An Innocent Magdalene
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When Dorothy's Southern, aristocratic father Colonel Raleigh refuses to let her marry Forbes Stewart, a Northern gambler, the couple elopes. When Dorothy soon thereafter becomes pregnant, Forbes vows to reform, but authorities arrest him on a gambling charge, and he serves a year in prison. During that time, and just before the birth of the baby, a woman comes to Dorothy and claims to be Forbes' wife. Stunned, Dorothy returns to her father, but the colonel throws her out, and so, on her own, she has her baby, whom the community believes to be illegitimate. Convinced that she has sinned, Dorothy is about to kill herself when Forbes, just out of jail, finds her and explains that the other woman simply had been an ex-sweetheart trying to win him back.
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Cast
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Lillian Gish
Dorothy Raleigh
Known for
The Night of the Hunter
The Birth of a Nation
Spottiswoode Aitken
Col. Raleigh
Known for
The Birth of a Nation
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Sam De Grasse
Forbes Stewart
Known for
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Man Who Laughs
Mary Alden
The Woman
Known for
The Birth of a Nation
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Seymour Hastings
The Preacher
Also in
By the Sun's Rays
Idle Wives
Jennie Lee
Mammy
Known for
The Birth of a Nation
William De Vaull
Old Joe
Also in
Blind Husbands
Poor Relations
Allan Dwan Director · Roy Somerville Writer D.W. Griffith Story
United States release June 18, 1916 · Produced in United States
Production
Fine Arts Film Company
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United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · June 18, 1916
Theatrical
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