'Twas Ever Thus
Cast & Crew
Elsie Janis
Elsie Janis
Hobart Bosworth
Owen Moore
Myrtle Stedman
Harry Ham
Film Details
Synopsis
Caveman Long Biceps courts cavewoman Lithesome using the direct method, force, while Lithesome's father, Hard Muscle, opposes the brutish union. Centuries later, during the American Civil War, Prudence Alden leaves her Boston home to tend to her wounded brother in the South and falls in love with Frank Warren, a Rebel whose father, Colonel Warren, places considerable obstacles in the lovers' path. Just as Long Biceps overcomes Hard Muscle and wins Lithesome, so Frank defeats the colonel and gains Prudence. In 1915, Marian Gordon aspires to a career as a novelist, but when she is told by a hard-nosed publisher, John Rogers, to get out and learn about life, she takes a job as a maid in his household. While studying life, she has a romance with John's reckless son Jack and wins not only his heart, but the father's as well. A bestselling novel follows.
Director
Elsie Janis
Cast
Elsie Janis
Hobart Bosworth
Owen Moore
Myrtle Stedman
Harry Ham
Helen Wolcott
Joe Ray
Ludloe Goodman
Charles Wainwright
Film Details
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
A pre-release publicity item states that originally four episodes were planned. The fourth one was to take place in 1905. The stone-age scenes were shot in Chatsworth Park, CA, thirty miles north of Los Angeles. An item in the Paramount studio records gives partial names for additional members of the cast: "Link" and "Art" as men of both tribes; "Hallie" and "Carrie" as black servants; "Leonard" as the butler; "Acord" (probably Art Acord) as the manservant; and "Goodman" and "Shipley" as friends of Jack. The same item contains the ambiguous credit "El Monte" next to the roles of "Loungers" and "Driver," and states that Myrtle Stedman was also cast in the role of Robert Farnum, John Rogers' partner, though this role May not appear in the released film.
