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Your Obedient Servant (film)

1917 film directed by Edward H. Griffith

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 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ52084096 ↗
Source-derived summary

Your Obedient Servant is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Claire Adams, Pat O'Malley and Helen Pillsbury.

Cast

Claire Adams

Pat O'Malley

Helen Pillsbury as

Charles R. Moore

Don Fulano as Black Beauty

See also

List of films and television shows about the American Civil War

References

Bibliography

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

Editorial summary

“Your Obedient Servant (film)” enters the record as 1917 film directed by Edward H. Griffith. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Your, Obedient and Servant can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1917, 1910, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1917-09-15. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Your, Obedient and Servant.
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“Your Obedient Servant (film)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Your, Obedient and Servant provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q52084096. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1917, 1910 and 1998.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Your Obedient Servant (film)” 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.