The Sculptor's Love (1909)
A wealthy Irish gentleman and a French duke are talking earnestly in the home of the former as his daughter, dressed in a riding habit and accompanied by her maid, enters. The duke proposes to the young heiress and is spurned. The father, thinking of the title, compels his daughter to become engaged. She determines to have her own way, decides to change clothes with her maid and leaves for a week's vacation. A note is left for the father, and the lady and her maid depart. While walking along a country road, two men spring out and seize the young ladies. Help in the form of a young sculptor, son of an Irish innkeeper, opportunely arrives, beats down the assailants and puts them to flight. He falls desperately in love with the maid, as he believes, but in reality the heiress, and to all appearances the feeling is reciprocated. He takes the young ladles to his father's hostelry and begs of the heiress to make a bust of her. Two days later we find the young lady in the studio posing. The sculptor tells of his love. The heiress debates for some time, finally yields, and they are in loving embrace as the irate father and duke burst into the room. The old gentleman scolds his daughter and upbraids the sculptor, and tells him that the girl is an heiress and engaged to the duke. The sculptor is dazed at this declaration, believes that the girl has been deceiving him. In rage denounces her, smashes the marble bust on the floor, orders her from the room, then sinks down brokenhearted. The two girls, the duke and father return home, where the heiress absolutely refuses to marry the duke, takes off his ring, tramples it beneath her feet, and rushes out for her lover's home. The young sculptor has brooded over his sorrow and decided to end it all. He takes a dagger from the table and is just about to bury it in his body as the heiress enters and prevents him. She then tells of her love, and the picture closes with the young heiress and her sculptor lover in fond embrace.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Van Dyke Brooke | Director |
