One Year to Live

Overview

Young Elsie Duchanier, maid of the star dancer in the French Brunel's Follies, is deceived by a lascivious doctor into believing she has only one year to leave in his effort to seduce her. Separated from her true love American soldier Capt. Tom Kendrick when he is reassigned to the United States, she accepts Maurice Brunel's offer to make her the main attraction of his new Follies. She meets with enormous success, but Brunel demands she submit to his advances as the price he demands for making her a star which she refuses. Tom returns to France just in time to save her virtue and whisk her away.

Directed by Irving Cummings

Top cast

Aileen Pringle

Elsie Duchanier

Dorothy Mackaill

Marthe

Sam De Grasse

Dr. Lucien La Pierre

Rosemary Theby

Lolette

Leo White

Stage Manager

Joseph Kilgour

Maurice Brunel

Antonio Moreno

Captain Tom Kendrick

Rose Dione

Nanette

Chester Conklin

Froquine

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