Way Down East
“A simple story for plain people.”
A naïve country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
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Cast
23 people
Lillian Gish
Anna Moore
Known for
The Night of the Hunter
The Birth of a Nation
Richard Barthelmess
David Bartlett
Known for
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Only Angels Have Wings
Lowell Sherman
Lennox Sanderson
Also in
What Price Hollywood?
Ladies of Leisure
Burr McIntosh
Squire Bartlett
Also in
That Certain Thing
The Last Warning
Kate Bruce
Mother Bartlett
Known for
A Corner in Wheat
True Heart Susie
Mrs. David Landau
Anna Moore's Mother
Also in
The Ghost in the Garret
Help Yourself
Josephine Bernard
Mrs. Emma Tremont
No other roles listed
Mrs. Morgan Belmont
Diana Tremont
No other roles listed
Patricia Fruen
Diana's Sister
No other roles listed
Florence Short
The Eccentric Aunt
Also in
The Love Flower
The Enchanted Cottage
Vivia Ogden
Martha Perkins
Also in
Timothy's Quest
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Porter Strong
Seth Holcomb
Also in
A Romance of Happy Valley
The White Rose
D.W. Griffith Director · Anthony Paul Kelly Writer Lottie Blair Parker Author
Director Writer
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Anthony Paul Kelly
Author
Lottie Blair Parker
Author
Joseph R. Grismer
Composer
Louis Silvers
Composer
William Frederick Peters
Cinematographer
Billy Bitzer
Cinematographer
Paul H. Allen
Cinematographer
Hendrik Sartov
Editor
James Smith
Editor
Rose Smith
Costume designer
Henri Bendel
Costume designer
O'Kane Conwell
Costume designer
Lady Duff Gordon
Worldwide gross $4.5M · Budget $700K · United States release September 3, 1920
Box office
Budget
$700,000
Worldwide gross
$4,500,000
Gross vs. budget
6.4×
Production
D.W. Griffith Productions
Production
United Artists Pictures
Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Canada · September 3, 1920
Theatrical
United States · September 3, 1920
Theatrical
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