The House of Discord

A mother attempts to save her daughter from making a social mistake after she finds it similar to one she had once faced herself.{{cite book|title=Films in Review, Volume 18|year=1967|publisher=National Board of Review of Motion Pictures|page=336|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aw8LAQAAMAAJ}}

• Marshall Neilan as The Wife
• Blanche Sweet as The Husband
• Jack Mulhall as The Wife's Sweetheart
• Dorothy Gish as The Daughter
• Lionel Barrymore as The Daughter's Sweetheart
• James Kirkwood, Sr. as The Sister-in-Law
• Antonio Moreno as The Sister-in-Law's Sweetheart

The House of Discord was directed by James Kirkwood, Sr. The film stars Lionel Barrymore. In addition to Barrymore, it also stars Blanche Sweet, Dorothy Gish, Marshall Neilan, Antonio Moreno, and Jack Mulhall.{{cite book|title=Photoplay – Volume 17, Issue 1|year=1920|publisher=Macfadden Publications|page=64|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L1k2AQAAMAAJ}} This was Mulhall's first theatrical film role; he portrayed a juvenile character which the titular discord centered on.{{cite book|last=Wing|first=Ruth|title=The Blue book of the screen|year=1923|page=176|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0GIGAQAAIAAJ}} The film was produced by Klaw & Erlanger and Biograph Company.{{cite book|title=The Barrymores: the royal family in Hollywood|year=1981|publisher=Crown Publishing Group|url=https://archive.org/details/barrymoresroyalf00kots|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/barrymoresroyalf00kots/page/339 339]|isbn=9780517528969 }}

The screenplay was written by F. E. Woods from a play by William C. deMille,{{cite book|last=Katchmer|first=George A.|title=Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known|year=1991|publisher=McFarland & Company|page=672}} and was produced by Marc Klaw and Abraham Erlanger.{{cite web|title=The House of Discord (1913)|url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HouseOfDiscord1913.html|work=SilentEra.com|accessdate=5 October 2013}} The film is a silent two-reeler. Cinematographer Tony Gaudio was nearly fired during production after he attempted to reproduce the glow cast from a fireplace, rather than employing the fixed, flat lighting that was accepted practice at the time.{{cite journal|title=Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers|year=1937|page=160|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofsociety29socirich#page/160/mode/1up|author=Gaudio, G.|authorlink=Tony Gaudio}}

The film was released theatrically on December 13, 1913{{cite book|last=Tillmany|first=Jack|title=Theatres of Oakland|year=2006|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|page=106|isbn=9780738546810|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bYI_eT_EVOEC&pg=PA106}} by the General Film Company. A reviewer for The Moving Picture World wrote that it "will be readily appreciated by women" and that it is a "woman's story" which "reaches its most effective emotional passages in showing the influence of a mother over a daughter who is on the verge of making a serious mistake."{{cite book|title=The Moving Picture World, Volume 29|year=1916|publisher=World Photographic Publishing Company|page=470|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qEbAQAAMAAJ}}

The House of Discord is now in the public domain. A print of the film survives at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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• [http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HouseOfDiscord1913.html The House of Discord at SilentEra]

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