The Other Half

Aug 18, 1919

0h 51m

★ 5.0

Which half do you belong to? What do you know about the Other Half? Did you ever try to get acquainted? Have you any sympathy for the Other Half? How many times have you figured out what you would do if you were they?

Overview

Social drama about a friendship that is pressurized by class differences.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Brentwood Film Corporation

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Cast

Katherine Boone

Florence Vidor

Donald Trent

Charles Meredith

Jennie Jones, The Jazz Kid

Zasu Pitts

Cpl. Jimmy

David Butler

J. Martin Trent

Alfred Allen

Mrs. Boone

Frances Raymond

James Bradley

Hugh Saxon

Caleb Fairman

Thomas Jefferson

The Star Reporter

Arthur Redden

Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.

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