A Chapter in Her Life is a 1923

1923 in film

-Events:*April 15 - Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers.-Top grossing films :-Films released in 1923:U.S.A...

 American film

Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, also known as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period...

 based on the novel Jewel: A Chapter in Her Life by Clara Louise Burnham. The film was directed by Lois Weber

Lois Weber

Lois Weber was an American silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director, who is considered "the most important female director the American film industry has known", and "one of the most important and important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films". Film historian...

. She had previously adapted the same novel as the 1915

1915 in film

The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 8 : D.W Griffith's The Birth of a Nation premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks box office and film length records, running at a total length of 3 hrs 10 minutes.* June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors...

 film Jewel, which she co-directed (uncredited) with her then-husband and collaborator Phillips Smalley

Phillips Smalley

Wendell Phillips Smalley was a prolific American silent film director and actor.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Smalley began his career in vaudeville and acted in more than 200 films between 1910 until his death in 1939...

. Weber made this film shortly after her divorce from Smalley.

Plot

Jewel is a young widow whose ambitions are stalled by loyalty to her grizzled, angry father-in-law. Anger and squabbling amongst the family are brought to heel through love, understanding and the teachings of Christian Science

Christian Science

Christian Science is a system of thought and practice derived from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the Bible. It is practiced by members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist as well as some others who are nonmembers. Its central texts are the Bible and the Christian Science textbook,...

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Cast

• Claude Gillingwater
  Claude Gillingwater
  Claude Benton Gillingwater was an American stage and screen actor. He first appeared on the stage then in 92 films between 1918 and 1939....
  
   as Mr. Everingham
• Jane Mercer as Jewel
• Jacqueline Gadsden
  Jacqueline Gadsden
  Jacqueline Gadsden was an American film actress during the silent era. Born in Lompoc, California, she is probably best known to modern audiences at the wealthy, haughty other woman in the Clara Bow vehicle It . She made two films in 1929 under the name Jane Daly, and retired shortly after that...
  
   as Eloise Everingham
• Frances Raymond as Madge Everingham
• Robert Frazer
  Robert Frazer
  rightRobert W. Frazer born Robert William Browne on 29 June 1891 in Worcester, Massachusetts, US, was an American actor who appeared in some 224 shorts and films from the 1910s until his death on 17 August 1944 in Los Angeles, California, US, due to leukemia...
  
   as Dr. Ballard
• Eva Thatcher
  Eva Thatcher
  Eva Thatcher was an American film actress. She appeared in over one hundred films between 1912 and 1930.She was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:...
  
   as Mrs. Forbes
• Ralph Yearsley
  Ralph Yearsley
  Ralph Yearsley was a British-born character actor who worked in Hollywood films.Born in London, England, he was trained in a medical school, but left to go to the United States to pursue a career in the film industry...
  
   as Zeke Forbes
• Fred Thomson as Nat Bonnell
• Beth Rayon as Susan