Her Better Self
| Her Better Self | |
|---|---|
 Newspaper advertisement | |
| Directed by | Robert G. Vignola William J. Scully (asst. director) |
| Written by | Margaret Turnbull |
| Produced by | Adolph Zukor |
| Starring | Pauline Frederick Thomas Meighan |
| Cinematography | Ned Van Buren |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Her Better Self is a 1917 American silent drama film starring Pauline Frederick and Thomas Meighan and directed by Robert G. Vignola. It was produced by Famous Players Film Company and distributed by Paramount Pictures.[1][2][3]
Cast
- Pauline Frederick as Vivian Tyler
- Thomas Meighan as Dr. Robert Keith
- Alice Hollister as Aggie May
- Maude Turner Gordon as Mrs.Tyler
- Charles Wellesley as Mr. Tyler
- Frank De Rheim as Count Belloto
- Armand Cortes as Dopey
Reception
Like many American films of the time, Her Better Self was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors required cuts of two scenes of a girl walking away with a man and the arrest of the girl, an intertitle stating "I left the town in disgrace," and the stabbing in the suicide scene and the vision of the same.[4]
Preservation
Her Better Self is currently presumed lost.[5][2] In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ Katchmer, George A. (1991). Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known. McFarland. p. 646. ISBN 0-899-50494-9.
- 1 2 de Groat, Greta (September 16, 2005), The Pauline Frederick Website: Her Better Self (1917), stanford.edu, retrieved May 4, 2026
- ↑ "AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Her Better Self". afi.com. Retrieved May 4, 2026.
- ↑ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 5 (3). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 33. July 14, 1917. Retrieved November 8, 2014.
- ↑ "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Her Better Self". memory.loc.gov. January 5, 2017. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved May 4, 2026. Cite error: Unknown parameter "loc" in
<ref>tag; supported parameters are dir, follow, group, name (see the help page). - ↑ "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)" (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. February 4, 2021. Retrieved May 4, 2026.
External links
- Her Better Self at IMDb
- Her Better Self (1917) synopsis at tcm.com