An Innocent Magdalene

Story

Synopsis

When Dorothy's Southern, aristocratic father Colonel Raleigh refuses to let her marry Forbes Stewart, a Northern gambler, the couple elopes. When Dorothy soon thereafter becomes pregnant, Forbes vows to reform, but authorities arrest him on a gambling charge, and he serves a year in prison. During that time, and just before the birth of the baby, a woman comes to Dorothy and claims to be Forbes' wife. Stunned, Dorothy returns to her father, but the colonel throws her out, and so, on her own, she has her baby, whom the community believes to be illegitimate. Convinced that she has sinned, Dorothy is about to kill herself when Forbes, just out of jail, finds her and explains that the other woman simply had been an ex-sweetheart trying to win him back.

Director

Allan Dwan

Writers

D.W. Griffith, Roy Somerville

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

18 June 1916

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Lillian Gish

  Dorothy Raleigh

• 

  Spottiswoode Aitken

  Col. Raleigh

• 

  Sam De Grasse

  Forbes Stewart

• 

  Mary Alden

  The Woman

• Seymour Hastings

  The Preacher

• 

  Jennie Lee

  Mammy

• William De Vaull

  Old Joe