My Friend the Devil
movie
Released November 19, 1922
Overview
George Dryden, an atheist since he saw his mother struck and killed by lightning as a kid, becomes a prominent surgeon and marries a woman who soon dies of heart disease. Years later, on his daughter's wedding day, he discovers that his wife had a serious love affair with an artist. Infuriated, he drives his daughter away. She becomes ill, suffering an emotional collapse. The doctor exhausts his knowledge trying to save her and finally, in desperation, he calls upon God. The girl is miraculously cured and George Dryden's faith is restored. A lost film.
Cast
Charles Richman
as
George Dryden
Peggy Shaw
as
Beatrice Dryden
William H. Tooker
as
Dr. Brewster
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Myrtle Stewart
as
George Dryden's Mother
Adolph Milar
as
Dryden's Stepfather
Barbara Castleton
as
Anna Ryder
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Alice May
as
Mrs. Ryder
Robert Frazer
as
The Artist
Mabel Wright
as
The Governess
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Ben Grauer
as
George Dryden - as a boy
