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The Easiest Way
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by Albert Capellani

Cast: Clara Kimball Young [Laura Murdock], Louise Bates [Elfie St. Clair], Joseph Kilgour [Willard Brockton], Rockcliffe Fellowes [John Madison], Cleo Desmond [Annie], George S. Stevens [Jim Weston], Frank Kingdon [Burgess], May Hopkins [Nellie De Vere], Walter McEwen [Jerry]

Clara Kimball Young Film Corporation production; distributed by [?] Lewis J. Selznick Enterprises, Incorporated, and/or Selznick Pictures Corporation? / Scenario by Albert Capellani and Frederic Chaplin, from the play The Easiest Way by Eugene Walter. Cinematography by Hal Young and Jacques Monteran. / © 6 April 1917 by Clara Kimball Young Film Corporation [LP10544]. Released April 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 17 May 2012.

References: ClasIm-240 p. 22 : Website-AFI.