The Painted World
When burlesque dancer Elois Murree gives birth to her daughter Yvette, she sends to a fashionable boarding school away from the stage environment and her drunken husband. Yvette visits infrequently but during one sojourn Murree slashes Elois' left eye in an argument forcing Elois, now veiled, to perform billed as the Masked Queen. Yvette becomes attracted to her friend’s brother, Rex, she avoids him after she learns that he wants his prospective bride to come from a good family. Yvette becomes a burlesque queen, but a distraught Elois tries to kill her to save her soul and then commits suicide, leaving the bloodied knife in the hands of her drunken husband, who then is arrested. Later, Yvette finds happiness with Rex.
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6 people
Anita Stewart
Yvette Murree
Also in
The Lodge in the Wilderness
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Julia Swayne Gordon
Elois Murree
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Wings
It
E.K. Lincoln
Rex
Also in
The Light in the Dark
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Harry Northrup
Murree
Known for
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Janice Cummings
Elois' Maid
R.A. Roberts
Manager
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The Painted World
Ralph Ince Director · Jacques Futrelle Story William S. Adams Cinematographer
United States release June 16, 1919 · Produced in United States
Production
Vitagraph Company of America
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United States
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English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · June 16, 1919
Theatrical
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