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Circumstance is a 1922 Australian silent film directed by Lawson Harris. Plot A young woman is seduced and deserted by a man. She is rescued by a wealthy novelist, who wants to write a story about her life. The novelist's cousin proposes to the girl, only to realise she is the same girl he seduced and abandoned earlier in his life. Cast Lawson Harris as Richard Talbot Yvonne Pavis as Hazel Dalwood Carlton Max as Bernard St Clair Dot Pritchard as Jenny Taylor Irish Webster as Mrs Carson Cane Arthur David Edelsten Gordon Collingridge Production The film was produced by two Americans, Lawson Harris and Yvonne Pavis. Harris came to Australia in 1920 to help Arthur Shirley make The Throwback and later ran an acting school. He was joined in 1922 by Pavis, who was an experienced Hollywood actor. Together they made three low budget feature films.

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Notable quotes

“Circumstances beyond my individual control.”
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1849-1850), Ch. 20
“Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous concourse of atoms.”
— Richard Bentley, Sermons, II. Preached in 1692. See also Review of Sir Robert Peel's Address. Attributed later to Sir John Russell. See Croker, Papers, Volume II, p. 56
“Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances.”
— Thomas Hardy, Guesses at Truth, Volume I
“For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are.”
— Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ. Dibdin's translation, Book I, Chapter XVI
“How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.”
— John Smith of Cambridge, Select Discourses, III, p. 48. (Ed. 1660). Same phrase found in Marcus, Minucius Felix his Octavius, preface (Pub. 1695)
“F. M. the Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. —— and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control.”
— Wellington. See G. A. Sala, Echoes of the Week in London Illustrated News, Aug. 23, 1884. See Capt. Marryatt—Settlers in Canada, p. 177. Grenville—Memoirs, Chapter II. (1823), gives early use of phrase.

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Circumstance is a 1922 Australian silent film directed by Lawson Harris.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Circumstance: allegorical short story by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spoffo · 2011 film by Maryam Keshavarz

Notable quotes

“Circumstances beyond my individual control.”
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1849-1850), Ch. 20
“Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous concourse of atoms.”
— Richard Bentley, Sermons, II. Preached in 1692. See also Review of Sir Robert Peel's Address. Attributed later to Sir John Russell. See Croker, Papers, Volume II, p. 56
“Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances.”
— Thomas Hardy, Guesses at Truth, Volume I
“For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are.”
— Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ. Dibdin's translation, Book I, Chapter XVI
“How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.”
— John Smith of Cambridge, Select Discourses, III, p. 48. (Ed. 1660). Same phrase found in Marcus, Minucius Felix his Octavius, preface (Pub. 1695)
“F. M. the Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. —— and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control.”
— Wellington. See G. A. Sala, Echoes of the Week in London Illustrated News, Aug. 23, 1884. See Capt. Marryatt—Settlers in Canada, p. 177. Grenville—Memoirs, Chapter II. (1823), gives early use of phrase.

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Overview

Circumstance is a 1922 Australian silent film directed by Lawson Harris. Plot A young woman is seduced and deserted by a man. She is rescued by a wealthy novelist, who wants to write a story about her life. The novelist's cousin proposes to the girl, only to realise she is the same girl he seduced and abandoned earlier in his life. Cast Lawson Harris as Richard Talbot Yvonne Pavis as Hazel Dalwood Carlton Max as Bernard St Clair Dot Pritchard as Jenny Taylor Irish Webster as Mrs Carson Cane Arthur David Edelsten Gordon Collingridge Production The film was produced by two Americans, Lawson Harris and Yvonne Pavis. Harris came to Australia in 1920 to help Arthur Shirley make The Throwback and later ran an acting school. He was joined in 1922 by Pavis, who was an experienced Hollywood actor. Together they made three low budget feature films.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Circumstance across IJR

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