''The Heart of Wetona'' is a 1919 American
silent adventure drama film
An adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival films. Adventure films may also be combined with other film genres such as action, anim ...
directed by
Sidney Franklin and starring
Norma Talmadge
Norma Marie Talmadge (May 2, 1894 – December 24, 1957) was an American actress and film producer of the silent film, silent era. A major box-office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among ...
,
Fred Huntley
Fred Huntley (29 August 1862 in London, England – 1 November 1931 in Hollywood, California) was an English silent film actor and director.
Fred Huntley made his theater debut at London's Covent Garden in 1879. After years as the leading m ...
, and
Thomas Meighan
Thomas Meighan (April 9, 1879 – July 8, 1936) was an American actor of silent films and early talkies. He played several leading-man roles opposite popular actresses of the day, including Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson. At one point he comm ...
.
Plot
The film tells the story of some
Comanche
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Indians and their preparations for a
Corn Dance. The father of Wetona finds out she loves a white man.
[''The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram''. (Richmond, Ind.), 04 April 1919, p. 7.]
Cast
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Norma Talmadge
Norma Marie Talmadge (May 2, 1894 – December 24, 1957) was an American actress and film producer of the silent film, silent era. A major box-office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among ...
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Fred Huntley
Fred Huntley (29 August 1862 in London, England – 1 November 1931 in Hollywood, California) was an English silent film actor and director.
Fred Huntley made his theater debut at London's Covent Garden in 1879. After years as the leading m ...
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Thomas Meighan
Thomas Meighan (April 9, 1879 – July 8, 1936) was an American actor of silent films and early talkies. He played several leading-man roles opposite popular actresses of the day, including Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson. At one point he comm ...
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Gladden James
Gladden James (February 26, 1888 – August 28, 1948) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1911 and 1946. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio and died in Hollywood, California, from leukemia.
Family
In 1914 he ...
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F.A. Turner
References
External links
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1919 films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Sidney Franklin
American adventure drama films
1910s adventure drama films
Selznick Pictures films
1919 drama films
1910s American films
Silent American drama films
Silent adventure drama films
1910s English-language films
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