The Lie is a 1918 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Artcraft Pictures, an affiliate of Paramount. J. Searle Dawley directed and stage star Elsie Ferguson starred in a story based on a 1914 play by Henry Arthur Jones and starring Margaret Illington. The film is now lost.The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c. 1988The Lie as produced on Broadway at the Harris Theatre, December 24, 1914 to May 1915, 172 performances; IBDb.comThe AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Lie(Wayback)
Cast Elsie Ferguson as Elinor Shale David Powell as Gerald Forster John L. Shine as Sir Robert Shale Percy Marmont as Nol Dibdin Charles Sutton as Hamp Bertha Kent as Gibbard Maude Turner Gordon as Lady Beachworth Betty Howe as Lucy Shale
Reception Like many American films of the time, The Lie was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors issued an Adults Only permit for the film.
See also The House That Shadows Built (1931 promotional film by Paramount); a possibility that the unnamed Ferguson clip is from The Lie.
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Still photo of scene with Elsie Ferguson, Betty Howe, and David Powell (Powell erroneously referred to as Norman Kerry) Lantern slide