Bobby Connelly

A Child for Sale

Ivan Abramson

Creighton Hale, Gladys Leslie

Charles Stoddard is a poor artist living with his wife and two children in Greenwich Village. Destitute after his wife dies, he is forced to sell one of his children to a childless rich woman. He soon comes his senses however, and tries to back out of the deal.

The Law Decides

William P.S. Earle, Marguerite Bertsch

Dorothy Kelly, Harry T. Morey

Mere years could not kill the overwhelming love which lay dormant in Lorenz's heart, though Florence was now the wife of another.

The Unpardonable Sin

Marshall Neilan

Blanche Sweet, Edwin Stevens

Based on the Rupert Hughes novel, this film concerns the German atrocities committed in Belgium at the beginning of the Great War.

The Greatest Love

Henry Kolker

Vera Gordon, Bertram Marburgh

Director Henry Kolker's silent romantic melodrama starred Vera Gordon, who was billed as "The 'Mother' of 'Humoresque'", Bertram Marburgh, Yvonne Shelton, Hugh Huntley, and William H. Tooker

The Flapper

Alan Crosland

Olive Thomas, William P. Carleton

A Southern teen at a ritzy boarding school gets into mischief while acting the sophisticated grownup to impress a suave gentleman and match wits with a pair of jewel thieves.

An Officer and a Gentleman

Harry Lambart

Arthur Ashley, Charles Wellesley

Humoresque

Frank Borzage

Gaston Glass, Vera Gordon

Young Leon Kanter dreams of being a great violinist. His parents scrape up the money for a violin and for lessons, and Leon rewards them by becoming a great player. But as an adult, Leon finds that people want more from him than just music.

Sonny Jim and the Amusement Company, Ltd.

Tefft Johnson

Bobby Connelly, Tefft Johnson

A short comedy in which Jimmy organizes a show with cowboys and Indians. The highlight is the arrival of Buffalo Bill on a donkey. Jimmy goes to Sunday school, where he scares the teacher with a frog. As a punishment, he is not allowed to go to the picnic.

An Easter Lily

Tefft Johnson

Bobby Connelly, Mabel Kelly

The third in the series, An Easter "Lily" takes on upstairs/downstairs race relations with childhood candor. Following his family’s African American maid to the laundry, Sonny Jim befriends her daughter Lily and shares his teddy bear. With Easter approaching, Mother Dear buys her boy a new outfit and readies her home for relatives. Sonny Jim talks about the coming festivities with his playmate. When he learns that she does not have holiday clothes, he appropriates the white frock of his visiting cousin and invites Lily to join his family for Sunday worship.

The Meeting

John S. Robertson

Jimmy Aubrey, Bobby Connelly

Charming melodrama by the Vitagraph Company about the friendship between a boy (Bobby Connelly) and the grumpy Captain Barnacle(William Shea). This seems to be the first film in a short-lived Captain Barnacle series that Vitagraph started at the beginning of 1917. Young Bobby Connelly was one of the first star child actors and his character Sonny Boy links the two series he did for Vitagraph, the "Sonny Jim" series from 1914 to 1915 and the "Bobby" series in 1917.

Salvation Joan

Wilfrid North

Edna May, Harry T. Morey

Joan, a refined young Salvation Army volunteer, fall in love with a gangster.

The Writing on the Wall

Tefft Johnson

Joseph Kilgour, Virginia Pearson

Irving Lawrence owns some of the most decrepit tenements in town and is an all-around bad guy. He won't cooperate with the efforts of his wife, Barbara, to help the poor and sees other women behind her back. Muriel, one of his cast-offs, meets and marries Barbara's brother, Payne. Lawrence makes trouble for Muriel and fabricates a scandal involving his kindly brother Schuyler and Barbara.