Purity, a simple country girl, comes to the city and is hired as an artist's model. A young poet becomes obsessed with her, and is distraught when he learns she has been posing nude. But his distress is diminished when he finds that she intends to use her income from modelling to publish his poetry.
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Audrey Munson as Purity / Virtue
Nigel De Brulier as Thorton Darcy
Alfred Hollingsworth as Claude Lamarque
William A. Carroll as Evil / Luston Black
Eugenie Forde as Judith Lure
Clarence Burton as Publisher
Molly Shafer as Landlady
Marie Van Tassell as Truth
Hazel West as Art
Nell Franzen as Maiden
Wallace MacDonald as Youth
Ashton Dearholt as Shepherd
Clifford Howard Writer
Edward M. Langley Production Design
Robert V. Phelan Cinematography
Geneva Driscoll Choreographer
Rae Berger Director
Reinheit Trailer
United States 23 July 1916
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