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As the Twig Is Bent (1915)
Directed by Wilbert Melville
Overview
L.C. Shumway has a dual role in this action-packed three-reeler. When the Booths divorce, their twin children (both played as adults by Shumway) are separated—George goes with his mother and becomes a fine, upstanding young man, while Herbert takes after his father’s dissolute ways. Both of them wind up serving in the Army and going to the Philippines—George as an officer and West Point graduate, and Herbert as a lowly enlisted man who soon deserts to becomes the drunken love slave of a native girl.
Length 30 minutes
Actors
Lee Shumway | Doris Baker | Helen Jerome Eddy | Jack Holt | Eleanor Blevins | Velma Whitman | Melvin Mayo | Louis Fitzroy