The Splendid Sin (1919)

The Splendid Sin

1919

Drama

Synopsis

Although they have a happy marriage, Sir Charles Chatham, an explorer, and his American wife, Lady Marion, have been unable to have children. After Charles goes to Egypt, his sister Gertrude and her sweetheart Stephen Hartley, an American consulate attaché, take refuge from a storm in a deserted tower. Frightened, Gertrude yields to Stephen's advances. Although he intends to marry Gertrude, Stephen suddenly is called to deliver supplies to starving women and children in Russia. Marion takes the pregnant Gertrude away to have her child, and notifies Stephen, who, because he is shot during Bolshevik rioting, returns too late to marry Gertrude, who dies after childbirth. To honor Gertrude's dying request, and to provide Charles with a much desired child, Marion telegraphs Charles that the baby is theirs.

Credits

Director

Howard M. Mitchell

Cast

Charles Clary as Sir Charles Chatham

Edwin B. Tilton as Doctor Kent

Elinor Hancock as The Dowager Lady St. Aubrey

Francis Carpenter as Child

George Hackathorne as The Honorable George Granville

Jean Calhoun as Gertrude

Madlaine Traverse as Lady Marion Chatham

Ruth Royce