''A Modern Magdalen'' is a 1915 American

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...

, 5-reel silent

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directed by

Will S. Davis William Senderling Davis (November 22, 1880 – November 19, 1920) was an American film director and screenwriter of the silent era. He was the son of David Jackson Davis and Elizabeth Ann Tees. He directed 36 films between 1913 and 1920. H ...

and based on the 1902 play by

C. Haddon Chambers Charles Haddon Spurgeon Chambers (22 April 1860 – 28 March 1921) was an Australia-born dramatist, active in England. Early life Chambers was born in Petersham, Sydney, the son of John Ritchie Chambers, who had a good position in the New South ...

. The film was produced and released by the Life Photo Film Corporation in their studios in

Grantwood, New Jersey Grantwood is an unincorporated community straddling the boroughs of Cliffside Park and Ridgefield, just south of Fort Lee, in eastern Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. Toponymy Grantwood Heights Land Company was incorporated on Febru ...

Cast

Cathrine Countiss Birdie Sherman Crooks (16 July 1873 – 27 October 1955), known professionally as Cathrine Countiss — often misspelled in media as Catherine Countiss — was an American actress at the beginning of the 20th century. She appeared in multiple Broa ...

as Katinka Jenkins *

Lionel Barrymore Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ''A Free Soul'' (1931) ...

as Lindsay *

William H. Tooker William H. Tooker (September 2, 1869 – October 10, 1936) was an American stage and film actor. Tooker acted with the Tivoli Comic Opera Company in San Francisco. On Broadway, he performed in ''The Coronet of the Duchess'' (1904) and ''The Gove ...

as Joe Mercer *

Charles E. Graham Charles E. Graham (1865–1948) was an American film actor of the silent era.Wlaschin p.87 Selected filmography * ''Arizona (1913 film), Arizona'' (1913) * ''The $5,000,000 Counterfeiting Plot'' (1914) * ''A Modern Magdalen'' (1915) * ''The Curio ...

as Katinka's father * Marjorie Nelson as Olivia Jenkins

References

External links

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A Modern Magdalen
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Photographic still of Cathrine Countiss and Lionel Barrymore

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