| Life's Shop Window | |
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 Lydia Wilton's baby is presented to the Anderson farm | |
| Directed by | |
| Screenplay by | Mary Asquith |
| Based on | Life's Shop Window by Victoria Cross |
| Produced by | William Fox, Box Office Attraction Company |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Harry Fischbeck |
| Distributed by | Box Office Attraction Film Company |
Release date |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
Life's Shop Window is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Claire Whitney and Stuart Holmes. It is a film adaptation of the 1907 novel of the same name by Annie Sophie Cory. The film depicts the story of English orphan Lydia Wilton (Whitney), and her husband Bernard Chetwin (Holmes). Although Wilton's marriage is legitimate, it was conducted in secret, and she is accused of having a child out of wedlock. Forced to leave England, she reunites with her husband in Arizona. There, she is tempted by infidelity with an old acquaintance, Eustace Pelham, before seeing the error of her ways and returning to her family.
Life's Shop Window was the first film produced by both William Fox and his Box Office Attraction Film Company, the main corporate predecessor to Fox Film.[1] Several reviewers approved of the film's expurgated treatment of the novel's plot, although opinions of the quality of the film itself were mixed. It proved very popular upon its initial release in New York, and that success was used to advertise the film elsewhere. Like many of Fox's early works, it was likely lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire.
- ^ Solomon 2011, p. 13.