A Mormon Maid

Synopsis

This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community traveling to Utah. They join the wagon train. Dora is pursued by two men, one a recent convert, the other a scheming elder with a stable of wives. The Mormon elder wants her in his harem. When the mother kills herself from revulsion toward polygamy, the daughter must consider her own future and the man she loves. One of Mae Murray's few surviving films, this was intended by Robert Leonard to be a thoughtful drama about the goods and evils of Mormonism, but today it is generally considered pure anti-Mormon propaganda.

Main Cast

Mae Murray

Dora

Age : 75 | Popularity : 5%

Frank Borzage

Tom Rigdon

Age : 68 | Popularity : 9%

Hobart Bosworth

John Hogue

Age : 76 | Popularity : 3%

Edythe Chapman

Nancy Hogue

Age : 85 | Popularity : 7%

Noah Beery

Darius Burr

Age : 64 | Popularity : 7%

Richard Cummings

Lion of the Lord

Age : 80 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Camera	Director of Photography	Charles Rosher
Directing	Director	Robert Z. Leonard
Writing	Story	Paul West
	Writer	Charles Sarver
Department	Role	Name

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