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Mrs. Sidney Drew

Mrs. Sidney Drew

Acting

Known For

Playing Dead
N/A

in this domestic drama, Jimmie’s wife Jeanne falls for Proctor Maddox, a socialist and male feminist, and wants a divorce from her husband. To avoid the scandal, Jimmie stages a fake suicide.

Playing Dead

1915
A Florida Enchantment
4.4

Lillian Travers, a New York heiress, pops down to Florida to surprise her fiancé, Fred Cassadene, the house doctor at a prominent Saint Augustine hotel. The surprise, however, is Lillian's when she finds Fred in a series of compromising situations with a certain wealthy widow staying there. When she can take no more, Lillian discovers a box forgotten at an old curiosity shop in which lies a hundred-year-old secret: a vial of four rare and exotic African seeds that promises to transform whoever swallows one from a woman to a man or vice versa.

A Florida Enchantment

1914
Pay Day
N/A

The Drews are considering new scripts when they decide to produce Pay-Day, the melodramatic story of the wealthy and sinister Kirke Brentwood and his lower-class wife, Doris Fenton.

Pay Day

1918
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9.0

In spite of all the troubles (and successes) which the "unmarried look" causes Henry, he finally rises to the "very crown" of the hat business.

The Unmarried Look

1917
A Million Bid
N/A

Agnes Belgradin is in love with a young doctor, Loring Brent. When Agnes' father dies, her mother takes her on a trip abroad. She insists that the young couple separate before they set sail, and promises that if they still love each other after a year they can reunite. But Mrs. Belgradin intercepts all the letters Agnes and Brent write one another, and convinces her daughter to marry a wealthy Australian millionaire.

A Million Bid

1914
A Million Bid
7.0

To satisfy her controlling mother and secure both of their futures, a daughter hesitantly enters a loveless marriage to a wealthy businessman. Years later, after she has uncovered and overcome her mother's deceptions and manipulations, her newfound happiness is threatened with the appearance of a mysterious "man from the sea."

A Million Bid

1927
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8.0

The domestic misadventures of a middle-class couple, Henry and Polly Hannibal. While on vacation at their country bungalow, the couple's relaxation is interrupted by a telegram calling Henry back to his office to handle an important business contract. Finding that the business requires him to travel West to meet a man in person, Henry writes a letter to his wife explaining that he will be gone for some time.

The Homecoming of Henry

1915
Boobley's Baby
5.0

A man with a baby gets a scarce seat on the streetcar, leaving Mr. Boobley standing. Boobley gets the bright idea to carry a doll with him to be sure of getting a seat.

Boobley's Baby

1915
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10.0

Sidney Drew hits a long shot, quits his job and goes on a toot. His wife thinks he has drowned. When he runs out of money he returns home to find that her rich uncle has died and left her a fortune and he pretends to have no memory of where he has been.

How John Came Home

1915
His First Tooth
8.0

New parents’ anxiety over their son’s first tooth is worsened by the suggestion that the baby might experience convulsions from teething— in spite of assurance from both the child’s doctor and nurse that all is well.

His First Tooth

1916
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10.0

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A Gay Old Dog

1919
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N/A

Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew short, reported as extant, archived at the George Eastman Museum.

Safety First

1917
A Safe Investment
5.0

A husband scolds his wife for not being able to manage her finances better. Unbeknown to her, he's getting rich from a crooked stock scam he's started, and is making so much money that he brings it home by the basketful. Unbeknown to him, his wife, determined to prove that she's more capable than he thinks she is, takes the money and decides to invest it--in a new stock opportunity she's heard about.

A Safe Investment

1915
His Wife Knew About It
7.0

Mr. and Mrs. Pantomus finally get lucky with a good cook, Tillie. When Tillie wants to go to the city, Mr. Pantomus takes her out, but confusion ensues.

His Wife Knew About It

1916
Wanted, a Nurse
7.0

After witnessing a minor accident, a wealthy man falls in love with the nurse who treats the injured person. He cooks up a scheme in which he pretends to be sick in order to see her again.

Wanted, a Nurse

1915
The Professional Scapegoat
7.0

A man is hired by a department store just so he can be 'fired' every time there's a customer complaint.

The Professional Scapegoat

1914
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7.0

Henry and Anne are newlyweds. In a letter to his dear aunt Becky, he complains about Anne not being as gifted to take care of him as the aunt was. So Aunt Becky and Anne decide to teach Henry a lesson.

Diplomatic Henry

1915
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N/A

Mom and dad proudly exhibit a beautiful child which daddy persists in believing bears an uncanny resemblance to himself.

A Close Resemblance

1917
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7.0

Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew starred in a series of polite situational comedies, first for Vitagraph and then for their own company, releasing through Metro. Mr. Drew -- uncle of John, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore -- died after his son was killed in the first world war and his wife -- who wrote and seems to have directed a sizeable number of their comedies, starred. In this one, Mr. Drew has been fired from his regular job and, money growing short, takes up a position as a professional patient of a dentist, to reassure the other patients in the room. There he meets and falls in love with Mrs. Drew.

The Professional Patient

1917
By Might of His Right
6.5

By Might of His Right premiered in December 1915. The comedy shows what happens when a boorish houseguest overstays his welcome. Henry’s brother-in-law takes to stealing his chair and cigarettes but the last straw comes when, in a display of boxing prowess, he knocks his host out cold.

By Might of His Right

1915