How Could You, Caroline?

How Could You, Caroline?

Newspaper advertisement
Directed by Frederick A. Thomson
Screenplay by Agnes Christine Johnston
Starring Bessie Love
James W. Morrison
Dudley Hawley
Production
company
Distributed by Pathé Exchange[1]
Release date
  • 1918 (1918)
Running time
5 reels[1]
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

How Could You, Caroline? is a 1918 silent comedy-drama film directed by Frederick A. Thomson, with a screenplay by Agnes Christine Johnston.[1][2] It stars Bessie Love, James W. Morrison, and Dudley Hawley.[3]

Plot

Caroline (Love), a student at a boarding school, leaves her boyfriend to elope with Reginald, a chauffeur (Hawley). When the chauffeur is exposed as a thief, Caroline returns to her boyfriend Bob (Morrison).[1][3]

Cast

Reception

A contemporaneous review called the plot "rather frail and considerably padded at the end", but praised the performances of Love and Hawley.[1]

Screenwriter Agnes Christine Johnston's depiction of the female lead character has been praised as efficiently creating complex female identities.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "How Could You, Caroline?". Dramatic Mirror of Motion Pictures and the Stage. 78 (2054): 632. May 4, 1918.
  2. 1 2 Muscio, Giuliana. "Women Screenwriters in American Silent Cinema". In Callahan, Vicki. Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History. p. 303.
  3. 1 2 3 "How Could You, Caroline?". Variety. 50 (13): 34. May 24, 1918.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.