The Yellow Passport
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Edwin August
Clara Kimball Young
Edwin August
John Sainpolis
Alec B. Francis
John Boyle
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Sonia Sokoloff, a voice student, is the daughter of a wealthy Russian Jewish family. Fedia, an anti-Semitic police spy, infiltrates the house as the family valet and attempts to rape Sonia, who has him fired. In revenge, Fedia incites the Black Hundred, an anti-Semitic organization to which he belongs, to an attack on the Sokoloff house in which Sonia's parents are killed. Sonia is allowed to continue her music studies in Russia only by accepting a yellow passport, which marks her as a prostitute. Eventually she and her uncle, forced to leave the country when the police learn that she has accepted the passport under false premises, travel to America, meeting opera impresario Carl Rosenheimer and his son Adolph during the journey. Carl recognizes Sonia's talent and promotes her singing career in America, where she becomes a celebrity and Adolph's fiancée. Fedia, however, shows up in America and exposes the secret of Sonia's yellow passport. Adolph denounces her, but Akulena and Fiodor, Sonia's friends from Russia, come to America with papers that establish her innocence, and the lovers are reunited.
Director
Edwin August
Cast
Clara Kimball Young
Edwin August
John Sainpolis
Alec B. Francis
John Boyle
Mrs. Landau
Edward Kimball
Mrs. Kimball
Thomas Charles
Florence Hackett
Silas Feinberg
Robert Cummings
Nicholas Dunaew
Adolph Lestina
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Scenes from the film were shot on Ellis Island. It is unclear whether Schomer's story was written for the screen or another medium. The actress Mrs. Kimball is very likely Pauline Garrett Kimball; the actress Mrs. Landau is probably Mrs. David Landau. World later renamed the film The Badge of Shame, copyrighted it again under that title (9 March 1917; LU10398), and re-released it on March 19, 1917.
