''The Soul of a Magdalen'' is a 1917 American silent

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directed by

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and starring

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and

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 ...

.Lowe p.425

Cast

as Heloise Broulette *

as Leland Norton *

as Carter Vail *

Mathilde Brundage Mathilde Brundage (September 22, 1859 – May 6, 1939) was an American actress. She appeared in 87 films between 1914 and 1928. Also known as Bertha Brundage, she was born in Louisville, Kentucky. For much of her life, her family thwarted her de ...

as Mrs. Vail *

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 Lil * Gene Burnell as Alice Vail *

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as Mrs. Broulette *

Richard Barthelmess Richard Semler Barthelmess (May 9, 1895 – August 17, 1963) was an American film actor, principally of the Hollywood silent era. He starred opposite Lillian Gish in D. W. Griffith's ''Broken Blossoms'' (1919) and ''Way Down East'' (1920) and w ...

as Louis Broulette *

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as Valet * Frank Moore as Dr. Crane

References

Bibliography

* Lowe, Denise. ''An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930''. Routledge, 2014.

External links

* 1917 films 1917 drama films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films Films directed by Burton L. King Metro Pictures films 1910s American films {{1910s-drama-film-stub