Name: The Petal on the Current
Released: 1919
Cast: Mary Maclaren, Gertrude Claire, Fritzie Ridgeway, Robert Anderson, Beatrice Burnham

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Aug 4, 1919

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Universal Film Mfg Co.

Distribution Company

Universal Film Mfg Co.; A Universal Special Attraction

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the short story "The Petal on the Current" by Fannie Hurst in Cosmopolitan Magazine (Jun 1918).

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Theatrical Aspect Ratio

1.33 : 1

Film Length

6 reels

Synopsis

Shop girl Stella Schump is devoted to her mother, who desires her to marry. Stella befriends her shoe store co-worker Cora Kinealy, who invites Stella to a party to meet the hero of a munitions plant fire. The young man does not attend, and Stella is coerced into overdrinking. She wanders into the street, is picked up by a detective, taken to night court, and sentenced to ten days in jail. Stella writes to her mother, and the shock of the news causes her mother's death. Upon release, Stella is relieved of her job and without a home. While wandering the streets, she is picked up by a man and taken to a Salvation Army home. The man is John Gilley, the munitions plant hero. The two find happiness together.

Director

Tod Browning

Director

Cast

Mary Maclaren

Stella Schump

Gertrude Claire

Stella's mother

Fritzie Ridgeway

Cora Kinealy

Robert Anderson

John Gilley

Beatrice Burnham

Gertie Cobb

Victor Potel

Skinny Flint

David Butler

Editor Kinealy

Crew

William Fildew

Camera

Waldemar Young

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