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:
24 October 1914
A doctor kills and embalms a woman in order to preserve her beauty.
24 August 1914
Sweedie, the cook at the Prim household, is a little too rough to suit Mr. Prim, who is about three feet shorter than herself.
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.
10 May 1914
Norma, a dancer, receives many presents from admirers. Among them she finds a peculiar looking box, out of which spring several poisonous snakes.
28 January 1914
At the instigation of Sybel, an adventuress, Black, a society parasite, steals a valuable diamond brooch.
15 November 1914
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho.
25 September 1914
A Native American warrior travels to a faraway tribe to find and defend a woman that haunts his dreams.
27 June 1914
Woman Against Woman is a tale of two sisters. Bessie, the older and more sensible one, is forever losing her boyfriends to Miriam, the younger, prettier and flightier of the two.
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