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- Jo March and her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy live in a happy family in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo yearns to be a writer, and through the course of the years, finds much within her own family to write about.
- The story of the life of Christ.
- Daughter of impoverished vaudeville actor Lew Moore, Sheila ( Dorothy Gish ) works as a waitress in a chocolate manufacturer's candy shop, where she delights the customers with her tomboyish antics. Tom Ballantyne ( Richard Barthelmess ), the proprietor's son realizes that Sheila is excessively fond of dancing, asks her out without the benefit of a proper introduction, and she indignantly refuses. Soon afterwards, however, the two fall in love and secretly marry. Sheila's father insists that Tom's parents be informed, but when the young groom breaks the news, they react with such anger that Tom leaves home. Meanwhile, Sheila remains with the Ballantynes as their ward on the condition that she keep her marriage and her lineage a secret. One evening, Sheila decides to visit her father's theater but is discovered there by the Ballantynes. Infuriated, she vents her anger at the snobbish family and returns home with her father, but Tom follows her, and in the end, all of the parties are reconciled.
- A pawnbroker, widely despised, called Mästerman is the subject of tales of terror and cruelty. In his profession, he is merciless.
- After the death of her tyrannical millionaire father, rebellious Irene Simpson-Bates decides to have a fling with her relatively meager inheritance of $15,000. Leaving her straitlaced sweetheart John Norton behind, Irene goes to New York, where she falls under the spell of unscrupulous Courtenay Urquhart. Although he has no intention of actually marrying Irene, Urquhart persuades her to elope with him and signs them into a hotel as husband and wife. Determined to save the woman he loves, John tricks Urquhart into believing that his British uncle has just left him a large inheritance. The loafer immediately sails for England, and Irene returns to John, her eyes opened and her reputation as yet untainted.
- Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
- The Hopkinses are a family of squatters struggling against the wealthy landowners or "hilltoppers." When Jerry Hopkins is unjustly imprisoned, his young wife and baby die as a result of the shock, but his sister Polly maintains the faith that has been instilled in her by her grandmother. Later, Polly meets hilltopper Robert Robertson and the two fall in love. Their courtship is disrupted when Robert's sister Evelyn is blackmailed by Oscar Bennett, the man to whom she is secretly wed. In her efforts to help Evelyn, Polly falls under unjust suspicion. Meanwhile, MacKenzie, one of the vindictive landowners, arrests Polly's father and sends her brother to an orphanage. Devastated by these events, Polly's grandmother dies of grief and Polly swears revenge. She has Evelyn kidnapped and brought to her cabin, but the memory of her grandmother prevents Polly from harming her tormentor. Polly's nobility inspires Evelyn, who exonerates Polly, thus clearing the path for her marriage to Robert.
- When his honeymoon is over, Knox Randall shifts his attention from his wife Ailsa to his business. Feeling neglected, Ailsa accepts her sister-in-law Clarissa's advice that a little jealousy might re-ignite her husband's interest. Undertaking a harmless flirtation with playboy Porter Maddox, Ailsa discovers that Clarissa has fallen madly in love with Maddox, who is using her to accumulate confidential information regarding Wall Street secrets. When Ailsa overhears Clarissa making plans to elope with Maddox, she hurries to save her sister-in-law. Rumor spreads that Ailsa is a faithless wife and, upon hearing the gossip, George Mott-Smith, Clarissa's husband, notifies Knox and the two set out to intercept the guilty pair. Once they overtake the threesome, Ailsa tells all and Knox finally realizes the value of his wife.
- Film adaptation of the novel "A Gyurkovics-fiúk' by author Ferenc Herczeg, starring Gösta Ekman in the lead role, and featuring opera singer Emile Stiebel.
- 'Pojken' has been a student in Uppsala for many, many years. Many years ago he found a baby girl outside the fraternity house during a party. Pojken made sure that the girl could grow up in the countryside and has ever since sent money to the foster mother. Now the girl, Carolina, has moved back to Uppsala and is living with her real mother, who married nutty professor Hambreus. Carolina knows nothing about Pojken or the money he has sent, but now he has decided to reveal the truth to her.
- Annabelle Leigh witnessed her father's death in a fight over a mine claim, then married John Rawson, a bearded hermit who kidnapped her to protect her, and then was sent away by him because of her crying. Annabelle now lives luxuriously in a fashionable New York hotel on payments sent by Rawson. Greatly in debt, Annabelle sells her father's mining stock to unscrupulous financier George Wimbledon, but still broke and in danger of being named co-respondent in a divorce suit, she persuades Wimbledon's butler to hire her as a cook at his Long Island estate. Rawson, beardless and in town to get the stock to give him control of the mine, falls in love with Annabelle without recognizing her, and rents the mansion surreptitiously from the butler. After Annabelle recovers the stock from Wimbledon while he drunkenly sleeps, she tells Rawson she is going to find her husband and is pleasantly surprised when he reveals his identity.
- A wealthy Russian family is faced with change and challenges as events unfold during the First World War.
- Jerry Martin quits his dull job as a bank clerk and falls in with a band of hobos. He takes on the guise of Bachelor, the "king of the market, " and finds himself pursued by dangerous men who are after the real Bachelor.
- A man helps a rich girl's slum work and wins the race on her ex-fiancé's horse.
