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After extracting the best that was in him in the course of twenty years' service, with them, the Peoples' Insurance Company discharges Joe Jackson, a...
Back to Nature
Based on the play by Henrik Ibsen.
A Doll's House
When the two little daughters of a young widower are told that he is preparing to bring up to the house to see them, a young lady who is to be their...
The Stepmother
A young missionary, filled with religious fervor, joyfully accepts the post to carry the gospel to a section of Japan, where white men are not known....
The Buddhist Priestess
Grease paint, the spotlight and applause lose their fascination for the Five Rose Sisters, a dancing team full of vivacity, ability and pluck.
The Five Rose Sisters
A wealthy miner, having no near relatives, leaves his two little daughters to the guardianship of a former chum of his, who had left the west with a...
The Tomboy
The myth, which is beautifully told on the screen, shows the stages of the struggle between the little love God and his inveterate enemy, Satan.
The Tempter and Dan Cupid
A lawyer is given the execution of a will, which bequeaths to the child of a disinherited son a large fortune. The disinherited son is now dead. The...
The Missing Heir
She was the first attempt in film to depict the story of H. Rider Haggard's 1886 novel She: A History of Adventure.
She
His home was a dreary room in a basement; he was hopelessly crippled; his widowed mother was just able to keep their home together by steady work as...
The Little Shut-in
Dottie was very proud of her great big beautiful doll but sometimes they are in danger of getting broke. And that was what happened to "Beautiful...
Dottie's New Doll
The story concerns the love of Henry Little for Grace Carden and its reciprocal sentiment, with the time-honored interference of those who attempt to...
Put Yourself in His Place
A little boy, inmate of an orphan asylum, ran away. He fell in with an itinerant knife grinder. The boy had had no home life and when his companion...
Cross Your Heart
The banker's motto was "Everyone for himself, and me first." The girl believed in aiding the poor, and that wealth carried with it an obligation to...
But the Greatest of These Is Charity
Happy in the love of his devoted wife and their child, a young businessman found life's pathway pleasant. Then the greatest of sorrows came; his wife...
The Warning
Forester and Maywood, two wealthy neighbor planters, volunteered their services to defend their country when the war of the Revolution broke out....
The Forest Rose
The rich little boy was seven years old and his kind Mama gave him a birthday party. A number of children were invited to wish him happy returns of...
The Russian Mute
: Count Eberhard von Alderstein was one of the robber barons who flourished in Europe during the Middle Ages. He was cruel and lawless, plundered the...
The Dove in the Eagle's Nest
A kind hearted actress who befriended a poor little waif of the street, soon grew to love the child. When she went on the road she found him a home...
Her Fireman
An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working...
The Cry of the Children
A messenger boy is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000. Luckily, a film crew is shooting a moving picture on the same street. The...
The Evidence of the Film
Released on June 7, 1910, THE TWO ROSES was Thanhouser's 16th release and was advertised as "A powerful, pathetic, pretty story of life in Little...
The Two Roses
Directed by Theodore Marston.
Jane Eyre
The husband was stern, solemn and never could understand why anyone should laugh. The wife didn't have much sense, perhaps, but she was full of life...
Her Secret
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay...
The Old Curiosity Shop
Lorna Dugal, the little daughter of an English nobleman, is carried off by her father's enemies, the Doones, when she is five years old. Sire Ensor...
Lorna Doone
According to the tale found in the ancient annals, the little town of Hamelin, in Hanover, found itself, five hundred years ago overrun with rats....
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Ten Nights in a Bar Room
Her parents said she was a darling. The long-suffering servants thought otherwise. From the time that she could first crawl and talk she had had her...
The Spoiled Darling's Doll
Her parents were humble peasants, and were fond of her when she was a baby, for they believed she would grow up to be a beautiful woman and make a...
The Star of the Side Show
With The Old Curiosity Shop and David Copperfield, both released in 1911, and Nicholas Nickleby in 1912, Thanhouser established itself as producer of...
Nicholas Nickleby
Family drama of a a brother and sister who take to the stage.
The Tiniest of Stars
A romantic story utilizing flashback sequences, featuring Harry Benham, Mignon Anderson and Helen Badgley (http://thanhouser.org/).
Just a Shabby Doll
Edwin Thanhouser re-made The Vicar of Wakefield in 1917 as a eight-reel feature film providing us with a frame of reference for the maturation of...
The Vicar of Wakefield
A crippled little girl lives at home with her parents and her grandmother. She loves her grandmother deeply, but her parents can't get along with the...
Only in the Way
A recreation of the Thanhouser Studio fire of 13 January 1913, it includes the rescue of a small child from the flaming building.
When the Studio Burned
An investment plan that tells potential investors they can "get rich quickly" turns out to be a swindle, and investors are in danger of losing all...
Get Rich Quick
Over the years, an old gardener observes a romance develop between a young boy and girl. 20 years after they break up over a misunderstanding, the...
In a Garden
Based on the novel of the same name by Mrs. Henry Wood (Ellen Wood).
East Lynne
A young widow is compelled because of her poverty to leave her only child, a little daughter, at a charitable institution, while she hunts for work.
In The Chorus
Thanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's tribulation-filled journey to adulthood,...
David Copperfield
A young artist, in love with a society girl, finally induces her to consent to pose for him. In a picture which he believes will be his masterpiece,...
Cupid the Conqueror
The first screen adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel to star a black man in the title role.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A Circumstantial Nurse
The Law of Humanity
Not Guilty
The Mermaid