The Family Secret
28/09/1924
The daughter of a wealthy man secretly marries a man below her station— one whom her father violently disapproves of. The father, in an excess of parental concern, separates the lovers by sending his daughter away so that she might forget her lover, unaware of their married state. During this time, she gives birth to a daughter. After some months, the young mother returns to her family manor and presents her father with his new granddaughter, which causes a most unfortunate scene. Unbeknownst to the young woman, her enraged father falsely accuses his son-in-law of theft and has him incarcerated in order to separate the lovers in an irrational attempt to force his daughter to forget this "unworthy" young man.
Movie Information
Baby Peggy
as Peggy Holmes
Gladys Hulette
as Margaret Selfridge
Frank Currier
as Simon Selfridge
Lucy Beaumont
as Miss Abigail Selfridge
Edward Earle
as Garry Holmes
Elizabeth Mackey
as Aunt Mandy
Martha Mattox
as Nurse Sneed
Cesare Gravina
as Tomaso Silvano
Martin Turner
as Uncle Mose
