Destiny: or, the Soul of a Woman
Artist Standish using his wife Mary as his model finishes a painting of the Madonna. When the Connoisseur and the Parishioner inspect the picture, the Connoisseur tells Standish that the model was a one-time paramour. Buying the painting they depart. Standish confronts Mary, who tells him that she believed herself legally married to the Connoisseur. Unbelieving he ejects her and their baby son. Penniless Mary leaves her boy on the steps of a monastery. Years later before becoming a monk the boy is sent to see the world. Wandering into a café he is seduced by Beauty as the other inmates of the place, Lust, Rum, Avarice and Passion dance around him. The proprietor enters; it is Mary. Recognizing the crucifix, she left with him as a baby she persuades him to go back without revealing her identity. After he becomes a priest Mary, now a bedraggled old woman enters his church. She recognizes him and just before she dies her son gives her absolution.
Year: 1915
Genre: Drama
Studio: Rolfe Photoplays, Metro Pictures Corporation
Director: Edwin Carewe
Cast: Emily Stevens, George Le Guere, Theodore Babcock, Fred Stone, Howard Truesdale, Henri Bergman
Crew: Edwin Carewe (Director), Anthony Paul Kelly (Scenario Writer), William C. Thompson (Director of Photography), B.A. Rolfe (Presenter)
Runtime: 50 minutes
Release: Sep 06, 1915
IMDb: 0.00/10 by 0 users
Popularity: 1
Country: United States of America
Language: No Language
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : library of congress, partially lost film
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