Heritage

Story

Synopsis

Kate, whose father, a university graduate, died when she was very young, is adopted by her tenement neighbor, Mrs. McMahon, after her mother, a woman of refinement, dies. At ten, the ill-nourished girl, who has grown up watching her drunken foster father fight with her overworked foster mother, goes to work in a factory after Mr. McMahon loses his job. During the next eight years, Kate's stepbrother, Big Bill McMahon, becomes her friend, sweetheart and protector.

Director

Robert Z. Leonard

Writers

Harry G. Stafford, Robert Z. Leonard

Language

English

Release date

29 July 1915

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Ella Hall

  Kate

• 

  Robert Z. Leonard

  Big Bill McMahon (as Robert Leonard)

• Mae Talbot

  Big Bill's mother

• Mark Fenton

  Big Bill's father (as Marc Fenton)

• 

  Allan Forrest

  Guy Melton

• 

  Anna Lehr

  Marion Melton (as Anne Lehr)

• 

  Helen Wright

  Mrs. Melton