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Famous Players Film Company

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Creator Adolph Zukor

The Famous Players Film Company or Celebrated Players was film company.
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Filmography of Famous Players Film Company (40 films)

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Production

The Traveling Salesman
The Traveling Salesman (1916)
, 50minutes
Directed by Joseph Kaufman
Origin USA
Actors Doris Kenyon, Harry Northrup, Russell Bassett

A man traveling home for Christmas gets stuck in a small town and finds romance with a woman operating the telegraph.
A Coney Island Princess
A Coney Island Princess (1916)
, 50minutes
Directed by Dell Henderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Irene Fenwick, Owen Moore, William Bailey, Kate Lester, Russell Bassett

The story evolves from a spat which Milholland has with his fiancée, Alice Gardner. While imbibing too freely in a foolish effort to assuage the pangs besetting him, he decides to sail for Europe, but he lands at Coney Island via the sight-seeing-car route, and in the course of zig-zag events he meets the Princess, an Oriental dancer, in a music hall. He becomes infatuated with her, and for the first time in his young pampered life he earns ten dollars playing a piano while she does her act on the stage. Eventually he takes the Princess to the home of his wealthy aunt, Mrs. King. Their betrothal is announced at a dinner on which occasion the Princess worries Pete and the many guests by her frequent breaches of etiquette. The next day Pete meets his former fiancée and quickly tells her that his love for the Princess is only a passing fancy. When the latter learns of this she returns to her father's Coney Island resort. There she realizes the folly of essaying to hold the fealty of a man abover her caste, and she cheerfully sets about to be happy with her lot. In the meantime a reconciliation reinstates Pete in the realm of bliss with his first love.
The Incorrigible Dukane
The Incorrigible Dukane (1915)
, 40minutes
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors John Barrymore

Through mistaken identity, a rich contractor's son is impressed into the labor force building his own father's dam at Silver Peak. When construction of a dam in Silver Peak, Colorado threatens their land, rancher Crofton (William MacDonald) and his daughter Enid (Helen Weir) confront New York contractor James Dukane, Sr. (William T. Carleton). Dukane sends his son James "Jimmy" Dukane, Jr. (John Barrymore) to manage construction and to deal with the dam's impact on the locals, hoping that the task will help his son mature. However, en route to the construction site, Jimmy is waylaid by a vagabond, and his clothing and identification are stolen. Dressed in the tramp's clothes, Jimmy finally meets with the construction foreman Corbetson (Stewart Baird), who skoffs at his claimed identity and instead puts him to work with a pick and shovel. During his labors, Jimmy learns that Corbetson has been using sub-par materials and embezzling monies from Dukane Sr, and that to hide his crime, Corbetson is planning to blow up the dam.
Her Triumph
Her Triumph (1915)

Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Gaby Deslys, Harry Pilcer

Her Triumph was Deslys' only American feature film, and was a dramatic retelling of her career. Her dancing partner Harry Pilcer costars. Daniel Frohman produced and was Gaby Deslys' American stage manager.
The Heart of Jennifer
The Heart of Jennifer (1915)

Directed by James Kirkwood Sr.
Origin USA
Actors Hazel Dawn, Russell Bassett

A man gives aid to another man on the condition that he can marry the man's daughter. The daughter refuses and goes to a lumber camp with her father. At the lumber camp she marries a man named James Murry. The first man finds her and convinces her husband that she only married him for the money. This causes problems in their relationship. The man ends up getting her sister pregnant too and when he refuses to marry her, the sister kills him. To protect her sister the woman claims to have done it. The lumber camp man realizes his wife was only sacrificing herself for her sister, and that effort helps to reunite the couple.
The Masqueraders
The Masqueraders (1915)
, 1h
Directed by James Kirkwood Sr.
Origin USA
Actors Hazel Dawn, Elliott Dexter, Frank Losee, Ida Darling

High-born but poor Dulcie Larondie is working as a bar maid in the Skagg Inn when she accepts a marriage proposal from the wealthy Sir Brice Skene, rejecting in the process the love of David Remon, an impoverished astronomer. Sir Brice turns out to be a drunk, a gambler and a wife-beater, who loses his fortune four years into the marriage. Remon wins her back in a game of cards with Skene, who is shortly afterwards murdered by a blackmailing acquaintance. This leaves Dulcie free to marry David.
The Crucible
The Crucible (1914)
, 50minutes
Directed by Edwin S. Porter, Hugh Ford
Origin USA
Genres Romance
Actors Marguerite Clark, Harold Lockwood, Justine Johnstone

As described in a film magazine, Jean (Clark) is brought up as a boy by her father, and when Mr. Fenshaw dies her boyish manner offends her mother and sisters. Jean is nagged and punished until one day she picks up a sickle and, without really intending to, cuts her sister's hand. She is sent to a reformatory. She later meets Craig Atwood (Lockwood), an artist in the woods, and goes through a series of trials to prove she is worthy of the love of her friend, the painter.