- Purity (film)
Infobox Film
name = Purity
caption = Audrey Munson in "Purity"
director =Rae Berger
writer =Clifford Howard (scenario)
starring =Audrey Munson Thomas A. Curran Nigel De Brulier Alfred Hollingsworth William A. Carroll Eugenie Forde Clarence Burton Nela Drinkwitz Molly Shafer
released =July 23 ,1916 (USA )
country = USA
language =Silent film
English intertitles"Purity" is a 1916 American
silent film written byClifford Howard and directed byRae Berger and starringAudrey Munson . It is notable for its nude scenes.The film was called "Reinheit" in
Germany .All copies of the film had been believed to be lost, but a copy of this film was recently rediscovered in a French archive, although it is not yet available to the public.
Plot
Purity, a simple country girl, comes to the city and is hired as an artist's model. A young poet becomes obsessed with her, and is distraught when he learns she has been posing nude. But his distress is diminished when he finds that she intends to use her income from modeling to publish his poetry.
Cast
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Audrey Munson as Purity / Virtue
*Nigel De Brulier as Thorton Darcy
*Alfred Hollingsworth as Claude Lamarque
*William A. Carroll as Evil / Luston Black
*Eugenie Forde as Judith Lure
*Clarence Burton as Publisher
*Nela Drinkwitz as Model
*Molly Shafer as Landlady
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