This film is rumoured to feature former early silent star, FLORENCE LAWRENCE, known as "The Biograph Girl" and credited as the worlds' first film star. She is rumoured to have a bit part or extra role in this movie. Indeed she is credit on the sleeve of the recent DVD release. She is not listed on the imdb credits here. Can anybody shed any more light or has even spot her in the film?
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The film is a bootleg, but I have seen it and it's quite wonderful.
Its POSSIBLE Florence Lawrence is in it...can't say I've ever noticed her or even looked for her but she was doing extra work around that time and I do know who she is.
There are two scenes I'm betting she may have taken part in. In the beginning there is a dance scene held at the family home (from which Mary and her lover runaway). Later in the film the now much older couple attend a dance at which a Spanish hoochie causes a scene.
Both scenes have LOTS of extras...and really I think if Florence was anywhere she would have been in those scenes. I highly recommend getting the DVD.
I'd like to know where she is as well. I've watched the film three times and have no idea where Lawrence is, if in fact she is in it at all. If she is, and the scene in question survives in the existing print used for the dvd, what's the point of having her appear in a movie and then make it a chore to pick her out? When Griffith gave his old stars cameos in his two talkies, even if they didn't do anything you could easily spot them (like Kate Bruce in "The Struggle").
There is a very brief shot of two women waving outside a window at the political parade but I don't believe either to be Lawrence.
If noone can find Florence Lawrence in this movie it's probably just a rumor or part of a scene that was cut or no longer appears to exist, which are all possibilities.
The odd thing is that she's actually the last name credited in the cast list on the back of the DVD.
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