Hearts of the World

Love's Struggle (Working title)

Directed by: D.W. Griffith, USA, 1918

USA, 1918


Cast and Credits

Production David W. Griffith Productions
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Distribution Paramount Pictures, Inc.
Producer D.W. Griffith
Director D.W. Griffith
Scenario D.W. Griffith [As gueston de Tolignac]
Director of Photography G.W. Bitzer
Alfred Machin
Hendrik Sartov
Camera Assistant Karl Brown
Editor Rose Smith
James Smith
Cast Lillian Gish [The Girl - Marie Stephenson]
Robert Harron [The Boy - Douglas Gordon Hamilton]
Adolphe Lestina [The Grandfather]
Josephine Crowell [The Mother]
Jack Cosgrave [The Father of the Boy]
Kate Bruce [The Mother of the Boy]
Ben Alexander [The Boy's Littlest Brother]
Robert Anderson [Monsieur Cuckoo]
Noel Coward [The Man with the Wheelbarrow / A Villager in the Streets (as Noel Coward)]
Noel Coward [A Refugee (as Yvette Duvoison of the Comédie Française)]
Marion Emmons [The Boy's Other Brother (as M. Emmons)]
George Fawcett [The Village Carpenter]
Dorothy Gish [The Little Disturber]
Mary Gish [A Refugee Mother (as Mrs. Mary Gish)]
Tessie Harron [A Refugee]
Mary Hay [A Dancer]
Fay Holderness [The Innkeeper]
Fay Holderness [A Deaf and Blind Musician]
Francis Marion [The Boy's Other Brother (as F. Marion)]
George Nichols [A German Sergeant]
Eugene Pouyet [A Poilu]
George Siegmann [Von Strohm]
George Siegmann [A French Major]
Erich von Stroheim [A Hun]
Anna Mae Walthall [A French Peasant Girl]
Anna Mae Walthall [Nurse (not credited)]
Walter Bytell [Von Tirpiz (not credited)]
Walter Bytell [Nursing Infant]
Mae Clarke [Nursing Mother]
Mae Clarke [A Poilu (not credited)]
Mae Clarke [A Poilu (not credited)]
Louise Emmons [(not credited)]
Valerie Germonprez [Red Cross nurse (not credited)]
Valerie Germonprez [Edward Grey - British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Addressing Hou]
D.W. Griffith [D.W. Griffith (in prologue for British release) (not credited)]
D.W. Griffith [A Woman with Daughter (not credited)]
Mary Harron [A Wounded Girl (not credited)]
John Harron [A Boy with a Barrel (not credited)]
John Harron [Nurse (not credited)]
John Harron [A Stretcher Bearer (not credited)]
John Harron [David Lloyd George - the British Prime Minister (in prologue for British re]
John Harron [A Poilu (not credited)]
John Harron [Nurse (not credited)]
John Harron [A Stretcher Bearer (not credited)]
John Harron [Nurse (not credited)]
John Harron [René Viviani - the French Premier Addressing French Chamber of Deputies (ar]

Technical specifications
Category: Feature Film
Technical Details: Format: 35 mm, 1:1,33 - Ratio: 1:1,33 - Black and White,Length: 162 minutes, 9981 feet, 13 reels, 16 frames per second
Sound System: silent
First Screening: March 12, 1918 in Los Angeles
US Copyright: March 12, 1918 - ©LP.12521
Survival Status: Prints of this picture exist [Archiv: Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique (Bruxelles), Cinemateca Brasileira (São Paulo), Cineteca Del Friuli (Gemona), Museum of Modern Art (New York), BFI - National Film And Television Archive (London), Nls, Arhiva Nationala de Filme (Bucuresti), UCLA Film And Television Archive (Los Angeles), Academy Film Archive (Beverly Hills), George Eastman House (Rochester), ]

General Information

Hearts of the World is a motion picture produced in the year 1918 as a USA production. The Film was directed by D.W. Griffith, with Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Adolphe Lestina, Josephine Crowell, Jack Cosgrave, in the leading parts. We have currently no synopsis of this picture on file; There are no reviews of Hearts of the World available.

Bibliography - Exhibitor's Trade Review, 30 March 1918, pg 1365.
- Exhibitor's Trade Review, 21 September 1918, pg 1298.
Life 18 April 1918, pg 642.
MPC 24 August 1918, pg 1018.
- The Motion Picture News, 20 April 1918, pg 2337.
- The Motion Picture News, 17 January 1920, pg 890.
- The Moving Picture World, 13 April 1918, pg 228.
- The Moving Picture World, 20 April 1918, pp 369-70.
- The Moving Picture World, 11 May 18, pg 835.
- The Moving Picture World, 18 May 18, pg 986.
- The Moving Picture World, 15 June 1918, pg 1598.
- The Moving Picture World, 26 May 17, pg 1289.
- The Moving Picture World, 23 June 1917, pg 1946.
- The Moving Picture World, 3 November 1917, pp 680-81.
- The New York Dramatic Mirror, 30 March 1918, pg 33., 6664
- The New York Dramatic Mirror, 13 April 1918, pg 513.
- The New York Dramatic Mirror, 20 April 1918, pg 552.
- New York Times, 5 April 1918, pg 13.
- New York Times, 12 August 1919, pg 7.
Photoplay June 1918, pg 48, 111
- Variety, 15 March 1918, pg 47, 49
- Variety, 29 March 1918, pg 49.
- Variety, 12 April 1918, pp 2-3, 43
- Variety, 7 June 1918, pg 37.
- Wid's Film Daily, 12 May 18, pp 31-32.

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