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The Deciding Kiss

The Deciding Kiss

1918•47m
Drama

The first part is pathetic and shows Eleanor Hamlin (Edith Roberts) severing home ties with her grandparents to be "adopted" by a party of idle rich on the cooperative plan. The parties adopting her are single, and one of them, Beulah Page (Winifred Greenwood), has her own ideas on the subject of raising the young - these ideas absolutely precluding the main requisite, love.

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Production

Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Bluebird Photoplays

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Edith Roberts

Edith Roberts

Eleanor Hamlin

Winifred Greenwood

Winifred Greenwood

Beulah Page

Hallam Cooley

Hallam Cooley

Jimmy Sears

Hans Unterkircher

Hans Unterkircher

Peter Bolling

Lottie Kruse

Lottie Kruse

William Courtright

William Courtright

Edmund Cobb

Edmund Cobb

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