Arthur V. Johnson

The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. But...

A collection of old-time silent movies, re-scored and narrated, featuring the most popular silent film stars. Includes: 1. Pathé 1900...

Harry wants to marry Dolly, a showgirl, but only on the condition that she can win over his disapproving father. The father is so charmed when he...

"It's in the surprise" that great plays are made and battles won, and our tenderfoot friend, appreciating this, pulls a victory that is amazing.

The Rev. Frank Speakman has been to a rural congregation, and is entertained by the members. He is considered a fine catch matrimonially and the...

One of the members of a suicide club learns he has inherited some money, but only after he drew the fatal lot and is expected to kill himself....

In Chapter 8, "A Partner To Providence", His lordship rides a train that is mistakenly rerouted into a headlong collision into another engine, with...

Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and...

A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses a beer with lunch, then gives in. After work, two...

Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a corner when his car accidentally brushes against the tramp...

In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident....

The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at...

A mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down and kills him. In retaliation, the sheriff captures the...

A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is...

After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement with a much older man.

A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.

A woman who is filled with romantic ideas is making no secret of her eagerness to find a husband. Her father decides to help her by pressuring and...

Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.

A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play,...

Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that...

Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail...

Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

Tony Gazeco, one of the workers in the factory, is an anarchist and agitator. Being of excitable nature he is looked upon by the other men as a...

Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are...

An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very...

At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic...

Pippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unbeknown to her, the music has a healing effect on all who hear her as she passes by.

All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a chance. At a dance, Bud dresses as a woman and all...

"Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a...

Two boys, twins, leave the old homestead to seek their fortune in the world. They go divergent roads, and are soon widely separated one from the...

A criminal is turned into an honest man via surgery

In the heart of the American west, a miner toils day after day at his rocker box while his young daughter keeps his camp. His daughter persuades him...

A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing...

As Poe's lover is slowly dying, he struggles to make money to care for her.

A beautiful story of a poor young musician who has composed an exquisite symphony. Adjoining his squalid quarters is a room occupied by a young lady...

Mack Sennett appears as a Native American in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby asylum, heads for the surf, brandishing a knife. Innocent...

A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?

Mack Sennett appears as a policeman and waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a Confederate soldier and a Union soldier in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a dinner guest and a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Bachelor Reggie writes his uncle that he has a wife and child, but then must produce them when the uncle visits.

Mack Sennett appears as a member of the Wilkenson clan in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a guest and a man in the fight in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.

Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into helping with the burglary of her minister's apartment,...

During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat...

George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink. One might have concluded he was lost,...

An Indian comforts a dying prospector in his last moments. In exchange, the prospector tells him the location of his gold claim. A group of cowboys...

In the Kingdom of Never-Never Land there live a great Lord and Lady, each presiding over their own domain. This great Lord goes for a stroll through...

A woman is scarred in an accident and refuses to stand in the way of her lover's marriage to another.

A confirmed bachelor learns that he will inherit his late uncle's fortune only if he marries, which he does reluctantly. Shortly afterward he returns...

Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his...

Mack Sennett appears as a wedding guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a man at the dance and a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a footman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Oh, the woe of simultaneous birthdays, as were Mr. and Mrs. Hardlucks', and both being of a generous nature, were seized with an insatiable desire to...

Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance...

Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Mack Sennett appears as a butler and a man in an office in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born in a noble Spanish family and reared by a mother...

A melodrama about a boy who initially wants nothing to do with his stepmother.

Unable to bear the abuse of her drunken soldier husband, the wife left her home and went to the city, where she became a nurse in a hospital. Her...

Henry and Marion have a lover's quarrel and part in anger. They do not reconcile, and ten years pass without contact. Marion becomes a society girl...

An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned California in the early 19th century.

A young female teacher is assigned to an unruly class. After a student revolt, a passing surveyor helps her restore order, and the teacher becomes...

The orphan girl of San Gabriel meets and is attracted by a Spanish stranger. The Spaniard is accused of cheating and set to be lynched, but is saved...

Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens,...

The hero, a young contractor, is mistaken by the heroine for a laborer, while he thinks she is the maid although she is the daughter of the manor....

A young man and a young woman, each unlucky in love, determine never to marry. But Cupid (and two separate bands of misinformed revelers) has other...

Ranch hand Bob Gorman loves pretty Molly Hendricks, and Daddy isn't happy about that. Then Bob is falsely accused of killing Mr. Hendricks. Soon we...

A country boy and a city boy are both courting the same girl. The girl sees the country boy's tender treatment of a wounded bird and chooses him.

