The Woman Gives
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Directed by	Roy William Neill
Written by	Grant Carpenter Waldo Walker
Based on	The Woman Gives by Owen Johnson
Produced by	Joseph Schenck
Starring	Norma Talmadge
Cinematography	David Abel
Production company	Norma Talmadge Film Corporation
Distributed by	First National
Release date	March 29, 1920 (1920-03-29)
Running time	6 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Woman Gives is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Norma Talmadge, John Halliday, and Edmund Lowe.^[1][2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine,^[3] artist Inga Sonderson (Talmadge) and her betrothed sculptor Robert Milton (Lowe) owe their success to Daniel Garford (Halliday), who is popularly acclaimed a genius. When Daniel discovers that his wife (Stewart) has been unfaithful, he abandons his career and drowns his sorrow in drink. Inga exerts every effort to save him from himself, much to her fiance's strenuous objections. She follows Daniel to an opium den and where he comes to a realization of his error. Robert breaks with Inga over her interest in Daniel. Daniel reclaims his popularity, and it is popularly assumed that he is to marry Inga, at the last minute she surprises everyone and marries Robert.

Cast

• Norma Talmadge as Inga Sonderson
• John Halliday as Daniel Garford
• Edmund Lowe as Robert Milton
• Lucille Lee Stewart as Mrs. Garford
• John Smiley as Cornelius
• Edward Keppler as Bowden

Preservation status

The film is preserved at the Library of Congress, Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation, and the Russian Gosfilmofond.^[4]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Woman Gives.

• The Woman Gives at IMDb
• synopsis at AllMovie
• Johnson, Owen (1916), The Woman Gives: a Story of Regeneration, Boston: Little, Brown & Company, on the Internet Archive

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