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Bred in the Bone
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Four reels
Directed by Paul Powell

Cast: Alberta Lee [a childless Quaker], Richard Cummings [a childless Quaker], Dorothy Gish [Mercy], Margie Wilson (Margery Wilson) [her mother], W.E. Lawrence [her leading man], Al Filson [her manager], Seena Owen [the star], William Hinckley [Mercy’s Quaker sweetheart], [?] Mary Alden?, [?] Eleanor Washington?

Reliance Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation [A Mutual Masterpicture]. / Scenario by Frank Kinsella. / Released 7 October 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / A news article from March 1915 lists Alden and Washington as also being in the film.

Drama.

Synopsis: [From Mutual promotional materials] A Heart-gripping play of Hereditary Impulse. • Additional synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0474.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 12 January 2012.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0474; Tarbox-Lost pp. 237, 248; Weaver-Twenty pp. 145, 373 : ClasIm-226 p. 42 : Website-AFI.