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The Price of Silence
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Joseph de Grasse
Cast: Dorothy Phillips [Helen Urmy], Vola Smith [Aline], Frank Whitson [Oliver Urmy], Lon Chaney [Edmund Stafford], Evelyn Selbie [Jenny Cupps], Jay Belasco [Billy Cupps], Jack Mulhall [Ralph Kelton], Eddie Brown [the landlord]
Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, production; distributed by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, through The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Ida May Park, from a short story by W. Carey Wonderly. Cinematography by King D. Gray. Presented by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated. / © 1 December 1916 by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated [LP9642]. Released 11 December 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Coy Watson Jr. in Watson-Keystone pp. 42-43 incorrectly recalls appearing as an infant actor with Phillips and Chaney in this film; it is far more likely that he appeared in the Selig production The Price of Silence (1913), produced in Edendale, California.
Drama.
Survival status: Print exists in the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’image animée [CNC] film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Accidents: Automobile - Children: Illegitimate - Crime: Blackmail - Elopements - Marriages - Medical: Doctors, Nursemaids, Nurses, Physicians - Secrets
Listing updated: 5 November 2023.
References: Edmonds-BigU pp. 76, 77; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 23; Kobal-Fifty p. 21; Spehr-American p. 100; Weaver-Twenty p. 76 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.
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