The Third Degree (1919 film)
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The Third Degree is a 1919
1919 in film
The year 1919 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 5 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists...

 silent
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 drama film produced and distributed by the Vitagraph
Vitagraph Studios
American Vitagraph was a United States movie studio, founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York. By 1907 it was the most prolific American film production company, producing many famous silent films. It was bought by Warner Bros...

 Film Company. It is based on a stage play by Charles Klein
Charles Klein
Charles Klein was an English-born playwright and actor who emigrated to America in 1883. Among his works was the libretto of John Philip Sousa's operetta, El Capitan. Klein's talented siblings included the composer Manuel and the critic Herman Klein...

 produced in 1909 starring Helen Ware
Helen Ware
Helen Ware ; born Helen Remer, was an American stage and film actress. She had a gradual but ultimately successful Broadway stage career and by her thirties was playing the character parts for which she became famous. She began playing character parts in silent films in 1914 and continued into the...

. Filmed several times throughout the silent era, this version starred Alice Joyce
Alice Joyce
Alice Joyce was an American actress, who appeared in more than 200 movies during the 1910s and 1920s, perhaps best known for her roles in the 1923 silent and 1930 talking versions of The Green Goddess....

 with actress/gossip columnist Hedda Hopper
Hedda Hopper
Hedda Hopper was an American actress and gossip columnist, whose long-running feud with friend turned arch-rival Louella Parsons became at least as notorious as many of Hopper's columns.-Early life:...

 in a supporting role and was the next to last silent version of the play, the last being made in 1926 with Dolores Costello
Dolores Costello
Dolores Costello was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success during the era of silent movies. She was nicknamed "The Goddess of the Silent Screen"...

. The film is today a lost
Lost film
A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

 film.

Cast

  • Alice Joyce
    Alice Joyce
    Alice Joyce was an American actress, who appeared in more than 200 movies during the 1910s and 1920s, perhaps best known for her roles in the 1923 silent and 1930 talking versions of The Green Goddess....

     - Annie Sands
  • Gladden James
    Gladden James
    Gladden James was an American film actor. He appeared in 187 films between 1911 and 1946.He was born in Zanesville, Ohio and died in Hollywood, California, from leukemia....

     - Howard Jeffries Jr.
  • Anders Randolf
    Anders Randolf
    Anders Randolf was a Danish American actor in American films from 1913 to 1931.Anders was born in Viborg, Denmark where he became a professional soldier in the Danish army and a world-class swordsman. He immigrated to the United States in 1895, quickly giving in to a lifelong passion for the...

     - Howard Jeffries Sr.
  • Hedda Hopper
    Hedda Hopper
    Hedda Hopper was an American actress and gossip columnist, whose long-running feud with friend turned arch-rival Louella Parsons became at least as notorious as many of Hopper's columns.-Early life:...

     - Mrs. howard Jeffries Sr.
  • Herbert Evans
    Herbert Evans (actor)
    Herbert Evans was a British-born American film actor. He appeared in over 180 films between 1916 and 1952.Modern viewers will remember Evans as the Earl of Glenheather Castle in The Three Stooges comedy The Hot Scots and its remake Scotched in Scotland. He also excelled as the well-meaning but...

     - Robert Underwood
  • George Backus - Richard Brewster
  • John P. Wade - Dr. Thompson
  • L. Rogers Lytton
    L. Rogers Lytton
    L. Rogers Lytton was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 87 films between 1912 and 1924. Prior to entering films he had a substantial stage career behind him....

    - Captain Clinton
  • Edward McGuire - Sergeant Maloney
  • Alfred Fisher - ?

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