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  2. As the Twig Is Bent

As the Twig Is Bent

1915
30m
Drama

Status

Released

Release

1915

Runtime

30m

Storyline

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.

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
30m
Nov 25, 1915
Languages
No Language
Director
Wilbert Melville
Production
Lubin Manufacturing Company
Lubin Manufacturing Company
Production Countries
United States of America

Top Cast

8 Cast Members

Lee Shumway

Lee Shumway

George Booth / Herbert Booth (dual role) (as Lee C. Shumway)

Doris Baker

Doris Baker

George Booth / Herbert Booth as a Child (dual role)

Helen Jerome Eddy

Helen Jerome Eddy

Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy)

Jack Holt

Jack Holt

Colonel Vail

Eleanor Blevins

Eleanor Blevins

Mrs. Booth

Velma Whitman

Velma Whitman

Tatuka

Melvin Mayo

Louis Fitzroy

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