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The Average Woman

192447 minUnited States
Drama

Synopsis

A reporter follows a judge's daughter while researching an article about the average woman. Their developing romance collides with a nightclub owner's attempt to blackmail her father using letters from the family's past.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
47:27
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Christy Cabanne · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsChristy Cabanne

Inspirations

The screenplay adapts a short story by Dorothy De Jagers published in The Saturday Evening Post. A light romantic premise gradually gives way to threats against the family's reputation.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

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