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The Mothering Heart (1913)

The Mothering Heart (1913)

Drama

HERALDED BIOGRAPH ATTRACTION...The Mothering Heart - Tenderly Depicted by LILLIAN GISH

Release Date: 1913, June 21
Directors: D.W. Griffith
Countries: United States of America
Production: American Mutoscope & Biograph, American Mutoscope & Biograph
Cast: Lillian Gish, Walter Miller, Charles Murray, William Elmer, Jennie Lee, Kate Bruce, Adolph Lestina, Gertrude Bambrick, Viola Barry

Overview:

A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and begins an affair with a beautiful woman. His wife leaves him, returning to her mother's home where she bears a child. When the husband is abandoned by his lady friend, remorse drives him to find his wife.

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