The Spreading Dawn
The Spreading Dawn is a 1917 American silent drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn in his first year of producing independently in his own studio and starring Broadway stage star Jane Cowl in her second and final silent film. It was directed by Laurence Trimble, the then husband of Cowls stage writing partner Jane Murfin. The film is lost with a fragment, apparently only part of reel 3, surviving at the Library of Congress.
As described in a film magazine, Georgina Vanderpyl Ballin loves Captain Lewis Nugent Lowe, but her aunt Patricia Cowl will not allow her to marry, and as proof of her reasons she gives Georgina her journal to read. The story as told in the journal is how happy Patricia is when she meets Anthony Vanderpyl Caldara. They are married, but shortly thereafter Anthony is called away to war. He comes home on a furlough and after a brief visit leaves. Patricia does not understand this sudden departure, and then Mr. LeRoy Stephenson tells her that Anthony is with his wife Cornelia Billings. When Anthony returns, LeRoy shoots Anthony and Patricia believes the worst of him. Dying, Anthony writes a letter to his wife, but Patricia has never opened it. Georgina coaxes her to read it, and when Patricia does, she discovers her late husbands innocence. Asking his forgiveness, she goes to meet him in the spreading dawn.
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