The Heart of Paula is a 1916

1916 in film

The year 1916 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 17 - release of A Daughter of the Gods, the first US production with a million dollar budget, with the first nude scene by a major star....

 silent film

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 directed by Julia Crawford Ivers

Julia Crawford Ivers

Julia Crawford Ivers was an American motion picture pioneer. Born in Los Angeles when it was no more than an exotic outpost, Ivers watched the film industry come into existence and establish itself in southern California. She participated in several facets of filmmaking i.e. writer, producer and...

 and William Desmond Taylor

William Desmond Taylor

William Desmond Taylor was an Irish-born American actor, successful film director of silent movies and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 1920s...

, starring Lenore Ulric

Lenore Ulric

Lenore Ulric was a star of the Broadway stage and Hollywood films of the silent-film and early sound era. Her father, Franz Xavier Ulrich, was a United States Army hospital steward...

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As briefly-described in a 1916 publication, this five-reel film is a "story of romance and adventure in Mexico. Lenore Ulrich is the Spanish girl who loves an American engineer."

Notably, two endings were prepared for the film -- one happy and one tragic. This was a first, and critics were asked to vote for which ending they preferred, but the vote ended in a tie.

Cast

• Lenore Ulric as Paula Figueroa
• Velma Lefler as Claire Pachmann
• Jack Livingston as Stephen Pachmann
• Forrest Stanley
  Forrest Stanley
  Forrest Stanley was an American actor and screenplay writer best known for his work in silent film...
  
  as Bruce McLean
• Howard Davies as Emiliano Pacheco
• Herbert Standing as Mr. Adams