''The Lady of the Photograph'' is a 1917 American silent

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directed by

Ben Turbett Ben Turbett (1874 – March 6, 1936) was an opera performer, actor, and film director in the United States. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts and performed in operas as a young man. In 1909 he appeared in the Broadway production ''Stubborn Cind ...

and starring Shirley Mason, Raymond McKee and

Gerald Pring Gerald Pring (1888 – 1970) was a British stage and film actor. He played a number of supporting roles in British and American films during the silent and sound eras. In 1930 he appeared in the West End in the comedy '' Almost a Honeymoon''. ...

.Connelly p.371 It was made by the Edison Studios shortly before they withdrew from production activities.

Synopsis

An aristocratic but impoverished young Englishman meets an American woman in Britain, but fears he cannot be worthy of her until he has settled his debts. However a self-made American he meets on his ship across the

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offers to help him out financially in exchange for helping him to become a gentleman so that he can woo a woman whose photograph he carries around with him. The Englishman is shocked to discover that it is the same woman he in love with.

Cast

* Shirley Mason as Marjorie Van Dam * Raymond McKee as Ferdinand 'Ferdy' Latimer * Royal Byron as John Brown *

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as Eric Latimer * William Calhoun as Cornelius Van Dam *

as Captain Latimer *

Jane Harvey Jane Harvey (born Phyllis Taff, January 6, 1925, Jersey City, New Jersey – August 15, 2013) was an American jazz singer, known for recording several tracks with famous musicians such as Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman during the 1940s. Harv ...

as Mrs. Van Dam

References

Bibliography

* Robert B. Connelly. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36''. December Press, 1998.

External links

* 1917 films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films American drama films American black-and-white films Films directed by Ben Turbett Films set in England 1917 drama films 1910s American films Silent American drama films {{Silent-film-stub