''Life's Whirlpool'' (also known as ''McTeague'') is a 1916 American
silent film drama directed by
Barry O'Neil
Barry O'Neil (September 24, 1865 – March 23, 1918) was a film director and writer. His real name was Thomas J. McCarthy. He directed several Thanhouser films including the production company's first two-reeler,https://www.thanhouser.org/TCOCD/Nar ...
. The first motion picture adaptation of
Frank Norris's 1899 novel ''
McTeague'', the film stars
Holbrook Blinn and
Fania Marinoff
Fania Marinoff (russian: Фаня Маринов; yi, פאַניאַ מאַרינאָוו) (March 20, 1890 – November 17, 1971) was a Russian-born American actress.
Life
Marinoff was born in Odessa, Russia, on March 20, 1890. She was bo ...
as McTeague and Trina. These roles later were played by
Gibson Gowland and
Zasu Pitts
Zasu Pitts (; January 3, 1894 – June 7, 1963) was an American actress who starred in many silent dramas, including Erich von Stroheim's epic 1924 silent film ''Greed'', and comedies, transitioning successfully to mostly comedy films with the ...
in
Eric von Stroheim
Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim (born Erich Oswald Stroheim; September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian-American director, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era. H ...
's 1924 adaptation ''
Greed''. Blinn was famous for playing brutal characters on the stage, as in the
Edward Sheldon
Edward Brewster Sheldon (Chicago, Illinois, February 4, 1886 – April 1, 1946, New York City) was an American dramatist. His plays include ''Salvation Nell'' (1908) and ''Romance'' (1913), which was made into a motion picture with Greta Garbo.
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play ''Salvation Nell'' (1908).
The film is considered a
lost film.
[''The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20'' by The American Film Institute, c. 1988]
Cast
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Holbrook Blinn as McTeague
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Fania Marinoff
Fania Marinoff (russian: Фаня Маринов; yi, פאַניאַ מאַרינאָוו) (March 20, 1890 – November 17, 1971) was a Russian-born American actress.
Life
Marinoff was born in Odessa, Russia, on March 20, 1890. She was bo ...
as Trina
*Walter Green as Marcus Schuller
*Philip Robson as Mr. Sieppe
*Julia Stuart as Mrs. Sieppe
*Rosemary Dean as Selina Sieppe
*Eleanor Blanchard as Maria Cappa
See also
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List of lost films
For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films.
Reas ...
References
Notes
External links
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''Life's Whirlpool'' at silentera.com
1916 films
1916 drama films
Silent American drama films
American silent feature films
Films based on American novels
Films based on works by Frank Norris
Lost American films
American black-and-white films
World Film Company films
1916 lost films
Lost drama films
Uxoricide in fiction
Films directed by Barry O'Neil
1910s American films
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