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1917 American film
The Easiest Way
Directed byAlbert Capellani
Written byAlbert Capellani and Frederick Chapin
Based onThe Easiest Way
1909 play
by Eugene Walter
Produced byClara Kimball Young Company
StarringClara Kimball Young
CinematographyJacques Monteran
Hal Young
Distributed bySelznick Distributing Corporation
Release date
  • April 1917 (1917-04)
Running time7 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
(English intertitles)

The Easiest Way is a 1917 American silent film starring Clara Kimball Young and directed by Albert Capellani. It is based on a 1909 play, The Easiest Way by Eugene Walter, staged by David Belasco and starred Frances Starr as Laura Murdock. Belasco and Starr revived the play in 1921. It is not known whether the film currently survives.

Actor Joseph Kilgour reprises his role as Brockton from the Broadway play.

Plot summary

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Production

Portions of the film depicting Colorado Springs were filmed in and around Skyland Resort in what is now Shenandoah National Park.

Cast

References

  1. The Easiest Way: The Clara Kimball Young website, by Greta deGroat
  2. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Fil Institute, c.1988
  3. The Easiest Way produced on Broadway at the Stuyvesant Theatre, January 19, 1909 to June 1909; IBDB.com
  4. Progressive Silent Film List: The Easiest Way (1917) at SilentEra.com
  5. Pollock, George Freeman (1960). Skyland, The Heart of the Shenandoah National Park. Chesapeake Book Company. p. 122.

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