Heritage (1915)

Heritage

1915

Drama

Synopsis

Kate, whose father, a university graduate, died when she was very young, is adopted by her tenement neighbor, Mrs. McMahon, after her mother, a woman of refinement, dies. At ten, the ill-nourished girl, who has grown up watching her drunken foster father fight with her overworked foster mother, goes to work in a factory after Mr. McMahon loses his job. During the next eight years, Kate's stepbrother, Big Bill McMahon, becomes her friend, sweetheart and protector.

Credits

Director

Robert Z. Leonard

Cast

Allan Forrest as Guy Melton

Anna Lehr as Marion Melton (as Anne Lehr)

Ella Hall as Kate

Helen Wright as Mrs. Melton

Mae Talbot as Big Bill's mother

Mark Fenton as Big Bill's father (as Marc Fenton)

Robert Z. Leonard as Big Bill McMahon (as Robert Leonard)

Crew