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A Woman Without a Soul
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by J. Farrell MacDonald
Cast: Vera Sisson [Cora Martin], Jack Mulhall [Clifton], Robert Nolan [Rogers], Helen Bray [Rogers’ wife], G. Raymond Nye [Zane Ambrose], [?] Louise Vale?
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 7 December 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Cora Martin had ruined one good man when she met the artist, Clifton, and aspired to higher game. The meeting occurred at a dinner, the last her victim ever gave in her honor. When all were seated, he watched the glasses filled and proposed a toast, “To Cora, the woman without a soul.” There was a dreadful scene, at the end of which Cora, left alone with her victim, spoke the words which meant his doom, and then swept out to where Clifton was waiting. Next morning Cora and Clifton read the newspaper account of her victim’s frustrated attempt at suicide. The heartless woman shed no tears; she must look her best to ensnare Clifton. When she had him in the toils, and had begun to tire of him, fate sent Mrs. Rogers and her husband to Clifton's studio, where the society leader was to sit for her portrait. Rogers was dazzled by Cora, who chanced to be there. Mrs. Rogers, seeing her husband beginning to make a fool of himself, cut short the sitting and hurried him away. Then Zane Ambrose came into Cora’s life and proved himself a man of different mold from her other victims. Perhaps because it was a new experience, she married him. When he went away on business, she renewed her flirtation with Rogers. On his way to the railroad station, Ambrose was attacked by thugs and wounded. From the hospital he dispatched a telegram asking Cora to come to him. She laughed as she showed it to Rogers, “It’s only a trick to bring me to him.” And she went out with Rogers. Ambrose, discharged from the hospital, came back and found an atmosphere of secrecy in his home. After many vain questions he seized the butler and throttled the truth out of him. Learning where his wife was, he went to the café. Rogers was stammering an explanation when Ambrose grappled his throat with hands that meant killing. Leaving the inanimate form on the table, without a glance at Cora he went home to await the police. But Rogers was not dead. Cora gave a great sob of thankfulness, but when Rogers struggled to his feet he thrust her from him and went out, leaving her to face the future alone.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 13 September 2023.
References: Spehr-American p. 4 : Website-IMDb.
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