The World and the Woman
About The World and the Woman
Jeanne Eagels plays a woman of the streets. A man, Boyd Marshall, hires her as a maid at his lodge in the Adirondacks. His behavior drives her out to a local family that has taken to her. At a party, Jim Rollins's daughter Sunny, played by Ethelmary Oakland, falls down the stairs. The country doctor says she will not live. The woman prays. A vision appears, and the child recovers.
Cast & crew
More about The World and the Woman
Wikipedia credits Frank Lloyd and Eugene Moore as directors. The AFI catalog credits W. Eugene Moore and lists Philip Lonergan as scenarist. William C. deMille also appears on the writing credit. Edwin Thanhouser produced it. George Webber photographed it. Martin G. Cohn and Jack Natteford edited. Thanhouser made it under the Gold Rooster Plays brand. Pathé Exchange released it on 19 November 1916. It is five reels, and the running time is given as 66 minutes. The script comes from the 1914 play Outcast, which had starred Elsie Ferguson on Broadway from 2 November 1914. Thomas A. Curran plays James Palmer. Wayne Arey plays Jim Rollins. Grace DeCarlton plays his wife. Carey L. Hastings plays Anna Graham.
Themes
Making
Thanhouser took a Broadway play about a woman driven out of the city and shot the second life as a lodge job in the mountains.
Look
George Webber photographed the Adirondack lodge, the party, and Sunny's fall.
Preservation
A 35mm print is held by George Eastman House.
Notes
- The story was filmed again as Outcast in 1922, with Elsie Ferguson, and in 1928, with Corinne Griffith, and in 1935 as The Girl from 10th Avenue, with Bette Davis.
- It is not the 1907 novel of the same title by Ruth Kimball Gardiner.
- AFI's subject list for the picture includes faith healing, the Adirondacks, a fall, and a maid.
- A 35mm print is held by George Eastman House.
Scenes
- The man hires her as maid at the lodge, then drives her out to the neighbors.
- Sunny falls down the stairs at the party. The doctor says she will die.
- The woman prays, a vision appears, and the child recovers.
Influenced by
- The 1914 play Outcast
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The World and the Woman (1916).webm)
