Cleva creighton chaney biography

1916 film

The Gilded Spider is a 1916 American silentdrama film directed by Joe De Grasse, written by Ida May Park and starring Lon Chaney and Louise Lovely.^[2] A print exists in the Museo del Cine Pablo C.

Ducros Hicken film archive.^[3][4]

Plot

Giovanni (Lon Chaney), his wife Leonita, their daughter Elisa and his wife's mother Rosa all live in a small Italian village where Giovanni carves plaster statuettes for a living.

An American millionaire named Cyrus Kirkham spots Leonita dancing and becomes obsessed with having her. During an attempt to kidnap her, Leonita jumps off the millionaire's yacht and drowns. When Kirkham goes back to America, he marries a woman named Norma Winston, who was in love with a poor man named Burton Armitage, but she marries Kirkham instead for his money.

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Armitage later comes into money, but he squanders it all away.

Years pass and Giovanni moves his family to America. Giovanni's daughter