''More Truth Than Poetry'' is a 1917 American silent
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 ...
film, directed by
Burton King
Burton L. King (August 25, 1877 – May 4, 1944) was an American film actor and director. One of his best-known productions was '' The Lost Battalion'' (1919).
Selected filmography
* '' The Battle of Gettysburg'' (1913)
* ''Under the Crescent'' ...
. It stars
Olga Petrova
Olga Petrova (born Muriel Harding; 10 May 1884 – 30 November 1977) was a British-American actress, screenwriter and playwright.
Life and career
Born Muriel Harding in England, she moved to the United States and became a star of vaudeville u ...
,
Mahlon Hamilton
Mahlon Preston Hamilton, Jr. (June 15, 1880 – June 20, 1960), was an American stage and screen actor. He was the son of a bartender born in Baltimore, Maryland, the eldest of four children, with the rest of the siblings being girls. Census ...
, and
Charles Martin, and was released on October 22, 1917.
Cast list
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Olga Petrova
Olga Petrova (born Muriel Harding; 10 May 1884 – 30 November 1977) was a British-American actress, screenwriter and playwright.
Life and career
Born Muriel Harding in England, she moved to the United States and became a star of vaudeville u ...
as Elaine Esmond/Vera Maitland
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Mahlon Hamilton
Mahlon Preston Hamilton, Jr. (June 15, 1880 – June 20, 1960), was an American stage and screen actor. He was the son of a bartender born in Baltimore, Maryland, the eldest of four children, with the rest of the siblings being girls. Census ...
as Ashton Blair/Blake Wendell
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Charles Martin as Daniel Maitland
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Violet Reed
Violet Reed (born Violet Williams) was an American actress active in Hollywood during the silent era.
Biography
Reed was born in Chicago, Illinois, to John Williams and Hanna Mattson. Her father appears to have died when she was young. She wa ...
as Florence Grant
* Harry Burkhardt as Robert Grant
* Mary Sands as Grace Danby
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William B. Davidson
William Beatman Davidson (June 16, 1888 – September 28, 1947) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1915 and 1947.
Early life
Davidson was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He attended Columbia University, w ...
as Allen Danby
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Tony Merlo as Louis Barrentos
References
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1917 drama films
1917 films
Silent American drama films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Metro Pictures films
Films directed by Burton L. King
1910s English-language films
1910s American films
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