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A Mormon Maid

A Mormon Maid

History, Drama

1h 8m

April 21, 1917 (108 years ago)

Overview

This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community traveling to Utah. They join the wagon train. Dora is pursued by two men, one a recent convert, the other a scheming elder with a stable of wives. The Mormon elder wants her in his harem. When the mother kills herself from revulsion toward polygamy, the daughter must consider her own future and the man she loves. One of Mae Murray's few surviving films, this was intended by Robert Leonard to be a thoughtful drama about the goods and evils of Mormonism, but today it is generally considered pure anti-Mormon propaganda.

ActorAge thenAge now
Mae Murray

Mae Murray

Dora

Birthday: May 10, 1889

27 March 23, 1965 (75)
Frank Borzage

Frank Borzage

Tom Rigdon

Birthday: April 23, 1894

22 June 19, 1962 (68)
Hobart Bosworth

Hobart Bosworth

John Hogue

Birthday: August 9, 1867

49 December 30, 1943 (76)
Edythe Chapman

Edythe Chapman

Nancy Hogue

Birthday: October 7, 1863

53 October 15, 1948 (85)
Noah Beery

Noah Beery

Darius Burr

Birthday: January 16, 1882

35 April 1, 1946 (64)
Richard Cummings

Richard Cummings

Lion of the Lord

Birthday: August 20, 1858

58 December 25, 1938 (80)