Mr. Gilfil's Love Story

Mr. Gilfil's Love Story

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Mr. Gilfil's Love Story

1920

0h 50m

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Drama

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Based on the short story from George Eliot's 1857 work Scenes of a Clerical life. A chaplain to an aristocratic British family falls in love with their ward, a young Italian woman, who he marries. Tragedy strikes when she dies only a few months later leaving him in a state of grief.

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10 members

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Mary Odette

Caterina

Mary Odette

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Robert Henderson-Bland

Maynard Gilfil

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Peter Upcher

Anthony Wybrow

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Dora De Winton

Lady Clevere

Dora De Winton

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A. Harding Steerman

Sir Christopher Chever

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Aileen Bagot

Beatrice Asscher

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Norma Whalley

Lady Asscher

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John Boella

Signor Sarti

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Irene Drew

Dorcas

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Robert Clifton

Knott

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