Everywoman


1919

Film Details

Genre
Adaptation
Release Date
Dec 1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.
Distribution Company
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.; A Paramount-Artcraft Super Special
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play Everywoman by Walter Browne (New York, 27 Feb 1911).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
6,854ft (7 reels)

Synopsis

A girl auctioning a kiss at a charity bazaar is offered a chance to become an actress by two stage managers. After getting advice from three girlfriends, she awakens the next morning as Everywoman. Her friends have become Modesty, Youth, and Beauty, and the stage managers have become Bluff and Stuff. She turns down a proposal from a struggling physician after Flattery convinces her to go on the Stage of Life and seek Love. When she mistakes Passion, an actor, for Love, Modesty leaves her, but she rejects Passion when she discovers that he wants her only when Beauty and Youth are present. Passion has Dissipation steal Beauty, whereupon Bluff and Stuff desert Everywoman. After losing Youth to Time, Everywoman tries to sell herself to Wealth, a millionaire, but he spurns her. With Nobody as her only friend, she follows Truth home where she discovers the son of Truth, the physician, is the Love she seeks. Modesty returns soon followed by Beauty.

Film Details

Genre
Adaptation
Release Date
Dec 1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.
Distribution Company
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.; A Paramount-Artcraft Super Special
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play Everywoman by Walter Browne (New York, 27 Feb 1911).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
6,854ft (7 reels)

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Notes

Willie Hopkins constructed sculptures that were photographed in the subtitles. The film was exhibited for the first time at the Grand Theatre in Columbus, Ohio the week of December 13, 1919.