''Mr. Gilfil's Love Story'' is a 1920 British silent

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directed by

A. V. Bramble Albert Victor Bramble (1884–1963) was an English actor and film director. He began his acting career on the stage. He started acting in films in 1913 and subsequently turned to directing and producing films. He died on 17 May 1963. Filmogra ...

and starring Robert Henderson Bland, Mary Odette and Peter Upcher.BFI.org
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George Eliot Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrot ...

's 1857 work ''

Scenes of Clerical Life ''Scenes of Clerical Life'' is George Eliot's first published work of fiction, a collection of three short stories, published in book form; it was the first of her works to be released under her famous pseudonym. The stories were first publis ...

''. A chaplain to an aristocratic British family falls in love with their

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, a young Italian woman, who he marries. Tragedy strikes when she dies only a few months later leaving him in a state of grief.

Cast

* Robert Henderson Bland - Maynard Gilfil * Mary Odette - Caterina * Peter Upcher - Anthony Wybrow * Dora De Winton - Lady Clevere * A. Harding Steerman - Sir Christopher Chever * Aileen Bagot - Beatrice Asscher *

Norma Whalley Norma Whalley (? – 1954) was an Australian theatre and film actress active in the United States and Britain. Biography Whalley was the daughter of Henry Octavius Whalley, a doctor working in Sydney, Australia. During the late 1890s she toured ...

- Lady Asscher * John Boella - Signor Sarti * Irene Drew - Dorcas * Robert Clifton - Knott

References

External links

* *
"Mr. Gilfil's Love Story"
' free PDF of Blackwood's 1878 Cabinet Edition (the critical standard with Eliot's final corrections) at the
George Eliot Archive
' 1920 films British drama films British silent feature films Films directed by A. V. Bramble 1920 drama films Films based on short fiction Ideal Film Company films British black-and-white films 1920s English-language films 1920s British films Silent drama films {{1920s-UK-film-stub