The Rug Maker's Daughter
{{Short description|1915 film by Oscar Apfel}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = The Rug Maker's Daughter
| image = Rug Maker's Daughter ad 1915.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Advertisement
| director = Oscar Apfel
| producer = Hobart Bosworth
| story = Julia Crawford Ivers
| starring = Maud Allan
Forrest Stanley
Jane Darwell
Howard Davies
Herbert Standing
Laura Woods Cushing
| music =
| cinematography =
| editing =
| studio = Hobart Bosworth Productions
Oliver Morosco Photoplay Company
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1915|7|5}}
| runtime = 5 reels
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
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The Rug Maker's Daughter is a 1915 American silent adventure film directed by Oscar Apfel and written by Julia Crawford Ivers. The film stars Maud Allan, Forrest Stanley, Jane Darwell, Howard Davies, Herbert Standing, and Laura Woods Cushing. The film was released on July 5, 1915, by Paramount Pictures.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/228893/The-Rug-Maker-s-Daughter/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223032913/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/228893/The-Rug-Maker-s-Daughter/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 December 2014|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|author=Janiss Garza|date=2014|title=The-Rug-Maker-s-Daughter - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com|accessdate=23 December 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/552832/the-rug-makers-daughter|title=The Rug Maker's Daughter (1915) - Overview - TCM.com|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=23 December 2014}} The film featured three of Allan's dances, including an excerpt from her infamous Vision of Salome performance.{{cite journal |title=Maud Allan with Bosworth-Morosco |journal=Motography |volume=13 |issue=24 |page=962 |publisher=Electricity Magazine Corporation |location=Chicago, Illinois |date=12 June 1915 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JnhJAQAAMAAJ |access-date=12 August 2024}}{{cite book |last=Hext |first=Kate |author-link= |title=Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2024 |pages=48–49 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=abv3EAAAQBAJ |isbn=9780198875376}}
Plot
As described in a film magazine,{{cite journal |title=Stories of the Films - The Rug Maker's Daughter |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=25 |issue=3 |page=568 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Company |location =New York, New York |date=17 July 1915 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZ0sAAAAYAAJ |access-date=12 August 2024}} while in Constantinople, Bob Van Buren comes to the rescue when Demetra, a upper-class young Turkish woman, and her duenna are waylaid by robbers, which paves the way for romance between them. This is opposed by her father and Osman, the fiancée her father is attempting to force on her. With the thought of such a highly educated, gifted with the needle, and graceful dancer ending up in a harem instead of a respectful home driving him to desperation, Bob convinces her to elope with him to New York City. Finding out the scheme, Osman has ruffians grab Bob on their eve of departure. With her American vanished, and the day of her odious wedding to Osman approaching, Demetra flees with her duenna on the same boat that passage had been reserved, intending to reach a cousin in New York City. Osman pursues her, and traps her in New York City. He summons a Turkish priest but Bob, having escaped from a dungeon in Constantinople, arrives in time to save Demetra and take her to his mother's home. When Mrs. Van Buren suggests the lovers wait until September to be wed, they instead have their hearts set on a June wedding, it being June.
Cast
- Maud Allan as Demetra
- Forrest Stanley as Robert Van Buren
- Jane Darwell as Mrs. Van Buren
- Howard Davies as Osman
- Herbert Standing as Halib Bey
- Laura Woods Cushing as Barah
- Harrington Gibbs as John Marshall
- Mary Ruby
Preservation
A 400 feet long fragment of The Rug Maker's Daughter is held at the BFI National Archive.[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.330/default.html The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Rug Maker's Daughter]
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0005984|The Rug Maker's Daughter}}
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Category:1910s English-language films
Category:Silent American adventure films
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:Films directed by Oscar Apfel
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:English-language adventure films
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