Her Better Self is a 1917 American silent drama film starring Pauline Frederick and Thomas Meighan and directed by Robert G. Vignola. It was produced by Famous Players Film Company and distributed by Paramount Pictures.[1] It is now considered lost.[2]
Cast
- Pauline Frederick - Vivian Tyler
- Thomas Meighan - Dr. Robert Keith
- Alice Hollister - Aggie May
- Maude Turner Gordon - Mrs.Tyler
- Charles Wellesley - Mr. Tyler
- Frank De Rheim - Count Belloto
- Armand Cortes - Dopey
Reception
Like many American films of the time, Her Better Self was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors required cuts of two scenes of a girl walking away with a man and the arrest of the girl, an intertitle stating "I left the town in disgrace," and the stabbing in the suicide scene and the vision of the same.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Katchmer, George A. (1991). Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known. McFarland. p. 646. ISBN 0-899-50494-9.
- ^ Her Better Self, The Pauline Frederick Website, stanford.edu
- ^ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 5 (3). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 33. July 14, 1917. Retrieved November 8, 2014.
External links
- Her Better Self at IMDb
- Her Better Self (1917) synopsis at tcm.com
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