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The Price of a Good Time
(1917) United States of America
B&W : [?] Five or Six? reels
Directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley

Cast: Mildred Harris [Linnie], Ann Schaeffer (Anne Schaefer) [her mother], Helene Rosson [Molly], Kenneth Harlan [Preston Winfield], Alfred Allen [his father], Adele Farrington [his mother], Gertrude Astor [Miss Schuyler]

Lois Weber Productions production; distributed by Jewel Productions, Incorporated (The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated). / Produced by Lois Weber. Scenario by Lois Weber, from the screen story “The Whim” by Marion Orth. Continuity writer, Ethel Weber. Assistant director, Arthur Forde. Technical director, Frank Ormston. Cinematography by [?] Allen Siegler and/or Duke Hayward? / © 15 November 1917 by Jewel Productions, Incorporated [LP11716]. Released 4 November 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: The Whim. The first film produced by Weber’s film studio located on Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopses available in AFI-F1 n. F1.3523, and in Hirschhorn-Universal p. 25.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Death: Suicide - Disillusionment - Extravagance - Medical: Hospitals - Reputation - Retail: Department stores, Saleswomen - Rich people - Transportation: Automobiles - Upper classes - Women directors

Listing updated: 8 March 2012.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.3523; Edmonds-BigU p. 91; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 25; Vermilye-Twenties p. 50 : Website-AFI.

 
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