1896-06-16 ( 128 years old ) in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Sarah Blanche Sweet (June 18, 1896 – September 6, 1986) was an American silent film actress who began her career in the earliest days of the Hollywood motion picture film industry.
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. In 1913 she starred in Griffith's first feature-length movie, Judith of Bethulia. 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. That same year Sweet parted ways with Griffith and joined Paramount (then Famous Players-Lasky) for the much higher pay that studio was able to afford.
Throughout the 1910s, Sweet continued her career appearing in a number of highly prominent roles in films and remained a publicly popular leading lady. She often starred in vehicles by Cecil B. DeMille and Marshall Neilan, and she was recognised by leading film critics of the time to be one of the foremost actresses of the entire silent era. It was during her time working with Neilan that the two began a publicized affair, which brought on his divorce from former actress Gertrude Bambrick. Sweet and Neilan married in 1922. The union ended in 1929 with Sweet charging that Neilan was a persistent adulterer.
During the early 1920s Sweet's career continued to prosper, and she starred in the first film version of Anna Christie in 1923. The film is also notable as being the first Eugene O'Neill play to be made into a motion picture. In successive years, she starred in Tess of the D'Urbervilles and The Sporting Venus, both directed by Neilan. Sweet soon began a new career phase as one of the newly formed MGM studio's biggest stars.
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.
Sweet spent the remainder of her performing career in radio and in secondary Broadway stage roles. Eventually, her career in both of these fields petered out, and she began working in a Los Angeles department store. In the late 1960s, her acting legacy was resurrected when film scholars invited her to Europe to receive recognition for her work.
On September 24, 1984, a tribute to Blanche Sweet was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Miss Sweet introduced her 1925 film, The Sporting Venus.
Sweet died in New York City of a stroke, on September 6, 1986, just weeks after her 90th birthday.
Movies
Make Mine Memories
1945-10-19
Twenty Years After
1944-01-01
The Silver Horde
1930-10-24
Show Girl in Hollywood
1930-04-20
The Woman Racket
1930-01-24
Always Faithful
1929-12-29
The Woman in White
1929-05-24
Singed
1927-08-23
Diplomacy
1926-09-20
The Far Cry
1926-02-14
Bluebeard's Seven Wives
1926-01-13
The New Commandment
1925-11-01
Why Women Love
1925-10-18
The Sporting Venus
1925-04-12
His Supreme Moment
1925-04-12
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
1924-08-11
Those Who Dance
1924-04-27
Anna Christie
1923-11-24
Souls for Sale
1923-04-22
Quincy Adams Sawyer
1922-12-04
That Girl Montana
1921-01-31
Her Unwilling Husband
1920-11-21
Girl in the Web
1920-08-05
The Deadlier Sex
1920-03-28
A Woman of Pleasure
1919-11-09
The Hushed Hour
1919-05-18
The Unpardonable Sin
1919-04-01
Those Without Sin
1917-03-01
The Evil Eye
1917-01-04
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
1916-05-29
The Ragamuffin
1916-01-23
The Secret Sin
1915-10-21
The Case of Becky
1915-09-13
The Clue
1915-07-08
Stolen Goods
1915-05-14
The Captive
1915-04-22
The Warrens of Virginia
1915-02-14
The Little Country Mouse
1914-11-16
The Odalisque
1914-11-15
The Tear That Burned
1914-11-08
For Her Father's Sins
1914-10-18
Her Awakening
1914-09-20
The Second Mrs. Roebuck
1914-08-23
The Avenging Conscience
1914-08-02
Men and Women
1914-08-01
The Painted Lady
1914-07-19
Home, Sweet Home
1914-05-16
Judith of Bethulia
1914-03-08
Strongheart
1914-03-08
Classmates
1914-02-14
The House of Discord
1913-12-13
A Cure for Suffragettes
1913-11-17
Two Men of the Desert
1913-08-23
Death's Marathon
1913-06-14
If We Only Knew
1913-05-01
The Stolen Bride
1913-04-07
The Hero of Little Italy
1913-04-03
Near To Earth
1913-03-20
Broken Ways
1913-03-08
Love in an Apartment Hotel
1913-02-27
A Chance Deception
1913-02-24
Oil and Water
1913-02-10
Pirate Gold
1913-01-13
Three Friends
1913-01-02
The Coming of Angelo
1913-01-01
The God Within
1912-12-26
The Massacre
1912-12-19
A Sailor’s Heart
1912-11-25
The Painted Lady
1912-10-24
The Chief's Blanket
1912-10-10
Blind Love
1912-09-11
With the Enemy's Help
1912-08-19
A Temporary Truce
1912-06-10
The Lesser Evil
1912-04-29
One Is Business, the Other Crime
1912-04-24
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
1912-03-25
Under Burning Skies
1912-02-21
The Transformation of Mike
1912-02-01
For His Son
1912-01-21
The Eternal Mother
1912-01-10
A Woman Scorned
1911-11-30
The Miser's Heart
1911-11-20
Through Darkening Vales
1911-11-16
The Battle
1911-11-06
Love in the Hills
1911-10-30
The Long Road
1911-10-26
The Making of a Man
1911-10-04
The Villain Foiled
1911-08-30
The Last Drop of Water
1911-07-26
A Country Cupid
1911-07-23
Fighting Blood
1911-06-28
The Primal Call
1911-06-21
Enoch Arden
1911-06-15
Enoch Arden: Part I
1911-06-12
The Lonedale Operator
1911-03-23
His Daughter
1911-02-23
A Flash of Light
1910-07-17
All on Account of the Milk
1910-01-13
The Rocky Road
1910-01-03
The Day After
1909-12-30
To Save Her Soul
1909-12-27
A Corner in Wheat
1909-12-13
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