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Director
  
Rae Berger

Country
  
United States

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Language
  
SilentEnglish intertitles

Release date
  
July 23, 1916 (1916-07-23)

Purity is a 1916 American silent drama film, directed by Rae Berger and starring Audrey Munson. The film's scenario was written by Clifford Howard and is notable for its nude scenes, which caused it to be banned and preached against in some towns.

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Purity was long presumed to be lost. However, in 2004, a copy was rediscovered in France. A copy of the film is now preserved at the Centre national de la cinématographie in Paris.

Plot

Purity (Munson), a simple country girl, comes to the city and is hired as an artist's model. A young poet becomes obsessed with her, and is distraught when he learns she has been posing nude. But his distress is diminished when he finds that she intends to use her income from modeling to publish his poetry.

Cast

  • Audrey Munson as Purity / Virtue
  • Nigel De Brulier as Thorton Darcy
  • Alfred Hollingsworth as Claude Lamarque
  • William A. Carroll as Evil / Luston Black
  • Eugenie Forde as Judith Lure
  • Clarence Burton as Publisher
  • Nela Drinkwitz as Model
  • Molly Shafer as Landlady

    • References

    Purity (film) Wikipedia
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    Purity (film) IMDb