#lydia knott

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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (Charles Chaplin, 1923).

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A Woman of Paris (Charles Chaplin, 1923)

[vintagedreamsofsennett]

Should a Woman Tell? (1919, John Ince) Part 1

*I guess original version was lost and the version which translated into Dutch language is survived. The protagonist girl's name is Meta Maxon in Original version but her name is Gloria in Dutch version.

Gloria(Alice Lake) and her poor family lives in a New England fishing village. One night, Gloria, with her father(Frank Currier) and her friend Albert Tuley(Jack Mulhall), saves a woman from the shipwreck. Her name is Clarissa Sedgwick(Lydia Knott). Gloria nurses her and she takes Gloria to Boston to educate her in return for her help.

At the same time, her friend Albert goes to New York to study sculpture.

In Boston. One year passed. Gloria was attracted to Clarissa Sedgwick's young and handsome cousin Morton Sedgwick(John Gilbert).

Meanwhile, Gloria's stepmother(Nellie Anderson) thinks that her daughter can end their poverty by marrying the young, rich man.

But Gloria returns her mother's home after raped in the gazebo by Morton Sedgwick.

When Gloria returned to her family, her mother's angry with her daughter because she didn't marry the rich man.

Two, dark years passed. Gloria's friend Albert who became successful sculptor comes back from New York, then proposed to her.

But Gloria is not convinced that she has the right to love another man. She writes a letter to Albert intending to tell him what had happened to her in Boston.

"If you forgive me, please return this rose to me."

She delivers the letter with a rose when he's asleep. But her mother wanted to marry her daughter to the sculptor with a bright future, so she intercepted the letter and hid it before he woke up.

And the next day, Albert who sticks the rose in his buttonhole visits Gloria. She thinks he forgave her and they started to plan for marriage.

*Reference

Edward Weitzel, "Brilliant New Star Is Alice Lake In Metro's 'Should a Woman Tell?'" The Moving Picture World, January 3, 1920, p.63

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Lydia Knott-Charles Ray "Scrap iron" 1921, de Charles Ray.

[gatutor]

Lydia Knott (Tyner, Indiana, 1/10/1866-Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, 30/03/1955).

[vintagedreamsofsennett]

The beginning part of this film is lost and these stills are from that lost part. Alice's family rescues the woman from the shipwreck.

Alice Lake and Frank Currier

Moving Picture World, December 1919, p.1005

Frank Currier and Alice Lake

Moving Picture World, December 1919, p.966

Frank Currier, Alice Lake and Jack Mulhall

Moving Picture World, December 1919, p.1106

Lydia Knott (the woman from the shipwreck), Alice Lake and Jack Mulhall (both sitting) and Frank Currier

Moving Picture World, December 1919, p.979