The Purple Dawn

The Purple Dawn is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film that was produced, written, and directed by Charles R. Seeling. Starring Bessie Love, Bert Sprotte, and William E. Aldrich. The film is presumed lost.

The Purple Dawn is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film that was produced, written, and directed by Charles R. Seeling. Starring Bessie Love, Bert Sprotte, and William E. Aldrich. The film is presumed lost.

Two inmates and a cleaning girl at a home for struggling artists achieve success and fame when they pool their talents and produce a smash hit Broadway musical. Edgar ( Monte Blue ), the playwright, is in love with April…

Howard Spurlock, wrongfully accused of theft, believes police are seeking his arrest. On “the ragged edge,” he takes refuge in China, where he meets and is nursed back to health by Ruth Endicott, daughter of a missionary. They marry and…

A Wesley Ruggles film directed by , released in 1923.


Lola de Breze loves Lord Arthur Fallaray from afar, though there seems to be no way to bring them together — he is England’s Colonial Secretary and married, while she is merely a working class maiden. But when she is…

Billy Winthrop is in love with Beatrice Forbes, who is engaged to Ernest Peabody, a reform candidate for mayor backed by Billy’s father. When Billy learns that Peabody has betrayed Violet Gaynor and plans to doublecross Mr. Winthrop, he exposes…

Disgusted with his spendthrift son, Kirk Anthony’s father has Kirk shanghaied and taken to Panama, where he attracts the attention of Mrs. Edith Cortlandt. He subsequently falls in love with Chiquita, the daughter of a Panamanian general, gets a railroad…

A drama of the India Seas that has Hollingsworth Chance, a young American, tangled in court intrigue to, is put to the supreme test to save the girl he loves, Princess Geneva

Shortly after being made the executor of a wealthy man’s estate, a man murders his benefactor. He then makes a play for the widow, who rebuffs him. To escape his arduous pursuit, she takes her little daughter on a trip…