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The Beloved Traitor

1918 film directed by William Worthington

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 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ64355453 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Beloved Traitor is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by William Worthington and starring Mae Marsh, E. K. Lincoln and Hedda Hopper. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hugo Ballin.

Cast

Mae Marsh as Mary Garland

E. K. Lincoln as Judd Minot

Hedda Hopper as Myrna Bliss

George Fawcett as Henry Bliss

Bradley Barker as Paul Drayton

James A. Furey as Father Anthony

Louis R. Grisel as Simeon Garland

Chester Morris as Dan

References

Bibliography

Robert B. Connelly. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Beloved Traitor” is 1918 film directed by William Worthington. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Beloved, Traitor and film, 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, 1910, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1918. For this dossier, Beloved, Traitor and film is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1918 film directed by William Worthington” 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

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q64355453. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1918, 1910 and 1998.

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 “The Beloved Traitor”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Beloved Traitor primary sources, The Beloved Traitor archive and Beloved 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 “The Beloved Traitor”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “The Beloved Traitor” 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.