Her Greatest Performance

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Her Greatest Performance
Directed by Fred Paul
Written by
Produced by
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Production
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Distributed byIdeal Film Company
Release date
  • 25 August 1916 (1916-08-25)(UK)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Her Greatest Performance is a 1916 British silent crime film directed by Fred Paul and starring Edith Craig, Ellen Terry and Dennis Neilson-Terry. [1]

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Gerald Lovelace (Dennis Neilson-Terry) is accused of a crime and wrongly arrested, his mother (Ellen Terry) gives 'her greatest performance' when providing him with an alibi. Joan Morgan plays his daughter.

Presumably this is a lost film. [2]

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References

  1. "BFI | Film & TV Database | HER GREATEST PERFORMANCE (1916)". Archived from the original on 24 September 2009. Retrieved 22 January 2012.
  2. Her Greatest Performance at TheGreatStars.com; Lost Films Wanted(Wayback Machine)