Lady Audley's Secret
Cast & Crew
Marshall Farnum
Theda Bara
William Riley Hatch
Clifford Bruce
Stephen Gratten
Warner Richmond
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Synopsis
After her husband George leaves suddenly for Australia to find work, Helen Talboys, unaware of his whereabouts, assumes that he has deserted her and marries an aristocrat to become Lady Audley. When her look-alike maid dies, Lady Audley conveniently passes off the corpse as Helen Talboys to avoid any possible bigamy charges. After having made his fortune in gold, George returns from Australia and by accident meets up with his wife at her stepson's villa. Determined to reclaim her, he begins to struggle with her. In the ensuing tussle, Lady Audley throws George down a well and, believing that he is dead, flees. Fearful that her stepson will expose her, Lady Audley breaks into his apartment and steals some incriminating love letters that she had written to George. As her guilty conscience grows, her acts become more desperate until George, who was rescued from the well by the coachman, makes a timely appearance and causes her to fall dead from fright.
Director
Marshall Farnum
Cast
Theda Bara
William Riley Hatch
Clifford Bruce
Stephen Gratten
Warner Richmond
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The novel on which this film was based appeared in serialized form in Robin Goodfellow and The Sixpenny Magazine, nineteenth century British journals. Another film with the same title, a short made by the Superba Co., was released in January 1915.
