Headline
Coronet Theatre: 'Way Down East'
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Publication Date
1923-12-07
- Publication Year
1923
Page
6
Film Projector / Film(s)
Way Down East
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Actors
Lillian Gish
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Lottie Blair Parker (from the play by)
Country
USA
Released
1920-09-03
Runtime
145 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Rated
Passed
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Summary
The wonder attraction of the contemporary stage is announced for presentation at the Coronet Theatre, where D. W. Griffith presents tonight his great screen enlargement of 'Way Down East.' It is not a mere expanding of the stage play of the same name. Rather, 'Way Down East' that Griffith has provided an idyllic tale of plain and honest people and there is a distinct moral impressed. Lillian Gish, in the leading role, has achieved a success that at once places her in the foremost rank of American actresses. Richard Barthelmess, Creighton Hale, Kate Bruce, Mary Hay, and others are seen.
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