    Raymond William Hatton was an American movie actor who appeared in almost five hundred movies, including a stint of being paired in 1920s comedies with Wallace Beery....

     - Beautician (uncredited)
  • Lloyd Hughes
    Lloyd Hughes
    Lloyd Hughes was an American silent film actor.-Life and career:Born in Bisbee, Arizona, Hughes received his education at the Los Angeles Polytechnic School. He sought a career as an actor early in life, and his clean-cut appearance and ability soon gained him recognition...

     - Reporter (uncredited)
  • Charles Ogle
    Charles Stanton Ogle
    Charles Stanton Ogle was an American silent film actor.-Biography:Born in Steubenville, Ohio, Ogle first performed in live theatre, making his first appearance on Broadway in 1905. He embarked on a career in film with Edison Studios in The Bronx, New York in 1908, appearing in The Boston Tea Party...

     - Bit Role (uncredited)
  • Guy Oliver
    Guy Oliver
    George Guy Oliver was an American actor. He appeared in at least 189 silent era motion pictures and 27 talkies in character roles between 1911 and 1931. His obituary gives him credit for at least 600. He directed three movies in 1915.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Oliver began his career as a...

     - Berkeley's Butler (uncredited)
  • Larry Steers
    Larry Steers
    Larry Steers was an American film actor. He appeared in 426 films between 1917 and 1951.He was born in Indiana, and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.-Selected filmography:* Old Wives for New...

     - Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
  • Madame Sul-Te-Wan
    Madame Sul-Te-Wan
    Madame Sul-Te-Wan was an American actress. The daughter of freed slaves, she began her career in entertainment touring the east coast with various theatrical companies and moved to California to become a member of the fledgling film community...

    - Viola's Maid (uncredited)
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