The Light of Happiness (1916)
"A Gripping Comedy-Drama, Touched With Pathos and Toned With Humor."
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Tangletop, is the daughter of the town drunk with her tattered clothes and unkempt hair has been made a social outcast. As a result, she seems to be the perfect actress for the role that Emmett Dwight has developed in order to deceive his wealthy ward, Lowell Van Orden, who, during his blindness, fell in love with Mollie Dean. Since Emmett wants his daughter Madeline to marry Lowell, he tells his ward, after his eyesight has been restored, that Tangletop, who gladly goes along with the plan, is Mollie. As Emmett hoped, his ward's ardor starts to cool, but then, after Tangletop comes under the influence of the Reverend Clyde Harmon, she confesses everything to Lowell. As soon as she finishes, Lowell seeks out the real Mollie and marries her, after which Tangletop marries Clyde.
- Release date
- September 4, 1916
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Viola Dana as Tangletop
- George D. Melville as Henry Mullins
- Lorraine Frost as Mollie Dean
- Harry Linson as Myron Dean
- Edward Earle as Lowell Van Orden
- Jack Busby as Emmett Dwight
- Mona Kingsley as Madeline Dwight
- Robert Walker as Reverend Clyde Harmon
- Charles Boone
- Margery Bonney Erskine
Crew
- John H. Collins · Director
- John H. Collins · Writer
- Herbert Oswald Carleton · Cinematographer