Anne Schaefer
Acting
Biography
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Born: July 10, 1870
Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Known For
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
A Bit of Blue Ribbon
A short Western in which a cowboy is rescued from a lynching in the nick of time.
Her Moment
In their small village, Romanian peasant girl Katinka Veche falls in love with the studious Jan Drakachu. Jan wins a scholarship to an American university eventually becoming a successful engineer. Unbeknownst to him, Katinka, whom he had to leave behind in the village, is sold into slavery by her cruel, dissolute father. Her owner, Victor Dravich, beats her into submission forcing her to become his mistress in his Syrian gambling den. When the house is raided, Dravich takes her on his travels around the world until they finally settle in a small Arizona mining camp. Broken, she sees Jan but is too ashamed to speak to him sending instead for her old tutor Boris. Upon arrival Boris kills Dravich but is shot by the sheriff. Katinka, now free, follows Jan to New York. After further travail the pair are finally reunited.
Johanna Enlists
A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.
Six Feet Four
A cowboy matches the description of the man who robbed the local hotel--both are 6'4". When a young woman is robbed, suspicion falls on the cowboy again. However, he discovers that the actual culprits are a local gang headed by the sheriff. He sets out to capture the robbers and clear his name.
A Little Princess
Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.
The Devil Dancer
An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl he has become fascinated with. THE DEVIL DANCER was highly praised at time of release for its exquisite cinematography, especially in the use of light and shadow. The film received an Academy Award nomination in this category. Sadly, it is among the lost. No prints or negatives are known to survive.
The Craven
A short western about a cowardly sheriff who leaves it up to his wife to catch a murderer, and then takes the credit himself.
The Cost of High Living
The Cost of High Living is a 1916 Vitagraph comedy starring William Duncan and Corinne Griffith.
The Night Flyer
Jimmy Bradley, a fireman on the old locomotive No. 99, loves Kate Murphy, daughter of the proprietress of the local lunch counter. His rival, Bat Mullins, is engineer of the new mail train scheduled to make a competition run. When Mullins overturns the new train, Bradley completes the run and earns the contract for his company by delivering the mail in record time on No. 99. A promotion to engineer helps him win Kate.
Filmography
as (uncredited)
as First Maid
as Landlady
as Aunt Maria
as Mrs. Halevy
as Hanscha Talinef
as Mrs. Murphy (as Ann Schaeffer)
as Tana (as Ann Schaeffer)
as Mame Mulcain
as The Governess
as Helma
as Rhoda
as Prudence Heath
as Mrs. Naab
as Mrs. Plummer
as Mrs. Valborg
as Duenna (as Anna Schaeffer)
as Minnie
as Aunt Emma
as Mrs. Jacobs
as Mrs. Brown
as Mother Malone
as Mrs. Riddell (uncredited)
as Mrs. Meredith
as Mrs. Hopkins
as Ma Renssaller
as Señorita Agatha Rossi
as Martha Brown
as Jan's Mother
as Martha Kane
as Mrs. Ryal
as Amelia Minchin
as Her Mother (as Ann Schaefer)
as Sally Smith
as Ann Scudder
as Mrs. Kittredge
as The Cook
as Mrs. Hartwell - Mary's Mother
as Mrs. Saunder
as Mrs. Saunders - the Sheriff's Wife
as Mrs. Ann Fiske, Harvey's Wife
as Annie Mattson - Harvey's Wife