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Her Soul Revealed
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Charles Perley [Reverend John Sterling], Augusta Anderson [the actress], Zoe Bech (Zoe Rae) [the child], Laura La Varnie
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 7 October 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Poverty was not the only enemy which the Reverend John Sterling had to fight in the slums. Disease and other dangers lurked in the tenements which he tried vainly to have remodeled. Time and again he appealed to the wealthy landlord to clean up the tenements. At last he called in the Board of Health. This irritated the landlord, who, seeing his buildings in danger of being condemned, determined to get rid of Sterling. A chance meeting with a stage acquaintance gave him an idea. With the promise of a trip to Europe if she succeeded, he set the actress the task of compromising Sterling. She pretended interest in his mission work, and quickly won his confidence. But through a letter which came into his hands Sterling learned of the plot and denounced the woman. She, mortified, had nothing to say, but through association with him her eyes had opened to the misery of the poor, and in genuine sympathy she continued her tenement work. An epidemic of diphtheria had no terrors for her, and it was there that Sterling found her again, fighting single-handed humanity’s battle against ignorance and disease, and knew that she was the woman sent from Heaven to be his mate.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 7 January 2025.
References: Spehr-American p. 2; Tarbox-Lost p. 237 : Website-IMDb.
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