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Outcasts of Society (1915)
Short | Short, Drama

Outcasts of Society (1915)

Short | Short, Drama

The case was worth only a couple of lines in the police news. A young girl had been arrested for shoplifting. She had gone to the big department store for a job. Failing to secure it, she loitered about the store, and was seen "acting ...See moreThe case was worth only a couple of lines in the police news. A young girl had been arrested for shoplifting. She had gone to the big department store for a job. Failing to secure it, she loitered about the store, and was seen "acting suspiciously"' by an alert saleswoman. This employee noted the disappearance of several pairs of stockings. When a search was made the stockings were found on the girl. Naturally she denied her guilt, hut the judge was experienced in police court, and sent her to the county penitentiary for three months. In prison the girl was assigned to the laundry, and was treated with gruff kindliness by some of the other convicts. Her cellmate was a woman of middle age, who took a great interest in the unfortunate girl. "You remind me of my daughter, she's a lady," she said and then with pride, she told her about her child. According to her, the daughter had been reared in luxury, and never suspected that her mother earned her livelihood by a life of crime. The prisoner's one fear was that the daughter might learn her secret and then, she feared, they would be parted forever. One day a new convict came to the prison, and some of the captives who saw her before she assumed the drab uniform of the lawbreakers, remarked how "classy" she was. Gossip was revived when she was sent to the laundry and the old prisoner was as much interested as the others. Then she saw the new convict closely and a great sorrow came into her life, for the prisoner was her daughter, the one whom she had proudly proclaimed was "a lady." Unknown to her mother, the girl had been leading a life of crime, and had finally been detected. In course of time she met the other girl, and broke down when she saw her leave the prison with the convict taint upon her, so she confessed to her mother that the girl was not guilty of shoplifting, adding: "I stole those goods myself. The store detective was close upon me. I had to get rid of the stockings, so I slipped them into that girl's pocket, then they apologized to me and locked her "up." By the time the mother learned the truth the girl had left the prison, and the mother and daughter were helpless to aid her, but they determined to keep watch for her. One day they did meet her, coming from the side door of a saloon, in the company of two bad men and women. The mother rescued the girl and took her home to live with her and her daughter. The girl told them how she sought position after position, but each place they found out that she had been in prison and discharged her. "It was either the street or the river." The daughter realized how she had spoiled a life and in an agony of remorse, confessed the wrong she had done to the girl. At first the girl was not inclined to forgive, but the pleadings of the mother won her over, she stretched out her arms to the other two women and said, "We will begin a new life together." And with a determination to make good, despite the odds against them, these outcasts of society resolved that they would fight their way back, and compel people to recognize that they were entitled to another chance. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
Mignon Anderson Meg - the Accused Meg - the Accused See fewer	The Mill on the Floss (1915)
Ethel Jewett Marianna - the Lady Marianna - the Lady See fewer	Remorse (1914)
Wayne Arey The Store Detective The Store Detective See fewer	The Unfortunate Marriage (1917)
Mother Dupont The Mother The Mother See fewer	Outcasts of Society (1915)
Arthur Bauer Actor Actor See fewer	The Unfortunate Marriage (1917)
Nellie Parker Spaulding Actress Actress See fewer	The House of Mirth (1918)