The Service Star (film)
| The Service Star | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Charles Miller |
| Produced by | Samuel Goldwyn |
| Written by | Charles Logue (scenario) |
| Starring | Madge Kennedy |
| Cinematography |
Louis Dunmyre Ned Van Buren |
| Distributed by | Goldwyn Pictures |
Release dates | July 7, 1918 |
Running time | 60 minutes; 6 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Service Star is an American film released in 1918 and directed by Charles Miller. It stars Madge Kennedy as a young woman who pretends to be the fiancée of a famous flying ace during the First World War. The film was copyrighted under the title The Flag of Mothers and was released in July, 1918, four months before the end of the conflict.[1]
This film is lost. During its original release, it was paired with a short Harold Lloyd comedy in some theaters.[2]
Cast
- Madge Kennedy as Marily March
- Clarence Oliver as John Whitney Marshall
- Maude Turner Gordon as Mrs. Marshall
- Mabel Ballin as Gwendolyn Plummer
- Victory Bateman as Aunt Judith
- Tammany Young as Blinky
- William Bechtel as Finkelstein
- Jules Cowles as Jefferson
- Zula Ellsworth as Martha
- John A. Hemmingway as Civil War Veteran
- Phineas Billings as Civil War Veteran
- Isaac Wentworth as Civil War Veteran
- David Schuyler as Civil War Veteran
Plot
A homely young girl, lonely and unhappy because she alone of all the girls in her town does not have a soldier sweetheart, pretends to be the fiancée of a famous combat aviator. When the flyer's mother learns of the "engagement," she accepts the girl as her future daughter-in-law, just in time for complications to arise in the form of the truth.
Reception
Like many American films of the time, The Service Star was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut, in Reel 5, the shooting of the chemist.[3]
References
- ↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c.1988
- ↑ The Fredericksburg Daily Star, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 11 September 1918. pg unknown. Accessed 14 August 2012
- ↑ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald (New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company) 7 (5): 43. July 27, 1918.