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''Gloria's Romance'' is a 1916 American silent
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#Lost in the Everglades
#Caught by the Seminoles
#A Perilous Love
#The Social Vortex
#The Gathering Storm
#Hidden Fires
#The Harvest of Sin
#The Mesh of Mystery
#The Shadow of Scandal
#Tangled Threads
#The Fugitive Witness
#Her Fighting Spirit
#The Midnight Riot
#The Floating Trap
#The Murderer at Bay
#A Modern Pirate
#The Tell-Tale Envelope
#The Bitter Truth
#Her Vow Fulfilled
#Love's Reward
Still of Billie Burke and David Powell Poster to chapter "The Shadow of Scandal"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gloria's Romance 1916 films American silent serial films Lost American films Films directed by Colin Campbell American black-and-white films Films produced by George Kleine 1916 lost films 1910s American films
film serial
A serial film, film serial (or just serial), movie serial, or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, gene ...
starring Billie Burke
Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke (August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970) was an American actress who was famous on Broadway and radio, and in silent and sound films. She is best known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North ...
. Serial films, also called chapter plays, were shorter films that were typically run before the main feature film, each of which was part of a longer story, and ended in a cliffhanger
A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode or a film of serialized fiction. A cliffhang ...
, thus encouraging the audience to return every week.
The film was Burke's second outing as a film actress, and one of the very rare occasions in which a Broadway performer of her magnitude starred in a chapter play. In its original form, this serial comprised 20 chapters and was 40 reels long, which was several chapters longer than most film serials of the time.
''Gloria's Romance'' marked the debut of actor 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 ...
. It was written by Rupert Hughes
Rupert Raleigh Hughes (January 31, 1872 – September 9, 1956) was an American novelist, film director, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, military officer, and music composer. He was the brother of Howard R. Hughes Sr. and uncle of billionaire How ...
and his wife and produced by George Kleine. Walter Edwin and Colin Campbell Colin may refer to:
* Colin (given name)
* Colin (surname)
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* Colin (horse) (1905–1932), thoroughbred racehorse
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served as principal directors. It is a lost film
A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress.
Conditions
During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy ...
.''The American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films: 1911-20'', The American Film Institute, c. 1988
Cast
*Billie Burke
Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke (August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970) was an American actress who was famous on Broadway and radio, and in silent and sound films. She is best known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North ...
as Gloria Stafford (credited as Miss Billie Burke)
*Henry Kolker
Joseph Henry Kolker (November 13, 1874 ome sources 1870– July 15, 1947) was an American stage and film actor and director.
Early years
Kolker was born in Quincy, Illinois.
Career
Kolker, like fellow actors Richard Bennett and Robert Wa ...
as Dr. Stephen Royce
*David Powell David Powell may refer to:
* Dai Powell (David Morgan Powell, born 1935), Welsh footballer, full back for Blackpool and Rochdale
* Dave Powell (1876–1953), Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne
* David Powell (actor) (1883� ...
as Richard Freneau, a Broker
*William Roselle as David Stafford, Gloria's Brother
*Frank Belcher as Frank Lulry, Freneau's Partner
* William T. Carleton as Pierpont Stafford
*Jule Power as Lois Freeman, Judge Freeman's Daughter
*Henry Weaver as Judge Freeman
* Frank McGlynn, Sr. as Gideon Trask
*Helen Hart as Nell Trask
*Maxfield Moree as Stass Casimir
*Maurice Steuart as
* Rapley Holmes as Chooey McFadden
*Adelaide Hastings as Gloria's Governess
*Ralph Bunker
*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 ...
- extra (uncredited)
Plot
An adventurous young girl in Florida (Burke) gets lost in the Everglades. There she finds terror and excitement, as well as the rivalry of two men in love with her.List of chapters
#Lost in the Everglades
#Caught by the Seminoles
#A Perilous Love
#The Social Vortex
#The Gathering Storm
#Hidden Fires
#The Harvest of Sin
#The Mesh of Mystery
#The Shadow of Scandal
#Tangled Threads
#The Fugitive Witness
#Her Fighting Spirit
#The Midnight Riot
#The Floating Trap
#The Murderer at Bay
#A Modern Pirate
#The Tell-Tale Envelope
#The Bitter Truth
#Her Vow Fulfilled
#Love's Reward
See also
*List of lost films
For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films.
R ...
References
External links
* *Still of Billie Burke and David Powell
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gloria's Romance 1916 films American silent serial films Lost American films Films directed by Colin Campbell American black-and-white films Films produced by George Kleine 1916 lost films 1910s American films