{{Use American English|date=March 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2026}} {{Italic title}} {{Short description|1916 American film}} {{Infobox film | image = The Return of Eve.jpg | caption = Moving Picture World advertisememt | director = Arthur Berthelet | writer = H. S. Sheldon | based_on = {{Based on|''The Return of Eve''|Lee Wilson Dodd}} | starring = Edna Mayo <br> Eugene O'Brien <br> Edward Mawson | cinematography = Will E. Smith | studio = Essanay Studios | distributor = K-E-S-E Service | released = {{Film date|1912|10|16}} | runtime = 5 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitle<nowiki>s}}</nowiki> }}
'''''The Return of Eve''''', also known as '''''When Eve Came Back''''',<ref name="Silent Era">{{Cite web |title=The Return of Eve |url=https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/R/ReturnOfEve1916.html |access-date=2026-03-16 |website=Silent Era}}</ref> is a 1916 American silent film, adapted from a play by Lee Wilson Dodd. The Essanay Studios five-reel film was directed by Arthur Berthelet with Edna Mayo and Eugene O'Brien in the starring roles.<ref name="Silent Era" /><ref name="San Antonio Light-1917">{{Cite news |date=February 18, 1917 |title=George Benan at Empire Today in "His Sweetheart" |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/san-antonio-light-george-benan-at-empire/193488766/ |work=San Antonio Light |location=San Antonio, Texas |page=17 |via=Newspapers.com|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Sketch/y5JRAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22The+Return+of+Eve%22+film&pg=PA59&printsec=frontcover |title=The Sketch |date=January 17, 1917 |publisher=Illustrated London News and Sketch |pages=59 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nickelodeon/6AtKAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22The+Return+of+Eve%22+film&pg=PA822&printsec=frontcover |title=Nickelodeon, V. XVI, No. 15 |date=1916 |pages=822 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref> H.S. Sheldon wrote the screenplay. The film is presumed lost.<ref name="Silent Era"/>
The play was staged 29 times in 1909, at the Herald Square Theatre on Broadway.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Return of Eve – Broadway Musical |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-return-of-eve-6634 |access-date=2026-03-16 |website=Internet Broadway Database (IBDB)}}</ref>
Scenes for the film were shot in the Midwest, including in Chicago, while settings were filmed in northern Wisconsin near the banks of the Dells of the Wisconsin River.<ref name="Daily Gazette-Martinez-1916">{{Cite news |date=August 8, 1916 |title=Movieland |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-gazette-martinez-movieland/193488664/ |work=Daily Gazette-Martinez |location=Martinez, California |page=7 |via=Newspapers.com|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="Los Angeles Evening Express-1916">{{Cite news |date=October 21, 1916 |title=Tally's Broadway |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/los-angeles-evening-express-tallys-broa/193488721/ |work=Los Angeles Evening Express |page=7 |via=Newspapers.com|url-access=subscription}}</ref> The plot features the leads raised in a natural setting before being relocated to a metropolis as adults. They return to pastoral life and reunite.<ref name="Silent Era"/>
==Cast== *Edna Mayo as Eve<ref name="Daily Gazette-Martinez-1916" /><ref name="Los Angeles Evening Express-1916" /> *Eugene O'Brien as Adam<ref name="San Antonio Light-1917" /> *Edward R. Mawson as David Winters<ref name="San Antonio Light-1917" /> *Leona Ball as Clarice Bellamy<ref name="San Antonio Light-1917" /> *Edward Arnold as Seymour Purchwell<ref name="San Antonio Light-1917" /> *Renee Clemmons as Trixie Shevlin<ref name="San Antonio Light-1917" /> *John Cossar as John Raymond<ref name="San Antonio Light-1917" /> *Emily Fitzroy as Mrs. Tupper-Bellamy<ref name="Silent Era"/>
==See also== *''The Misleading Lady (1916 film)''
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0158894}}
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