William E. Shay Movies
- 1911
Sweet Memories
Sweet Memories41911HD
An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her now-departed husband and the things they did together....
- 1911
The Lighthouse Keeper
The Lighthouse Keeper01911HD
Tom Alkins, a sturdy fisherman, loves Polly Berry, the daughter of old Nat Berry, the keeper of the light. Bert Duncan also loves Polly and is...
- 1918
The Fall of the Romanoffs
The Fall of the Romanoffs01918HD
The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema couldn't help but jump on it immediately and...
- 1915
Kreutzer Sonata
Kreutzer Sonata3.51915HD
Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather better remembered as Theda Bara's follow-up to the...
- 1912
A Timely Repentance
A Timely Repentance01912HD
A lost film. John Crawford, an honest mechanic, and Wilbur Robinson, a young man of leisure, both love the same girl. She marries Crawford and they...
- 1916
A Daughter of the Gods
A Daughter of the Gods3.31916HD
A sultan agrees to help an evil witch destroy a mysterious beauty if the witch will bring his young son back to life.
- 1927
The Telephone Girl
The Telephone Girl01927HD
Telephone operator Kitty O'Brien can't help but get involved in the problems of her customers. Right now she is concerning herself with the...
- 1911
'Tween Two Loves
'Tween Two Loves01911HD
A story of an only daughter of a farmer; her mother is dead and she is her father's consolation. She grows up and falls in love with the young man in...
- 1913
His Hour of Triumph
His Hour of Triumph51913HD
Leonard Dare, a producer, finds himself without a player strong enough to enact the part of Philip Dawany, one of the important characters of the...
- 1912
Shamus O'Brien
Shamus O'Brien01912HD
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.
- 1912
Up Against It
Up Against It41912HD
Amos Bentley was up against it in more senses than one. Times were so hard with him that he had to part with the furniture of his little apartment in...
- 1917
The Lone Wolf
The Lone Wolf01917HD
Based on a character created by Louis Joseph Vance
- 1917
The Eternal Sin
The Eternal Sin01917HD
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...
- 1914
Neptune's Daughter
Neptune's Daughter11914HD
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...
- 1907
The Boy, the Bust and the Bath
The Boy, the Bust and the Bath61907HD
A young female boarding house tenant becomes an unwanted object of male attention.
- 1912
A Cave Man Wooing
A Cave Man Wooing41912HD
George, a somewhat "unathletic" young man, falls for Clarice, a healthy, athletically inclined young woman. Unfortunately for George, however, a...
- 1915
The Two Orphans
The Two Orphans01915HD
This picture is based on the same story that became D.W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm in 1921. This version, made by the Fox Studios, stars famous...
- 1915
Sin
Sin01915HD
Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America.
- 1915
The Soul of Broadway
The Soul of Broadway11915HD
Grace Leonard, a typical woman of the New York stage, beautiful but old in sin, seduces William Craig, who becomes a thief in order to shower...
- 1915
The Clemenceau Case
The Clemenceau Case11915HD
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...