The Hope Chest is an American silent comedy-drama film released in 1918, starring Dorothy Gish.

The film was directed by Elmer Clifton and based on a serialized story (and later novel) by Mark Lee Luther, originally published in Woman's Home Companion.

[1] Sheila Moore (Gish) takes a job at a candy store to support her father, an out-of-work vaudevillian.

The Hope Chest was shot in Los Angeles, with production wrapping in late-September, 1918.

[2] The first screenings of The Hope Chest in New Zealand appear to have been in Wellington, where it played simultaneously in two theaters in August, 1919.