The original fake-it-til-you-make-it flex, but make it 1919.
A young woman of humble origins hides her family's lack of wealth and prestige from her boarding school friends.
Direction
Lois Weber's pioneering female gaze in early Hollywood.
Acting
Mildred Harris's expressive face doing all the heavy lifting.
Director
Lois Weber
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lois Weber was Universal's highest-paid director in 1916, making her one of Hollywood's first female auteurs.
This 'lost film' survives only in fragments, making every recovered minute a ghost from cinema's erased female history.
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