Experience (1921)
1h 10m
Running Time
August 7, 1921Release Date
Plot.
Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure and hangs out at the Primrose Path with the likes of Temptation and Intoxication. Back home, Youth's mother dies, and Love tries unsuccessfully to reach him. When Youth's money runs out his newfound friends all leave him and he sinks into a life of drug addiction, aided by Habit.
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Cast & Crew.
Richard Barthelmess
Youth
John Miltern
Experience
Marjorie Daw
Love
E.J. Ratcliffe
Ambition
Betty Carpenter
Hope
Kate Bruce
Mother
Lilyan Tashman
Pleasure
R. Senoir
Opportunity
Joseph W. Smiley
Chance
Fred Hadley
Tout
Harry J. Lane
Despair
Helen Ray
Intoxication
Jed Prouty
Good Nature
Barney Furey
Poverty
Charles A. Stevenson
Wealth
Edna Wheaton
Beauty
Yvonne Routon
Fashion
Ned Hay
Sport
Sibyl Carmen
Excitement
Robert Schable
Conceit
Nita Naldi
Temptation
Frank Evans
Work
Frank McCormack
Delusion
Louis Wolheim
Crime
Agnes Marc
Habit
Mrs. Gallagher
Degradation
Florence Flinn
Frailty
Mac Barnes
Makeshift
Leslie King
Gloom
George V. Hobart
Theatre Play
Waldemar Young
Writer
George Fitzmaurice
Director
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Experience is a 1921 American silent morality drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The allegorical film was directed by George Fitzmaurice and starred Richard Barthelmess. It was based on George V. Hobart's successful 1914 Broadway play of the same name. It was the film debut of Lilyan Tashman.
Experience is presumed to be a lost film.