The Age of Innocence (1924 film)

The Age of Innocence
Directed by Wesley Ruggles
Screenplay by Olga Printzlau
Based on The Age of Innocence 
by Edith Wharton
Starring Beverly Bayne
Elliott Dexter
Edith Roberts
Willard Louis
Distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures
Release dates
  • 1924
Country United States
Language Silent
English intertitles

The Age of Innocence is a 1924 American silent film directed by Wesley Ruggles. It is the first film adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel The Age of Innocence. It is considered a lost film.[1]

Plot

Newland Archer is engaged to May Mingott of a prominent New York family. Shortly after the engagement is announce, Newland finds himself attracted to May’s older married cousin Countess Ellen Olenska. After his marriage to May, Newland and Ellen agree to run away together. Before this can happen, May visits her husband’s lover and informs her that she is expecting a child. Ellen and Newland part ways, Newland vowing to be a better husband to his wife May.

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