Wilbert Melville

Juan and Juanita (1912)

Juan leaves for Rawlins, Arizona, where he wants to find a job so he can marry his fiancee Juanita, because Juanita's mother says a man must have quite substantial savings before he can marry her daughter. Juan takes a job with the railways. When a former employee ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wilbert Melville
CAST:  Edwin Carewe  •  Edna Payne  •  Earl Metcalfe

Juan leaves for Rawlins, Arizona, where he wants to find a job so he can marry his fiancee Juanita, because Juanita's mother says a man must have quite substantial savings before he can marry her daughter. Juan takes a job with the railways. When a former employee ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wilbert Melville
CAST:  Edwin Carewe  •  Edna Payne  •  Earl Metcalfe

A Mexican Courtship (1912)

Within the sunny little Mexican City of Juarez, Alonzo, the famous bull-fighter, is to match his skill against the bull from Chihuahua. Pretty Dolores wanders one day without the Plaza El Torres, hoping to get one peep at the wonderful animals. Juan, a young ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wilbert Melville
CAST:  Romaine Fielding  •  Edna Payne  •  Burton L. King

Within the sunny little Mexican City of Juarez, Alonzo, the famous bull-fighter, is to match his skill against the bull from Chihuahua. Pretty Dolores wanders one day without the Plaza El Torres, hoping to get one peep at the wonderful animals. Juan, a young ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wilbert Melville
CAST:  Romaine Fielding  •  Edna Payne  •  Burton L. King

As the Twig Is Bent (1915)

L.C. Shumway has a dual role in this action-packed three-reeler. When the Booths divorce, their twin children (both played as adults by Shumway) are separated -- George goes with his mother and becomes a fine, upstanding young man, while Herbert takes after his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wilbert Melville
CAST:  Lee Shumway  •  Doris Baker  •  Velma Whitman  •  Helen Jerome Eddy

L.C. Shumway has a dual role in this action-packed three-reeler. When the Booths divorce, their twin children (both played as adults by Shumway) are separated -- George goes with his mother and becomes a fine, upstanding young man, while Herbert takes after his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wilbert Melville
CAST:  Lee Shumway  •  Doris Baker  •  Velma Whitman  •  Helen Jerome Eddy

The Quack (1914)

James MacDonald, familiarly known as "Slim Jim," who prefers to make a livelihood by stealth rather than by honest endeavor, leaves his wife and young son one evening, and with the assistance of a "pal" succeeds in fleecing a stranger at "Three Card Monte" for a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wilbert Melville
CAST:  Lee Shumway  •  Velma Whitman  •  William Dennis  •  George Routh

James MacDonald, familiarly known as "Slim Jim," who prefers to make a livelihood by stealth rather than by honest endeavor, leaves his wife and young son one evening, and with the assistance of a "pal" succeeds in fleecing a stranger at "Three Card Monte" for a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wilbert Melville
CAST:  Lee Shumway  •  Velma Whitman  •  William Dennis  •  George Routh

Saved from the Harem (1915)

Ezra Hickman, of Kankakee, is a political aspirant. At a reception in Washington with his wife and daughter Amy he meets the Ambassador of Selim Bey, the ruler of a small European kingdom, Vergania. The Ambassador, seeking an American girl for his ruler, paints a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wilbert Melville
CAST:  Melvin Mayo  •  Adelaide Bronti  •  Violet MacMillan  •  Lee Shumway

Ezra Hickman, of Kankakee, is a political aspirant. At a reception in Washington with his wife and daughter Amy he meets the Ambassador of Selim Bey, the ruler of a small European kingdom, Vergania. The Ambassador, seeking an American girl for his ruler, paints a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wilbert Melville
CAST:  Melvin Mayo  •  Adelaide Bronti  •  Violet MacMillan  •  Lee Shumway