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A Mormon Maid
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A Mormon Maid

1917-04-21 · 68 min · ★ 5.0

History · Drama

This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community traveling to Utah. They join the wagon train. Dora is pursued by two men, one a recent convert, the other a scheming elder with a stable of wives. The Mormon elder wants her in his harem. When the mother kills herself from revulsion toward polygamy, the daughter must consider her own future and the man she loves. One of Mae Murray's few surviving films, this was intended by Robert Leonard to be a thoughtful drama about the goods and evils of Mormonism, but today it is generally considered pure anti-Mormon propaganda.

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Directors
Robert Z. Leonard
Production companies
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released

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Mae MurrayMae MurrayDora
Frank BorzageFrank BorzageTom Rigdon
Hobart BosworthHobart BosworthJohn Hogue
Edythe ChapmanEdythe ChapmanNancy Hogue
Noah BeeryNoah BeeryDarius Burr
Richard CummingsLion of the Lord

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