An Innocent Magdalene (1916)
50 min
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.
- Release date
- June 18, 1916
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Lillian Gish as Dorothy Raleigh
- Spottiswoode Aitken as Col. Raleigh
- Sam De Grasse as Forbes Stewart
- Mary Alden as The Woman
- Seymour Hastings as The Preacher
- Jennie Lee as Mammy
- William De Vaull as Old Joe
- Robert Anderson
Crew
- Allan Dwan · Director
- D.W. Griffith · Writer
- Roy Somerville · Writer
- Victor Fleming · Cinematographer