The Deciding Kiss

Jul 22, 1918

0h 47m

★ 0.0

Overview

The first part is pathetic and shows Eleanor Hamlin (Edith Roberts) severing home ties with her grandparents to be "adopted" by a party of idle rich on the cooperative plan. The parties adopting her are single, and one of them, Beulah Page (Winifred Greenwood), has her own ideas on the subject of raising the young - these ideas absolutely precluding the main requisite, love.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Universal Film Manufacturing Company

Bluebird Photoplays

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Cast

Eleanor Hamlin

Edith Roberts

Beulah Page

Winifred Greenwood

Jimmy Sears

Hallam Cooley

Peter Bolling

Hans Unterkircher

Lottie Kruse

William Courtright

Edmund Cobb

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