Nellie is a struggling artist whose paintings lie unsold. Billy, a successful painter, loves her, but she tells him that she cannot marry until she...

Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the...

A man gets revenge on his cheating wife by killing her and her lover. He thinks he has killed his daughter as well, but she survives and is adopted...

A Boer woman and her daughter are captured by Zulu warriors.

A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the...

John Bradley is a trusted clerk with an oil company. Enjoying a fair salary, he is comfortably fixed in a modest little village home with his wife...

This story of the Black Hills consistently tells of the unrequited love of a Sioux brave for his chief's daughter, and how he premonished the awful...

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an...

Jose, a handsome young Mexican, leaves his home in the Sierra Madre Mountains to seek his fortune in the States. On leaving, his dear old mother...

Noticing that Jim is partial to a drink, Ruth breaks off her engagement to him and turns to John, who until then had kept his love for her to...

Neglected by a husband too engrossed by his activities and social obligations, a woman convinces a girlfriend to dress as a man and make love to her...

A nostalgic look at film clips from the Silent era.

Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they each have to dress up as the opposite sex.

After being jilted for another, a woman sends her lover's old letters to the new fiancée and looks forward to the reaction. But when she spots...

A hunter lost in the Northern woods is rescued by a trapper and his wife. He makes advances to the wife, is rejected, and tries to kill the trapper.

John Holland, a planter in a small way, is devotedly attached to his wife and infant child. The wife wearies of the monotonous grind of farm life and...

Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar and in the wedding party in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

The pretty daughter of a French-Canadian backwoodsman incites the love of a trapper who is so smitten with the beauty of this wood nymph that he...

A wife offers to support her artist husband by teaching piano. She can't find work at the conservatory, and ends up working in a laundry, without...

Harry's jealous former mistress puts poison in some candy intended for his new fiancée. Harry discovers what she has done, and races to save...

A girl is being shipped off to Europe with her aunt to break up her romance. Her suitor dresses himself as the aunt and manages to fool everyone long...

A young couple must endure a tedious visit from their aunt until their friend offers to find a way to make her leave.

Reverend Howson loves his young ward, but urges her to marry someone else. She accepts the proposal, but then sees the Reverend kissing an object she...

John is seduced and abandoned by a cruel flirt. Later he learns that his friend Frank is engaged to the same woman. He relates his story to Frank and...

A local girl's romance with the lifeguard at a seaside lifesaving station is threatened by the arrival of tourists.

An escaped mental patient assumes the identity of a society girl's dead father and threatens her marriage.

A young governess catches the eye of an aristocrat and romance blossoms.

When a bored wife seeks a Reno divorce, she regains the attentions of her inattentive husband.

One man squanders a fortune and loses his house and sweetheart to another who strikes it rich.

An orphaned young woman rejects her appointed suitor and falls in love with her guardian.

A society woman gambles at cards.

A maid loves her employer, sacrificing her own happiness in order to insure his.

Two brothers vie for Rosie's hand; she gives a rose to each of them.

A wayward brother is mistaken for a burglar in his own house.

A jealous mother is envious of the affection shown toward her future daughter-in-law by her husband.

Mons. Flamant, a typical roué of the French nobility, is surrounded by all the pleasures and pastimes his fabulous wealth can procure. In a...

The Harrington's first born has died and the father and mother are inconsolable in their grief. Mrs. Harrington later seeks diversion in society, but...

A surgeon risks his life in order to finish surgery on a patient when a fire breaks out in the hospital.

John Cummins, a wealthy society man, while out in his auto, discovers he is out of gasoline. He stops at a country store and meets Flo Page, the...

Schneider is trying to write a speech but he can't concentrate with all the noise around him. During the night, Schneider catches burglars in his...

Out-of-work, Tim steals a sandwich, then knocks out the policeman who chases him. He changes into the policeman's uniform, and is approached by a...

A father wants to marry his daughter to a rich man, but she's in love with someone else. She borrows a tramp's wooden leg, pretending that it's hers,...

A prima donna falls in love with the voice of a singer that she hears on a recording.

A minister is talked into performing a marriage ceremony for his sister and the beau he despised.

A pianist's music annoys a painter, making him unable to work. Eventually they fall in love.

A Civil War spy story in which a girl and the officer she loves find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.

An impoverished father is forced to give up his daughter for adoption. After she is grown, she realizes she has two fathers: her real one and her...

Aunt Jane's nieces and nephews bicker over an anticipated legacy.

