Throughout most of her career, superstar beauty Mae Murray collaborated with director Robert Z. Leonard, her husband, creating a long string of silent successes. She often earned writing credit and participated in other aspects of production as well as acting.
This very early work is an amazingly imitative exercise in the "art film" category before Mae was reinvented, utilizing her true talent and personality, as the glamorous "girl with the bee stung lips."
Here, Mae is a pure and simple Mary Pickford imitator as were so many stars of the earliest silent era, and the film itself is a patent imitation -- although lacking the brilliance -- of D.W. Griffith conception and directorial excellence.
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This very early work is an amazingly imitative exercise in the "art film" category before Mae was reinvented, utilizing her true talent and personality, as the glamorous "girl with the bee stung lips."
Here, Mae is a pure and simple Mary Pickford imitator as were so many stars of the earliest silent era, and the film itself is a patent imitation -- although lacking the brilliance -- of D.W. Griffith conception and directorial excellence.
Please look to plot summary contributed elsewhere.