The Lady of the Photograph

The Lady of the Photograph
Directed by	Ben Turbett
Written by	Henry Albert Phillips Paul Sloane
Produced by	George Kleine
Starring	Shirley Mason Raymond McKee Gerald Pring
Cinematography	Fred S. Brace
Production companies	Perfection Pictures Edison Productions
Distributed by	K-E-S-E Service
Release date	August 27, 1917 (1917-08-27)
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

The Lady of the Photograph is a 1917 American silent comedy drama film directed by Ben Turbett and starring Shirley Mason, Raymond McKee and Gerald Pring.[1] 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 Atlantic 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
• Dudley Hill as Eric Latimer
• William Calhoun as Cornelius Van Dam
• Gerald Pring as Captain Latimer
• Jane Harvey as Mrs. Van Dam

References

1. Connelly, p. 371

Bibliography

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

External links

• The Lady of the Photograph at IMDb