{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = An Alabaster Box | image = An Alabaster Box (1917, lobby card).jpg | caption = Lobby card | director = Chester Withey | producer = | writer = A. Van Buren Powell | story = Mary Eleanor Freeman<br>Florence Morse Kingsley | starring = Alice Joyce <br> Marc McDermott <br> Harry Ham | music = | cinematography = Viola Lawrence | editing = | studio =Vitagraph Company of America | distributor = V-L-S-E | released = {{Film date|1917|09|10}} | runtime = 5 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''An Alabaster Box''' is a lost<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date= |others= |title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Alabaster Box |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3348/default.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321012407/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3348/default.html |archive-date=2023-03-21 |access-date=2025-09-05 |website=memory.loc.gov}}</ref> 1917 American silent drama film directed by Chester Withey and starring Alice Joyce, Marc McDermott, and Harry Ham.<ref>McCaffrey & Jacobs p. 160</ref> It was produced by the Vitagraph Company of America.<ref name=":1" />
==Cast== {{Cast listing| * Alice Joyce as Lydia Bolton / Lydia Orr * Marc McDermott as Andrew Bolton * Harry Ham as Jim Dodge * Aida Horton as Lydia (child) * Patsy De Forest as Fanny Dodge * Frank Hall Crane as Wesley Elliott }}
== Preservation == With no holdings located in archives, ''An Alabaster Box'' is considered a lost film.<ref name=":1" />
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==Bibliography== * Donald W. McCaffrey & Christopher P. Jacobs. ''Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema''. Greenwood Publishing, 1999. {{ISBN|0-313-30345-2}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|0007616}}
{{Chester Withey}}
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