Lilies of the Streets explained

Lilies of the Streets
Director:Joseph Levering
Producer:Mary E. Hamilton
Starring:Virginia Lee Corbin
Wheeler Oakman
Johnnie Walker
Cinematography:Murphy Darling
Charles J. Davis
Edward Paul
Studio:Belban Productions
Distributor:Film Booking Offices of America
Runtime:7 reels
Country:United States
Language:Silent (English intertitles)

Lilies of the Streets is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Joseph Levering and starring Virginia Lee Corbin, Wheeler Oakman, and Johnnie Walker.[1] [2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, Judith Lee is a young woman of indulgent parents and is allowed to have her own way. After she is arrested by mistake and dishonored by a blackmailer, and with her mother is on the verge of compromise, the blackmailer is murdered by one of his victims. Judith Lee, believing her mother is guilty, assumes the blame and is about to be convicted when her fiancé, a lawyer, obtains the confession of the real killer.

Production

Mary E. Hamilton, a New York City police officer whose work was in the "rehabilitation of wayward girls", arranged for the creation of Belban Productions for a film in which she could appear as herself and promote police work to suppress the white slave trade.[3] At her insistence, the plot turns on a male police officer mistakenly arresting flapper Judith for being a prostitute.[3]

Preservation

With no prints of Lilies of the Streets located in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.

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Notes and References

  1. Munden p. 437
  2. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/L/LiliesOfTheStreets1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: Lilies of the Streets
  3. Tsika pp. 69-70.
  4. https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6912/ Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Lilies of the Streets