Bessie Wharton

The Black Stork (1917)

A young man and woman are considering marriage; eugenicist Harry J Haiselden warns that they are ill-matched and will produce defective offspring. He is right; their baby is born defective, dies quickly and floats into heaven.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  Jane Fearnley  •  Allan Murnane  •  Hamilton Revelle  •  Elsie Esmond

A young man and woman are considering marriage; eugenicist Harry J Haiselden warns that they are ill-matched and will produce defective offspring. He is right; their baby is born defective, dies quickly and floats into heaven.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  Jane Fearnley  •  Allan Murnane  •  Hamilton Revelle  •  Elsie Esmond

Beatrice Fairfax (1916)

Beatrice Fairfax, the original advice-to-the-lovelorn reporter and her friend and not-so-secret admirer Jimmy Barton investigate calls for help and escape exotic perils and dangers. Episodes include exciting and fun stories of baby-napping, blackmail, jewel ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  Harry Fox  •  Grace Darling  •  Allan Murnane  •  Nigel Barrie

Beatrice Fairfax, the original advice-to-the-lovelorn reporter and her friend and not-so-secret admirer Jimmy Barton investigate calls for help and escape exotic perils and dangers. Episodes include exciting and fun stories of baby-napping, blackmail, jewel ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  Harry Fox  •  Grace Darling  •  Allan Murnane  •  Nigel Barrie

The Great White Trail (1917)

A husband, mistakenly believing his wife has cheated on him and that he is now the father of their newborn son, throws both her and her child out of the house. Frantic to the point of madness, she abandons her baby, and when she gains her sanity she flees to Alaska ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  Doris Kenyon  •  Paul Gordon  •  Thomas Holding  •  Hans Roberts

A husband, mistakenly believing his wife has cheated on him and that he is now the father of their newborn son, throws both her and her child out of the house. Frantic to the point of madness, she abandons her baby, and when she gains her sanity she flees to Alaska ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  Doris Kenyon  •  Paul Gordon  •  Thomas Holding  •  Hans Roberts

The Mysteries of Myra (1916)

Myra Maynard's family is cursed by the devil-worshipping Black Order and she is marked for death by black magic on the eve of her eighteenth birthday. Dr. Payson Alden, the movies' first psychic detective, uses science to try and defeat the cult's evil spells, and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  Jean Sothern  •  Howard Estabrook  •  Allan Murnane  •  M.W. Rale

Myra Maynard's family is cursed by the devil-worshipping Black Order and she is marked for death by black magic on the eve of her eighteenth birthday. Dr. Payson Alden, the movies' first psychic detective, uses science to try and defeat the cult's evil spells, and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  Jean Sothern  •  Howard Estabrook  •  Allan Murnane  •  M.W. Rale

The New Exploits of Elaine (1915)

A silent action movie serial.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Louis J. Gasnier  •  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  Pearl White  •  Creighton Hale  •  Arnold Daly  •  Edwin Arden

A silent action movie serial.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Louis J. Gasnier  •  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  Pearl White  •  Creighton Hale  •  Arnold Daly  •  Edwin Arden

The Romance of Elaine (1915)

The heroine had little time for romancing newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, what with Doctor X, alias Marcus Del Mar, threatening American democracy in general and master detective Craig Kennedy's designs for a new torpedo in particular. Whenever Doctor X has ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  George B. Seitz  •  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  Pearl White  •  Creighton Hale  •  Lionel Barrymore  •  Arnold Daly

The heroine had little time for romancing newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, what with Doctor X, alias Marcus Del Mar, threatening American democracy in general and master detective Craig Kennedy's designs for a new torpedo in particular. Whenever Doctor X has ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  George B. Seitz  •  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  Pearl White  •  Creighton Hale  •  Lionel Barrymore  •  Arnold Daly

Mission of the War Chest (1918)

Mission of the War Chest is a 1918 silent film.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  King Baggot  •  Marguerite Snow  •  Florence Holbrook  •  Joseph Urband

Mission of the War Chest is a 1918 silent film.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leopold Wharton  •  Theodore Wharton
CAST:  King Baggot  •  Marguerite Snow  •  Florence Holbrook  •  Joseph Urband

Wooing the Cook (1914)

A rural comedy.  (more)

DIRECTION: 
CAST:  Bessie Wharton  •  Sam D. Drane  •  Edward Jobson  •  James Morrison

A rural comedy.  (more)

DIRECTION: 
CAST:  Bessie Wharton  •  Sam D. Drane  •  Edward Jobson  •  James Morrison

Huns Within Our Gates (1918)

During World War I, Arthur Morgan, an inventor from the South who has perfected a revolutionary airplane engine, needs money to complete his work because his family fortune was lost during the Civil War. A German spy offers to buy his invention, but Arthur refuses, ...  (more)

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CAST:  Derwent Hall Caine  •  Valda Valkyrien  •  Harry Robinson  •  Robin H. Townley

During World War I, Arthur Morgan, an inventor from the South who has perfected a revolutionary airplane engine, needs money to complete his work because his family fortune was lost during the Civil War. A German spy offers to buy his invention, but Arthur refuses, ...  (more)

DIRECTION: 
CAST:  Derwent Hall Caine  •  Valda Valkyrien  •  Harry Robinson  •  Robin H. Townley