Film · Drama

Molly Bawn (1916)

A couple try to regain their grandfather's favour.

Molly Bawn. British silent drama movie. Directed by Cecil M Hepworth. Starring Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome an Violet Hopson. adaptation of the1878 Irish novel of the same name by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. Molly Bawn the novel by M. W. Hungerford contains her most famous idiom: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." It is also referenced in chapter 8 of James Joyce's Ulysses.

Director

Cecil M. Hepworth

Writers

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, Blanche McIntosh

Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

Release date

December 1, 1916

Molly Bawn was released on December 1, 1916.

Last updated: November 14, 2026