Social Briars

Social Briars
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Directed by	Henry King
Written by	Edward Sloman (scenario)
Screenplay by	Jeanne Judson
Starring	Mary Miles Minter
Cinematography	Ira H. Morgan
Production company	American Film Company
Distributed by	Mutual Film
Release dates	May 13, 1918 (1918-05-13) (United States)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Social Briars is a 1918 American silent comedy-drama film distributed by Mutual Film and directed by Henry King. Mary Miles Minter starred in a screen story by Jeanne Judson.^[1]^[2] Its survival status is classified as unknown,^[2] which suggests that it is a lost film.

Plot

As described in a film magazine,^[3] Iris Lee (Minter) has tired of her humdrum country existence and one night steals away from the home of Martha Kane (Schaefer), with whom she had been living, and goes to the city intent on becoming a singer. Slowly rising from a church soloist to a prima donna, her dreams are finally realized. While in the city she meets Jack Andrews (Forrest) and falls in love with him, but when he comes to her one night intoxicated, she sends him away. Grieving over Jack she returns to her home town where, having his manhood returned, he finds her by accident.

Cast

Mary Miles Minter as Iris Lee
Allan Forrest as Jack Andrews
Anne Schaefer as Martha Kane
Edmund Cobb as Jim Kane
George Periolat as Peter Andrews
Claire Du Brey as Helen Manning
Milla Davenport as Mrs. Brown
Jacob Abrams as Mr. Brown
Frank Whitson as Franklin

References

↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c.1988
1 2 Progressive Silent Film List: Social Briars at silentera.com
↑ "Reviews: Social Briars". Exhibitors Herald (New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company) 6 (20): 26. May 11, 1918.

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Films directed by Henry King

Joy and the Dragon (1916)
The Climber (1917)
The Mate of the Sally Ann (1917)
Beauty and the Rogue (1918)
Powers That Prey (1918)
23 1/2 Hours' Leave (1919)
The Mistress of Shenstone (1921)
Salvage (1921)
Tol'able David (1921)
The White Sister (1923)
Romola (1924)
Sackcloth and Scarlet (1925)
Any Woman (1925)
Stella Dallas (1925)
The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)
The Magic Flame (1927)
Hell Harbor (1930)
The Eyes of the World (1930)
Lightnin' (1930)
Merely Mary Ann (1931)
Over the Hill (1931)
The Woman in Room 13 (1932)
State Fair (1933)
I Loved You Wednesday (1933)
Carolina (1934)
Marie Galante (1934)
One More Spring (1935)
The Country Doctor (1936)
Ramona (1936)
Lloyd's of London (1936)
In Old Chicago (1937)
Seventh Heaven (1937)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Jesse James (1939)
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
Little Old New York (1940)
Maryland (1940)
Chad Hanna (1940)
A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
Remember the Day (1941)
The Black Swan (1942)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Wilson (1944)
A Bell for Adano (1945)
Margie (1946)
Captain from Castile (1947)
Deep Waters (1948)
Prince of Foxes (1948)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
The Gunfighter (1950)
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951)
David and Bathsheba (1951)
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
Untamed (1955)
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
Carousel (1956)
The Sun Also Rises (1957)
The Bravados (1958)
This Earth Is Mine (1959)
Beloved Infidel (1959)
Tender Is the Night (1962)

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