''New York'' is a 1916 American silent

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directed by

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and starring Florence Reed. It was adapted by Ouida Bergère from a 1910 William J. Hurlbut play of the same title. The film was distributed by the

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company.

Plot

Cast

* Florence Reed as Nora Nelson, later Mrs. King * Fania Marinoff as Edna Macey, The Chorus Girl * John Miltern as Oliver King * Jessie Ralph as Mrs. Macey * Forrest Winant as Wendell King

Censorship

Like many American films of this time period, ''New York'' was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, in 1918 the Chicago Board of Censors issued an Adults Only permit for the film and required a cut, in Reel 2, of the two

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s "Edna enjoys the luxuries that King provides her" and "And thus Oliver King becomes a benedict", and, Reel 3, two views of a

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model. The Ohio Board of Censors required a cut of a scene with a woman smoking, scene at table where a young woman lies back in man's arms while she smokes a cigarette, a cut to three feet of film a scene of young woman dancing on a table, to five feet of film of scene where drunken woman smokes a cigarette, remove the intertitles "You bet I'll come to your party. This virtuous life is hell", "You can't leave me now when I am about to be a mother", "You're only my guardian, you know, and I'll do as I d----d please", and "God! How beautiful you are tonight. What a fool you were to marry a man as old as King.", and also cut out all scenes of woman posing in the nude, the murder, and scene in cabaret where man at table catches girl by her foot as she dances by him.

Preservation

With no prints of ''New York'' located in any film archives, it is considered a

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. In February 2021, the film was cited by the

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on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.

References

External links

* 1916 films 1916 comedy-drama films 1916 lost films 1910s American films 1910s English-language films American black-and-white films American films based on plays American silent feature films English-language comedy-drama films Films directed by George Fitzmaurice Films with screenplays by Ouida Bergère Lost American comedy-drama films Lost silent American films Pathé Exchange films Silent American comedy-drama films {{silent-comedy-drama-film-stub