Way Down East - actors, characters and roles
All actors and their roles in the film "Way Down East"
Way Down East (1920)
Timing:
2:30 (150 min)
6.853/10
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7.181/10
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7.3/10
6300
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Actors and characters
Kate Bruce
Character Mother Bartlett
Mrs. David Landau
Character Anna Moore's Mother
Josephine Bernard
Character Mrs. Emma Tremont
Mrs. Morgan Belmont
Character Diana Tremont
Patricia Fruen
Character Diana's Sister
Florence Short
Character The Eccentric Aunt
Porter Strong
Character Seth Holcomb
George Neville
Character Constable Rube Whipple
Mary Hay
Character Kate Brewster - the Squire's Niece
Louise Lawson
Character Minor Role (uncredited)
Athole Shearer
Character Barn Dancer (uncredited)
Edith Shearer
Character Barn Dancer (uncredited)
Frank Walsh
Character Barn Dancer (uncredited)
What's left behind the scenes
- During the filming of the scenes with ice floes, a fire had to be lit under the camera to warm it up and allow it to function.
- The film has no opening or closing credits. Moviegoers were given programs listing all the key characters in descending order of their importance to the plot.
- The scene in the finale with ice floes floating on the surface and falling from the waterfall was filmed in warm weather, so the ice floes were props made of wood. The waterfall itself was only a few feet high.
- A long shot in the film shows Niagara Falls, which has nothing to do with the location where the scenes with ice floes were filmed.
- Clarine Seymour regularly worked with D.W. Griffith during those years, and she was initially cast as Kate here. Seymour played almost all of her character's scenes, but towards the end of filming, she fell ill and died of pneumonia on April 25, 1920. Griffith replaced her with Mary Hay.
- Lillian Gish later recounted that during the filming of the final scene on the river, her hair froze and broke after being in the icy water, and her hand, which was also submerged, ached constantly afterward.
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