When Dorothy wants to marry Bob (Robert Agnew), her mother, Mildred, forbids the match. Dorothy angrily asserts that Mildred might reconsider if her own mother had forbid her marriage. The rest of the film is a flashback, as Mildred recalls her own youth, when her dictatorial mother did forbid her to marry Lyman. Lyman enlisted with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders to fight in the Spanish-American War, but was killed in battle.
Claire WindsorMildred - the Mother
Bert RoachArthur
William HainesLyman - Lover in Flashback
Lucille RicksenDorothy - the Daughter
Robert AgnewBillie - the Young Officer
Emily FitzroyRena - Mother in Flashback
William EugeneEugene
Estelle ClarkRosie
Vivia OgdenEffie
A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances. A lost film, only a nine second fragment survives.
Two young women fight over the love of a hunter.
The Passionate Quest is a 1926 American drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and written by Marian Constance Blackton. It is based on the 1924 novel The Passionate Quest by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The film stars May McAvoy, Willard Louis, Louise Fazenda, Gardner James, Jane Winton, and Holmes Herbert.
A detective falls for a Japanese girl living with her uncle and cousin. When the girl's uncle is murdered, the detective must find out who killed him.
Lovely Mary, an orphan girl, reluctantly takes charge of her sister's child when her sister Kate is jailed.
Based on the play Miss Julie by August Strindberg.
A perverted town mayor who murders a young girl and, overcome by guilt, commits suicide. Based on the short story La petite Roque by Guy de Maupassant.
A sexy young nightclub singer sets her sights on a young man she believes to be a millionaire playboy, although he is in reality only an insurance agent.
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
Majority of the movie is lost - only 5-7 minutes remain to this day. Two influential Jewish families: The Ezofovichs, famous for their modern views advocating the assimilation of Jews, and the Todros, Karaites preaching a return to the teachings of the Bible live in the same town.
The daughter of a disowned upper class Bostonian finds acceptance in Parisian society.
A general ousts the king of Kosnovia, and makes the king's idle son ruler. Unexpectedly, the new ruler begins instituting democratic reforms, angering the General.
A cult of Hindu tiger worshippers and a gang of Western outlaws try to cheat a young woman out of rich mines that belong to her.
A woman who is presumed dead takes revenge on her unfaithful husband.
A chorus girl gains infamy after the suicide of her beau.
Fannie Brand, an industrious girl who supports her brother and sister by working in a theatrical costume house, falls in love with Joe Halsey, a young fellow who earns a precarious living demonstrating an elastic exerciser in a drugstore window. Fannie and Joe set a date to be married, but the wedding is called off when Fannie finds Joe making love to her unprincipled sister, Edna. Fannie auditions for Landau, a theatrical producer, and goes on the Broadway stage. Fannie is a great success, and she and Joe soon find their way back into each other's arms.