Conquered Hearts

Conquered Hearts

1918 · ★ 8.0 · Drama

Nora, a girl of the lower East Side of New York City, marries a rising ward politician. A child is born. They are happy, but the young politician is running for office against the old ward boss and has to be out every night. The wife becomes jealous of a certain woman. Nora's child dies. Things get worse for her as jealousy and the seeming neglect of her husband increase. She finally leaves him and becomes a model for a noted painter. The husband finds where she is, but makes no attempt to force her to return to him, though he still loves her. One of the artist's friends, a magnate in the motion picture business, promises her a chance. Her rise to stardom is quick. The climax of the story is a struggle between the old love and the new fame. She does not know that the politician has become a first-class lawyer. Finding that the old love and the new fame are not incompatible, she is reunited with her husband.

Directed by Francis J. Grandon · Written by Emma Bell Clifton

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Marguerite Marsh Nora Carrigan
Corene Uzzell Kate Corcoran
Emma Lowry Miss Brice
Eileen Walker Mrs. Carrigan
Richard Turner Dan Murdock
Harry Myers Stonne
Robert Paton Gibbs The Earl of Barchester
Dean Raymond Mr. Chalmers
Barney Gilmore Devlin
Frank Evans Mr. Carrigan
James Sheridan Reddy Carrigan
Al Franklin Thomas

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