A Mormon Maid

A Mormon Maid

68 mins | Drama, History | April 21, 1917

This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community traveling to Utah. They join the wagon train. Dora is pursued by two men, one a recent convert, the other a scheming elder with a stable of wives. The Mormon elder wants her in his harem. When the mother kills herself from revulsion toward polygamy, the daughter must consider her own future and the man she loves. One of Mae Murray's few surviving films, this was intended by Robert Leonard to be a thoughtful drama about the goods and evils of Mormonism, but today it is generally considered pure anti-Mormon propaganda.

A Mormon Maid

68 mins | Drama, History | April 21, 1917

A Mormon Maid
This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community traveling to Utah. They join the wagon train. Dora is pursued by two men, one a recent convert, the other a scheming elder with a stable of wives. The Mormon elder wants her in his harem. When the mother kills herself from revulsion toward polygamy, the daughter must consider her own future and the man she loves. One of Mae Murray's few surviving films, this was intended by Robert Leonard to be a thoughtful drama about the goods and evils of Mormonism, but today it is generally considered pure anti-Mormon propaganda.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company
Original title A Mormon Maid
Directors Robert Z. Leonard
Writers Charles Sarver, Paul West

Cast

Mae Murray

as Dora

Frank Borzage

as Tom Rigdon

Hobart Bosworth

as John Hogue

Edythe Chapman

as Nancy Hogue

Noah Beery

as Darius Burr

Richard Cummings

as Lion of the Lord