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The Last Rose of Summer (film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Last Rose of Summer' is a British silent motion picture of 1920 directed by Albert Ward, produced by G. B. Samuelson, and starring Owen Nares and Daisy Burrell. A drama, it was written by Roland Pertwee, based on a novel by Hugh Conway.
Plot
In 'The Last Rose of Summer' Oliver Selwyn is a collector who woos Lotus Devine, but not for herself alone. The movie has been called "a melodramatic tale of a spinster betrayed for the sake of a valuable teaset".Kenton Bamford, 'Distorted images: British national identity and film in the 1920s' (1999), p. 8
Cast
in 1919, on the cover of 'Pictures and Picturegoer'
* Daisy Burrell as Lotus Devine
* Owen Nares as Oliver Selwyn
* Minna Grey as Amy Palliser
* Tom Reynolds as Palliser
* Richard Barry as Alf Purvis
* John Phelps as Percy Melville
Notes
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