The Echo of Youth (1919)
A Man and a Beautiful Woman Fight Against Temptation
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After becoming a Supreme Court justice, Peter Graham is visited by Olive Martin, a singer from New Orleans, Louisiana, with whom he had an affair in his youth. Although Peter has been sending money to maintain Olive's silence and to support their son, she now sees an opportunity to join high society, and demands that Peter divorce his wife to marry her. Meanwhile, in Boston, Massachusetts, Olive's son, Harold, becomes engaged to Peter's daughter, Anita, but the young lovers are soon devastated by the news that they were both sired by the same man. Olive's dissolute brother-in-law, Thomas Donald, finds Peter on the brink of suicide and reveals that he is Harold's father. Thomas goes on to explain that Olive adopted the boy as a means to blackmail Peter. Harold and Anita marry, while Peter confesses to his wife and Olive leaves town.
- Release date
- February 16, 1919
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Charles Richman as Peter Graham
- Leah Baird as Olive Martin
- Pearl Shepard as Anita Graham
- Jack McLean as Harold Martin
- William Bechtel as Thomas Donald
- Marie Shotwell as Ruth Carlyle Graham
- Howard Hall as John Carlyle
- Peggy Shanor as Marian Ducet
- Philip Van Loan as Marcel Ducet
Crew
- Ivan Abramson · Director
- Ivan Abramson · Writer
- Lucien Tainguy · Cinematographer