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Director
  
Albert Capellani

Country
  
United States

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Language
  
Silent (English intertitles)

Release date
  
April 1917 (1917-04)

Based on
  
The Easiest Way  by Eugene Walter

Writer
  
Eugene Walter (play), Albert Capellani, Frederick Chapin

The Easiest Way is a 1917 American silent film starring Clara Kimball Young and directed by Albert Capellani. It is based on a 1909 play, The Easiest Way by Eugene Walter, staged by David Belasco and starred Frances Starr as Laura Murdock. Belasco and Starr revived the play in 1921. It is not known whether the film currently survives.

Actor Joseph Kilgour reprises his role as Brockton from the Broadway play.

Cast

  • Clara Kimball Young - Laura Murdock
  • Louise Bates - Elfie St. Clair
  • Joseph Kilgour - Willard Brockton
  • Rockliffe Fellowes - John Madison
  • Cleo Desmond - Annie
  • George Stevens - Jim Weston
  • Frank Kingdon - Burgess
  • Mae Hopkins - Nellie De Vere
  • Walter McEwen - Jerry

    • References

    The Easiest Way (1917 film) Wikipedia
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