| Diane of the Follies | |
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| Directed by | Christy Cabanne |
| Written by | D. W. Griffith (as Granville Warwick) |
| Produced by | Fine Arts Film Company |
| Starring | Lillian Gish |
| Distributed by | Triangle Film Corporation |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Diane of the Follies is a 1916 American drama film directed by Christy Cabanne. The film is considered to be lost. [1]
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Dorothy Elizabeth Gish was an American actress of the screen and stage, as well as a director and writer. Dorothy and her older sister Lillian Gish were major movie stars of the silent era. Dorothy also had great success on the stage, and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Dorothy Gish was noted as a fine comedian, and many of her films were comedies.
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Judith of Bethulia (1914) is an American film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and produced and directed by D. W. Griffith, based on the play "Judith and the Holofernes" (1896) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, which itself was an adaptation of the Book of Judith. The film was the first feature-length film made by pioneering film company Biograph, although the second that Biograph released.
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So Near, Yet So Far is a 1912 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. Prints of the film survive in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.
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The Informer is a 1912 American short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and featuring Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall, Harry Carey, Lionel Barrymore, Dorothy Gish, and Lillian Gish. It was filmed in the Pike County town of Milford, Pennsylvania. Prints of the film survive at the film archive of the Library of Congress.
A Cry for Help is a 1912 American drama film directed by D. W. Griffith.
Lillian Langdon was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in more than 80 films between 1912 and 1928.
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The House of Darkness is a 1913 American short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith.
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Sold for Marriage is a 1916 American drama film directed by Christy Cabanne for Triangle Film Corporation. Its working title was Marja of the Steppes. The plot concerns a beautiful young Russian village girl who is in love with a young but poor boy but whose guardian wants her to marry a rich old man that she does not love. When she refuses, her uncle arranges for her to be sold for marriage in America. An extant film, a copy preserved at the Library of Congress.
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