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The Awakening of Helena Richie is a surviving 1916 silent film produced by B. A. Rolfe and distributed by Metro Pictures. It is based on the 1906 novel, The Awakening of Helena Richie, by Margaret Deland and the 1909 Broadway play based on the novel starring Margaret Anglin and then child actor Raymond Hackett .
The Awakening of Helena Ritchie: Directed by John W. Noble. With Ethel Barrymore, Robert Cummings, Frank Montgomery, James A. Furey. To the village of Old Chester comes Helena Richie in search of balm for a broken heart. Her dissolute husband, in a drunken rage, has killed their little child.
- John W. Noble
- 1916-12-18
- Drama
- 50
The Awakening of Helena Richie is a novel by the American writer Margaret Deland (1857 - 1945) set in the 19th century fictional locale of Old Chester, a Western Pennsylvania rural village just a few miles outside the city of Pittsburgh, then an industrial boomtown.
- Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
- 1906
Her dissolute husband, in a drunken rage, has killed their little child. This tragedy induces Helena to listen to the pleadings of Lloyd Pryor to leave Paris, where the Richies are living, and come to America with him.
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- John W. Noble
- Ethel Barrymore
The Awakening of Helena Ritchie. ( 1916 ) « It’s a powerful story of a woman’s sacrifice, trust and renunciation-a story of love-which stirs your very heart. A Great Play! A Great Novel! A Great Actress! (Print Ad – Chicago Daily Tribune, ( (Chicago, Ills.)) 23 December 1916)» Drama. Based on Book. Silent Film. Black and White.
Helena Richie leaves her drunken husband, who killed their child, and goes to a small village with Lloyd Pryor. People believe that Helena and Lloyd are brother and sister, and Helena adopts a young boy, David, who had been a ward of the minister, Dr. Lavendar.
