Purity (film)

Purity
Audrey Munson in Purity
Directed by	Rae Berger
Written by	Clifford Howard (scenario)
Starring	Audrey Munson Thomas A. Curran Nigel De Brulier Alfred Hollingsworth William A. Carroll Eugenie Forde Clarence Burton Nela Drinkwitz Molly Shafer
Production company	American Film Company
Distributed by	Mutual Film
Release dates	July 23, 1916 (1916-07-23) (U.S.)
Country	United States
Language	Silent film English intertitles

Purity (1916) is an American silent film written by Clifford Howard and directed by Rae Berger and starring Audrey Munson. The film is notable for its nude scenes. The film was called Reinheit in Germany.^[1]

Preservation status

All copies of the film had been believed to be lost, but a copy of this film was recently rediscovered in a film archive in France, although it is not yet available to the public.

Plot

Purity (Munson), a simple country girl, comes to the city and is hired as an artist's model. A young poet becomes obsessed with her, and is distraught when he learns she has been posing nude. But his distress is diminished when he finds that she intends to use her income from modeling to publish his poetry.

Cast

October 5, 1916 newspaper advertisement for the film.

• Audrey Munson as Purity / Virtue
• Nigel De Brulier as Thorton Darcy
• Alfred Hollingsworth as Claude Lamarque
• William A. Carroll as Evil / Luston Black
• Eugenie Forde as Judith Lure
• Clarence Burton as Publisher
• Nela Drinkwitz as Model
• Molly Shafer as Landlady

See also

• List of rediscovered films
• Nudity in film

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Purity (film).

• Purity at IMDB
• Purity at SilentEra