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As the Twig Is Bent (1915)
Genres: Drama
L.C. Shumway has a dual role in this action-packed three-reeler. When the Booths divorce, their twin children (both played as adults by Shumway) are separated -- George goes with his mother and becomes a fine, upstanding young man, while Herbert takes after his father's dissolute ways. Both of them wind up serving in the Army and going to the Philippines -- George as an officer and West Point graduate, and Herbert as a lowly enlisted man who soon deserts to becomes the drunken love slave of a native girl.
- Lee Shumway as George Booth / Herbert Booth (dual role) (as Lee C. Shumway)
- Doris Baker as George Booth / Herbert Booth as a Child (dual role)
- Helen Jerome Eddy as Grace Thomas (as Helen Eddy)
- Jack Holt as Colonel Vail
- Eleanor Blevins as Mrs. Booth
- Velma Whitman as Tatuka
- Melvin Mayo
- Louis Fitzroy