A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Innocence of Ruth
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4839 feet
Directed by John H. Collins

Cast: Viola Dana [Ruth Travers], Edward Earle [Jimmy Carter], Augustus Phillips [Mortimer Reynolds], Lena Davril [Edna Morris], T. Tamamoto [Togo, Carter’s butler], Brad Sutton [Ruth’s father], Nellie Grant [the housekeeper]

Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, production; distributed by Kleine-Edison Feature Service. / Scenario by William Addison Lathrop, from a screen story by William Addison Lathrop. / © 18 January 1916 by Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated [LP7461]. Released 26 January 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive (George Kleine collection) [16mm archival reduction positive (FRA 3999-FRA 4003), 16mm duplicate reduction positive (FRA 3994-FRA 3998), 16mm reference positive (FLA 1561-FLA 1565)].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 20 June 2023.

References: Film viewing : Website-AFI; Website-MIC.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.