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The Hope Chest
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4686 feet
Directed by Elmer Clifton

Cast: Dorothy Gish [Sheila Moore], George Fawcett [Lew Moore], Richard Barthelmess [Tom Ballantyne Jr.], Sam de Grasse [Thomas Ballantyne Sr.], Kate Toncray [Mrs. Ballantyne], Carol Dempster [Ethel Hoyt], Bertram Grassby [Stoyghton Lounsbury]

The New Art Film Company production; distributed by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation through Paramount Pictures Corporation [Paramount Pictures]. / Scenario by M.M. Stearns, from the novel The Hope Chest by Mark Lee Luther. Cinematography by John Leezer and Lee Garmes. / © 19 November 1918 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP13063]. Released 29 December 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 16 September 2009.

References: Barry-Griffith p. 54; Katchmer-Eighty pp. 16, 19; Weaver-Twenty p. 145 : Website-AFI.