The Life Mask
Cast & Crew
Frank Crane
Olga Petrova
Thomas Holding
Wyndham Standing
Christine Mayo
Lucille Laverne
Film Details
Synopsis
Mrs. Helen Courtland forges a check for $25,000 from a millionaire named Woodruffe Clay, who is in love with her daughter Anita. To save the family from a scandal in court, Anita marries Woodruffe, even though she loves Captain Hugh Shannon of the Foreign Legion. In the midst of a quarrel on their wedding night, Woodruffe falls and is seriously injured, and during his recovery, he makes her life miserable. Anita suffers from somnambulism, and after one sojourn in which she dreams of poisoning her husband, she awakens to find him dead. Believing that she killed Woodruffe, Anita travels to Europe with Sarah Harden, her nurse, and there renews her affair with Hugh. When the evidence points overwhelmingly to Anita, however, she decides to return to America, but before she can confess her guilt, Sarah admits that it was she who killed Woodruffe in order to free her mistress from an unhappy marriage.
Director
Frank Crane
Cast
Olga Petrova
Thomas Holding
Wyndham Standing
Christine Mayo
Lucille Laverne
Matilda Brundage
Edward J. Burns
Edith Hinckle
Gene Burnell
Crew
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Notes
Some scenes in this film were shot on an estate in Miami, FL. The novel was originally published anonymously. A press screening was given on April 1, 1918 in New York.
