The House of Shame is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Burton L. King and starring Creighton Hale, Virginia Brown Faire, and Lloyd Whitlock.Pitts p. 85Progressive Silent Film List: The House of Shame at silentera.com
Plot After stealing from his job, husband asks wife to "convince" his boss not to press charges.
Cast Creighton Hale as Harvey Baremore Virginia Brown Faire as Druid Baremore Lloyd Whitlock as John Kimball Florence Dudley as Doris Fred Walton as M. Fanchon Carlton S. King as The Irate Husband Julia Griffith as Country Club Gossip George Kuwa as Kuwa, Kimball's Valet
Censorship Like many American films of the time, The House of Shame was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. In Kansas the film, with a plot condoning a romantic relationship between a wife and her husband's employer, was banned by the Board of Review.
References
Bibliography Michael R. Pitts. Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each. McFarland & Company, 2005.
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