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Our Better Selves

Enthralling story of two lives being wasted in idleness, vain and frivolous living tried by the fires of adversity.

1919 50 minutes

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The marriage of a wealthy and frivolous member of French nobility, Loyette Merval, to an American aristocratic idler named Willard Standish, is a loving one, except for their mutual dissatisfaction with Willard's idleness. After Willard becomes a chauffeur, Loyette's subsequent disgust causes him to quit. When the war begins, Willard joins the French Secret Service, while Loyette continues her social life, upset about their separation. After Willard, wounded, hides in a convent, Loyette leaves to find him.

Released

27th July 1919

107 years ago

Runtime

50 minutes

Finishes at 2:33pm

Directed by

George Fitzmaurice

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Written by

Ouida Bergère

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