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Her Excellency, the Governor

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Screenplay
  
Robert Shirley

Duration
  

Director
  
Albert Parker

Cinematography
  
Roy Vaughn

Country
  
United States

Language
  
Silent (English intertitles)

Release date
  
June 24, 1917 (1917-06-24)

Based on
  
His Excellency, the Governor  by Robert Marshall

Cast
  
Hedda Hopper, Wilfred Lucas, Regan Hughston, Albert Perry, Edith Speare, Joseph Kilgour, Walter Walker

Similar movies
  
The Love of Sunya (1927), The Riverside Murder (1935), Sherlock Holmes (1922), The Rejected Woman (1924), Eyes of Youth (1919)

Her Excellency, the Governor is a 1917 American silent drama film produced and distributed by the Triangle Film Corporation. Directed by Albert Parker, the film stars Elda Milar, who later became well known as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. The film is loosely based the play His Excellency, the Governor, by Robert Marshall.

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Cast

  • Wilfred Lucas - James Barclay
  • Hedda Hopper as Sylvia Marlowe (credited as Elda Milar)
  • Joseph Kilgour- Joe Keller
  • Regan Hughston- Governor's Secretary
  • Walter Walker - Capitalist
  • Edith Speare - Lieutenant Governor
  • Albert Perry - Reform Senator
  • Reception

    Like many American films of the time, Her Excellency, the Governor was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors required the cutting of an intertitle that stated, "You're around her quite often - why don't you compromise her?"

    References

    Her Excellency, the Governor Wikipedia