The Wild Strain

The Wild Strain

Drama, Comedy | Jan. 14, 1918

Although the prominent Hollywood family prides itself on its illustrious family tree, young Winifred Hollywood exhibits a fondness for wild adventures that greatly disturbs her parents. When Winifred becomes engaged to bank official Harold Burton, his equally snobbish parents visit the Hollywood home and are shocked by the young woman's spirited outbursts and mischievous tricks, and the engagement is broken after she decides to perform bareback feats with a traveling circus.

The Wild Strain

Drama, Comedy | Jan. 14, 1918

The Wild Strain
Although the prominent Hollywood family prides itself on its illustrious family tree, young Winifred Hollywood exhibits a fondness for wild adventures that greatly disturbs her parents. When Winifred becomes engaged to bank official Harold Burton, his equally snobbish parents visit the Hollywood home and are shocked by the young woman's spirited outbursts and mischievous tricks, and the engagement is broken after she decides to perform bareback feats with a traveling circus.
Producers Vitagraph Company of America
Original title The Wild Strain
Directors William Wolbert
Writers Lillian Christy Chester, Garfield Thompson, George Randolph Chester, George H. Plympton

Cast

Nell Shipman

as Winifred Hollywood

Gayne Whitman

as Harold Burton

Otto Lederer

as John Calvin Hollywood

Hattie Buskirk

as Mrs. Hollywood

Edward Alexander

as Kingsley Royce

Ruth Handforth

as Mrs. Burton

Robert N. Bradbury

as Col. Bull