The Unattainable

Sep 4, 1916

0h 50m

★ 0.0

A daring smart society drama with the stage glamour strongly woven

Overview

An actress falls in love with a shepherd, to the dismay of a wealthy suitor. One reel survives at the National Archives Of Canada and the Library of Congress.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Bluebird Photoplays

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Cast

Bessie Gale

Dorothy Davenport

Robert Goodman

Emory Johnson

Mrs. Goodman

Mattie Witting

Henry Morton

Richard Morris

Theatre Manager

Alfred Allen

After his defeat at the hands of "Spider" Flynn, the welterweight champion of Europe, boxer Jimmie Dolan and his trainer, Thomas Jefferson Jones, leave for a principality near Paris. Having lost all their money on the fight, Jimmie accepts Count Conrad's offer to impersonate Prince Frederick in return for a large sum of money.

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The Child of Another

Dec 5, 1919

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False Colors

Dec 17, 1914

Famed actor Lloyd Phillips blames his infant daughter Dixie for her mother’s death in childbirth, leaving her in the care of his housekeeper, Mrs. Hughes and departs. Eighteen years later having squandered the money entrusted to her by Phillips Mrs. Hughes and her worthless son concoct a swindle to refill the coffers but are ultimately thwarted.

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Absinthe

Jan 22, 1914

A Parisian artist becomes addicted to the liquor absinthe and sinks to robbery and murder.

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The Callahans and the Murphys

Jun 18, 1927

The story of two feuding Irish immigrant families living in a tenement.

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Fathers and Sons

Sep 1, 1915

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The Hawk's Nest

Jun 28, 1916

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6.6

The Man in Search of His Murderer

Feb 4, 1931

A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.

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The Iron Hand

May 29, 1916

After political boss Tim Noland adopts Roy, the infant son of a dead crony, he reluctantly gives the boy up to a doctor who claims that, if raised in an respectable environment, the child will grow into a model citizen. Twenty years later, Roy comes back to live with Tim, and is appalled at his unscrupulous methods of conducting business. Then, he falls in love with Enid Winslow, the daughter of a social reformer who is running for office against Tim. Largely due to Roy's financial support, Winslow wins the election, but, holding a grudge against Tim and anyone connected to him, he refuses to let Enid marry Roy.

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The Seekers

Jul 17, 1916

The quiet life style of Ruth Heck and her brother Lem, who belong to a religious sect called the Seekers, is disrupted when a judge imprisons Lem for a crime he did not commit.

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From Broadway to a Throne

Jul 31, 1916

Just before a big bout, Jimmie, a New York prize fighter, gets a lucky medal from his friend Billy. Herman Marlex, a chronic teller of tall tales informs Jimmie that the medal is really a royal one, worn by the infant Prince of Magonia when he was kidnapped years before. Then, on fight night, Jimmie is knocked senseless. On his way home, Magonian emissaries see him wearing the medal, and so haul him back to the "homeland." Despite his insisting that he is merely a boxer, Jimmie is hailed as the returning prince.

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Barriers of Society

Oct 16, 1916

When penniless Westie Phillips briefly meets wealthy Martha Gorham, he falls in love, but Martha forgets the encounter. Harry Arnold, courting Martha, invites her out sailing and arranges to have the yacht wrecked near an uncharted island so that he can be alone with her until rescuers arrive. Meanwhile, without knowing Martha is on board, Westie secures a position on the yacht.

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The Eye of the Night

Jul 16, 1916

William H. Thompson plays a likeable old lighthouse keeper who must contend with his less likeable fellow villagers. One of Thompson's acts of kindness is to bless the "scandalous" romance between hero and heroine.

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Molly and Me

Mar 1, 1929

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Flowers Belated

Mar 19, 1917

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Behind The Doors Of The Salon

Aug 31, 1913

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6.9

The Divine Woman

Jan 13, 1928

[For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another soldier to love. They argue then embrace and, when the clock strikes midnight, he is still in her arms. Is desertion in the cards? Can the relationship survive the military demands and a soldier's obligations? A lost film.

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Two Weeks

Jan 25, 1920

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The Unattainable

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