A Dignified Family (1915)

Dan Carter, the undignified member of a dignified family, engages as principal in a prize fight and is ostracized by his family. He goes to the mountains, teaches school and falls in love with Ann Barth, a harum-scarum hoyden, illiterate and glad of it. His family comes to the mountains where Dan's brother Melville, sees Ann and the two fall in love. Melville repudiates her at the door of his father's home and Ann determines on revenge. She goes to a fashionable school where she gets a thorough education and becomes a society girl. Melville, not recognizing her, falls in love with her and the engagement is to be announced at a dinner. They appear at the dinner, where Ann, completing her revenge, throws Melville over and announces that she will marry Dan, the only man she ever really loved.

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Summary Details
GenresDrama Short
FilmmakersRole
E.H. Calvert Director
CastRole
Ruth Stonehouse
Ann Barth - School Teacher
Edmund Cobb
Dan Carter
Grant Foreman
Mr. Carter - Dan's Father
Marian Skinner
Mrs. Carter - Dan's Mother