A Woman’s Folly
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Gretchen Hartman [the widow], Henry A. Barrows [Doctor Thornton], Katherine Lee [the child], Mrs. LaVarnie (Laura La Varnie) [the aunt]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 23 October 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? To enhance her social position, a young widow poses as an unmarried woman and marries a man with whom she falls genuinely in love. Lacking courage to disclose her secret, she pays clandestine visits to her boy, whom she has left in care of an aunt. The consequences of her deceit, unforeseen and therefore doubly alarming, are dramatically developed.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 13 September 2023.
References: Spehr-American p. 4 : Website-IMDb.
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