Name: The Female of the Species
Released: 1916
Cast: Dorothy Dalton, Enid Markey, Howard Hickman, Gertrude Claire, Roy Laidlaw

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Also Known As

The Vampire

Release Date

Dec 31, 1916

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

New York Motion Picture Corp.; Kay-Bee

Distribution Company

Triangle Film Corp.

Country

United States

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Film Length

5 reels

Synopsis

Gloria Marley, the vampish leader of the artistic underground, falls in love with the wealthy Carleton Condon. When Carleton marries the more conventional Marcia Dorn, however, Gloria vows that she still will get her man. Gloria and Carleton then take a trip on the same train, and when it crashes, Carleton loses his memory. Thinking quickly, Gloria gives him the clothes and identification of a dead man and leaves word for Marcia that Carleton died in the wreck. Gloria then tells the amnesiac Carleton that she is his wife, and they live quite happily together until Marcia discovers that her husband is still alive. She finds Gloria and him, and tells Gloria that, just as she won his love once before, she will do it again. Slowly, Marcia accomplishes her task, and so gets Carleton back, after which an operation restores his memory.