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The World and Its Woman

191970 minUnited States
Drama

Synopsis

American singer Marcia and a Russian prince fall in love, but his marriage and social position keep them apart. Revolution removes some of those barriers while creating new dangers. A political leader's pursuit of Marcia threatens the couple as they try to escape the upheaval.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
92:43
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Frank Lloyd · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsFrank Lloyd

Historical context

Opera star Geraldine Farrar and her husband Lou Tellegen lead this American melodrama. The Russian Revolution supplies an exoticized setting and a threatening revolutionary figure within a romance produced soon after the events.

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  • Geraldine Farrar — Hartsook · Public domain
  • Lou Tellegen — Unknown author Unknown author; This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ggbain.20975 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing . · Public domain

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