An heiress, a businessman, and a playboy form the eternal triangle.

An actress teaches a young girl how to flirt and win back her beau.

A nurse ignores her other patients in order to concentrate on her favorite one, a fascinating bachelor.

Misunderstandings abound when a minister's son and an actress become engaged.

A woman's sweetheart is prevented from killing himself by two burglars who are afraid they will be accused of murder if he pulls the trigger.

A young woman helps her brother by purchasing a much needed piece of land.

A girl from the country writes glowing letters about life in the big city despite the fact that it's really been disastrous.

A reformed woman shows a petty thief the righteous path by her good example.

Two brothers, one a minister and the other a cad, both love the same girl.

The sons and daughters on the opposing sides of a Kentucky feud fall in love and dismantle their fathers' guns to prevent further bloodshed.

A husband uses a ruse to sneak back into the house after a night out.

A young man's parents refuse to accept his new wife, but a reconciliation is eventually brought about.

A hastily written letter is used in a blackmail scheme by a scorned suitor.

A young soldier is shipped overseas after a hasty marriage; when he returns he doesn't recognize his wife who has changed from the tomboy he married...

A widow threatens her rebellious daughter that she will remarry if the girl does not behave at school.

When a young man loses his wealth, he also loses his fiancee, but he is more than consoled by her younger sister.

Florence Lawrence stars in this society comedy in rural surroundings.

A sheriff must decide whether or not to allow his old friend, a criminal, to escape.

On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing.

This might be termed a comedy of errors, for the overzealousness of a lot of good-hearted simple folks places them in a rather embarrassing position....

During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers....

A music teacher is in love with Helen, one of his students, but she rejects him. In his hurt he joins an anarchist group who plan to blow up a rich...

Two eccentric Frenchmen argue for the hand of an eligible American girl, who finally discouraged both of them by introducing her betrothed.

A 1910 short starring Arthur V. Johnson and Marion Leonard.

A 1911 short starring Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard and Henry B. Walthall. it is now considered a lost film.

Set in Rome, during the feudal period. The heroine, the daughter of an armor manufacturer, is in love with a humble tradesman. The resistance...

A young society swain is stolen away from the young blind girl he loves by a rapacious queen of the demi-monde who is only out for his...

Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm...

On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines...

Seven years after the death of their first child, a couple has grown apart and decides to divorce. Their second child asks a question about who will...

An unscrupulous tourist plots to steal the famous diamond, "The Light of the World," tricking a young woman into helping him. She is caught and...

William is drawn to Edward's wife, Helen. Sensing his feelings might lead him into an affair, he decides to go away. As he says goodbye to Helen,...

Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy's money.

Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace is stolen, and Mr. Kendrick goes into debt to...

Jack Windom experiences a sensation of awe at the reception of the Hindoo dagger from his old chum, Tom, who was traveling in India. Hanging the...

A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to...

Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the critical moment, the woman introduces her...

A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she offers to sell herself as a slave to allow them to buy...

A woman in love with an unsuccessful author tries to convince a publisher to accept his work.

To help a woman whose purse has been snatched, two college boys stage a murder scene and trap the purse snatcher.

Mrs. Leffingwell runs after the last of her departing party guests to return a forgotten muff. While she's out a burglar enters the apartment and...

Harry, preparing to leave on a business trip, tells Bessie that her photograph will always be with him. To test his sincerity she removes the photo...

Bob Spaulding, a manly fellow, meets Dr. Rankin and his wife on the street while they are engaged in a violent tiff. The doctor is about to strike...

A dance hall girl is converted to a religious life by a phony evangelist. But can he, himself, be saved?

A 1910 short directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Marion Leonard.

A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants. His priest...

A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love her when his sight is restored?

An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one...

A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by the girl, he becomes furious and desiring revenge,...

A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of...

John Bronson, Mr. Daly's farmhand, has ambitions and decides to go to the city. He breaks the news to Mr. and Mrs. Daly and their daughter Lottie....

A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.

A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman who's there for the summer. However,...

Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when...

In a saloon in a Mexican border town, a group of cowboys, including a Mexican named Pedro, play poker. One man is discovered cheating, and is shot...

Irving Robertson, a successful playwright, has just received a message from out of town to witness the initial performance of one of his plays. As he...

A mother punishes her son for eating a plate of cream puffs, unaware that the daughter really did it. As the daughter watches the punishment, she...

Henry is being blackmailed. When the blackmailer breaks into his house, Henry apprehends him at gunpoint and takes the opportunity to rid himself of...