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Blanche Sweet
Actress
Female
Born
Jun 18, 1896
Hometown
Chicago, Illinois
Died
Sep 6, 1986
Death Place
New York, New York
Other Names
Sweet, Sarah Blanche
Sarah Blanche Sweet was an American silent film actress who began her career in the earliest days of the Hollywood motion picture film industry.
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Museum Of The Moving Image Hosts Making Movies In New York: 1911 Broadway WorldGoogle News - May 26, 2011
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Critic's Choice; New Dvd'sNYTimes - Nov 18, 2008
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Movie GuideNYTimes - Feb 11, 2000
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Holiday Films: Stagecraft; Theater Steps In As An Antidote To The Jar JarsNYTimes - Nov 14, 1999
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CHILDHOOD
1896
Birth
Born on June 18, 1896.
TEENAGE
1909
13 Years Old
In 1909, she started work at Biograph Studios under contract to director D. W. Griffith.
1910
14 Years Old
By 1910 she had become a rival to Mary Pickford, who had also started for Griffith the year before.
1911
15 Years Old
Sweet is renowned for her energetic, independent roles, at variance with the 'ideal' Griffith type of vulnerable, often fragile, femininity. After many starring roles, her first real landmark film was the 1911 Griffith thriller The Lonedale Operator.
1913
17 Years Old
In 1913 she starred in Griffith's first feature-length movie, Judith of Bethulia.
1914
18 Years Old
In 1914 Sweet was initially cast by Griffith in the part of Elsie Stoneman in his epic The Birth of a Nation but the role was eventually given to rival actress Lillian Gish, who was Sweet's senior by three years.
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TWENTIES
1923
27 Years Old
During the early 1920s Sweet's career continued to prosper, and she starred in the first film version of Anna Christie in 1923.
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THIRTIES
1930
34 Years Old
As the Roaring Twenties wound down, Sweet's career faltered with the advent of talkies. Sweet made just three talking pictures, including her critically lauded performance in 1930's Show Girl in Hollywood, before retiring from the screen that same year and marrying stage actor Raymond Hackett in 1935. The marriage lasted until Hackett's death in 1958.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1984
88 Years Old
On September 24, 1984, a tribute to Blanche Sweet was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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1986
90 Years Old
Died on September 6, 1986.
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