Blanche Sweet
Blanche Sweet ( born June 18, 1896 in Chicago, Illinois, † September 6, 1986 in New York City ) was an American film actress whose career in the early days of silent films had already peaked.
Career
She was born into a family of vaudeville actors and appeared as a child on stage regularly. 1909 began her film career at the Biograph and quickly became one of the leading actresses in the films of DW Griffith. In 1911 she had the leading role as a young mother in The Last Drop of Water. She played opposite Robert Harron and Charles West, with whom she was particularly busy often.
Blanche Sweets roles were most energetic, independent woman types in their appearance but also the " Griffith ideal of" vulnerable and fragile woman, as it was preferably represented by Mae Marsh and Lillian Gish, corresponded. Your most important main role was as Judith Griffiths in the first feature-length film by Judith Bethulien of 1914.
In 1915 she left Biograph and went to Famous Players - Lasky, where she appeared in films by Cecil B. DeMille and Marshall Neilan. The contemporary film critics held because of their versatility for one of the most outstanding actresses of the entire silent era. With Neilan developed an acclaimed by the public liaison and they married in 1922. The following year, 1923 Sweet was in the lead role of Anna Christie in the first film adaptation of the play by Eugene O'Neill. From 1924 she worked for the newly formed Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer and was the star in films Neilans Tess of the D' Urbervilles and The Sporting Venus, in which Ronald Colman was her partner.
Towards the end of the silent era waned their popularity and they only occurred in three sound films. In 1930 she retired from the film business altogether back.
The marriage ended in 1929 with Neilan; Sweet Neilan accused of adultery resistant. In 1936 she married the stage actor Raymond Hackett, with whom they remained together until his death in 1958. Professionally, she worked in radio and in supporting roles on Broadway. When she got no more appointments, she worked at all times in a department store in Los Angeles. In the late 1960s, she was, in particular by European film students, recognition as a pioneer of the American film received. She died the age of 90 after a stroke.