Life's Shop Window is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Claire Whitney and Stuart Holmes.

The film depicts the story of English orphan Lydia Wilton (Whitney), and her husband Bernard Chetwin (Holmes).

[8] Elizabeth Bisland described Lydia, the main character of Cory's 1907 novel Life's Shop Window, as "a very modernist heroine", comparing her to a more socially successful Hester Prynne.

Box Office purchased films from studios such as Balboa Amusement Producing Company, showing them in Fox's New York area theaters and renting prints to exhibitors elsewhere in the country.

He purchased the Éclair film studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey and property in Staten Island,[14][15] arranged for actors and crew, and began production with an adaptation of an established work, as was common at the time.

[a][16] Like the theatrical adaptation, Mary Asquith's screenplay removed much of the book's controversial sexual elements,[16] censorship intended to make Fox's nascent studio appear more respectable to the industry.

[18][19] Filming for Life's Shop Window took place at a farm on the Staten Island property, and possibly in the Fort Lee studio.

[21] Life's Shop Window premiered at the Academy of Music in New York on October 20, 1914,[3][25] although it did not receive its official release until November 19.

[3] Fox's response was published the following week, in which he praised Bush's review and committed to avoiding "the salacious or the sex drama".

[26] Peter Milne of Motion Picture News also praised the decision to make a "clean" adaptation of the novel, as well as the film's realism.

[31] The success of the initial New York showings featured in subsequent advertising,[5][32] as did Fox's greatly inflated claims of the cost of production.