Experience is a 1921 American silent morality drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The allegorical film was directed by George Fitzmaurice and starred Richard Barthelmess. It was based on George V. Hobart's successful 1914 Broadway play of the same name. It was the film debut of Lilyan Tashman.
1921 theatrical poster
Youth (Richard Barthelmess) hears Ambition's call and leaves his mother (Kate Bruce) and Love (Marjorie Daw) to seek his fortune.
Experience (John Miltern) is to teach Youth many things about life.
Youth encounters Pleasure, Beauty, and Wealth. He asks Opportunity to wait for him. But Opportunity cannot!
George Fitzmaurice was a French-born film director and producer.
George Fitzmaurice
Fitzmaurice (left) directs Elsie Ferguson, Warner Oland, Wyndham Standing in The Witness for the Defense (1919)
The Profiteers, 1919
The Emperor's Candesticks, 1937