A Modern Magdalen
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| name = A Modern Magdalen
| image = Life Photo Film Corporation - Movie Advertisement.jpg
| caption = Trade Magazine Advertisement
| director = Will S. Davis
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| writer = C. Haddon Chambers
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| released = {{Film date|1915|02|17}}
| country = United States
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| studio = Life Photo Film Corporation
| distributor = Life Photo Film Corporation
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A Modern Magdalen is a 1915 American drama, 5-reel silent black and white film directed by Will S. Davis and based on the 1902 play by C. Haddon Chambers. The film was produced and released by the Life Photo Film Corporation in their studios in Grantwood, New Jersey.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&pg=PA871 |title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film |first=Alan |last=Globe |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |date=8 September 2011 |page=871 |isbn=9783110951943}}{{Cite web|date=30 September 1915 |title=Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA)|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRPD19150930.2.82&srpos=3&e=------191-en--20--1--txt-txIN-a+modern+magdalen-------1|access-date=2020-09-28|website=cdnc.ucr.edu|page=6}}
Cast
- Cathrine Countiss as Katinka Jenkins{{Citation|last=Countiss|first=Catherine|title=A Modern Magdalen|date=1915|url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7624/default.html|others=Library of Congress, American Silent Feature Film Survival Database|access-date=2020-09-27}}
- Lionel Barrymore as Lindsay
- William H. Tooker as Joe Mercer
- Charles E. Graham as Katinka's father
- Marjorie Nelson as Olivia Jenkins
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0005761}}
- [http://catalog.afi.com/Film/16565-A-MODERN-MAGDALEN?cxt=filmography A Modern Magdalen] at American Film Institute
- [http://earlyirishcinema.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/modern-magdalen-mpw-13-mar-1915p1614.jpg Photographic still of Cathrine Countiss and Lionel Barrymore]..([http://earlyirishcinema.com/2015/10/ earlyirishcinema] website and Media History Digital Library)
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Category:Silent American drama films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Will S. Davis