Mary Moreland

{{about||the American Congregational minister|Mary L. Moreland}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Mary Moreland | image = Mary Moreland.jpg | caption = Advertisement | director = Frank Powell | producer = Frank Powell | writer = Marie Van Vorst (novel)<br>Clara Beranger (scenario) | starring = Marjorie Rambeau | music = | cinematography = William F. Wagner | editing = | distributor = Mutual Film | released = {{Film date|1917|7|9}} | runtime = 5 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }}

'''''Mary Moreland''''' is a 1917 American silent drama film starring stage actress Marjorie Rambeau that was released through Mutual Film.<ref>''The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20'' by The American Film Institute, c.1988</ref>

==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Reviews: Marjorie Rambeau in ''Mary Moreland'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=5 |issue=4 |page=28 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=21 July 1917 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald05exhi |accessdate=2014-11-10}}</ref> Thomas Maughm (Elliott), a Wall Street broker and unhappily married, finds himself in love with his secretary Mary Moreland (Rambeau). He confesses his love and she leaves his employ. After Mary has traveled around in various positions, she returns home. She learns of the death of Thomas' wife and this time she listens to his confessions of love.

==Cast== *Marjorie Rambeau - Mary Moreland *Robert Elliott - Thomas Maughm *Jean La Motte - Mrs. Daisy Maughm *Augusta Burmeister - Mrs. Moreland *Fraser Tarbutt - Basil Romney *Edna Holland - Cicely Torrance *Frank A. Ford -

==Reception== Like many American films of the time, ''Mary Moreland'' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors cut an intertitle that stated "Don't you know that your wife is going to have a child?"<ref>{{cite journal |title=Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=5 |issue=6 |page=33 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=4 August 1917 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald05exhi |accessdate=2014-11-26}}</ref>

==Preservation== With no prints of ''Mary Moreland'' located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.<ref>[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7431/ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''Mary Moreland'']</ref>

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0008275}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mary Moreland}} Category:1917 films Category:American silent feature films Category:Films based on American novels Category:1917 drama films Category:Films directed by Frank Powell Category:American black-and-white films Category:Mutual Film films Category:1917 lost films Category:1917 American films Category:1917 English-language films Category:English-language drama films Category:Lost American silent drama films