The Waiting Soul is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Burton L. King and starring Olga Petrova, Mahlon Hamilton and Mathilde Brundage.Lowe p.425 It was filmed in St. Augustine, Florida at the Ponce de Leon Hotel.St. Augustine Evening Record, April 12, 1917.
Cast Olga Petrova as Grace Vaughan Mahlon Hamilton as Stuart Brinsley Mathilde Brundage as Mrs. Brinsley Wyndham Standing as Dudley Kent Lettie Ford as Mrs. Hargrove Anna Laughney as Marie D'Arcy Roy Pilcher as Willard Ashbrook Wilfred De Shields as John Hargrove
Development The film is based on the 1914 short story "The Waiting Soul" by Marion Short, and adapted for the screen by Wallace C. Clifton.
Censorship Before The Waiting Soul could be exhibited in Kansas, the Kansas Board of Review required the removal of all apartment scenes in London and all intertitles related to a pregnancy.
Preservation The film is preserved by MGM; and donated to unknown source.
References
Bibliography Lowe, Denise. An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895–1930. Routledge, 2014.
External links
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