The Woman in White (1912 film)
| The Woman in White | |
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The engagement of Laura (Janet Salisbury)
and Sir Percival (Charles Craig) |
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| Directed by | George Nichols |
| Produced by | Vitagraph Company of America |
| Screenplay by | George Edwardes Hall |
| Based on |
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins |
| Starring | Janet Salisbury Charles Perley Charles Craig |
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Two reels |
| Country | United States |
The Woman in White is a 1912 American short silent film based on the 1860 novel of the same name by Wilkie Collins, produced by the Gem Motion Picture Company. Like a second film adaptation of The Woman in White produced by the Thanhouser Company the same year, it is a lost film.
It is one of the silent films were destroyed in the Thanhouser fire in 1913.
Directed by George Nichols, The Woman in White was produced by Gem, a subsidiary of the newly formed Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Released October 22, 1912, it is a lost film.
The cast included Janet Salisbury (Laura Fairlie and The Woman in White), Charles Perley (Walter),Charles Craig (Percival), Alec Frank (Fosco) and Lyman Rabbe (Pesca). The story was adapted by George Edwardes Hall.
Simultaneously, the Thanhouser Company was producing its own two-reel adaptation of The Woman in White, starring Marguerite Snow (Laura, Anne), James Cruze (Percival) and William Garwood (Walter). The screenplay was written by Lloyd F. Lonergan. Release dates were announced to the press and changed several times as the two companies competed for the first release. In the end, Thanhouser was able to deliver its film on October 20, 1912—two days before Gem. Like the Gem adaptation, the Thanhouser Company release is a lost film.
A summary of the plot of The Woman in White appeared in the November 1912 issue of The Motion Picture Story Magazine, accompanied by six still photographs from the Gem production. The photographs are captioned as they appear in the magazine.
Walter Hartridge, Artist
The Engagement
The Conspiracy
The Wedding
The Abduction
The Death of Sir Percival
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