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Chrissie White

Chrissie White

Acting

Biography

From Wikipedia Chrissie White (23 May 1895 – 18 August 1989) was a British film actress of the silent era. She appeared in over 180 films between 1908 and 1933. White was married to actor and film director Henry Edwards, and in the 1920s the two were regarded as one of Britain's most famous and newsworthy celebrity couples. She starred in the 1920 film The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss, which as of August 2010 is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films.

Known For

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A schoolgirl annoys the new teacher by getting her friends to answer an inspector incorrectly.

Schoolgirl Rebels

1915
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A millionaire bets £25,000 that he can earn his own living for six months.

The Amazing Quest of Mr Ernest Bliss

1920
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Molly Bawn. British silent drama movie. Directed by Cecil M Hepworth. Starring Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome an Violet Hopson. adaptation of the1878 Irish novel of the same name by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. Molly Bawn the novel by M. W. Hungerford contains her most famous idiom: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." It is also referenced in chapter 8 of James Joyce's Ulysses.

Molly Bawn

1916
The Call of the Sea
7.0

Lt. Cmdr. Good is a naval officer who goes on an extensive search for his long-lost friend who mysteriously disappeared on a tropical island.

The Call of the Sea

1930
How Things Do Develop
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A professor takes daughter's suitor's camera by mistake.

How Things Do Develop

1914
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A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are altered with the appearance of a deadly serpent.

The Basilisk

1914
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A poet struggles to get her work accepted.

The Poet's Windfall

1918
Tilly in a Boarding House
7.0

Girls dress in boys' clothes and trick boarders.

Tilly in a Boarding House

1912
Lily of the Alley
7.0

Bill and Lily are newly married. Bert works as a tea salesman and is of a naturally cheery disposition. Over time however, worries about the security of his job and income prey on his mind and he frets over not being able to provide for Lily. With his worries heightened by the fear that he is about to go blind, he falls into a deep depression .....

Lily of the Alley

1924
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A woman disapproves of her stepson's love for a girl who goes mad when her drunken father dies in a landslide.

Aylwin

1920
Tilly and the Fire Engines
4.7

Tomboys drive a fire engine through a fairground and hose the firemen.

Tilly and the Fire Engines

1911
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A girl's beau poses as a burglar to fool her boastful father.

The Joke That Failed

1917
Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor
5.3

Funny how we think of the loutish behaviour of some of today's teens as a modern-day phenomenon. Here, in a short film more than one hundred years old, we see two tearaways terrorising a bed-ridden old lady, sabotaging a number of honest workmen as they go about their daily work, vandalising a bakery and taking a vehicle without consent - all in the space of six frenetic minutes.

Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor

1910
When Tilly's Uncle Flirted
7.0

Tomboys play tricks on their uncle when he flirts with a maid.

When Tilly's Uncle Flirted

1911
The City of Beautiful Nonsense
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A poor author feigns marriage to please his dying father.

The City of Beautiful Nonsense

1919
The Second String
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After his brother's suicide, Alec Dale is determined to get revenge on the woman that he believes drove him to his death.

The Second String

1915
The Kinsman
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A Cockney poses as his drowned double, who is saved and poses as a chauffeur.

The Kinsman

1919
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9.0

A poor author has an engaged girl pose as his wife to please his dying father.

The World of Wonderful Reality

1924
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Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the mischievous responses of a poor family to regular visits from the bailiffs.

Are We Down-Hearted?

1911
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Chrissie White, one of Hepworth Studios' biggest stars, heads up this feisty battle-of-the-sexes comedy about an independent young lady who, for the sake of a rich husband, poses as the epitome of Victorian femininity - weak, docile and submissive. But when he steps out of line the gloves come off to reveal 'Physical Culture Phyllis', who punches well above her weight!

Wife the Weaker Vessel

1915