Directed by Ulysses Davis, the screenplay was based on a story by Marc Edmund Jones. Long thought to have been a lost film, a copy was found and put on YouTube. The film is the only known surviving film in which director William Desmond Taylor appears as an actor. In 1964 Taylor's co-star Margaret Gibson, shortly before her death, reportedly confessed to having murdered him in 1921.
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Patricia Palmer as Alice - a Shop Girl
George Holt as Fred - Alice's Sweetheart
William Desmond Taylor as George Dale - a Society Man
Myrtle Gonzalez as Helen - George's Fiancée
Loyola O'Connor as The Landlady
Jane Novak as Mazie - a Saleslady
United States 14 April 1914
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A short clip of a long-lost film with William Desmond Taylor (murdered in 1922) and Margaret Gibson.
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The Kiss - April 15 1914 The Kiss is a 1914 Vitagraph silent drama short motion picture starring Margaret Gibson George Holt William Desmond Taylor and ...
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1914:
01 January 1914
In ancient times Rome looked upon Carthage as her greatest rival, and determined to plan her downfall.
20 November 1914
The death of her father brought Sylvia Fairfax face to face with conditions which she was unequipped to handle, and, after an unsuccessful attempt to fill the position of governess in the Windermere home, caused her to go to New York.
24 April 1914
Kate Clarke and her brother, Joe, are alone in the world. Kate learns of her brother's connection with a counterfeiter's gang only when the police invade their rooms to arrest Joe.
25 December 1914
A pet parrot dies and get mixed up with the neighbor's Chrismas turkey.
28 January 1914
Little Billy wants to buy some ice cream with the dime his mother gave him, but the neighborhood bullies have other plans for that dime.
10 April 1914
The Spoilers is a 1914 film directed by Colin Campbell. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with William Farnum as Roy Glennister, Kathlyn Williams as Cherry Malotte, and Tom Santschi as Alex McNamara.
21 November 1914
In the second entry of the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, is temporarily assigned as a telegraph operator at Quarry Depot; bad blood springs up between two men who are seeking Helen's favor, but to whom she has remained impartial.
15 November 1914
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho.
18 November 1914
A young man discovers the reason his new bride killed herself.
01 January 1914
Two young men serving at the front. One comes from a good family, the other's family is poor. But the sister of the middle-class son falls in love with his poor comrade when he returns home for Christmas.
22 October 1914
Soda jerk Harvey is the most popular man in Blakeville NY and deliriously happy through three years of poverty-stricken marriage to Nellie.
01 May 1914
Based on the novel Trilby by George du Maurier. A girl named Trilby meets Svengali, a musician and hypnotist, who claims he can turn her into a talented singer via hypnosis.
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