Blinn was already famous for playing brutal characters on the stage such as in Salvation Nell (1908).

His plays include Salvation Nell (1908) and Romance (1913), which was made into a motion picture with Greta Garbo.

A few months later came the California Motion Picture Corporation's Salvation Nell, in which we follow the adventures of a young girl from the New York tenements, where her drunken father kills her mother and where all her associates are drunks or wasters, through to happiness in the arms of a Salvation Army major.

Salvation Nell (1921)

Salvation Nell (1931)

Salvation Nell is a 1931 film drama produced and directed by James Cruze and distributed by Tiffany Films, a company then on the brink of ceasing operations.

Salvation Nell by Edward Sheldon, New York (1908)

Salvation Nell is a 1921 silent film produced by Whitman Bennett and distributed by Associated First National Pictures, later First National Pictures.

Mignon, The Lily of Poverty Flat, A Phyllis of the Sierras, Salvation Nell and The Rose of the Misty Pool all failed to turn a profit, and a lavish production of Faust which was in production in 1915 was given until the end of the year to be completed.

Salvation Army officers campaigned for souls in plays like "The Belle of Broadway" in 1897 and "Salvation Nell" in 1908.