The Lady of the Photograph

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The Lady of the Photograph
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Directed by Ben Turbett
Written by
Produced by George Kleine
Starring
Cinematography Fred S. Brace
Production
companies
  • Perfection Pictures
  • Edison Productions
Distributed byK-E-S-E Service
Release date
  • August 27, 1917 (1917-08-27)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
Languages

The Lady of the Photograph is a 1917 American silent comedy drama film directed by Ben Turbett and starring Shirley Mason, Raymond McKee and Gerald Pring. [1] It was made by the Edison Studios shortly before they withdrew from production activities.

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Synopsis

An aristocratic but impoverished young Englishman meets an American woman in Britain, but fears he cannot be worthy of her until he has settled his debts. However a self-made American he meets on his ship across the Atlantic offers to help him out financially in exchange for helping him to become a gentleman so that he can woo a woman whose photograph he carries around with him. The Englishman is shocked to discover that it is the same woman he in love with.

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References

  1. Connelly, p. 371

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