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As the Twig Is Bent (1915)

Directed by Wilbert Melville

Drama · 30m

L.C. Shumway has a dual role in this action-packed three-reeler. When the Booths divorce, their twin children (both played as adults by Shumway) are separated -- George goes with his mother and becomes a fine, upstanding young man, while Herbert takes after his father's dissolute ways. Both of them wind up serving in the Army and going to the Philippines -- George as an officer and West Point graduate, and Herbert as a lowly enlisted man who soon deserts to becomes the drunken love slave of a native girl.

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Cast

Lee Shumway George Booth / Herbert Booth (dual role) (as Lee C. Shumway) Doris Baker George Booth / Herbert Booth as a Child (dual role) Helen Jerome Eddy Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy) Jack Holt Colonel Vail Eleanor Blevins Mrs. Booth Velma Whitman Tatuka
M
Melvin Mayo
L
Louis Fitzroy

Crew

Director
Wilbert Melville
Writer
Julian La Mothe

Details

Release date
1915-11-25
Runtime
30m
Genres
Drama
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
No Language
Countries
United States of America
Production
Lubin Manufacturing Company