Phillips Smalley Movies

A montage of 13 remarkable short films recently digitized by the Library of Congress, whose themes echo the program of the Domitor 2022 conference,...

Famed actor Lloyd Phillips blames his infant daughter Dixie for her mother’s death in childbirth, leaving her in the care of his housekeeper,...

Charlie advertises for a wife. Madeline Blue, widow, writes Charlie to the effect that she will meet him at the park gate and that he is to wear a...

Pearl White as a sleepwalking jewel thief.

Chorus girl Jerry Lyon, is persuaded to pose as her look-alike, Jeanette Durant, a Broadway star whose husband, LeRoy Phillips, is a diamond thief....

After the death of her brother, "Tommy" Carlton makes the acquaintance of a neighbor, Harold Graypon, who invites her to a party. Tommy, who is a bit...

Pearl's father disapproves of her sweetheart, Chester, and tries to use a mind-over-matter technique to keep him away. However, Pearl discovers the...

Haunting and hypnotic, this artistic gem recounts the lyrics from a popular 1898 song of the same name. Weber’s stylistics, including circular...

A 1911 silent drama film written and directed by Edwin S. Porter and Lois Weber. Starring Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, and Charles De Forrest.

Although he has been appointed to guard the fortune of young Thomas Creighton, the unscrupulous Lord John Needham decides to spend all of it after...

Lydia Jansen is happily married to a young customs inspector, but she harbors a dark secret. She is addicted to smoking opium or in slang parlance...

Released as a split reel along with the comedy Almost a Winner (1913)

Early Lois Weber film. Isaac and his faithful wife, Rachel, deplore that in America their children are forced to work on the Jewish Sabbath. Leah...

Early Lois Weber film.

A chemist named Aratus invents a concoction that will turn creatures to stone, but only realizes the dangers of his creation when his wife falls...