''Wild Primrose'' is a 1918 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 ...
directed by
Frederick A. Thomson
Frederick A. Thomson (1869–1925), sometimes spelled Thompson, was a director of silent films in the United States. He began his directing career in theater.
Thomson was credited by Helen Hayes for enabling her debut in ''Jean and the Calico Do ...
and starring
Gladys Leslie
Gladys Leslie Moore (March 5, 1899 – October 2, 1976) was an American actress in silent film, active in the 1910s and 1920s. Though less-remembered than superstars like Mary Pickford, she had a number of starring roles from 1917 to the ea ...
,
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 ...
,
Eulalie Jensen
Eulalie Jensen (December 24, 1884 – October 7, 1952) was an American actress on the New York stage and in silent films.
Biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she was selected as one of six extra girls from the 200 applicants responding to a ...
,
Charles Kent, and
Claude Gillingwater
Claude Benton Gillingwater (August 2, 1870 – November 1, 1939) was an American stage and screen actor. He first appeared on the stage then in more than 90 films between 1918 and 1939, including the Academy Award-nominated ''A Tale of Two ...
. The film was released by
V-L-S-E, Incorporated
Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907 ...
on August 12, 1918.
Plot
Cast
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Gladys Leslie
Gladys Leslie Moore (March 5, 1899 – October 2, 1976) was an American actress in silent film, active in the 1910s and 1920s. Though less-remembered than superstars like Mary Pickford, she had a number of starring roles from 1917 to the ea ...
as Primrose Standish
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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 Jack Wilton
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Eulalie Jensen
Eulalie Jensen (December 24, 1884 – October 7, 1952) was an American actress on the New York stage and in silent films.
Biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she was selected as one of six extra girls from the 200 applicants responding to a ...
as Marie
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Charles Kent as Williams
*
Claude Gillingwater
Claude Benton Gillingwater (August 2, 1870 – November 1, 1939) was an American stage and screen actor. He first appeared on the stage then in more than 90 films between 1918 and 1939, including the Academy Award-nominated ''A Tale of Two ...
as Standish
*Ann Warrington as Emily
*Arthur Lewis as Griff
*
Bigelow Cooper
Jackson Bigelow Cooper (December 21, 1867 – 1953) was an American stage and screen character actor prominent in the silent film era.
Biography
Born in Springfield, Ohio in 1867, Cooper's early acting experience came in stock theater, includi ...
as Newton
*Gladys Valerie
Preservation
The film is now considered
lost
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History
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.
American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''Wild Primrose''
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References
External links
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1918 drama films
Silent American drama films
1918 films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Vitagraph Studios films
Lost American drama films
1918 lost films
Films directed by Frederick A. Thomson
Films with screenplays by Joseph F. Poland
1910s American films
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