The Woman Who Gave

The Woman Who Gave
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Directed by Kenean Buel
Produced by William Fox
Written by Izola Forrester (story)
Mann Page (story)
Kenean Buel (scenario)
Starring Evelyn Nesbit
Cinematography Joseph Ruttenberg
Distributed by Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • November 10, 1918 (1918-11-10)
Running time
 6 reels
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

The Woman Who Gave is a lost[1] 1918 American silent melodrama film directed by Kenean Buel and starring Evelyn Nesbit, a former showgirl involved in a 1906 scandal. The film was produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. The film went into release the day before fighting in World War I ended.[2]

Cast

Reception

Like many American films of the time, The Woman Who Gave was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut, in Reel 1, of the intertitle "Colette is not that kind", the entire struggle incident including closeups the man suggestively leering at the young woman, the woman's look of fear, the dragging of the woman towards the bedroom, and the two intertitles "Let me go or I'll kill myself" and "You are mine and there is no escape", Reel 2, all closeups of men at table looking salaciously at young semi-nude woman on table, the first and third scenes of semi-nude woman on table and to flash the second scene, and, Reel 4, the man pulling the gown off of the woman's shoulder and kissing her.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Woman Who Gave
  2. ↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Woman Who Gave
  3. ↑ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company. 7 (24): 42. December 7, 1918.


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