What Might Have Been (1912)
Miss Celia Rill, a woman of thirty-five, after having congratulated a young girl friend upon her approaching marriage, realizes for the first time that she is growing old. Seating herself by the fireplace, she brings out her treasure box, and taking out a bundle of old love letters from former admirers, all of whom she has jilted, she begins to read them over. As she reads the one from Albert, who had been a rich young man, offering her his hand and fortune we see Albert as he is to-day, with a large family and in poverty. Another written by Howard reads how he swears to be kind and true, only to see him in actuality is a tyrant. Opening one signed by Will, it tells of his love and what a kind husband he would make, but in a scene of the present he is shown as a drunken brute. Selecting still another love missive, Celia kisses it tenderly, and fondly holds it to her breast, as she thinks of the writer. It is from Jack the one man she ever cared for, but with whom she played as with all the others, until a trick of fate parted them forever. As she recalls, and as the scenes show, she answered Jack's final demand with a hurried "Yes," and the maid had lost the letter. Jack, receiving no reply, leaves for the gold fields of Alaska. Tears of sorrow swell from her eyes, and her proud spirit is broken because she realizes that she is growing old, unmated. As she weeps by the fireplace Jack, alive and well, unable to stay from the woman he loved, enters the room, tiptoes to her side and takes her into his arms. Looking up Celia sees Jack, not in her dream, but the real lovable Jack in flesh and blood, holding her in his arms
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Mark M. Dintenfass | Producer |
