The Eternal Mother (1917 film)
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Duration | Director Frank Reicher Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language Silent..(English titles) Release date November 26, 1917 (1917-11-26) Writer Sidney McCall (novel), Mary Murillo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(for a 1920 film of the same title starring Florence Reed, see The Eternal Mother (1920 film).)
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The Eternal Mother is a lost 1917 American silent drama film directed by Frank Reicher and stars Ethel Barrymore. The picture is taken from a novel, Red Horse Hill, by Sidney McCall, an alias for Mary McNeill Fenollosa.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, Maris (Barrymore) endeavors to persuade her husband Dwight Alden (Mills) to replace the children working in his mills with man and women, but Alden does not listen to his wife's pleas. One night a little girl is injured and Maris, calling on her, discovers that she is her own daughter from a previous marriage whom she thought was dead. She finds that her former husband, whom she also believed to be dead, is still living. Maris returns to her home, unable to forget her little girl. When the girl runs away from her father and comes to Maris, Maris leaves Alden, explaining her reasons in a letter. Alden learns that Maris' former husband secured a divorce so that he might marry another woman. With this evidence, and after clearing his factories of child workers, Alden goes to Maris and begs her and her child to return home with him.
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