A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Silent Woman
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Herbert Blaché

Cast: Edith Storey [Nan McDonald], Frank Mills [John Lowery], Joseph Kilgour [Clifford Beresford], Lilie Leslie (Lila Leslie) [Mary Lowery], Mathilde Brundage [Mrs. Elton], Baby Ivy Ward [little Billy], George Stevens [the doctor], T. Tamamoto [a servant], Augusta Perry [the maid], Harry Linson [a lumberjack], Ben Walker [a lumberjack], John Cohill [a lumberjack]

Metro Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation [All Star Series]. / Scenario by June Mathis and Katharine Kavanaugh, from a story by Lois Zellner. Production management by Maxwell Karger. Technical direction by E.J. Shulter. Assistant director, Edward Lawrence (Edmund Lawrence). Cinematography by George K. Hollister. Intertitle artwork by David Anthony Tauszky. Presented by Metro Pictures Corporation. / © 2 September 1918 by Metro Pictures Corporation [LP12797]. Released 2 September 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Shadow and Substance. The original release date was announced as 26 August 1918.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 5 February 2024.

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