The Oval Portrait

An artist is so consumed with painting a portrait of the women he loves that he doesn't notice she is dying until it's too late. Shot as a silent film.

1934

0h 18min

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Margaret Reynolds
Isabel Vecki
Richard Salisian
Ray K. Immel

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