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A Petal on the Current is a american film of genre Drama directed by Tod Browning released in USA on 3 august 1919 with Mary MacLaren

A Petal on the Current (1919)

A Petal on the Current
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Released in USA 3 august 1919
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OriginUSA
Genres Drama

The Petal on the Current is a lost 1919 American drama film directed by Tod Browning.

Synopsis

Based upon a description in a film magazine, Stella Schump (MacLaren) is a working girl who, on the advice of a friend Cora (Ridgeway), who is attempting to be a matchmaker, attends a party where she is supposed to meet a bashful man. He does not show up, and she has her first drink of beer. This affects her so she becomes dazed, and she leaves for home. A detective comes upon her, and after she repeats bits of conversation she heard at the party, he arrests her for being drunk and for solicitation. A night court convicts her and sentences her to ten days in jail. She writes her mother of her plight, and her mother (Claire) dies from shock upon reading the letter. After she is let out of jail, she loses her job and, after her money runs out, goes to a park and sits on a bench. A bashful man (Anderson) comes along, who is disillusioned about women, comes by. She has heard of him, but they have never met. He turns out to be a foreman at a factory, and as they talk they realize they were supposed to have met at the party. They leave together and marry.

Actors

Mary MacLaren

(Stella Schump)Gertrude Claire

(Stella's mother)Gertrude Claire

(la mère de Stella)Victor Potel

(Skinny Flint)Fritzi Ridgeway

(Cora Kinealy (as Fritzie Ridgeway))
And :
David Butler
Robert Anderson
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