The House of Mirth (1918 film)

The House of Mirth is a 1918 American silent melodrama film directed by French film director Albert Capellani, starring Katherine Harris Barrymore as Lily Bart. It is a cinema adaptation of Edith Whartons 1905 novel The House of Mirth and the first ever cinema adaptation of any of her work. With its survival status classified as unknown, it is considered to be a lost film.

Like many American films of the time, The House of Mirth was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required cuts, in Reel 1, of the woman in silhouette behind veil, Reel 3, the intertitle You know how you can repay me, Reel 4, the two intertitles Youre willing enough to take favors etc. and Now I want value received, and, Reel 6, the two intertitles Now that society has accepted me, of course, I cannot marry you and If you only will be sensible.

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