A careless nurse girl allowing the child to wander away, made the mother realize the poignancy of the little verse: "If we knew the baby's fingers / Pressed against the window pane / Would be cold and stiff tomorrow / Never trouble us again / Would the bright eyes of our darling / catch the frown upon our brow / Would the prints of rosy fingers / Vex us then as they do now?"
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Henry B. Walthall as The Father
Blanche Sweet as The Mother
Harry Carey as The Sailor
William Courtright as The Minister
United States 01 May 1913
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1913:
13 December 1913
His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee.
19 May 1913
Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is given a meal by a woman at the homestead where she lives with her husband and baby.
04 October 1913
Dr. Sharp and his wife, Gretchen, live happily together in a little western town until the advent of the doctor's brother, Fred, who comes from the east to spend his vacation near his brother.
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”.
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.
10 September 1913
A collection of short scenes portraying highlights of Dutch history, from the Eighty Years' War to King Willem I's return from exile.
31 August 1913
A French woman has to marry a Russian to preserve the reputation of her society mother. However she is in love with someone else.
08 July 1913
Frank and Julia are very good friends, both being single, and live in adjoining apartments. Getting a letter from a friend who asks him to buy an engagement ring.
27 July 1913
Neilan, an architect, young and ambitious, having graduated with honors, procures a position as assistant in the city architect's office.
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.
20 December 1913
Lizette loves Jean but a 10,000 franc dowry insisted upon by Jean's father is keeping them apart. Paul, Lizette's "black sheep" brother, begs that she gives him her saved money so he can increase it for her - at the gaming table!! He does win but there are a few who are determined he shall not reach home with his money.
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