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The Easiest Way (1917 film)

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'The Easiest Way' is a 1917 American silent film starring Clara Kimball Young and directed by Albert Capellani. It is based on a 1909 play, 'The Easiest Way' by Eugene Walter, staged by David Belasco and starred Frances Starr as Laura Murdock. Belasco and Starr revived the play in 1921.[http://www.stanford.edu/~gdegroat/CKY/reviews/ew.htm 'The Easiest Way': The Clara Kimball Young website, by Greta deGroat]'The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20' by The American Fil Institute, c.1988[http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=5097 'The Easiest Way'] produced on Broadway at the Stuyvesant Theatre, January 19, 1909 to June 1909; IBDB.com It is not known whether the film currently survives.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/E/EasiestWay1917.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'The Easiest Way' (1917)] at SilentEra.com

Actor Joseph Kilgour reprises his role as Brockton from the Broadway play.

Plot summary



Cast



* Clara Kimball Young - Laura Murdock

* Louise Bates - Elfie St. Clair

* Joseph Kilgour - Willard Brockton

* Rockliffe Fellowes - John Madison

* Cleo Desmond - Annie

* George Stevens - Jim Weston

* Frank Kingdon - Burgess

* Mae Hopkins - Nellie De Vere

* Walter McEwen - Jerry

References




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