Lilies of the Streets

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Lilies of the Streets
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Film still
Directed by Joseph Levering
Written by
Produced byMary E. Hamilton
Starring
Cinematography
Production
company
Belban Productions
Distributed by Film Booking Offices of America
Release date
  • May 3, 1925 (1925-05-03)
Running time
7 reels
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Lilies of the Streets is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Levering and starring Virginia Lee Corbin, Wheeler Oakman, and Johnnie Walker. [1] [2]

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Plot

As described in a film magazine review, [3] Judith Lee is a young woman of indulgent parents and is allowed to have her own way. After she is arrested by mistake and dishonored by a blackmailer, and with her mother is on the verge of compromise, the blackmailer is murdered by one of his victims. Judith Lee, believing her mother is guilty, assumes the blame and is about to be convicted when her fiancé, a lawyer, obtains the confession of the real killer.

Cast

Production

Mary E. Hamilton, a New York City police officer whose work was in the "rehabilitation of wayward girls", arranged for the creation of Belban Productions for a film in which she could appear as herself and promote police work to suppress the white slave trade. [5] At her insistence, the plot turns on a male police officer mistakenly arresting flapper Judith for being a prostitute. [5]

Preservation

With no prints of Lilies of the Streets located in any film archives, [6] it is a lost film.

References

  1. Munden 1997, p. 437.
  2. "Progressive Silent Film List: Lilies of the Streets". SilentEra.com.
  3. "New Pictures: Lilies of the Streets", Exhibitors Herald, 21 (7): 72, May 9, 1925, retrieved February 7, 2022PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  4. 1 2 "Lyrio das ruas". A Scena Muda (in Portuguese) (279). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Copanhia Editora Americana: 26–27. July 29, 1926. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
  5. 1 2 Tsika 2021, pp. 69–70.
  6. "Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Lilies of the Streets".

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