How Could You, Jean? (Original photograph from the 1918 film)

  • US: Artcraft Pictures / Mary Pickford Company, 1918
By William Desmond Taylor (director); Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd (novel); Frances Marion (screenwriter); Mary Pickford, Casson Ferguson (starring)
US: Artcraft Pictures / Mary Pickford Company, 1918. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1918 film. With an identifying manuscript notation on the verso.

Based on the 1917 novel by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd, about a young socialite and a millionaire, who meet and fall in love while pretending to be a cook and a hired hand, respectively. No known prints of the film survive, and it is considered lost.

8.75 x 7.75 inches, irregularly trimmed. Very Good plus. Diagonal crease to the top corner, with a short closed horizontal tear to one edge.

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