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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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1914:
05 June 1914
In search of a maid, Mrs. Cook, an aristocratic and extremely proud society woman, goes to an employment agency and hires Luna, fat, awkward and straight from Sweden.
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.
15 November 1914
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho.
25 May 1914
General Wolfe, appointed commander of the expedition against Quebec, comes to bid his mother goodbye.
01 January 1914
In ancient times Rome looked upon Carthage as her greatest rival, and determined to plan her downfall.
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.
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.
01 October 1914
Accompanied by his dog Skookum, artist Richard Alden goes to work painting the beauty of Laguna Beach.
01 January 1914
Based on the autobiographical novel of the same name. Jack London has struggled with alcoholism most of his life.
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.
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