Purity

Jul 23, 1916

1h 10m

★ 2.0

Overview

Purity, a simple country girl, comes to the city and is hired as an artist's model. A young poet becomes obsessed with her, and is distraught when he learns she has been posing nude. But his distress is diminished when he finds that she intends to use her income from modelling to publish his poetry.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

American Film Manufacturing Company

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Cast

Purity / Virtue

Audrey Munson

Thorton Darcy

Nigel De Brulier

Claude Lamarque

Alfred Hollingsworth

Evil / Luston Black

William A. Carroll

Judith Lure

Eugenie Forde

Publisher

Clarence Burton

Model

Nela Drinkwitz

Landlady

Molly Shafer

Truth

Marie Van Tassell

Music

Mary Dunham

Drama

Alice Anaroni

Art

Hazel West

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