The Pitfall (1913)
A powerful Two-Reel drama by the Kay-Bee Company of an amateur chorus girl saved from a grave mistake by another woman who has learned her lesson.
Pretty country girl Hazel Dorn sings in her church choir when she sees a newspaper advertisement for chorus girls placed by theatrical manager John Hern. Despite her mother's pleas, she leaves home for the city. Hern has personal reasons for hiring the young girl and intends to lure her to her ruin. However, another, older girl, Fannie Rice, who has already been a victim of Hern, contrives to save Hazel.
- Date of release
- 1913-12-19
- Runtime
- 20m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Reginald Barker
Casting
- Margaret Thompson — Hazel Dorn
- Leona Hutton — Fannie Rice
- Gayne Whitman — Jim Bell
- William Clifford
- Walter Belasco — The Traitor
- Sherman Bainbridge — John Hern
- Charles Edler
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