''More Truth Than Poetry'' is a 1917 American silent

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film, directed by

Burton King Burton L. King (August 25, 1877 – May 4, 1944) was an American film actor and director. One of his best-known productions was '' The Lost Battalion'' (1919). Selected filmography * ''The Battle of Gettysburg'' (1913) * '' Under the Crescent'' ...

. It stars

Olga Petrova Olga Petrova (born Muriel Harding; 10 May 1884 – 30 November 1977) was a British-American actress, screenwriter and playwright. Origins In adulthood, Olga Petrova insisted that she had been born in Warsaw, Poland, then part of the Russian E ...

Mahlon Hamilton Mahlon Preston Hamilton, Jr. (June 15, 1880 – June 20, 1960), was an American stage and screen actor. He was the son of a bartender born in Baltimore, Maryland, the eldest of four children, with the rest of the siblings being girls. Census ...

, and Charles Martin, and was released on October 22, 1917.

Cast list

as Elaine Esmond/Vera Maitland *

as Ashton Blair/Blake Wendell * Charles Martin as Daniel Maitland *

Violet Reed Violet Reed (born Violet Williams) was an American actress active in Hollywood during the silent era. Biography Reed was born in Chicago, Illinois, to John Williams and Hanna Mattson. Her father appears to have died when she was young. She wa ...

as Florence Grant * Harry Burkhardt as Robert Grant * Mary Sands as Grace Danby * William B. Davidson as Allen Danby * Tony Merlo as Louis Barrentos

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* * * 1917 drama films 1917 films Silent American drama films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Metro Pictures films Films directed by Burton L. King 1910s English-language films 1910s American films English-language drama films {{1910s-drama-film-stub