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A Blotted Page (1914)
Short | Short, Drama

A Blotted Page (1914)

Short | Short, Drama

This is a story of a wealthy man who, having lost all his money by careless handling, gambling, etc., returns to his home to end it all. His wife, unable to stand the disgrace, secures a divorce and goes to live with her rich father. When ...See moreThis is a story of a wealthy man who, having lost all his money by careless handling, gambling, etc., returns to his home to end it all. His wife, unable to stand the disgrace, secures a divorce and goes to live with her rich father. When he returns to his home, he finds that the rooms are gradually being divested of furniture, and that only one servant, the parlor-maid, has remained. He tells her gruffly to leave him unmolested. However, she's suspicious of his actions and returns to the library, just in time to stop him from killing himself. When he has become sane again, he asks her what right she has to interfere with him. She tells him the story of her life as an object lesson. Her husband, having lost all his first earnings in a mining proposition, committed suicide. Then her baby, which she was obliged to support, died. Feeling helpless and alone, she was about to kill herself when she was called back by a baby's pitiful wail. Investigating, she entered the next room in the boarding house in which she lived, and found that the baby's mother had died of want. She then found something to live for; she took in the baby and worked for it. Not knowing what else to do, she secured the parlor-maid position in his household and earned enough to place the baby in a home. After hearing this tale, the man is ashamed of himself. He asks which mining company her husband lost his money in, and learns that it was the company that belongs to his that there is something to live for, takes the baby, and works for it. Not knowing anything else to do, she secures a position in his household as parlor maid and earned enough money to place the baby in a home to be cared for. The man, after hearing this tale, is ashamed of himself. On asking her which mining company her husband lost his money in, he learns that is is the one that belonged to his father--the one that had supported him in luxury all these years. With a new resolve to make up to her for the perfidy of his father, and for her interest in making a man of him, he resolves to work hard and help to give a future to the baby she intended to raise. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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3 cast members

Name	Known for
W.E. Lawrence John Richards John Richards See fewer	Intolerance (1916)
Francelia Billington Martha - the Maid Martha - the Maid See fewer	Blind Husbands (1919)
Sam De Grasse Martha's Husband Martha's Husband See fewer	The Man Who Laughs (1928)