{{short description|1916 film by Frank Reicher}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = The Love Mask | image = | alt = | caption = | director = Frank Reicher | producer = Jesse L. Lasky | screenplay = Cecil B. DeMille<br>Jeanie MacPherson | starring = Cleo Ridgely<br>Wallace Reid | music = | cinematography = Walter Stradling | editing = | studio = Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company | distributor = Paramount Pictures | released = {{Film date|1916|4|13}} | runtime = 50 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }}
'''''The Love Mask''''' is a 1916 American drama silent film directed by Frank Reicher and written by Cecil B. DeMille and Jeanie MacPherson. The film stars Cleo Ridgely, Wallace Reid, Earle Foxe, Bob Fleming, Dorothy Abril and Lucien Littlefield. The film was released on April 13, 1916, by Paramount Pictures.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/496649/the-love-mask|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304140539/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/496649/The-Love-Mask/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 4, 2016|title=The Love Mask (1916) - Overview - TCM.com|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=26 December 2014}}</ref>
Location shooting for the film was done in the Mojave Desert.<ref name="afi">{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/14213-THE-LOVE-MASK |title=The Love Mask|work=afi.com |access-date=March 30, 2024}}</ref>
==Plot== As described in a film magazine,<ref name="Wid's Daily">{{cite journal |title=''Players' Personalities and Lightings Save Hackneyed Theme'' |journal=Wid's Daily |page=517 |publisher=Wid's Films and Film Folks, Inc. |location=New York City |date=April 20, 1916 |url=https://archive.org/details/widsfilmsfilmfol02wids}}</ref> Kate Kenner has her claim to a gold mine jumped and both the sheriff and a bandit try to help her. Inspired by the bandit, Kate masquerades as a bandit herself to reclaim her mine. She finds herself unfit for the work and is arrested. To make matter worse, Kate is mistaken for a famous bandit known as "Silver Spurs." While Kate is being tried for her banditry, the real Silver Spurs launches a heist.
== Cast == *Cleo Ridgely as Kate Kenner *Wallace Reid as Dan Derring *Earle Foxe as Silver Spurs *Bob Fleming as Jim *Dorothy Abril as Estrella *Raymond Hatton as The Mexican *Lucien Littlefield
==Preservation== With no prints of ''The Love Mask'' located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.<ref name="American Silent Feature Film Database">{{cite web |url=https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7101/ |title=American Silent Feature Film Database: ''The Love Mask'' |access-date=March 30, 2024 |publisher=Library of Congress}}</ref> In October 2019, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.<ref name="afi"/>
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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0006947|The Love Mask}}
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