The Lifted Veil

Overcome with guilt after having an affair with her best friends husband, Clorinda hopes to escape her past by moving to Europe, where she meets Malcolm, a decent man who falls in love with her.

Cast

Ethel Barrymore

as Clorinda Gildersleeve

William B. Davidson

as Malcolm Grant

Robert Ellis

as Leslie Palliser

Maude Hill

as Margaret Palliser

Frank Gillmore

as Reverend Arthur Bainbridge

Ilean Hume

as Pansy Wilde

Ricca Allen

as Mrs. Scattergood

Myra Brooks

as Mrs. Wedlock (as Myra Brooke)

George Stevenson

as Butler

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