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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.
Actors
Helen Jerome Eddy | Jack Holt | Lee Shumway | Velma Whitman | Doris Baker | Louis Fitzroy | Melvin Mayo | Eleanor Blevins