A Doll's House
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Maurice Tourneur
Elsie Ferguson
H. E. Herbert
Alex K. Shannon
Ethel Grey Terry
Warren Cook
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Nora Helmar, the secluded and subservient wife of young lawyer Thorvald Helmar, secretly forges her deceased father's name to a security note and borrows enough money from a shady moneylender named Krogstadt to send her ailing husband abroad. The trip restores Helmar's health, and several years later, he is appointed the manager of the bank in which Krogstadt is employed. When Helmar discharges Krogstadt for dishonest dealings, the latter angrily sends a letter to the Helmar home revealing Nora's secret. Helmar renounces his wife, and although Krogstadt later promises to keep silent about the forgery, Nora, now painfully aware of her husband's selfishness, leaves him.
Director
Maurice Tourneur
Cast
Elsie Ferguson
H. E. Herbert
Alex K. Shannon
Ethel Grey Terry
Warren Cook
Zelda Crosby
Mrs. R. S. Anderson
Ivy Ward
Tula Belle
Douglas Redmond
Charles Crompton
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Notes
According to a news item, the interiors for this film were shot at the Famous Players-Lasky Corp. studios in Fort Lee, NJ, while some of the exteriors were shot in northern Maine. Among the many other versions of A Doll's House are a 1922 United Artists release, directed by Charles Bryant and starring Nazimova (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.1386); NBC-TV's 1959 Hallmark Hall of Fame production, directed by George Schaefer and starring Julie Harris; the 1973 Paramount film, directed by Patrick Garland and starring Claire Bloom; the 1973 British production, directed by Joseph Losey and starring Jane Fonda; and 1973's Nora Helmer, made for German television by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Margit Carstensen. Although the last name of the main characters in Ibsen's play is Helmer, all contemporary reviews and publicity for the film used the spelling Helmar.
