An Innocent Magdalene

Synopsis

When Dorothy's Southern, aristocratic father Colonel Raleigh refuses to let her marry Forbes Stewart, a Northern gambler, the couple elopes. When Dorothy soon thereafter becomes pregnant, Forbes vows to reform, but authorities arrest him on a gambling charge, and he serves a year in prison. During that time, and just before the birth of the baby, a woman comes to Dorothy and claims to be Forbes' wife. Stunned, Dorothy returns to her father, but the colonel throws her out, and so, on her own, she has her baby, whom the community believes to be illegitimate. Convinced that she has sinned, Dorothy is about to kill herself when Forbes, just out of jail, finds her and explains that the other woman simply had been an ex-sweetheart trying to win him back.

Main Cast

Lillian Gish

Dorothy Raleigh

Age : 99 | Popularity : 8%

Spottiswoode Aitken

Col. Raleigh

Age : 64 | Popularity : 3%

Sam De Grasse

Forbes Stewart

Age : 78 | Popularity : 3%

Mary Alden

The Woman

Age : 63 | Popularity : 3%

Seymour Hastings

The Preacher

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Jennie Lee

Mammy

Age : 76 | Popularity : 3%

William De Vaull

Old Joe

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Story	D.W. Griffith
	Writer	Roy Somerville
Camera	Director of Photography	Victor Fleming
Directing	Director	Allan Dwan
Department	Role	Name

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