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Mr. Gilfil's Love Story
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Wikipedia article
'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story' is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by A. V. Bramble and starring Robert Henderson Bland, Mary Odette and Peter Upcher.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090118113428/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/63811 BFI.org] It was based on the short story 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story' from George Eliot's 1857 work 'Scenes of Clerical Life'. A chaplain to an aristocratic British family falls in love with their ward, a young Italian woman, who he marries. Tragedy strikes when she dies only a few months later leaving him in a state of grief.
Cast
* Robert Henderson Bland - Maynard Gilfil
* Mary Odette - Caterina
* Peter Upcher - Anthony Wybrow
* Dora De Winton - Lady Clevere
* A. Harding Steerman - Sir Christopher Chever
* Aileen Bagot - Beatrice Asscher
* Norma Whalley - Lady Asscher
* John Boella - Signor Sarti
* Irene Drew - Dorcas
* Robert Clifton - Knott
References
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