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Directed by Julius Steger Written by S.M. Weller (scenario) Initial release 2 June 1918 Producer Marion Davies | 9/10 IMDb Produced by Marion Davies Starring Marion Davies Director Julius Steger | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Based on Cecilia of the Pink Roses
by Katharine Haviland Taylor Production
company Marion Davies Film Corporation Cast Marion Davies, Willette Kershaw Similar The Belle of New York, The Cinema Murder, April Folly, Bride's Play, When Knighthood Was in Fl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cecilia of the Pink Roses is a lost 1918 American silent drama film directed by Julius Steger and starring and produced by Marion Davies in her second feature film. It was distributed by Select Pictures.
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Plot
As described in a film magazine, Cecilia's parents live very humbly in a tenement. The father is an inventive brick layer but can scarcely pay the expenses incident for the illness of the dying mother Mary (Kershaw). After her death all the cares fall on "Celie" (Davies), who tries to mother the brother and care for her father. Father McGowan (Sullivan), priest of the parish, is interested in the family and helps the father to sell an invention to his advantage. Celie is sent to a fashionable school where her crude manners make her unpopular. She meets Harry Twombly (Benham), who becomes interested in her. Her conduct is misunderstood and she becomes unhappy. She goes abroad and develops into a woman of fine ideals and a beautiful understanding of life. She sees in her father the man he wants to be, but is considerably worried about her brother, who drinks heavily. She meets Twombly again, and he wants to marry her, but she insists that he visit her home and meet her people. There she is greatly embarrassed by her brother's behavior and decides to refuse Twombly, but a miserable escapade of her brother's throws him into the hands of blackmailers where Twombly saves him. She is persuaded that happiness can only be found in their marriage and at last consents.
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Reception
Like many American films of the time, Cecilia of the Pink Roses was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut, in Reel 1, the thumbing of a nose and, in Reel 6, the two intertitles "Now sign this" etc. and "Then I will take the law into my own hands".