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Metro Pictures Corporation

Metro Pictures Corporation
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Date de fondation 1 janvier 1916
Fondateur Louis B. Mayer

Metro Pictures Corporation est une société de production de cinéma américaine, créée en 1915, qui fusionnera au sein de la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer en 1924.
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Filmographie de Metro Pictures Corporation (158 films)

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The Kiss of Hate
The Kiss of Hate (1916)
, 50minutes
Réalisé par William Nigh
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame
Acteurs Ethel Barrymore, H. Cooper Cliffe, Robert Elliott, Robert Elliot, Niles Welch, Martin Faust

The story takes place in Czarist Russia and concerns an anti-Semitic police commissioner, or Prefect, Count Orzoff(Cliffe) and a woman Nadia(Barrymore) who has spurned his amorous attentions . The commissioner seeks revenge against Nadia by killing her father(W. L. Abingdon). Orzoff becomes governor and Nadia plots revenge against him and is aided by a group of Jews who are also scheming against Orzoff. In further plot twists Nadia becomes romantic with Orzoff's son Sergius(Robert Elliott) and in a bit of payback stabs Sergius in retribution for her father's murder. Sergius is only wounded and Nadia thinking she has killed him tries to commit suicide but Commissioner Orzof's guards stop her. For the rescue of his son, Nadia somehow gets Count Orzoff to sign papers admitting to persecuting Russian Jews. Nadia is in Orzoff's mansion completing the deal, when that group of Jews set fire to the house killing Nadia, Orzoff and Sergius.
A Corner in Cotton
A Corner in Cotton (1916)

Réalisé par Fred J. Balshofer
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame
Acteurs Marguerite Snow, William Clifford, Frank Bacon, Lester Cuneo, William Clifford, Helen Dunbar

A Corner in Cotton tells the story of Peggy Ainslee, the daughter of a wealthy New York cotton broker, and John Carter, the son of a Southern cotton mill owner. Peggy grows weary of society life and decides to help improve the lot of the poor by becoming involved with the Settlement movement. She later travels south to investigate working conditions at Carter’s cotton mill. Peggy manages to gain employment there, but soon attracts the unwanted advances of the mill foreman. John saves her from the would-be masher and the couple eventually fall in love. This becomes a problem with their fathers who had become business antagonist. In the end Peggy and John married after she foils her father’s attempt to ruin Carter by cornering the market in cotton and then persuades the two men to settle their differences.
Always in the Way
Always in the Way (1915)
, 50minutes
Réalisé par J. Searle Dawley
Origine Etats-Unis
Thèmes Musique
Acteurs Mary Miles Minter, Lowell Sherman, Charlotte Shelby

Dorothy North is the four-year-old child of the wealthy lawyer Winfred North. Her mother is deceased and her father is remarrying widow Helen Stillwell. Helen is annoyed with the presence of Dorothy and treats her as if she is always in the way. She runs away home and is taken under care by missionaries. While Dorothy accompanies her new foster parents to Africa, Helen informs Winfred his daughter is lost.
Emmy of Stork's Nest
Emmy of Stork's Nest (1915)
, 50minutes
Réalisé par William Nigh
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame
Acteurs Mary Miles Minter, Niles Welch, Martin Faust

Benton Cabot is a man who was born and raised in the city. When he inherits a mountain farm, he soon finds out he is unable to keep an entire farm on himself. Instead, he accepts a job at the neighbour farm from Bije and Si. Bije is in love with the young Emmy and thinks of Benton as a competitor. He humiliates Benton several times in public, which results in Emmy sympathizing him.