

28/12/1921
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.

Lillian Gish
as Henriette Girard

Dorothy Gish
as Louise Girard

Joseph Schildkraut
as Chevalier de Vaudrey

Creighton Hale
as Picard

Monte Blue
as Danton

Sidney Herbert
as Robespierre

Lucille La Verne
as Mother Frochard

Sheldon Lewis
as Jacques Frochard

Frank Puglia
as Pierre

Morgan Wallace
as Marquis de Praille

Frank Losee
as Count de Linieres

Leslie King
as Jacques-Forget-Not

Katherine Emmet
as Countess de Linieres

Flora Finch
as A Starving Peasant (uncredited)

Louis Wolheim
as Executioner (uncredited)

Marcia Harris
as Henriette's Landlady (uncredited)

Lee Kohlmar
as King Louis XVI (uncredited)

Kate Bruce
as Sister Geneviève (uncredited)

Adolph Lestina
as The Doctor (uncredited)
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