Aerial dancer La Syrena, whose jealous husband kills her while she performs in midair. Her daughter, Jennie Raeburn, soon orphaned, grows up unaware of her mother's occupation, but nonetheless feels the urge to dance.
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Alice Brady as Jenny Pearl
Holbrook Blinn as Zachary Trewehella
Robert Frazer as Fred Pearl
Julia Stuart as Mrs. Raeburn
Harry Danes as Charles Raeburn
Laura McClure as May Raeburn
Jessie Lewis as Irene Dale
Alec B. Francis as Jerry Vergoe
George Relph as Maurice Avery
Stanhope Wheatcroft as Fuzz Castleton
Fred Radcliffe as Joe Cunningham
Robert Kegerreis as Jack Danby
United States 24 January 1916
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1916:
16 April 1916
Roscoe writes of his love and announces that he will call on Irene with the ring and ask her parents' consent to their marriage.
30 June 1916
Fatima decides she needs to reduce her weight. Inspired by the example of famous actress and beauty icon Lillian Russell, she attempts to "roll it off" through various weight-loss methods.
18 September 1916
Muriel Flemming secretly marries Graydon Burton before he heads West to make his fortune. Later, when he is about to board a train to return to his wife, he is accused of a murder that was actually committed by crooked attorney Herman Slade.
28 May 1916
A young girl is betrothed to a rich Count by her family who have hopes of partaking in the Count's fortune.
28 August 1916
When Doris Baker spends her husband Dick into serious debt, he embezzles funds from the bank where he works to cover some speculative investments.
21 October 1916
To her aunt's dismay, Prudence isn't interested in society life. She'd rather listen to the butler's tall tales of being a pirate.
01 January 1916
A girl tends a garden planted with symbolic flowers: red roses for lust and white roses for love. Daddy Wisdom encourages the girl to cultivate the white roses instead of the red.
04 December 1916
Jim Blake, the playboy son of a New York millionaire, heads west to prove himself a man. He goes to work on his father's ranch in Wyoming, and eventually wins over the locals by turning the tables on a town bully and trying to collect damages from a railroad magnate, whose trains have killed many of the Blake ranch's cattle.
10 September 1916
Mary Doone (Theda Bara) is a poor British girl who runs away from her adopted family because the father made a pass at her.
13 February 1916
After the death of her father, a friend hides Dimples' inheritance in a doll, which Dimples carries to her new home at her aunt's boardinghouse.
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