A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Eternal Mother
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Frank Reicher

Cast: Ethel Barrymore [Maris], Frank Mills [Dwight Alden], Jack W. Johnston [Lynch], Charles W. Sutton [the minister], Kaj Gynt [Kate], Louis R. Wolheim [Bucky McGhee], Maxine Elliott Hicks [Felice], J. Van Cortlandt [the butler], Charles Crumpton (Charles Crompton) [a boy], Baby Ivy Ward [a girl]

Metro Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation [A Metro Wonderplay]. / Scenario by Mary Murillo, from the novel Red Horse Hill by Sidney McCall (Mary McNeil Fenollosa). Assistant director, John J. Dunn. Cinematography by George Webber. Presented by Metro Pictures Corporation. / © 20 November 1917 by Metro Pictures Corporation [LP11730]. Released 26 November 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Social.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 25 December 2024.

References: Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.