The Hope Chest
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Genre Comedy, Drama Running time 50 minutes Story by Mark Lee Luther | Director Elmer Clifton Duration Screenplay Myron M. Stearns Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language Silent (English intertitles) Release date December 29, 1919 (1919-12-29) Based on The Hope Chest
by Mark Lee Luther Writer Mark Lee Luther (novel), M.M. Stearns (scenario) Cast Dorothy Gish (Sheila Moore), Richard Barthelmess (Tom Ballantyne), Sam De Grasse (Ballantyne - Sr), Carol Dempster (Ethel Hoyt), George Fawcett (Lew Moore)Similar movies Related Elmer Clifton movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Hope Chest is an American silent comedy drama film released in 1918, starring Dorothy Gish. The film was directed by Elmer Clifton and based on a serialized story (and later novel) by Mark Lee Luther, originally published in Woman's Home Companion. It is not known whether the film currently survives.
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Plot
Sheila Moore (Gish) takes a job at a candy store to support her father, an out-of-work vaudevillian. She attracts the romantic attentions of the store owner's son Tom (Barthalmess) and marries him, incurring the wrath of Tom's parents.
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Production
The Hope Chest was shot in Los Angeles, with production wrapping in late-September, 1918.
Release
The first screenings of The Hope Chest in New Zealand appear to have been in Wellington, where it played simultaneously in two theaters in August, 1919. The film played at the Strand Theatre in Christchurch in early September, 1919.
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