The Valley of Humiliation (1915)
By the terms of her husband's will, Mrs. Hobart's remarriage to Lawyer Perrine causes her comfortable income to cease automatically, leaving her 20-year-old daughter Rosemary dependent on her stepfather's charity. The girl feels her humiliating position keenly, and after several unpleasant incidents, she tries to find work in the city, but because of her inexperience, the attempt fails. Discouraged, she returns home and upbraids her mother, who sharply replies that she expected her daughter to marry long ago. Feeling that she can stand it no longer, Rosemary desperately resorts to advertising for a husband. The replies she receives are almost insulting, but one appears to be from a genuine man with honest impulses, so after a short correspondence, she starts for Prairie Hill, Colorado to meet Jim Aberdeen and become his bride. She finds him a fine type of young westerner, with the true instincts of a gentleman, but the uncertainty and fear of her position overcomes her so that she faints in his arms. With a keen appreciation of her feelings, Jim tells her he will consider her simply as a guest in his home until she can learn to love him. In the bracing air of the open prairies, her life is soon filled with sunshine and her heart with love for her husband. But she is again plunged into the Valley of Humiliation when a scoundrel plays a clever trick on her and gets away with $1000 dollars belonging to her husband. She rides after the rascal, but out in the desert he shoots her horse and escapes. Jim finds the girl wandering about heartbroken and exhausted. He talks soothingly to her and shows a letter he has found in which she acknowledges her love for him, then takes her in his arms, and Rosemary comes up out of the valley into the sunlight of love and happiness.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Ulysses Davis | Director |
| Josephine Lawrence | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Eleanor Blevins | |
| Anne Schaefer | |
| George Stanley | |
| Gayne Whitman |
