Her Double Life
Her Double Life is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. It is based on the Mary Murillo's story The New Magdalen, who also wrote the scenario. The film is now considered lost.
Plot
Mary Doone is a poor British girl who runs away from her adopted family because the father made a pass at her. She lives at a parish house, and at the outbreak of World War I, she becomes a Red Cross nurse. At the front she meets war correspondent Lloyd Stanley. Stanley tries to have his way with her but she is saved when the hospital tent is bombed.To get away from Stanley, she takes on the clothes and identity of an dead girl, Ethel Wardley. Ethel was on her way to live with Lady Clifford, an aunt she has never seen. So that's where Mary goes.
There she meets and falls in love with Ethel's cousin Elliott. They become engaged. But Ethel is not dead and she recovers from her wounds. She and Stanley head to the Clifford estate to blow Mary's cover. It doesn't matter, however, because Mary has already admitted the ruse, and the family has forgiven and accepted her anyhow.
Cast
- Theda Bara as Mary Doone
- Franklyn Hanna as Doctor
- Stuart Holmes as Lloyd Stanley
- Walter Law as Longshoreman
- Carey Lee as Longshoreman's Wife
- Jane Lee as Naughty Girl
- Katherine Lee as Longshoreman's Daughter
- Madeleine Le Nard as Ethel Wardley
- Lucia Moore as Lady Clifford
- A. H. Van Buren as Elliot Clifford