Her Better Self

Her Better Self is a 1917 American silent drama film starring Pauline Frederick and Thomas Meighan and directed by Robert G. Vignola. It was produced by Famous Players Film Company and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is now considered lost.

Cast

Pauline Frederick as Vivian Tyler
Thomas Meighan as Dr. Robert Keith
Alice Hollister as Aggie May
Maude Turner Gordon as Mrs.Tyler
Charles Wellesley as Mr. Tyler
Frank De Rheim as Count Belloto
Armand Cortes as Dopey

Reception

Like many American films of the time, Her Better Self was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors required cuts of two scenes of a girl walking away with a man and the arrest of the girl, an intertitle stating "I left the town in disgrace," and the stabbing in the suicide scene and the vision of the same.