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