Oil and Water (film)

Oil and Water
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Directed by	D. W. Griffith
Written by	Edward
Starring	Blanche Sweet Henry B. Walthall Lionel Barrymore Harry Carey
Cinematography	G. W. Bitzer
Distributed by	Biograph Company General Film Company
Release date	February 6, 1913 (1913-02-06)
Running time	25 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Oil and Water is a 1913 film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet. The supporting cast includes Henry B. Walthall, Lionel Barrymore, and Harry Carey. ^[1]

The film was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in July 2007 as part of a Biograph studio retrospective.

Plot

A stage dancer (Sweet) and a serious-type homebody (Walthall) discover, after marriage, that their individual styles don't mesh. The movie includes elaborate dance sequences.

Cast

• Blanche Sweet as Mademoiselle Genova
• Henry B. Walthall as the idealist
• Lionel Barrymore as in first audience / in second audience / visitor
• Walter Miller as the idealist's brother, a minister
• Clara T. Bracy as the nurse
• Harry Carey as stage manager / at dinner
• Gertrude Bambrick as among dancers
• Kathleen Butler as in first audience / among dancers
• William J. Butler as among dancers
• John T. Dillon as in second audience / at dinner
• Frank Evans as in first audience / in second audience
• Dorothy Gish as in first audience
• Lillian Gish as in first audience
• Robert Harron
• J. Jiquel Lanoe as in first audience / among dancers
• Adolph Lestina as in second audience
• Charles Hill Mailes
• Joseph McDermott as actor in play / at dinner
• W. Chrystie Miller as in first audience
• Antonio Moreno as actor in play
• Alfred Paget as among dancers
• Matt Snyder as in first audience (credited as Matt B. Snyder)
• Charles West as in first audience / in second audience

References

1. "Oil and Water". silentera.com. Retrieved July 18, 2025.

External links

• Oil and Water at IMDb