The Wax Model

In romantic Paris, British-born Thomas Holding (as Melville Ilchester) is entranced by "The Wax Model" in a fashion shop. When he meets the beautiful French woman who posed for the figure, Vivian Martin (as Julie Davenant), a courtship begins. Alas, Mr. Hardy becomes jealous when he sees Ms. Martin with a male admirer. Hardy doesn't believe Martin's been loyal. She saves her beloved's sister Helen Jerome Eddy (as Helen Ilchester) from womanizing sculptor George Fisher (as John Ramsey), but Hardy still doubts Martin's fidelity. Eventually, they should work out their problems...

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Reviewers didn't care for "The Wax Model", although Martin must have attracted some of her many fans. In "Photoplay" (May 1917), critic Julian Johnson wrote, "Unbelievably careless direction has done much to spoil this transparent idyll of a young man who meets the young woman who posed for a wax shop model, finds her as congenial as she finds him, and presently marries her." The writer's only praise singled out Helen Eddy as a "finely gifted young actress." And, later that year, Ms. Eddy was also praised for her performance in Mary Pickford's "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm".

*** The Wax Model (2/1/17) E. Mason Hopper ~ Vivian Martin, Thomas Holding, George Fisher, Helen Jerome Eddy