The Eternal Mother (1917 film)

(for a 1920 film of the same title starring Florence Reed, see The Eternal Mother (1920 film).)

The Eternal Mother
Directed by Frank Reicher
Produced by Metro Pictures
Written by Mary Murillo (scenario)
Based on Red Horse Hill
by Sidney McCall
Starring Ethel Barrymore
Cinematography George Webber
Distributed by Metro Pictures
Release dates
  • November 26, 1917 (1917-11-26)
Running time
50 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

The Eternal Mother is a lost[1] 1917 American silent drama film directed by Frank Reicher and stars Ethel Barrymore. The picture is taken from a novel, Red Horse Hill, by Sidney McCall, an alias for Mary McNeill Fenollosa.[2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine,[3] Maris (Barrymore) endeavors to persuade her husband Dwight Alden (Mills) to replace the children working in his mills with man and women, but Alden does not listen to his wife's pleas. One night a little girl is injured and Maris, calling on her, discovers that she is her own daughter from a previous marriage whom she thought was dead. She finds that her former husband, whom she also believed to be dead, is still living. Maris returns to her home, unable to forget her little girl. When the girl runs away from her father and comes to Maris, Maris leaves Alden, explaining her reasons in a letter. Alden learns that Maris' former husband secured a divorce so that he might marry another woman. With this evidence, and after clearing his factories of child workers, Alden goes to Maris and begs her and her child to return home with him.

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