A screen star chooses to marry a salesman rather than an older admirer and sees her mistake when her husband becomes a shiftless alcoholic. Brand, the former suitor, tries to straighten out the husband and comfort the star.


The first time we see her, she is haloed by klieg lights, a corona of nitrate fire that makes every man in the auditorium believe the universe has tilted just to watch her breathe. Dorothy Phillips—billed simply as “The Star” in the surviving intertitles—moves through The World's a Stage like a candle in a coal mine: ...

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" The first time we see her, she is haloed by klieg lights, a corona of nitrate fire that makes every man in the auditorium believe the universe has tilted just to watch her breathe. Dorothy Phillips—billed simply as “The Star” in the surviving intertitles—moves through The World's a Stage like a candle in a coal mine: impossibly bright, perpetually in danger of being swallowed. The film, a 1922 survival from the short-lived but fecund territory of post-Griffith, pre-von Stroheim melodrama, has s..."
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