Sacred and Profane Love (1921)

Sacred and Profane Love

1921

Drama Romance

Synopsis

Carlotta Peel, who though sheltered from the facts of life by her Victorian aunt has acquired some knowledge from indiscriminate reading, meets Diaz, a celebrated pianist, at a concert and spends the evening with him. Later, in London, she acquires fame as a novelist and is followed to France by married publisher Frank Ispenlove, who commits suicide when she spurns him. In Paris, Carlotta finds Diaz a physical wreck from drinking absinthe and devotes herself to his regeneration.

Credits

Director

William Desmond Taylor

Cast

Clarissa Selwynne as Mrs. Sardis

Conrad Nagel as Emilie Diaz, a pianist

Elsie Ferguson as Carlotta Peel

Forrest Stanley as Samson

Helen Dunbar as Constance Peel

Howard Gaye as Albert Vicary

Jane Keckley as Rebecca

Raymond Blathwayt as Lord Francis Alcar