The latter was produced by D.W.Griffith, and released by the Biograph Company in 1914.

The original stage drama was once played by the famous Boston actress, Nance O'Neil.

It is the work of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

The motion picture scenario, when Griffith had done with it, had no especial Aldrich flavor, though it contained several of the characters and events as Aldrich conceived them.

It was principally the old apocryphal story plus the genius of Griffith and that inner circle of players whom he has endowed with much of his point of view.
This is his cast of characters:-- Judith Blanche Sweet Holofernes Henry Walthall His servant J.J.