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Lure of Ambition
(1919) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Edmund Lawrence

Cast: Theda Bara [Olga Dolan], Thurlow Bergen [Duke of Rutledge], William B. Davidson [Honorable Cyril Ralston], Dan Mason [Sylvester Dolan], Ida Waterman [duchess], Amelia Gardner [Lady Constance], Robert Paton Gibbs [Miguel Lopez], Dorothy Drake [Murial Ralston], Peggy Parr [Minnie Dolan], Tammany Young [Dan Hicks]

Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Produced by William Fox. Scenario by Julia Burnham, from a screen story by Julia Burnham and Edmund Lawrence. Cinematography by H. Alderson Leach. Insert and intertitle photography by Richard W. Maedler. Presented by William Fox. / © 16 November 1919 by William Fox [LP14449]. Released November 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Society.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.2684.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 22 May 2012.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.2684.