''The Awakening'' is a 1917 American silent

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directed by

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and starring

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and John Davidson.Parish & Pitts p.7 Prints and/or fragments were found in the Dawson Film Find in 1978.

Cast

as Jacques Revilly *

as Marguerite * John Davidson as Horace Chapron * Frank Beamish as Varny *

Joseph Granby Joseph Granby (March 24, 1885 – September 22, 1965) was an American film actor whose career spanned from 1915 to the 1960s. Born in Boston he started in movies in 1915, mostly shorts, acting for Universal, its predecessor Independent Motion P ...

as Prosper Chavassier * Josephine Earle as Celestine

References

Bibliography

* James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts. ''Film directors: a guide to their American films''. Scarecrow Press, 1974.

External links

* 1917 films 1917 drama films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films Films directed by George Archainbaud American black-and-white films World Film Company films Films shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey 1910s American films {{1910s-US-film-stub