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''The Twin Pawns'' is a 1919 American silent film drama directed by Leonce Perret and starring
Mae Murray Mae Murray (born Marie Adrienne Koenig; May 10, 1885 – March 23, 1965) was an American actress, dancer, film producer, and screenwriter. Murray rose to fame during the silent film era and was known as "The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips" and "Th ...
. It is yet another film taken from Wilkie Collin's novel ''The Woman in White''. The film was released by
Pathé Exchange Pathé Exchange, commonly known as Pathé, was an American film production and distribution company, largely of Hollywood's silent era. Known for its groundbreaking newsreel and wide array of shorts, it grew out of the American division of the ...
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Cast

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Mae Murray Mae Murray (born Marie Adrienne Koenig; May 10, 1885 – March 23, 1965) was an American actress, dancer, film producer, and screenwriter. Murray rose to fame during the silent film era and was known as "The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips" and "Th ...
as Daisy, Violet White *
Warner Oland Warner Oland (born Johan Verner Ölund; October 3, 1879 – August 6, 1938) was a Swedish-American actor. His career included time on Broadway and numerous film appearances. He is most remembered for playing several Chinese and Chinese-American ...
as John Bent *
Jack W. Johnston J. W. Johnston (October 2, 1876 – July 29, 1946) was an Irish American stage and film actor who started as a supporting actor and, briefly, leading man in the 1910s and early 1920s, continued as a character performer from the mid-1920s, and en ...
as Harry White (credited as J. W. Johnston) *
Henry G. Sell Henry G. Sell (1884–1968) was an American film actor of the silent era.Klepper p.174 He appeared in a number of serials produced by Pathé Exchange including several with Pearl White. Selected filmography * '' The Iron Claw'' (1916, serial) * ...
as Bo Anderson *
Edythe Chapman Edythe Chapman (October 8, 1863 – October 15, 1948) was an American stage and silent film actress. Career Born in Rochester, New York, Chapman began her stage career as early as 1898 when she appeared in New York City in ''The Charity Bal ...
(uncredited)


Preservation status

Copies of ''The Twin Pawns'' are held at BFI National Film Institute and
Filmmuseum Eye Filmmuseum is a film archive, museum, and cinema in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherlands. Location and history Eye Filmmuseum is located in the Overhoeks neighborhood of Amsterdam in t ...
Amsterdam.The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''The Twin Pawns''
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See also

* Leonce Perret filmography (director) * Leonce Perret filmography (actor) *'' The Woman in White'' (1912) *'' The Woman in White'' (1917) *'' Tangled Lives'' (1917) *'' The Woman in White'' (1921) *'' The Woman in White'' (1929) *'' The Woman in White'' (1948)


References


External links


The Twin Pawns at IMDb.com
* 1919 films American silent feature films Films directed by Léonce Perret American black-and-white films Pathé Exchange films 1919 drama films Silent American drama films 1910s American films 1910s English-language films {{1910s-drama-film-stub