Name: Diane of the Follies
Released: 1916
Cast: Lillian Gish, Sam De Grasse, Howard Gaye, Lillian Langdon, A. D. Sears

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Also Known As

Diana of the Follys

Release Date

Sep 24, 1916

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Fine Arts Film Co.

Distribution Company

Triangle Film Corp.

Country

United States

Synopsis

Aristocrat Phillips Christy, an emotionless amateur sociologist, believes that people are shaped by environment, and when he falls in love with Diane, a follies actress, he vows to put theory into practice. By marrying Diane, he feels that he will cultivate all of her "better" qualities. After a few years of Phillips' high-tone, high-brow lifestyle, however, Diane yearns for a return to the stage, and when Phillips disapproves of a visit from some of her theatrical friends, she leaves her husband and daughter Bijou, and becomes a Broadway star. When Bijou dies suddenly, Phillips asks Diane to come back to him after the funeral, but Diane tells him that she will stay on the stage and that the different lives they have chosen mean that they will never see each other again.