Madame Peacock (1920)
AS THE WOMAN WHO RELINQUISHED WITH A SHRUG THOSE THINGS IN LIFE MOST WOMEN HOLD MOST DEAR-FOR WHAT?..SHE WAS LATER TO LEARN.
60 min
Jane Goring, a ruthlessly ambitious actress, forsakes her life as a wife and mother for the stage. Returning home from a performance one night, Jane is disgusted to find her husband Robert McNaughton victimized by a tubercular cough and so banishes him and her young daughter to a sanitarium in Colorado. Years pass, finding Jane still estranged from her family. On the opening night of her new play, Jane finds herself upstaged and outperformed by Gloria Cromwell, a rising young actress, who, unknown to Jane, is her abandoned daughter. Returning home, Jane is haunted by visions of her husband and child and begins to sob. Looking up from her pillow, she is startled to see her husband with Gloria.
- Release date
- October 24, 1920
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Alla Nazimova as Jane Goring
- Alla Nazimova as Gloria Cromwell
- George Probert as Robert McNaughton
- John Steppling as Rudolph Cleeberg
- William Orlamond as Lewis
- Rex Cherryman as Thorne
- Albert R. Cody as Harrison Burke
- Gertrude Claire as Character Lady
- Georgia Woodthorpe as Mrs. Goring
Crew
- Ray C. Smallwood · Director
- Alla Nazimova · Writer
- Rita Weiman · Writer
- Alla Nazimova · Producer
- Rudolph J. Bergquist · Cinematographer