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A Most Novel and Intense Drama Based Upon Eugenic Principals.

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1h 0m

1917

“A Most Novel and Intense Drama Based Upon Eugenic Principals.”

Synopsis

Robert Worthing marries his sweetheart, Madeline Francis, but the wedding is ruined by his mother, who announces that because she and her parents are insane, he possesses tainted genes. Fearing that he will pass the disease on to his children, the bridegroom avoids his new wife and locks the door between their rooms. Deeply in love with Madeline, whom he is forced to love only as a sister, Robert considers suicide, but all ends well when the young man learns that he was adopted.

Director

Edmund Lawrence

Drama

lost film

Cast & Crew

Gretchen Hartman

Gretchen Hartman

as Madeline Francis

Milton Sills

Milton Sills

as Robert Worthing

Marie Shotwell

Marie Shotwell

as Mrs. Worthing

Dora Mills Adams

Dora Mills Adams

as Mrs. Francis

William Desmond

William Desmond

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