Purity (1916)
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 1H 10M
Director : Rae Berger
Synopsis
Purity, a simple country girl, comes to the city and is hired as an artist's model. A young poet becomes obsessed with her, and is distraught when he learns she has been posing nude. But his distress is diminished when he finds that she intends to use her income from modelling to publish his poetry. (IMDb)
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