Helen Gardner
Date of birth: 1884-09-02
Place of birth: Binghamton, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Miss Gardner, Helen Louise Gardner
Biography
Not only was Helen Gardner the first American film actress to form her own production company, she was also the among the first filmmakers to embrace making features, and was the first vamp on screen.
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Cleopatra
1912-11-13
The fabled queen of Egypt's affair with Roman general Marc Antony is ultimately disastrous for both
The Illumination
1912-04-05
Set in Biblical times, this tells the story of how Jesus affected the lives of two people: Joseph, a
How She Won Him
1910-09-09
Some possess youth; others good looks, and still others have money, but Muriel Hanson has all three
The Inherited Taint
1911-03-31
Herbert Warning inherits a fortune. He becomes engaged to a society girl who leaves him for another
The Moonshine Maid and the Man
1914-12-07
Dave wants to marry Nancy, and is determined to win a reward of $1000 for the arrest of some moonshi
The Butterfly
1914-10-27
A father tries to keep his son from marrying a poor actress. She eventually becomes a famous and wea
A Tale of Two Cities
1911-02-20
A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its s
The Lure of Vanity
1911-07-18
Miss Edna White is very much grieved when she has not a suitable gown to wear at a party. Mrs. Donal
Barriers Burned Away
1911-06-24
John and Edwin Martin, two brothers, occupy, each with his own family, a double house; they are all
The Sleep Walker
1911-06-23
A young woman does strange things, which are explained when it is discovered she is a sleep walker.
Treasure Trove
1911-07-25
Patience and Anne, two spinsters of the old school of aristocratic birth, have managed to keep up ap
The Wooing of Winifred
1911-04-11
In order to inherit their uncle's property, two cousins must marry each other.
For Her Brother's Sake
1911-06-06
The black sheep of the family is protected by his sister.
She Came, She Saw, She Conquered
1911-07-26
Rose Leigh is a young schoolteacher. She sees a paragraph in the paper, saying that in a certain sma
Snatched from a Burning Death
1915-03-09
LeGrande, an old trapper, refuses to vacate his favorite hunting grounds when ordered to do so by Sa
The Breath of Araby
1915-05-08
A woman attempts to attract a man by using a thousand-year-old love potion.
Underneath the Paint
1914-12-14
Walking through the Ghetto, Arthur Kellogg rescues Tryphena Winters, an actress, and her little sist
Miss Jekyll and Madame Hyde
1915-06-19
Madeline Jekyll meets Baron Stana, a distinguished looking man, and finds her father has promised he
The Still, Small Voice
1915-02-23
The influence of Musa, a wildly beautiful dumb girl, upon every citizen of Gallows Gulch, a rough we
The Death of King Edward III
1911-08-05
King Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. He was a son of Edward the Second and he was born at Wind
Sandra
1924-09-01
BY DAY a beautiful wife-accepting a husband's humble love, his humble home, his humble pleasures. BY
A Quaker Mother
1911-06-27
Mrs. Pearson is a little different from most mothers, at least in her general appearance, for she ha
A Princess of Bagdad
1913-09-01
A caliph imprisons the cobbler's son his daughter has fallen in love with, but the cobbler's discove
By Woman's Wit
1911-09-16
A woman objects to her bachelor friend getting married, so she makes him appear so ridiculous that t
For Love and Glory
1911-08-14
Young Lieut. Osmond, of the British Army, is engaged to be married to Rose Seaton. His father object
Madge of the Mountains
1911-10-31
Harry Brownley, son of a rich New Yorker, reads a newspaper account of U.S. Revenue officers' plan t
Regeneration
1911-10-28
Hunter Ross deserts his wife and child and she is driven to the extremes of poverty, being obliged i
The Girl and the Sheriff
1911-11-14
A mountaineer, who has been shot by a pursuing sheriff, is concealed by a mountain girl in her cabin
Arbutus
1911-11-08
Carleton Holt locates at one of the mountain inns. On one of his daily trips he hears a mountain mai
An Aeroplane Elopement
1911-11-11
Maude Brooks is in love with an aviator, George Pinckney. Maude tells her father that she intends to
Ups and Downs
1911-10-07
Unless Marion Norman's intended husband can support her in the same style in which her father has, M
The Freshet
1911-11-28
Tom Ennis, a stalwart, sturdy fellow, is apprenticed to John Matthews, the village blacksmith, whose
A Reformed Santa Claus
1911-12-22
The employees of Harrison's mine have been out on strike for a long time. The men wait for him until
A Problem in Reduction
1912-02-03
Mrs. Smartly thinks she is too fleshy and decides to take a course of treatment. She consults her ma
Her Boy
1912-02-09
Far up in the mountains Mrs. Bailor's two sons, Tom and Harry, are engaged at their distilling, cons
Where the Money Went
1912-01-29
Fred Hart, a young businessman, unknown to his wife, draws their savings from the bank with the purp
The Love of John Ruskin
1912-02-20
John Ruskin became acquainted with his wife through a loan which he made to her father, and his note
The Serpents
1912-05-08
Wending their way and locating in a land far from the contentions through which they passed a few we
Yellow Bird
1912-06-12
Disregarding the sanctity of "Song Bird's" feelings, John Strong, a young surveyor in the pioneer fo
The Old Silver Watch
1912-03-19
Mary Collins dies leaving two children; Mildred ('Lucie') and Frank. On her deathbed, she gives Fran
The Heart of Esmeralda
1912-08-13
Esmeralda Foster, an attractive girl, is very much impressed with Duncan Miller, a crafty country sw
Vampire of the Desert
1913-05-16
Ishmael, the son of Hagar, an old hag, living on the edge of the desert, falls completely under the
The Party Dress
1912-08-24
Lydia Borne picks up the only party dress she possesses and finds it full of wrinkles. A dance to wh
Eureka!
1913-05-05
A woman is shipwrecked on a deserted island suffering a loss of memory during the incident. Rescued
The Sleep of Cyma Roget
1920-07-01
Cyma Roget, a beautiful young woman, has fallen under the influence of the evil Hindu scientist Chan
The Miracle
1912-07-29
A story of that famous adventurer, Haroun al Rashid, the Caliph of Bagdad.
Becky, Becky
1913-01-26
Becky, Becky is a 1913 film short.
Alixe; or, the Test of Friendship
1913-04-02
Alixe is courted by many admirers. Her most persistent companion is Morton Shaw. Arlington Tappan al
The Wife of Cain
1913-05-01
One brother kills another over the love of a beautiful woman.
Vanity Fair
1911-01-02
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the positio
An Innocent Theft
1912-05-27
Out of desperation, poor Joe, who lives with his sick mother, steals money from the church’s collect
The Show Girl
1911-05-18
Audrey, a charming actress, but classed among the show girls, is invited with some of her stage comp
A Sister to Carmen
1913-07-15
Margo, daughter of Spanish smuggler Hamalo is loved by Quentin, a poor local boy, but she tells him
The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray
1914-10-26
Loose adaptation of Mary Shelley‘s “Frankenstein”.
The Common Sin
1917-03-13
A gypsy girl grows up with the sole purpose of seeking revenge against the man responsible for her m