Not My Sister

Not My Sister
Not My Sister
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Directed by	Charles Giblyn
Written by	James Montgomery; C. Gardner Sullivan
Produced by	Thomas H. Ince
Starring	Bessie Barriscale; William Desmond
Production; company	Kay-Bee Pictures under New York Motion Picture Company
Distributed by	Triangle Film Corporation
Release date	May 14, 1916;
Running time	5 reels (50-60 minutes)
Country	USA
Language	Silent with English intertitles

Not My Sister is a 1916 silent film drama directed by Charles Giblyn and starring Bessie Barriscale and William Desmond. It was produced by Thomas H. Ince for Kay-Bee Pictures and distributed by Triangle Film Corporation in Culver City, California.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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Bessie Barriscale - Grace Tyler
William Desmond - Michael Arnold
Franklin Ritchie - John Marshall
Alice Terry - Ruth Tyler (credited as Alice Taafe)
Louise Brownell - Mrs. Tyler
Mabel Johnson - undetermined^[4]

Scene from the film

With no prints of Not My Sister located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.^[5] The film is included among the National Film Preservation Board's list of "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films" as of October 2019.^[6]

[1]
"NOT MY SISTER (1916)", catalog, American Film Institute (AFI), Los Angeles, California. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
[2]
Not My Sister at silentera.com
[3]
Blum, Daniel. Pictorial History of Silent Films. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972, p. 118. ISBN 0-399-11098-4. Internet Archive, San Francisco, California. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
[4]
"Johnson, Mabel", partial filmography in entry in studio directory under "Actresses—Leads", Motion Picture News (New York, N.Y.), October 21, 1916, pp. 78. Internet Archive, San Francisco, California. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
[5]
"American Silent Feature Film Database: Not My Sister". Library of Congress. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
[6]
"7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29) National Film Preservation Board", updated October 2019, "Not My Sister (1916), Charles Giblyn", film number 4366, p. 95 of 158. National Film Preservation Board, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Retrieved April 4, 2020.

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[1] [1]
"NOT MY SISTER (1916)", catalog, American Film Institute (AFI), Los Angeles, California. Retrieved April 4, 2020.

[2] [2]
Not My Sister at silentera.com

[3] [3]
Blum, Daniel. Pictorial History of Silent Films. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972, p. 118. ISBN 0-399-11098-4. Internet Archive, San Francisco, California. Retrieved April 4, 2020.

[4] [4]
"Johnson, Mabel", partial filmography in entry in studio directory under "Actresses—Leads", Motion Picture News (New York, N.Y.), October 21, 1916, pp. 78. Internet Archive, San Francisco, California. Retrieved April 4, 2020.

[American_Silent_Feature_Film_Database-5] [5]
"American Silent Feature Film Database: Not My Sister". Library of Congress. Retrieved March 23, 2024.

[LOClost-6] [6]
"7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29) National Film Preservation Board", updated October 2019, "Not My Sister (1916), Charles Giblyn", film number 4366, p. 95 of 158. National Film Preservation Board, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Retrieved April 4, 2020.

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