Headline
David Wark Griffith: A Brief Sketch of the Career of the Man Who Man 'Way Down East'
Newspaper Source
Publication Date
1922-11-03
- Publication Year
1922
Page
10
Section
Filmland
Nature
Star: Biography
Film Projector / Film(s)
Way Down East
(View more)
Actors
Lillian Gish
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Lottie Blair Parker (from the play by)
Country
USA
Released
1920-09-03
Runtime
145 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Rated
Passed
View more in Imdb
The Escape
(View more)
Actors
Harry English
Country
USA
Released
1913-08-16
Genre
Short
Language
English
View more in Imdb
Home Sweet Home
(View more)
Actors
John Stuart
Director
H.B. Parkinson
Writer
W. Courtney Rowden
Country
UK
Released
1921-11-01
Genre
Short
Language
English
Plot
Dramatisation of the popular song.
View more in Imdb
The Birth of a Nation
(View more)
Actors
Lillian Gish
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Thomas Dixon Jr. (adapted from his novel: "The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan")
Country
USA
Released
1915-03-21
Runtime
195 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
Awards
2 wins.
Rated
TV-PG
View more in Imdb
Hearts of the World
(View more)
Actors
Lillian Gish
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
D.W. Griffith (English translation)
Country
USA
Released
1918-06-01
Runtime
117 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.
Rated
TV-PG
View more in Imdb
The Great Love
(View more)
Actors
George Fawcett
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
D.W. Griffith
Country
USA
Released
1918-08-11
Runtime
70 min
Genre
Drama
Plot
An idealistic young American during World War I, itching to fight the Germans and not wanting to wait until the U. S. joined the war, journeys to Canada and enlists in the British army. He ...
View more in Imdb
The Greatest Thing in Life
(View more)
Actors
David Butler
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Lillian Gish (story)
Country
USA
Released
1918-12-22
Runtime
70 min
Genre
Drama
Language
English
Plot
Jeannette Peret, daughter of a cigar-store owner, leaves her Greenwich Village home for France in hopes of finding there the love which eludes her at home. She becomes enamored of le Bebe, ...
View more in Imdb
The Girl Who Stayed at Home
(View more)
Actors
Adolph Lestina
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
D.W. Griffith
Country
USA
Released
1919-03-23
Runtime
60 min
Genre
Drama
Plot
Story of two brothers who go off to France to fight in World War I, the women who love them and an American expatriate living in France who rallies behind his former country.
View more in Imdb
A Romance of Happy Valley
(View more)
Actors
Lillian Gish
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
D.W. Griffith (story)
Country
USA
Released
1919-01-26
Runtime
76 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several...
Rated
Not Rated
View more in Imdb
True Heart Susie
(View more)
Actors
Lillian Gish
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Marian Fremont (story)
Country
USA
Released
1919-06-01
Runtime
87 min
Genre
Comedy
Language
None
Plot
Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbor boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices much of her own happiness to promote his own ambitions, all without his ...
Rated
Not Rated
View more in Imdb
Broken Blossoms
(View more)
Actors
Lillian Gish
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Thomas Burke (adapted from 'The Chink and the Child' by)
Country
USA
Released
1919-10-20
Runtime
90 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.
Awards
1 win.
Rated
Not Rated
View more in Imdb
Organisation
Type
View the full text image