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Erstwhile Susan is a american film of genre Drama directed by John S. Robertson released in USA on 16 november 1919 with Constance Binney
Erstwhile Susan (1919)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 16 november 1919
Directed by John S. Robertson
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Erstwhile Susan is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by John S. Robertson, produced and distributed by Realart Pictures. It is based on a 1914 novel Barnabetta by Helen Reimensnyder Martin and later Broadway play Erstwhile Susan by Marian De Forest. Minnie Maddern Fiske starred in the Broadway play in 1916. This film version stars Mary Alden and Constance Binney, then an up-and-coming young actress. This film version, once thought to be lost, survives at the Museum of Modern Art.
First film by Realart Films, Adolph Zukor's offshoot affiliate of his Famous Players-Lasky enterprise.
Synopsis
As described in an adoption in the November 1919 issue of the film magazine Shadowland, Barnabetta (Constance Binney) dreams of furthering her education, but her Mennonite father Jacob (Bradley Barker) disapproves. Jacob later marries Erstwhile Susan (Mary Alden), who has money and changes the family relationships, and sends Barnabetta to college. After graduation, she helps David Jordan (Jere Austin) run for the Senate, who then professes his love for her.Actors
Constance Binney
(Barnabetta Dreary)
Mary Alden
(Erstwhile Susan)
Alfred Hickman
(Dr. Edgar Barrett)
Anders Randolf
(Barnaby Dreary)
Georges Renavent
(Emanual Dreary)
Bradley Barker
(Jacob Dreary)
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