Cantrell's Madonna (1916)
Peter Cantrell, an artist, goes to the mountains for his health. He meets and falls in love with Nance, the niece of the innkeeper. When he returns to New York, he promises to send for her. But the designs of Lawson, a wealthy New Yorker, abetted by her uncle. cause Nance to flee to Cantrell. They are married and live happily. Peter develops consumption and is ordered to Arizona. There is not money enough for both to go, so it is decided that Nance shall stay in New York until her baby is born, and then, if they can earn the necessary money, she will follow him. The baby dies, and Nance's health is wrecked and her beauty gone. She can find no work and Peters money is gone. But, feeling in her heart that Peter will never be well again, she writes cheerfully and does not tell him that their baby is dead. A well-meaning friend writes her that Peter is starving himself, and desperate, she goes out on the streets. There, unexpectedly, she meets Lawson again, and goes home with him. A new, strange life opens before Nance, but she lets no whisper of it reach Peter, and still writes to him of the baby and her work. During a midnight revel, Nance learns that Peter is dying. She tries to slip away, but he sees her, and determined that she shall not go until he is ready to have her do so, he writes Peter telling him the whole story, and reads the letter, mails it and locks her in her room. Toward dawn the old butler releases her. She reaches Peter before he dies. There she comes face to face with Peter's only masterpiece, a Madonna, painted from his memory of her and his dreams of their child. And there, crouched at his feet, her hand closed over his with the grip of a terrified child, she ends her life.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Cecilie B. Peterson | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Gordon Gray | |
| Virginia Hammond | |
| Thomas R. Mills |
