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The Deciding Kiss(1918)
Status: Released
Date: 1918-07-22
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Time: 0h 47m
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The first part is pathetic and shows Eleanor Hamlin (Edith Roberts) severing home ties with her grandparents to be "adopted" by a party of idle rich on the cooperative plan. The parties adopting her are single, and one of them, Beulah Page (Winifred Greenwood), has her own ideas on the subject of raising the young - these ideas absolutely precluding the main requisite, love.
Languages: English.
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United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Bluebird Photoplays
Movie: The Deciding Kiss
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Edith Roberts
Eleanor Hamlin
Winifred Greenwood
Beulah Page
Hallam Cooley
Jimmy Sears
Hans Unterkircher
Peter Bolling
Lottie Kruse
William Courtright
Edmund Cobb
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The first part is pathetic and shows Eleanor Hamlin (Edith Roberts) severing home ties with her grandparents to be "adopted" by a party of idle rich on the cooperative plan. The parties adopting her are single, and one of them, Beulah Page (Winifred Greenwood), has her own ideas on the subject of raising the young - these ideas absolutely precluding the main requisite, love.
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1918-07-22
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