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:
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.
01 January 1914
The editor of the Bungleville Bugle posts a sign on the door, informing the citizens that he is going to a better town.
25 July 1914
John Stafford is unjustly arrested on the eve of his marriage for the murder of an old gentleman whose body was found in his guardian's library.
21 January 1914
Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent.
24 October 1914
A doctor kills and embalms a woman in order to preserve her beauty.
15 November 1914
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho.
01 May 1914
Falsely accused of the theft of a million dollars in securities from the safe of his wealthy employer, an honest young private secretary finds himself powerless to prove his innocence because of the perjury of an unprincipled butler who has been bribed to testify against him.
01 January 1914
Beverly Calhoun is invited by her friend, Princess Yestive of Graustark, to pay her a visit. On her journey, she is waylaid by bandits, and becomes entangled in the political problems of a neighboring country, whose ruler Prince Dantan, has been ousted by his evil half-brother Gabriel.
30 May 1914
Mary Jones, slavey, lonely and unloved, advertises in a matrimonial paper for a good man to marry her.
28 January 1914
At the instigation of Sybel, an adventuress, Black, a society parasite, steals a valuable diamond brooch.
01 May 1914
Captain Lanning and Lieutenant Osborne are stationed at an army post in the Philippines. Lanning conceives a deadly hatred toward Osborne when the latter wins Gladys, General Fields' daughter.
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