The Struggle Everlasting

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Directed by James Kirkwood Starring Florence Reed Director James Kirkwood Sr.		Written by Benet Musson Cinematography Lawrence E. Williams Cast Florence Reed

Produced by Harry Rapf High Art Productions Based on The Struggle Everlasting by Edward Milton Royle Similar Fanchon the Cricket, Mistress Nell, Behind the Scenes, Little Pal, Cinderella

The Struggle Everlasting is a 1918 American silent allegorical drama film directed by James Kirkwood, Sr. and starring stage star Florence Reed. It is based on a 1907 play, The Struggle Everlasting, by Edward Milton Royle.

This film is now a lost silent.

Cast

Florence Reed as Body, aka Lois

Milton Sills as Mind, aka Bruce

Irving Cummings as Soul, aka Dean

Wellington Playter as Champion Pugilist, aka Bob Dempsey

E. J. Ratcliffe as A Banker

Edwin N. Hoyt as Worldly Wise, aka Dr. Brandt

Fred C. Jones as Musician, aka Pierre Viron

Albert Hall as Class Poet

Richard Hattera as Aristocrat, aka Ned Coign

Margaret Pitt as A Wife

Mildred Cheshire as Frail Sister

George Cooper as Slimy Thing

Reception

Like many American films of the time, The Struggle Everlasting was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut, in Reel 1, the scene of woman apparently nude to include all scenes of bather up to point where she puts a garb over herself, Reel 4, closeup of women in one-piece bathing suits at pool, and, Reel 6, vision showing woman soliciting.

References

The Struggle Everlasting Wikipedia

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