''The Lifted Veil'' is a 1917 American silent
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
produced by B. A. Rolfe and distributed by
Metro Pictures
Metro Pictures Corporation was a Film, motion picture production company founded in early 1915 in Jacksonville, Florida. It was a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The company produced its films in New York, Los Angeles, and sometimes at leas ...
. It is based on a 1917 novel ''The Lifted Veil'' by
Basil King
William Benjamin Basil King (1859–1928) was a Canadian clergyman who became a writer after retiring from the clergy. His novels and non-fiction were spirituality, spiritually oriented.
Life and career
He was born on February 26, 1859, in Charl ...
, an author popular with women readers. Stage star
Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. Barrymore was a stage, screen and radio actress whose career spanned six decades, and was regarde ...
, under contract to Metro, appears in her eighth silent feature film, which is now
lost
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Geography
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History
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.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, Clorinda Gildersleeve (Barrymore) has drifted into an affair with a married man, Leslie Palliser (Ellis). She goes to Europe to forget and meets Malcolm Grant (Davidson), a young surgeon, who falls in love with her. However, because of her affair with Palliser, she believes she has no right to accept his love. She hears an excellent sermon preached by Reverend Arthur Bainbridge (Gillmore) on the text "Woman, go and sin no more" and appeals to the minister in regards to Malcolm's attentions. She sends Malcolm to see the minister, but he does not disclose Clorinda's secret. The minister interests her in a home for erring girls and Clorinda adopts one of the inmates. Reverend Bainbridge urges her to marry Malcolm, but during the ceremony she falls in a faint. That night, however, she writes to the minister announcing her marriage to Malcolm and their departure for France, where he will do surgical work and she will become a nurse.
Cast
Reception
Like many American films of the time, ''The Lifted Veil'' was subject to cuts by
city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors issued an Adults Only permit for the film.
See also
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Ethel Barrymore on stage, screen and radio
Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; 1879–1959) was an American actress of stage, screen and radio. She came from a family of actors; she was the middle child of Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew Barrymore, and had two brothers, Lionel an ...
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1917 films
American silent feature films
Films based on Canadian novels
Lost American films
Films directed by George D. Baker
1917 drama films
Silent American drama films
American black-and-white films
1917 lost films
Lost drama films
1910s American films