A Society Exile
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==Plot== |
==Plot== |
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Based upon a plot summary included in a film review in a film publication,{{cite journal |title=''A Society Exile'': A Wholly Satisfying Society Drama |journal=Motion Picture News |volume=20 |issue=10 |page=1867 |publisher=Motion Picture News, Inc. |location=New York City |date=Aug 30, 1919 |url=https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew201unse |accessdate=2014-01-27}} Nora |
Based upon a plot summary included in a film review in a film publication,{{cite journal |title=''A Society Exile'': A Wholly Satisfying Society Drama |journal=Motion Picture News |volume=20 |issue=10 |page=1867 |publisher=Motion Picture News, Inc. |location=New York City |date=Aug 30, 1919 |url=https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew201unse |accessdate=2014-01-27}} Nora is an American heiress who is courted by Lord Bissett while visiting England. She overhears Bissett discussing with his sister the need of Nora's money to replenish his fortune, so she leaves him and moves into a nearby |
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cottage. A successful playwright Sir Howard Furnival |
cottage. A successful playwright Sir Howard Furnival assists her in preparing a play based upon a novel she has written, but keeps this secret from his wife Doris, who is very jealous. Bissett obtains a page of the manuscript in Nora's handwriting with enduring terms, and gives it to Doris, telling her that it is a love letter to her husband. This leads to the deaths of both Furnivals, and Nora is blamed and ostracized. Nora changes her name and goes to [[Venice]], where she meets and becomes engaged to English army officer Sir Ralph Newell. Before their marriage she confesses who she is in a letter that he never receives. Upon return to England, she discovers that her husband is the brother of Doris and has cursed the woman who caused his sister's death. Bissett reveals to Newell who Nora is. In the end after more [[melodrama]], the lovers are reunited in Venice. |
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[[File:Eliseferguson-asocietyexile-scene1919.jpg|thumb|240px|right|Film still; Elsie Ferguson and Warburton Gamble.]] |
[[File:Eliseferguson-asocietyexile-scene1919.jpg|thumb|240px|right|Film still; Elsie Ferguson and Warburton Gamble.]] |
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