The Lesson is a 1917 American silent comedy drama film directed by Charles Giblyn and starring Constance Talmadge, Tom Moore, and Walter Hiers.Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema, p. 262
Plot As described in a film magazine review, Helen Drayton, bored with her small town sweetheart, elopes with an architect from the city. He allows her very little money, although he spends a great deal on himself. She supports herself secretly by doing interior decorating. When she finds that he has been unfaithful, she leaves him, secures a divorce, and marries her former sweetheart who has also come to the city.
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Bibliography Donald W. McCaffrey & Christopher P. Jacobs. Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema. Greenwood Publishing, 1999.
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