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The School for Scandal
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Four reels
Directed by Kenean Buel

Cast: Alice Joyce [Lady Ann Teazle], James B. Ross [Sir Peter Teazle], Guy Coombs [Charles Surface], Jere Austin [Joseph Surface], Mary Ross [Lady Sneerwell], Irene Boyle [Maria], James Cooper [Sir Oliver Surface], William Burgess [Rowley], Joseph Cordova [Snake], Henry Grant [Moses], Richard Purdon [Crabtree], Augusta Burgermeister [Mrs. Candour]

Kalem Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated [Masterpiece Service]. / Scenario by Phil Lang, from the play The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. / Released 21 December 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was subsequently filmed as The School for Scandal (1923).

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.3885.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 6 December 2023.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.3885 : Website-ASFFDb.