The Ghosts of Yesterday (1918)
After his wife/model has died of starvation with her portrait unfinished, an impoverished artist meets another woman with a striking resemblance to her.
Top billed cast
Norma TalmadgeRuth Graham / Jeanne La Fleur
Eugene O'BrienHoward Marston
Stuart HolmesCount Pascal de Fondras
John Daly MurphyDuc de Lissac
Henry HebertRoger Stearns (as Henry J. Hebert)
Ida DarlingMrs. Whitaker
Blanche DouglasMarie Calleaux
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