Movies: Lila Chester

A foundling is raised in a convent and becomes a nun there, until she falls in love with a wounded soldier under her care. When she leaves the convent, a statue of the Virgin Mary comes to life and assumes the girl's appearance to carry on her work....

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 mill....

David Spencer (Holbrook Blinn) is a basically good man, but like all men he has a few character flaws. Alas, these flaws deepen into weaknesses, leading to disaster for Spencer and his lady love....

On the promise of marriage, Sylvia Smith, a simple girl from Lone Meadows, follows her lover to the city only to discover that he already has a wife....

During a raid on a gambling establishment run by her father, Cosmo Lester, Diana Lester rescues Hugh Carton, a member of the English Parliament and a candidate for the Cabinet. Hugh gratefully offers Diana a position as his sister's companion, and so...

This twenty-three episode serial told the story of a secret society called The Black Hundred and its attempts to gain control of a lost million dollars....

An American family in need of some money decides to pull a little innocent scam on a wealthy English relative....

A French woman has to marry a Russian to preserve the reputation of her society mother. However she is in love with someone else....

Miss Petticoats stops a runaway horse, saves a wealthy woman from death, is rewarded with position as a private secretary. Society shuns her. She goes abroad; then see how she becomes the acknowledged daughter of a French Count and falls heir to a ti...

A society woman who lives in the suburbs near the sea had laid her plans to insure the marriage of her daughter to a wealthy young banker....

A romantic story utilizing flashback sequences, featuring Harry Benham, Mignon Anderson and Helen Badgley (http://thanhouser.org/)....

One little girl lived in the country. She was a model child, everybody admitted it, but it cannot be denied that she was more or less of a cry-baby and a coward....

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