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The Girl Who Didn’t Forget
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Walter V. Coyle
Cast: Jack Mulhall [the grocery clerk], Helen Bray [the clerk’s sweetheart], Alan Hale [the clerk’s rival]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? The grocery clerk in the little village discovers that the girl he loves is being ill-treated by her uncle, and proposes that she give him the right to protect her. But she demurs, saying that she must first achieve independence. He offers her his savings to start her on the road to success, and after some hesitation she accepts the money. But she refuses to wear his ring until the time comes. In the city she obtains employment in a fashionable shop, where she is seen by a theatrical manager, who engages her for a stage production. She writes the news to her sweetheart, but he does not receive the letter, because he has gone to the city, intending to surprise her. But he does not find her. Years pass; she becomes a star under a stage name, while he is the trusted employee of a large firm. At the theater he recognizes his former sweetheart, and when he ventures behind the scenes she greets him affectionately. This arouses the jealousy of his employer’s son, who has lavished gifts on the star, and when a shortage in the firm’s accounts is discovered, he accuses the cashier, saying, “He spends our money on an actress.” But the girl establishes her lover’s innocence of the charge, and shows that the other stole the money to buy her costly presents which she didn’t want, although she had accepted them reluctantly rather than provoke a quarrel with the donor.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 8 January 2025.
References: Spehr-American p. 2 : Website-IMDb.
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