The orthodox mother's indomitable will dwarfed the child's individuality, defeating the very purpose it would attain. The girl ran away with an actor and the fearful prayer, "If I ever speak to that man again, may God strike my mother blind," was fulfilled, but in the end the woman was saved from herself.
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Jennie Lee as The Mother
Dorothy Gish as The Daughter
Henry B. Walthall as The Actor
Charles Hill Mailes as The Minister / Medicine Show Patron
Robert Harron as The Messenger / Medicine Show Patron / In Church
Adolph Lestina as The Justice of the Peace / In Church
Joseph McDermott as The Delivery Man
Kathleen Butler as The Nursemaid / In Church
United States 28 June 1913
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21 January 1913
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12 April 1913
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her unsuspecting parents and the wild things of her mountain home.
01 April 1913
A girl, beautiful but heartless and ambitious, was the daughter of a poor miner and was devotedly loved by a man in her own station of life.
02 May 1913
Just as the bead clerk and his assistants are closing up the jewelry store for the day, a package containing a very costly necklace arrives by special messenger.
27 February 1913
In the apartment hotel lived the aspiring maid, whose solicitude maintained order in the bachelor's apartment.
01 June 1913
The items presented are: “The latest American dance sensation THE BUMBLE BEE STING as being danced with enormous success nightly by SEYMOUR HICKS” “FACIAL EXPRESSIONS BY SEYMOUR HICKS – ‘some do it this way’ (the various ways of kissing)”; followed by “The various ways of taking medicine” “MISS ELLALINE TERRISS and original company in her well known dance from the Musical play THE MODEL AND THE MAID (‘If I were a boy’)”.
24 October 1913
An heiress is saved from the predations of a gang of gentleman crooks by a female detective and her father.
13 December 1913
Mary and Billy are sweethearts. Mr. Stanley, the girl's father, suspects the boy of being a victim of the drug habit.
04 August 1913
A lazy sculptor squanders his advance and has to think outside the box to meet his deadline. At short notice, the sculptor has received the task of carving a copy of the famous statue “The Swimmer”.
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