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Her Only Way

1918 film by Sidney Franklin

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ17697958 ↗
Source-derived summary

Her Only Way is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Sidney Franklin with Norma Talmadge as the star.

Cast

Norma Talmadge - Lucille Westbrook

Eugene O'Brien - Joseph Marshall

Ramsey Wallace - Paul Belmont

E. Alyn Warren - Judge Hampton Bates

Jobyna Howland - Mrs. Randolph

Preservation status

A copy of the film is held by Archives du Film du CNC in Bois d'Arcy.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Her Only Way” is 1918 film by Sidney Franklin. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Only, film and Sidney, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1918—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1918. For this dossier, Only, film and Sidney is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1918 film by Sidney Franklin” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17697958. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1918.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Her Only Way”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Her Only Way primary sources, Her Only Way archive and Only research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Her Only Way”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Her Only Way” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.