The White Sister

by Ronald Colman Lillian Gish, Henry King, Charles E.

$450 · Offered by Royal Books

N.p. N.p., Circa 1923. Vintage reference photograph from the 1923 film, showing actress Lillian Gish and three elderly nuns. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso.Based on the 1909 play by Frances Marion Crawford and Walter Hackett, based in turn on Crawford's 1909 novel, about a woman who joins a convent after learning that her sweetheart has been killed in an African expedition, only to later discover that he is

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