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Human Desire (1919 film)

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Directed by
  
Wilfrid North

Initial release
  
November 1919 (USA)

Story by
  
Violet Irwin

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Starring
  
Anita Stewart

Director
  
Wilfrid North

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Produced by
  
Anita Stewart Louis B. Mayer

Based on
  
Human Desire by Violet Irwin

Distributed by
  
Associated First National (later First National)

Release date
  
November 1919 (1919-11)

Producers
  
Anita Stewart, Louis B. Mayer

Cast
  
Anita Stewart, Naomi Childers, Conway Tearle, Vernon Steele, Eulalie Jensen

Similar
  
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Human Desire is a 1919 American silent film romantic drama film starring Anita Stewart who produced along with Louis B. Mayer. It was distributed by Associated First National.

Contents

A copy is preserved in the Library of Congress and the Academy Film Archive.

Plot

As described in a film magazine, the orphan Bernice (Stewart) is raised almost to womanhood by the good sisters in an Italian convent. Worshiping a picture of the Madonna and Child, she is seized by a great desire to have a child she can call her own. Running away to America, where she has been told babies are plentiful, she is taken in by Robert Bruce, an artist whose wife has refused to divorce him, and poses for his projected masterpiece, a Madonna. Bernice falls in love with the baby borrowed for this posing and is filled with sorrow when the child is taken away. Robert, who has become sincerely but honorably in love with the girl, adopts a baby for her. His wife meets Bernice and the baby, believes the worst, and insults her. Bernice takes the child and leaves the house, becoming lost in the city and finally finding refuge in a hospital where the child dies. Robert learns from his wife the reason for Bernice's departure, locates the girl, and, after divorcing his wife, marries her.

Cast

  • Anita Stewart as Bernice
  • Conway Tearle as Robert Bruce
  • Vernon Steele as Jasper Norton
  • Eulalie Jensen as Helen
  • Naomi Childers as Marguerite Hunt
  • Templar Saxe as Paul Stapleton
  • Hattie Delaro as Miss March
  • References

    Human Desire (1919 film) Wikipedia