The Heart of an Actress
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Frank Newberg (Frank Newburg) [the farm boy], Madge Kirby [the farm boy’s wweetheart], Mrs. LaVarnie (Laura La Varnie) [the sweetheart’s mother], Isabel Rea [the actress]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 3 June 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? The actress on vacation becomes interested in the young farmer to whom she is introduced by the daughter of her landlady. She does not know that, prior to her coming, the girl and the young man had been engaged. The youth falls in love with her, and the other girl, noting their devotion to each other, is heartbroken. She saves the actress from drowning, and sobs out her grief on her mother’s breast. The actress overhears and leaves for the city at once. Her lover follows, and although she is entertaining a crowd of friends, pleads with her for an explanation. She laughs at him for having taken her seriously, then, after his indignant farewell surprises her friends by bursting into tears. The farmer returns home and eventually marries his former sweetheart, for he is completely disillusioned about the woman who deluded him.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 7 January 2025.
References: Spehr-American p. 2 : Website-IMDb.
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