One Year to Live

{{short description|1925 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = One Year to Live | image = One Year to Live (1925) - 2.jpg | alt = | caption = Advertisement | director = Irving Cummings | producer = | screenplay = J.G. Hawks Robert E. Hopkins | starring = Aileen Pringle Dorothy Mackaill Sam De Grasse Rosemary Theby Leo White Joseph Kilgour | music = | cinematography = Arthur L. Todd | editing = Charles J. Hunt | studio = First National Pictures | distributor = First National Pictures | released = {{film date|1925|3|15}} | runtime = 70 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent English intertitles | budget = | gross = }}

'''''One Year to Live''''' is a 1925 American drama film directed by Irving Cummings and written by J.G. Hawks and Robert E. Hopkins. The film stars Aileen Pringle, Dorothy Mackaill, Sam De Grasse, Rosemary Theby, Leo White and Joseph Kilgour. The film was released on March 15, 1925, by First National Pictures.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/500095/one-year-to-live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181219134442/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/500095/One-Year-To-Live/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 19, 2018 |title=One Year To Live (1925) - Overview |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=December 19, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Janiss Garza |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/one-year-to-live-v104947 |title=One Year to Live (1925) - Irving Cummings |publisher=AllMovie |access-date=December 19, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/11157-ONE-YEAR-TO-LIVE |title=One Year to Live |publisher=Catalog.afi.com |access-date=December 19, 2018}}</ref>

==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref>{{Citation |title=New Pictures: ''One Year to Live'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=20 |issue=13 |pages=52 |date=21 March 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald20unse/page/52/mode/1up |access-date=19 December 2021}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> in Paris, Elise is maid to the great dancer, Lolette. Tom Kendrick comes to bid Lolette farewell, and is intrigued when he watches Elise's dancing when she believes herself alone. He falls in love with her, and deserts Lolette for her at the ball given in his theatre by Brunel, getting Elise in bad with Lolette. He declares his love, promises to write every day of his trip back to the United States and his return, after he is discharged from the army. Dr. Lapierre, who attends Elise's bed-ridden sister, Marthe, loves Elise, bribes the janitor to destroy Kendrick's letters and tells Elise she has but a year to live. Seemingly neglected by Kendrick, and with no money to leave to care for Marthe, Elise promises to become Brunel's mistress when he has made a great star out of her. Kendrick returns on the night Brunel claims his reward. Lapierre confesses his deception, Marthe recovers, and Elise refuses to fulfill her bargain. She convinces Kendrick of her innocence and they are reconciled.

==Cast== {{Cast listing| *Aileen Pringle as Elsie Duchanier *Dorothy Mackaill as Marthe *Sam De Grasse as Dr. Lucien La Pierre *Rosemary Theby as Lolette *Leo White as Stage Manager *Joseph Kilgour as Maurice Brunel *Antonio Moreno as Captain Tom Kendrick *Rose Dione as Nanette *Chester Conklin as Froquin }}

==Preservation== With no prints of ''One Year to Live'' located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.<ref>[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8027/ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''One Year to Live'']</ref>

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==External links== {{commons category|One Year to Live}} *{{IMDb title|0016182|One Year to Live}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:One Year to Live}} Category:1925 films Category:1925 drama films Category:1925 lost films Category:1925 American films Category:1925 English-language films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent feature films Category:English-language drama films Category:Films directed by Irving Cummings Category:First National Pictures films Category:Lost American silent drama films