Trelawny of the Wells (1916)
- Directed by
- Cecil Hepworth
- Genre
- silent film, romance film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A young actress from a theater family falls in love and faces the challenge of fitting into a more proper, upper-class world. The conflicts between her lively stage background and the stuffy expectations of high society drive the story.
old-fashionedromanticlighttheatricalclassicsoftgentlesentimental
What happens
Trelawny of the Wells is a 1916 British silent romance film directed by Cecil Hepworth, and starring Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome, and Violet Hopson. It is an adaptation of the 1898 play Trelawny of the Wells by Arthur Wing Pinero. The story was later filmed as a late silent by MGM in 1928 under the title The Actress, starring Norma Shearer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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