Debutante Hope Merrill returns home one day to find her financier father Amos Merrill on the verge of committing suicide. Rather than reveal the truth -- that he has misappropriated funds from his own company -- Merrill claims that he has been ruined by young John Cook, Hope's sweetheart.
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Mabel Taliaferro as Hope Merrill
Frank Currier as Amos Merrill
Clifford Bruce as John Cook
Robert Rendel as Gerald Hastings
Lorna Volare as Flower Girl
Emile Collins as Butler
Mary Doyle as Flower Girl
United States 05 March 1917
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20 May 1915
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02 May 1920
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25 April 1920
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11 March 1917
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Truthful Tulliver, a Westerner and a journeying newspaperman, followed by Silver Lode Thompson, printer and compositor, arrives in Glory Hole to start a newspaper.
22 January 1917
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24 June 1917
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20 July 1917
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23 July 1917
After divorcing her husband Kent, actress Anne Wetherall returns to the stage. Upon receiving a plea for help from childhood chum Nell Jerrold begging Anne to save Nell's daughter Betty from marrying Kent, the ex-Mrs.
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Little Betty has a luxurious home, an army of servants and the costliest of toys. But she hasn't what a child wants most of all, other children to play with.
24 March 1917
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16 September 1917
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23 April 1917
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