The Scorns of Time

The Scorns of Time traces the life of Elsinora Dean Harding, an actress who, during the Golden Age of cinema, commanded both stage and screen with a singular artistic intelligence, luminous beauty, and self-possessed elegance. Her ascent to renown surprises no one who witnessed her work, which only deepens the enigma of her sudden withdrawal from performance and public view at the height of her career. Now an older, still formidable woman, Elsinora directs her powers of concentration toward...