Mrs. Alden's Awakening (1912)
Mrs. Alden, a society leader, is so much taken up with club work, social gatherings, etc., that she devotes very little time to her home life. She is the mother of a son of twenty-two and a little daughter of six. One day she realizes that the colored mammy, who has been in her service for years, is incapable of teaching her young daughter as she should be taught. She is discharged and an advertisement inserted for a governess who speaks French and plays the piano. Her son has quarreled with her about the neglect of the child and after a heated argument Mrs. Alden orders her son from the house. Jack takes up his abode in a respectable boarding house where he meets May Moore a poor girl. They see the ad for governess and Jack persuades May to apply. She does so and secures the position. Mrs. Alden, being unaware of the plot, the child and the governess become great friends. Being busy with club work, Mrs. Alden sees very little of her child. One day the child's clothing gets afire and she is rescued by the governess, unharmed but her dress has been badly burned. The governess is struck with the idea of using the incident to arouse the latent instinct of motherhood in Mrs. Alden. She places the child in bed after bandaging her up with much cotton and bandages, and phones the club about the accident. Mrs. Alden rushes to the bedside of her child, at last realizing her neglect. In her agony she also sees the injustice she has done her son, and expresses a desire to see him. May, who has plotted for this, now sees her opportunity to unite the divided family. She hastens to Jack and brings him to his mother. Explanations follow, and Jack and May receive the mother's blessing to the great joy of the child who was the innocent cause of it all.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Jay Hunt | Director |
| Mark M. Dintenfass | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Irving Cummings | |
| Evelyn Francis |
