The Spreading Dawn (1917)
America's greatest emotional actress -- A famous and nationally-popular author -- A powerful and widely advertised story --- The Goldwin standard of production --- What a combination!
50 min
Georgina asks permission from her old aunt, Patricia Mercer Vanderpyl, to marry Capt. Nugent before his departure for France. Patricia refuses and, in reply to Georgina's questioning, gives her a diary from her own girlhood to read. The diary unfolds the story of Patricia's marriage to soldier Anthony Vanderpyl. Returning on furlough after the outbreak of the Civil War, Anthony suddenly leaves Patricia to visit Mrs. Le Roy, an old flame, and is killed by her jealous husband. Positive that Anthony had been unfaithful to her, Patricia refuses to open the letter that her husband sent her on the day of his death. Georgina now opens it and discovers that Anthony had gone to Mrs. Le Roy to end the affair that his brother Bentley was having with her. With this revelation, Patricia sanctions her niece's marriage, then dies, joining Anthony in "the spreading dawn".
- Date de sortie
- 21 octobre 1917
- Pays d'origine
- États-Unis
Distribution
- Jane Cowl dans le rôle de Patricia Mercer Vanderpyl
- Orme Caldara dans le rôle de Anthony Vanderpyl
- Harry Spingler dans le rôle de Bentley Vanderpyl
- Florence Billings dans le rôle de Mrs. Cornelia Le Roy
- Henry Stephenson dans le rôle de Mr. LeRoy
- Alice Chapin dans le rôle de Mrs. Mercer
- Helen Blair dans le rôle de Young Lizzie
- Cecil Owen dans le rôle de Colonel Lee
- Mabel Ballin dans le rôle de Georgina Vanderpyl
- Edmund Lowe dans le rôle de Captain Lewis Nugent
Équipe technique
- Laurence Trimble · Réalisateur
- Basil King · Scénariste
- Phil Rosen · Directeur de la photographie