
When heiress Betty Hallowell organizes a Red Cross bazaar to raise money for the American effort in The Great War, she is disappointed that the event is not a success, so she decides to lease her beautiful country house to Mrs. Wentworth, a wealthy widow whose son Tom is recuperating from injuries received overseas.

Charles Sarver, Wallace Clifton
United States

The celluloid of 1917 is brittle, yet T'Other Dear Charmer crackles alive like a thorned rose pressed between munitions ledgers. Shot in the lambent interstice between newsreel carnage and home-front hymnals, this six-reel whisper from World Picture Corp. distills the entire war neurosis into one sun-dappled drawing ro...

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"The celluloid of 1917 is brittle, yet T'Other Dear Charmer crackles alive like a thorned rose pressed between munitions ledgers. Shot in the lambent interstice between newsreel carnage and home-front hymnals, this six-reel whisper from World Picture Corp. distills the entire war neurosis into one sun-dappled drawing room. Plot as Palimpsest Betty’s bazaar flops not from stingy townsfolk but from collective shell-shock: even charity feels like complicity when boys are gassed in Ypres. Her pivot—..."


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