A young wife, tempted to leave her husband for a song plugger who promises he'll make her a Broadway star, is told her father's life story and of the choices her mother made before her tragic death.
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Norma Talmadge as Flora Graham / Ruth Graham
Fred Esmelton as John Graham (as Frederick Esmelton)
Chester Barnett as Allen Hayes
John Charles as Frank Trevor
Sally Crute as Grace Benton
Fred Hearn as Henry Thurman (as Fred G. Hearn)
Mary Hall as Mrs. Wayne
Edwin Stanley as Raymond Wells
Robert Cummings as Horace Benton
Joseph M. Schenck Producer
John Urie Director of Photography
Julius Steger Director
Joseph A. Golden Director
Wilson Mizner Story
Edna G. Riley Scenario Writer
United States 01 April 1917
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