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The Secret Orchard
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Frank Reicher

Cast: Blanche Sweet [Diane], Cleo Ridgely [Cora May], Edward Mackey [Duke of Cluny], Gertrude Kellar [Helen, Duchess of Cluny], Carlyle Blackwell [Lieutenant Dodd USN], Theodore Roberts [Favereau], Cynthia Williams [Diane, at age four], Marjorie Daw [Nanette], Loyola O’Connor [Nanette’s mother], Sydney Deane [Nanette’s father]

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by William C. de Mille, from play adaptation The Secret Orchard by Channing Pollock of the novel The Secret Orchard by Agnes Castle and Everton Castle. Assistant director, Frank Lidel. Cinematography by Homer Scott and Walter Stradling. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Brownlow-Behind p. 10 mistakenly credits the direction to William C. de Mille.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.3917.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Brothels - France: Paris

Listing updated: 6 December 2023.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.3917; Brownlow-Behind p. 10; Drew-Speaking p. 286 : Website-ASFFDb.