A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Silent Lady
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Elsie Jane Wilson

Cast: Gretchen Lederer [Miss Summerville], Zoe Rae [Little Kate], Winter Hall [Philemon], Harry Holden [Peter], Edwein Brown [Captain Bartholomew], Lule Warrenton [Mrs. Hayes], E.A. Warren (E. Alyn Warren) [Doctor Carlyle], [?] Janethel Monahan?

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [A Butterfly Picture]. / Scenario by Elsie Jane Wilson, from a screen story by Elliott J. Clawson. / © 30 November 1917 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP11766]. Released 10 December 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Romance.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 14 July 2023.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 27 : Website-AFI.