The Blindness of Love

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The Blindness of Love
Directed by Charles Horan
Edna G. Riley (A.D.)
Screenplay by Harry O. Hoyt
Ruth Comfort Mitchell
Starring Julius Steger
George Le Guere
Grace Valentine
Distributed byMetro Pictures Corporation
Release date
6 March 1916 (USA)

The Blindness of Love is a five-reel silent film directed by Charles Horan from a screenplay by Harry O. Hoyt and Ruth Comfort Mitchell. [1] [2]

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Plot

Julius Steger plays a wealthy old piano maker named Joseph who is blindly devoted to his trouble-making adult son. [3] [4]

Cast

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References

  1. 1 2 The Moving Picture World. World Photographic Publishing Company. 1916.
  2. Motography. 1916.
  3. "Movie Theatre Attractions". The Alaska Daily Empire. 15 Nov 1916. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  4. The Moving Picture World. World Photographic Publishing Company. 1916.