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The Foolish Virgin
(1916) United States of America
B&W : [?] Five-Seven? reels
Directed by Albert Capellani

Cast: Clara Kimball Young [Mary Adams], Conway Tearle [Jim Anthony], Paul Capellani [Doctor Mulford], Catherine Proctor [Nance Anthony], Sheridan Tansey (James Sheridan) [Jim], William Welsh [Jim’s father], Marie Lines [Jane], Agnes Mapes [Ella Swanson], Edward Elkas [Harden], Jacqueline Morhange [Dora], [?] Rudolph Valentino [extra]?

Clara Kimball Young Film Corporation production; distributed by Lewis J. Selznick Enterprises, Incorporated [Selznick Pictures]. / Scenario by Albert Capellani, from the novel The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon. Cinematography by Hal Young, Jacques Monteran and George Peters. / © 26 December 1916 by Clara Kimball Young Film Corporation [LU9999]. Released 18 December 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot at the Blaché studio in New Jersey. The novel was subsequently filmed as The Foolish Virgin (1924).

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 26 September 2011.

References: ClasIm-220 p. 41 : Website-AFI.