Oil and Water is a 1913 film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet. The supporting cast includes Henry B. Walthall, Lionel Barrymore, and Harry Carey. A stage dancer (Sweet) and a serious-type homebody (Walthall) discover, after marriage, that their individual styles don't mesh. The movie includes elaborate dance sequences.
The film was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in July 2007 as part of a Biograph studio retrospective.
, 17minutes Directed byD. W. Griffith OriginUSA GenresRomance, Western ActorsMary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall, Lionel Barrymore, Harry Carey, Charles Hill Mailes, Robert Harron Rating55% L'histoire débute dans un saloon fréquenté par des chercheurs d'or et où réside Dora, une jeune fille orpheline. Dora et Dandy Jack s'aiment mais il doit lui annoncer son départ pour le nord, les mines s'épuisant. Arrive alors Grizzley Fallon, ami de Dandy Jack, qui prend sa place dans le cœur de Dora [..]
Directed byD. W. Griffith OriginUSA GenresDrama ActorsHenry B. Walthall, Blanche Sweet, Harry Carey, William Courtright, Mae Marsh Rating51% A wealthy couple leave their young child with a nanny while they attend a social event. While under the care of the nanny, the child wanders off into the yard and strolls down to the beach with her doll and gets into a boat. The boat drifts away out to sea and the girl is rescued by nearby fishermen who take her to their humble shack. Meanwhile, the nanny who was reading a book realizes the child’s disappearance and alerts the parents. When the parents arrive they find only the child’s bonnet and the doll’s stroller near the beach and assume the child had drowned.