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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What Love Can Do
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Jay Hunt

Cast: Adele Farrington [Lil Magill], C. Norman Hammond [Calvert Page], Orin C. Jackson (O.C. Jackson) [John Morris], Kingsley Benedict [‘Brad’ Hamilton], [?] Margaret Mayburn or Mina Cunard? [Johnnie Paige], Mrs. Jay Hunt [Aunt Mary], H.F. Crane [Matthew], Harry Mann [Tony], Violet Schram, Walter Belasco

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [Red Feather Photoplays]. / Scenario by Jay Hunt, from a screen story by Gertrude H. Anderson. Cinematography by Friend F. Baker. / © 20 May 1916 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP8321]. Released 12 June 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 29 November 2023.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 23 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.