Fanny is the wife of Ben Webster, a trapper, and while he is an affectionate and dutiful husband, she yearns for something which appears better than her lot. She reasons: "Have I not youth and beauty and attainments far above this environment? Why should I be compelled to toil and struggle in this wilderness?"
Watch the official Fools of Fate 1909 trailer in HD below.
James Kirkwood as Ben Webster
Marion Leonard as Fanny Webster
Frank Powell as Ed Hilton
William Beaudine as Extra (uncredited)
D.W. Griffith Director
Frank E. Woods Writer
Billy Bitzer Cinematography
Robert Harron Props
William Beaudine Assistant Camera
United States 06 October 1909
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1909:
19 August 1909
Mr. Jones jumps to the wrong conclusions when he sees a bouquet of flowers and a man's hat in the parlor.
30 August 1909
If all husbands have had similar experiences, it is too bad to harrow them up with the telling of this story.
07 January 1909
In the third installment of the "Mr. and Mrs. Jones" series, Mrs. Jones hosts a luncheon for her Ladies' Temperance League chapter on the condition that her husband, Mr.
08 December 1909
Documentary about making cheese in the Netherlands.
11 March 1909
A girl from the New York slums falls in with crooks. After her love is arrested following a barfight turned deadly, her life seems directionless-- that is, until she's saved from the streets by a band of Salvationists.
30 August 1909
Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they each have to dress up as the opposite sex.
10 August 1909
A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box.
04 December 1909
Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in the Land of Midian, The Plagues of Egypt and the Deliverance of the Hebrews, The Victory of Israel, The Promised Land), 4 December 1909 to 19 February 1910.
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