To Please One Woman Explained

To Please One Woman
Director:	Lois Weber
Producer:	Lois Weber
Starring:	Claire Windsor George Hackathorne Edmund Burns
Distributor:	Famous Players–Lasky Paramount Pictures
Runtime:	70 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

To Please One Woman is a 1920 American silent drama film produced and directed by Lois Weber and starring Claire Windsor. It was distributed by Famous Players–Lasky and Paramount Pictures.^{[1] [2]}

Plot

The film is a take on the "vamp" genre by pioneer Lois Weber, just as that genre was waning.

Cast

• Claire Windsor as Alice Granville
• Edith Kessler as Cecilia Granville
• George Hackathorne as Freddy
• Edmund Burns as Dr. John Ransome
• Mona Lisa as Leila
• Howard Gaye as Leila's Husband
• Lee Shumway as Lucien Wainwright (credited as L.C. Shumway)
• Gordon Griffith as Bobby Granville

uncredited

• Frank Coghlan Jr. as (credited as Junior Coghlan)
• Esther Ralston

Preservation status

A print may exist in the Library of Congress collection.^[3] The Library of Congress online database shows no listing and may need to be updated if a print does exist.^[4]

Notes and References

1. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/T/ToPleaseOneWoman1920.html Progressive Silent Film List: To Please One Woman
2. Web site: AFICatalog. 2021-08-20. catalog.afi.com.
3. Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 185 (directs to p. 193 "Unid Atkinson: No 39") c.1978 by the American Film Institute
4. http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9901/default.html The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: To Please One Woman