Herbert Brenon Movies

Song and Dance Man was based on the play of the same name by George M. Cohan. Tom Moore plays vaudevillian Happy Farrell, who gives up show biz to...

A sultan agrees to help an evil witch destroy a mysterious beauty if the witch will bring his young son back to life. A lost film.

Louis Fernando fails to sell a patent upon which he has spent the better part of his life and drowns himself. His orphaned child Marie is adopted by...

A young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris.

The story of aging chorus girl Frankie Arnette, who'll do anything for publicity. Fiercely ambitious, Frankie even promises that if she is given a...

This was Theda Bara's third starring film, and the first which she carried all on her own, with no other name actors in the cast. Based on the...

It tells the story of Dante Alighieri's love to Beatrice Portinari, loosely based on Dante's poetry.

A silent film directed by Herbert Brenon also known as "The Stronger Passion".

Therese Roger, daughter of a West Indian planter, whose parents are murdered while she is a baby, becomes the adopted daughter of her aunt, Madame...

Mrs. Penfield, better known as Penzie, is one of the inhabitants of a tenement neighborhood known as "the Custard Cup" because of its oval shape....

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

The daughter of King Neptune takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister, who was caught in a fishing net. However, she falls in love...

A lost film. Hiram Flint, a young gambler and horseman, loves Madge, the daughter of James Spotwood but she repulses him. He buys a mortgage on the...

An English circus clown finds he's lost his touch after returning from war.

Ned Connors, a prospector, has a happy marriage with his wife, living in the hills, until fate brings a sick visitor to their shack. The guest, Dr....

When Marcel, a waif, saves master crook Burke from the police, Burke adopts the youngster and teaches him his profession. Years later, Marcel has...

Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America.

Based on JS Le Fanu's 1850 poem "Shamus O'Brien." Copies of this short film survive at the Library of Congress and British Film Institute.

A silent film about the famous Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean, whose life intertwines with a young woman, Anna Damby, and Countess Koefeld. Kean,...

Gennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has married the Duke of Ferrara. After Lucretia's brother is...