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Pillars of Society is a film of genre Drama with Ellen Terry

Pillars of Society (1920)

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Genres Drama

Pillars of Society is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Rex Wilson and starring Ellen Terry, Norman McKinnel and Mary Rorke. It was based on the 1877 play The Pillars of Society by Henrik Ibsen. Location shooting was done in Norway.

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Ellen Terry

(Widow Bernick)Norman McKinnel

(John Halligan)Lydia Hayward

(Lena Hessel)
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