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Shoes
Also known as Unshod Maiden in the USA
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Lois Weber

Cast: Mary MacLaren [Eva Meyer], Harry Griffith [Mr. Meyer, her father], Mrs. Witting [Mrs. Meyer, her mother], Jessie Arnold [Lil], William V. Mong [‘Cabaret’ Charlie]

Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, production; distributed by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, through The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley. Scenario by Lois Weber, from the short story “Shoes” by [?] Stella Wynne Herron or Stella Wayne Heron? Cinematography by Stephen S. Norton, King D. Gray and Al Siegler. / © 2 June 1916 by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated [LP8408]. Released 26 June 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was abridged and rereleased as Unshod Maiden, with synchronized music and sound effects, by Universal Pictures Corporation [A Universal Brevity] in 1932.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in Hirschhorn-Universal p. 21.

Survival status: Print exists in the Eye Film Instituut Nederland film archive [35mm color-tinted nitrate positive (Dutch intertitles)]; in the National Film Center at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, film archive [fragmentary 35mm positive (672 feet)].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Poverty - Prostitution

Listing updated: 11 March 2018.

References: Brownlow-Behind p. xxiii; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 21 : Website-AFI.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc.

 
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