Release Date

16 Jun, 1919

Runtime

00:50: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

When burlesque dancer Elois Murree gives birth to her daughter Yvette, she sends to a fashionable boarding school away from the stage environment and her drunken husband. Yvette visits infrequently but during one sojourn Murree slashes Elois' left eye in an argument forcing Elois, now veiled, to perform billed as the Masked Queen. Yvette becomes attracted to her friend’s brother, Rex, she avoids him after she learns that he wants his prospective bride to come from a good family. Yvette becomes a burlesque queen, but a distraught Elois tries to kill her to save her soul and then commits suicide, leaving the bloodied knife in the hands of her drunken husband, who then is arrested. Later, Yvette finds happiness with Rex.

Original Title

The Painted World

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Actors

Anita Stewart

Julia Swayne Gordon

E.K. Lincoln

Harry Northrup

Janice Cummings

R.A. Roberts

Crew

Ralph Ince

Jacques Futrelle

Marguerite Bertsch

William S. Adams

William T. Stuart

George Randolph Chester

Lillian Christy Chester