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The Sporting Duchess
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Barry O’Neil

Cast: Rose Coghlan [The Sporting Duchess], Ethyl Clayton [Lady Muriel Desborough], Rosetta Brice [Vivian Darville], Frankie Mann [Annette Donnelly], Florence Williams [Mrs. Donnelly], Charles Brandt [Coloenl Donnelly], Ruth Bryan [Mary Aylmer], James Daly [Mr. Aylmer], George Soule Spencer [Lord Desborough], Ferdinand Tidmarsh [Captain Mostyn], Joseph Kaufman [Rupert Lee], Clarence Elmer [Dick Hammond], Alan Quinn [Doctor Streatfield], Brooks McCloskey [Harold Desborough]

Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by V-L-S-E, Incorporated [A Lubin Liberty Bell Feature]. / Scenario by Clay M. Greene, from the play The Sporting Duchess by Augustus Harris, Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton. / Released 7 June 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was subsequently filmed as The Sporting Duchess (1920).

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4222.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 4 December 2023.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.4222; Slide-Aspects pp. 125-126; Slide-Early p. 18; Tarbox-Lost p. 193 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.