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Title: The Enemy

Date: 1927

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures

Director: Fred Niblo

Cast: Lillian Gish, Ralph Forbes, Ralph Emerson, Frank Currier, George Fawcett, Fritzi Ridgeway, John S. Peters, Karl Dane, Polly Moran, Billy Kent Schaefer

Summary: Pauli Arndt marries Carl Behrend in Vienna just as World War I breaks out. Carl is drafted and Pauli gives birth to their child. Pauli and her child live with her grandfather, who loses his job as a professor for protesting the war. Pauli becomes a prostitute to buy milk for the baby, but the baby dies. Carl returns from the war, Pauli’s grandfather gets his position back, and the family is able to start over.

Notes: Lillian Gish’s final film survives in the MGM archive, minus the last reel.
         

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