Purity (1916)
1h 10m
Running Time
July 23, 1916Release Date
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 modelling to publish his poetry.
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Cast & Crew.
Audrey Munson
Purity / Virtue
Nigel De Brulier
Thorton Darcy
Alfred Hollingsworth
Claude Lamarque
William A. Carroll
Evil / Luston Black
Eugenie Forde
Judith Lure
Clifford Howard
Writer
Edward M. Langley
Production Design
Robert V. Phelan
Cinematography
Geneva Driscoll
Choreographer
Clarence Burton
Publisher
Rae Berger
Director
Molly Shafer
Landlady
Marie Van Tassell
Truth
Media.
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This Movie Is About.
silent film
Wiki.
Purity is a 1916 American silent drama film, directed by Rae Berger and starring Audrey Munson, an artist's model who posed for many statues in New York City and the 1915 San Francisco Panama–Pacific International Exposition. The film's plot was written by Clifford Howard, art direction was by Edward Langley, and choreography was by Geneva Driscoll. The film's nude scenes caused it to be banned and preached against in some towns.