- Adeline, a sculptor, and Pierre, a painter, have both won the Grand Prize at the Rome Salon. They marry and are overjoyed. However, Pierre has previously had an affair with the Polish Countess Wanda, who does not want to forget him and orders a painted portrait in order to be with him. During a walk in the ruins of Villa Hadriana, she seduces the painter, and Adeline, observing everything from atop the ruins, collapses with emotion, leaving her blind from now on. Her blindness is symbolic and is at the same time a psychological blockage: she has seen more than she ever wanted to see. Adeline tries to sculpt again in her studio, but she is no longer successful, so she wants to commit suicide with a revolver. However, she hears noises from her husband's studio; it is the countess trying to convince Pierre to put Adeline in a clinic so that nothing will stand in the way of their relationship. Furious, she opens the door to shoot at her rival, but being blind she fires at random. Who did she hit? She wants to recognize the victim by touch; and the urge to see the victim is so strong that her eye-blockage disappears. It is Pierre who is stricken, but he will ultimately survive because of the care that, consumed by remorse, she gives him.
- A parody of the serial thrillers, in multiple episodes, that had become popular in France in recent years.
- Nanine and Yolande are two quaint, charming peasant girls of Middle France. Often have they heard of the large city of Paris, but never have they seen or tasted of its pleasures. They are entirely contented with their lot, however and never expect to get much further than their parental dwelling, until one afternoon, when the two girls, in company of two young peasant admirers, while frolicking over the fields, intrude upon the privacy of Maurice Crosby, the noted French artist. Crosby becomes fascinated with Nanine. He pays Nanine a visit, only to be reprimanded by her father. Excusing himself for the intrusion, the artist takes his departure, only after leaving his address with the young peasantess, and assuring her that he would want to be the first one to give her assistance any time she might be in need of same. An opportunity for calling upon Maurice was soon granted through an accident which befell the girl's father. Nanine writes him of her plight. The artist sends back hasty word for her to come on to him where she can find honest work. Nanine and Yolande leave for Paris in all their peasant finery, and arrive at their benefactor's studio. Crosby, however, is able to make good use of them, and is even inspired by their presence. The preference that he seems to pay to Nanine soon arouses the jealousy of Yolande, who quarrels with her sister and makes her feel so uncomfortable that she decides to return home. As she leaves the door to start her homeward journey, Maurice intercepts her, and refusing to listen to her reason for going home, pledges her his love, with the result that they are married. Thus is the dainty little Nanine properly rewarded.
- The young Baron Robert falls in love with his distant relative Helga.
- When cowboy Nick McCredie notices in a second-hand book an inscription to "Emily, the prettiest girl in school," he writes to her and learns that she is a lonely Eastern farm girl living with her grandmother. Instead of sending his own picture to her, Nick encloses a photo of his handsome friend Pen Walton. After Nick sees Walton stealing two horses, Nick agrees to keep quiet, when Walton promises to reform. Meanwhile, Emily's grandmother dies, and her new guardian tries to force her to marry him. She writes to Nick, who proposes by letter. Nick meets her, but identifies himself as "Andy," and when she says she would be disappointed if Nick was not as handsome as his picture, he shows her the way to Walton, and rides off alone. After Walton rustles another horse and plants Nick's glove as evidence, he abducts Emily. She escapes, and riding the stolen horse, she leads the rest to the ranch in time to stop Nick's hanging. After the real identities are revealed, Nick and Emily marry.
- Edward Andrews, a generous but fainthearted young man, loves Frances Raymond, who believes herself to be an incurable romantic. Edward realizes that Frances would love to be whisked off and romanced, but because he is too timid to abduct her himself, he hires Michael Rudder, a breezy young Irish reporter, to do the deed. Michael's dashing manner entrances Frances, but the Irishman prefers the unencumbered life of a rover to that of a husband, and after he delivers her to the home of Edward's grandmother, he wanders away to a gypsy camp. Frances is so downhearted from losing Michael that the kindly Edward finds the reporter and convinces him to propose to the girl. Frances, moved by Edward's goodness, decides that he is the man she really loves and returns to him.
- Adaptation of a romantic Lamartine poem.A youth leaves a monastery where he has stayed, after the anti-religious terror of the Revolution.He befriends a youth who turns out to be a girl.But his former bishop calls Jocelyn back to duty.
- Fishmongers inherit and are blackmailed by their tutor who pretends their uncle is still alive.
- Angela Deming visits her uncle in Hawaii where she meets Joseph Whitely, a misanthropic self-made millionaire, and Eliot Slade, scion of a wealthy family. Both men follow her home. She rejects William Hanley, her childhood sweetheart, and marries Whitely largely because of her father's bankruptcy. Hanley tells Whitely that Angela only married him for his money. Whitely and Angela quarrel, and she consults a divorce attorney. When Whitely goes to Angela's parents and learns they know nothing of the marriage, he believes Angela might really have loved him, so he sets out at breakneck speed in his car to find her. Angela has promised to marry Slade after her divorce, but fears for Whitely's safety. Angela and her friends assemble at Whitely's apartment and all denounce him. Angela forgives Whitely when he arrives, and they find happiness together.
- Irene Fletcher, the pampered daughter of a Long Island millionaire on the brink of bankruptcy, has two suitors - struggling architect John Marshall, and wealthy clothing designer Charles Munson. Scorning her father's plea for her to curb her passion for beautiful clothes and live more modestly, she trips and is knocked unconscious. In a dream, Irene's father goes to Munson for financial assistance and Munson agrees, in exchange for her father agreeing to try to influence Irene to marry him. When it is announced at Irene's birthday party that she and Marshall have secretly married, Munson refuses to lend the money to Irene's father, who then kills himself with a pistol. After a series of tragic events, Irene awakens, and decides to marry Marshall.
- Oscar drags up to help his beloved Kiki by delivering hats for the shop where she works.