Tangled Lives (1917 film) explained

Tangled Lives
Director:	J. Gordon Edwards
Producer:	William Fox
Starring:	Genevieve Hamper Robert B. Mantell
Cinematography:	Phil Rosen
Distributor:	Fox Film Corporation
Runtime:	5 reels
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

Tangled Lives is a 1917 American silent drama film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. The film was directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starred husband and wife stage actors Genevieve Hamper and Robert B. Mantell.

This film is a version of the 1860 Wilkie Collins novel The Woman in White. Several versions of this novel have been produced over the years, one in 1912, two in 1917 including this film, a 1929 talkie, and a remake in 1948.^[1]

Cast

• Genevieve Hamper as Laura Fairlie / Ann Catherick
• Stuart Holmes as Roly Schuyler
• Robert B. Mantell as Dassori
• Walter Miller as Walter Hartwright
• Henry Leone as Pesca
• Claire Whitney as Marion Halcombe
• Genevieve Blinn as Countess Dassori
• Louise Rial
• Millie Liston (billed as Millicent Liston)
• William Gerald
• Hal De Forrest
• Jane Lee (billed as Little Janey Lee)

Preservation status

This film is now considered a lost film.^[2]

See also

• List of lost films
• List of Fox Film films
• 1937 Fox vault fire

External links

• • Tangled Lives at AllMovie
• Lobby poster

Notes and References

1. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 published by The American Film Institute, c.1988
2. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9682/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Catalog: Tangled Lives