Inspired by his wife Lorna, shiftless William Gordon discovers a welding process worth millions and becomes president of a large corporation. Henry Blake, a friend of Gordon's from his indolent days, is forced to marry when his girl friend Mamie gives birth to a daughter, who is sent to live in a convent.
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George Siegmann as Allegorical Types
Norbert A. Myles as William Gordon
Gene Genung as Lorna Gordon
Jack Dill as Henry Blake
Billie West as Mamie Blake
Andrew Arbuckle as Uncle John
Alice Wilson as Marie Gibson
United States 06 May 1917
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10 December 1917
A. Knutt, a crack-brained chemist, discovers an elixir that will endow dolls with life. He does not know that it will change living persons to dolls.
09 April 1917
Artist model Margot uses her “Power of Decision” to choose between two men she loves, after much distress of course!
04 February 1917
Silent feature film by Olga Preobrazhenskaya and Vladimir Gardin based on Pushkin’s story of the same name.
08 July 1917
Lola Montrose ignores the scorn of society to live with Dr. John Hampton, the man she loves. After tiring of his mistress, Hampton tells Lola that he is planning to marry a "good woman" who will exert the proper influence over his son Irwin.
02 July 1917
The itinerant Jewish country peddler Abraham Jacobs saves his pennies until he can afford to open a small second-hand clothing store.
13 January 1917
Joe, the Wop, employed in the roundhouse near Lone Point is notified that he has been promoted and will take his place that night as a fireman on the local freight.
02 April 1917
Vere Herbert lives with her wicked mother, Lady Dolly (Marie Curtis), who is living in sin with Lord Jura (Glen White).
26 November 1917
Brothers James and Allen Mornington are both addicted to cocaine and both believe that their addiction is caused by a hereditary failing.
29 January 1917
Jack Calvert bets four friends that he can travel from New York to Constantinople without a cent.
26 February 1917
While traveling to meet her sweetheart, Richard Carr, in the capital of the Grand Duchy of Bonaluria, Peggy Dare's train compartment door is thrust open and a little boy is thrown at her feet.
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