Fonds/collection:
DAWSON CITY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY
General access conditions for collection
Reproduction access:
- No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
Remarks:
- 1. Material was received from Dawson City in 2 shipments - 506 reels in 1978 and 26 reels in 1980. Of these 389 reels, primarily of American fiction, were transferred to Library of Congress for conversion. Reference copies of some of these reels were returned to NFTSA.
Accession number:
1979-0191
Title:
Scandal Mongers = Scandal : [incomplete]
Production company:
- 1918 Re-release Version
- Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Country of production:
us
Name of distributor:
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Production Credit:
- director/scenario, Lois Weber; director, Phillips Smalley; photography, Dal Clawson
Cast credit:
Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, Rupert Julian, Adele Farrington, Abe Mundon, Alice Thomson, Grace Johnson, Jim Mason, Sis Matthews
Description:
- When banker William Wright's stenographer, Daisy Dean (Lois Weber), sprains her ankle, her employer offers to drive her to and from work for several days. This arrangement, although innocent, leads to the spread of malicious gossip among Daisy's neighbours and the members of Wright's club, and soon Mrs. Wright files for divorce. Daisy's fiancé John Austin breaks their engagement, but she later finds happiness as Robert Gordon's wife. After her baby is born, Daisy renews her acquaintance with John, whose fiancée lives nearby. John, deeply in love with his new sweetheart, marries, and while Robert is away on business, he and his young wife ask Daisy to accompany them on a drive. Robert's meddling sister Susan misconstrues John's friendliness and wires her brother, who returns home in a jealous rage. When John, whose car had broken down on the trip, arrives with Daisy very late that night, Robert shoots him and is consequently executed for murder. Broken, Daisy tries to commit suicide but is saved by her old employer Wright (Phillips Smalley), whose own business and personal life was completely ruined by the spread of idle gossip.
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Copyright Status:
Copyright expired.
Copyright Owner:
- Original copyright owner: Bluebird Photoplays Inc.
Restrictions on Consultation:
~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
Donor Restrictions:
Use requires credit be given to the Dawson City Museum and Historical Society Collection, National Archives of Canada.
Notes:
- 1. US Copyright: Bluebird Photoplays Inc.; 6Jul18; LP12631.
- 2. 1918 re-release version of SCANDAL.
- 3. Part 1 of 5 only.
- 4. Source of subject description: AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1911-1920, page 805.
- 5. Lois Weber, the creator of this film, died in 1939 - copyright expired.
