William Shea Movies

An impressive Vitagraph short, one of many popular firemen-to-the-rescue films of the time.

The new stenographer is right there when it comes to class which does not escape the notice of her boss. He showers attentions upon her and asks her...

A silent short film telling the classic story of Becky Sharp.

Romantic comedy in which a woman who no longer wants to marry her fiance when it turns out he doesn't have an inheritance. After his father is...

An early short featuring Florence Lawrence.

Old Captain Bill and his wife have an only son, whom they idolize. He loses all his money at gambling and drinking, and determines to do better in...

Brutal rental agent Joseph McGuire demands that Molly-O marry McGuire's son Denny, lest her family be thrown out of their humble shack. But Molly-O...

The master crook steals the sweetheart of Sherlock, a great detective. Sherlock undertakes to recover her.

A grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out.

A Chinese man cares for the orphan of a dying woman who stumbles into his laundry.

On discovering that their beau, Timothy, the village schoolmaster, is quite unable to choose between them for a life partner, Ivy and Lily Skinner...

Tupper meets the wealthy Miss Whipple at a baseball game. When she declares that she just adores baseball players, Tupper starts up a team.

In search of a maid, Mrs. Cook, an aristocratic and extremely proud society woman, goes to an employment agency and hires Luna, fat, awkward and...

A penniless British Lord sets up an arranged marriage with an American heiress. He soon falls in love with her and is determined to support himself...

A romance of the rail, this two-part "thriller" uses wireless telegraphy as the means of averting a disaster to an express train.

Born with an artistic temperament, Joe Leigh feels keenly the bitterness and drudgery of life on a small farm and longs to get away from it. Jabez,...

Two nice young people become acquainted at the beach; A romance develops.

A comedy about a group of school girls who bring a street musician to school with them.

A pet parrot dies and get mixed up with the neighbor's Chrismas turkey.