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The Stepping Stone

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Genre
  
Drama

Cast
  
Mary Boland, Frank Keenan

Country
  
United States

Distributed by
  
Triangle Film Corporation

Duration
  

Language
  
Silent film English intertitles

Director
  
Reginald Barker Thomas H. Ince

Release date
  
April 16, 1916 (1916-04-16)

Writer
  
C. Gardner Sullivan (scenario)

Directors
  
Thomas H. Ince, Reginald Barker

Genres
  
Drama, Indie film, Silent film, Black-and-white

Related Reginald Barker movies
  
Civilization (1916), The Coward (1915), The Wrath of the Gods (1914), The Italian (1915)

The Stepping Stone is a 1916 American silent drama film, directed by Reginald Barker and Thomas H. Ince. It is a lost film.

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Plot

Mary Beresford (Boland) is the wife of unambitious law clerk Al Beresford (Beresford). Thanks to Mary's tenacity and carefully calculated social-climbing, Al is promoted to the position of personal secretary of prominent financier Elihu Knowland (Keenan). Unfortunately, success goes to Al's head like a narcotic, and soon he has alienated everyone in New York, including Mary, who runs off for parts unknown.

Cast

  • Frank Keenan as Elihu Knowland
  • Mary Boland as Mary Beresford
  • Robert McKim as Al Beresford
  • Margaret Thompson as Flora Alden
  • Joseph J. Dowling as W. B. Prescott
  • J. Barney Sherry as Horatio Wells

    • References

    The Stepping Stone Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The Stepping Stone IMDb