Purity is a 1916 American silent drama film, directed by Rae Berger and starring Audrey Munson, an artist's model who posed for many statues in New York City and the 1915 San Francisco Panama–Pacific International Exposition.
The film's plot was written by Clifford Howard, art direction was by Edward Langley, and choreography was by Geneva Driscoll.
Purity goes to where they met and undresses to bathe in a stream, where artist Claude Lamarque draws her, and after she finishes and dresses he approaches her and suggests she pose for him for an allegorical painting.
When Darcy falls ill, she goes to the artist's studio and poses nude for Lamarque, receiving funds that she gives to the publisher.
"[6] Purity was submitted to the NBR in July 1916 and it held two screenings before a select group of invitees and obtained their disparate views of the film.
[7] As a result, the NBR neither passed nor rejected the film, instead issuing a list of 10 recommended deletions with a note that local censors should consider their community standards and public opinion.
The description of the film in a blurb in the Duluth Herald details that, "In one scene more than 150 girls dance in a woodland dell, garbed in flying diaphanous draperies.
Credited as a columnist, Maxson F. Judell wrote promotional copy for local newspapers ("Audrey Munson... in The All-Together...").