The Woman in White (1912 film)

The Woman in White

The engagement of Laura (Janet Salisbury)
and Sir Percival (Charles Craig)
Directed by George Nichols
Screenplay by George Edwardes Hall
Based on The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
Starring Janet Salisbury
Charles Perley
Charles Craig
Production
company
Release dates
  • October 22, 1912 (1912-10-22) (US)
Running time
 Two reels
Country United States

The Woman in White is a 1912 American silent film based on the 1860 novel of the same name by Wilkie Collins, produced by the Gem Motion Picture Company. Like a second film adaptation of The Woman in White produced by the Thanhouser Company the same year, it is a lost film.

Production

Directed by George Nichols, The Woman in White was produced by Gem,[1]:183 a subsidiary of the newly formed Universal Film Manufacturing Company.[2] Released October 22, 1912, it is a lost film.[1]:208

The cast included Janet Salisbury[3] (Laura Fairlie and The Woman in White), Charles Perley (Walter),[4] Charles Craig (Percival), Alec Frank (Fosco) and Lyman Rabbe (Pesca). [1]:208 The story was adapted by George Edwardes Hall.[5]

Thanhouser Company production

Simutaneously, the Thanhouser Company was producing its own two-reel adaptation of The Woman in White, starring Marguerite Snow (Laura, Anne), James Cruze (Percival) and William Garwood (Walter). The screenplay was written by Lloyd F. Lonergan.[1]:208 Release dates were announced to the press and changed several times as the two companies competed for the first release. In the end, Thanhouser was able to deliver its film on October 20, 1912—two days before Gem.[1]:183–184 Like the Gem adaptation, the Thanhouser Company release is a lost film.[1]:183

A summary of the plot of The Woman in White appeared in the November 1912 issue of The Motion Picture Story Magazine, accompanied by six still photographs from the Gem production. The photographs are captioned as they appear in the magazine.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Laird, Karen E. (2015). The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848–1920: Dramatizing Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, and The Woman in White. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 9781472424396.
  2. ↑ "Studios". Fort Lee Film Commission. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
  3. ↑ "Janet Salisbury". BFI Film & TV Database. British Film Institute. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  4. ↑ "Answers to Inquiries". The Motion Picture Story Magazine. January 1913. p. 142. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
  5. 1 2 "The Woman in White". The Motion Picture Story Magazine. November 1912. pp. 49–56. Retrieved 2016-08-08.


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