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By Right of Purchase is a american film of genre Drama directed by Charles Miller released in USA on 1 february 1918 with Norma Talmadge

By Right of Purchase (1918)

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Released in USA 1 february 1918
Length 1h12
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama

By Right of Purchase is a 1918 American silent drama film starring Norma Talmadge in a story produced by her husband Joseph Schenck. The film was distributed by Lewis J. Selznick's Select Pictures Company. An up-and-coming actress and soon to be gossip columnist, Hedda Hopper, has a small role in this picture.

The film survives today in the Library of Congress, albeit with some reported deterioration in the sixth and last reel.



^ By Right of Purchase at silentera.com database

^ By Right of Purchase at Unsung Divas database

Actors

Norma Talmadge

(Margot Hughes)Eugene O'Brien

(Chadwick Himes)Ida Darling

(Mrs. Hughes)William Courtleigh, Jr.

(Dick Derwent)Charles Wellesley

(Donald Nugent)Hedda Hopper

(Society Woman (uncredited))
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