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One Year to Live

8.0 70 mins Drama   1925
First National Pictures  
Director(s): Irving Cummings

Release Date: 15 Sun, Mar 1925

Young Elsie Duchanier, maid of the star dancer in the French Brunel's Follies, is deceived by a lascivious doctor into believing she has only one year to leave in his effort to seduce her. Separated from her true love American soldier Capt. Tom Kendrick when he is reassigned to the United States, she accepts Maurice Brunel's offer to make her the main attraction of his new Follies. She meets with enormous success, but Brunel demands she submit to his advances as the price he demands for making her a star which she refuses. Tom returns to France just in time to save her virtue and whisk her away.

Casts of One Year to Live

Aileen Pringle

as Elsie Duchanier

Dorothy Mackaill

as Marthe

Sam De Grasse

as Dr. Lucien La Pierre

Rosemary Theby

as Lolette

Leo White

as Stage Manager

Joseph Kilgour

as Maurice Brunel

Antonio Moreno

as Captain Tom Kendrick

Rose Dione

as Nanette

Chester Conklin

as Froquine

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