A Mormon Maid (1917)

ALL 04/21/1917 (en) History, Drama 68 Min
  • Release
    04/21/1917
  • Production
    Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company
  • Rotten tomato
    50%
  • Original title
    A Mormon Maid
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community traveling to Utah. They join the wagon train. Dora is pursued by two men, one a recent convert, the other a scheming elder with a stable of wives. The Mormon elder wants her in his harem. When the mother kills herself from revulsion toward polygamy, the daughter must consider her own future and the man she loves. One of Mae Murray's few surviving films, this was intended by Robert Leonard to be a thoughtful drama about the goods and evils of Mormonism, but today it is generally considered pure anti-Mormon propaganda.

  1. Paul West

    Story

  2. Editor

  3. Producer



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  1. Mae Murray

    Dora

  2. Frank Borzage

    Tom Rigdon

  3. Hobart Bosworth

    John Hogue

  4. Edythe Chapman

    Nancy Hogue

  5. Noah Beery

    Darius Burr

  6. Richard Cummings

    Lion of the Lord

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 6 , Crews : 4

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A Mormon Maid (1917) 68 Min

ALL 04/21/1917 (en)
History, Drama
  • Release 04/21/1917
  • Production
    Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company
  • Original title A Mormon Maid
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community traveling to Utah. They join the wagon train. Dora is pursued by two men, one a recent convert, the other a scheming elder with a stable of wives. The Mormon elder wants her in his harem. When the mother kills herself from revulsion toward polygamy, the daughter must consider her own future and the man she loves. One of Mae Murray's few surviving films, this was intended by Robert Leonard to be a thoughtful drama about the goods and evils of Mormonism, but today it is generally considered pure anti-Mormon propaganda.

  1. Robert Z. Leonard

    Director

  2. Paul West

    Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer