A young girl is kept ignorant of her mother by her aunt. After her aunt dies, the girl is used by crooks and arrested. In prison she meets a kindly woman, who is married to a judge. The woman, unbeknownst to the girl, is her mother, and adopts her. The companion of the deceased aunt, in the midst of a ball, denounces the mother and reveals her secret to the judge and guests. The judge will not forgive his wife, so the mother and daughter leave and work among the slums to benefit humanity. Eventually, the judge relents, and seeks his wife for forgiveness, but he is too late.
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Florence La Badie
Ruth
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Marie Shotwell
Mrs. Read
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Philip Lonergan
Frederick Sullivan
Edwin Thanhouser
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Ethyle Cooke
Meg Doherty
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Yale Benner
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George Marlo
John Alstead
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Marie Haynes
Deborah
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James Seeley
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Frederick Sullivan Director · Philip Lonergan Story
United States release October 8, 1916 · Produced in United States · Production Thanhouser Film Corporation
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Thanhouser Company
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Thanhouser Film Corporation
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United States
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English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · October 8, 1916
Theatrical
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