A Society Exile

A Society Exile 1919 is an American silent film drama directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Elsie Ferguson, Julia Dean, and William Carleton. The assistant director to Fitzmaurice was William Scully. The film marks the second screen appearance of the actor Henry Stephenson. The film was based upon the play We Cant Be as Bad as All That by Henry Arthur Jones.

Based upon a plot summary included in a film review in a film publication, Nora Ferguson is an American heiress who is courted by Lord Bissett Gamble while visiting England. She overhears Bissett discussing with his sister the need of Noras money to replenish his fortune, so she leaves him and moves into a nearbycottage. A successful playwright Sir Howard Furnival Stephenson assists her in preparing a play based upon a novel she has written, but keeps this secret from his wife Doris Dean, who is very jealous. Bissett obtains a page of the manuscript in Noras handwriting with enduring terms, and gives it to Doris, telling her that it is a love letter to her husband. This leads to the deaths of both Furnivals, and Nora is blamed and ostracized. Nora changes her name and goes to Venice, where she meets and becomes engaged to English army officer Sir Ralph Newell Carleton. Before their marriage she confesses who she is in a letter that he never receives. Upon return to England, she discovers that her husband is the brother of Doris and has cursed the woman who caused his sisters death. Bissett reveals to Newell who Nora is. In the end after more melodrama, the lovers are reunited in Venice. ........

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