Bessie Learn

Bread on the Waters

George Lessey

Richard Tucker, Harry Beaumont

A son, down and out on liquor, finds redemption.

Across the Great Divide

Edward C. Taylor

George A. Wright, Bessie Learn

Short western melodrama. A cash-strapped operator is working far from his beloved. A criminal and his accomplice trying to force him to cooperate with the cause of a train crash.

The Lost Battalion

Burton L. King

Robert Alexander, George McMurtry

World War I, October 1918. The more than 500 men of the 77th Infantry Division of the United States Army, who have been recruited in New York City and trained in Yaphank, are sent to France, to help break down the German defenses located in the Argonne forest…

The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan

Walter Edwin

Yale Boss, Edward Boulden

An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman.

The Totville Eye

C. Jay Williams

Walter Edwin, Yale Boss

A printer and his young assistant take over a local newspaper while the editor is away.

Over the Back Fence

C.J. Williams

William Wadsworth, Alice Washburn

Harry Beaumont and Bessie Learn are in love, but their respective uncle and aunt, back fence neighbors, feud bitterly with each other and insist the youngsters have nothing to do with each other. The young leads come up with a plan in this pleasant Edison comedy. (IMDb)

The Doctor's Duty

George Lessey

Charles Ogle, Miriam Nesbitt

A socially-minded drama about a doctor who keeps his fiancée waiting at their engagement party, because a sick child needs help.

The Call of the City

Harry Beaumont

Bessie Learn, Margery Bonney Erskine

A naive young lady comes to the big city but is unfortunately befriended by a couple who probably are up to no good. However, she is unaware of this and accepts their offer to help. Soon, and completely out of the blue, another crook accosts them--and the two men struggle until one of them is killed.

When She Was About Sixteen

Barry O'Moore, Bessie Learn

A romantic comedy about two lovers; the parents of the girl forbid them from being together.

The Lone Game

Edward C. Taylor

Bessie Learn, Robert Walker

A brother, a sister, and a friend all battle against the deadly disease of tuberculosis.

Revenge Is Sweet

Yale Boss, Richard Ridgely

A short comedy in which the newest employee is teased by the office girls, but he retaliates by putting black polish in a powder-box. Ultimately the girls use the resulting black powder on the young employee himself.