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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.
- 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.
- '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.
- The adventures of two U.S. Secret Service men sent to Africa to bring back a man wanted for murder.
- 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.
- A pawnbroker, widely despised, called Mästerman is the subject of tales of terror and cruelty. In his profession, he is merciless.
- 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.
- The story of the life of Christ.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A wealthy Russian family is faced with change and challenges as events unfold during the First World War.
- Theatrical adaptation: A professor has an affair with a young woman while his disaffected wife cheats on him in turn.Both of these illicit relationships end with children being born, around the same time.
- A young bank clerk wants to marry her, but Nell Fanshawe decides that soda clerk John Stanley is the one for her. Because John does not have enough money to marry, however, Nell encourages him to go to New York, where he becomes a successful antique salesman for Jellaby and Co. Steve Ratling, a vindictive discharged salesman, convinces John to gamble the $300 he took in on a large sale, because he didn't get a deserved raise. After John loses the money, he disappears, leaving a note to Jellaby saying that his pocket was picked, but that he will repay the money. When detectives visit Nell, she goes to New York, works for Jellaby, and searches for John at soda fountains throughout the city. After she catches stenographer Nan Powderly opening a letter from John with $20 enclosed, Nell traces him. Although she is disappointed to learn that he lost the money gambling, after John confesses, both Nell and Jellaby give him another chance.
- 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.
- 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.
- Trying to support her twin sisters on her own, Jane Neill lands a job working for a millionaire, but problems soon arise for the young girl when she declines the marriage proposal of the always-trustworthy Micky and falls in love with the millionaire's spoiled, lazy nephew. After she inherits the millionaire's estate along with much heartache, Jane finally comes to her senses and goes back to the ever-faithful Micky.
- Genevieve is an orphan and lives with her younger sister Josette. She ends her marriage to an honest and respectful man. After dramatic incidents, wandering she finally manages to reach the house of her fiance's house
- A parody of the serial thrillers, in multiple episodes, that had become popular in France in recent years.
- Fishmongers inherit and are blackmailed by their tutor who pretends their uncle is still alive.
- A woman searches for the child she gave up at birth.
- 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.