A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Beautiful Lie
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by John W. Noble

Cast: Frances Nelson [Louise Joyce], Harry S. Northrup [Mortimer Grierson], Edward Earle [Paul Vivian], Elsie MacLeod [the other girl], Sally Crute [Mary], John Davidson [Howard Hayes], Mrs. Allan Walker [Mrs. Joyce], Emile Collins [the butler]

[?] Rolfe Photoplays, Incorporated, and/or Metro Pictures Corporation? production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by June Mathis, as inspired by the poem “Reveries of a Station House” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Cinematography by Herbert O. Carleton (Herbert Oswald Carleton). Presented by B.A. Rolfe. / © 19 May 1917 by Metro Pictures Corporation [LP10799]. Released 21 May 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 14 December 2024.

References: Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.